Boyd, James I.C. The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Towyn, Merioneth, Wales
Lingfield: Oakwood, 1972. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author 27pp, plates, signed by James Boyd on title page. (Book ref. 004895) £5.00
Offered for sale by Anvil Books
Lingfield: Oakwood, 1972. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author 27pp, plates, signed by James Boyd on title page. (Book ref. 004895) £5.00
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Nimrod: Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton Esq., of Halston,Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop & Merioneth ...With numerous illustrations by Henry Alken and T.J. Rawlins.
London, Methuen, 1903. A New Edition. This issue founded on the 2nd Edition, printed by Rudolph Ackermann in the year 1837. [Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books] 4" x 7.5. xiv,206pp. Contains 18 coloured plates. Reprinted with considerable Additions from The New Sporting Magazine. Nice coloured illus. frontis.of original title page. Preface by Nimrod of the earlier 1837 edition. Red cloth boards with paper label spine. Ownership signature on f.e.p. Some rusting throughout, notably the prelims, but beautiful coloured plates are unblemished. A nice copy. (Book ref. 4759) £20.00
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London, Methuen, 1903. A New Edition. This issue founded on the 2nd Edition, printed by Rudolph Ackermann in the year 1837. [Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books] 4" x 7.5. xiv,206pp. Contains 18 coloured plates. Reprinted with considerable Additions from The New Sporting Magazine. Nice coloured illus. frontis.of original title page. Preface by Nimrod of the earlier 1837 edition. Red cloth boards with paper label spine. Ownership signature on f.e.p. Some rusting throughout, notably the prelims, but beautiful coloured plates are unblemished. A nice copy. (Book ref. 4759) £20.00
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Montgomery, Merioneth and Shropshire Roads AN ACT for continuing and enlarging the Term and Powers of Two Acts.... for repairing several Roads in the Counties of Montgomery, Merioneth, and Salop....
1773. Cover leaf + 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2719) £11.00
Offered for sale by LESLEY AITCHISON - www.localhistory.co.uk
1773. Cover leaf + 12pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2719) £11.00
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Merionethshire AUCTION POSTER. Valuable Oak, Ash and other Timber to be Sold by Auction by Mr Thomas Payne, At the Cross-Foxes Inn, Mallwyd, on Tuesday the Fourteenth Day of February, 1826....
Dolgelley: printed for J. Pugh. 1826. Size approx. 18" x 11", folds. Lists 7 lots of the timber and farms concerned in the Parish of Mallwyd. The Timber was fourteen miles from Derwen-las and equal distance from the Barmouth River 'at either of which places the Timber or Bark may be Shipped'. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2285) £24.00
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Dolgelley: printed for J. Pugh. 1826. Size approx. 18" x 11", folds. Lists 7 lots of the timber and farms concerned in the Parish of Mallwyd. The Timber was fourteen miles from Derwen-las and equal distance from the Barmouth River 'at either of which places the Timber or Bark may be Shipped'. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2285) £24.00
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Merioneth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXIV.
1873. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding to large 4to with marbled sides. Counties very lightly colour-washed, borders coloured. Covers Oswestry, Lake Bala, Llanfyllyn. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2284) £34.00
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1873. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding to large 4to with marbled sides. Counties very lightly colour-washed, borders coloured. Covers Oswestry, Lake Bala, Llanfyllyn. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2284) £34.00
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Merioneth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXIV.
Printed from an Electrotype, c1850. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding nto 8vo cloth endpapers. Main roads, main rivers, parkland coloured, country borders shaded in green, blue, pink and yellow. Some small holes in linen where folds meet. Covers Oswestry, Lake Bala, Llanfyllyn. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2283) £45.00
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Printed from an Electrotype, c1850. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding nto 8vo cloth endpapers. Main roads, main rivers, parkland coloured, country borders shaded in green, blue, pink and yellow. Some small holes in linen where folds meet. Covers Oswestry, Lake Bala, Llanfyllyn. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2283) £45.00
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Caernavonshire, Merionethshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP
c1860. Sheet LXXV. Scale 1" to mile, size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding into 8vo cloth endpapers, parkland lakes, and main roads hand-coloured, county borders with shading in a variety of colours. Area around Llaneddwyn coloured orange, pipe- line and what appears to be proposed reservoir marked in red. Covers Edeyrn, Llandwrog, Ffestiniog. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2268) £36.00
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c1860. Sheet LXXV. Scale 1" to mile, size 24" x 36", linen-backed and folding into 8vo cloth endpapers, parkland lakes, and main roads hand-coloured, county borders with shading in a variety of colours. Area around Llaneddwyn coloured orange, pipe- line and what appears to be proposed reservoir marked in red. Covers Edeyrn, Llandwrog, Ffestiniog. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2268) £36.00
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Barmouth Harbour AN ACT for repairing, deepening, enlarging, and preserving, the Harbour of Barmouth, in the County of Merioneth.
