BRADWELL-JUXTA-MARE

The ancient Chapel of St. Peter-ad-Murum, Bradwell-juxta-Mare, Essex.. Built by Saint Cedd, Apostle of Essex, circa AD 654. [With a Foreword by the Bishop of Chelmsford]. NEAR FINE COPY

[Privately Printed],, [c.1950]. 8vo., with 3 full-page illustrations and a plan in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 588

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BRAKSPEAR Sir Harold

Tintern Abbey Monmouthshire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

HMSO,, 1936. 8vo., with frontispiece plates and folding plan; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 26525

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BRAND] [John

A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth and Caithness, wherein after a Short Journal of the Author's Voyage thither, these Northern Places are first more generally more described. FIRST DEDICATED PUBLISHED ACCOUNT

George Mosman, Edinburgh,, 1701. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, eighteenth century inscription on title, title and several following leaves age-stained, title neatly mounted without loss of text, final leaf of Appendix mounted with loss of half text; strongly and attractively bound in half calf, marbled boards, back with five flat gilt bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy. This copy was formerly in the McIntosh Library, Dunkeld, and carries the MS press-mark A8.51 and bookplate (numbered 493) on front paste-down. A sound and complete (save last leaf) copy of the first dedicated published account of Orkney and Zetland. RARE. Anderson, p.402.

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Book number: 26069

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BRANDON Peter

A History of Surrey. Drawings by Carolyn Lockwood.

Phillimore, [Chichester,, 1977]. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 48 coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations and 12 full--page maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in clipped dustwrapper. Published in Phillimore's notable 'Darwen County History' series

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Book number: 1916

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Keywords: topography, surrey, peter brandon, topography, surrey, history, surrey

BRANDON Peter

The Making of the English Landscape. The Sussex Landscape. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1974]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head of backstrip. Published in Hodder's much sought-after series 'The Making of the English Landscape' edited by W.G. Hoskins. Scarce in this condition.

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Book number: 21693

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BRANDON] [Peter

The Tillingbourne River Story. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Shere Gomshall & Peaslake Local History Society,, 1984. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and folding map in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a bright, clean copy SCARCE.

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Book number: 43491

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BRANGWYN Frank

Windmills. BRIGHT, CLEAN, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY

John Lane The Bodley Head,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, 15 coloured plates, illustrations in the text and printed endpapers; EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF 3 COLOURED PLATES (2 WITH ORIGINAL CAPTIONED TISSUE GUARDS); yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled, backstrip worn at head and tail with short tears else a good, clean copy. The extra plates are 'The Windmill, Dixmude', 'The Bridge of Alcantara' and 'Life among the Ruins, Messina 1910'. Blythman 318.

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Book number: 42755

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BRANNON George

Vectis Scenery. Being a Series of Original and Select Views exhibiting Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight. [Facsimile reissue.] 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED

[Robin G. McInnes, Bembridge],, [2002]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved title-vignette, 40 engraved plates and large folding engraved map; green cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER (THIS COPY NO. 551). High quality facsimile of the 1865 edition. Includes separately printed List of Subscribers together with the author's booklet 'A Short History and Bibliography of the Vectis Scenery engravings by the Brannon family in the context of Isle of Wight art'. Anderson p.121 (recording the original edition of 1825 and later issues).

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Book number: 46040

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Keywords: topography, hampshire, iow, isle of wight, vectis scenery, brannon, george brannon, robin mcinnes

BRAUN Hugh

Earliest Ruislip. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

[Heffer, Cambridge],, ]c.1935]. 8vo., with 4 plates, an illustration in the text and 2 folding maps, neat signature on front inner wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Reprinted from 'Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society', New Series, Vol. VII, Part I. VERY SCARCE IN THIS FORM.

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Book number: 9003

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Keywords: topography, middlesex, middx, ruislip, archaeology, hugh braun

BRAY Mrs. [A. E.]

The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy. Their Natural History, Manners, Customs, Superstitions, Scenery, Antiquities, Eminent Persons, etc., in a Series of Letters to the late Robert Southey, Esq. A New [Second] Edition in Two Volumes. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY

W Kent & Co.,, 1879. 2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with engraved title-vignettes and numerous engraved illustrations and plans in the text, neat uniform signature on front free endpapers, neat contemporary signature on titles; original brown cloth, bevelled boards, upper boards framed in black and blocked in gilt (repeating title-vignettes), primrose endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Bray's classic account was first published as three volumes in 1836. Urged by Southey to report 'everything about a parish that can be made interesting; all of its history, traditions and manners that can be saved from oblivion', she produced a classic and important work combining natural history, topography and folklore in a series of delightful letters. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Brockett, 6260.

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Book number: 44989

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BRAY Michael

A Charterhouse Miscellany 1939 and 1999. NEAR FINE COPY

Sqyuare One, [Upton-on-Severn],, 1999. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 43943

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Keywords: topography, surrey, charterhouse school, charterhouse, carthusians, godalming, michael bray

BRECKNOCK SOCIETY

An Address presented to Professor Emeritus William Rees by the Brecknock Society, 12 October 1968. n Address presented to Professor Emeritus William Rees by the Brecknock Society, 12 October 1968.

Brecknock Museum,, 1968. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates, several illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text and a folding map; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Includes a bibliography of Rees' works and list of subscribers.

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Book number: 11507

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Keywords: topography, wales, brecknock, brecknock society, topography, wales, an, address, presented, professor, emeritus, william, rees, brecknock, society, 12, october, 1968

BRENT Judith A.

Alciston Manor in the Later Middle Ages. NEAR FINE COPY

Sussex Archaeological Society, 1968, [Lewes,, 1968]. 8vo., with folding map; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from Sussex Archaeological Society vol. CVI. SCARCE.

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Book number: 36151

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Keywords: topography, sussex, alciston, judith brent

BRERETON Austin

The Literary History of the Adelphi and its Neighbourhood. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Anthony Treherne,, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 26 fine photographic plates, endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial cloth blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, corners bruised, case a little shaken else a bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS FADED (BUT ENTIRELY LEGIBLE) SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Uncommon standard reference. Designed and built by the Adam brothers in the late eighteenth century, London's elegant Adelphi quarter was popular with major literary figures including Johnson, Dickens, Voltaire and many others. A representative section remains near Charing Cross station, but the majority was demolished in the 1930s to make way for the broadening of the Thames Embankment. A second edition was issued by Unwin in the following year.

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Book number: 47497

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BRERETON Austin

The Story of Old Whitehall. With a Note of the Whitehall Rooms and the Hotel Metropole. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Gordon Hotels,, 1912. 8vo., on laid paper, with frontispiece and 16 plates; original wrappers, sewed as issued, embossed in gilt, backstrip a trifle worn else a remarkably clean copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 1078

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