British Topography
ALDWYCH: GORDON, CHARLES: Old Time Aldwych, the Kingsway and Neighbourhood,
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, n.d. circa 1910. Frontispiece, plates, folding plan (this torn and repaired on verso with stamp edging), 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 368-pages. Original brown cloth pictorially blocked in black. Headbands and corners bumped, generally good. With the ink stamp of the "London & County Bank Library" on title and shelf number in gilt on spine; no other Library markings. £15.00 |
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH:ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet LXIII (S.E.) N.W. Ashby de la Zouch etc.
London: Ordnance Survey, 1855 (but railways inserted 1884). Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 17 3/4 x 14 inches overall, reverse dusty & foxed.
£30.00
ASHLEY HEATH & ST. LEONARDS: AGASS, FRANK: The Night Cometh. A Local History of St. Leonards, St. Ives and Ashley Heath in the County of Dorset.
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Wimborne Minster: North Dorset Heritage Trust, 1996. Reprint. Illustrations. Softback, 83-pages, original wrappers, good. Inscribed by the author on title. £12.00 |
AYRSHIRE: BLACKWOOD, WILLIAM [PUBLISHER]: The Statistical Account of Ayrshire by the Ministers of the Respective Parishes ....
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1842. Hand-coloured double-page engraved map. Large thick 8vo, pp. 871, original green cloth with printed paper label to backstrip. Label browned and chipped, 4-inch split to upper outer joint, inner joints split but holding, spine faded. With two armorial bookplates of Brisbane of Brisbane. £30.00 |
BATH: HARPER, CHARLES G: The Bath Road. History, Fashion & Frivolity on an Old Highway.
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. First edition. Plates & illustrations. 8vo, pp. xvi:273, contemporary half maroon calf with lettering piece, spine gilt in compartments. Rebacked at an early date retaining the original backstrip. The original backstrip darkened and with a few chips but laid over the replacement leather spine. A not unattractive copy and solidly bound. Some foxing to prelims. Original owner's printed label on front free endpaper. £55.00 |
BEDFORDSHIRE: ANON: Handwritten diary, Odell, Bedfordshire.
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Odell, Bedfordshire, 1836. Handwritten diary in a "Richards's Universal Daily Remembrancer " for 1836. First half unused, diary commences July. The unidentified diarist residing in the village of Odell, Bedforshire. He records journeys, expenses, servants wages, "Old Savage" tends the strawberries & other various agricultural matters etc. 4to (10 x 8 inches), original half-calf. Lacking spine, stitching broken.
£60.00
BELFAST: OWEN, D.J: History of Belfast.
Belfast: W. & G. Baird, 1921. First edition. Plates and plans. 8vo, pp.xvi:459, original tan cloth; gilt to spine faded as usual, corners bumped. Inscription on front free endpaper; generally good.
£30.00
BERKSHIRE: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet XIII (13). Berkshire.
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London: Ordnance Survey, 1859. Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 33 1/2 x 26 inches overall, folding into marbled covers. Linen holed at intersections of folds not affecting the map sheets. Stanford's label on lower blank margin. £40.00 |
BOLDRE: PERKINS, W. FRANK: Boldre. The Parish, the Church, and Inhabitants.
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Lymington: King's Library, 1927. 2nd edition. Portrait & plates. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 77-pages. Original printed brown wrappers; backstrip with loss. £32.00 |
BOURNEMOUTH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Brightlands and Riverlands Estates, Southbourne, Bournemouth.
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23rd June 1927. 48 building sites situate in well constructed avenues to be known as Broadway, and Broadlands and Southlands Avenues.... Folio (13 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches), original wrappers`; wrappers foxed. Two large coloured folding plans in endpocket.
£20.00
BOURNEMOUTH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Carberry Estate, Southbourne, Bournemouth.
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Oct. 4th 1923. 98 plots of building land situate in the Carberry Avenue, Walcombe and Seafield Roads. Folio (13 x 8 inches), original wrappers. Large coloured folding plan in endpocket. Oct. 4th 1923. With loosely inserted illustrated brochure relating to the Estate.
£20.00
BOURNEMOUTH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Carberry Estate, Southbourne, Tuckton Farm.
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June 7th. 1926. Building & Land. 4to (11 x 8 ¾ inches) original wrappers. Coloured folding plan in endpocket.
£10.00
BOURNEMOUTH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Iford Estate (2nd portion). Pokesdown Hill, Bournemouth.
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21st Feb. 1924. 96 building plots. Folio (13 ½ x 8 ½ inches) original wrappers. Large coloured folding plan in endpocket.
£20.00
BOURNEMOUTH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Iford Estate Bournemouth (3rd portion).
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16th Sept. 1924. 77 building plots. Folio (12 ½ x 8 inches), original wrappers. Coloured folding plan. £20.00 |
BOURNEMOUTH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Northwood Estate (3rd portion) Bournemouth. By Direction of J. Cooper-Dean.
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Jan. 29th 1924. 93 building sites. Jan. 29th 1924. Folio (14 x 8 ½ inches), original wrappers. Very large coloured folding plan in endpocket. * Land bounded by the Wimborne Rd to the S & W, Grafton Rd. on the E. & St.Luke's Rd. on the N.
£25.00
BOURNEMOUTH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: The Portman Estate situate at Fisherman's Walk, West Southbourne, Bournemouth.
May 8th 1912. Freehold Building Plots having important frontages to Wentworth Road, Montague Road, and Portman Crescent. 77 Lots. Folio (15 x 10 inches), original wrappers with applied key plan. May 8th 1912. Large folding coloured plan of the Estate; wrappers dusty.
£20.00
BOURNEMOUTH & CHRISTCHURCH: CALKIN, J. BERNARD: Discovering Prehistoric Bournemouth and Christchurch. A Record of Local Finds in the Twentieth Century.
Christchurch: Red House Museum and Art Gallery, 1966. First edition. Black & white illustrations. Tall 8vo, pp.40, softcover; an excellent copy.
£10.00
BOXGROVE: WELLS, RICHARD: A History of the Priory Church of S. Mary & S.Blaise Boxgrove. With some account of the life of its inmates.
Portsmouth: by Charpentier & Co. 1913. Folding pedigree, plates. 8vo, pp. 35, original wrappers; very good.
£10.00
BRANSGORE: AUCTION PARTICULARS: "Heathfield Farm", Bransgore
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18th Oct. 1921. "Heathfield Farm", Bransgore close to the New Forest including an interesting creeper clad farmhouse, farm buildings, bungalow, cottages, pasture, about 73 acres. 4to (9 ¾ x 7 ½ inches) original wrappers. Coloured folding plan.
£10.00
BRIGHTON: HARPER, CHARLES G: The Brighton Road. Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway. Illustrated by the author, and from Old-Time Prints and Pictures.
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1906. First edition thus. 8vo 99 x 5 1/2 inches), pp. xvi:472, original red cloth pictorially blocked in black.. Binding very soiled and marked, lower inner joint cracked but holding, prelims. foxed else internally very good. £20.00 |
BRISTOL: BIRD, CHARLES [John Taylor]: Picturesque Old Bristol.
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Bristol: Frost & Reed 1885. 53 sepia etched plates (including "Presentation Plate") by Charles Bird. Two volumes folio, original half maroon morocco, spines gilt on raised bands, gilt Arms of Bristol blocked to upper covers. The binding gilt stamped "Bound by Frost & Reed, Bristol" (the publishers). |
Binding rubbed and scuffed, headband of Volume 2 worn & chipped. Some foxing although not affecting every plate. Although dated 1885 to the spines the plates are actually dated within the plate marks 1885 to 1889. Each plate marked "Third State". Each plate, which is on heavy paper is accompanied by a leaf of the same paper printed with the title of the plate and the word "Notes".
