EXETER HOUSES 1400 - 1700.
University of Exeter: 1966. With 39 plates, and 20 textual illusts, x + 133pp, roy 8vo, torn and ragged dustwrapper with pieces missing. ---- 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. UK16-1445) £32.00
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NORMAN ARCHITECTURE IN CORNWALL. A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture. With notes on Ancient Manor Houses. With a chapter on the Old Saints of Cornwall.
London: Ward & Co., 1909. Illustrated by over 160 plates, folding map, xxii + 464pp, original cloth-backed boards, spine slightly darkened, very lightly rubbed to edges, occasional light foxing. ---- 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. UK16-929) £85.00
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HOUSES AND GARDENS OF CORNWALL. A Personal Choice.
Tabb House, Padstow: 1988. Illusts, map, xxi + 162pp, dustwrapper. ---- 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. UK16-724) £15.00
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CORNISH ENGINE HOUSES
Tor Mark Press, Penryn: 1989. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription to verso of top cover. ---- 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. UK16-447) £4.00
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A COLLECTANEA RELATING TO THE BRISTOL FRIARS MINORS (Gray Friars) And their Convent, together with A Concise History of the Dissolution of the Houses of the Four Orders of Mendicant Friars in Bristol.
Bristol: W. Bennett, 1893. Frontis, 111pp, original cloth, lightly rubbed to edges. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-386) £34.00
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BY-LAWS WITH RESPECT TO SLAUGHTER - HOUSES within The City and County of Bristol.
Bristol: W.B. Harris, 1925. 15pp, slightly dusty original printed wraps. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-348) £4.00
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THE BRISTOL HOUSE.
Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1985. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - --- (Book ref. UK16-233) £12.00
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A SCHEDULE OF THE LANDS, HOUSES GROUND AND FEE-FARM RENTS, and other Property, Belonging to The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the City of Bristol. Made Pursuant to an Order of the Council of the said City, On the 25th March, 1877. John Harford, Treasurer of the said City.
Bristol: 1877. Small folio, original qtr. roan, printed paper boards, lacks spine, edges rubbed. Gives columns listing:- Commencement of Tenancy, Names of the Parties who now hold or Pay Rents, Description of Premises, Where Situate, Tenure, Remarks, Annual Rents. In MS at the rear in the 'Remarks' section is written "Horfield.... Eight Acres of Land Purchased to erect a new Gaol. Loosely inserted is a sheet listing 'Rents' Bailiffs Salary', 'Surveys & Valuations' for the years from 1848 to 1866 for Woodmancott. There are also similar sheets with more tables for 'Estates at Hinton', 'Manor of Portishead' and 'Premises in the City'. These four sheets are handwritten in a contemporary hand. Not in Mathews's Bristol Bibliography or Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Also gives details of property at Portishead, Filton, Hinton, Woodmancott, Coombe and at or near Dursley. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ---- (Book ref. UK16-166) £55.00
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National Trust Guide. Buildings.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1948 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket by S.R.Badmin. 184pp. With line drawings by S.R.Badmin. Maps to endpapers. Very Good in Good+ protected jacket. Covers clean, edges browne, ;lightly spotted page edges. Jacket has small losses to spine ends, (less than 1cm) rubbed edges, browned spine and flaps, large price-clipping. (Book ref. 20503) £9.00
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A new description of the town and castle of Stirling; with an appendix, containing notices of roads, steam-boats, coaches, inns, lodging-houses, etc. Also an analysis of the mineral waters at Airthrey and Dunblane.
Stirling: Published by Ebenr. Johnstone…, 1835. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, frontis. & 1 other plate, cont. half green roan, marbled sides, binding sl. rubbed & dull, couple of small stains in text. (Book ref. 5476) £35.00
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The Story of Houses and Homes. Ladybird Series 601
Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth Ltd, 1963. Reprint. Illustrated board cover. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 50pp :: 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5") (Book ref. lad601f) £6.60
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Old Jersey Houses Volume II
London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 8¾" - 12" Tall 0850332699 This is a Fine Copy in a Fine Dust-Jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.There is just a hint of light sunning to spine.Price clipped with NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning to spine.Well illustrated throughout in black and white.4to 246pp First Edition 1st Impression (Book ref. 62607) £9.00
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Illustrations of old Worcestershire houses, drawn and etched on copper.
London: printed for the author by John Strangeways, 1873. First edition (hardback). 4to (32cm by 26cm), xii, 48pp. 20 plates (correct as per list). Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Binding rebacked preserving the original spine, boards and spine rubbed, some minor spotting else contents very good. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition. (Book ref. 17412) £150.00
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Illustrations of old Warwickshire houses.
London: printed for the author, 1878. First edition (hardback), large paper edition. 4to (39 x 28 cm), [viii], 37pp. 31 copper-etched plates with descriptive notes. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to front board and spine. This is only a fair copy - the binding is a little rubbed and scuffed, and the gutta percha binding is drying out (with the first few pages detached from the binding). On the plus side, the contents are generally clean. (Book ref. 20862) £80.00
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Old Cottages and Farm-houses [farmhouses] in Surrey.
London: B T Batsford, 1908. First edition (hardback). 8vo, xiv, 69pp. 100 collotype plates, 103 text illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt titling and decoration to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. This copy is only in fair condition - there is some dampstaining to the binding and the preliminary pages, and the gutta-percha binding is starting to dry out (with a few pages loose). On the positive side, the plates are generally in very good condition. (Book ref. 27860) £20.00
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How to draw Houses.
London: The Studio, 1959. Reprint (hardback). 12mo, 64pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Original printed boards, but lacks the dustwrapper. Binding a little rubbed and scuffed; overall, the book is in good plus condition. (Book ref. 25112) £7.50
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Small Houses of the late Georgian Period, 1750-1820.
London: The Architectural Press, 1924. First edition (hardback). 4to, vi, 16pp. Frontispiece, 100pp plates. Original grey cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Binding a little rubbed, endpapers foxed, contents very good. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition. (Book ref. 27629) £20.00
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Old English houses of alms; a pictorial record with architectural and historical notes.
London: Francis Griffiths, 1910. First edition (hardback). 4to, 148pp, 4pp adverts. 49 full-page illustrations, 7 text illustrations, 4 plans. Original white cloth spine, grey paper-covered boards, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. Binding rubbed and a little dusty, bookplate to the front pastedown, endpapers browned, contents very good. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition. (Book ref. 27626) £15.00
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Rental of all the houses in Gloucester A.D. 1455, from a roll in the possession of the Corporation of Gloucester.
Gloucester: John Bellows, 1890. First edition (hardback), limited to 250 copies (this copy number 34) signed by the publisher. 4to, xvi, 147pp. 4pp plates (printed in two colours). Plain brown cloth. Boards stained, preliminary pages foxed, final page of the index chipped at the edges; overall, this copy is in fair to good condition only. On the plus side, the contents are generally VG, making this suitable as a reading or working copy. (Book ref. 15189) £20.00
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Historical rooms from the manor houses of England [antique panelled rooms] volume 2.
London: Robersons, nd [c. 1900]. No edition stated, volume 2 only. 8vo, 33pp. 14 plates. Original white parchment, gilt titling to front board and spine. Binding rubbed, name inscribed on front free endpaper else contents VG. (Book ref. 9153) £15.00
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