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THE PLACE-NAMES OF LINCOLNSHIRE. Part One: The Place-Names of The County of The City of Lincoln. Part Two: The Place Names of Yarborough Wapentake. Part Three: The Wapentake of Walshcroft. Part Four: The Wapentakes of Ludborough and Haverstoe. Part Five: The Wapentake of Bradley. Part Six: The Wapentakes of Manley and Aslacoe. Part Seven: Lawress Wapentake. English Place-Name Society, Volume LVIII; Volume LXIV/LXV; Volume LXVI; Volume LXXI; Volume LXXIII; Volume LXXVII; and The Survey of English Place-Names Volume LXXXV.
English Place-Name Society, 1985. Seven volumes, 8vo., pp.xliii,236;xix,326; xxiii,197;xv,201;xix,179;xviii,228;xxv,151, blue cloth, gilt, b/w figures; Volume III ex Dorset County Reference Library, Volume IV very mildly ex library, pictorial ownership inkstamp to front paste-down endpaper of Volume VI, otherwise very good indeed, with all volumes internally clean, overall a very good, fresh set, in very good dust-jackets (jacket to Volume III with acquisition no. sticker to foot of spine).
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THE RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND. [In Two Volumes]
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839. First edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xx,396; xii,386,16 (adverts), decorative green cloth stamped in blind and gilt, uncut), b/w illustrations throughout; ink ownership inscription (dated 1839) to front free endpaper of both volumes, sunning to spines (and, lightly, to margins of boards), a little light marking to cloth, rubbing to head/tail of spines, internally fresh, overall a very good set.
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THE SHEPHERD FAMILY OF YORK 1664-1990.
York: 1998. Small 4to.,pp. 158,hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with slight staining to rear upper edge.
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THE STORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL AT KIRKBY IN MALHAMDALE (CRAVEN, YORKSHIRE).
Second Edition.
Gloucester: John Bellows. 12mo., pp.27, printed card wrappers, b/w frontispiece, 5 further b/w plates plus one plan; water-staining to front wrapper, internally clean, good(+).
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THE TRAVELS OF LORD CHARLEMONT IN GREECE & TURKEY 1749. From his own unpublished journals.
London: Trigraph, for the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1984. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,244, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and map, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities and sunned to spine and extremities.
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THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ROUND THE WORLD
ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD AND STEEL
London: John Tallis. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., pp. xx, 596, xi, 556, 89 b/w illustrations, 5 full page engravings (including frontispieces), 12 double page maps, 56 b/w illustrations, half-calf boards; p3-4 torn with loss, p.504-44 missing from vol i, duplicate pp.501 from Cook’s voyage to the pacific ocean vol ii, pp. 412-420 missing from vol ii, pp. 417-424 duplicate vol i Cook’s second voyage round the world. Defective copy but maps and engravings complete. Please email for fuller description of maps.
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THE WONDER OF THE NORTH:
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press/The National Trust, 2015. 4to., pp.xi,394, green hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE WONDERS OF ELORA; Or, The Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings Excavated out of a Mountain of Granite,
And Extending Upwards of Mile and a Quarter, at Elora, in the East Indies, by the Route of Poona, Ahmed-Nuggur, and Toka, Returning by Dowlutabad and Aurungabad; With Some General Observations on the People and Country.
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THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOLUME XXV.
Printed for the Society by John Whitehead and Son Ltd. 8vo., pp.viii,479, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates and one plate in colour; armorial bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small ink inscription to rear free endpaper recto, wear to paper label, o/w very good.
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THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOLUME XXXII.
Printed for the Society by John Whitehead and Son Ltd., Leeds. 8vo., pp.ix,516, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates; occasionally pencil-marking to margins, o/w very good.
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THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOLUME XXXVI.
Printed for the Society. 8vo., pp.v,508, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates; lacks title page, light foxing to endpages, label worn, light wear to head and tailbands, light creasing to wrappers, o/w very good.
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TRAVELS AMONG THE ARAB TRIBES INHABITING THE COUNTRIES EAST OF SYRIA AND PALESTINE, INCLUDING A JOURNEY FROM NAZARETH TO THE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE DEAD SEA,
And from Thence Through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch, and Aleppo.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition, 4to., pp.xvi,679, contemporary half calf with contrasting title label to spine, five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, folding frontispiece map, 28 engraved vignette illustrations to chapter headings; crease to upper corner of pp.xiv-17, toning to title/map, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy indeed. Includes Appendix, ‘Containing a Refutation of Certain Unfounded Calumnies Industriously Circulated Against the Author of this Work, by William Burckhardt, Mr. William John Bankes, and The Quarterly Review’, in which Buckingham seeks to confute the accusations of plagiarism brought against him.
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TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN ASIA MINOR, MORE PARTICULARLY IN THE PROVINCE OF LYCIA.
London: John Murray. 8vo., pp.xvi,510,(i)publisher’s advert, uncut, publisher’s pictorial green textured cloth, gilt, 6 folding plates and 2 folding maps (one of which as frontispiece), in-text illustrations; light marking to cloth, light wear to extremities, neat repair at head of spine, a very good copy.
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TRAVELS IN THE ISLAND OF CRETE, IN THE YEAR 1817.
London: Shackell and Arrowsmith, 1975. Paperback reprint of the 1823 edition, 8vo.,pp. 118, paperback, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, wrappers coming away from contents to front inner hinge, otherwise firm, toned to margins, overall a very good copy.
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VENICE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.337, pictorial red cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; slight roll forward to spine, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to edges, with light rubbing to front, else very good.
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VIEWS IN DERBYSHIRE,
London: Bremrose & Sons, 1860. Oblong 8vo., pp. 12, yellow cloth-backed card wrappers, 12 tipped-in steel engravings; foxing throughout but plates unaffected except for no.s 5 and 12, light wear to wrappers, overall very good copy.
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W.S.W. A VOYAGE IN THAT DIRECTION TO THE WEST INDIES.
London: Kerby and Son. 8vo., pp.v,135, brown cloth, gilt, 14 monochromatic plates including frontispiece; foxing to prelims, front inner hinge cracked, cloth split along upper joint, board still holding, contents slightly shaken with one section re-inserted and another with stitching loose and so slightly proud, otherwise a good copy.
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WANDERINGS IN SPAIN.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.xxi,274,(2)adverts, uncut, cloth, gilt, wood engraved illustrations; foxing to free endpapers, light wear to head and tail bands, with chip to cloth at head of upper joint, light rubbing to cloth, o/w very good.
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YORKSHIRE REBEL.
The Life and Times of John Lindley, 1770-1853.
Garston: Riley Publishing, 2013. Second edition, 4to., pp.v,179, paperback; edges of wrappers lightly rubbed, internally fine, a very good copy, with author’s inscription to title page.
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