AMBRA BOOKS - CORNWALL - History, Topography and Genealogy

Arrowsmith Ltd, printers OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Illusts, adverts, folding map, xxxv + 119pp, roy 8vo, original printed wraps, top wrap slightly dusty. Published with the authority of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City and County of Bristol by J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Quay Street, Bristol: 1935. £5.00 --- See sample text
* This is the Silver Jubilee number.
Barrett (William) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Large folding map and 30 copperplate engravings, some of which are folding, lacks the 2 plates of the Rowley facsimiles, which are frequently missing, xix + 704pp, 4to, early calf boards, small area rubbed to top boards and slightly rubbed to edges, later calf spine, marbled endpapers, some foxing mainly to plates and adjacent leaves. First edition, Printed by William Pine, Wine Street, Bristol: 1789 (dedication leaf.) £120.00
* Copies of this work frequently have the Rowley facsimiles missing, the speculation being that the publisher no longer wished to include them after Chatterton's deception was exposed.
Bettey (Joseph) THE FIRST HISTORIANS OF BRISTOL: WILLIAM BARRETT AND SAMUEL SEYER. With 4 plates, double-page map, 24pp, original printed card covers, top cover partly faded. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, The University, Bristol: 2003. £4.00
Bristol Commercial Rooms BRISTOL COMMERCIAL ROOMS. COPY OF RULES AND REGULATIONS, Established at a General Meeting of Subscribers, Held 25th July, 1811; With the Subsequent Alterations therein; and of Act of Parliament, 54 Geo. III. 12mo, 25pp, original plain wrappers. [Printed 1st of January, 1824, by order of the Committee and pursuant to the Resolutions of a General Meeting.] A. Brown, Printer, Bristol Mirror Office. £5.00
Burgess (Clive), editor THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORDS OF ALL SAINTS' BRISTOL: Part 1. l + 150pp, original cloth. Volume 46. Bristol Record Society. 1995. £5.00
[Cottrell (Greg)] THE STORY OF BRISTOL ROUND TABLE No 9. 1929-1962. Illusts, 89pp, original cloth. Bristol: B.H. Matthews, (1962) £4.00
[Eagles (Rev. J)], A Citizen THE BRISTOL RIOTS, Their Causes, Progress, and Consequences. By a Citizen. Frontis, 403pp, original glazed cloth, new spine and endpapers, paper label on spine, few spots to cloth, and circular stain to rear board. Bristol: Gutch and Martin, 1832. £30.00
Fleming (Peter) and Costello (Kieran) DISCOVERING CABOT'S BRISTOL. Life in the Medieval and Tudor Town. Illusts, some in colour, 87pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Redcliffe Press, Tiverton: 1989. £7.00
Fuller Family FAMILY OF FULLER OF BRISTOL. Pedigree, 3pp, 4to, unlettered wraps. c.1920. £4.00
Greenacre (Francis) and Stoddard (Sheena) W.J. MULLER 1812 - 1845. With 44 coloured and 182 black and white plates, 176pp, cr 4to, original card covers. Published by The Friends of Bristol Art Gallery. 1991. £10.00
* This is the catalogue to a major exhibition which was held in the Bristol Art Gallery, with biographical notes of Muller's work. Includes many reproductions of Muller's paintings in and around Bristol.
Hollis (D), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532-1565. Part I 1532-1542. Folding frontis, viii + 243pp, original cloth-backed paper boards. Volume 14. Bristol Record Society. 1949. £8.00
Hollis (Denzil), and Ralph (Elizabeth), edited and transcribed by MARRIAGE BONDS FOR THE DIOCESE OF BRISTOL Excluding the Archdeaconry of Dorset. Volume I. 1637-1700. 395pp, original cloth, early ownership inscription to front endpaper by a 'Richmond Herald.' Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1952. £9.00
Inspector's Report CITY OF BRISTOL. CHARITIES UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MUNICIPAL TRUSTEES. Inspector's Report (Copy.) iv + 159pp, folding tables, original printed wraps, spine chipped, outer hinges partly rubbed, page edges spotty. Bristol: T.H. Mills, 1871. £15.00
* The copy in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature finishes at page 141, at the end of Appendix 2. This copy has pages numbered 145-150, being Appendices 4 to 14. These Appendices appear to have been printed later.
Jones (Joshua) FURTHER REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CORPORATION OF BRISTOL, as the late Governors of QUEEN ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL. 177 + viipp, roy 8vo, unlettered cloth-backed boards, cloth lightly rubbed with a few spots, spotting to prelims. Bristol: Thomas and Henry James Mills, 1840. £10.00
Lamoine (Professor Georges), editor BRISTOL GAOL DELIVERY FIATS 1741-1799. xv + (iii) + 158pp, original cloth. Volume 40. Bristol Record Society. 1989. £5.00
Large (David), editor THE PORT OF BRISTOL 1848 - 1884. xxxix + 221pp, original cloth, covers spotty. Volume 36. Bristol Record Society. 1984. £6.00
Latimer (John) ANNALS OF BRISTOL In the Sixteenth Century. xii + 131pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded. Bristol: William George's Sons. 1908. £10.00
Leech (Roger H) THE ST MICHAEL'S HILL PRECINCT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL: Medieval and Early Modern Topography. Frontis, illusts, maps, 4 of which are folding, 133pp, dustwrapper. Volume 52. Bristol Record Society. 2000. £8.00
Levitt (Sarah) POUNTNEYS The Bristol Pottery at Fishponds 1905 - 1969. Illusts, 104pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, ex-Bristol University labels to front endpaper, and stamp to verso of title-page and foot of last leaf. Bristol: Redcliffe and City of Bristol Museum and Art Ga1lery, 1990. £16.00
Lynch (John) FOR KING AND PARLIAMENT BRISTOL and the CIVIL WAR. Illusts, 213pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Sutton Press, Stroud: 1999. £6.00
Majendie (Colonel V.D), H.M. Chief Inspector of Explosives REPORT.... ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PETROLEUM-LADEN VESSEL "UNITED," IN BRISTOL DOCKS, On the 21st November 1888. Large folding plan of the docks, 30pp, folio, lacks wraps. London: H.M.S.O. 1889. £34.00
* Very Scarce. The "United" loaded at Welsh Back then later berthed at Bathurst Basin where it exploded. The captain, the mate and a boy were killed, the only other person on board was blown a distance of 20 feet and suffered a fractured leg. The basin was enveloped in flames for some time owing to the spreading of the petroleum.
Mathews (M) and Son, printers and publishers MATHEWS'S ANNUAL BRISTOL DIRECTORY and Almanack: 1843. 360 + (14) adverts + 18 + 22pp, 12mo., original cloth, neatly recased, with a new spine and front endpaper, original paper label on top board very rubbed. Bristol: M. Mathews and Son, 1843. £90.00
Mathews (Mathew), printer and publisher MATHEWS'S ANNUAL DIRECTORY FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL, including Clifton, Bedminster, and Surrounding Villages. 1860. (ii) + 420 + 16 pages of adverts + 23 pages Almanack, 12mo, original embossed cloth boards rubbed and loose, pages loose, lacks spine and last leaf of Almanack. Bristol: Printed and Published by Mathew Mathews, 1860. £15.00
Mathews (Joseph) THE BRISTOL GUIDE; Being a complete Ancient and Modern History of the City of Bristol, The Hotwells and Clifton.... Lacks the 2 plates and the plan, viii + 236pp, original paper boards, rubbed, lacks half of spine, shaken. Sixth Edition. Bristol: Printed by and Published by J. Mathews. 1825. £10.00
Morris (George R) THE MID FROME VALLEY An Environmental Study of Mangotsfield, Soundwell, Staple Hill, Downend, Frenchay, Winterbourne, Hambrook, Frampton Cotterell. With contributions by Mr H. Galloway and Mrs G.M. Parry. Textual maps, 191pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Privately Published, Downend, Bristol: 1974. £9.00
* Signed and dated by G.R. Morris on the front endpaper.
Ralph (Elizabeth), and Hardwick (Nora M), editor CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532 - 1565. Part II 1542 - 1552. xii + 196pp, original cloth, some brown splash marks to top board. Volume 33. Bristol Record Society. 1980. £9.00
Ross (C.D), editor CARTULARY OF ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL BRISTOL Frontis, xliv + 326pp, original cloth-backed boards, 2" tear to front endpaper. Volume 21. Bristol Record Society. 1959. £15.00
Seyer (Rev. Samuel) CHARTERS AND LETTERS PATENT, Granted by the Kings and Queens of England to the Town and City of Bristol, newly translated and accompanied by the Original Latin. xviii + 317pp, 4to, untrimmed in contemporary paper boards, boards rubbed and loose, lacks spine, first 8 leaves and front endpaper loose, these leaves have cellotape across some of their margins, occasional spotting. Bristol: Printed for John Mathew Gutch, 1812. £8.00
Stone (George F) and Wells (Charles) BRISTOL AND THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919. Illusts, xv + 399pp, including 5 page list of subscribers, original cloth, top corners of boards bruised, bookplate to front pastedown. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Quay Street. 1920. £60.00 --- See sample text
Stone (George Frederick) BRISTOL AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. A record of 50 years progress. Reprinted with additions from the Bristol Evening News. Illustrated by S.J. Loxton, 231pp + xi + 24pp of adverts, folio, t.e.g. original cloth, light damp marks to fore-edges of boards, small portions torn from head and foot of spine, 3 page letter on Western Daily Press headed notepaper presenting this copy to a 'Mr Moore' pasted to front pastedown, a later bookplate to front endpaper. Walter Reid, Bristol: 1909. £40.00
Wells (C), introduction NOTABLE BRISTOLIANS 1931-2. An Illustrated Who's Who of Professional and Business Men. vii + 216pp, roy 8vo, original full leather, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., lightly rubbed to top board and edges, ownership name to verso of front endpaper, some ticks and 'D's to names in index. I.C. Gibbons, Bristol: (1932) £15.00
Wilkins (H.J) REDLAND CHAPEL AND REDLAND. Illusts, 98pp, recent cloth, ex-lib. with usual stamps and labels, small stain to inner margins of prelims, short tear to lower margin of frontis. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1924. £8.00
Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL IN THE 1850'S. Preface by Sir John Summerson. Over 120 Photographs. 72pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards, loosely inserted are fliers for other Winstone publications. First Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1968. £16.00
Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL AS IT WAS 1914-1900. Over 170 Photographs. 64pp, roy 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards, spine faded. Third Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1972. £6.00
Winstone (Reece) BRISTOL TO-DAY. Preface by John Betjeman. With 200 photographs, local adverts, 80pp, pictorial card covers, covers dull with small area of transparent laminated surface missing, short crease to top corner of top cover. First Edition, Reece Winstone, Bristol: 1958. £4.00
Wood (J.M), edited by WHITCHURCH Village Memories. With 9 illusts, 42pp, printed on rectos only, original printed card covers, lacks cloth spine. Whitchurch Local History Society, 1980. £10.00
* 'The period covered is that from the early part of the (20th) century, through the first World War, the 20's and 30's and then, once again to the way in which war-time conditions affected the village.'