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1797. Cover leaf + pages numbered 1019-1038, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2260) £16.00
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London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1797. Cover leaf + pages numbered 1019-1038, small folio, disbound, Act of Parliament. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WALES [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK47-2260) £16.00
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Owners of Land RETURN OF OWNERS OF LAND IN MERIONETH IN 1873. Merioneth section giving names of owners who owned more than an acre, address, extent of lands, and rental.
1875. Folio, 5pp, disbound. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include FAMILY HISTORY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK21-3201) £8.00
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1875. Folio, 5pp, disbound. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include FAMILY HISTORY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK21-3201) £8.00
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Owen, Hugh J. MERIONETH VOLUNTEERS AND LOCAL MILITIA During the Napoleonic Wars (1795-1816). With a Foreword by the Right Honourable Lord Atkin.
Printed and published by Hughes Bros., Dolgelley 1934. 1st Ed. 112pp. Cold. frontis. and 4 b/w. plates. F.e.ps. very lightly browned with inscription, very lightly rubbed original gilt lettered cloth with sm. gilt emblem to upper board. US$70 (Book ref. 194630) £45.00
Offered for sale by Francis Edwards
Printed and published by Hughes Bros., Dolgelley 1934. 1st Ed. 112pp. Cold. frontis. and 4 b/w. plates. F.e.ps. very lightly browned with inscription, very lightly rubbed original gilt lettered cloth with sm. gilt emblem to upper board. US$70 (Book ref. 194630) £45.00
Offered for sale by Francis Edwards
London: Gemini Publishing, 1977. First Edition. Very Good. Landscape-style 305mm x 210mm tall (12" x 8.25" approx.). 64pp, with illustrations in b/w photo & line and 2 maps. Light creasing to lower free corners, otherwise very good, in the original illustrated thin-card covers. (Book ref. 003217) £18.00
Offered for sale by Christopher Baron
Lewis, Hugh M.. PAGES OF TIME A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ABERDYFI
Published by Hugh M. Lewis. 1989 in fine condition.1st ed Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. SIGNED by author. (Book ref. 811338) £7.50
Offered for sale by Stella & Rose's Books
Published by Hugh M. Lewis. 1989 in fine condition.1st ed Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. SIGNED by author. (Book ref. 811338) £7.50
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Various Our Own Country - descriptive, historical, pictorial
London; Cassell & Company special edition. lovely old engravings of the various localities along with local history; bound in decorated red cloth with gold gilt decoration and lettering; aeg; tissue protected frontis of New Town Hall Manchester; and occ. light foxing; covers also Norwich; Newark; Aberdeen; Merioneth; New Forest; Devon; Killarney; Oxford; Loch Maree; Castle Howard; guildford; York; St. Albans; audley end; Boyne; sheffield; subscription only edition (Book ref. 38415) £15.00
Offered for sale by Peakirk Books
London; Cassell & Company special edition. lovely old engravings of the various localities along with local history; bound in decorated red cloth with gold gilt decoration and lettering; aeg; tissue protected frontis of New Town Hall Manchester; and occ. light foxing; covers also Norwich; Newark; Aberdeen; Merioneth; New Forest; Devon; Killarney; Oxford; Loch Maree; Castle Howard; guildford; York; St. Albans; audley end; Boyne; sheffield; subscription only edition (Book ref. 38415) £15.00
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MERIONETHSHIRE. EMANUEL BOWEN. Map of Merionethshire.
1720 or later. 7.5in x 5in. Engraved County Map, above map, decorative cartouche with title "Road from London to Montgomery", on reverse, road map from Worcester to Campden, from "Britannia Depicta", Sheet 109/110, very good condition, some browning in border, (Book ref. RGW13030) £15.00
Offered for sale by R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
1720 or later. 7.5in x 5in. Engraved County Map, above map, decorative cartouche with title "Road from London to Montgomery", on reverse, road map from Worcester to Campden, from "Britannia Depicta", Sheet 109/110, very good condition, some browning in border, (Book ref. RGW13030) £15.00
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MERIONETHSHIRE. JOHN SELLER. FRANCIS GROSE Map of Merionethshire.
1787. 11in x 7.5in (Sheet size) Engraved County Map, with text below, from Grose's "The Antiquities of England and Wales" very good clean condition, An attractive county map by John Seller [fl. 1660-1697] which was first published in his "Anglia Contracta" of 1695 (Book ref. RGW12946) £20.00
Offered for sale by R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
1787. 11in x 7.5in (Sheet size) Engraved County Map, with text below, from Grose's "The Antiquities of England and Wales" very good clean condition, An attractive county map by John Seller [fl. 1660-1697] which was first published in his "Anglia Contracta" of 1695 (Book ref. RGW12946) £20.00
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Condry, William: Exploring Wales.
