JOURNAL OF A TOUR ROUND THE SOUTHERN COASTS OF ENGLAND.
London: J. Triphook, 1805. With 2 aquatint plates, 229 + 1 leaf of 'Schedule of Miles,' recent paper boards with paper label on spine. Manners was the fifth Duke of Rutland and the engravings were taken from drawings by his wife. Contains various observations and historical notes on the places he visits. He starts at Ramsgate then takes a circuitous route via Lands End and finishing at Salisbury visiting places which interest him on the way including various mines viz. Polgooth, Wherry, Cook's Kitchen, as well as Carnon Tin Stream Works, etc. At Plymouth and Southampton he lists the names of the boats in the harbour as well as the number of their guns and the names of their commanders. ---- 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. UK16-3520) £250.00
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THE MYSTERY OF WANSDYKE. Being a Record of Research & Investigation in the Field.
Cheltenham: Ed. J. Burrow and Co., 1926. With 112 drawings and 100 plans. viii + 200pp, 4to, original cloth- backed boards, partly faded, corners of boards slightly rubbed. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES. ---- 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. UK16-3519) £80.00
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A JOURNEY INTO CORNWALL, Through the Counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset & Devon: Interspersed with Remarks, Moral, Historical, Literary, and Political.
Warwick: Printed by H. Sharpe, 1799. xiii + 364pp, early half calf, marbled boards, covers slightly rubbed, corners rubbed, lacks lettering piece from spine. Includes a chapter on:- 'Voyage to the Eddistone', as well as visits to Cornish mines, Plymouth docks, and prison, as well as chapters on Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-3508) £225.00
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KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF HAMPSHIRE, AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT, WILTSHIRE, DORSETSHIRE, AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. 1939.
Kelly's Directories Ltd., London: 1939. 5 folding maps, 37 pages of adverts + xxviii + 1152 + ix + 440 + ix + 424 + 28 (adverts) + 290pp, original cloth, cellotape repair to verso of one map, rubbed, lacks front endpaper and first couple of pages of adverts. ---- 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. UK16-3478) £135.00
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HUNT AND CO'S DIRECTORY AND COURT GUIDE FOR THE CITIES OF BATH, BRISTOL AND WELLS AND THE TOWNS OF BRADFORD, CALNE, CHIPPENHAM, DEVIZES, FROME, LAVINGTONS, MELKSHAM, SHEPTON MALLET, TROWBRIDGE, WARMINSTER, AND WESTBURY. Containing the Names and Addresses of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Professional Gentlemen, Traders, &c Resident Therein. A Descriptive Account of each Town.... May 1848.
London: Printed for E. Hunt & Co. 1848 vi + (i) + 136 + (v) + 192 + 131 + 31 pages of adverts, original cloth, slightly rubbed, front hinge weak, rear inner hinge almost broken, slightly shaken, small stain to top of inner margin. ---- 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. UK16-3447) £150.00
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REPORT ON MANUSCRIPTS IN VARIOUS COLLECTIONS. Vol. IV. The Manuscripts of Bishop of Salisbury; Bishop of Exeter; Dean and Chapter of Exeter; Earl of Leicester; Sir William Clayton, Bart.; Major Money-Kyrle; F.H.T. Jervoise, Esq., Glemham Hall. Corporations of Salisbury, Orford and Aldeburgh.
London: H.M.S.O. 1907. 413 + viiipp, portions missing from original printed wraps, not affecting text. ---- 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. UK16-3442) £25.00
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THE HATCHER REVIEW Vol 5. No 48.
Hatcher Review Trust, 1999. Illusts, 47pp, original pictorial card covers. Contains chapters on crime and prisons in Wessex. ---- 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. UK16-3427) £4.00
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BERKSHIRE, HAMPSHIRE, AND WILTSHIRE AUTHORS TODAY. Being a Checklist of Authors Born in these Counties together with Brief Particulars of Authors Born elsewhere who are currently working or residing in these Counties.... An assemblage of more than 630 Authors together with their addresses and (where applicable) their pseudonyms.
Eddison Press, London: 1973, xiv + 11pp, original cloth. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-3418) £12.00
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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
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THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY. With special reference to the origin and form of its survivals in Britain.
Walter Scott, London: 1890. Maps, illusts, xi + 299 + 16 pages of publisher's adverts, original cloth, partly faded. Presentation inscription by the author on front pastedown. Includes sections on Chippenham and Malmesbury in Wiltshire. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-3401) £8.00
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TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE, WESTMORELAND, AND WILTSHIRE A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868.
