[JENKINS, William].

Consett Iron Company Limited. Description of the Works.

Newcastle-on-Tyne: Mawson, Swan, and Morgan, 1893. 8vo. 96pp, including 24 photo plts, folding frontis plan. Original limp olive green cloth gilt, patterned eps. Extremes lightly rubbed; cloth soiled; folding plan spotted and repaired at fold; light marginal soiling to prelims.

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Book number: 26280

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east North East England Local History Iron and Steel Making

[DAVISON, W].

The history of Alnwick, the county town of Northumberland.

Alnwick: printed by and for W. Davison, 1813. 12mo in sixes. 142pp, woodcut frontis of Alnwick Castle. Original linen-gilt-backed paper boards. Spine discoloured; gilt faded; unsightly stain to upper part of fore-edge margin throughout, not affecting text. NSTC: BM only. A precursor of one of Davison's major works, his 'Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick' 1822, second edition.

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Book number: 5667

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east NORTH EAST ENGLAND

[BULMER, T. F. (Editor).]

[History, Topography, & Directory of Northumberland (Hexham Division), comprising its ancient and modern history; a general view of its physical features; its agricultural, mining, and manufacturing industries; family history and genealogical descent; myths, legends, and biographical sketches.]

[Manchester: T Bulmer & Co. Newcastle: Beavis, Stewart, & Co. Preston: T Snape & Co. 1886] 22cm. [12]pp, pp[9]- 811[1], [vii]pp adverts. Modern maroon cloth gilt. Spine faded; lacks title page but o/w complete with terminal adverts.

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Book number: 45487

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east Local History Nothumberland Hexham Division

History of the Wear Valley Lodge of Freemasons, no. 1121, Bishop Auckland. Arranged by Thomas Blenkin ... and Matthew Henry Watkin.

Bishop Auckland: printed at the press of Bro. G. W. Rudd, 1926. 19cm. 126pp, plates within the pagination. Original blue cloth gilt backed printed boards, floral endpapers. Extremes very lightly rubbed; boards partly darkened. Published to celebrate the Lodge's Diamond Jubilee. A particularly scarce lodge history - the first we have seen. DISCOVER: BL. No copy held at the Museum of Freemasonry Library.

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Book number: 45556

Catalogue: North East England

Keywords: North East England Freemasonry BLACKETT, G. E. BLENKIN, Thomas and WATKIN (Matthew Henry) WATKIN, Matthew Henry.

BROCKETT, John Trotter.

A Glossary of North County Words, in use from an original manuscript, in the Library of John George Lambton Esq, MP. With considerable additions.

Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by T. and J. Hodgson, for E. Charnley, 1825 [Ltd edition 600 copies]. 8vo in fours. xxxvi pp including subs list, 243pp, single page errata.. Modern brown cloth gilt, new eps, sprinkled leaf edges. Piece cut from original ffep and final leaf lower margin w/o loss of text, text slightly age browned, evidence of removal of a library? stamp to B4 lower margin.

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Book number: 44528

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east Local History NORTH EAST ENGLAND

CALVERT, Robert.

Notes on the Geology and Natural History of the County of Durham.

Bishop Auckland: ptd by W.J. Cummins, 1884. 8vo. [iv], 182pp including index, multifolding coloured litho geological frontis map, 2 coloured litho sections. Original brown cloth gilt. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; a few small light stains to cloth; light spotting to reverse of frontis. * Not in Challinor or Freeman.

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Book number: 26858

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east Geology Natural History Durham

CHAPMAN, Abel.

Bird-Life of the Borders. On moorland and sea with faunal notes extending over forty years.

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1907 2nd edition. 8vo. xii, 458pp including index, frontis, folding coloured map, plates, text illustrations. Original cloth gilt. teg o/w uncut. Spine slightly discoloured, marginal age-browning to text, leaf-edges browned. Author's signed presentation slip laid down on fpdep

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Book number: 6068

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east NORTH EAST ENGLAND CHAPMAN Bird-Life Borders Ornithology

DAVIES, Randall.

