ADDISON William

Essex Heyday.

1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 34 collogravure plates on 30, a full-page ilustration in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter worn at edges and joints.

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ADDISON William

Essex Worthies. A biographical Companion to the County.

1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 6 plates on 4; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.

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ADDISON Joseph

Second Addendum to Dorset Watermills [in] Transactions of the Newcomen Society. NEAR FINE COPY

Newcomen Society,, 1968-69. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; amateur card covers, paper labels, passe-partout backstrips, a near fine copy. Newcomen Society, Vol. XLI (1968-69). SCARCE.

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ADLAND David

Brighton's Music Halls. [Foreword by Roy Hudd]. NEAR FINE COPY

Baron Birch,, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles throughout, and endpaper maps; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Near fine copy of a limited edition (this copy out-of-series). With list of subscribers at end. VERY SCARCE.

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ADLARD Eleanor

A Short History of Postlip Mill Winchcombe. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Muller [for] Evans Adlard & Co.,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; blue boards, upper board with printed paper label, ivory buckram back, uncut,a near fine copy in publisher's original glassine dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Sonstige Stichworte: topography, windmills, watermills, gloucestershire, glos, winchcombe, postlip, eleanor adlard

AINGER Arthur Campbell

Eton Songs. Set to Music by Joseph Barnby. Illustrated by Herbert Marshall. ETONIANA: NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY IN THEMED BINDING

Leadenhall Press,, 1891-2. Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; elegantly bound in green full morocco, sides with multiple frame border stopped at corners by Eton lilies and rosettes, and enclosing title and decorative cartouche reprising Eton lilies and rosettes all in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers heightened in gilt, a splendid, crisp copy in themed Eton binding. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM AINGER TO HIS PUPIL ANGUS VALDEMAR HAMBRO WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Ainger (1841-1919) taught at Eton until his retirement in 1901. Hambro (1883-1957) was educated at Eton, elected twice as MP for Dorset and served as High Sheriff of the county. This copy was presented at Election 1900.

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Sonstige Stichworte: topography, berkshire, berks, slough, eton, eton school, eton college, etoniana, fine bindings

AIR MINISTRY

British Rainfall, 1922. The Sixty-Second Annual Volume of the British Rainfall Organization. Report on the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1922.

HMSO,, 1923. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, numerous tables and maps in the text and a folding map; purple cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper. VERY SCARCE

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Sonstige Stichworte: british rainfall, climate, meteorology, weather, air ministry, air ministry, topography, general, british, rainfall, 1922

AITCHISON Sir Walter de L.

Pennymuir, Woden Law and Dere Street. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

Neill & Co., Edinburgh,, [1947]. 8vo., with a plate and a large folding plan; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'The History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club', vol. xxxi. Bonser 8214.

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Sonstige Stichworte: toipography, scotland, berwickshire, berwicks, berwick, roman britain, camps, forts, walter aitchison

ALBERY William

A Parliamentary History of the Ancient Borough of Horsham 1295-1885. With some Account of every contested Election, and so far as can be ascertained, a List of Members Returned. [Introduction by Hilaire Belloc]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, with decorative and printed titles, very numerous plates, illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text, and patterned endpapers, title and a few following leaves lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, firm copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small blind stamp on title.

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Sonstige Stichworte: topography, sussex, horsham, parliament, elections, albery, william albery, belloc, hilaire belloc

ALBERY William

A Parliamentary History of the Ancient Borough of Horsham 1295-1885. With some Account of every contested Election, and so far as can be ascertained, a List of Members Returned. [Introduction by Hilaire Belloc]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, with decorative and printed titles, very numerous plates, and illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small hole in backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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ALDEN'S GUIDE

Alden's Oxford Guide with Notes on the District and Rivers. NEAR FINE COPY

Alden, Oxford,, [1950]. Sm. 4to., with folding map as frontispiece, and numerous plates and plans; printed wrappers, coves very lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. With very numerous trade advertisements at front and rear. Cordeaux & Merry 250; Upcott, p.243 (recording the first edition of 1874).

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ALDEN & COMPANY

Alden's Oxford Guide. With Notes on the District and Rivers, Key Plan of the University and City, Map of Central Oxford and numerous Illustrations. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Oxford,, n.d. [c.1936]. Sm. 4to., with numerous illustrations from half-tones (some full-page) and a map in the text, and a folding map at end; original printed wrappers, joints rubbed and upper cover a little browned else an unusually clean, sound copy of a work hard to find in this state. For many years the standard visitor's guide and packed with fascinating views and advertisements.

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ALDEN E.C.

Alden's Oxford Guide. With Key-Plan of the University and City. [Thirty-Ninth Edition]. One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Thousand.

Alden & Co., Bocardo Press,, [1912]. Sm. 4to., Thirty-Ninth Edition, with colored frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 8 plates in monochrome, large folding map coloured in outline, and front endpaper map; original limp blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the Notice dated August 1913 printed on red stock and mounted facing front free endpaper. With very numerous trade advertisements at front and rear. Cordeaux & Merry 250; Upcott, p.243 (recording the first edition of 1874).

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ALDOUS Tony

The Illustrated London News Book of London's Villages.

Secker & Warburg,, [1980]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Sonstige Stichworte: topography, london, camden town, bedford park, rotherhithe, bermondsey, kew, clapham, mill hill, marylebone, fulham, bloomsbury, southwark, putney, enfield, tony aldous, topography, london, illustrated, london, news, book, london's, villages

ALEXANDER Matthew

The History of the County Club, Guildford. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[Privately Printed, Guildford,], [2003]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. The first dedicated history of the Club since its foundation in 1881. SCARCE.

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Sonstige Stichworte: topography, surrey, guildford, county club, matthew alexander