This issue does not include the descriptive text by John Taylor, and was issued with half-titles only. With printed note at end stating that this issue is limited to 240 copies and that the plates have been destroyed.
£160.00
BURLEY: AUCTION PARTICULARS: "Bisterne Lodge", Burley, New Forest.
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9th Sept. 1936. Two photographs (no plan issued). 4to (12 ½ x 8 ¼ inches), original wrappers. £15.00 |
CALSHOT: MURLEY, CLARE and FRED: Waterside. A Pictorial Past. Calshot, Fawley, Hythe, Marchwood.
Southampton: Ensign Publications, 1992. Reprint. Illustrated in black & white. 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches wide, pp.96, softcover; slight bump to corner of back cover, generally a very good copy.
£18.00
CAMBRIDGE: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet LI ( 51 ). Country around Cambridge.
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London: Ordnance Survey, 1881. Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 21 1/2 x 14 inches overall; reverse dusty & foxed.. £30.00 |
CAMBRIDGE: HARPER, CHARLES G: The Cambridge, Ely and King's Lynn Road. Illustrated by the Author, and from Old-Time Prints and Pictures.
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1902. First edition. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), pp. xvI:336, original blue cloth pictorially blocked in black. Headbands rubbed though and with short split, spine darkened and with small stain, bottom edges of boards worn, old signature on front pastedown. Internally, cracked at several inner gutters but firm, else good. £25.00 |
CHRISTCHURCH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: "Hengistbury House" 35 Purewell, Christchurch, Hants.
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27th Sept. 1939 With Gardener's Cottage and about 8 acres. 4to (11 ½ x 8 ¾ inches), original wrappers with applied photograph of the property. (2 copies). £10.00 |
CHRISTCHURCH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: "Purewell Cross", Christchurch.
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Oct. 11, 1922. 7 acres. Photograph of property, folding coloured plan. 4to (9 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches), original wrappers.
£10.00
CHRISTCHURCH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: "Roseacre" Pauntley Road, Mudeford, Christchurch.
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20th Sept. 1939. 4to (10 x 7 ½ inches), original wrappers with photograph. £10.00 |
CHRISTCHURCH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Christchurch, Hants. Valuable Business Premises, Nos. 15 & 15a Castle Street.
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18th June 1907. Folio (17 ½ x 12 inches), folded and creased. With 2 copies of the folded coloured plan.
£15.00
CHRISTCHURCH: AUCTION PARTICULARS: Priory Estate, Christchurch.
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24th April 1923. 19 plots with frontages to Douglas Avenue, together with the Market Garden & accommodation land having frontage to the River Stour. 8 acres. 4to (13 x 8 inches) & (11x 8 ½ inches), original wrappers. Two brochures, one with large coloured folding plan.
£20.00
CHRISTCHURCH-TWYNHAM: WALCOTT, MACKENZIE E. C: Memorials of Christchurch-Twynham, Hants, Past and Present, with a ground plan of the Priory Church. 2nd Edition Considerably Enlarged.
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Christchurch: W. Tucker & Son, 1868. Frontispiece plan. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 110-pages plus two pages of advertisements & tipped-in Corrigenda. Original plum blindstamped cloth gilt; binding unevenly faded and damp mottled; internally excellent. £35.00
CORRIEYAIRACK PASS: GENTLEMAN, DAVID (b. 1930; designer): Poster - Shell Guide to the Roads of Britain: the Corrieyairack Pass. Colour process engraving and letterpress print. Design by David Gentleman.
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Printed in England by C. Nicholls & Co. for Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., 1965. Colour printed poster, 74 x 51 cm, complete with top and bottom metal strips and hanging loop. Almost fine. £35.00 |
DEESIDE: SMITH, WILLIAM: Deeside water-Colours.
London: A & C Black, 1932. 16 coloured plates, 8vo, original boards with coloured pictorial onlay as issued; very good.
£12.00
DERBYSHIRE: BADMIN, S.R. (1906-1989; designer): Shell Guide to Derbyshire poster with large coloured illustration by Badmin.
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Engraved and Printed by Henry Stone & Son, Banbury, England for Shell circa 1950's. Poster 29 x 20 inches. Some very light damp marking, one corner chipped, short tear into one blank margin; would frame well. £20.00 |
DERBYSHIRE: DEANS, JOSEPH: Melbourne Church (Derbyshire).
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London: W.J. Cleaver, 1843. First edition. 5 plates. Title in red & black. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), original brown ribbed cloth blocked in gilt; plate margins discoloured, headband chipped, 1 1/2 inch split to cloth of upper joint. The binding overall bright and attractive. £25.00 |
DORSET: DENNETT, F.C.H. [Editor]: The Dorset Year Book for 1952-53. Forty-Sixth Year of Issue.
Published by The Society of Dorset Men, 1953. Black & white illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.224, original paper-wrappers; spine slightly edge-rubbed; glue along front inner hinge perishing, binding staples rusty; in all other respects very good.
£17.00
DORSET: ALECTO HISTORICAL EDITIONS [Publishers]. THE DE LUXE ISSUE: The Domesday Book - Dorset. A new and faithful facsimile of the manuscript, complete translations, extensive indices and maps. Dorset section. Published at the invitation of the Public Record Office, in the 900th Anniversary Year of Domesday.
London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1988 Three large folio volumes comprising: The Dorset Domesday Introduction & Translation; The Dorset Domesday Folios and Maps; & Domesday Book Studies. Folding maps in endpocket, coloured facsimile plates of the manuscript. 3 volumes folio, original three-quarter cream cloth over brown boards. The de luxe issue with the three volumes contained within the original drop-down book-box (rather than the usual slipcase), this quarter crimson simulated leather over red cloth boards, spine boldly lettered in gilt. With large cloth-backed printed board dedicating this work to Elizabeth II, a three-fold red cloth over board lectern on which to display the volumes with leaf of printed instructions.
This set being number 253 of an edition of 1000 copies. A sumptuous most attractive work in truly excellent condition; as new.
Heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£150.00
DORSET: KELLY'S DIRECTORIES [Publisher]: Kelly's Directory of Dorsetshire. 1931.
London: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1931. Folding coloured map. Tall 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 inches), 388-pages plus advertisements.. Original red grained cloth blocked in gilt. Binding dulled, headbands a little rubbed, title marked, short tear to map without loss. Overall a good sound copy.
£50.00
DORSET: HALL, SIDNEY: Dorsetshire. One of the Series of folding County Maps engraved by Sidney Hall and published by Chapman & Hall at 1/6.
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London: Chapman & Hal, circa 1830. Engraved hand coloured folding map dissected on linen. 10 x 8 inches folding to 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches within the original cloth covers lettered in gilt, with printed list of available maps on front pastedown; good. The Mail roads are coloured blue, the Coach roads, brown, and the County Divisions, red. £20.00 |
DORSET: ROGERS, ASHLEY C. [Editor]: The Dorset Year Book for 1947-48. Forty-First Year of Issue.
Published by The Society of Dorset Men, 1948. Illustrated in black & white with a reproduction of Kelly's Map of Dorsetshire folded at front. 4to, pp.180, original paper-wrappers; top of spine slightly chipped; some pages slightly browned; generally very good.
£18.00
DORSET: ROGERS, ASHLEY C. [Editor]: The Dorset Year Book for 1945-46. Thirty-Ninth Year of Issue.
Published by The Society of Dorset Men, 1946. Black & white illustrations. 4to, pp.342, original paper-wrappers; wrappers browned and marked; tears along side of spine; pages browned; binding staples rusty; ink ownership stamp to title-page. £15.00
DEVON & CORNWALL: GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 10 Sheet Contour Road Map of England. Sheet 8, Devon & Cornwall. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch.