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Acton (Viv) A HISTORY OF TRURO. Volume 1 From Coinage Town to Cathedral City. Illusts, maps, 221pp, original pictorial card covers. Landfall Publications, Truro: 1997. £8.00
Acton (Viv) LIFE BY THE FAL Years of Change at Point and Penpol. Coloured and black and white illusts, map, 112pp, original pictorial card covers partly faded. First edition, Landfall Publications, Truro: 1993. £4.00
Allen (John) HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF LISKEARD AND ITS VICINITY. Edited and Revised by Councillor William H. Paynter, M.S.A. Liskeard Borough Archivist. With 9 plates, 160pp, few spots, couple of short tears, and small portion torn to dusty dustwrapper. Wordens, Marazion: (1967) £12.00
Baron (Frank) MA'THER MADDER A Cornish Character. 87pp, few spots to the original decorative card covers, top outer hinge partly rubbed, lacks front endpaper, some spotting front and rear. Penzance: John W. Saudry, (1952) £4.00
* Dialect stories.
Barton (R.M) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL. With plates and folding maps, 168pp, some spotting to the original card covers. First edition, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1964. £6.00
Barton (R.M), editor LIFE IN CORNWALL At the End of the Nineteenth Century. Being extracts from the West Briton Newspaper in the Years from 1876 to 1899. 174pp, dustwrapper. Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1974. £18.00
Bird (Sheila) BYGONE TRURO. With 152 illusts, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1986. £8.00
Bizley (Maurice H) FRIENDLY RETREAT. The Story of a Parish. Illusts, 194pp, few marks and spots to the original cloth, partly faded, name to front endpaper. First edition. Netherton and Worth. Truro: Preface dated 1955. £15.00 --- See sample text
* Concerns the Parish of St. Agnes.
Blight (J.T) A WEEK AT THE LAND'S END. With 11 full page plates, vignette title-page, textual illusts, tinted folding map, viii + 203pp, original cloth. Second edition, Truro: Lake and Lake, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1876. £40.00
Boase (George Clement) COLLECTANEA CORNUBIENSIA: A Collection of Biographical & Topographical Notes relating to the County of Cornwall. xi + 952pp, 4to, original cloth boards, later calf spine, spine very rubbed, new endpapers, front inner hinge weak. Limited Edition of 130 copies. Printed and Published by Netherton and Worth, Truro: For the Author. 1890. £400.00
* An extensive work with a large number of biographical notes of prominent people in the county.
Buckley (J.A) A HISTORY OF SOUTH CROFTY MINE. Illusts, diagrams, maps, 224pp, original cloth, short tear to head of dustwrapper. First edition, Dylansow Truran, Redruth: c.1982. £8.00
Burt (Roger), editor CORNISH MINING Essays on the Organisation of Cornish Mines and the Cornish Mining Economy. 210pp, dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1969. £15.00
* With a signed presentation inscription from the author on the front endpaper.
Chesher (V.M.) and (F.J) THE CORNISHMAN'S HOUSE. An Introduction to the History of Traditional Domestic Architecture in Cornwall. Plates, line drawings, 142pp, original cloth, few spots to partly faded dustwrapper, inscription to front endpaper. First edition. D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1968. £46.00
Daniell Rev. (J.J) A COMPENDIUM OF THE HISTORY OF CORNWALL. Second Edition with Corrections and Large Additions by J.H. Collins. xv + 340pp, original cloth, spine slightly cockled. Truro: Netherton and Worth, 1880. £18.00
Davidson (R.E) THE HISTORY OF TRURO GRAMMAR AND CATHEDRAL SCHOOL. (The Old School in St. Mary's Street.) With a Foreword by A.L.Rowse. Frontis, 95pp, original pictorial card covers, slightly spotty. Kingston, Mevagissey: 1970. £7.00
Demuth (Averil), editor THE MINACK OPEN-AIR THEATRE. Illusts, folding plate, 128pp, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1968. £8.00
Dexter (T.F.G) and (Henry) CORNISH CROSSES CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN. With some observations on the Tau Cross, Thor's Hammer, and the Cult of the Axe. Illusts, xxxi + 301pp, 4to, original cloth, ink note on front endpaper. First edition. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1938. £40.00
Earl (Bryan) CORNISH EXPLOSIVES. Folding plan, illusts, diagrams, 317pp, cr 4to, original cloth, dustwrapper. Trevithick Society, Redruth: 1978. £24.00
* A major study of the explosives used in the mining industry of Cornwall.
Esquiros (Alphonse) CORNWALL AND ITS COASTS. 304pp, original cloth, recased retaining the original endpapers, and the old spine laid down. Chapman and Hall, London: 1865. £50.00 --- See sample text
* Contains much on the Isles of Scilly.
Fern (Harold E), editor CORNISH CHAMBER OF MINES YEAR BOOK 1921. With 3 folding tables, 47pp, original cloth, partly waterstained, slightly affecting inner top margins of endpapers, first 15 pages, rear endpapers and portion of inner margins of last 2 tables, lettering feint on top board. Chance and Bland, Gloucester: (1921) £30.00
Foot (Sarah) and Ellis (George) A CORNISH CAMERA. Numerous illusts, 120pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, few spots to title-page. Bossiney Books, St. Teath, Bodmin: 1982. £5.00
Gilbert (Davies) ADDRESSES TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING On St. Andrew's Day, 1828. 11pp, unbound, stitched as issued. London: Richard Taylor, 1829. £8.00
* Gilbert Davies was the president of the Royal Society and the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Not in Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis.
Grade TITHE APPORTIONMENT of the PARISH OF GRADE in the County of Cornwall. 1843. 2 page Introduction + 13pp, folio, original top wrap, printed label to top wrap, lacks rear wrap, stitching mostly broken, wraps and pages slightly ragged, wraps and some margins dusty and top wrap partly stained. Printed in columns for Landowner, Occupiers, Description of Lands, Cultivation, Rent Charge apportioned, No. on Plan. Plans were not issued with these apportionments. Carlyon, Printer, Helston: 1843. £25.00
Hamilton-Jenkin (A.K) MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL. 4. Penzance-Mount's Bay. Illusts, folding map, 66pp, original pictorial card covers. First published 1962. Reprinted, Forge Books, Bracknell, 1979. £15.00
Hamilton Jenkin (A.K) NEWS FROM CORNWALL. With a memoir of William Jenkin. With 6 plates, xi + 202pp, portions chipped from edges of dustwrapper, few spots to title-page and fore-edges. First edition, London: Westaway Books, 1951. £25.00
* William Jenkin, of Redruth was an ancestor of Hamilton Jenkin and was a 'notable figure in the mining world of Cornwall.'
Heffer (Philip) EAST POOL & AGAR. A Cornish Mining Legend. Illusts, diagrams, 60pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1985. £8.00
[Hext (Frances M)] MEMORIALS OF LOSTWITHIEL: Collected & Contributed. Taken from the writings of Leland, Carew, Camden, Hals, Borlase, Lysons, C.S. Gilbert, Davies Gilbert, and others. 226pp, original cloth, ex-ref.lib., with label to front pastedown and small stamps to verso of title-page, slight discolouration to foot of spine, early presentation inscription to top margin of title-page, otherwise a good copy. Truro: Netherton & Worth, Printers, Lemon Street. 1891. £150.00
Hext (Jean), editor THE STANIFORTH DIARY. A Visit to Cornwall in 1800. With a forward by A.L. Rowse. Illusts., 68pp, map endpapers, dustwrapper. Truro: Bradford Barton, 1965. £7.00
Hollowood (Bernard) CORNISH ENGINEERS. Illustrated by Terence Cuneo with reproductions of contemporary photographs and documents. Illusts, map endpapers, 95pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, edges slightly rubbed, usual discolouration of endpapers. First edition, Holman Bros., Camborne: 1951. £15.00
* The story of Holman Bros of Camborne.
Hull (P.L), editor THE CARTULARY OF LAUNCESTON PRIORY. (Lambeth Palace MS. 719). A Calendar. Frontis, xlii + 258pp, original card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Volume 30. Torquay: 1987. £8.00
* Includes 31 page Index of people and places.
Jaggard (Edwin), editor LIBERALISM IN WEST CORNWALL: the 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Map, lvi + 154pp, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly faded. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 42. Exeter: 2000. £6.00
Jewers (Arthur J) THE REGISTERS OF THE PARISH OF ST. COLUMB MAJOR, Cornwall from the Year 1539 to 1780. With 5 plates, xix + 352pp, roy 8vo, early half calf, marbled boards, and endpapers, top outer hinge partly split, some spotting to endpapers. First edition, London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1881. £65.00
Johnson (Nicholas), Payton (Philip) and Spalding (Adrian), editors THE CONSERVATION VALUE OF METALLIFEROUS MINE SITES IN CORNWALL. Plan, illusts, 54pp, 4to, metal ring binding, original pictorial card covers. Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Truro: c.1996. £5.00
Langdon (Arthur G) OLD CORNISH CROSSES. With an article on their ornament by J. Romilly Allen. Folding map, and numerous full page and textual illustrations, 4to, xxviii + 439pp, original cloth, very lightly rubbed to edges, front inner hinge held by one string, some light spotting to Index and to fore-edges. First edition, Joseph Pollard, Truro: 1896. £60.00
Launceston, Kensey Vale KENSEY VALE, LAUNCESTON, PARTICULARS of Valuable Freehold Property, Garages and Accommodation Land for Sale by Auction... November 7th, 1933. Single leaf, printed on one side only, folio, one lower corner creased. Lists 4 lots, including a Creamery, 13 lock up garages, Bridge Meadow. 1933. £6.00
Lean (Thomas) and (J) HISTORICAL STATEMENT OF THE IMPROVEMENT MADE IN THE DUTY PERFORMED BY THE STEAM ENGINE IN CORNWALL. from the Commencement of the Publication of the Monthly Reports. Tables, one of which is folding, vii + 152pp, lacks dustwrapper. First published 1839. Reprinted, D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1969. £6.00
Luck (Liz) BREWING FOR CORNWALL A Family Tradition. The Story of St. Austell Brewery 1851-2001. Coloured and black and white illusts, 76pp, oblong 8vo, original card covers. St. Austell Brewery Co. Ltd., St. Austell: 2001. £5.00
Maclean (Sir John) THE PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE DEANERY OF TRIGG MINOR, IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. Volume 1 only. With tinted lithographic and other plates, pedigrees, coats of arms, etc., viii + 710 + 4 page list of subscribers, 4to, original cloth, recased with the original spine laid down, and new endpapers. small tear to one margin neatly repaired, some spotting and light water stains to one plate and with its fore-edge neatly reinforced. London: Nichols & Son, 1878. £150.00
* This volume covers the parishes of Blisland, Bodmin, St. Breward, Egloshayle, St. Endellion, Forrabury and Minster.