1901. xii + 388pp, original cloth, occasional foxing. ---- 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. UK16-3398) £35.00
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THE PEDIGREES OF Dickinson of Gildersome and Coalbrookdale. Darby of Coalbrookdale, Salop. Darby of Stoke Court, Bucks. Fowler of Melksham, Wilts. Rathbone of Liverpool.
Printed for Private Circulation. Christmas, [London:] 1890. Pages numbered 51 - 77, 4to, original cloth boards, later cloth spine, corners, and endpapers, titled on top board, boards slightly soiled. 'It is twenty years since my father compiled the first edition of this book.... ' from the Preface. This is an off-print from the larger work. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-3386) £55.00
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PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF POOLE of Gloucester and Wilts.
London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1919. 3 illusts, 13pp, roy 8vo, original printed wraps, spine partly split, and with portions missing from top corners of top wrap and spine. Reprinted from "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica." ---- 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. UK16-3361) £15.00
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THE DOMESDAY GEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND.
Cambridge University Press, 1967. Frontis, textual maps, (xiv) + 469pp, original cloth, Bristol University labels to front endpapers, ex- lib. with labels to front endpapers, inner hinges cracked and weak. ---- 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. UK16-3292) £20.00
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THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL. An Illustrated History.
David & Charles, Newton Abbot: Second Edition, 1973. With 30 plates and 20 text illustrations including maps, 206pp, 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. UK16-3266) £20.00
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THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL. An Illustrated History.
First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1968. With 30 plates and 20 text illustrations including maps. 206pp, dustwrapper rubbed to edges. ---- 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. UK16-3265) £24.00
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ANECDOTES RESPECTING CRANBOURN CHASE. With A Very Concise Account Of It; Together with The Rural Amusements it Afforded Our Ancestors in the Days of Yore. Written in September 1816.
First edition. London: Printed by and for J. Nicholls. 1818. and First edition. London: Printed by C.H. Reynell and Published by J. Carpenter and Son, 1818. 56pp, text and frontis and title slightly spotty, untrimmed in recent half calf, raised bands, marbled boards. First edition. London: Printed by and for J. Nicholls. 1818.... Bound with.... Haydon (B.R) NEW CHURCHES; Considered with Respect to the Opportunities they Offer for The Encouragement of Painting. 22pp. London: Printed by C.H. Reynell and Published by J. Carpenter and Son, 1818. 2 volumes bound in one, early full calf with a later spine, heraldic arms in gilt on both boards, gilt lines, slightly rubbed to edges of 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. UK16-3248) £160.00
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A SECOND EDITION OF THE ANECDOTES AND HISTORY OF CRANBOURN CHASE. With Additions, and a continuation of the said history to some extent. To which are added Some Scenes in, and Anecdotes of Windsor Forest by the same author.
First edition, London: J. Nichols, Son and Bentley, 1818. Frontis, 103pp, actually 107 pages as the first 4 pages are followed by numbers with asterix , 1, 1* etc., frontis and first few leaves slightly spotty, untrimmed in recent half calf, raised bands, marbled boards, title and motifs blind stamped on 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. UK16-3247) £125.00
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THE GEOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE, Illustrating The Operation of the Deluge, and The Effects of Which It Was Productive: With A Consideration of Scripture History, In Reference to Stonehenge and Abury, In Wiltshire; And To The Caves Of Elephanta and Salsette, And The Wonders of Flora, In Hindoostan; A Statement of New and Important Views Of Geology, Resulting from Information contained in Scripture And An Interesting Tour From Christchurch, along the banks of the River Avon, and across the Wansdyke, to Abury.
Frome, Pr. J. Penny and Sold by the Author, 1832. With 10 plates, 3 of which are coloured, early qtr cloth, paper boards, rubbed to edges, short split to head of top outer hinge, lacks labels on spine, Not found in any of the West Country bibliographies. Dedication leaf to Dr. Buckland, and Preface addressed to him. Includes sections on "Granite Torrs of Devon and Cornwall", "Cliffs on the River Avon", "Formation of Haden Hill", 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. UK16-3231) £165.00
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WILTSHIRE, Extracted from Domesday Book: To which is added a Translation of the Original Latin into English. With An Index, in which are Adapted the Modern Names to the Antient; and with A Preface in which is included A Plan for a General History of the County.
Salisbury, Printed by J. Easton. 1788. xlii + 535pp, later full calf, raised bands, leather label on spine, marbled endpapers, rubbed to edges, top board loose, ex-lib., number to foot of spine, small stamp to title-page. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK16-3188) £45.00
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