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London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. Coloured folding map dissected and mounted on linen, 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed. £15.00 |
DUNDEE: MILLAR, A.H: Glimpses of Old and New Dundee.
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Dundee: Malcolm C. MacLeod, 1925. First edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 192-pages plus advertisements. Original cloth; foxing to prelims. else good in browned and scuffed dustwrapper which is now protected by a removable plastic sleeve. £50.00 |
DURHAM: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet 103 N. E. (New Series Sheet 27). Durham area.
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London: Ordnance Survey, 1883. Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 42 x 27 1/2 inches overall, folding into marbled covers with Stanford's label. Good. £55.00 |
EBBLE RIVER: FERGUSSON, BARBARA: The Ebble River. The Ebble, Chele or Chalk.
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Salisbury: Wake Press, 1997. First edition. Illustrations. 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches), 80-pages, original cloth; signature on front free endpaper else very good in like dust jacket. £20.00 |
EDINBURGH: SMEATON, OLIPHANT: Edinburgh and its Story. Illustrated by Herbert Railton & J. Ayton Symington.
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London: Dent, 1904. First edition. Numerous coloured plates with tissue guards and illustrations in the text. Large 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 396-pages. Original bevelled blue cloth extensively blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Short contemporaray inscription on front pastedown. Some foxing to endpapers. The binding in very fresh and bright condition. £40.00 |
ENGLISH CASTLES AND ABBEYS: BEATTIE, WILLIAM: The Castles and Abbeys of England.
London: J. Mortimer, 1843. Volume the First (and added in MS. "and last, being discontinued"). 9 engraved views with tissue guards, several engraved portraits, and numerous engravings in the text. The original wrappers of the original parts 1 & 9 bound-in at front. Large 8vo (11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches), 352-pages. Nicely bound contemporary half crimson morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt on wide raised bands; some rubbing to boards. Endpapers oxidised. Attractive armorial bookplate of Robert Balmanno F.S.A. [1780-1863; print collector].
£45.00
ENGLAND: HISSEY, JAMES JOHN: A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties.
London: Richard Bentley, 1889. First edition. 16 plates and a folding map of the route. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 403-pages, original pictorial green cloth. Stitching cracked here and there with one gathering slightly proud but not loose. Binding poor & stained and library label removed from upper cover.
£15.00
ENGLAND: HISSEY, JAMES JOHN: Across England in a Dog-Cart from London to St. Davids and back.
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London: Richard Bentley, 1891. First edition. 16 plates and a folding map of the route. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), 413-pages. Original burgundy cloth pictorially blocked in silver and gilt. Headbands worn, inner joints cracked but firm, small piece torn out of blank margin of last leaf of index, spine gilt faded; overall sound. Signature & date on recto of frontispiece. £25.00 |
ENGLAND: HISSEY, JAMES JOHN: An English Holiday with Car and Camera.
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London: Macmillan, 1908. First edition. 28 plates and a folding map of the route. 8vo (9 X 5 3/4 inches), 426-pages, original blue cloth blocked in gilt; corners bumped else good. £15.00 |
ENGLAND: HISSEY, JAMES JOHN: Through Ten English Counties. [The Chronicle of a Driving Tour].
London: Richard Bentley, 1894. First edition. 16 plates and a folding map of the route. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 404-pages. Original blue cloth blocked in gilt. Headband bruised, some edge rubbing, overall sound. £15.00 |
\ENGLAND: GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 10 Sheet Contour Road Map of England. Sheet 1 Northumberland and Adjacent Counties. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch.
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London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. Coloured folding map dissected and mounted on linen, 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed. £15.00 |
ENGLAND & WALES: BETTS, JOHN: Betts's New Railway and Commercial Map of England and Wales on which the various Lines of Railroad .... are carefully laid down .... and the situations of the CIties, Market Towns and Principal Villages accurately & clearly described.
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London: John Betts, 1846. Large hand-coloured engraved map dissected into 36 sections and mounted on cloth as issued. Size overall 37 1/4 x 31 inches. With printed title label to reverse. Enclosed in the original edge worn slipcase. Generally very good indeed. £120.00 |
ENGLAND & WALES: CRUCHLEY, G.F: Cruchley's Improved Geographical Companion throughout England and Wales, including part of Scotland.
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London: G. F. Cruchley, 1827. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, dissected on linen, 38 1/2 x 27 inches, some browning, some spliting of linen not affecting map sheets. Folding within marbled covers bearing engraved label; this label damaged and repaired with stamp edging, in the original worn & chipped slipcase. £150.00 |
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ENGLAND & WALES: CRUCHLEY, G.F: Cruchley's Reduced Ordnance Map of England & Wales. Sheet 54. Scarborough, North Allerton, Hartlepool etc.
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London: G.F. Cruchley, n.d. circa 1880. Coloured map, 26 x 21 inches, folding within the original orange printed boards, 7 x 3 3/4 inches. Backstrip chipped else very good.
£25.00
ENGLAND & WALES: WHITBY & SCOTT [Publishers]: Diocese Map of England & Wales.
London: Whitby & Scott, circa 1871. Fully coloured folding map, 21 x 24 inches, folding within the original cloth covers. The map with marginal short tears on upper margin, with some splits on folds but no loss. Population tables on reverse of map based on the 1871 Census.
£35.00
ENGLAND & WALES: SMITH, CHARLES [Publisher]. Dissected "Jig-Saw" Map: A New Map of England and Wales comprehending the whole of the Turnpike Roads, with the Great Rivers, and Navigable Canals. Corrected to 1825.
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London: Printed for C. Smith, No. 172 Strand, 1825. Engraved map dissected and mounted on thin paper-backed mahogany (i.e. a jig-saw puzzle). 18 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches. The pieces contained in the original mahogany box with sliding lid and engraved label "Sold by C. Smith, Map Seller, 172 Strand". The box 8 3/4 x 9 x 3 inches. Lacking 1 small interlocking tongue from one piece in the English Channel. one marginal tongue snapped off but present. Overall very good. £375.00 |
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ENGLAND & WALES: LEWIS, SAMUEL: A Map of England and Wales ....... showing the Principal Roads, Railways, Rivers and Canals.Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, with the Distance of each Town from the General Post Office, London.
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London: S. Lewis, 1840. Projected from the Triangulation for the Survey made under the Direction of the Honorable Board of Ordnance on a Scale of Five Miles to an Inch, and Corrected to the Present Time. Drawn by R. Creighton. Engraved by J. Dower. |
A very large hand coloured engraved map of England and Wales overall 70 x 83 inches, in 4 sections, each sheet 35 x 41.5 inches, dissected and mounted on linen. Large calligraphic title, explanation, large engraved view of the General Post Office, table of Dioceses with crests, all within an engraved border.
Each of the 4 sheets folding to 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches) and bound full dark burgundy grained calf, elaborate gilt borders to sides, spines with gilt ornaments and lettered in gilt " Lewis' Map of England and Wales - Lewis - N.W. Division", "N. E. Division", "S. W. Division" & "S. E. Division".
Handsomely bound and in excellent condition, both maps & bindings.
£500.00
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ENGLAND & WALES & SCOTLAND: WHITTLE, JAMES & LAURIE, RICHARD HOLMES: Whittle and Laurie's New Traveller's Companion: exhibiting a Complete and Correct Survey of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England, Wales, and Scotland ..... and an Index Villaris .....
London: James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814. The Seventh Edition, corrected, and greatly improved. 25 double-page hand coloured road maps mounted on stubs. 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 inches), pages: (2):(8, index): maps. Modern full flexible dark green morocco lettered in gilt. Browning and light foxing throughout, some light edge chipping, a few maps with short splits on central folds, one with short sellotape repairs to the reverse, not visible on the face. Bound without the general folding map.
