ANGIOLILLO, Paul F:

A Criminal as Hero; Angelo Duca.

Regents Press of Kansas,1979, pp.xii,211. Very good in just slightly rubbed dust jacket. A study of the outlaw in eighteenth century Italy.

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Book number: 108

Catalogue: True Crime

Keywords: Italy,outlaws,bandits,brigands,Croce,Sicily,Naples,Robin Hood,Basilicata,crime, 0700601848

ANON:

AMERICA. EMIGRATION TO VIRGINIA and the SOUTHERN STATES.

1871, CONTENTS. Message of the Governor of Virginia to the Senate and House of Delegates.--Bill introduced by Col. J.M. Crews, of Shelby County, Tennessee.--Com. Maury on immigration.--What an Englishman thinks of Virginia.--Letter from W.H. Richardson, com. of immigration, Richmond, Virginia.--Through rates of passage from Liverpool to the Southern States via Norfolk.Disbound pamphlet, size approx 7x5 inches, 28 pages, folding map.World Cat lists only 3 copies ( Cornell, Johns Hopkins and University of Virginia ) and gives place of printing as Richmond ? and date 1871. It also only says 26 pages, but ours has an extra leaf giving Fares and advertising the Allan Line.

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Book number: 2837

Catalogue: Travel-North America

Keywords: Virginia, emigration,United States,immigration,

ANON:

British Memorials of The Great War 1914-1918.

Dean & Dawson, c. 1935. Original cloth-backed boards a bit used, but sound. 32 pages and complete with the 4 maps on 2 sheets in the back pocket.

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Book number: 2943

Catalogue: Military and Naval History

Keywords: Great War,first world war, war memorials,

ANON:

Building in Cheshire.

Council for the Preservation of Rural England, 1939, 4to, pp. 75, well illustrated. Preface by Professor Patrick Abercrombie. Original card covers, a little dusty, but good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3232

Catalogue: Cheshire

Keywords: Cheshire,architecture,planning,countryside,

ANON:

Family Diet and Health in Pre-War Britain. A dietary and clinical survey.

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1955. Preface by Lord Woolton, introduction by Lord Boyd Orr. 164 pages. Original cloth-backed printed card covers. Some library marks, but good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3230

Catalogue: Food and Drink

Keywords: health,diet,children's health,medical,

ANON:

Lead-mining.

Derbyshire Record Office, May 1969. A4,pp. 56,9. Original card covers. A list of the lead-mining documents deposited by Brooke-Taylor & Co., solicitors.

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Book number: 1831

Catalogue: Derbyshire

Keywords: Derbyshire,lead-mining, metal mining,industrial history,

Anon:

Phallic Worship , a Description of the Mysteries of the Sex Worship of the Ancients with the History of the Masculine Cross.

Printed for Private Circulation, 1886, pp. 70. Original green cloth, very good condition.

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Book number: 2267

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: erotica phallicism anthropology phallic worship lingam symbolism rites

ANON:

Re-adjustment in Lancashire by Members of the Economics Research Section, University of Manchester.

Manchester University Press,1936, pp.137. Original cloth.Spine a little dull and creased,bold inscription on front endpaper,else good condition.

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Book number: 1246

Catalogue: Economic History

Keywords: Lancashire,cotton,textiles,mining,coal,weaving,unemployment,depression,

Anon:

Thomas & Gilchrist, Bolckow & Vaughan 1879-1929

Middlesborough, 1929, pp. 32, tipped in illustrations. Soft leather binding. Good condition. The story of the invention of a major improvement in the process of steel making.

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Book number: 3128

Keywords: steel making,Bessemer,slag,fertiliser,

ASHMORE, Owen:

The Industrial Archaeology of North-west England.

Manchester University Press, for the Chetham Society,1982, pp.241, illustrated. Very good in the original cloth. Chetham Society, Third Series, Volume 29. Covers the old counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, except Furness and Cartmel.

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Book number: 2703

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Industrial History,Industrial Archaeology,lancashire,Cheshire,isbn 0719008204, 0719008204

ASHWORTH, Terry:

Forty Years On; A History of Bury Cine Society 1959-1999.

Bury, 1999. A4 format, card covers, pp. vi, 96. Slight split at top of spine, else good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3420

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Bury Cine Society,Lancashire,film history,

ASPIN, Chris:

The Water-Spinners; a New Look at the Cotton Trade.

Helmshore Local History Society, 2003., pp. (8), 508, illustrated. Original limp card covers, Reading creases to spine, lightly used, but good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3256

Catalogue: Industrial History

Keywords: isbn 0906881137,Helmshore,cotton trade,textiles,Arkwright,Samuel Crompton,cotton mills,factories, 0906881137

ATTICUS, (A. Hewitson):

Our Churches and Chapels; Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston.

Preston, 1869, pp. 214. Half calf over cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles. Almost certainly the publisher's binding as it often turns up in this same style. Very good condition.

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Book number: 3044

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Preston,Lancashire,Bowland,Blackburnshire,

AUSTEN, Major E.E. and HEGH, Emile:

Tsetse Flies their Characteristics,Distribution and Bionomics with some account of Possible Methods for their Control.

London, Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1922, pp.ix,188 with 5 plates. An ex-library copy strongly bound in cloth. A little dusty and with a few unobtrusive stamps,but a good,sound copy.

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Book number: 1382

Catalogue: Natural History-Invertebrates

Keywords: entomology,tsetse flies,diptera,trypanosomiasis,sleeping sickness,

AXON, William E. A:

The Annals of Manchester: A Chronological Record from the Earliest Times to the End of 1885.

John Heywood, Manchester, 1886, first edition, pp.xvii,456. Original cloth, an unusually good, tight copy of this important reference work. Previous owner's neat label and name inside.

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Book number: 2621

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Manchester,Lancashire,