Porter, Frank. (Compiler).

POSTAL DIRECTORY OF CARNARVONSHIRE, Containing Classified Trade & Commercial List, Alphabetically Arranged.

Rockliff Brothers., Limited, Liverpool, 1886. 1st Ed. 462pp. Some sporadic light spotting, advert. e.ps. browned, hinges cracked and sl. shaken, top edge of last couple of leaves sl. stained and chipped, blind embossed dark green cloth lettered in gilt to upper board, soiled and rubbed, sl. wear at corners, head and tail of spine bumped with sm. split at head.

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N° du livre: 278573

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Powell, Gabriel.

SURVEY OF THE LORDSHIP OF GOWER 1764. Edited and introduced by Bernard Morris.

Gower Society Publication, 2000. 1st Ed. 4to. [xxii] + 234pp. Colour frontis., many ills. from photos., maps. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, e.p. maps, good in d/w.
¶ Previously only available in manuscript transcript published at the end of the C19th century.

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N° du livre: 287221

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Powers, Alan (Artist).

THE MARCHES A Picturesque Tour. Accompanied by a specially written sequence of Sonnets by Peter Levi.

Merivale Editions, N.d. c.[1989]. Eight lithographs (six in colour and two in monochrome Lancaut and Flint Castle) each measuring 10 x 14 inches, paper size 12.5 x 16.5 inches. With colour printed prospectus. Shobdon with light marginal crease. Each individually loosely enclosed in bi-fold blue/red card wrapps., titles lettered in black to upper wrapp., with Levi’s Poem printed to inner upper wrapp., publication and limitation details together with Powers’ architectural note to rear lower wrapp.
¶ Each from the Limited Edition of 150 Copies, each print is numbered, titled and signed by the Artist. According to the prospectus ‘Numbers 1-75 are complete portfolios of the eight lithographs with text. Numbers 1-12 are special copies containing progressive proofs for one of the lithographs, Numbers 76-150 are available as seperate prints.’ Alan Powers lithographic tour of the Welsh Borders accompanied by a specially written sequence of sonnets by Peter Levi. Inspired by the great colour plate travel books published in the 18th and 19th centuries and by John Piper’s ‘Brighton Aquatints’ published in 1939. Power’s lithographs with Levi’s poems are conceived as a tour beginning at Lancaut (108/150), just above Chepstow, and travelling northwards via Capel-y-Ffin (174/150), Hay Bluff (146/150), Shobdon (80/150), Montgomery (148/150), Powys Castle (128-150), and Chirk (149/150) to Flint Castle (49/150) on the Dee Estuary.

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N° du livre: 286735

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Price, Rev. Thomas.

THE LITERARY REMAINS OF ... Carnhuanawr, Vicar of Cwmdû, Breconshire; and Rural Dean: Llandovery:

William Rees ..., 1854-5. 2 vols. xvi + 400pp. + xii + 420pp. With viiipp. of subscribers. Mounted port. frontiss. (faded), 1 mounted sihouette portrait, 23 plates. Signature of V E Irving Brynmawr, some browning and foxing, bound in original blind embossed cloth with gilt harp to upper boards, some darkening and marking, corners bumped, spines chipped with loss.
¶ Includes list of subscribers. Includes bibliographical references and index. Earliest book published in Wales with an original photograph present. Price was exceptionally interested in Welsh culture, he assisted Lady Charlotte Guest with her translation of the Mabinogion.

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N° du livre: 280421

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Price, John.

OLD PRICE’S REMAINS: Præhumous, or During Life: Comprising, with Select Patches of "Birkenhead Shore," Various other Articles, Scientific and Literary, Grave and Gay.

London: Virtue, Brothers/Liverpool: Webb & Hunt/Chester: Catherall & Prichard, 1864. T.p. + 600pp. Facsimile of letter and silhouette port. Light marginal browning, title page spotted, marbled e.ps. and edges, ex.-libris Isaac Cooke Thompson plus another bookplate, half calf with marbled boards, rubbed, extremities rubbed, corners sl. bumped, gilt filleted raised bands dec. gilt compartments and gilt lettered leather title label to faded and sl. rubbed.
¶ Issued in monthly parts from April 1863-March 1864. Includes bibliographical references.

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N° du livre: 279154

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(Radnor).

[THE RADNOR BOROUGHS CONSTITUENCY]. Radnor District Radnor. [1832]. Sm. folio. pp.(187-204). Drop title. Folding map of Radnor, Knighton, Knucklas, and Presteigne with colour boundaries. [Lacking pp.191-2]. 141. [Bound with] Radnor District of Boroughs. Radnor. Ordnance Survey Office 1868. Folio. pp.(433-436). Map of New Radnor, Cefnllys, Knighton and Knucklas, Presteigne, and Rhayader with colour boundaries.

, Some browning, together bound in half brown buckram with green marbled boards, gilt lettered leatherette label to upper board.

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N° du livre: 271300

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Rees, Eiluned.

