Walter Rye - Records and Record Searching: A Guide to the Genealogist and Topographer

London, Elliot Stock, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this guide to compiling data and recording it for genealogists and topographers. First edition. A comprehensive guide to records for genealogists and topographers, with chapters on compiling an pedigree, writing a history of a place, documents relating to sale and transfer of land, legal proceedings relating to land, state papers, fiscal records, the record office, and much more. With an appendix and index. Written by Walter Rye, a British antiquarian and athlete. With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear of the text. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. A small split to the cloth of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpapers. A 3" closed tear to the rear advertising page. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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