Maclean (Sir John) PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF TINTAGEL AND TREVALGA. With 10 plates, including 2 tinted lithographs, textual illusts, pedigrees, 4to, pages numbered 185-302, original printed card covers, lacks spine, shaken, covers and a couple of leaves loose. London: Nichols and Son, Bodmin: Liddell and Son, 1877. £40.00
Maker (Lawrence) COB AND MOORSTONE. The curious history of some Methodist Churches. Frontis, 94pp, original cloth, lacks front endpaper. London: The Epworth Press, 1935. £8.00
Matthews (John Hobson) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF ST. IVES, LELANT, TOWEDNACK AND ZENNOR. Illusts., xvi + 560pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in the original bevelled cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, top outer hinge split for almost half its length, inner hinges pulled, cloth rubbed to part of spine, slightly affecting the titling, and part of rear board. First edition, London: Elliot Stock. 1892. £90.00
Merewether (H.A) REPORT OF THE CASE OF THE BOROUGH OF WEST LOOE, in the County of Cornwall, tried before A Committee of the House of Commons, April, 18, 1822. With a Preface, Notes, and Cases, Illustrative of the General History of Boroughs, and of the Law relating to them. lii + 254 +(i)pp, untrimmed in recent paper boards, paper label on spine. A. Strahan, London: 1823. £50.00
* 'The petition of Rowland Stephenson esq. stated (amongst other things), that, at the election on the 13th day of Feb. 1822, Isaac Wilcocks, gent., without any sufficient warrant, claimed to be mayor.... '
Morrison (T.A) CORNWALL'S CENTRAL MINES: THE NORTHERN DISTRICT 1810 - 1895. Illusts, diagrams, viii + 392pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Penzance: Alison Hodge, 1980. £8.00
* Detailed study of the mines in the areas of Tolgus Downs, Pool, and Roskear-Roscroggan.
Noall (Cyril) CORNISH SEINES AND SEINERS A History of the Pilchard Fishing Industry. Plates, 160pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: Bradford Barton, 1972. £16.00
[Paris (J.A)] A GUIDE TO THE MOUNT'S BAY AND THE LAND'S END; Comprehending the Topography, Botany, Agriculture, Fisheries, Antiquities, Mining, Mineralogy and Geology of Western Cornwall. Second Edition To which is added a dialogue on the peculiar advantages of the climates of Penzance, Devonshire, and the Southern Parts of Europe. By a Physician. Engraved and printed title-pages, textual illusts, frontis, ix + 272pp, 12mo, early marbled boards, leather label on spine, light water stain to approx. 1" to foot of frontis and engraved title-page. London: Printed and Published by W. Phillips, 1824. £90.00
Payton (Philip J) THE CORNISH MINER IN AUSTRALIA. (Cousin Jack Down Under). Illusts, maps, xi + 242pp, dustwrapper. Dyllansow Truran, Trewirgie: 1984. £12.00
Peter (Richard) and (Otho Bathurst) THE HISTORIES OF LAUNCESTON AND DUNHEVED, in the County of Cornwall. Illusts., and folding maps, vi + (ii) + 423pp, few marks to partly faded original cloth, cloth slightly chipped to head and foot of spine, inner hinges cracked and weak. First edition, Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1885. £30.00
Pocock (Sally J) BEHIND BARS A Chronicle of Bodmin Goal. Illusts, 69pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Sally J. Pocock, Truro: 1998. £4.00
* Includes 4 page list of prisoners.
Provis (John), of Truro TABLES OF THE MOST USEFUL KIND, TO FACILITATE BUSINESS IN SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE COPPER TRADE, Never before Printed, and which will apply to almost every individual concerned therein; from Original Calculations, made with the Greatest Circumspection. 263 + (1)pp, 4to, later qtr calf, spine slightly rubbed and faded, slight spotting to prelims, marbled endpapers which have their surfaces damaged with the removal of labels. First edition, Truro: Printed for the Author, by J. Tregoning at the Cornish Press. 1801. £125.00
* Provis was the first person to be employed by the Cornish Metal Company, which was instituted in the year 1785.
Pryce (William) MINERALOGIA CORNUBIENSIS; A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining: containing the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, with the Methods of discovering and working of Tin, Copper and Lead Mines.... to which is added An Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners. With portrait frontis, 7 plates and 2 tables, some of which are folding, [xxii] + xiv + 331pp, roy 8vo, some repairs to verso of worn dustwrapper, small portion torn from rear of dustwrapper. First published 1778. Reprinted, Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1972. £80.00
[Rowe (J.H),], editor CORNISH NOTES AND QUERIES (First Series) Reprinted from the Cornish Telegraph. Edited by Peter Penn. Illusts, 323 + (xiv)pp, original cloth, front inner hinge cracked though sound. All Published. London: Elliott Stock. Penzance: Cornish Telegraph, 1906. £18.00
* Includes articles:- Cornish Language; Mail Coach Drivers; Family of Tangye; Probus Church; Tintagel; St. Columb; Cornish Pikemen, etc.
Rowse (A.L) A CORNISH CHILDHOOD Autobiography of a Cornishman. 282pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Sixth Impression, Jonathan Cape, London: 1946. £4.00
Saint Cleer and Saint Stephen's-by-Saltash PLANS, PARTICULARS, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF WELL-SITUATED FREEHOLD FARMS And Valuable Quarries of Stone, to be Held at Webb's Hotel, Liskeard, On Monday, December 11th, 1911. By Messrs. J. Kittow & Son, Launceston. With 3 large coloured folding plans, 7pp, folio, original printed wraps. 1911. £20.00
* Includes farms of East and West Hendra, Trevollard, the tenement of Cumble Torr with the Quarry on the bank of the River Lynher.
[Sandys (W)], Uncle Jan Treenoodle SPECIMENS OF CORNISH PROVINCIAL DIALECT, collected & arranged by Uncle Jan Treenoodle, with some introductory remarks and a glossary by an antiquarian friend. Also a selection of songs and other pieces connected with Cornwall. Frontis, 108pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, couple of short splits to outer hinges, with the original paper label, which is slightly chipped to edges, on top board, edges of frontis spotty, name in a contemporary hand to front endpaper. First edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1846. £85.00
Sharpe (Adam), and others A GUIDE TO CONSERVING HISTORIC MINE BUILDINGS IN CORNWALL. Illusts, plan, diagrams, 33pp, original metal spiral binding, pictorial card covers. Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Truro: 1996. £6.00
Sharpe (Adam), Edwards (Trevor), Sparrow (Colin) ST. JUST. An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District: Volume I: Survey and Management. Volume II: Site Descriptions. 2 volumes, illusts, diagrams, maps, (v) + 154 and 302pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, covers and fore-edges of volume 2 spotty, and small porton missing from lower corner of rear wrap. Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Truro: 1992. £50.00
Simonin (L) MINES AND MINERS or Underground Life. Illustrated with 160 engravings on wood, 20 maps geologically coloured and 10 plates of metals and minerals, xix + 522 + [ii]pp, 4to, recent cloth, margins to a couple of prelims slightly dusty, and one of these leaves slightly ragged to fore-edge. London: William Mackenzie, Preface dated, 1868. £200.00
* 'M. Simonin visited the Cornish mines in 1862. His work contains numerous accounts of Cornwall and its mining works....' Boase and Courtney. Volume 2, page 653.
Stoate (T), editor and publisher CORNWALL MILITARY SURVEY 1522 with the Loan Books and a Tinners Muster Roll c.1535. xviii + 209pp, small folio, original cloth, light signs of spotting to top board. T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1987. £55.00
Thomas (Janet) "THE WHEELS WENT AROUND" The Story of Camborne town. Illusts, map, 111pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1987. £5.00
Trounson (J.H) and Bullen (L.J) MINING IN CORNWALL. Volume One: The Central District. Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, Tempus, Stroud: 2000. £4.00
* Includes:- Great Condurrow, Dolcoath, Cook's Kitchen, Carn Brea, Tincroft, East Pool and Agar.
Trounson (J.H) MINING IN CORNWALL. 1850-1960. Volume Two. Map, 134 illusts, original pictorial card covers, small portion chipped from surface of top edge of top cover. Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne: 1981. £4.00
Vivian (John) TALES OF THE CORNISH MINERS. Plates, 40pp, original pictorial card covers. Tor Mark Press, Truro: 1970. £4.00
Vivian (Lt-Col. J.L) and Drake (H.H) THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL, IN THE YEAR 1620. Frontis, xii + 343pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, partly faded, one corner bruised, lacks spine, binding broken and shaken, some spotting to prelims. First edition, London: Harleian Society, 1874. £40.00
Weighell (W), printer WEIGHELL'S GUIDE TO NORTH CORNWALL Folding map, illusts, [viii] + 127 + 7pp (adverts), sm 8vo, original limp cloth. 6th Edition. Launceston: W. Weighell, c.190- £15.00
West (James) ST. BREOCK AND WADEBRIDGE. A Contribution to a History of Parish and Town. 127pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1991. £15.00
Woodley (Rev. George) A VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SCILLY ISLANDS.... A Particular Account of the Means Lately Adopted for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Inhabitants, by the Establishment and Extension of their Fisheries. Folding hand-coloured chart, xx + 344pp, untrimmed in later half morocco, cloth boards, map slightly off-sett, title-page laid down to strengthen, few spots mainly to margins, neat repair to short split to one fold of chart, early ownership name to title-page, and a couple of early notes in ink to rear. With the bookplate of Richard Martin Baxter to front pastedown with his signature, and dated by him 'Scilly 1971' First edition, Sold by C. and J. Rivington; Longman and Co.... 1822. £300.00
* Woodley was a missionary, on behalf of the S.P.C.K., to the Scillies from 1822 to 1842, during which time he was engaged in restoring and building several churches on the islands.
Woolf (Charles) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CORNWALL. Plates and textual illustrations, 103pp, lacks dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1970. £4.00
Wright (Matthew), line drawings ST-JUST-IN-ROSELAND CHURCH the Parish Church of St. Just and St. Mawes. Coloured illusts, plan, line drawings, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Beric Tempest, St. Ives: n.d. £4.00

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Alexander (J.J) and Hooper (W.R) HISTORY OF GREAT TORRINGTON in the County of Devon. With a large folding map, numerous plates, text illusts, xiii + 261pp, 4to, few short tears to slightly spotty dustwrapper. Sutton: Advance Studio, 1948. £82.00
Barlow (Frank), editor EXETER AND ITS REGION. With 36 plates, textual illusts, xvii + 343pp, roy 8vo, slightly used dustwrapper, ex-Geographical Association library, with their label to front endpaper, inner hinges weak, one corner of top board slightly bruised, paper slightly lifting from front pastedown. University of Exeter: 1969. £4.00
* Includes chapters on:- Place-Names of Devon; Geology of Devon; Art in the South West, etc.
