LEES, Edwin:

The Botany of Worcestershire, or the Distribution of the Indigenous & Naturalized Plants of That County.

Worcester, 1867, pp. xci, 148, 48, (3), illustrations and folding coloured map. Original cloth a little frayed at head and tail of spine, else good condition. Author's compliments inside and a couple of names of early owners.

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Book number: 2689

Catalogue: Natural History-Botany

Keywords: Worcestershire, botany, local flora

LEIBER, Judith:

The Artful Handbag.

Thames and Hudson, 1995. Very good condition in the dust jacket.

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Book number: 3417

Catalogue: Crafts

Keywords: isbn 0500016631, handbags,fashion. 0500016631

LEMPRIERE, William:

A Tour From Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Tarudant And Thence Over Mount Atlas to Morocco.

London, for the author, 1791. Includes "a Particular Account of the Royal Harem". Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, leather title label (little rubbed at one edge), complete with the folding map.Condition. Very light rubbing in places, endpapers browned at edges, some foxing to the map which has an old repair to the back, but a quite exceptionally attractive copy inside and out. This first edition is scarce; it is the second edition of 1793 which is more usually seen.

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Book number: 3360

Catalogue: Travel-Africa

Keywords: Gibraltar,Tangier,Atlas Mountains,North Africa,Morocco,

LEWIN, Henry Grote:

Early British Railways; A Short History of their Origin & Development 1801-1844.

London, Locomotive Publishing, (1925), pp.xii, 202, with 8 folding maps and 8 plates. Original cloth, spine faded as usual, one map a bit mis-folded, neat repairs to a couple of the folding maps where they have torn in the usual place, but a good, sound copy. This is quite a scarce book, and greatly enlarged from the author's work of 1914 on the same subject.

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Book number: 3374

Catalogue: Railways

Keywords: railways trains railroads Liverpool and Manchester,London and Birmingham,Stockton and Darlington, York and North Midlands,

LEWIN, Henry Grote:

The Railway Mania and its Aftermath 1845-1852.

London, Railway Gazette, 1936, first edition,pp.xx, 500. Best edition with the 13 maps (several folding) which are not included in the reprint. Original cloth, spine faded and bumped at top, but sound. Internally lacks fron free endpaper, repairs to several of the folding maps where they have torn at the usual place (the maps are on very flimsy paper). One single page map has slight damage from adhering to the adjacent map. A couple of stamps of the LNER Leeds Districf Goods Manager. Just a sound working copy.

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Book number: 3378

Catalogue: Railways

Keywords: railway mania,gauge question,trains,railroads,

LOMAX, Sam and NORRIS, John:

Early Days. Memories of the Beginnings of Automobile Engineering in South Lancashire and Cheshire.

Joseph Cockshoot Ltd, Manchester, (1948). Booklet of 47 stapled pages, card covers. 3000 copies printed, though only a fraction of those will have survived. Covers a bit foxed, creases to some pages, but sound condition. Makes mentioned include not only Rolls Royce and Ford, but Crossley, Rothwell, Newton Pearce, Bell Bros, Turrell etc.

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Book number: 2696

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Motor cars, motor manufacture, Lancashire, Rothwell, Crossley, Rolls Royce,

LOMAX, Abraham:

Royal Lancastrian Pottery 1900-1938.

Bolton,published by the author,1957, pp. 153, with 4 plates in colour and 61 monochrome illustrations. Original cloth in a well-used dust jacket which is chipped particularly along the top edge. Endpapers foxed, small area of fading at top of spine where the jacket is lacking. Still a sound copy and signed by the author on the title page. Jacket now in a loose protective sleeve.

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Book number: 3448

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancastrian pottery,antiques,Salford,Lancashire,Pilkingtons,ceramics,

LONGO, Ugo:

Annigoni Ritrovato.

Edizioni Galleria Levi, Milano, 1971. Profusely illustrated. Text in Italian. Very good condition in the dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author to Tom Blau the prominent portrait photographer.

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Book number: 3385

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Pietro Annigoni,Tom Blau,portrait painting,.

Lord, John:

Bygone Bury.

Rochdale,Clegg,1903, pp.117, frontispiece. Neatly rebound in cloth. There are dusty finger-marks to the title-page and a few other pages, otherwise a good,sound copy.

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Book number: 1789

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Bury,

Lord, John:

Memoir of John Kay of Bury, County of Lancaster, Inventor of the Fly-shuttle, Metal Reeds etc.

Rochdale, James Clegg, 1903, 4to, pp. xix, 174, ( 1 ). Portrait frontis. and numerous other illustrations including 2 folding pedigrees. One of only 300 large paper copies. Original cloth, some light fading to front cover, but very good, sound condition.

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Book number: 3291

Catalogue: Lancashire Family History

Keywords: Lancashire,Bury,John Kay,textiles,flying-shuttle,weaving,spinning,

LOVETT, William:

The Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in his Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge and Freedom.

Trubner, 1876, first edition, pp. viii, 473 plus adverts. Original cloth, pages unopened. Binding dull, spine and corners a bit rubbed, endpapers and a few pages dusty, stitching a little loose, but an acceptable copy. Bookplate of Sir Edward W Watkin, the great railway entrepreneur who became chairman of nine different railway companies.

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Book number: 2897

Catalogue: Chartism

Keywords: chartism, radicals,chartist

LOWE, Norman:

The Lancashire Textile Industry in the Sixteenth Century.

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1972, small 4to,pp. x, 122. Chetham Society, Third Series , Volume XX. Very good condition in excellent in dust jacket which is in a loose protective sleeve.

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Book number: 3330

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Lancashire,textiles,cotton manufacture,industrial history,Chetham Society,isbn 0719011566 0719011566

LUNN, John:

A Short History of the Township of Astley arranged chronologically in sub-titles.

Manchester, 1968, pp. 144, numerous illustrations. An excellent copy in a dust jacket which is in a loose protectiver sleeve.

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Book number: 2941

Catalogue: Lancashire

Keywords: Lancashire,Astley,Tyldesley,

LYONS, Rev. P. A:

Two "Compoti" of the Lancashire and Cheshire Manors of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, XXIV. and XXXIII. Edward I.

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1884. Original edition,small 4to, pp.xxviii, 200. Some foxing to first and last few leaves, else very nice, clean condition in the original cloth. Chetham Society, First Series,Vol 112.

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Book number: 2612

Catalogue: Chetham Society

Keywords: Lancashire,Cheshire,Henry de Lacy,medieval history,Chetham Society,Whalley,ightenhill,Accrington,Burnley,

LYTHAM AND BISPHAM, Lancashire:

The Registers of the Parish Church of Lytham and of Bispham in the County of Lancaster.

Wigan, L.P.R.S., 1908, two parts in one volume, number 33 in the series. Transcribed by Henry Brierley. Lytham comprises baptisms and burials 1679-1761 and weddings 1679-1754. Bispham comprises baptisms 1599-1754 and burials and weddings 1631-1754. Original cloth in good condition. Previous owner's bookplate inside.

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Book number: 3313

Catalogue: Lancashire Parish Registers

Keywords: Lancashire parish registers Lytham Bispham Fylde Blackpool