ALLCROFT A. Hadrian

Waters of Arun. With Biographical and Bibliographical Notes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Methuen,, [1930]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and numerous maps (2 folding on japon), neat contemporary inscription on half-title; green cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 27040

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, sussex, arun, river arun, arundel, wildbrooks, pulborough, north stoke, south stoke, hadrian allcroft

ALLEY Hugh

Hugh Alley's Caveat. The Markets of London in 1598. Folger Ms V.a.318. Edited by Ian Archer, Caroline Barron and Vanessa Harding. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

London Topographical Society,, 1988. 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome facsimiles throughout; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 137.

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Book number: 40039

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, london, london topographical society, lts, hugh alley, london markets, elizabethan london

ALMACK T.F.

A Village Heritage. The Story of Blandford St. Mary. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Friary Press, Dorchester,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with 11 plates on 11, a folding pedigree and 3 folding maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 36501

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, dorsetshire, dorset, blandford st. mary, almack

AMBLER S.O.

The Story of Lambeth told to Children. With a Preface by Mrs. Randall Davidson.

1923]. Sm. 8vo., cloth, a very good copy.

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Book number: 1158

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Keywords: topolondon, s.o. ambler, topography, london, story, lambeth, told, children

AMPLEFORTH ABBEY.

Ampleforth and its Origins. Essays on a Living Tradition by Members of the Ampleforth Community. Edited by Abbot Justin McCann [and] Dom Columba Cary-Elwes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Burns Oates & Washbourne,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates (one folding), some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; maroon cloth, gilt back, maroon top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 46613

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, yorkshire, york, ampleforth, ampleforth abbey, ampleforth school

and LYNMOUTH LYNTON

The Ramblers' Guide to Lynton and Lynmouth. Fifth Revised Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Geographia Ltd.,, [c.1935]. Oblong 8vo., Fifth Edition, with photographs, maps in the text and large folding map; origjnal printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a fragile production.

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Book number: 28904

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, devonshire, devon, lynton, lynmouth, doone country, guide books

ANDERSON J. Corbet

Croydon Pre-Historic & Roman. SIGNED SUBSCRIBER'S COPY

[Privately Printed,, 1874]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with title and first page of text in red and black, 8 plates (all original blank guards present) and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, two blank preliminaries mildly browned; original decorative terracotta cloth, sides with double Oxford frame border in black enclosing title and tool in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge cracked at title (but binding entirely firm and sound), joints lightly rubbed else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER SAMUEL ASH OF PORTLAND ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, AND BEARS HIS SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. John Corbet Anderson was perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most prolific, authority on the history of the town. This work is the first of four linked volumes, published privately by subscription, covering aspects of the town's past, but each volume is complete in itself.Subscriber's copies of any of Anderson's works are notably uncommon.

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Book number: 8256

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Keywords: topography, surrey, croydon, roman britain, j. corbet anderson, topography, surrey, croydon, pre-historic, roman

ANDERSON Verily

The Northrepps Grandchildren. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Mallard Reprints, Lavenham,, 1979. 8vo., Second Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; ivory cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Reissue of the original edition of 1968.

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Book number: 32127

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Keywords: mstock, topography, norfolk, northrepps, cromer, overstrand, verily anderson

ANDERSON J. Corbet

The Roman City of Uriconium at Wroxeter, Salop: Illustrative of the History and Social Life of our Romano-British Forefathers. With numerous Cuts. [First and Sole Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

J. Russell Smith,, 1867. 8vo., First Edition, with title in red ands black, 10 engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), and very numerous wood-engravings in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original maroon cloth, upper board with triple frame border stopped at corners by rosettes all in gilt, the frame enclosing an elaborately blocked panel containing a Greek key frame surrounding title all in gilt, gilt back, bevelled edges, brown endpapers, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. A CRISP, FRESH COPY. Anderson, p. 250; Bonser 7253; Lyell, p.106.

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Book number: 10097

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Keywords: topography, shropshire, salop, wroxeter, uriconium, roman britain, archaeology, corbet anderson

ANDREWS James

Reminiscences of Epsom. Being a Paper read a Meeting of the Epsom and District Literary Society, 8 March 1903. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY

[Epsom Stamp Company, Epsom,, 1988]. 8vo. with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers a fine copy. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1904.

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Book number: 27467

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ANON

The Beauties of England. Or, a comprehensive View of the chief Villages, Market-Towns and Cities; Antiquities; Remains of Palaces; Monasteries; Camps; and Castles; the two Universities: London and Westminster.

1767. 12mo., with an engraved folding map; contemporary speckled calf, sides with double gilt frame border, back gilt with five raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt to a floral design, calf label gilt, sprinkled edges, binding a little rubbed and worn else a very good, crisp, clean copy. With a bookplate. Anderson, p.22, records no other editions. A two-leaf catalogue of books by L. Davis and C. Reymers, Holborn, is bound in at end.

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Book number: 959

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ANON

The Reading Mercury or Weekly Entertainer. Vol. I. Numb. 1 Monday July 8 1723. [Facsimile reissue].

W. Parks and D. Kinnier, next Door to the Saracen's Head, in High-Street, Reading,, 1723. Sm. 4to., 12pp., black-letter throughout, with a large woodcut illustrations and woodcut initial in the text; a near fine copy. Good quality facsimile of the original edition. The Reading Mercury was the town's first newspaper, one of the first in the UK and older than The Times. See Horrocks, p.157.

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Book number: 16341

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ANTHONY Cecil

The Rebirth of Woodchurch Windmill. NEAR FINE COPY

Society of Friends of Woodchurch Windmill,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 44354

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Keywords: topography, windmills, woodchurch, kent, cecil anthony

ANTROBUS Jocelyn J.

Bishop's Hatfield. Some Memories of its Past. Seventh Edition. NEAR FINE COPY

[Privately Printed], Bishop's Hatfield,, 1950. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with frontispiece, 5 plates and plan in the text, half-title faintly spotted; original wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. First issued in 1912.

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Book number: 11153

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Keywords: topography, hertfordshire, herts, hertford, bishops hatfield,jocelyn antrobus

ANTROBUS Jocelyn J.

Bishop's Hatfield. Some Memories of its Past. IN MODERN BUCKRAM

[Privately Printed], Bishop's Hatfield,, 1912. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and plan in the text, half-title and title faintly spotted; modern dark green buckram, gilt back, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a very good, bright, crisp copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45319

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, hertfordshire, herts, hertford, bishops hatfield, jocelyn antrobus