Berry (Les) and Gosling (Gerald) AROUND EXETER. The Archive Photographs Series. Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing, Stroud: 1996. £6.00
Boggis (Rev. R.J) HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S TORQUAY. Illusts, xii + 301pp, original cloth, name to front endpaper. First edition, Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1930. £11.00
Bourne (John), editor GEORGIAN TIVERTON. The Political Memoranda of Beavis Wood 1768 - 98. Frontis, xxvii + 180pp, original card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 29. Torquay: 1986. £4.00
Bracken (C.W) A HISTORY OF THE PLYMOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL. Illusts, 75pp, 12mo, original printed wraps, hand written title on spine, ex-lib. with stamp and number to verso of title-page. Underhill (Plymouth) Ltd., c1910. £4.00
Burnard (Robert) DARTMOOR PICTORIAL RECORDS. Consisting of Eighteen Illustrations from Negatives by the Author, Reproduced in permanent form by the Autotype Company; With a Map, Woodcuts, and Descriptive Letterpress. Volume 3 only of 4 volumes. Illusts, 74pp, original qtr roan, couple of splash marks to front cover, Dartington Hall stamp to front endpaper, and the bookplate of Thurston Peter, the Cornish author to front pastedown. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Signed and numbered by Burnard and the Printers. Privately Printed. W. Brendon & Son, Plymouth: 1893. £30.00
Capern (Edward), Rural Postman of Bideford POEMS. xii + 215pp, original cloth, partly faded, shaken with one section of text loosening, private library label to front pastedown, name to front endpaper. Second Edition, with Additions. London: David Bogue, 1856. £8.00
Carter (Jilly) DEVON REFLECTIONS. Illusts, 96pp, large 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Padstow: 1996. £4.00
Chanter (John Frederick) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF LYNTON AND COUNTISBURY. Their Antiquities, Manors, Churches and Families, and Some Account of the Natural History of the Neighbourhood. With 8 plates and 7 pedigrees 3 of which are folding, 192pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, partly faded as usual. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, 1907. £40.00
Clarke (Kate M) THE MISERICORDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL. Part 2. 2 plates, 8pp, lacks wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1908. £4.00
Cluer (Andrew) PLYMOUTH AND PLYMOUTHIANS Photographs & Memories. Plates, 146pp, sm folio, original decorative paper boards, rear board slightly warped. First Reprint, Lantern Books, Plymouth: 1974. £12.00
Cotton (William) SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF PLYMPTON ST MAURICE, OR PLYMPTON EARL; with Memoirs of the Reynolds Family. Folding plan, and a mounted photo, vii + 129 + 1 Appendix leaf, 12mo, later qtr cloth, marbled boards. London: John Russell Smith, 1859. £120.00
Crossing (William) THE ANCIENT CROSSES OF DARTMOOR; With a Description of Their Surroundings. Map and 10 plates, 132 + 4pp of adverts, original cloth, very slightly rubbed to edges. First edition, Exeter: James G. Commin, London: C. Elkin Mathews, 1887. £35.00
Devonshire Association REPORT AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION.... Bideford, 1976. Volume 108. Illusts, xxviii + 228pp, original wraps, spine slightly faded. Devonshire Press, Torquay: 1976. £6.00
* Includes articles:- North Molton; Crab pots in the South Hams; Braunton marsh; North Molton; Administration of Lundy by Sir John Borlase Warren; Charles Kingsley in Bideford, etc.
Duncan (Alexander G.) THE LONG BRIDGE OF BIDEFORD and Bideford under the Restored Monarchy. Frontis, 70pp, some damp stains to lower edges of original cloth. Reprinted from Transactions of Devonshire Association, Bideford: 1930. £8.00
Dunstan (G.R), editor THE REGISTER OF EDMUND LACY Bishop of Exeter 1420 - 1455. Volume 5. 253pp, original wraps, private bookplate to verso of top wrap. The Canterbury & York Society and Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Torquay: 1972. £6.00
Ellacombe (Rev. H.T) THE PARISH OF CLYST S. GEORGE, DEVON. With 2 double-page pedigrees, 13 plates, some of which are coloured, double-page coloured plan, pages numbered 89-158, complete, 4to, original printed card boards, top cover and first leaf loose. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1865. £30.00
* Article contained in part 2, volume 1, second series of the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. The volume also contains articles on Powderham Castle; Churches of Jersey; Morwenstow Church, Cornwall, etc.
Ellis (Arthur C) SOME ANCIENT CHURCHES AROUND TORQUAY With other Notes on the respective Parishes. Illusts, 160pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, covers slightly rubbed to edges and with a few spots. Contemporary presentation inscription on front endpaper. No imprint. (1936) £25.00
* Covers:- Abbotskerswell, Alphington, Ashburton, Ashcombe, Berry Pomeroy, Bickington, Bishopsteignton, Bovey Tracey. 'The following eight articles were originally meant to be the first of a longer series written for the Torquay Directory. As it appears unlikely that the entire series can be completed within a reasonable time, it seems desirable that these should be issued in book form now.' Preface. Not found on the Devon Libraries internet site.
Fleming (Andrew) THE DARTMOOR REAVES Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions. Illustrations, diagrams, plans, viii + 135pp, dustwrapper. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd. 1988. £8.00
Gill (Crispin) SUTTON HARBOUR. Coloured frontis, illusts, 64pp, oblong 8vo, few small areas lightly rubbed to edges of dustwrapper. Second revised edition. Published by Sutton Harbour Improvement Company, Plymouth. 1976. £8.00
Granville (Roger) THE HISTORY OF THE GRANVILLE FAMILY. Traced back to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. With folding frontis, 30 plates, lacks the folding pedigree, vi + (i) + 489 + (i)pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded, some small spots to spine, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, rear outer hinge has a short split, front inner hinge cracked though sound, marbled page edges. Ex-Tiverton Memorial library with their donation bookplate to front endpaper, which is signed by the donor, and with his indelible stamp to front endpaper and to title-page, slight signs to front endpaper where old label removed. William Pollard, Exeter: 1895. £100.00
* The pedigree is frequently missing.
Greeves (Tom) TIN MINES AND MINERS OF DARTMOOR. A Photographic Record. Illusts, maps, 86pp, original pictorial card covers, spine faded. Devon Books, Exeter: 1986. £7.00
Harper (Charles G) THE SOUTH DEVON COAST. Numerous full page and textual illusts, xiii + 304pp, original cloth,slightly rubbed to edges, few light spots to top board, ink scribble to top corner of front pastedown, occasional light foxing. First edition, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907. £24.00
Hearder (G. and J), printer and publisher THE SOUTH DEVON MONTHLY MUSEUM. Volumes 1-7, bound in 3. All published. Plates and illusts in the text, 7 volumes, early half calf, marbled boards, edges slightly rubbed, later half calf, raised bands, leather labels on spines, marbled boards. Plymouth: G. and J. Hearder. 1833 - 1836. £200.00
* Published as a monthly magazine. The 7 volumes, consist of 6 issues, and between 200 and 283 pages. Includes articles:- the Lary Bridge; Babbicombe; Berry Pomeroy Castle; Eddystone Lighthouse; Dartmoor; Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Liskeard, Island of Jersey, etc.
Henley (Ellen Pamela), (His sister), WILLIAM CUMMING HENLEY: His Days & Ways. Illusts., xxi + 68pp, small folio, original card covers, slightly worn and chipped dustwrapper. First edition, Dartmouth: R. Cranford, 1953. £7.00
* Henley lived in Dartmouth, was a local ironmonger and part time artist. After his death his sister opened a museum in his old workshop, displaying his pictures, etc. Presentation inscription on front endpaper from Ida Walker the caretaker of the collection.
Hingeston-Randolph (Rev. F.C) THE REGISTER OF WALTER DE STAPELDON, Bishop of Exeter, (A.D. 1307 - 1326). Folding facsimile frontispiece, xxxiv + 584pp + 7pp list of subscribers, original cloth, rubbed to edges, front inner hinge cracked. London: George Bell, Exeter: Henry S. Eland, 1892. £25.00
Joce (T.J) GOATPATH. (Devon) With 2 plates, and pages numbered 307-310, original wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1931. £4.00
Jones (Mary) THE HISTORY OF CHUDLEIGH IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON, and the surrounding Scenery, seats.... etc. With an engraved vignette frontis, vi + 210pp, original cloth, later spine, head of spine rubbed, edges lightly rubbed, horizontal split to spine slightly affecting lettering, early ownership name to front pastedown. First edition, London: W. Gratton, Exeter: A. Holden, etc. 1852. £55.00
King (Richard John) THE FOREST OF DARTMOOR, and its Borders. A Historical Sketch. xii + 138pp, 12mo, original cloth, occasional light foxing. London: John Russell Smith, 1856. £40.00
King (Richard John) THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY AND OF THE HOLY CROSS, AT CREDITON. With 5 plates, folding plan, pages numbered 81-113, 4to, disbound, plates and plan loose, quarter inch tear to top margin of plates. Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1876. £8.00
Lamplugh (Lois) BARNSTAPLE Town on the Taw. Plates, textual illusts, roy 8vo, xv + 174pp, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1983. £8.00
Lega Weekes (Ethel) COUNTY ARMAMENTS IN DEVON IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 17pp, original printed wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1909. £4.00
* This is a short analysis of the county's preparedness to defend itself.
Mozley (T) HENRY VII Prince Arthur and Cardinal Morton. From a Group representing the Adoration of the Three Kings on the Chancel Screen of Plymtree Church. With an Appendix Containing a Notice of "Nicholas Monk, Rector of Plymtree;" "John Land," &c. With a tinted litho. and a folding plate, 149pp, roy 8vo, original cloth lightly rubbed to edges, stitching weak. Printed for T. Mozley, Rector of Plymtree: 1878. £15.00
Newton (Robert) VICTORIAN EXETER 1837-1914. Frontis, illusts, folding map, xxi + 415pp, original cloth, dustwrapper slightly faded with a couple of short tears. Leicester University Press: 1968. £5.00
Oliver (Rev. George) THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF EXETER. With a short Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix of Documents and Illustrations. Folding plan, xiv + 337pp, original cloth, rubbed to edges, head and foot of spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper, front inner hinge weak, occasional light foxing. Exeter: William Roberts, 1861. £30.00
Owen (D.M), editor JOHN LYDFORD'S BOOK. Frontis, 203pp, original card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 20. 1974. £4.00
* Includes 11 page index of persons and places.
Prince (John) DANMONII ORIENTALES ILLUSTRES: or THE WORTHIES OF DEVON. A Work Wherein the Lives and Fortunes of The Most Famous Divines, Statesmen, Swordsmen, Physicians, Writers, and Other Eminent Persons, Natives of that most noble Province..... A New Edition With Notes. With frontis, 5 plates of portraits and 5 plates of heraldic arms, xxxvii + 785pp + vipp, 4to, recent half calf, marbled boards, some plates spotty. Printed for Rees and Curtis, Plymouth. Edward Upham, Exeter. and Longman, Hurst Rees and Orme, London: 1810. £135.00
Radford (Ursula) MISS BURNEY IN DEVONSHIRE. Frontis, pages numbered 279-288, lacks the wraps. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 1927. £4.00
* 'When Dr. Johnson called Fanny Burney a "character monger" he was thinking of her novels.'
Ravenhill (Mary R) and Rowe (Margery M) DEVON MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS: Manuscript Maps Before 1840. With 16 coloured plates, 2 sketch maps, 2 volumes, xi + 214pp, and 215-433pp, original card covers, the 2 volumes contained within the original slip-case. Devon and Cornwall Record Society. New Series, Volume 43. Exeter: 2002. £40.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF SOUTH MOLTON AND ROBOROUGH IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. 68pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1930. £12.00
Reichel (Rev. Oswald J) THE HUNDREDS OF HEMYOCK AND HALBERTON IN EARLY TIMES. The Devonshire Association. Extra Volume. 31pp, original printed wraps. Exeter: Southwoods (Exeter), Ltd. 1929. £8.00
Reynolds (Herbert) A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT DIOCESE OF EXETER. From the Conquest to the Church Congress of 1894. With Appendix. xi + 458pp + xxvii, original cloth, partly faded, ex-lib. with stamp to verso of title-page, and residue of label to front pastedown. Exeter: H. Besley, 1895. £12.00
Rogers (W.H. Hamilton) THE SEPULCHRAL EFFIGIES IN THE PARISH CHURCHES OF NORTH DEVON. Illustrated with 19 plates and numerous illusts in the text, 193-542pp, complete, 4to, original cloth backed printed paper boards, few slight marks to covers. Printed by William Pollard, Exeter: 1877. £18.00
* Forming Part II. Volume III. Second Series of Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society.
