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Clinch, George: Handbook Of English Antiquities For The Collector And The Student.
London, L. Upcott Gill, 1905 HB red cloth bds, gilt lettering to front and spine, Good+, bds show general faint soiling, contents clean and tight with numerous illustrations, rear endpapers browned with small piece missing from margin of one, fep missing. (Book ref. 4997)   £9.50
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Thomas (David St John) THE COUNTRY RAILWAY.
David and Charles, Newton Abbot: 1976. Illusts, 160pp, dustwrapper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include LOCAL HISTORY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3363)   £10.00
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Society of Antiquaries of London, Publishers ARCHAEOLOGIA: or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Volume 34. Part 2 of 2 only.
London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1852. With 21 plates, pages numbered x + 137- 467pp, 4to, untrimmed in the original plain paper wraps, couple of short tears to top wrap. Includes articles on:- Life of Sir Walter Raleigh; Tumuli in the East Riding of Yorkshire; British Fleets from 1588 to 1603; Discovery of Body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3321)   £35.00
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Society of Antiquaries of London, Publishers ARCHAEOLOGIA: or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Volume 43.
London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1871. With 39 plates, 567 + (1)pp, 4to, few minor marks to the original cloth, occasional foxing mainly to front and rear. This is a heavy book which will incur higher postage costs. Includes articles on:- English Discovery of the American Continent; Roman Remains at Duston in Northamptonshire; Ancient British Barrows; Excavations at Canterbury; Ancient Irish Works of Art known as Breac Moedog.... etc., etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include LOCAL HISTORY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3320)   £40.00
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Sealy (T.H), Edited by THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE OF BRISTOL, BATH, SOUTH-WALES, and the South-Western Counties, in connexion with The Bristol and West of England Architectural and Heraldic Society.
London: Cunningham and Mortimer, May and August, 1843 and January 1844. Three parts bound in one, 120pp, few textual illusts, uncut in the original wraps. All published. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3307)   £35.00
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Rimmer (Alfred) ANCIENT STONE CROSSES OF ENGLAND.
London: Virtue, Spalding, 1875. With 72 illusts in the text, xii + 159pp, original cloth, some foxing to front endpaper and half-title. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include LOCAL HISTORY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK27-3290)   £20.00
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Raistrick (Arthur) TWO CENTURIES OF INDUSTRIAL WELFARE The London (Quaker) Lead Company 1692 - 1905.
Revised Second Edition, Moorland Publishing Company, Buxton: 1977. With 15 plates and 6 line drawings, 168pp, original cloth. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include MINING (see also County sections) - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3284)   £16.00
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Ponting (K.G) THE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND.
First edition, Adams and Dart, Bath: 1971. With 55 illustrations, x + 214pp, foot of spine of dustwrapper slightly chipped. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK27-3275)   £30.00
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Pearce (Susan) SOUTH-WESTERN BRITAIN IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Leicester University Press, London: 2004. With textual diagrams, maps, and illusts, xv + 375pp, laminated boards, Bristol University labels to verso of top board and front endpaper, stamp to verso of title-page and foot of last leaf. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3259)   £35.00
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Pearce (Susan) SOUTH-WESTERN BRITAIN IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Leicester University Press, London: 2004. With textual diagrams, maps, and illusts, xv + 375pp, laminated boards. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3258)   £65.00
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Johnson (Walter) FOLK-MEMORY or the Continuity of British Archaeology.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1908. With 37 photograph illusts, textual illusts, 416pp, original cloth, spine slightly faded, cloth slightly rubbed to edges, couple of relevant newscuttings pasted to endpapers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include LOCAL HISTORY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3130)   £40.00
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Hadfield (Charles) THE CANALS OF SOUTH WEST ENGLAND.
David and Charles, Newton Abbot: 1967. With 16 plates and 11 textual illusts and maps, 206pp, original cloth, torn and worn dustwrapper, ex-lib. with labels to front endpapers and foot of spine of dustwrapper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3101)   £10.00
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Grinsell (L.V) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EXMOOR. Bideford Bay to Bridgwater.
First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1970. Plates, maps, textual illusts, 242pp, dustwrapper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3095)   £20.00
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Gomme (George Laurence), Edited by ROMANO-BRITISH REMAINS: Part II. Being A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868.
London: Elliot Stock, 1887. xii + pages numbered 301-632pp, original cloth partly darkened, edges of boards damp stained, front inner hinge slightly weak and partly cracked, some browning to title and opposite leaf. --- - Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3088)   £10.00
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON & CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to the Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 32. Parts 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of 9 only.
Maslands Limited, Tiverton: 1971-1973. 6 parts, lacking parts 2, 3, and 8, in the original printed wraps, couple of lib stamps to 2 wraps. ( I have many odd parts for this and other volumes available, please contact for further details. ) Includes articles on:- Culmstock; Wainwright family; Pasmore family; Axmouth Haven; Cornish Superstitions; St. Kew, etc., etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3046)   £20.00
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON & CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES. a Quarterly Journal devoted to the Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 31. From January 1968 to December 1970.
Torquay and Tiverton: 1968-1970. Illusts, 266pp, recent cloth. Includes articles on:- Halse family; Ilsington; Murder at Bratton; Cornish crosses; Modbury; St. Breward; Moretonhampstead; Treacle mines; Uffculme; Cornish windmills, etc., etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3045)   £38.00
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON & CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History Archaeology & Antiquities. VOLUME 29. From March 1962 to October 1964.
James Townsend, Torquay: 1964. With 6 plates, 310pp, binders cloth, ex-lib. number to base of spine, labels to endpapers, number to verso of title-page. Includes articles on:- Cornish clockmakers; Duchy Manors; Cornish Crosses; Mousehole fishing fleet; Phillack; Trerice; Rowe family; Bovey Tracey; Lundy Island; Dartmoor; Tiverton, etc., etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3044)   £28.00
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON & CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 28. Parts 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, and 11 of 11.
Exeter: James Townsend, 1959-1961. 6 parts lacking part 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10, plates, in the original printed wraps. ( I have many odd parts for this and other volumes available, please contact for further details. ) Includes articles on:- Cornish Volunteers; Siege of Skewis; Rectors of Ahbury; Dowrish Family; Rowe Family; Rural Deans of Totnes, etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3043)   £18.00
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON & CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 28. From January 1959 to October 1961.
Exeter: James Townsend, 1959-1961. Illusts, 339pp, binders cloth ex-lib with labels to pastedowns and number to base of spine. Includes articles on:- Cornish Volunteers; Sampford Peverell Church; Northcott family; Eveleigh family; Berry Tower, Bodmin; Mortehoe; Totnes, etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e- mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK27-3042)   £25.00
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DEVON & CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES a Quarterly Journal devoted to Local History, Archaeology, Biography & Antiquities. VOLUME 27. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 of 12 only.
Exeter: James Townsend, 1956-1958. 9 parts, lacking parts 5, 9 and 11, 9 parts of 12, in the original printed wraps, library stamps to a few wraps. ( I have many odd parts for this and other volumes available, please contact for further details. ) Includes articles on:- John Couch Adams; Chagford; Cornish Crosses; Tavistock; St. Germans; Sidbury; Grampound elections, etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK27-3041)   £20.00
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