Abstract from the public records, &c. of charters, acts of parliament, treaties, &c. concerning 1. The Steuartry and principality of Scotland; 2. The Dutchy of Cornwall; 3. The principality of Wales and Earldom of Chester; 4. The Dutchy of Normandy; 5. The Dauphine´ of France.

Edinburgh: printed by P. Neill, 1824. 4to. vii[i], 86pp. Original linen-backed grey paper boards, printed paper label to front board, uncut. Boards rubbed, with slight wear, and stained; label stained; spotting to eps and prelims. Cornwall County Record Office copy with oblong ink-stamp to rfep verso. From the library of John Davies Enys with his book-plate to fpdep. Cover title: Historical account of the stewartry and principality of Scotland, &c. until the passing of the statute 25th Geo. II.C.20.

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Book number: 40632

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History

An account of the alarming and destructive fire, at the Exchange, Nottingham, on Saturday, November 26, 1836. Copied from the Nottingham Review.

Nottingham: printed by R. Sutton, [1836]. 19cm. 15[1]pp including frontis. Sewn. Text age browning especially last page; library ink-stamp to title verso.

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Book number: 45679

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History Midlands Exchange Hall (Nottingham, England)

S[ABIN], S. E. & J. B.

An adventure on Scafell.

Windermere: Johnson and Sons, 1904. 18cm. 23[1]pp, frontis sketch map and info. Original printed blue card wraps, stapled. Staples rusted but holding firm o/w a fine copy. Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde 1843-1906 [editor] Bennett, John: landlord of the Dungeon Ghyll hotel, Langdale. DISCOVER: Oxford.

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Book number: 46117

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North West England Geography Lake District

[HALLECK, Fitz-Greene.]

Alnwick Castle, with other poems.

New York: George Dearborn, 1836. 8vo. 98[2]pp. Original decorated blind-stamped maroon moire cloth gilt, aeg. Re-spined with original spine label laid down; board corners rubbed with slight wear; spotting and light soiling to eps and prelims; occasional spotting to text. * An earlier edition was published in 1826.

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Book number: 38056

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North East England Poetry

M[ARSH], J[ohn] F[itchett].

Analysis of the Warrington Improvement and Market Act, 1854, and the various consolidation acts incorporated therewith, digested into methodical order, with a copious index ...

Warrington: printed by Haddock and Son, 1854. Tall 12mo in sixes. viii, 116pp. Original blind-stamped black cloth gilt. Small neat repair to spine head; light spotting to eps and prelims. Ex-reference library with only evidence ink-stamps to fpdep. Not in HLL.

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Book number: 37580

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North West England

[SAVAGE, E. Sidney, Rev.]

An appeal from Hexham Abbey A.D. 674, to A.D. 1904.

Hexham: printed by H. Robson & Sons, [1904]. 22cm. 16pp, tinted text illustrations, ALS and subscription form loosely inserted. Original pictorial printed glazed-card, stapled. Wraps very lightly soiled and sun-faded. An impassioned plea by the Rector, E. Sidney Savage, for improvements to the Abbey. No copies located in DISCOVER.

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Book number: 45364

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North East England Architecture

Aviemore and Rothiemurchus: illustrated brochure and list of furnished houses, hotels, boarding houses and apartments.

Aviemore: Aviemore and Rothiemurchus Village Council, [1937]. 19cm. [32]pp including local adverts, text illustrations. Original pictorial printed card wraps, stapled. Wraps browned o/w excellent.

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Book number: 45010

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History scotland Guide

T, Q.

Beautiful Cleveland, and just beyond its borders ... With digressive notes on some short tours in the Cleveland district, by Q.T.

Middlesbrough: Hood & Co, 1897. Oblong 8vo. [64]pp, title-page vignette, text illustrations (some full-page and some tinted). Original pictorial grey cloth gilt, bevelled edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; cloth soiled; gilt to front board partly faded; lacks ffep; eps spotted

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Book number: 37178

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North East England

The Belle Vue Album of London.

