Commuters' village; a study of community & commuting in the Berkshire village of Stratfield Mortimer.
Dawlish: David & Charles, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 109pp. 14 plates. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in fine condition; the dustwrapper is good (extremities rubbed, short closed tear to head of spine). (Book ref. 8464) £6.00
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The Loyd Collection of Paintings and Drawings at Betterton House, Lockinge, near Wantage, Berkshire.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, 1967 First edition (softcover). 8vo, title, vi, 78pp. 142 plates. Original red card wrappers, gilt titling to the front cover and the spine. Backstrip lightly rubbed, else this copy is in very good condition. (Book ref. 24479) £9.50
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Domesday Book, or the Great Survey of England of William the Conqueror AD MLXXXVI, fac-simile of the part relating to Berkshire.
Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1863. First edition thus, Berkshire volume (hardback). Folio (37cm by 28cm), 6pp, XVI. Original black cloth, gilt titling to the front board. The boards are a little warped, the contents are very good. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition. (Book ref. 21929) £20.00
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British Berkshire Herd book, vol XVII.
Abingdon: Heber Humfrey (for the British Berkshire Society), 1901. Volume 17 (hardback). 8vo, vii, 250pp, 7pp adverts. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Light mark to the spine, else this copy is in very good condition. A mine of information about the breeding of British Berkshire pigs. Covers boars and sows, numbers 7512 to 7999. (Book ref. 16363) £95.00
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History of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1920-1947
Staples Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated in b/w and including foldout maps. Bound in navy blue with gilt lettering to the spine & gilt design on front. Still quite tightly bound. No damage to the binding but a little light wear to the cover. No torn, loose or missing pages. No inscription, ownership markings or other annotations. Some pages have small crease at the lower corners but otherwise the book has been carefully read. There is some light spotting to the page edges but inside the pages are clean. Issued without a jacket (Book ref. 022575) £68.00
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A SHORT GUIDE TO WINDSOR AND THE RIVER
OXFORD: SALTER BROS LTD, 1937. Soft Back. Good. 190x125mm Approx Illustrated stapled card wraps, 26pp + 6 of Steamer Trip adverts and fold out map of Thames to rear. First published in 1935 principally to promote their Thames Steamer River Trips by Salter Bros. Ltd of Folly Bridge Oxford this town guide with 9 b/w photo. illustrations also covers Eton, Runnymede, Magna Charta Island, Chertsey Staines, Bray, MaidenheadCookhamBourne End and Marlow. The copy offered for sale is a third impression copy dated 1937. Contains details of River trips. Good (Staples rusty with consequential staining to paper. Covers a little shelf soiled and rubbed but no nicks or tears and no previous owner name or insc. Fold out map clean with no tears). Please see our image of the actual item offered for sale. (Book ref. 10948) £5.00
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About Britain No 5: Chilterns to Black Country
London: Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hard back. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Published for the Festival Of Britian Office. General editor Geoffrey Grigson. (Book ref. 28255) £9.00
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About Britain No 3: Home Countires
London: Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hard back. Good Plus/Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Published for the Festival Of Britian Office. General editor Geoffrey Grigson. (Book ref. 28253) £7.00
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THIS WAS TILEHURST
Reading: MRM Associates, 1998 Softcover, 1998 - Reprinted Edition, softcover, glossy light card covers, 96 pages, b/w photographs throughout - each with a detailed description, 8.25" x 5.75". Minimal wear to covers, no faults noted. Exceptionally good condition. (Book ref. 742) £20.00
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ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 269.