£175.00
FORDINGBRIDGE: HEWITT, A. T. MORLEY: The Story of Fordingbridge in Fact and Fancy.
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Fordingbridge, Hampshire: the Author, 1965. First edition. Plates. 8vo, 125-pages, original purple card boards lettered in gilt. One ink correction. Very good. £10.00 |
FORDINGBRIDGE: LIGHT, ANTHONY & PONTING, GERALD: Fordingbridge in Old Picture Postcards.
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Zaltbommel, The Netherlands: European Library, 2002. 76-plates (1 per page) with descriptive text. Oblong 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 inches), original laminated boards; fine. £18.00 |
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: ALECTO HISTORICAL EDITIONS [Publishers]: The Gloucestershire Domesday.
London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1988. No. 6 of a numbered limited edition of 1000 copies. Three volumes comprising: The Gloucestershire Domesday. Folios and Maps. Gloucestershire Folios 162-170. Double-page coloured map and large folding map in endpocket and 18 coloured facsimiles of the original manuscript relating to Gloucestershire. The second volume (dated 1987) is "The Gloucestershire Domesday" volume of descriptive text, commentary, notes, index etc. The third volume (dated 1987) comprises "Domesday Book Studies" Illustrations, pp. 179. Three volumes folio, original cream cloth-backed brown boards in the original slipcase. Apart from a tape mark on one upper board this is a fine set.
Heavy, extra postage will be requested. Weight 5 kg.
£150.00
THE GUSSAGES: DORSET FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES: The Gussages Past and Present.
Printed for the Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes, n.d., ca 1985? Black & white illustrations. 8vo, pp.101, softcover; two separate ink inscriptions and a gold address sticker to inside front cover; generally very good.
£15.00
HAMPSHIRE: DUTHY, JOHN: Sketches of Hampshire. The Architectural Antiquities and Topography of the County adjacent to the River Itchen from Alresford to Southampton.
Alresford: Laurence Oxley, 1972. Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1839. Map, plates and illustrations. Tall 8vo, pp.vi:(2):501, original cloth; very good in slightly edge worn dustwrapper. Inscription on front free endpaper.
£15.00
HAMPSHIRE: ALECTO HISTORICAL EDITIONS - PUBLISHERS. THE LIMITED DE LUXE COUNTY ISSUE: The Domesday Book - Hampshire. A new and faithful facsimile of the manuscript, complete translations, extensive indices and maps. Dorset section. Published at the invitation of the Public Record Office, in the 900th Anniversary Year of Domesday.
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London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1988 Three large folio volumes comprising: The Hampshire Domesday Introduction & Translation; The Hampshire Domesday Folios and Maps; & Domesday Book Studies. Folding maps in endpocket, coloured facsimile plates of the manuscript. 3 volumes folio, original three-quarter cream cloth over brown boards. The de luxe issue with the three volumes contained within the solander box (rather than the usual slipcase), this quarter crimson morocco over red cloth boards, spine boldly lettered in gilt. With a large folding map of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight according to the Domesday Book. Number 679 of a limited edition of 1000 (all issues, the de luxe issue would have formed only a small part of the overall run). 17 x 12 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches; weight 6.4 kg. With loosely inserted a letter from the publishers to the original purchaser showing that the price paid was £495.00
£150.00
HAMPSHIRE: ALECTO HISTORICAL EDITIONS (Publishers): The Hampshire, Wiltshire, & Dorset Domesday.
London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1989. Publishied 1989-1991. Limited edition of 1000 copies. 7 volumes comprising: The 3 volumes of Hampshire, Wiltshire, & Dorset Domesdays. Folios and Maps. Large folding map in endpockets and coloured facsimiles of the original manuscript Together with the three Hampshre, Wiltshire, & Dorset volumes of descriptive text, commentary, notes, index etc. The last volume comprises "Domesday Book Studies" Illustrations, pp. 179. Seven volumes folio (16 1/4 x 11 inches), original cream cloth-backed brown boards; no slipcase. Very good.
Heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£120.00
HAMPSHIRE: CHUTE, CHALONER W: A History of The Vyne in Hampshire. Being a Short Account of the Building & Antiquities of that house situate in the parish of Sherborne St. John, Co. Hants & of persons who have at some time lived there.
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Winchester: Jacob & Johnson, 1888. Plates, illustrations in the text. 4to, pp. x:173, publisher's half vellum; binding soiled and worn, inner joints cracked, some light foxing, browning to margins. £60.00 |
HAMPSHIRE: WARD, W.R. [Editor]: Parson and Parish in Eighteenth-Century Hampshire: Replies to Bishops' Vivitations. Hampshire Record Series Volume XIII.
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Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 1995. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 384-pages, original cloth; fine in dustwrapper. £16.00 |
HAMPSHIRE: HEWETSON, JOHN, ARCHITECT: Architectural and Picturesque Views of the Noble Mansions in Hampshire.
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[London: James Carpenter] ca. 1830. Two of the 5 parts issued, bound without the wrappers. 10 plates lithographed by Hullmandel with leaves of descriptive text. The plates comprise views of Hackwood Park, Rookesbury, The Grange, Stoneham Park, The Vine, Avington, Worthy Park, Broadlands, Weston Grove, & Stratton Park. |
Some foxing, generally sound. This very rare work was published in 5 parts and comprised 25 plates. 4to (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches), contemporary half calf; spine chipped, upper cover detached.
£250.00
HAMPSHIRE: HUGHES, ELIZABETH & WHITE, PHILIPPA [Editors]: The Hampshire Hearth Tax Assessment, 1665 with the Southampton Assessments for 1662 and 1670. Hampshire Record Series Volume XI.
Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 1991. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 468-pages, original cloth; fine in dustwrapper.
£16.00
HAMPSHIRE & DORSET:GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 10 Sheet Contour Road Map of England. Sheet 9, Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and Adjacent Counties. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch.
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London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. Coloured folding map dissected and mounted on linen, 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed. £15.00 |
HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT: WHITE, WILLIAM: History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Hampshire Including the Isle of Wight and Comprising a General Survey of the County .....
Sheffield: William White, 1878. Second edition. Large 8vo (10 x 6 3/4 inches) 866-pages plus 34-page advertising directory. Publisher's half leather; joints rubbed, spine dulled. With the large folding map mounted on front pastedown; this crudely repaired on verso at folds and foxed. With, from another work, loosely inserted a plan of Southampton Docks dated 1876.
£75.00
HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT: WHITE, WILLIAM: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Hampshire, and The Isle of Wight, comprising General Historical Surveys of the County & Island, and of the Diocese of Winchester ... of the Town and County of Southampton ... the populous Port ... of Portsmouth ... etc.
London: William White, & Simpkin, Marshall,1859. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 664-pages. Original brown blindstamped cloth; at some time recased with new sympathetic endpapers. One leaf detached, stitching a little cracked at a few gutters but firm. Some foxing. Lacking the folding map.
£50.00
HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT: ST. GEORGE, SIR HENRY: G.D. SQUIB [Editor]: The Visitation of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1686.
London: for the Harleian Society, 1991. New Series, Volume 10. Tall 8vo, pp.xvi:274, original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, no dustwrapper; a small, neat ink name on front free-endpaper, else an excellent copy.
£15.00
HAMPSTEAD: BARRATT, THOMAS J: The Annals of Hampstead. In three volumes. With over five hundred illustrations. Limited Edition.
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London: Lionel Leventhal in association with the Camden History Society, 1972. Facsimile of the edition of 1912. Limited Subscriber's Edition, this being No. 2 of 150. Three volumes 4to (11 x 9 inches), original blue cloth; fine in scuffed and faded pictorial slipcase. Large folding plate in endpocket of volume 2. Very heavy; extra postage will be requested. £125.00 |
HAMPSTEAD: MAXWELL, ANNA: Hampstead its Historic Houses, its Literary and Artistic Associations.