N.P., N.D. 7.5 x 12cm. Standard 12 view (glazed) leporello. Original linen-backed colour printed glazed boards. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled. Copy at Manchester Met. U. - no details, N.D. (c1875?).

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Book number: 46000

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History London leporello View Book

Bishop Barnes's Injunction to the Clergy of Durham.

Newcastle: M A Richardson, 1847 limited edition of 100 copies. 8vo. 32pp, head and tail-pieces, decorated capitals printed in red, blue and black. Recent quarter-linen-backed paper boards, printed paper label to front board.

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Book number: 37701

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North East England Theology & Religion

[WALLIS, John.]

The Bodmin Register; containing collections relative to the past and present state of the parish of Bodmin: and also, a statistical view of the twenty-eight parishes within a circle of eight miles round Bodmin church: together with many particulars and statistical tables concerning the county, archdeaconry, parliamentary districts, and poor law unions of Cornwall; with an appendix on the diocese of Exeter &c. &c. &c. (Vol. I - all published.) [Comprising 22 issues + The Exeter Register No. 1.]

Bodmin: printed by Liddell and Son, 1827-38. 8vo. ix[i], 411[1]pp, 16pp, text tables. Later half maroon calf with matching plain-calf re-back, marbled sides, front wrap from issue no. 6 laid down to rpdep. Extremes rubbed with light wear. Cornwall County Record Office copy with oblong ink-stamp to ffep recto. From the library of John Davies Enys with his book-plate to fpdep. * Succeeded in 1847 by the Cornwall Register.

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Book number: 41700

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History South West England

The Bombardment of Berry Edge. Described in a conversation between Mr. Terence O'Flanaghan and Mr. Markham, on their road home from Shotley Bridge to Berry Edge, on Friday evening, Jan. 25, 1856.

Newcastle-on-Tyne: W. Watson, 1856 2nd edition second thousand.. 17cm. 8pp, title-page device. Original printed blue-paper wraps, uncut/unopened. Light general text age-browning. COPAC: Newcastle only. Microform copy at NYPL.

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Book number: 39090

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North East England Humour Poetry

[STEPHENS, George, Prof. Dr.]

The Bound Man-Devil at Kirkby Stephen - the Northern Loke. [C & W Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions off-print.]

Kendal: printed by T Wilson, [1883]. 8vo. Pp 300-309. Original printed blue paper wraps. Wraps slightly chipped and spotted.

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Book number: 36198

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North West England Archaeology

Bowman's guide to Richmond and the neighbourhood, including Rokeby ...

Richmond: printed and sold by T & A Bowman, 1836. 8vo. 94pp, 4 litho plates, plan. Original purple cloth gilt. Spine and part of boards browned; spotting to prelims and plates. * Not in Boyne, Abbey Scenery or COPAC. OCLC adds Corporation of London and London Library. Probably a predecessor to the 1843 guide, also published by Bowman but without his name in the title. This work was dismissed by Boyne as a 'trashy guide book'.

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Book number: 38092

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History Yorkshire

The Bradford Antiquary: the journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society. (2 Vols).

Bradford: published for the Society by H. Gaskarth, 1888-1895. 25cm. 292; 314pp; numerous plates, plans and pedigrees; printed in double columns. Publisher's brown cloth gilt, bevelled edges, original wraps and index bound in. Folding plan of North Bierly with closed tear. The first two volumes of the second series with contributions from well-known local historians, including Cudworth, Scruton, Horsfall Turner and Rayner. There were two previous volumes published commencing 1878. A new series was published later.

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Book number: 45353

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History yorkshire Societies. Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) History Yorkshire (England) History Societies, etc. Yorkshire (England) History Societies, etc. ; Periodicals. England Yorkshire. Local history Periodicals. Yorkshire (Engla