HADDOCK, M. H:

Cultural Contacts of Mining.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949, pp. 144, original black cloth. Spine dull, some light foxing, but good, sound condition.

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Book number: 2562

Catalogue: Industrial History

Keywords: mining mines coal coalfields minerals mine surveying triangulation compass

HADFIELD, Charles:

The Canals of South and South East England.

David & Charles, 1969. Owner's small label inside, but very good condition in the dust jacket.

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Book number: 2952

Catalogue: canals

Keywords: canals,Thames,Medway,Basingstoke,Kennet & Avon,Stroudwater,

HADFIELD, Charles and BIDDLE, Gordon:

The Canals of North West England.

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1970, 2 volumes, numerous illustrations. Top edges of text blocks foxed, else very good condition in the dust jackets.

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Book number: 3296

Catalogue: Canals

Keywords: Canals,inland waterways,Weaver,Leeds Liverpool canal,Lancaster canal,Rochdale canal,Huddersfield canal,Manchester,Bolton and Bury canal,Bridgewater canal,ashton canal,

HALCROW, Elizabeth M. (editor):

Charges to the Grand Jury at Quarter Sessions 1660-1677 by Sir Peter Leicester.

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1953, small 4to, pp.xxxv, 168. Very nice condition in the original cloth. Chetham Society, Third Series, Volume 5.

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Book number: 2368

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Chetham Society, Sir Peter Leicester Tabley Cheshire English Civil War Quarter Sessions

HALL, Hubert:

The Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester for the fourth year of the Pontificate of Peter des Roches, 1208-1209.

London School of Economics and Political Science, 1903, folio, pp. xlviii, 100, frontispiece facsimile of part of the manuscript. Original cloth, slightly rubbed, but very good condition.

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Book number: 2544

Catalogue: Medieval History

Keywords: medieval history, pipe rolls,Winchester

HALSEY, Frederick A:

The Metric Fallacy.

New York and London,1920, second edition rewritten,pp.ix,229. An investigation of the claims made for the metric system especially in relation to exports. Very relevant today.Good in original slightly faded cloth.

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Book number: 539

Catalogue: Economic History

Keywords: economics,exports,metric,measurement,weights and measures,trade

HAMER, Harold:

A Catalogue of Works By and Relating to Walt Whitman in the Reference Library, Bolton; Including Manuscripts, Letters, Portraits, Association Items.

Bolton, 1955, pp. 52, portrait of Whitman, original printed card covers. Covers dusty, contents excellent. Includes a 1/- ticket giving entry to the exhibition.

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Book number: 3143

Catalogue: Bibliography

Keywords: Walt Whitman,bibliography,Bolton.

HAMILTON, H:

Scientific Treatise on Smoke Abatement.

Manchester, Sherratt & Hughes, 1917, 4to, pp. xiii, 155, illustrated. Binding dull, stain to top edge of back cover, name inside, but good, sound condition in the original cloth.

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Book number: 2503

Catalogue: Science and Technology

Keywords: smoke abatement, industry, pollution,coal furnaces mill chimneys coal fires smog clean air

HAMPSON, Thomas:

History of Rivington.

Wigan and Horwich, 1893, pp. 207. Original cloth a bit marked, but sound. Please note than an early owner added neat ink notes and corrections to several pages, and his hands have not been too clean as there are a few finger marks or splashes here and there. Overall, just a sound working copy of an uncommon book.

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Book number: 2871

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire, Botton. Rivington, Horwich, Pilkington family,

HAMPSON,Charles P:

Salford Through the Ages.

Salford, 1930, first edition, pp.296, illustrated. Original cloth, spine and boards rather faded as usual, top of spine a little frayed but sound condition. Signed author's edition, copy no. 207. Various cuttings loosely inserted by the previous owner Hugh Sutton of the Manchester Bookselling family.

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Book number: 3363

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Salford,Manchester,Lancashire,

HANDFORD, Michael:

The Stroudwater Canal.

Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1979, pp. 337,illustrated. The owner has applied a circular blind stamp to the title page and a couple of other leaves, else this is a nice, clean copy in dust jacket. Incorporates a revision of the author's earlier first volume plus two subsequent unpublished cvolumes.

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Book number: 1815

Catalogue: Canals

Keywords: isbn 0904387305,canals,inland navigation,Stroudwater,Framilode,Dallaway,Grazebrook,Stroud,Wallbridge, 0904387305

HARDWICK, Charles:

History of the Borough of Preston and its Environs in the County of Lancashire.

Preston, Worthington, 1857, pp. xvii, 687, many engravings and a folding map (creased, but complete). Original blue cloth, gilt edges, spine dull and rubbed, but still tight and sound. A unique copy inscribed on the title page "with corrections and annotations by the author, Charles Hardwick 1876", also an inscription inside the front cover "J A Eastwood, 24 April 1877. from the Author". Numerous notes and corrections in ink throughout. Plates with dampstains to lower corners.

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Book number: 3035

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Preston,Lancashire

HARDWICK,Charles:

On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire.

Manchester,Abel Heywood,1882, first edition,8vo,pp.xix,236,illus. with 3 maps. Original decorated cloth with gilt title. Slight bumps to spine ends, but a very nice, bright copy of the original edition. Contemporary inscription on title-page. Covers battles and legendary battles from pre- Roman times up to the rebellion of 1745.

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Book number: 2010

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,English battle-fields,Arthurian legend,English Civil War,

HARLAND, John (editor):

The Autobiography of William Stout of Lancaster.

Simpkin & Marshall, 1851, pp. vii, 154. Original cloth. Binding secure but spine neatly repaired and rubbed at ends. Frontispiece heavily foxed and some further foxing to first few leaves, smallish brown stain to a couple of leaves. Still a sound copy.

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Book number: 2877

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: William Stout, Lancaster, diaries,quakers,

HARLAND, John:

Collectanea Relating to Manchester and its Neighbourhood.

Manchester,Chetham Society,1866-7, two volumes,small 4to,pp.vi,258,viii,252. Original cloth, very lightly rubbed, a couple of small snags to the spine of the first volume, else very good condition. Chetham Society,First Series,Vols 68 and 72. These volumes are especially important for the lengthy chapters on Manchester maps, the oldest Manchester directories, Manchester newspapers and on Mrs Raffald, with an extensive list of editions of her famous cookery book.

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Book number: 2464

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Chetham Society,Lancashire,Manchester maps, Mrs Raffald,