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London: James Clarke, n.d. circa 1910. Plates, some coloured. 8vo (8 3/4 x 7 inches), 269:(3)-pages, original grey cloth armorially blocked in colours. 1 plate detached. Binding a little marked, prelims. with foxing. Overall good. £20.00 |
HEBRIDES: BOSWELL, JAMES: Life of Johnson including their Tour to the Hebrides. Edited by John Wilson Croker. A New Edition with much additional matter.
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London: John Murray, 1847. Frontispiece with tissue guard (comprising 6 portraits), additional engraved title. Large 8vo ( 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 874-pages. Finely bound full contemporary fine grain crimson morocco, sides ruled in gilt enclosing large gilt corner ornaments, spine gilt in compartments and on raised bands, gilt lettered direct, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a little very light rubbing here and there but overall excellent and most attractive. |
Crack to paper of gutter between frontispiece and engraved title but not affecting the hinge itself which remains absolutely firm.
1920's prize inscription on front pastedown signed N. Egerton Leigh.
£75.00
HENGISTBURY HEAD: PEPIN, C.E. [Editor]: Hengistbury Head, An Environmental Study.
Bournemouth: Horace G. Commin, 1967. Map. 8vo, pp. 84, original pictorial wrappers.
£10.00
HEREFORD: CRUCHLEY, G.F: Cruchley's Railway Map of Hereford Showing all the Railways & names of Stations, Also the Telegraph Lines & Stations. Improved from the Ordnance Surveys.
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London: G.F. Cruchley, 81 Fleet Street, 1855. Map, hand coloured in outline, 23 x 20 1/2 inches, folding within the original orange printed wrappers, 7 x 4 1/4 inches. Wrappers chipped and marked, some light brwning to the map, a few short edge tearswithout los, some light creasing. County map.
£30.00
HERTFORD: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Ordnance Survey map Sheet un-numbered. Hertford - Great Totham, Bassingbourne - Long Melford.
London: Ordnance Survey, 1875. Uncoloured map dissected and mounted on linen, 37 1/2 x 25 inches overall, Linen holded at intersections of folds not affecting the map panels otherwise good.
£30.00
HERTFORDSHIRE: HERTFORDSHIRE: The Aldenham Institute Magazine. Volumes 1 - 8.
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November 1887 - March 1895. Volume 1, Number 1 to Volume 8, Number 3, bound in 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half burgundy roan, spines gilt ruled and floraly blocked in gold within bands. A very good run. Some rubbing to headband of volume 1 but attrractive nonetheless. £35.00 |
THE HIGHLANDS: CARRUTHERS, ROBERT: The Highland Note-book or Sketches and Anecdotes. New Edition.
Inverness: The Courier Office, 1887. 8vo, pp.vii:427, red cloth; upper inner hinge split but holding on cords. Upper outer joint with four inch split and rubbed, headbands rubbed, some foxing.
£18.00
HOLYHEAD: HARPER, CHARLES G: The Holyhead Road: The Mail Coach Road to Dublin. Illustrated by the Author, and from Old-Time Prints and Pictures.
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1902. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo ( 9 x 5 1/2 inches), pp. xviii:(1,map):314 & xiv:333, original purple cloth blocked in black. Headbands chipped, spines now faded to uniform tan, uneven fading to boards. Endpapers foxed. Old signature on front pastedowns. One inner hinge pulled but firm. £35.00 |
HOLYROOD: ANDERSON, D. [Publisher]: A Souvenir of the Abbey and Palace. Holyrood.
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Edinburgh: D. Anderson, 1849. 10 steel engraved plates. 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches), original engraved pictorial yellow tissue wrappers. Foxed throughout, wrappers corner chipped and lacking backstrip. Considering how fragle the tissue-wrappers are it is remarkable that they have survived at all. £30.00 |
INVERNESS-SHIRE: ROSOMAN, LEONARD: Inverness-shire. Poster, forming one of a series of Shell County Guides. Colour process engraving and letterpress print. Design by Leonard Rosoman.
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Printed in England by C. Nicholls & Co.for Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., 1964. Colour printed poster, 74 x 51 cm, complete with top and bottom metal strips and hanging loop.Slightest of edge wear, metal hanging loop bent; overall excellent. £45.00 |
IRELAND: WRIGHT, G.N: Ireland Illustrated, from Original Drawings, by G. Petrie, W.H. Bartlett, & T. M. Baynes.
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London: H. Fisher, 1839. Engraved extra title and 80 engraved views on 40 plates. 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches), original green ribbed cloth blocked in blind and gilt, all edges gilt. Wear to base of joints and backstrip lifting there, corners bumped; overall the binding good. Some foxing, mostly marginal. £100.00 |
KENT: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Ordnance Survey map Sheet VI (6). River Medway etc. Kent.
London: Ordnance Survey, 1875. Uncoloured map dissected and mounted on linen, 38 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches overall, Linen holded at intersections of folds not affecting the map panels,reverse foxed. Folding into rubbed marbled covers.
£20.00
KENT: PEAKE, W.B: Luddesdown Court, Kent. The Story of a Kentish Manor.
Published by the author, 1920. Pictorial title, map, and plates. 8vo, pp.(8):88, original brown cloth blocked in gilt, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped and rubbed, else good; some age toning to the text, but generally a very good bright copy. Manuscript notes by a relation of the author regarding family connections in Ohio on rear free endpaper.
£40.00
KENT: KELLY & CO: Map of Kent.
London: Kelly & Co. Post Office Directory Office, circa 1900. Large folding uncoloured map, 39 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches. Holed at some intersections of folds with some loss, marginal annotations, one route inked in in blue, some browning; reverse dust-marked.
£15.00
KENT: HISSEY, JAMES JOHN: A Holiday on the Road. An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.
London: Richard Bentley, 1887. First edition. 14 plates and other illustrations. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), 408-pages, original cloth. Binding soiled and worn, inner joints cracked but firm, one gathering of text a little pround, internally sound. Signature on front fly.
£15.00
KENT: HASTED, EDWARD and DRAKE, HENRY HOLMAN: Hasted's History of Kent: Corrected, Enlarged, and Continued to the Present Time, from the Manuscript Collection of the Late Rev. Thomas Streatfeild and the Late Rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, the Public Records. Part I. the Hundred of Blackheath.
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London : Mitchell And Hughes, 1886. 1st Edition in this form. Portraits, plates, maps, and pedigrees, some double-page, some folding with tissue guards. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches), 332-pages. Two-tone cloth lettered in gilt. Lacks plate opposite page 68, "Royal Hospital Greenwich Original Plan". Extremities rubbed, base of spine chipped, upper inner joint split, prelims. detached, one worn on fore-margin, one plate detached. All published.
£75.00
KINGHAM: FOWLER, W. WARDE: Kingham Old and New, Studies in a Rural Parish.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1913. First edition. Frontispiece, plan of the parish and folding map. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 216-pages, original green cloth gilt. Slight wear to headband, short tear to blank margin of folding map, endpapers foxed & browned, occasional light foxing elsewhere, coloured illustration mounted to front pastedown, inscription on front free endpaper.
£14.00
KINGSTON-UPON-HULL: TICKELL, JOHN: The History of the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull from its Foundation in the Reign of Edward the First to the present Time, with a description of Part of the adjacent Country, Embellished with engraved Views of Public Buildings ......