Rowe (Margery M), and Draisey (John M), editor, trans. and intro. THE RECEIVERS' ACCOUNTS OF THE CITY OF EXETER 1304 - 1353. Frontis, xxxi + 128pp, paperback with dustwrapper. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 32. Torquay: 1989. £4.00
St. Andrew's, Plymouth, edited by M.C.S. Cruwys. THE REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS OF THE PARISH OF ST. ANDREW'S PLYMOUTH Co. Devon A.D. 1581-1618 with Baptisms 1619-1633. 588pp, untrimmed, partly unopened, loose in parts and unbound as issued, a few leaves partly waterstained at the rear. The Devon & Cornwall Record Society. Exeter: 1954. £75.00
* This item was issued in parts over some years and rarely turns up complete.
Thompson (W. Harding) DEVON, a Survey of its Coasts, Moors & Rivers, with some Suggestions for their Preservation. With 44 plates, 6 coloured folding maps, 3 textual illusts, xx + 144pp, 4to, original cloth, foot of boards rubbed, lacks dustwrapper. University of London Press Ltd. 1932. £12.00
Torr (Cecil) BOVEY TRACEY CHURCH-RATES AND POOR RATES 1596-1729. 23pp, pamphlet, original printed wraps. For Private Circulation. Plymouth: 1928. £8.00
Travis (John) LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH. Glimpses of the Past. Illusts, 190pp, dustwrapper, small ink note to front endpaper. Breedon Books, Derby: 1997. £8.00
Tuckett (John) DEVONSHIRE PEDIGREES. Recorded in the Herald's Visitation of 1620; With Additions from the Harleian Manuscripts, and the Printed Collections of Westcote and Pole. Parts 1-6, with Index, (iv) + 96 + Parts 7-12, with Index, (iv) 97-216pp, 4to, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, outer hinges partly split though sound, portions chipped from head of spine, lacks lettering piece from spine, bookplate to front pastedown, and private embossed ownership name to front endpaper. Limited to 200 copies. John Russell Smith, London: 1859-61. £110.00
Vivian (Lt.-Col. J.L) VISITATIONS OF THE COUNTY OF DEVON, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, and 1620, with Additions. iv + 899pp, 4to, half morocco, raised bands, spine slightly dull, with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers, inner hinges strengthened, with the bookplate of F.T. Colby, who edited books on Devon genealogy, pasted to front pastedown. For the Author by Henry S. Eland, Exeter: (1895) £450.00
Warne (Arthur) CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DEVON. Illusts, 184pp, original cloth, worn dustwrapper, lacks front endpaper, pencil notes to rear endpaper and pastedown. First edition. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1969. £5.00
* 'through the Charity Schools and later through the Sunday Schools, it shouldered almost alone the burden of providing education for the poor....'
Warner (Rev. H.J) A HISTORY OF YEALMPTON. (Devonshire) With 4 plates, 93pp, few spots to the original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. Plymouth: Western Morning News. 1907. £30.00
Whitham (John A) OTTERY ST MARY. Maps, plates, textual illusts, xiii + 124pp, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1984. £8.00
Worth (R. Hansford) DARTMOOR. Compiled from the author's published works and edited by G.M. Spooner & F.S. Russell. New edition with introduction by G.M. Spooner. Numerous photographic plates & diagrams, map endpapers, xiv + (ii) + 523pp, original cloth, few spots to faded spine, lacks dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1967. £6.00
Worthy (Charles) DEVONSHIRE WILLS: A collection of annotated Testamentary abstracts, together with the Family History and Genealogy of Many of the most Ancient Houses of the West of England. xv + 516pp, roy 8vo, untrimmed in the original cloth. London: Bemrose and Sons, 1896. £105.00

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Barnes (William) A GLOSSARY OF THE DORSET DIALECT with a Grammar. vii + (i) + 124 + (1)pp, 103pp, 12mo, original card covers, light stain to rear cover. First published 1886. Second Edition. Toucan Press, Guernsey: 1970. £15.00
Benfield (Eric) THE TOWN OF MAIDEN CASTLE. Illusts, 70pp, endpapers partly faded, dustwrapper. First edition, Robert Hale, London: 1947. £8.00
Bournemouth Natural Science Society BOURNEMOUTH NATURAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS Volume 54. Session 1963-64. 44pp, original paper wraps. Published by the Society, Bournemouth: 1965. £4.00
Charities THE CHARITIES IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Selected from the Voluminous Reports of the Commissioners for Inquiring concerning Charities in England and Wales, which began the 58th Year of the Reign of Geo. III. and ended the 7th of Will. IV. Folio, 110pp + 5 - 182pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, leather label on spine, covers lightly rubbed, small strips torn from calf on corners, inner hinges partly cracked though sound, some spotting mainly to front and rear. London: Sold by James Newman. 1840. £30.00
* Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis. Consists of 'Report of the Commissioners.... ' and 'Further Report.... ' Originally issued as blue books, this is a re-issue with a new title-page. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Edward B. Baker.
Collins (Vere H) TALKS WITH THOMAS HARDY AT MAX GATE 1920-1922. xvipp, 85pp, 12mo, original card covers. Toucan Press, Guernsey: 1971. £6.00
Cooper (Lettice Ashley) TWO 17th CENTURY DORSET INVENTORIES. Frontis, 24pp, small folio, original printed wraps. Publication No 5 of The Dorset Record Society, Dorchester: 1974. £6.00
Miles (William Augustus) A DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVEREL BARROW, Opened A.D. 1825. Also a Minute Account of the KIMMERIDGE COAL MONEY, A Most Mysterious and Nondescript Article. With two engraved and one printed title, and 8 engraved plates, viii + (3)-53pp, 4to, recent cloth, label on top board, slight spotting mainly to margins of plates. Cockers, Printers, Frome: 1826. £70.00 --- See sample text
Mills (A.D) THE PLACE-NAMES OF DORSET. Part 2. The Hundreds of Cogdean, Loosebarrow, Rushmore, Combe Ditch, Pimberne Badbury, Cranborne, Wimborne St Giles, Knowlton, Monkton Up Wimborne. With 2 maps, xxxvii + 298pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. English Place Name Society, Nottingham: 1980. £15.00
Rylands (John Paul), editor THE VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET, TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623, By Henry St. George and Sampson Lennard, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden. With 9 plates, vi + (i) + 115pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, spine faded, and slightly rubbed, shaken, stitching pulled. With the armorial bookplate of Herbert Hanbury Smith Carington, and one other bookplate. London: Harleian Society. 1885. £32.00
Short (Bernard C) EARLY DAYS OF NONCONFORMITY IN POOLE. Plates, text illusts, [vi] + 76pp, half calf, cloth boards, spine rubbed to edges, ex-ref.lib., with small stamp to title-page. J. Looker, The Wessex Press, Poole: 1927. £8.00
Stoate (T.L), editor and publisher DORSET TUDOR SUBSIDIES Granted in 1523, 1543, 1593. xxiv + 256pp, folio, original cloth. T.L. Stoate, Almondsbury: 1982. £24.00
Victoria County History, edited by R.B.Pugh VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET. Volume 3. With Index to Volume 2. With a frontis and double-page map, 189pp, small folio, slightly spotty dustwrapper, few small marks to endpapers. Oxford University Press, 1968. £26.00
* Mainly concerned with the Dorset Domesday and Geld Rolls.
Warne (Charles) THE CELTIC TUMULI OF DORSET: An Account of Personal and other Researches in the Sepulchral Mounds of the Durotriges. With 13 engraved plates, textual illusts, [viii] + 63 + 76pp, folio, original cloth, slightly dull, partly faded and with a few spots, plates slightly spotty, with water stains mainly to margins of plates, prelims spotty, text clean, small hole to front endpaper. First edition, Printed for the Author: Published by John Russell Smith, London: 1866. £180.00
Weymouth Corporation WEYMOUTH The English Naples. Folding frontis, illusts, 48pp, adverts. original bevelled cloth boards. Hodd and Co., Middlesborough: c.1904. £25.00 --- See sample text

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Baddeley (W. St. Clair) HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY, AT PAINSWICK. With 11 plates, vii + (1) + 70pp, sm 4to, original buckram, stitching broken, almost loose in case, water stain to top board, internally clean. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. Ltd., 1902. £8.00
Barlow (Jill), editor A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTER OF APPRENTICES OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER 1595 - 1700. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 14. With 12 tables and 2 plates, xxxii + 343pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2001. £8.00
Berkeley Peerage MINUTES OF EVIDENCE Taken before the COMMITTEE FOR PRIVILEGES, on the EARL OF BERKELEY'S PEDIGREE, in the Year 1799.... with.... MINUTES OF EVIDENCE given before The Committee of Privileges, to whom The Petition of William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Claiming as of right to be the Earl of Berkeley.... with.... APPENDIX TO THE MINUTES of the Committee of Privileges on the Berkeley Peerage of the 7th June, 1811. 3 items bound in one, 85pp, with folding facsimile, 876 + (3) page Index of the Names of Witnesses Examined. with 6 page Appendix,, folio, early half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, boards loose. Ordered to be reprinted, 8th March, and 7th June, 1811. £145.00
* With the engraved armorial bookplate of William Phelps to front pastedown.
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, edited by Sir John Maclean TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1880-81. Volume 5. Illusts, 255pp, later cloth, ex-lib. with number to base of spine, and stamp and label to front endpapers. Bristol: Printed for the Society by C.T. Jefferies, 1881. £22.00
* Includes articles:- Painswick Court House; Tewkesbury Abbey Church; Stanley St Leonards; Roman Pavement at Woodchester; Brimpsfield, etc.
Evans (J.T), editor THE CHURCH PLATE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With 21 plates, and 2 textual illusts, xxiv + 264pp, original cloth, roy 8vo. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1906. £10.00
Fendley (John), editor BISHOP BENSON'S SURVEY OF THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER 1735 - 1750. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 13. xx + 264pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2000. £8.00
Fendley (John), editor NOTES ON THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER BY CHANCELLOR RICHARD PARSONS C.1700. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 19. xxxiii + 576pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2005. £12.00
Gibbs (J. A) A COTSWOLD VILLAGE. Or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire. With Illustrations. viii + 431pp, original buckram, lightly rubbed. Second Edition 1899. £15.00
* The author lived at Ablington, near Bibury.
Gilbert (Edward) A GUIDE TO THE PRIORY CHURCH AND SAXON CHAPEL DEERHURST, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Plates, plan, 12pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted with additional illustrations, Newman, Printer, Tewkesbury: 1958. £4.00
Gloucestershire Parish Registers, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Volume 1. vi + 149pp, recent cloth. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore and Co., 1896. £16.00
* Marriages celebrated in each Parish from the first entry up to the year 1812. Contains the Parishes of King's Stanley, Owlpen, Quedgeley, Rendcombe, Swindon, Forthampton, Nimpsfield and Slimbridge.
