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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 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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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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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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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 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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CRYSTAL PALACE.
A Guide to the Palace & Park.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Pocket 8vo., pp.197,16, pale blue pictorial paper wrappers, b/w frontispiece, folding map, two folding plans, engraved b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; very light foxing throughout, otherwise internally clean, wrappers lightly soiled with significant area of loss to wrappers at head of spine, creasing and light wear to corners of wrappers, else a very good copy.
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GREECE UNTRODDEN.
Athens: Mrs Alan Wace, 1964. 8vo., pp.116, paperback, b/w illustrations by Elektra Megaw; small price sticker to rear wrapper, spine lightly sunned, small crease to lower right corner of rear wrapper, light toning to wrapper margins, lightly shelf-worn, a very good copy.
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A GLOSSARY OF PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL WORDS USED IN ENGLAND.
To which is now first incorporated the Supplement.
London: John Russell Smith, 1839. 8vo., pp.iv,188,4,16 (adverts), uncut, cloth, with printed paper label to spine; final advert leaf cropped, small remnant of ownership label to front paste-down endpaper, sunning to spine and, lightly, to margins, rubbing to extremities, a good copy.
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DOUTHWAITE DALE AND THE SHEPHERD FAMILY.
Kirkbymoorside Society. 8vo., pp.17, stapled wrappers, b/w illustrations; small amount of highlighting to p.16, a couple of lightly pencilled annotations, o/w very good.
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MOGG'S NEW MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES, WITH PART OF SCOTLAND On which are Carefully Delineated the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, Railways, Rivers, Navigable Canals, Cities, Market and Borough Towns, and Principal Villages, Seats of the Nobility, Gentry, &c.; The Whole Compiled from the Most Recent Surveys and Topographical Works of Latest and Best Authority.
London: Edward Mogg, 1841. 48-piece folding linen-backed map, hand-coloured in outline, with railway lines shown in red, cased in marbled wrappers; light marking and finger-marking to margins, some light toning, else in excellent condition, in worn marbled card slipcase, with printed title label to side-panel.
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