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Hull: Thomas Lee & Co. 1798. 16 (of 18 engraved plates - lacking the frontispiece and plan of modern Hull), one folding. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), pages: x:940, contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Binding rubbed and chipped, crack at gutter between index and subscriber's list but firm; internally sound. £55.00 |
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LANCASHIRE: ROBY, JOHN: Traditions of Lancashire. In Two Volumes.
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London: George Routledge, 1892. Portrait & wood-engravings. Two volumes 8vo (9 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: xxviii:468 & 443. Contemporary half crimson morocco, spine gilt in compartments and on raised bands, gilt lettered direct, all edges marbled. Extremities scuffed, light damp marking to two boards. Overall solidly bound and attractive on the shelf. £25.00 |
LANCASHIRE: ROBY, J: Traditions of Lancashire.
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London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. First edition. Engraved & printed titles. Engraved plates. Two volumes 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), pages: 329 & 330:(1, an advertisement for the 2nd Series). Contemporary full green straight grained calf, ornamental gilt border to sides, spines gilt in compartments with burgundy lettering piece. Foxing to the plates, occasionally heavy, one corner scuffed. Overall a hansome well bound copy. £100.00 |
LAVERSTOCK: PORTAL, SIR WILLIAM: The Manors and Churches of Laverstoke and Freefolk in Hampshire.
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Reprinted from the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society's Papers and Proceedings, 1908. Plates, 8vo, pp.13, contemporary thre-quarter parchment lettered in gilt. Inscribed by the author "Harold Hubbard from his affectionate uncle William Portal Christmas 1923". £30.00 |
LEICESTER: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet LXIII (63) N.E. Leicester.
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London: Ordnance Survey, 1855 (but railways inserted 1884). Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches overall., reverse dusty. £30.00 |
LINCOLN: SALWEY, JASPER: Lincoln, a Sketch Book.
London: A & C Black, 1934. First edition thus. 15 plates. 8vo, original boards with pictorial panel on upper cover; a very good copy.
£10.00
LONDON: WALLIS, EDWARD: Wallis's Guide for Strangers Through London, 1846.
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London: E. Wallis, 1846. Engraved plan with original hand-colouring, with title and alphabetical list of the principal streets below. Dissected on linen as issued. 28 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches overall, folding into the original green gilt slipcase, 6 x 4 1/2 inches. The plan with some foxing to the cloth backing on the reverse else in superb condition. Cloth lifting to one side of the slipcase else this also in excellent condition.
£500.00
LONDON: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet VII ( 7 ) London & Northwest.
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London: Ordnance Survey, circa 1876. Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 38 1/4 x 24 1/2 inches overall, reverse dusty & foxed., folding into cloth-backed marbled boards with hand-written label. £30.00 |
LONDON: KEEN, ROBINSON & CO. (Publishers): Gossip about London City 1742-1892. Presented in Commemoration of their Third Jubilee by Keen, Robinson & Co.
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London: Keen, Robinson & Co. 1892. Plates (including reproductions of their advertisements for Keen's Mustard over the years). Small 8vo (7 x 5 1/4 inches), 63-pages. Original green cloth gilt; a very good copy. £25.00 |
LONDON: KNIGHT, CHARLES: London. Revised and Corrected to the Present Time by E. Walford.
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London: Virtue, n.d. Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, & 6 (of 6); lacking volume 3. Extra engraved pictorial titles, illustrated with steel plates and wood engravings throughout. 5 volumes tall 8vo, contemporary half crimson morocco, as little rubbedf but generally well and strongly bound. Some damp-marking to one cover. Attractive on the shelf and very clean internally. £50.00 |
LONDON: DODSLEY, R. & J. [Publishers]: London and its Environs Described. Volume 6 only.
London: R & J Dodsley, 1761. Vol. 6 only (of 6). 16 engraved views and a large folding plan of Windsor Castle, this laid down, several old tears repaired, some tears on folds. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), 376-pages. 19th Century half calf; binding very rubbed, chipped, lacks lettering piece. Date added in ink to base of title.
£22.00
LONDON: GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 10 Sheet Contour Road Map of England. Sheet 10: London & South Eastern Counties. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch.
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London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. Coloured folding map dissected and mounted on linen, 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed. £15.00 |
LUTTERWORTH: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet LXIII (63) S.E. Lutterworth etc.
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London: Ordnance Survey, 1859 (but railways inserted 1887). Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 17 3/4 x 14 inches overall, reverse dusty & foxed. £30.00 |
LYMINGTON: AUCTION PARTICULARS: "Manorfield", Lower Pennington, Lymington, Hants.
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3rd May 1938. Picturesque modern residence, 7acres. Mounted photos, no plan issued. 4to (12 ½ x 8 ¼ inches), foxed wrappers.
£10.00
MANCHESTER & GLASGOW: HARPER, CHARLES G: The Manchester and Glasgow Road, This Way to Gretna Green. Illustrated by the Author, and from Old-Time Prints and Pictures.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1907. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo, pp. xix358 & xiii:332, original tan cloth pictorially blocked in black. Apart from a few tape-marks to free endpapers it would be difficult to find a nicer copy, very fresh, clean, & bright.
£90.00
MIDLANDS: GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 10 Sheet Contour Road Map of England. Sheet 6, Midland Counties. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch.
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London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. Coloured folding map dissected and mounted on linen, 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed. £15.00 |
MIDLOTHIAN: ROSOMAN, LEONARD (1913-2012; designer): Midlothian. Poster, forming one of a series of Shell County Guides. Colour process engraving and letterpress. Design by Leonard Rosoman.
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Banbury: Engraved & Printed by Henry Stone & Son for Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., [ 1961 ]. Colour printed poster, 74 x 51 cm, complete with top and bottom metal strips and hanging loop. A little light edge creasing, hanging loop bent, else almost fine. £45.00 |
MILFORD-ON-SEA: AUCTION PARTICULARS: The Chewtonjoy Estate, Milford on Sea.
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30th June 1890. 127 plots beautifully situate on the Summit of a Bold Cliff abutting Christchurch Bay immediately opposite the Isle of Wight and the Needles affording an exceptional opportunity for acquiring charming sites for Marine Residences. Folio (17 x 11 inches) wrappers with engraved views of the Estate, large folding coloured plan. Plan torn without loss, wrappers detached browned & chipped. Half of the conditions of sale removed, telegram to the purchaser of three lots pinned-in.
£25.00
MISCELLANEOUS: TAYLOR, GEORGE HENRY: The Excursions of a Village Curate; or, The Fruits and Gleanings of a Month's Ramble in Quest of Health.
London: Lupton Relfe, 1827. First edition. 8vo, pp.iv:178, original cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt on spine; spine severely faded; foxing to endpapers and some leaves of text; ink ownership name on reverse of title and front free-endpaper.
£15.00
NEWCASTEL UPON TYNE: BAILLIE, JOHN: An impartial history of the town and country of Newcastle Upon Tyne and its vicinity comprehending an account of its origin, population, coal, coasting and foreign trade together with an accurate description of all its .... manufactories, coal works ...
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Newcastle : Vint and Anderson 1801. Engraved title vignette, 4 engraved plates, 2 folding, but lacking the Plan of Newcastle. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: (8, list of subscribers):viii:612, contemporary full calf. Stitching broken, boards detached, very rubbed. Leather gilt bookplate of G. Robinson on front pastedown. £40.00 |
NEWMARKET: HARPER, CHARLES G: The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road. Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike. Illustrated by the Author, and from Old-Time Prints and Pictures.
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1904. First edition. 8vo, pp. xx:358, original orange cloth pictorially blocked in black; binding unattractively damp-mottled, top edge dusty, upper fore-corner of front free endpaper cut away, generally internally good. £25.00 |
NORFOLK: ANON: Excursions in the County of Norfolk comprising a brief historical and topographical delineation of every town and village; together with descriptions of the residences of the nobility and gentry, remains of antiquity.