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, edited by Rev. B.H. Blacker. GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. Volume 1. xvi + 475pp, contemporary half calf, lacks label on spine, cloth boards, covers rubbed, top outer hinge partly split, and weak. Wm. Kent, London: and others, 1881. £15.00
* Includes articles:- Index to Monumental Inscriptions, Cheltenham; Tomes Family; Manor of Owlpen; Longevity in Cheltenham; Notgrove Parish Church; Bathurst Family, etc.
Gray (Irvine), editor CHELTENHAM SETTLEMENT EXAMINATIONS 1815-1826. xxiii + 113pp, original cloth. Printed for the Records Section of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. (1968) £8.00
Hart (Cyril) THE VERDERERS AND FOREST LAWS OF DEAN With notes on the Speech House and Deer. Plates and textual illusts, 240pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1971. £8.00
Holbrook (Neil) and Jurica (John) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Review of New Discoveries and New Thinking in Gloucestershire South Gloucestershire and Bristol 1979-2004. Diagrams, plans, maps, vii + 265pp, 4to, original card covers. Cotswold Archaeological Trust, 2006. £5.00
Hoyle (R.W), editor THE MILITARY SURVEY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1522. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 6. With 12 tables and 2 plates, liii + 265pp, dustwrapper. Includes an Index of personal names. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1993. £18.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1897. With folding map, xviii + 537 + 56 pages of adverts, original cloth, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine and corners, spine slightly faded, few spots to cloth. London: Kelly's Directories, 1897. £75.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1919. With short tear to map with small amount of loss, original cloth, spine faded, slightly rubbed, few small snags to head and foot of spine, short splits to outer hinges, poor quality paper browned to edges as usual. Kelly's Directories, Ltd., London: 1919. £38.00
Litzenberger (C.J), editor TEWKESBURY CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNT, 1563 - 1624. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 7. xix + 163pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1994. £8.00
Lysons (Samuel) AN ACCOUNT OF THE ROMAN VILLA, DISCOVERED IN THE PARISH OF GREAT-WITCOMBE, In the County of Gloucester. Read before the Society of Antiquaries, on the 30th of April, 1818, and the 4th of February, 1819. Published in the First Part of the Nineteenth Volume of the Archaeologia. With 7pp and a double-page folding plan, 4to, pamphlet, original printed wraps. Henry J. Cochrane, printer, Cheltenham: (1819) £28.00
Martin (Benjamin) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen and one other plate, pages numbered 332-363.... Bound with.... THE NATURAL HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE. With an engraved folding map by Bowen, pages numbered 364-400. 2 items continuously paginated, complete, disbound. London: Printed and Sold by W. Owen. 1759. £40.00
* Extracted from his work entitled "The Natural History of England.... "
[Moreau (Simeon)] A TOUR TO CHELTENHAM SPA; or Gloucestershire Display'd. Containing An Account of Cheltenham, its Mineral Waters, Amusements, Public Walks, Environs, &c. the Natural History of the County of Gloucester, the City of Gloucester, and the Towns of Cirencester, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Fairford, &c. with a Correct Itinerary from Cheltenham, and a new and easy Mode of knowing The Hours for Passing the Severn at Aust and the New Passages.... 174pp + Addenda leaf, 12mo, recent qtr cloth, paper boards, small light splash mark and 'Moreau' in ink to lower margin of title, small engraving pasted to verso of title-page, lacks half-title(?) First edition. Bath: Printed for the Author by R. Cruttwell. 1783. £95.00
Newenham (W.T) ANTIQUATED SPOTS ROUND CHELTENHAM. With 3 woodcut illustrations, 143pp, 12mo, original cloth, gilt, cover slightly soiled, early inscription on front endpaper. Simpkin, Marshall, London: (1851) £25.00
* Includes:- Prestbury Camp, Bishop's Cleeve, Seven Springs, Leckhampton, and Winchcombe.
Patterson (Robert B), editor THE ORIGINAL ACTA OF ST. PETER'S ABBEY GLOUCESTER c. 1122 to 1263. Edited, with an account of the Scriptorium and its Scribes. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 11. With 44 plates, lxi + 354pp, dustwrapper. Includes indices of persons and places and subjects. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1998. £8.00
Payne (Gordon E) A SURVEY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Physical, Social & Economic Survey and Plan. Numerous illusts and coloured folding maps, also folding maps in pocket at rear, vii + 320pp, original cloth, 4to. John Bellows, Gloucester: c.1938. £10.00
Playne (Arthur Twisden) A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF MINCHINHAMPTON AND AVENING. With 24 plates, viii + 188pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. First edition, Gloucester: John Bellows, 1915. £50.00
Rhodes (John), editor A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTERS OF THE PRIORY OF LLANTHONY BY GLOUCESTER 1457 - 1466, 1501 - 1525. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 15. xlii + 233pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol: 2002. £8.00
Richardson (L) A HANDBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF CHELTENHAM and Neighbourhood. Illusts, xii + 303pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, and pulled to head of spine, large folding map in pocket at rear, few tears and splits crudely repaired to verso, tipped onto last free endpaper is a small envelope which contains some relevant news cuttings. First edition, Cheltenham: Norman Sawyer and Co., 1904. £25.00
Riddelsdell (H.J), Hedley (G.W) and Price (W.R) FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Numerous illusts., 6 folding maps, 4 are in pocket at rear, clxxxii + 667pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 1" tear to head of spine. First edition. Cotteswold Naturalist's Field Club, Gloucester: 1948. £16.00
Ripley (Peter), and Jurica (John), transcriber and editor A CALENDAR OF THE REGISTERS OF THE FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER 1641 - 1838. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 4. xxx + 330pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Stroud: 1991. £18.00
[Roberts (Mary)] THE ANNALS OF MY VILLAGE: Being A Calendar of Nature Every Month in the Year. Frontis, 3 plates, iv + 362 + (2) pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, recased, spine laid down, original endpapers preserved, some off-setting, early ownership inscription to front endpaper, and recipient's name to title-page, later bookplate to front pastedown. First edition, London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1831. £58.00
* "My Village" is Sheepscombe, and not Painswick as has been sometimes stated.' see Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, vol. 2, page 263.
Stratford (Joseph) GLOUCESTERSHIRE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. xvi + 360pp, original cloth, gilt, very lightly rubbed to edges, lower corners of boards, damped and rubbed, internally sound. Gloucester: "Journal" Office, 1887. £8.00
* Includes chapters on Sir Robert Atkyns, William Henry Hyett, Archbishop Juxon, etc.
Victoria County History, edited by William Page VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER. Volume 2. Plates and textual illusts, xv + 448pp, 4to, recent cloth. First edition, Archibald Constable, London: 1907. £48.00
* Contains chapters on Ecclesiastical, Social and Economic History, Agriculture, Forestry, Sports, Ancient and Modern including Stag and Fox-hunting.
Wells-Furby (Bridget), editor A CATALOGUE OF THE MEDIEVAL MUNIMENTS AT BERKELEY CASTLE. Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 17. lxxxix + 574pp dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2004. £30.00
Wells-Furby (Bridget), editor A CATALOGUE OF THE MEDIEVAL MUNIMENTS AT BERKELEY CASTLE. Gloucestershire Record Series Volumes 17 and 18. 2 volumes, lxxxix + 574pp and xi + 575-1200pp, dustwrappers. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2004. £50.00
Were (F) INDEX TO THE HERALDRY IN BIGLAND'S HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Compiled for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Pages numbered 147-510pp + viii page index, later cloth, bound without the wraps. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol: 1905. £16.00
* Forming Volume XXVIII (28). Part 2 of the Society's Transactions.
Wyatt (Irene), editor TRANSPORTEES FROM GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO AUSTRALIA 1783-1842. Gloucestershire Record Series. Volume 1. Folding map, xx + 181pp, dustwrapper. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1988. £20.00
* Lists the names, ages, addresses, occupations, sentences, transport, etc.

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Ashbrittle ASHBRITTLE AT THE MILLENNIUM Researched, written, photographed, edited and designed by people from the parish of Ashbrittle with help from some close neighbours. Illusts, map endpapers, 170pp, oblong 8vo, paperback. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES. Ashbrittle Arts, 2000. £7.00
* A history of the manor of Ashbrittle, in Somerset, with photographs, comments and snippets by many of its residents.
Bailey (Derrick Sherwin) WELLS CATHEDRAL CHAPTER ACT BOOK 1666-83. xlv + 120pp, original cloth, ex-lib with residue of small label to front endpaper and stamp to verso of title-page. Somerset Record Society. Volume 72. Printed for Subscribers. 1973. £4.00
Bailey (John) WESTON SUPER MARE The Good Old Days. Illusts, 55pp, original pictorial card covers. Second edition, Redcliffe, Bristol: 1985. £4.00
Balch (H.E) WOOKEY HOLE, ITS CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins. Period Restoration and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I. Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory. With 36 plates, and 55 figures in the text, viii + 258pp, 4to, untrimmed in the original cloth-backed printed paper boards, few spots to slightly faded boards, the ragged and dustwrapper is split in 2 and is loosely inserted. First edition. Oxford University Press: 1914. £85.00
Bantock (Anton) THE LATER SMYTHS OF ASHTON COURT. From their letters 1741-1802. Plates, textual illusts, plans, map, 237pp, original decorative card covers, 2 small areas rubbed to top corner of top cover. Bristol: Malago Society, 1984. £7.00
Batten (John) HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF PARTS OF SOUTH SOMERSET, viz Barwick, Chilton Cantelo, Sutton Bingham, East Coker, Brympton, Houndston, Preston, Limington, with Notices of West Coker, and Hardington Mandeville. With plates, folding pedigree, iii + 200pp, original bevelled cloth, title slightly discoloured as usual. First edition, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London: & Whitby and Son, Yeovil, 1894. £25.00
Beazer (Cyril H.G) RANDOM REFLECTIONS OF A WEST COUNTRY MASTER CRAFTSMAN. With 23 plates, 3 of which are coloured, several with two illustrations, 158pp, dustwrapper. Published by C.H.G. Beazer, Bath: 1981. £6.00
* The story of how he worked as a stone mason before the war and then built up his own construction company, working mainly in Bath.
Bromwich (David), editor THE DIARY AND MEMOIRS OF JOHN ALLEN GILES. Frontis, xviii + 638pp, original cloth, foot of boards slightly bruised. Somerset Record Society. Volume 86. 2000. £12.00
* Includes chapters on Southwick House, Mark; Sutton and Churchill Court; Bridgwater; and Frome.