The Railway Centenary: a retrospect.

London: L & NE Railway Co, [1925.] 4to. [viii], 49pp, portrait frontis, 15 plates (2 colour), text figure. Original quarter cloth, green paper-backed boards, printed paper label to front board, pictorial eps. Boards rubbed with wear to corners; very light soiling to ht.

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Book number: 29173

Catalogue: North East England

Keywords: North East England Railways Transport Railway Centenary

DODD, James J.

The History of the Urban District of Spennymoor, with occasional references to Kirk Merrington, Middlestone, Westerton, Byers Green, Page Bank, Croxdale and Ferryhill.

Darlington: printed by James Dodds, 1899 cheap edition. 8vo. iv, 252pp, 4 plates, folding map. Original brown cloth gilt Extremes rubbed, corners worn, map repaired on verso at fold, text age browned.

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Book number: 6006

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east NORTH EAST ENGLAND DODD Spennymoor Kirk Merrington Middlestone Westerton Byers Green Page Bank Croxdale Ferryhill

FETTES, James.

Zuleika, the Christian's Bride; a Ballad: and the Dream, a Poem. With other miscellaneous pieces.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: published by Henry Gibb, Liberator Office, and Alnwick: Messrs Pike and Graham, 1840. 12mo in sixes. viii, [9] - 36pp. Disbound. Printed and published by the short-lived firm of Henry Gibb (1840-1841). Although known to Anderton and Hunt, and listed in the BBTI, there are no references to him in either COPAC or the BL Integrated Catalogue. Not in COPAC, OCLC, NSTC or Anderton.

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Book number: 40472

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east NORTH EAST ENGLAND

LISTER, George.

Chronological Records of Coal Mining, Transport, etc. in Northumberland and Durham from A.D. 1180 to 1839.

[Consett: printed by Ramsden Williams,] January, 1948 3rd issue. 18cm. 36pp. Original printed card wraps, stapled. A very good copy.

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Book number: 45687

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east

MARSHALL, Charlotte Heavisides.

Gleanings by the Way. (Poetry and Prose).

Stockton-on-Tees: printed and published by Heavisides & Son, 1912. 8vo in fours. 80pp, text ills (some full page). Original decorated grey grained-cloth gilt, aeg, floral endpapers. Fine copy. A mixture of short poems and autobiographical sketches. Topics include reminiscences of Stockton-on-Tees in the early 1800's, the presentation of a portrait to her father in 1847, and poems including 'The Wreck of the Titanic', 'In Memoriam Florence Nightingale' and 'Lines to Charles Dickens.'

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Book number: 44737

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east autobiography North East Yorkshire Poetry Titanic Florence Nightingale

ORCHARD, D. R.

The heraldry of Durham Cathedral. The Mediaeval Bishops of Durham from 1283 and their arms.

Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham [for Durham Joint Curriculum Study Group], [1976]. 8vo. 42pp, text illustrations. Original printed glazed card wraps, stapled. As new.

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Book number: 45438

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east NORTH EAST ENGLAND Church of England. Diocese of Durham Bishops ; Pictorial works. Durham, England. (Diocese) Heraldry. Durham Cathedral. Church of England. Diocese of Durham Heraldry, Sacred England Durham ; Pictorial works. Bishops

RICHARDS, T. J.

Explosion of an Air Receiver at the Ryhope Colliery, Sunderland.

London: printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1883. 4to. 6pp. Disbound. Marginal text age-browning, round ink-stamp to title-page top margin.

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Book number: 23706

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east County Durham Pit Disaster Ryhope Colliery Mining

ROBERTSON, W. Ford.

Walks from Wooler... Including special articles on angling, geology, plants, birds and animals.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid & Co Ltd, 1926. 8vo. ix[i], 185[1]pp including index of place names, 8 plates including frontis, folding map at rear. Original cloth gilt. Free eps slightly browned.

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Book number: 6010

Catalogue: North East

Keywords: north east NORTH EAST ENGLAND ROBERTSON Wooler