London, Faber And Faber, 1970 1st Ed., H/B blue cloth bds, Fine, unclipped d/w, VG, a little creasing at top edge, contents fine and tight, pp304. A guidebook with a difference. Each county is dealt with in a separate chapter; and in addition to the usual details that a guidebook normally lists, it is full of fascinating information on such matters as history and prehistory, topography, natural history and folk lore. (Book ref. 6576) £6.00
Offered for sale by Little Owl Books
London, Faber And Faber, 1970 1st Ed., H/B blue cloth bds, Fine, unclipped d/w, VG, a little creasing at top edge, contents fine and tight, pp304. A guidebook with a difference. Each county is dealt with in a separate chapter; and in addition to the usual details that a guidebook normally lists, it is full of fascinating information on such matters as history and prehistory, topography, natural history and folk lore. (Book ref. 6576) £6.00
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Antique Map: Thomas Reed Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire
London, circa 1760. Guaranteed original copper plate engraving . Engraved surface 8 x 6 inches, wide margins. Perfect. (Book ref. 81182) £55.00
Offered for sale by Best Buy Books
London, circa 1760. Guaranteed original copper plate engraving . Engraved surface 8 x 6 inches, wide margins. Perfect. (Book ref. 81182) £55.00
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REPORTS OF C Le NEVE FOSTER, H.M. INSPECTOR OF MINES FOR THE NORTH WALES DISTRICT (No 9)... FOR THE YEAR 1899
London: Houses of Parliament, 1900. 85pp. Folio. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary Paper. Cd 134-XII. The report covers coal & metalliferousmines & quarries. Accidents. Outputs., prosecutions of owners, abandoned mines . Miners killed in accidents named. District covers Dembigh, Flint, Montgommery, Merioneth, Carnarvon, Isle of Man. & Anglesey. . A very clean copy. (Book ref. 144109) £15.00
Offered for sale by Empire Books
London: Houses of Parliament, 1900. 85pp. Folio. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary Paper. Cd 134-XII. The report covers coal & metalliferousmines & quarries. Accidents. Outputs., prosecutions of owners, abandoned mines . Miners killed in accidents named. District covers Dembigh, Flint, Montgommery, Merioneth, Carnarvon, Isle of Man. & Anglesey. . A very clean copy. (Book ref. 144109) £15.00
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REPORTS OF HENRY HALL, H.M. INSPECTOR OF MINES FOR THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT (No 7)... FOR THE YEAR 1899
London: Houses of Parliament, 1900. 45pp. Folio. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary Paper. Cd134-VI. The report covers coal & metalliferousmines & quarries. Accidents. Outputs., prosecutions of owners, abandoned mines . Miners killed in accidents named. District covers West Lancashire, Cheshire, Dembigh, Flint, Montgommery, Merioneth, Carnarvon. & Anglesey. . A very clean copy. Plan to illustrate accident at Point of Ayr coliery. (Book ref. 144103) £15.00
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London: Houses of Parliament, 1900. 45pp. Folio. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary Paper. Cd134-VI. The report covers coal & metalliferousmines & quarries. Accidents. Outputs., prosecutions of owners, abandoned mines . Miners killed in accidents named. District covers West Lancashire, Cheshire, Dembigh, Flint, Montgommery, Merioneth, Carnarvon. & Anglesey. . A very clean copy. Plan to illustrate accident at Point of Ayr coliery. (Book ref. 144103) £15.00
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REPORTS OF HENRY HALL, H.M. INSPECTOR OF MINES FOR THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT (No 7)... FOR THE YEAR 1900
London: Houses of Parliament, 1901. 49pp. Folio. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary Paper. Cd536-IV. The report covers coal & metalliferousmines & quarries. Accidents. Outputs., prosecutions of owners, abandoned mines . Miners killed in accidents named. District covers West Lancashire, Cheshire, Dembigh, Flint, Montgommery, Merioneth, Carnarvon. & Anglesey. . A very clean copy. Plan to illustrate accident at Old Bost Pit & Permberton colieries. (Book ref. 144102) £15.00
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London: Houses of Parliament, 1901. 49pp. Folio. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary Paper. Cd536-IV. The report covers coal & metalliferousmines & quarries. Accidents. Outputs., prosecutions of owners, abandoned mines . Miners killed in accidents named. District covers West Lancashire, Cheshire, Dembigh, Flint, Montgommery, Merioneth, Carnarvon. & Anglesey. . A very clean copy. Plan to illustrate accident at Old Bost Pit & Permberton colieries. (Book ref. 144102) £15.00
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