Chadwyck Healey (Charles E.H) HISTORY OF THE PART OF WEST SOMERSET Comprising the Parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Porlock, Culbone and Oare. Maps, pedigrees some of which are folding, illustrations some of which are coloured, ix + 557pp, untrimmed in the original buckram, covers partly faded, couple of corners slightly bruised. Limited to 380 Copies. 350 of which are for sale. Henry Sotheran, London: 1901. £100.00 --- See sample text
Chubb (T) A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF SOMERSETSHIRE 1575-1914. With Biographical Notes and Illustrations. With 16 plates, xii + 232pp, original cloth, few spots to top corner of top board. Taunton: Published by The Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1914. £30.00
Compton (Theodore) A MENDIP VALLEY, Its Inhabitants and Surroundings, being an Enlarged and Illustrated Edition of Winscombe Sketches. With Original Illustrations by Edward Theodore Compton, and a Chapter on the Geological History of the Mendips by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan. Numerous full page and textual illusts, 288pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, very lightly rubbed to edges, with 2 ownership names to front endpaper. London: Edward Stanford: Swindon: W.C. Eddington, 1892. £45.00
Davis (Charles Edward) ANCIENT LANDMARKS OF BATH, or notes of Pagan and Christian Antiquities in and around Aquae Sulis. With 2 folding plans, iv + 50pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, short split to head of rear outer hinge, ink note, and presentation library label to front pastedown, no stamps. Bath: William Lewis. London: Goodall and Son. 1864. £15.00
Dobbie (B.M. Willmott) AN ENGLISH RURAL COMMUNITY: Batheaston with S. Catherine. Illusts, 2 folding maps, roy 8vo, 170pp, few shorts tears to slightly worn and crinkled dustwrapper, short split and a few small portions missing to fold-over of dustwrapper. Internally sound. Bath University Press: 1969. £17.00
[Edwards (John)], Agrikler of Wrington POEMS HUMOROUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL by Agrikler. New Series. xiii + 140pp, original decorative cloth. London: Griffith and Farran, and Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, (1883) £10.00
Farbrother (John E) SHEPTON MALLET: Notes on its History, Ancient, Descriptive, and Natural. With 9 lithographic plates, 195pp, original cloth, small snag to head of top outer hinge, 3 corners of boards bruised, presentation inscription by the author on front endpaper. First edition. Shepton Mallet: Albert Byrt, London: G.A. Bartlett, (1859) £30.00
Gerard (Thomas), edited by Rev. E.H. Bates THE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 262pp, original cloth, inscription on front endpaper. Somerset Record Society, volume 15, 1900. Reprinted. Castle Cary Press, 1973. £20.00
Goodchild (John) THE BOROUGH OF YEOVIL. Its History and Government Through the Ages. With 6 illustrations, 136pp, roy 8vo, original cloth slightly spotty, light waterstain to edges of first few leaves. Published by The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Yeovil. 1954. £6.00
Hamilton (Archibald) THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. With Notes on those who hunted them. Illusts, xvii + 363pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded. First edition, London: Horace Cox, 1907. £35.00
Hancock (F) MINEHEAD. In the County of Somerset. A History of the Parish, the Manor and the Port. Illusts and folding maps and plans, xiv + 468pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, thin line mark from top to bottom of top cover, early ownership inscription to front endpaper. Limited to 250 numbered copies. First edition, Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton: 1903. £100.00
Holmes (Thomas Scott) THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND MANOR OF WOOKEY; being a contribution towards a future History of the County of Somerset. Frontis., 2 plans, 164pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, spine darkened, endpapers discoloured, contemporary inscription to front pastedown. First edition, Bristol: C.T. Jefferies and Son, c.1885. £30.00
Jeboult (Edward) A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF WEST SOMERSET. Description of the Valley of the Tone & the History of the Town of Taunton. Illustrated by a New process of Photography and Heliotype. Illusts, [iv] + 132 + [ii] + 121 + 94pp, 4to, original cloth, covers rubbed, narrow strips of spine missing from head and foot, 1�" split to top outer hinge, with a split halfway across the spine, usual occasional foxing. First edition. Somerset and Bristol Steam-Press, Taunton: 1873. £15.00
Jennings (James) THE DIALECT OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Particularly Somersetshire; With a Glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect. Second Edition, The Whole Revised, Corrected and Enlarged, With Two Dissertations on the Anglo-Saxon Pronouns and other Pieces by James Knight Jennings. xxiv + 167pp, 12mo, original cloth, recent endpapers. Second Edition, London : John Russell Smith. 1869. £45.00
King (J.E), editor INVENTORY OF PAROCHIAL DOCUMENTS IN THE DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS AND THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. xiv + 400pp, original buckram, light splash marks to top cover, occasional foxing, page edges spotty. Somerset County Council Records Committee. 1938. £5.00
Lowndes (William) THE THEATRE ROYAL BATH. The eventful story of a Georgian playhouse. Plates, 91pp, dustwrapper partly faded. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1982. £10.00
MacMullen (Mrs Frederic) TAUNTON, or the Town We Live In. An Historical Sketch with Conversations. For the Use of Young Persons. With 6 engraved plates, iii + 175pp, 12mo, original cloth, partly faded, cloth chipped to head of spine, rear outer hinge split for most of it's length, slightly shaken, name to front endpaper. First edition, Longmans & Co, London: Frederick May, Taunton: 1858. £22.00
Maxwell-Lyte (H.C.) DUNSTER AND ITS LORDS 1066-1881. With A Descriptive Sketch Of Dunster Castle by G.T. Clarke, and a chapter on The Siege and Surrender Of Dunster Castle by E. Green. Numerous plates and plans, viii + 145pp, roy 8vo, original buckram, gilt, recased retaining the original endpapers, with the old spine laid down, corners slightly rubbed, usual occasional foxing. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. Exeter: Printed for Private Circulation, William Pollard, 1882. £100.00
* Presentation slip tipped onto the front pastedown 'With Mrs Luttrell's compliments.'
Monday (A.J), extracted by. Siraut (Mary), editor SOMERSET WILLS. v + 334pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society Volume 89. Taunton: 2003. £12.00
Olivey (Hugh P) NORTH CURRY; Ancient Manor and Hundred. Notes on the History of three Parishes: North Curry, Stoke St. Gregory, West Hatch, contained therein. Illusts, folding table, xiv + 348pp, untrimmed in the original cloth, some damp spotting to foot and edges of boards, internally sound, foxing to fore-edges, head and foot of spine slightly bruised. First edition, Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, Athenaeum Press, 1901. £30.00
Penley (Belville S) THE BATH STAGE: A History of Dramatic Representations in Bath. Illustrated. xv + 196pp including 14pp. of adverts, original cloth. London: William Lewis & Son, and Bath: 1892. £16.00
Phelps (Rev. W) HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SOMERSETSHIRE; being a General and Parochial Survey of that interesting County, to which is prefixed an Historical Introduction, with a Brief View of Ecclesiastical History; and an Account of the Druidical, Belgic-British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman Antiquities. Volume 1 part 4 only. With 4 plates, and woodcuts in the text, pages numbered 169-312pp, 4to, in the original printed wraps, spine chipped and lacks 1" from foot of spine. Printed for the Author. London: J.B. Nicholls, 1837. £18.00
* Four volumes were projected but only the first two were published. This part includes:- part of Hundred of Norton Ferrers (Kilmington, Pen Selwood, Bratton-Seymour, etc); Hundred of Bruton (Brewham, Milton Clevedon, Pitcombe, Yarlington, etc.) part of Hundred of Horethorne (Milborne Port, Henstridge, etc.)
Poole (Charles Henry) THE CUSTOMS SUPERSTITIONS AND LEGENDS OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Collected from various sources. 147pp, 12mo, original printed card covers. Second Edition, The Toucan Press, Guernsey: 1970. £6.00
Powell (Rev A.H) ANCIENT BOROUGH OF BRIDGWATER. Plan, folding map and 9 plates, v + 311pp, original cloth, head and foot of spine rubbed, short splits to cloth on rear outer hinge, light splash(?) mark to top board. Page and Sons, Bridgwater: 1907. £12.00
Rogers (T.E) RECORDS OF YARLINGTON: Being the History of a Country Village. 94pp, sm 4to, uncut, original cloth, partly faded. Tipped in at the front is a handwritten letter, signed by the author, on one side of an 8vo leaf. First edition, London: Elliott Stock, 1890. £40.00
Ross (David Melville) LANGPORT AND ITS CHURCH. The Story of the Ancient Borough, with References to Neighbouring Parishes. Illusts, xv + 381pp, 4to, original cloth, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, early ownership inscriptions to front endpaper. First edition, The Herald Press, Langport: 1911. £40.00
Rutter (John) DELINEATIONS OF THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. And of its Antediluvian Bone Caverns, with A Geological Sketch of the District. Illustrated with 12 engraved and lithographed plates, folding coloured map, vignettes, 349pp, early half calf, leather label, marbled boards, and endpapers, top hinge almost broken, rubbed, usual occasional foxing. Printed and Published by the Author, Shaftesbury: Longman, Rees and Co., London: 1829. £40.00
Shorrocks (Derek), editor BISHOP STILL'S VISITATION 1594 AND THE 'SMALE BOOKE' OF THE CLERK OF THE PEACE FOR SOMERSET 1593-5. 193pp, original cloth. Somerset Record Society, Volume 84. Taunton: 1998. £22.00
Smith (D.I), and Drew (D.P), compiled and edited by LIMESTONES AND CAVES OF THE MENDIP HILLS. With 36 plates, textual illusts, 424pp, dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, Published for The British Cave Research Association. 1975. £8.00
Ward (F. Madeline) SUPPLEMENT TO COLLINSON'S HISTORY OF SOMERSET. Extracts from Locke's Survey with a short Biography by R.B. Mowat. Frontis, map, 2 plates, bound without title-page, 175pp, folio, untrimmed, half calf, raised bands, spine gilt tooled, cloth boards, several blanks bound at rear, small split to head of top outer hinge, slightly rubbed to edges of calf. Barnicotts Ltd., Taunton: 1939. £40.00
Wright (Peter Poyntz) THE PARISH CHURCH TOWERS OF SOMERSET. Their construction, craftsmanship and chronology 1350 - 1550. With a Foreword by The Rt. Revd. Abbot Aelred Watkin, Titular Abbot of Glastonbury. Plates and illusts, xi + 217pp, small folio, partly faded dustwrapper. Avebury Publishing Company: 1981. £10.00

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Bowles (Rev. W.L) HERMES BRITANNICUS A Dissertation on the Celtic Deity Teutates.... in further proof and corroboration of the Origin and Designation of the GREAT TEMPLE AT ABURY, in Wiltshire. Textual illusts, 149 + 1pp (advert), untrimmed in early qtr cloth, paper boards, lacks label on spine, spine slightly rubbed to edges, with a couple of short splits, small portion chipped from foot. One of only 250 copies printed. First edition, London: Printed by and for J.B. Nichols, 1828. £150.00
Britton (John) MEMOIR OF JOHN AUBREY, embracing his Autobiographical Sketches, A Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits and an Account of His Works; with Extracts from His Correspondence.... Frontis, xii + 131pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded and slightly rubbed to edges, rear outer hinge partly split, though sound, short tear to head of spine, foot of spine chipped, some spotting to mainly to prelims. Published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society. First edition. 1845. £60.00
Chandler (John) MARLBOROUGH AND EASTERN WILTSHIRE. Wiltshire A History of its Landscape and People 1. Maps, illusts, xiii + 274pp, dustwrapper. Hobnob Press, Salisbury: 2001. £7.00
Chew (H.M), editor HEMINGBY'S REGISTER xi + 288pp, original cloth. Impression of 350 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 18, Devizes: 1963. £8.00
Crabbe (Rev. George), Trowbridge THE CHURCH RESTORED, Including by permission, The Church, a Poem, by The Rev. George Crabbe, L.L.B. late Rector of Trowbridge, Wilts. With 7 steel engravings, iv + 49pp, sm 4to, original partly faded cloth, lacks portions of spine, front inner hinge cracked, ex-lib labels and tear to front endpaper, there are no stamps. London: John Murray, 1848. £9.00
* Includes a short history of Trowbridge and its charities.
