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AN ALMSHOUSE FOR LINTON. Richard Fountaine’s Legacy.
Skipton: Devenish Press, 2018. Tall 8vo., pp.130, paperback, colour plates; small handwritten inscription (’History Society, 13 December 2018’) to title verso, a very good, fresh copy, with slight crease to lower corner of front wrapper.
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INDIAN CREEK CHRONICLES.
Lyons and Burford, 1993. 8vo., pp.v,184, quarter turquoise cloth lettered in purple, contrasting green paper-covered boards; autographed to title, a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE HISTORY OF LUDLOW AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD; Forming a Popular Sketch of the History of the Welsh Border.
London: R. Jones, 1910. First edition, 8vo., pp.ii,541, embossed brown cloth, gilt, lithographic frontispiece showing Ludlow Castle, b/w illustrations within; ink ownership inscription, dated 1910, to front paste-down endpaper, toning to prelims, foxing to frontispiece and title, contents very slightly shaken but still firm, rubbing to extremities, a good+ copy.
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A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. 8vo.,pp. lx,371, black cloth, silver lettering, b/w illustrations and maps; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, front free endpaper missing, light toning and foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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THE CID AND HIS SPAIN.
London: John Murray, 1934. First edition, scarce, 8vo.,pp. xiv,474, navy cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, maps and genealogical table, fold-outs to rear and b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to endpapers, with damp staining to margins of front free endpapers, light toning and foxing throughout and to edges of text block, otherwise clean and a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and toned to extremities.
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THE PLACE-NAMES OF RUTLAND English Place-Name Society Volume LXVII/LXVIII/LXIX For 1989-90. 1990-1 & 1991-2
English Place-Name Society, 1994. 8vo., pp. lxxxvi,483, blue hardcover, gilt; ownership autograph in blue to front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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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, Volumes LVIII, LXIV/LXV, LXVI, LXXI, LXXIII, LXXVII, with 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; neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper (all volumes), a fine set, all in unclipped dust-jackets, with light loss at head and foot of spine of jacket to Volume II, small nick to jacket for Volume I, else very good indeed.
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THE PLACE-NAMES OF DERBYSHIRE [Three Volumes] English Place Name Society. Volume XXVII for 1949-50 Part I: Introduction, River-Names, etc. High Peak Hunderd; Part II Scarsdale Hundred, Wirksworth Hundred, Morleyston and Litchurch Hundred; Part III Appletree Hundred, Repton and Gresley Hundred, Analyses, Index.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. 8vo., pp.lxix,185, 186-514, viii,515-829, hardcover, gilt; blue ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper of all three volumes, a few light marks to fore-edge of text blocks, otherwise all volumes internally clean, rubbing to lower right margin of front board of Vol. III, overall a very good set in vg unclipped dust-jackets, with minor chipping to upper and lower margins, and light foxing particularly affecting Vol. III
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NEW EARSWICK: A PICTORIAL HISTORY.
York: William Sessions. Oblong 8vo., pp.vii,88, paperback, b/w illustrations throughout; author’s signed dedication on stickers to title page, slight vertical crease throughout, else very good.
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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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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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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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