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London: Longman, 1818. Extra engraved title (foxed). Folding plan of Norwich, lacking the folding map of Norfolk. c. 100 engraved plates.Two volumes in one. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inche), contemporary half green calf. Rubbed, lower cover detached. Very clean internally. £25.00 |
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: WHITAKER, HAROLD: A Descriptive List of the Printed Maps of Northamptonshire A.D. 1576 - 1900.
Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Society, Volume XIV, 1948. Frontispiece, folding plates. 8vo, pp.xvi:216, softcover; some light foxing to page edges and internally, but generally a very good copy.
£16.00
NORWICH: CROUSE, JOHN [Publisher]: The History of the City and County of Norwich. From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time.
Norwich: John Crouse, 1768. Two parts in one volume. 7 plates (2 folding). 8vo ,pp.(2):647:(5); the second part has a divisional title. Contemporary full calf, recently and neatly rebacked, spine gilt ruled with crimson lettering piece. Foxing and browning to the text. Armorial bookplate. Bound without the map.
£150.00
NORWICH: JAMES, MONTAGUE RHODES: The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral. With illustrations of the Bosses in the Northern Alley from Drawings by the late C.J.W. Winter.
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Norwich: The Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1911. 12 plates. Folio, pp. x:30, original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards a little rubbed and marked, fore-edge a little bumped but generally good. £65.00 |
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: GENTLEMAN, DAVID (b.1930; designer): Nottinghamshire. Poster, forming one of a series of Shell County Guides. Colour offset lithograph and letterpress print. Design by David Gentleman.
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Banbury: Engraved & Printed by Henry Stone & Son for Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., [ 1961 ]. Colour printed poster, 74 x 51 cm, complete with top and bottom metal strips and hanging loop. Metal hanging loop bent else almost fine. £45.00 |
NUNEATON: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geological map Sheet LXIII (63) S.W. Nuneaton etc.
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London: Ordnance Survey, 1886. Hand-coloured geological map dissected and mounted on linen, 18 x 14 1/2 inches overall, reverse dusty. £30.00 |
OTTERY ST MARY: WHETHAM, CATHERINE DURNING & MARGARET: A Manor Book of Ottery Saint Mary, with a Note on the History of the Dependant Manor of Cadhay by W. C. D. Whetham.
London: Longmans, Green, 1913. First Edition. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), 184-pages plus advertisements. Original maroon cloth; foxing to prelims., top edge dusty else good.
£40.00
OWESTRY: SLACK, W.J: The Lordship of Oswestry 1393-1607.
Shrewsbury: for the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1951. First edition. Black & white frontispiece. Tall 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), pp.176, original red cloth, no dustwrapper; binding slightly dulled especially on spine, headbands and corners slightly rubbed; internally, excellent.
£15.00
OXFORDSHIRE: BRETT, LIONEL: Landscape in Distress.
London: The Architectural Press, 1965. First edition. Black & white plates. Oblong [18.5cm high x 24cm wide], pp.159, original cloth in dustwrapper; slight shelf-wear to dustwrapper; ink name on front pastedown; generally an excellent copy.
£10.00
PORTSMOUTH: STAPLETON, BARRY & THOMAS, JAMES H: The Portsmouth Region.
Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1989. First edition. Illustrations and maps. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 265-pages. Original cloth; very good in dustwrapper. Inscribed by Barry Stapleton.
£12.00
RIVER TEST: BINGHAM, CHARLES: The River Test. Portrait of an English Chalkstream.
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London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1990. First edition. Illustrations, some coloured. 4to (10 x 7 3/4 inches), 200-pages, original cloth; slightly corner bumped in very good slightly corner rubbed dustwrapper. £28.00 |
SALISBURY: CHANDLER, JOHN: Endless Street, a History of Salisbury and its People. Illustrated by Alison Borthwick.
Salisbury: The Hobnob Press, 1983. First edition. Black & white plates. Large 8vo, pp.342, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper brown-spotted, slightly marked and with some short nicks and slight creasing to top of spine; page edges slightly browned and spotted; internally, excellent.
£10.00
SALISBURY CLOSE: EDWARDS, KATHLEEN: The Houses of Salisbury Close in the Fourteenth Century. Reprinted from the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Third Series. Volume IV. 1939.
London: British Archaeological Association, n.d. One black & white plate. 8vo, pp.55-115, original paper-wrappers; wrappers slightly browned and dog-eared with chip (small piece missing) to top of spine; else very good.
£10.00
ST KILDA: BUCHAN, ALEX: A Description of Saint-Kilda, giving an account of its Situation, Extent, Soil, Product, Bays, Rocks, Adjacent Islands, Ancient Laws, Government, Religion, Customs and Late Reformation. Printed in the Year MDCCLXXIII.
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Glasgow: Re-printed for John Wylie, 1818. Narrow 8vo, pp.61, modern grey boards with paper label. A very good copy. £120.00 |
SCOTLAND: THOMSON, JOHN: Scotland.
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John Thomson, ca. 1815. Engraved hand coloured map dissected and mounted on linen. With details of various roads in panel on left hand margin, details of the direct Mail Coah from Edinburgh to York and London on right hand panel, various statistics at head. Size overall 31 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches, folding to 7 x 4 inches. " Drawn and Engraved for Thomson's New General Atlas" but issued individually also, as is here. Some foxing or browning. £75.00 |
SCOTLAND: GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 6 Sheet Contour Road Map of Scotland. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch. Produced under the Direction of Alexander Gross, F.R.G.S.
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London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. The set of 6 coloured folding maps dissected and mounted on linen, each 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed. Contained within the original leather carrying case with carrying handle; case rubbed and rather dry, catch not working. A cased set for the motor car. £50.00 |
SCOTLAND: [SCOTT, WALTER]: Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, Illustrated in a Series of Fifty Views. From Drawings by J.M.W. Turner ...& other eminent artists.
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Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1844. Engraved additional vignette title and 49 engraved plates with tissue guards. 4to (12 1/4 x 10 inches), full red morocco, all edges gilt; joints cracked and chipped. The plates by and large clean with only the occasional odd spot of foxing. An uncommon edition. No text was issued with this edition.
£180.00
SOMERSET: COLLINSON, JOHN: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset collected from Authentick Records and an Actual Survey made by the late Mr Edmund Rack. Adorned with a Map of the County and Engravings of ...... Baths, Churches, and Gentlemen's Seats.
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Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell and sold by C. Dilly, G.G.J. & J. Robinson, T. Longman and .T Payne and others, 1791. First edition. Three volumes. Large hand-coloured engraved folding map and 40 plates. 4to (12 x 9 1/2 inches), 19th Century half tan calf with crimson lettering pieces.
Bindings rubbed and scuffed but perfectly presentable on the shelf and solidly bound with no cracking to the hinges, one cloth side damp marked, corner damp-mark to 1 plate at end of Volume 2. Some foxing, mainly marginal. Folding map with two marginal tears (without loss) and stain lower right, otherwise bright and clean.
The Directions to the Binder lists 41 plates but of the 28 copies sold at auction during the past 40 years 18 have had 40 plates only as here; the plate not present is "Lady Miller's Monument".
£400.00
SOUTHAMPTON: PORTAL, WILLIAM W: "God's House" or The Hospital and Chapel of St. Julian, Southampton. An Address given at the Hartley University College, September 12th 1904.
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[Privately Printed, 1904]. Small 4to, pp. 15, original three-quarter parchment lettered in gilt, text deckle-edged as issued. Parchment discolured and spotted. Inscribed by the author "Harold Hubbard from his affec'ate Uncle & Godfather, William Portal, Aug. 1905". £20.00 |
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA: HIGGS, ROBERT W: County Borough of Southend-on-Sea. Prints, Paintings and Drawings of the Rochford Hundred. Museum Handbooks No. 5.