O.S blind stamp 1907. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 14" x 19". Some railway lines added neatly in red and blue ink. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-3114) £20.00
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ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 269.
c1880. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 14" x 20". Linen-backed and folding into sm. 8vo marbled wraps. Covers Windsor Great Park, Staines, Bray. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-3113) £15.00
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DRAFT MANUSCRIPT RESOLUTION Proposed Canal from the City of Bristol to join the Wilts. & Berks. Canal at or near Foxham in Wilts. At a very numerous & respectable Meeting of the Landowners... at the Cross Hands Inn in Old Sodbury, Monday the 21st day of May 1810.... His Grace the Duke of Beaufort having... taken the Chair... and The Resolution of a Meeting holden.... at the Angel Inn in Chippenham.... having been read.... Resolved unanimously that the making a Canal... would be highly injurious to the owners... of lands thro' which the same is proposed to be carried...'
1810. Manuscript on 3p. sm. folio, folded with docket title and note 'N.B. The Origl. Resolutions taken from the Meeting by the Duke of Beaufort the Chairman'. In an untidy hand with amendments and crossings out (for example the paragraph being the resolution beginning 'That the promoters.... have not acted with... candour...' has been crossed through). There are six resolutions, involving the setting up of a Committee, that they will 'oppose and resist' the application, etc. A couple of small edge tears. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WEST COUNTRY [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2933) £90.00
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PARTICULARS OF SALE of a Superior Semi-Detached Villa Residence known as No. 7, Bolton's, 113 Acres of Grass Land at Willesden... Rent Charge and Pew Rents at Handley, Dorsetshire.... Rent Charge in Wantage.... which will be Sold by Auction... 6th August, 1858.
1858. 7pp, folio, memorandum cut out of last page, affecting description of Wantage Lot. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2888) £12.00
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PARTICULARS OF SALE OF A SUPERIOR SEMI- DETACHED VILLA RESIDENCE, AT WEST BROMPTON: 113 Acres of Superior Grass Land and Corn rents at Willesden; A Farm of 105a. 1r. 14p., the Rent charge and pew rents, at Handley, Dorsetshire, and the Rent Charge, on lands in the hamlet of Grove in the Parish of Wantage, Berkshire..... Which will be Sold by Auction... 6th of August, 1858.
1858. Folio, 8pp, docket title, folded, lacks lower half of last leaf which is the 'memorandum', partly affecting description of Wantage lot. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include LOCAL HISTORY [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2887) £12.00
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AN ACT for continuing and enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Act.... For repairing the Highways from Speenhamland, adjoining to Newbury, in the County of Berks, to Marlborough, in the County of Wiltshire.
London: Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1744. Cover leaf + pages numbered 395-406, small folio,black letter, disbound, Act of Parliament. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WILTSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2876) £15.00
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ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XII.
Electrotype 1879- 82. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 30". Linen-backed and folding to 4to, silk edging tape, frayed in places. Section at top right 5" deep butted in from a quarter sheet and extending out 3" from edge at right. Two railways drawn in in red ink. A 3" and a 1" split in linen at one fold. Covers Basingstoke, Hungerford, Wokingham. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include HAMPSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2778) £28.00
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AN ACT to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal to finish and complete the same, and the several Cuts, and other Works, authorized to be made and done by them, by several Acts of Parliament.
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1795. Cover leaf + pages numbered 303-314, disbound, folio, Act of Parliament. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2755) £18.00
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ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP
c1870. Sheet 285. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 19". Borders all round, trimmed to margins, linen-backed, folding into marbled endpapers. Some slight browning of linen at sections. Covers Aldershot, Guildford. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SURREY [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2531) £14.00
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TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets XLIII.12/III.12 and XLIII.11/III.2.
Edition of 1911. Each size 26" x 37", scale 25" to 1 mile. Shows River Emborne, Hyde End Fishery, Woodhouse Farm, northern part of Headley, Starck House Farm, Foxhold Farm. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include HAMPSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2529) £12.00
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AN ACT to enable His Majesty to grant to Her Majesty the Queen a capital Messuage called Frogmore... in the Parishes of New Windsor and Old Windsor, and a Piece of land in Wyrothsbury...
1807. 7pp., small folio, disbound. Act of Parliament. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK48-2528) £12.00
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