ANDREWS H.C.

The Benstede Family and its Predecessors in Hertfordshire and Essex, the De Valoignes and Balliols. FINE COPY

Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, Walthamstow,, 1937. Roy. 4to., Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 2 plates on1, a full-page map and 2 full-pge pedigrees in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, a fine copy. Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, Official Publication No. 35. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. Thomson, p.19.

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Book number: 21587

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ANGIER] [C.B.

'Some Genealogical memoranda of the Angier Family' [in] The East Anglian or, Notes and Queries on Subjects connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk. New Series. Vol. VI. UNIQUE COPY WITH EXTENSIVE MS ADDITIONS

East Anglian, [Norwich,, c.1890]. 8vo., First Edition, partially interleaved copy; blue-green cloth, decorative endpapers, upper board blocked in gilt, neatly rebacked with new endpapers to style, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. With nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Extensively and substantially enhanced by the addition of some twenty interleaves, heavily and neatly annotated in MS in a neat, scholarly and skilful hand, and including numerous full-page pedigrees, armorials and bearings, together with similarly extensive marginal and textual annotations of many printed pages. To the best of our knowledge there exists no dedicated published history of the Angier family. A UNIQUE RESOURCE AND A RARE SURVIVAL.

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ARMITAGE D.M.

The Taylors of Ongar. Portrait of an English Family of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Heffer, Cambridge,, [1939]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations (20 full-page) and a full-page pedigree in the text, small signature on front paste-down; original patterned cloth, buckram back gilt, boards mildly age-soiled, old tape marks on corners else a good, bright copy. Drawn from family records by the Great-great Niece of Ann and Jane Taylor. Thomson, p.163.

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Book number: 9639

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BIGLAND Ralph

Observation on Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials as preserved in Parochial Registers.. With sundry Specimens of the Entries of Marriages and Baptisms in Foreign Countries; interspersed with Remarks concerning proper Methods necessary to preserve a Remembrance of the several Branches of Families. [First and Sole Edition]. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS: A RARE SURVIVAL

Printed by W. Richardson [for] Dodsley [and several others],, 1764. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper; original dove-blue wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, well-preserved copy secured for the future in custom-made solander case. THE ONLY COPY WE HAVE SEEN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Written when Bigland was Somerset Herald, this scarce and important work constitutes a plea for the consistent and meticulous recording of family history. A rare complement to his sadly truncated endeavour in producing the definitive history of Gloucestershire. OCLC 4919515.

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Book number: 28982

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BOSWORTH George F.

Original Documents relating to the Monoux Family. Notes by Constance Demain Saunders. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS

Walthamstow,, 1928. Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plate; original wrappers as issued, uncut, a near fine copy of a scarce work. Walthamstow Antiquarian Society Official Publications, No.19. Thomson (1976), p.119

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Book number: 339

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BRENAN Gerald

A History of the House of Percy from the Earliest Times down to the Present Century. Edited by W. A. Lindsay (Windsor Herald). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BUCKRAM

Freemantle,, 1902. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present), titles and half-titles in red and black, 39 plates (all original tissue guards present), 7 large folding pedigrees on japon, 3 pedigrees in the text and armorial endpapers in silver and burgundy, neat signatue on front free endpaper, some mild spotting throughout as usual; original burgundy buckram armorial gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips lightly faded, upper hinge of first volume starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Thornton of Oxford on front paste-downs. VERY SCARCE. Thomson, p.133.

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Book number: 13705

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BURKE John Bernard

A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain.. Volume I [this volume only]. ONE VOLUME ONLY: ALL TINTED LITHOGRAPHS COMPLETE

Colburn & Co.,, 1852. 8vo., First Edition, with tinted lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 30 fine tinted lithographed plates (all original tissue guards present), 16 engraved plates of arms (mildly spotted) and numerous pedigrees in the text; strongly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back with gilt rules and red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a most attractive copy. With separate index of arms.

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COOKE Family

Genealogical Memoirs relating to the Family of Cooke of Kingsthorpe, etc. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Mitchell & Hughes,, 1873. 4to., First Edition, with pedigrees in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, wrappers and margins a little frayed and dusty else a very good, bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. Privately printed. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Not recorded by Thomson

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Book number: 334

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COWLES Virginia

The Astors. The Story of a Transatlantic Family.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1979]. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, and pictorial endpapers; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at extremities.

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EVANS Joan

The Conways. A History of Three Generations.

1966. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 9 plates on 6; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 333

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FAIRBAIRN. [James]

Fairbairn's Books of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland. A New Edition revised and brought down to the Present Date by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. [Artificer's Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BUCKRAM

Jack, Edinburgh,, 1892. 2 vols., sm. folio, with half-titles and titles in red and black, and 229 fine plates of crests; original brown buckram, bevelled boards, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, green endpapers, backstrips chafed at heads and tails, joints minimally rubbed, corners lightly bruised, second volume neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the armorial bookplate of Wilfred Storr Park on front paste-downs.

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FRANKLIN Charles A.H.

The Bearing of Coat-Armour by Ladies. A Guide to the Bearing of Arms by Ladies of all Ranks, whether Maid, Wife, or Widow, in England, Scotland and Ireland. With a Preface by Marcia, Countess of Yarborough. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

John Murray,, 1923. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped at extremities. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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FRANKLIN Robert

The Stuarts of Highcliffe. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Natula, Christchurch],, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and pedigrees in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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FRENCH Maurice

The Frenchs of French Park. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

[Privately Printed, Warminster],, [1999]. 8vo., Sole Edition, with numerous illustrations, maps, facsimiles and pedigrees in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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FRENCH G. R.

The Royal Descent of Nelson and Wellington from Edward the First, King of England, with Tables of Pedigree and Genealogical Memoirs. Compiled by George Russell French. AUTHOR'S FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH

William Pickering,, 1853. 8vo., First Edition, with 10 genealogical tables in the text; original decorative ribbed dark green cloth BY BONE & SON, boards elaborately tooled at corners to an arabesque design in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, and particularly clean copy. A FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS COUSIN THE REV. GEORGE CHILTON WITH THE FORMER'S UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The author's second genealogical work, following his study of Victoria and Albert (1841) and preceding his notable 'Shakepeareana Genealogica' in 1869. George Robert Comyn Chilton, b.1825, was educated at Christ Church Oxford where he gained his BA in 1848 and MA in 1852. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the Bar in 1850. In 1861 he was appointed Vicar of Wanborough (Surrey) where he served until at least 1876. THIS WORK IS EXTREMELY SCARCE; PRESENTATION COPIES ARE THE MORE SO

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