Southend-on-Sea: Public Library and Museum Committee, 1980. Illustrated in black & white. 8vo, pp.75, softcover; small tears and bumps to all edges of wrappers, headbands chipped, covers slightly soiled and spotted; internally, joints slightly cracked inside front cover, foxed throughout.
£25.00
SURREY: BADMIN, S.R. (1906-1989; designer): Surrey. Poster, forming one of a series of Shell County Guides. Colour offset lithograph and letterpress print. Design by S.R. Badmin.
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Banbury: Engraved & Printed by Henry Stone & Son for Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., [1960]. Colour printed poster, 74 x 51 cm, complete with top and bottom metal strips and hanging loop. Metal hanging loop bent, nick in left hand margin without loss, generally excellent. £45.00 |
SUSSEX: ALECTO HISTORICAL EDITIONS [Publishers]: The Sussex Domesday.
London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1988. No. 265 of a numbered limited edition of 1000 copies. Three volumes comprising: The Sussex Domesday. Folios and Maps. Folios 16-29. Double-page coloured map and large folding map in endpocket and coloured facsimiles of the original manuscript relating to Sussex. The second volume (dated 1990) is "The Sussex Domesday" volume of descriptive text, commentary, notes, index etc. The third volume (dated 1987) comprises "Domesday Book Studies" Illustrations, pp. 179. Three volumes folio, original cream cloth-backed brown boards in the original slipcase. Fine set in fine slipcase; as new.
Heavy, extra postage will be requested. Weight 5 kg.
£110.00
TENBY: MASON, R. (Publisher): Mason's Guide to Tenby. Seventh Edition.
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Tenby: Mason, Printer (circa 1880 ). Folding map, folding frontispiece, illustrations in the text. 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 270-pages. Original green cloth blocked in brown. Binding dulled but sound, ring-mark on upper cover. Endpapers browned, signature on front free endpaper, internally good. £30.00 |
TENBY: MASON, R. (Editor): A Guide to Tenby and its Neighbourhood.
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Tenby: R. Mason, [1859]. Folding map, steel-engraved vignette plates, illustrations in the text. Small 8vo (7 x 4 1/4 inches), 120-pages. Original cloth-backed printed boards with printed paper lettering piece. Boards very rubbed, backstrip torn and defective, inscription on front pastedown; internally very good. £30.00 |
TRENT, DORSET: SANDISON, ANNETTE: Trent in Dorset. The Biography of a Parish.
Dorchester: The Friary Press, 1969. First edition. Black & white photographic plates, folding map at rear. 8vo, pp.xii:152, softcover; spine slightly faded; ink name and ink address stamp on front free endpaper; generally very good.
£10.00
TYNEDALE: GRAHAM, FRANK: Tynedale. From Blanchland to Carter Bar.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: by the author, 1978. First edition. Black & white photographic plates and illustrations. 8vo, pp.368, original blue grained vinyl in price-clipped dustwrapper; generally, an excellent copy. Ink inscription on front free-endpaper.
£8.00
WALES: CAMBRENSE GIRALDO SILVESTER (Giraldis Cambrensis) Geraldus Cambrensis: Itinerarium Cambriae seu laboriosae Baldvini Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi per Walliam Legationis Accurata Descriptio .cum annotationibus Davidis Poweli.
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Londini (London): Typis Gulielmi Bulmer (William Bulmer) et Socii, 1804. Engraved frontispiece, three engraved plates, and large hand-coloured multi fold map of Wales. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), pages xxxii:237:(5, index). old half-calf, marbled boards. Good 20th Century reback in tan calf, spine gilt in compartments. Some foxing or age toning to prelims. Corners rubbed and rounded, fore-edge of boards rubbed.
With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Graham Jackson, Architect, on front pastedown. An attractive copy in very good order.
£150.00
WALES: WOODWARD, B.B: The History of Wales from the Earliest Times, to Its Final Incorporation with the Kingdom of England; with Notices of Its Physical Geography and Mineral Wealth, and of the Religion and Literature, Law, Customs, Manners, and Arts of the Welsh.
London, George Virtue, 1854. In the original five divisions, complete as issued. 75 engraved views and engraved title by Gastineau. 5 volumes large 8vo (10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches) pp.vi:(2):608, original blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Head and tail bands rubbed through, corners rubbed, some boards marked. Tissue guards to plates very foxed, the plates themselves with occasional light foxing.
£90.00
NORTH WALES: GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 10 Sheet Contour Road Map of England. Sheet 4, North Wales and Isle of Man. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch.
London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. Coloured folding map dissected and mounted on linen, 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed.
£15.00
NORTH WALES: BINGLEY, W: Excursions in North Wales, including Aberystwith and the Devil's Bridge, intended as a Guide to Tourists. Third edition with corrections and additions made during excursions in the year 1838, by his son W.R. Bingley. With a Complete Map.
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London: Longman, Orme, 1839. Large folding engraved map by J. & C. Walker mounted on linen and folding onto front pastedown. 8vo, pp.xxxi:355, original green grained cloth blocked in blind, no dustwrapper. |
Binding poor, headbands and corners bumped and with pieces of cloth missing, a long split to the cloth at side of lower half of one edge of the spine and a short split to the top side edge near headband, spine darkened and some marking to covers; internally, page edges browned, some brown mottling to the linen of folded map, endpapers soiled and with splits to endpapers along inner joints. A bookplate to front free-endpaper.
£75.00
SOUTH WALES: GEOGRAPHIA LTD. (publishers): "Geographia" 10 Sheet Contour Road Map of England. Sheet 5, South Wales. Scale 3 miles to 1 inch.
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London: Geographia Ltd. circa 1920. Coloured folding map dissected and mounted on linen, 31 x 40 inches, folding within the printed card covers; very good indeed. £15.00 |
WILTON: NIGHTINGALE, JAMES EDWARD: Memorials of Wilton, and Other Papers; written on various occasions by the late James Edward Nightingale (of The Mount, Wilton). Edited, with some additional notes, by Edward Kite.
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Devizes: by George Simpson, 1906. One of only 150 copies printed for private distribution. Portrait, plates. 8vo, pp. xv:215, original green cloth, top edge gilt. Boards lightly mottled, generall a very good copy. Contemporary signature, G. Freemantle, on front free endpaper. £140.00 |
WILTSHIRE: AUBREY, JOHN (Edited by Sir Thomas Phillips): Aubrey's Collections for Wilts. North Wiltshire. Parts 1 & 2.
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Part 1: London, J. Davy, 1821. Part 2: C. Gilmour, 1838. Two parts in one volume. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), pages: iv:136:(iv):124, later three-quarter crushed tan morocco, spine decoratively gilt, top edge gilt, the binding by Riviere. Once a handsome binding but now with untidy chip out of lower 1 1/2 inches of the backstrip and cloth sides marked and spotted, short cracks to joints, hinges very firm. Endpapers foxed otherwise internally very good and with good margins. |
The title-page to the 2nd part reads: An Essay Towards the Description of the North Division of Wiltshire by Me John Aubrey of Easton Pierse. Small oval gilt label on front pastedown : "Ex Musaeo Huthii", i.e. from the Huth Library, begun by Henry Huth and continued by his son Alfred H. Huth. The Library was dispersed by Sotheby's in a number of sales between 1911 and 1920.
£255.00
WITTERING: ORDNANCE SURVEY: Ordnance Survey map Sheet IX (9) E. Wittering - Brighthelmstone, Haslemere at top.
London: Ordnance Survey, 1813 (but circa 1855). Uncoloured map dissected and mounted on linen, 37 1/2 x 25 inches overall, Some browning, some manuscript annotations.
£30.00