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)

The acts of the rebels, written by an Egyptian: being an abstract of the journal of Mr. James Ray of Whitehaven. Volunteer under His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.

[Preston: re-printed for John Arkwright by Henry Oakey, 1881 limited edition (275 copies).] 4to. 32pp, full-page text illustration. Contemporary plain boards. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed; wear to spine. Original edition dated to [1746] in ESTC: Au, L, Gu; NNC-RB This edition held at Aberdeen, NLS & Oxford.

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Book number: 46057

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History Rebellion 1701-1800 Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 Great Britain History 18th century. Great Britain History 18th century. Great Britain History 18th century ; Early works to 1800.

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

Annus a Nativitate Salvatoris Nostri Jesu Christi MDCCCXXXVII. Dierum 365 stylo Gregoriano et Juliano deductus sive Calandarium in usum ecclesiae R. Cathlicae.

Budapest: Universit. Hungaricae, 1837. 8vo. xvi, [14]pp calendar printed in red and black, [34]pp. Bound with: Schematismus inclyti regni Hungariae partiumque eidem adnexarum cum schematismo literario ... 1837. Budapest: Universit. Hungaricae, 1837. 8vo. 492pp. Bound with: Schematismus Literarius sive nomina eorum qui rem scholasticuam per regnum Hungariae ... anno MDCCCXXXVII. Budapest: Universit. Hungaricae, 1837. 8vo. 126pp. Contemporary half tree-calf gilt, red and olive calf gilt spine labels, matching marbled paper sides. Extremes rubbed with wear to paper sides; occasional slight spotting and browning to text. * In effect a Hungarian directory for 1837.

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Book number: 36596

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History Eastern Europe Hungary

[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

An appeal to the unprepared and the prepared, on the approach of the Indian cholera.

[Leeds: published by J Y Knight and printed by Edward Baines and Son,] 1831. 18cm. 8pp. Stab-sewn as issued. Asiatic cholera was diagnosed in England in 1831 - this an early provincial piece Not in DISCOVER or OCLC.

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Book number: 46058

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History medicine Cholera India

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

Bachelorism Portrayed. ... By a member of the female society, for the extinction of that useless portion of mankind, OLD BACHELORS.

London: W Nicholson and Sons, N.D. 12mo. 19[1]pp including wraps. Original printed decorated yellow paper wraps. Rear wrap very lightly soiled. * BL lists a Wm. Nicholson, Halifax edition [1865?]. This, a Wakefield printing, looks later.

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Book number: 38461

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history Provincial printing

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