Hammond, Reginald J. W. (ed),

NORTH CORNWALL.

Ward Lock, London, ND (copyright 1971), 19th edn., 160pp, 8pp col'd photo ills, 4 double page 2 colour maps, numerous line drawings in text, Ward Lock's Red Guide series, pocket size about 7 x 4.5 inches, red cloth lettered in black at spine, lettered and decorated in black at upper board, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, edges tanned with some light foxing upper edge, small area tippex front free endpaper, paperclip mark top edge first two leaves, dustwrapper: a little sunned at spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32662

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: gazetteer guide map handbook county cornwall west country

Harding, Mike (foreword by Tom Stpehenson),

WALKING THE DALES.

Michael Joseph, London, 1986, 2nd imp., 240pp, maps and numerous coloured photo ills. in text, coloured photo pictorial endpapers, large format (9 x 9.5 inches approx.), light green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, written by one of the UK's leading entertainers the author is also a keen walker and President of the Ramblers Association, this is an account of his many walks through the Yorkshire Dales illustrated with his photographs, heavy, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40751

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: topography britain england yorkshire dales walks three peaks swaledale wensleydale dentdale malmamdale garsdale wharfdale eden valley kingsdale howgill fells

Hill, William Thomson,

BURIED LONDON - Mithras to the Middle Ages.

Phoenix House Ltd., London, 1955, 1st edn., 192pp, half tone frontis and 24pp half tone photo ills., 14 maps/plans in text, crimson cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the excavations in London, only possible because of the extensive areas demolished during WW2 provided the opportunity before rebuilding, edges tanned and a few faint fox marks at fore-edge, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., some short edge tears repaired internally, light foxing only visible at flaps and on reverse, fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32663

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: archeaology county london

Hine, Reginald L.,

HISTORY OF HITCHIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Arnott Productions Ltd, Hitchin, 1951, revised edition, 76pp, frontis and 10 half tone plates, line drawing in text, grey cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge coloured, fore and lower edge uncut, plain lettered dustwrapper, the history of Hitchin Grammar School 1639-1931, sl. fading to cloth top edge lower bd., small fox mark bottom edge lower bd., dustwrapper: price clipped, a few small impressed marks lower panel, rubbed at extrems., short repaired tears head of spine, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32664

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: school history town hitchin hertfordshire

Hogg, Garry,

A GUIDE TO ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSES.

Country Life / Hamlyn Publishing Group, London, ND (copyright 1969), 160pp, half title, frontis and 14pp col'd ills, numerous half tone ills., maps at endpapers, large format about 10 x 7.5 inches, white cloth lettered in black at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a selection of 75 of England's great houses, from palaces, moated castles and medieval manor houses to Jacobean and Victorian mansions, with brief details and an illustration of each togeteher with directions to find them, a little bumped at cnrs., upper edge foxed, other edges tanned, small ink check marks in map legend at front pastedown, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems. small repaired tear at bottom rear flap fold, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32665

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: castle country house manor palace moat england

Holme, Thea,

CHELSEA.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1972, 2nd imp., xviii, 270pp, col'd frontis, 28pp half tone ills, 2 colour folding map, pictorial endpapers, purple cloth with yellow title panel at spine lettered in gilt, upper edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of life in Chelsea over four centuries, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper: clipped but with publishers price label added, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32446

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: topography britain london chelsea

Laing, Lloyd,

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LATE CELTIC BRITAIN AND IRELAND c.400 - 1200 AD.

Book Club Associates, London, 1977, club edn., xxxviii, 451pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., half tone ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams in text, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a description of the archeology of the Celtic speaking areas of Britain and Ireland from 4th century to the 11th or 12th century, covering regional field archeology and the material culture of the early Christian Celts, with numerous illustrations, lightly rubbed at tips, pages tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., several short edge tears, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38251

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: topography britain ireland history archaeology celtic

Leatherbarrow, J. S.,

WORCESTERSHIRE.