LIBRI WALLIAE. A Catalogue of Welsh Books and Books Printed in Wales 1546-1820. [With] Supplement by Charles Parry. Preface by Brynley F. Roberts.

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1987-2001. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Welsh/English text. Very good in original gilt lettered red cloth, vols. 1 and 2 together in cloth covered slipcase as issued.

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N° du livre: 278483

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Rees, Ioan Bowen.

THE MOUNTAINS OF WALES An Anthology in Verse & Prose

Gwasg Gregynog, Newtown, 1987. Sm. 4to. 189pp. + [i]. Red and black lettered t.p., 8 mounted colour plates from watercolours by Reverend John Parker. Very good in original bright coloured vellum backed boards with gilt monogram to upper board, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g., enclosed in cloth slipcase as issued.
¶ No. 153 of a Limited Edition of 255 Copies, of a larger Limitation of 275, (including 20 Copies especially bound). ‘much of the Welsh verse and some of the prose, about one third of the whole, is left untranslated and the reader of referred to notes on its significance. With the compliment slip from Gregynog Press. Ioan Bowen Rees (1929–1999) Welsh poet, mountaineer and political activist. He became a Druid of the Gorsedd in recognition of his Welsh-language poetry. Rees' son, Gruff Rhys, is the musician in the Super Furry Animals.

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N° du livre: 266741

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Rees, Rev. Canon Vaughan W.T.

TREVETHIN` Pontypool. A Short History of the Parish and its Churches. With a Foreword by The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Monmouth.

Pontypool: Hughes and Son, 1934. 1st Ed. Square 8vo. 91pp. Colour frontis., many plates. Ex.-libris Evan Davies Jones, rebound in gilt lettered half morocco with cloth boards, boards warped, cloth bubbled.
¶ Subscriber’s Edition, No. 154.

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N° du livre: 276226

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Ritchie, Leitch.

THE WYE And Its Associations A Picturesque Ramble.

Longman, Orne, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1841. 1st Ed. viii + 211pp. Vignette t.p., 11 engraved plates (foxed). Some light browning, modern f.e.ps, original blind embossed cloth, some fading to edges, rebacked with much of original sl. faded gilt tooled spine laid down.
¶ (Duncan) Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865), novelist and journalist.

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N° du livre: 273930

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Roberts, Roberts.

Y CWTTA CYFARWYDD: "The Chronicle written by the Famous Clarke, ... " for the Years 1607-1646. With an Appendix from the Register Note-Book of Thomas Rowlands, for the Years 1595-1607 and 1646-1653. Prefaced with an Introductory Chapter and Pedigrees by D.R. Thomas.

London: Whiting & Co., Limited, 1883. xxxiv + 255pp. + [i]. Some very light marginal browning, title page and last leaf lightly browned, contemporary ownership inscription, sl. shaken, gilt lettered dec. blind embossed pale green cloth, soiled and rubbed, corners sl. rubbed, spine browned and worn at head and tail with sl. loss, fore and lower edge uncut.

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N° du livre: 280400

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Roberts, Askew and Woodall, Edward.

GOSSIPING GUIDE TO WALES. (North Wales and Aberystwyth).

Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., N.d. c.[1904/5]. Traveller’s Edition. Sm. 8vo. lxxxvi + 328pp. + xv. 25 map and plans including 1 in rear pocket, numerous ills. Light browning, original gilt lettered blue boards, some wear with loss to head of spine.

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N° du livre: 288041

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Rogers, Nathan.

MEMOIRS OF MONMOUTH-SHIRE 1708.

Ivor Waters, Moss Rose Press, Chepstow, 1978. New Ed. Slim 8vo. 95pp. + [i]. Illus. by Linda Waters. Good in very lightly soiled d/w.
¶ One of a Limited Edition of 100 Copies.

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N° du livre: 281155

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Roscoe, Thomas.

WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS IN NORTH WALES.

Henry G. Bohn, 1853. xx + 360pp. 50 plates from Cattermole, Cox and Creswick including vignette title, folding map. Light browning, original gilt lettered blind embossed green cloth with gilt device to upper board, dec. gilt spine faded and sl. chipped, a.e.g.

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N° du livre: 279265

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Roscoe, Thomas.

WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS IN SOUTH WALES: With the Scenery of the River Wye.

Tilt and Bogue, Simpkin and Co; and Orr and Co., N.d. c.[1853]. [x] + 284pp. + [iii]. Additional engraved title page, folding map (repaired to verso), 49 engraved plates from drawings by Harding, Fielding, Cox, Creswick, and Cattermole. Marginal browning to plates some leaves protruding to edges, original gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, some fading particularly to bumped gilt dec. spine, a.e.g.
¶ Final leaf of advertisements. With a half-title: 'Roscoe's South Wales: with the scenery of the River Wye'. With an additional engraved title page: 'Wanderings in South Wales, including the River Wye'.

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N° du livre: 284176

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