Daniell (J.J) THE HISTORY OF WARMINSTER. With a view of the Town & Neighbourhood in 1879. Illusts., xi + 237pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, and slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, prelims lightly foxed, small ownership label to front endpaper. Second Edition. Warminster: Journal Office. (1879) £12.00 --- See sample text
Dodsworth (William) AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EPISCOPAL SEE AND CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SARUM, OR SALISBURY: Comprising Biographical Notices of the Bishops, the History of the Establishment, a Description of the Monuments, &c. With engraved and printed titles, 18 full-page engraved plates, and 2 vignettes, xx + 240pp, small folio, half calf, marbled boards, rubbed to edges, outer hinges partly cracked though sound. Salisbury: Printed by Brodie and Dowding for the author, 1814. £45.00
Elrington (C.R), editor ABSTRACTS OF FEET OF FINES RELATING TO WILTSHIRE For the Reign of Edward III. viii + 224pp, original cloth. Impression of 425 Copies. Volume 29. Wiltshire Records. Devizes: 1974. £8.00
Fry (Edw. Alex.), editor ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, Returned into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II. A.D. 1242 - 1326. xv + 505pp, complete in 7 parts, in the original printed wraps, one wrap is dusty. London: British Record Society. 1908. £12.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WILTSHIRE 1935. Lacks map, 31 (adverts) + xx + 437pp, original cloth, spine faded, rubbed to edges, short tear to front endpaper. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd, 1935. £30.00
Murphy (W.P.D), editor THE EARL OF HERTFORD'S LIEUTENANCY PAPERS 1603 - 1612. Frontis, 235pp, original cloth. Impression of 400 copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 23. Devizes: 1969. £8.00
Noyes (Ella) SALISBURY PLAIN Its Stones, Cathedral City, Villages and Folk. Illustrated by Dora Noyes. With 16 coloured plates, textual illusts, 320pp, original cloth. First edition, London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons. 1913. £16.00
Rathbone (Maurice G), editor LIST OF WILTSHIRE BOROUGH RECORDS EARLIER IN DATE THAN 1836. xiii + 104pp, original cloth. Impression of 300 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 5. Devizes: 1951. £8.00
Sandell (R.E), editor ABSTRACTS OF WILTSHIRE INCLOSURE AWARDS AND AGREEMENTS viii + 164pp, few small marks to original cloth. Impression of 400 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 25. Devizes: 1971. £6.00
Victoria County History, edited by R.B. Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. Volume 2. Plates and textual illusts, 245pp, small folio, original cloth, university label to front pastedown and signs where 2 small labels removed from front endpaper. First edition, Oxford University Press, 1955. £25.00
* Includes chapters on:- The Wiltshire Domesday; Anglo Saxon Art; Anglo Saxon Wiltshire, etc.
Victoria County History, edited by R.B. Pugh and E. Crittall. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE Volume 3. Plates and maps, xix + 424pp, small folio, original cloth, ex-lib., with label to front endpaper, small stamp and short ink note to foot of title-page. Reprinted, Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical research, Folkestone: 1989. £20.00
* Covers the Ecclesiastical history of the county.
Warneford (F.E), editor STAR CHAMBER SUITS OF JOHN AND THOMAS WARNEFORD. xix + 108pp, original cloth, ex-lib., with stamp to half title. Impression of 500 Copies. Wiltshire Records Branch Volume 48. Devizes: 1993. £4.00
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. Volume 19. Plates and plans some of which are folding, includes folding map of Savernake Forest, iv + 362 + viii + (1)pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, rubbed, outer hinges partly split, inner hinges slightly weak, small portions chipped from spine, lacks label from spine, short tear to margin of one leaf, occasional foxing. Devizes: H.F. Bull, 1881. £12.00
* Includes articles:- Cricklade Mint; Savernake Forest; Abbesses of Wilton; Earthworks on Marlborough Downs, etc.

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Atkinson (Barry) MINING SITES IN CORNWALL AND SOUTH WEST DEVON. Illusts, ix + 86pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1988. £5.00
Bezzant (Norman) OUT OF THE ROCK... Numerous illusts, xii + 244pp, dustwrapper, private ownership stamp to verso of front endpaper. William Heinemann Ltd., London: 1980. £9.00
* A history of the use of building stone in this country, and in particular a history of the first sixty years of The Bath and Portland Group.
Brett (Colin J), editor CROWN REVENUES FROM SOMERSET AND DORSET, 1605 333pp, original cloth, in a pocket at the rear is an accompanying CD. Somerset Record Society Volume 96. Printed for Subscribers Only. 2012. £16.00
Burt (Roger), Waite (Peter) and Burnley (Ray) DEVON AND SOMERSET MINES. Metalliferous and Associated Minerals 1845-1913. 136pp, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly faded. University of Exeter and The Northern Mine Research Society, 1984. £9.00
Chafin (William) A SECOND EDITION OF THE ANECDOTES AND HISTORY OF CRANBOURNE CHASE. With Additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent. To which are added Some Scenes in, and Anecdotes of Windsor Forest by the same author. Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., occasional spotting, untrimmed in early plain paper boards, top outer hinge partly broken, ex-Dorset museum library, with label to front pastedown. London: J. Nichols, Son and Bentley, 1818. £60.00
Grinsell (L.V) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EXMOOR. Bideford Bay to Bridgwater. Plates, maps, textual illusts, 242pp, dustwrapper. First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1970. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Harley (J.B), and O'Donoghue (Yolande), intro. THE OLD SERIES ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Scale 1" to 1 mile. A reproduction of the 110 sheets of the survey in early state in 10 volumes. Volume 2. DEVON, CORNWALL AND WEST SOMERSET. Coloured frontis, illusts, xliv + 33 double-page maps, folio, dustwrapper. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent: 1977. £25.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DEVONSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE 1930-1. Lacks map of Devon, with long tear to Somerset map, 47 (adverts) + xxvii + 1256 (adverts) + 28 + xvi + 803pp, original cloth, worn, dull and partly faded, top outer hinge partly split, inner hinges pulled. Kelly's Directories, London: 1930. £75.00
Knight (Francis A) IN THE WEST COUNTRY. With full-page and textual illusts. x + 269pp, original decorative cloth, dull, and rubbed to edges, head and foot of spine chipped, rear inner hinge cracked, few spots to rear cover, internally clean. First edition, Bristol: W. Crofton Hemmons, c.1898. £8.00
* Includes chapters on Brean Down, Exmoor and Dartmoor.
[Leech (J)] THE CHURCH-GOER. Rural Rides: or, Calls at Country Churches. Second Series. xii + 262 + (ii)pp, 12mo, original cloth, recased with a new spine and endpapers, corners of boards neatly reinforced, few spots to prelims.. John Ridler, Bristol: 1850. £20.00
* Includes:- Redland Chapel, Frenchay, Butcombe, Coalpit Heath, Stoke Gifford, Almondsbury, Wrington, Uphill, Kelston, etc.
Lord (N.E. & R.V) "THE SPIRIT OF EXMOOR" A nostalgic look written and illustrated by. Text drawings, 96pp, 4to, original decorative wraps, plastic spiral binding is split horizontally into 2, some ink marginalia. Norman E. Lord, South Molton (1981) £6.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
MacDermot (Edward T) THE HISTORY OF THE FOREST OF EXMOOR. Revised Edition with introduction by R.J. Sellick. Maps and illusts, xii + 480pp, roy, 8vo, dustwrapper. Devon and Charles Reprints, Newton Abbot: 1973. £5.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Major (Albany F) and Burrow (Edward J) THE MYSTERY OF WANSDYKE. Being a Record of Research & Investigation in the Field. With 112 drawings and 100 plans. viii + 200pp, 4to, original cloth-backed boards, partly faded, corners of boards slightly rubbed, contemporary signature and date on front endpaper. Numbered Limited Edition of 750 copies. Cheltenham: Ed. J. Burrow and Co., 1926. £40.00
Oliver (Rev. George) COLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE COUNTIES OF CORNWALL, DEVON, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET AND GLOUCESTER. In two parts Historical & Biographical. viii + 576pp, original cloth, partly faded, minor spotting to prelims. First edition. London: Charles Dolman, 1857. £30.00 --- See sample text
Orwin (C.S) THE RECLAMATION OF EXMOOR FOREST. Illusts, folding map, xiv + 172pp, original buckram, spine darkened, page edges browned, light spotting to prelims, some marks to rear board. First edition, Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford, 1929. £8.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset.
Pennington (Robert R) STANNARY LAW. A History of the Mining Law of Devon and Cornwall. 229pp, dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1973. £8.00
[Pulman (G.P.R)] John Trotandot RAMBLES, ROAMINGS AND RECOLLECTIONS. Frontis, 280pp, original cloth, spine faded. London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870. £20.00
* Includes chapters on Crewkerne Fair, horse racing at Colyton and Beaminster, Whitelackington and Monmouth's Tree, and visits to Jersey.
Ravenhill (Mary R) and Rowe (Margery M), editors THE ACLAND FAMILY: Maps and Surveys 1720-1840. Coloured and blank and white plates, map, xv + 154pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 2006. £9.00
* The Aclands owned property in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
Richardson (A.E) and Gill (C. Lovett) REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Numerous illustrations, xx + 188pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded, lightly rubbed to edges, couple of corners bruised, short tear to head of spine, cloth slightly creased on spine. First edition, London: Ernest Benn, Limited. 1924. £6.00
Robinson (W.J) WEST COUNTRY CHURCHES. Volume 1 only of 4. Numerous illusts., 221pp, original cloth, narrow strip of cloth missing from head of spine. Bristol Times and Mirror, 1914. £8.00 --- See sample text
* This volume includes churches at:- Almondsbury, Abbots Leigh, Axbridge, Bristol, Barrow Gurney, Chepstow, Coalpit Heath, Berkeley, Bitton, Bradford on Avon, Corston, Badminton, etc.
Smyth (John) NOTES ON CORNWALL AND NORTH DEVON. Rhyming Records of Recent Rambles. 108pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges, page edges gilt. John Warren, Royston: and Paternoster and Hales, Hitchin: 1877. £14.00
Snell (F.J) THE BLACKMORE COUNTRY. With 50 full page illustrations from photographs by C. W. Barnes Ward. Folding map, 288pp, half calf, raised bands, cloth boards, raised bands, covers rubbed, top board loose, rear board held with strings, marbled endpapers, private library label to verso of front endpaper. First edition, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. £8.00
* Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. With the bookplates of T.N. Brushfield and John Tricks Spalding, and with Spalding's monogram inlaid in the centre of the top board in calf.

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