Ball, Wilfrid.

HAMPSHIRE. Described by Rev. Telford.

A & C Black, 1909. c.[1915]. Reprint. xi + 316pp. 75 colour plates, folding map. Light browning, with the signature of ‘A.J.H. Harper 3.10.1911’, original green cloth decorated in pink and black, gilt lettered spine, spine sl. bumped, t.e.g.
¶ 20 Shilling Series. Inman 34, 3000 Copies.

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Barber’s

PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT, Comprising Views of every objects of interest on the Island. Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions.

Simpkin & Marshall, N.d. c.[1834]. 1st Ed. [iv] + 110pp. Engraved title page, 40 engraved plates (foxed), folding map. With the ownership inscription of ‘Mrs George Groves The Close’ to pastedown, early blind embossed calf backed red boards with gilt lettered label to upper board, some fading, some loss to spine, upper joint cracked with board loose.
¶ Thomas Barber (fl.1818-1840).

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Barclay’s

COMPLETE AND UNIVERSAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY, With Which is Incorporated a Complete Modern Gazetteer and Atlas of Maps. The Dictionary contains, 1. A Full Explanation of Difficult Words and Technical Terms in all Trades, Professions, Arts and Sciences, Algebra, Anatomy ... Trigonometry ... 2. A Pronoucing Dictionary, In Which the proper Sounds of English Words are so given, that both Natives and Foreigners may acquire a just Pronounciation. 3. Tracing the World from their original Fountains .... The Geographical Part of this Work Is a modernized Compilation from Walker, Eachard, Salmon, Crutwell and other Authorities ... Bought down to the end of the Year 1808, under the Editorship of a scientific and literary Character, comprehending all the changes in the Empires, Kingdoms ...

, N.d. c.[1808]. Sm. 4to. viii + [13Q2] 18 maps and plans including 5 folding mainly hand coloured in outline (the world maps are cropped and detached with loss to Poles. Lacking all before t.p., 8G and 8G2 duplicated, t.p. cropped along head, browning, old leather, some wear, gilt lettered label to spine,

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Barnes, William.

NOTES ON ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE BRITONS.

John Russell Smith, 1858. 1st Ed. viii + 167pp. + 8pp. publ. list. Some very light browning, original bright gilt lettered brown cloth, spine sl. bumped and marked.
¶ William Barnes (1801–1886), poet and philologist. ODNB ‘... His admirers included Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Edmund Gosse, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Francis Palgrave, Coventry Patmore, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, and Alfred Tennyson as well as Thomas Hardy. For Hardy, Barnes provided the stimulus of a local skilled practitioner of poetry, and Hardy learned much from Barnes ...’

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Barratt, Thomas J.

THE ANNALS OF HAMPSTEAD.

Lionel Leventhal Ltd. in Association wih the Camden History Society, 1972. 3 vols. 4to. Over 500 ills., 6 folding maps including 1 in rear pocket. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, faded blue slipcase with ills. wrapped around.
¶ No. 29 of a Subscribers edition of 150 copies.

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Barrett, C.R.B.

ESSEX: Highways, Byways and Waterways. Second Series [only].

Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xvi + 232pp. 13 etched plates, numerous ills. E.ps. browned, gilt lettered fawn coloured cloth with gilt devices to upper board, discoloured and sl. marked, corners sl. bumped.
¶ No. 60 of 120 Copies on fine paper. First Series published 1892.

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Barton, Rose.

FAMILIAR LONDON. Painted by ...

Adam and Charles Black, 1904. 1st 4to. Ed. xii + 208pp. 61 colour plates. Some light foxing, inscribed to front f.e.p. ‘? Kohn 1914’, original gilt lettered white cloth with floral design printed in brown, green and red to upper cover and spine, light soiling, recased with repairs to head and tail of creased spine, t.e.g.
¶ No. 221 of a Limited Edition of 300 Copies. Signed by the Artist. Published simultaneously with the 20 shilling Series. With the original prospectus. Inman 244.

