Mines MINES. REPORTS OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES, to Her Majesty's Secretary of State, Under The Coal Regulation Act, 1872, with the Stratified Ironstone Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1881; and the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and 1875, with the Slate Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1882; For the Year 1885. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.
London: Houses of Parliament, 1886. With 6 folding plans, 6 being coloured and a folding table, xvi + 373pp, small folio, recent card covers, paper label on top cover. Includes reports on mines in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Forest of Dean, and Somerset. None of the plans are of West Country mines. There are numerous tables listing mines, owners agents, minerals raised, ages of persons employed above and below ground, names of persons injured, cause of accidents, tons of material mined, etc. Le Neve Foster, Cadman, and Frecheville were amongst the authorities who gave evidence. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-3546) £220.00
Mayo (Earl of), Adshead (S.D), Abercrombie (Patrick) and Thompson (W. Harding) THE THAMES VALLEY From Cricklade to Staines. A Survey of its Existing State and some Suggestions for its Future Preservation.
University of London Press, 1929. With 6 coloured folding maps, 32 plates, 106pp, folio, original cloth, ex-lib., with signs where label removed from front endpaper, stamp to title and number to foot of spine. ---- 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. UK16-3534) £24.00
Marshall (William) THE REVIEW AND ABSTRACT OF THE COUNTY REPORTS TO THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Volume The Second. Comprising those from the Western Department; Which includes Cheshire, Flintshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, North Wiltshire, North Somersetshire.
Reprinted, Augustus Kelley, New York: 1968. xxiii + 536pp, original cloth. First published 1809. ---- 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. UK16-3524) £25.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE, With the CITY OF BRISTOL, 1894.
London: Kelly and Co Ltd., 1894. With 2 folding county maps, and a folding plan, xxxii + 764 + 531 + (i) + 401 + 64 pages of adverts, some marks to the original cloth, recased retaining the original endpapers, recent unlettered spine. ---- 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. UK16-3482) £185.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1935.
London: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1935. With the coloured folding maps of Gloucestershire and Somerset, lacks plan of Bristol, 26 pages of adverts + xxvi + 796 + x + 570 + 9 + xxix + 1313pp, original cloth, rear inner hinge strained, small tear to top outer hinge and a small tear to centre of spine. ---- 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. UK16-3481) £125.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1931.
Kelly's Directories, London: 1931. With 2 large coloured folding maps, lacks plan of Bristol, xxii + 803 + x + 568 + 13 (adverts) + xxviii + 1192pp, few damp spots to the original cloth. ---- 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. UK16-3480) £125.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE WITH THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1897.
Lacks maps, original cloth, worn and spotty, top board held by tapes. - --- 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. UK16-3477) £135.00
Kelly's KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE CITY OF BRISTOL 1927.
Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1927. Lacks maps, 28 pages of adverts, xviii + 584 + xxviii + 1175pp, original cloth, partly faded, few splits to spines, inner hinges pulled. ---- 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. UK16-3476) £100.00
Jones (Mary Whitmore) THE GUNPOWDER PLOT and Life of ROBERT CATESBY also an Account of CHASTLETON HOUSE.
London: Thomas Burleigh, 1909. With 10 plates, vi + (i) + 120pp, some marks to slightly rubbed, original pictorial cloth. Chastleton house is situated on the Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire borders, in the Cotswolds, near Moreton in the Marsh. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK16-3467) £40.00
[Harrison (Bertha Fortescue)] BY THE BY-WAYS AROUND BRISTOL BY MOTOR.
The Western Daily Press, Bristol: (1927) Plates, text illusts, 108pp, + 8pp of adverts, original printed wraps, light spotting to prelims. ---- 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. UK16-3423) £15.00
H.M.S.O. CENSUS 1961. ENGLAND AND WALES, POPULATION DWELLINGS HOUSEHOLDS. Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire.
