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THE VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE. A Story of Ceylon.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. 8vo.,pp. 307, pink hardover, gilt; booksellers bookplate to front paste down endpaper, light foxing to edges of text block and to endpapers, otherwise clean and a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities with a couple of small cloased tears to front lower margin and light sunning to spine.
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Royal Commission On Historical Monuments England: AN INVENTORY OF THE HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN WESTMORLAND.
London: His Majesty’s Staionery Office, 1936. 4to., pp. lxvii, 302, grey cloth, black emblem and lettering to front board and black lettering to spine, b/w plates and figures, b/w fold-out plans, folded map to rear pocket, b/w frontispiece; small ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, toning and foxing to edges of text block, light toning and foxing to margins, occasional light cracking to inner hinge, all content firm, rubbed to extremities, cracking along rear hinge of spine from head of spine to aprox halfway down, chipping to foot of spine and light wear to corners, overall very good. No dust-jacket.
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THE PLACENAMES OF IRELAND IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM.
Logainmneacha na hÉirann sa Tríú Mílaois.
The Placenames Commisssion. Pocket 8vo., pp.144, paperback; a very good, clean copy.
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A DIRECTORY OF YORK PUBS 1455-2003.
Voyager Publications, 1455. 8vo., pp.xxi,241, paperback, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; title page signed by the author, light curling to corners of wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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REPORT ON THE PREVALENCE OF TYPHOID FEVER IN YORK, DURING THE YEAR 1884.
York: Ben Johnson and Company, 1884. 4to., pp.48, printed wrappers, large folding map; wrappers are delicate, with wear to the extremities and partial loss to the spine, a little foxing to prelims, internally clean and otherwise very good.
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YORK CLERGY ORDINATIONS 1500-1509.
Borthwick List and Index 30.
University of York, 2001. 4to., pp.vi,325, paperback; a very good, clean copy, with crease to rear wrapper, and light creasing to extremities of wrappers. Wrappers covered with clear adhesive plastic.
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HOW NATIVES THINK. (Les Fonctions Mentales Dans Les Societes Inferieures).
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926. First edition, 8vo., pp.392, navy cloth, gilt; ex-reference library bookplate to front paste down endpaper, toned and foxed to edges of text block, lighter toning to margins and endpapers, p.81 loose, contents otherwise firm, rubbed to extremities, with light wear to head of spine, light toning to spine, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE GREEN DESERT.
Somerset: Cox, Sons & Co. Ltd, 1963. 8vo., pp.91, green cloth, gilt, authors inscription to front free endpaper, b/w illustrations; a clean near-fine copy in a good unclipped dust-jacket with rubbing and foxing/damp spots to extremities, slight surface soil to front and rear and small areas of loss to front right upper margin and tail end of spine.
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HESLINGTON. A Portrait of the Village.
York: Neville Publishing Co, 1992. 8vo., pp.iv,68, paperback, b/w illustrations; author’s handwritten inscription and owner’s address sticker to Acknowledgements page, a very good, clean copy.
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VOYAGE D'ITALIE, DE DALMATIE, DE GRECE, ET DU LEVANT,
Fait aux annees 1675. & 1676. Tome I et Tome II [Set of Two Volumes].
Amsterdam: Chez Henry & Theodore Boom, 1679. Second edition, two volumes, 12mo., pp.456;489, full vellum with hand-lettered spines, 32 engraved plates, pictorial vignette to titles; small ink autograph to title page of Volume I, with small ink mark also to revserse of frontispiece and inked number to vellum at inner dentelle of front endpaper to Volume II, light creasing to fore-edges of prelims, clean within, a very good set indeed.
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THE BEETLES OF SPURN PENINSULA.
York: Yorkshire Museum, 1995. 8vo.,pp. 96, paperback; light sunning to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE A TO Z OF VICTORIAN LONDON.
Harry Margary, in association with Guildhall Library, London, 1987. 4to., pp.viii,140, red hardcover, gilt, b/w plans; colour-pencil colouring to plans, else very good, in lightly edgeworn unclipped dust-jacket, with sellotape reinforcement to lower edge.
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THE A TO Z OF REGENCY LONDON.
Lympne Castle, Kent: Harry Margary, in association with Guildhall Library, London, 1985. 4to., pp.116, red hardcover, gilt, b/w plans; some coloured-pencil colouring to plans, else very good, in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket.
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SANDS OF TIME. A History of Skipsea from Prehistoric Times to the Year 2002.
Skipsea History Workshop, 2003. 4to., pp.300, paperback, b /w illustrations; light sunning to spine, slight shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean, a very good copy.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE RETREAT. An Institution Near York For Insane Persons of the Society of Friends. Containing Accounts of its Origin and Progress, the Modes of Treatment, and a Statement of Cases.
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1964. 8vo., pp.(iv),227, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 3 folding plates and one further b/w plate; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which hascreasing to headband and a few small closed tears to edges.
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LI HUNG CHANG'S SCRAP-BOOK.
London: Watts and Co, 1913. First edition, red cloth, b/w frontispiece portrait of Li Hung Chang, with caption sheet, 42 further illustrations; endpapers toned, light rubbing to extremities, gilt dulled, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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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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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 ITINERARY OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,94 (English text),(90) Hebrew text, blue cloth, gilt, folding colour map as frontispiece, manuscript facsimile plates; ex Reference library, with stamps to prelims and sporadically throughout, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, and small label to foot of spine, heavy foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, a good copy of this scarce title.
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THE EVE OF THE GREEK REVIVAL.
British Travellers’ Perceptions of Early Nineteenth- Century Greece.
London: Routledge, 1990. 8vo., pp.xvii,289, black hardcover, silver lettering, 6 b/w maps; light soiling to boards, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly shelf-worn, else very good.
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