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)

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

[DANSON, J. T.]

Agriculture in Cheshire. Five Letters on Farming Agreements, with special reference to a Form of Agreement proposed by Mr. Humberston ... By a Tenant Farmer.

Birkenhead: J Cross; Chester: T. Catherall, December, 1855. 21cm. 48pp. printed on pink paper. Original printed blue glazed-paper wraps, sewn. Near fine copy. DISCOVER: Reading, BL, Cardiff, Oxford.

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Book number: 46388

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North West England Agriculture Cheshire

[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

[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

The Arbroath Year Book and Eastern Forfarshire Directory, containing list of householders in Arbroath, Carnoustie, Friockheim and surrounding district for 1897.

Arbroath: Brodie & Salmond , 1897. 8vo. 244pp including front board, multi-folding coloured litho plan of Arbroath (often lacking), local adverts. Original red cloth lettered in black. Re-spined with original worn and browned spine laid down; portraits excised from pages 29 & 35, obviously affecting the verso adverts; pages 89-92, giving local church details, lacking. The Directory section (pp 101-195) is complete. A long-running Scottish provincial directory (1889-1950) with principal holdings at Forfar Public Library. Exceptional collection of local adverts - verso of almost all leaves carry single or multiple adverts.

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Book number: 43675

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History directories Forfar Scotland

The Attorney General against the Great Northern Railway Company.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: printed for gratuitous circulation [by order of the coal owners] at the Journal Office ... by Andrew Carr, [1860]. 22cm. 16pp. Disbound - slight wear to spine. In essence a case brought by local coal owners against the Great Northern Railway because of the latter's commercial interest in selling on coal rather than using it to fuel trains. Not in DISCOVER, Ottley or Anderton.

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Book number: 46316

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North East England Coal Railway

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

Banquet at Guildhall. Wednesday, 9th November, 1887. The right honourable Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor, Major Horatio David Davies, C.C., and William Alpheus Higgs, Esq., F.R.C.I., F.R.G.S., sheriffs.

[London: W. H. and L. Collingridge, City Press, N.D. [1887?] 16cm. 48pp, head and tail-pieces. Original decorated maroon watered silk binding, aeg. Fine copy. Fine vignette chapter headings. DISCOVER: Bishopsgate Institute, Senate House.

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Book number: 46463

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History London City of London (England). Corporation Dinners and dining. City of London (England). Corporation Government. Guildhall (London, England) History.

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