H.M.S.O. London: 1963. 26pp, small folio. ---- 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. UK16-3416) £12.00
Grinsell (Leslie) PREHISTORIC SITES IN THE MENDIP, SOUTH COTSWOLD, AND BRISTOL REGION. Field Guide No 1.
Bristol Archaeological Research Group, Bristol: 1966. 32pp, original card covers. ---- 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. UK16-3410) £4.00
Gray (Irvine) ANTIQUARIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND BRISTOL.
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1981. Plates, 210pp, original cloth partly faded. With chapters on 52 Antiquaries, illustrated with plates showing examples of their handwriting. Includes most of the noted writers such as Atkyns, Rudge, Rudder, Fosbroke, 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. UK16-3405) £16.00
Franklyn (Charles A.H) A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILIES OF PAULET (or PAWLETT), BEREWE (or BARROW), LAWRENCE, AND PARKER. With a continuous descent from Ealhmund, born circa 750, great-grandfather of Aelfred the Great, through four Plantagenet descents to 1963.... With.... Supplement. Addenda, corrigenda, errata, MORGAN OF LLANFABON, CO GLAMORGAN, TURNER OF OLDLAND IN KETMER, CO. SUSSEX, VAVASOUR OF HAZELWOOD, CO, YORK, WALWYN OF LONGWORTH, CO. HEREFORD, AND WORMINGTON OF GRIMLEY AND SHRAWLEY, CO. WORCESTER.
Privately Printed, Foundry Press, Bedford: 1963. 2 volumes. With a folding pedigree, 5 illusts, 186pp, includes a list of subscribers, and plates, 123pp, both volumes are 4to, original cloth, ex-lib., the first with number to base of spine, the second has signs where label removed from spine which overlapped onto boards, and both volumes have a label to front endpaper and stamp to title page. The first volume is a Numbered Limited Edition of 103 copies. The second is a Numbered Limited Edition of 150 copies. Both volumes signed by the author. Includes chapters on the Paulets of Nunney Castle, Somerset, Brewe of Newland, Gloucestershire, Parker of Usk, Franklyns of Surrey, Jamaica and Antigua, etc. The first volume has a signed inscription by the author, and an ink note to say that this copy originally belonged to Peter Frank and Lady Diana Tiarks. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-3387) £150.00
Foster (C. Le Neve) A TEXT-BOOK OF ORE AND STONE MINING.
Charles Griffin, London: 1894. With frontis and 716 textual illusts, xxviii + 714 + 32 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, rubbed to edges, recased, new endpapers, some spotting to margins of frontis. Includes many references to Cornish, Devon, and Forest of Dean mines and mining. ---- 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. UK16-3385) £65.00
Cossons (Neil) INDUSTRIAL MONUMENTS IN THE MENDIP, SOUTH COTSWOLD AND BRISTOL REGION. Field Guide No. 4.
Bristol Archaeological Research Group, Bristol: 1967. 32pp, original decorative card covers, name to title-page. ---- 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. UK16-3279) £4.00
Branigan (Keith), and Fowler (P.J), edited by THE ROMAN WEST COUNTRY Classic Culture and Celtic Society.
Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1976. Plates, illusts, 254pp, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. ---- 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. UK16-3226) £16.00
Winter (Michael T) THE PORTISHEAD COAL BOATS. A History of Osborn & Wallis Ltd, Bristol.
Black Dwarf Publications, Lydney: 2005. Numerous coloured and black and white illusts, diagrams, 192pp, 4to, original pictorial paper boards. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-2794) £35.00
Wye (Acton) DR. W.G. GRACE.
Bijou Biographies - No VI. 1901. Frontis, 90 + 6pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth, lettering on spine feint. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-2114) £22.00
Wycliffe School THE WYCLIFFE STAR. 1893 - 1896.
1893 - 1896. Two plates, eleven issues of the schools magazine, 20 to 30 pages per issue, early binders cloth. Wycliffe College Stonehouse was founded in 1882 by G.W. Sibly. -- -- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include GLOUCESTESHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-2113) £15.00