B. T. Batsford, London, 1974, 1st edn., 214pp incl. 22pp half tone photo ills., halftone frontis, double page map in text, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, upper edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a guide to the history, monuments and notable people of Worcestershire, quite heavily bumped at upper corners, edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped but with publisher's price label added, lightly rubbed at tips, good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32671

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: county worcestershire history

Leodhas, Sorche Nic,

CLAYMORE AND KILT - Tales from Scottish History and Scottish Ballads.

Bodley Head, London, 1971, 1st edn., 207pp, in text line ills. by Victor Ambrus, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper by Victor Ambrus, a collection of stories presenting a picture, sometimes heroic and sometimes comic, of Scottish life in the past, lightly rubbed at extrems., a few fox marks to edges, endpapers and prelims, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems., creases in line with folds, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32672

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: scotland history gaelic ballads

Martin, E. W. (editor),

COUNTRY LIFE IN ENGLAND.

Country Book Club, London, 1967, club edn., 254pp, 8pp half tone illustrations, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, lettered and decorated dustwrapper, an anthology of writing about English country life through the ages, with an emphasis on the social-historical side of life, from pre-enclosures to modern times, edges tanned, light foxing to endpapers, dustwrapper: sun darkened and a little foxed at spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32673

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: social rural country history

Mitton, G. E.,

THE GLORY OF LONDON.

A. and C. Black, London, 1918, 3rd edn. with some new illustrations, 221pp, frontis and 5 other coloured plates, numerous line and half tone ills. in text, pocket size format, red cloth lettered in black at spine, lettered and decorated in black upper bd., publisher's device lower bd., written for schools, a good basic illustrated social history of London divided into five historical periods - Saxon, Norman, Mediaeval and Tudor, Stuart to Modern times, and Modern (1918) London, tight and complete, a little rubbed at extrems. with some fraying to cloth at spine ends, edges tanned, endpapers browned, some small ink marks in text, no dustwrapper, good,

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Book number: 32683

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: topography history london

Monroe, Horace,

THE STORY OF SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL.

Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd., London, ND [1933], 1st edn., 72pp, col'd frontis, 14 half tone photo plates, 2 line drawings in text, about 7.5 x 5.5 inches, crimson cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, colored pictorial onlay upper board, thick paper, an account of the history of the cathedral and diocese, the memorials and architecture, spine a little sunned, lightly rubbed at tips, light foxing to onlay, edges tanned and lightly foxed, light foxing to prelims. and pages adjacent to plates, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 32684

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: church cathedral history architecture southwark london

Montgomery, W. A. and Weightman, M. Scott,

GRACE DARLING.

M. S. Wightman, Seahouses, 1996, reprint, paperback, 24pp, coloured and half tone ills. in text, coloured pictorial stapled card wrappers, an account of the daughter of the Longstone lighthousekeeper, Grace Darling, and of her rescue efforts after the wreck of the steamship Forfarshire which, en route from Hull to Dundee, had founderered on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland, with some background on the bulding of lighthouses and details of the subsequent inquests, loosely inserted postacrd image of her coble, fine,

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Book number: 42155

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: topography northumberland farne islands lighthouse shipwreck rescue longstone forfarshire grace darling

Morton, H. V.,

IN SEARCH OF SCOTLAND.

Methuen, London, 1939, 8th edn., xvi, 288pp, sepia pictorial frontis, 15 sepia tone plates, maps at endpapers, 8pp ads., purple cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated in gilt and bordered in blind upper board, lower edge uncut, lightly rubbed at tips, spine and lower board a little sunned, edges tanned, light foxing to endpapers and prelims, some light mainly marginal foxing in text, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40628

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: topography britain scotland

Munro, R. W.,

SCOTLAND - Land of Kin and Clan.

Johnston and Bacon, London, 1980, 1st thus, large format paperback, 176pp, illustrated in colour and half tone throughout, col'd pictorial wrappers, parts originally published as 'Kinsmen and Clansmen', an account of the ancient clan and family structure of Scottish society photographs of their respective homelands and illustrations of sashes/badges, tartans, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, faint circular mark upper wrapper, spine sl. sunned, ink signature half title, very good,

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Book number: 32686

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - Britain

Keywords: britain topography scotland