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Beaven, Rev. Alfred (Compiler).

BRISTOL LISTS: Municipal and Miscellaneous.

Bristol: T.D. Taylor ... "Times and Mirror" Office ..., N.d. c.[1899]. 1st Ed. Sm. thick 8vo. xvi + 455pp. Light marginal browning, bound in early gilt lettered blue cloth, spine lightly faded and rubbed.

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Beck, H.C.

RAILWAY MAP London Underground Transport. Issued Free. No. 1.

Johnson Riddle & Co. Ltd., 1936 9 x 6 inches. Bi-Fold Colour card map. Sl. chipped to folds. and with sm. stain.
¶ Henry Charles Beck (1902–1974) English technical draughtsman who created the present London Underground Tube map in 1931, the map was first issued a pocket edition in January 1933. It was immediately popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since.

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Bell, James.

A NEW COMPREHENSIVE GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES, Presenting Under Each Article Respectively, the Population of the Towns and Parishes. According to the Census of 1831, and the State of the Elective Franchise, as Fixed by the Provisions of the Reform Bill.

Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co., 1837. 4 vols. Folding map of England and Wales (with crease tears), [only, lacking 43 folding maps]. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary half calf with marbled boards, 2 gilt lettered labels [only of 4] to blind and gilt tooled spines, damage and loss to heads of upper joints of vol 1. and 2.
¶ James Bell (1770–1833), Geographer. ODNB ‘... Because he was prevented from travelling by his poor health and limited means, Bell's geographies were necessarily derivative, though they were assiduously researched and competently, if not always scrupulously, put together ...’

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Benger, Berenger.

HIGHWAYS & HEDGES. Described by Herbert Arthur Morrah.

Adam and Charles Black, 1911. c.[1915]. Reprint. xv + 144pp. 20 mounted colour plates. Age toning, original brown dec. cloth, minor marking, spine sl. bumped and faded.
¶ 7s 6d. Inman 158, 3000 Copies.

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Bennett, James.

THE HISTORY OF TEWKESBURY.

Tewkesbury: Printed by James Bennett and sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green ..., 1830. 1st Ed. 456pp. 2 coats of arms to t.p., 8 plates. With 4pp. of subscribers. Some sporadic foxing, ex.-libris Michael Bryant, rebound in morocco backed marbled boards, gilt lettering with gilt motifs to spine.
¶ James Bennett (1785–1856), topographer. ODNB ‘... In 1830 he published [the above work] which remains an authoritative work (republished 1976) ...’

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Black’s

GUIDE TO THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. Edited by David Thomas Ansted.

Edinburgh Adam and Charles Black, 1878. 8th Ed. Sm. 8vo. viii + 190pp. + 104pp. adverts. Folding frontis. map, e.p. map, many ills. and text maps. Some very light browning, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt device to upper board, spine bumped with sm. split to head of upper joint, leading corner sl. creased.

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Blaeu, Joan.

ATLAS MAIOR Of 1665. Anglia. Scotia & Hibernia. Introduction and texts by Peter van der Krogt. Based on the copy in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wein. With a selection of original texts by Joan Blaeu. Directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen.

Taschen, 2006. Reprint. 2 vols. Slim folio. 223pp. + [i] + ([225]-392)pp. Cold. frontis., contains all 113 cold. maps of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the original commentaries from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior of 1665. Text in English/French/German. Cold. e.p. maps, very good in d/ws., together in cold. pictorial slipcase as issued.

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Blaeu’s

ATLAS OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND WALES AND IRELAND. With an Introduction by R.V. Tooley.

Thames and Hudson, N.d. c.[1970]. Elephant Folio. [xiv]pp. 115 double page maps of which 5 are in colour, and Blaeu’s title pages in colour. Original gilt lettered gilt rule edged half simulated red morocco with pale brown cloth covered boards, some very minor rubbing at head and tail of spine, enclosed in pale grey buckram slipcase.
¶ No. 151 of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies.

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