A Brief History of St. Michael in Lewes. NEAR FINE COPY

[Privately Printed],, [1974. 8vo., with photographs in the text; prictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 49227

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Keywords: topography, sussex, lewes, st michael in lewes

ACKROYD Peter

London. The Biography. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Chatto & Windus,, [2000]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 33 coloured plates on 16, 32 monochrome plates on 16, 3 full-page maps (2 double-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Splendid account enlivened by the author's infectious belief in the close relationship between past and present. Published a month after the first edition.

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Book number: 16337

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Keywords: topography, london, ackroyd, peter ackroyd

ACKROYD Peter

London. The Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Chatto & Windus,, [2000]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 33 coloured plates on 16, 32 monochrome plates on 16, 3 full-page maps (2 double-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Splendid account enlivened by the author's infectious belief in the close relationship between past and present. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49028

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1805

An Act for vesting certain Estates, situate in the Counties of Essex and Surrey. devised by the Will of Sir William Burrell

T Collins,, 1805. Sm., folio, 28pp, on laid paper, with woodcut headpiece; disbound, some mild age-staining else a very good, bright, crisp copy. 45 Geo III. The estates include Great Bardfield, Bardfield Saling, Blewgate Hall and others in Essex; and Brickstables, near Mortlake, and Deepden, near Dorking, in Surrey.

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Book number: 28475

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Keywords: topography, essex, great bardfield, bardfield saling, blewgate hall, finchingfield, surrey, brickstables, mortlake, deepden, dorking, william burrell

ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1819

[Middlesex, London, St. Pancras]. Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, and for other Purposes relating thereto. [Passed 19th May 1819].

Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan,, 1819. Sm. 8vo., First and Sole Edition thus, some very light and occasional marginal age-stains; contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in calf to style, leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy of a very scarce work. This copy was formerly in the possession of Charles Arrowsmith and bears his signed holograph inscription on front paste-down 'qualified as a Governor & Director of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Pancras. Dec. 4 1832.'The statute referred to is 59 Geo. III. Cap. xxxix. It is of unusual length (176pp inc. index) and complexity for an Act of this nature and includes a detailed and comprehensive index. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 7489

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Keywords: topography, middx, middlesex, london, st. pancras, kings cross, poor laws, act of parliament 1819, topography, london, middlesex, london, st., pancras

ADAIR Elizabeth

I bought a Windmill. NEAR FINE COPY

Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen,, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Blythman 307.

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Book number: 43246

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Keywords: topography, windmills, watermills, adair, elizabeth adair

ADAM Frank

The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands. Revised by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney. Fifth Edition. NEAR FINE COPY

Johnston & Bacon, Edinburgh,, [1955]. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with frontispiece, plates, 112 coloured plates of tartans and large folding coloured map at end; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 36176

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Keywords: topography, scotland, highlands, scottish highlands, clans, septs, scottish regiments, frank adam, thomas innes

ADAM Frank

The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands. Revised by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney. Eighth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Johnston & Bacon, Edinburgh,, [1970] [1977]. 8vo., Eighth Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted at fold-ins.

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Book number: 38312

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Keywords: topography, scotland, highlands, scottish highlands, scottish clans, septs, scottish regiments

ADAMS Marilyn

The Story of Lytham Windmill. NEAR FINE COPY

[Privately Printed],, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 44407

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Keywords: topography, windmills, lytham, lancashire, lancs, marilyn adams,

ADAMS James W. R.

Windmills in Kent. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Kent County Council,, 1955. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and double-page map; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers faintly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Blythman 160.

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Book number: 43534

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Keywords: topography, windmills, watermills, kent, adams

ADDISON William

Audley End. With a Foreword by Lord Braybrooke.

Dent,, [1953]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 16 monochrome plates and endpaper pedigrees, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Powell, p.289.

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Book number: 8952

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Keywords: topography, essex, saffron walden, audley end, country houses, stately homes, william addison, topography, essex, audley, end

ADDISON William

The County Books. Suffolk. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hale,, [1950]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and at upper edge of front panel. Published in Hale's seminal County Books series. Steward 411.

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Book number: 49194

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Keywords: topography, county books, suffolk, william addison

ADDISON Joseph

Dorset Watermills. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Newcomen Society,, [1962-1963]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and diagrams; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from the Transactions of the Newcomen Society Vol. XXXV. SCARCE.

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Book number: 43418

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Keywords: topography, windmills, watermills, dorsetshire, dorset, joseph addison, newcomen society

ADDISON William

Epping Forest. Its literary and historical Associations. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Dent,, [1945]. 8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates and double-page map in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Still the most comprehensive, and certainly the best-written, work on the subject.

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Book number: 44009

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Keywords: topography, essex, epping forest, epping, william addison

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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Book number: 586

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Keywords: topography, essex, william addison, topography, essex, essex, heyday