Category: Local History

Coronation Guide to London for Visitors

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Kaye & Ward Ltd : 1971

Seller ID: 009616

Condition: Good

Limited edition of 650 copies. Small illustrations within the text + period advertisements, 16mo, (measures 138mm x 108mm), pp (4), 63 (+ 17), paperback with cloth spine, slightly worn. {Originally published in 1901 for visitors to London for the Coronation of King Edward VII, and extremely scarce. This reprint is scarcely any commoner. With presentation slip loosely inserted, signed by directors of the company. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]
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Famous Old Inns of London

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Torquay, Hamilton-Fisher & Co

Seller ID: 012077

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small horizontal 12mo (measures 150mm x 116mm], pp (48), paperback, very slightly worn. SCARCE. [" 45 photographs of inns with history, general information and map".) Postage will be much reduced.
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Norfolk, Virginia - "The Sunrise City by the Sea"

Price: £12.50

Publisher: The Industrial Commission : 1914

Seller ID: 007502

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Well illustrated with photographs throughout, two folding plans, pp 84, staples rusty, paperback, covers rather worn and frayed, contents a little age-toned but reasonably clean and tight.
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Photographic Views of Llandrindod Wells, Builth Wells, Llangammarch Wells, Llanwrtyd Wells, Rhayader

Price: £13.50

Publisher: Llandrindod & London, The Emporium, Llandrindod

Seller ID: 018530

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Not dated - c.1895? A large folding sheet of sepia photographic reproductions, complete with the booklet - "Llandrindod Wels Guide" - 56 pages. As usual, both the book and the concertina plate have become detached from the binding, which is gilt decorated but raher rubbed and worn.
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Shell Street Guide and Metropolitan Map of San Francisco and Bay Cities

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Shell : 1936

Seller ID: 016475

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

A large colour folding map, double-sided, with detailed street index; oute covers slightly age-toned and slightly used, but overall the map is in very good condition. SCARCE.
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The Cornish Garden, Numbers 9 - 26, + 28 [The journal of the Cornwall Garden Society]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cornwall Garden Society

Seller ID: 018035

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A good run from 1966 to 1985, Parts 9 - 28 (lacking 27], paperbacks, in good condition. [A heavy set - postage may need to be increased.]
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The Snowy Mountains Story. [with a copy of Snowy River, Roll! - words and music)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cooma, Snowy Mountains Authority : 1961

Seller ID: 015977

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, small slim quarto, pp 36, a neat inscription on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, hardback in pictorial laminated boards, a little wear at the corners and head and tail of the spine. TOGETHER WITH "Snowy River Roll!", sheet music and lyrics, 4 pages, folded, very good.
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Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness [Comunn Gaidhlig Inbhir-nis] Volume XXXIX/XL (1942-1950)

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Printed for the Society : 1963

Seller ID: 014680

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Frontispiece, small octavo, pp xx, 349, (one gathering of the preliminaries loose), extremely clean internally, standard green cloth, slightly bowed but otherwise very good. [Includes "Medicine Among the Gaelic Celts", and "Glenelg: Notes for a Parish History".]
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Wisley, The First 100 Years

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Royal Horticultural Society : 1978

Seller ID: 017560

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Well illustrated with period photographs, large slender horizontal octavo, pp (40), paperback, covers faded and very slightly worn.
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Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape

By: Aalen, F.H.A. & Kevin Whelan & Matthew Stout (editors

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1997

Seller ID: 019655

ISBN-13: 9780802042941

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (12), 352, very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and slightly wrinkled round the edges. [A heavy book - extra postage may be needed]
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Machine Tools Catalogue, 1918 Second edition

By: Alfred Herbert Ltd

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Coventry, Alfred Herbert Ltd : 1918

Seller ID: 017065

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Very well illustrated, very large thick quarto, pp (24), 885, a little worn and used throughout, some light creasing to the lower corners of the later pages, fore-edges a little thumbed, green bevelled cloth rubbed and a little worn and marked, recently recased, the spine strengthened. RARE. Due to the great weight of the book, extra postage will be needed - this may be considerable if posting abroad. [Metal cutting. boring.milling. drilling, tapping, chucks, capstan lathes, grinding, presses, power hammers, planing, screwing, tool cutters etc. .Alfred Herbert Ltd was one of the world's la...
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Driven By Steam

By: Allan, Ian

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Shepperton, Ian Allen Publishing : 1992

Seller ID: 017198

ISBN-13: 9780711021181

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, octavo, pp 160, very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is faded on its upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. [An interesting biography of the publisher Ian Allan.]
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The Marches

By: Allott, Peter

Price: £36.50

Publisher: London, Collins : 2011

Seller ID: 018084

ISBN-13: 9780007248162

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 452, immaculately clean internally, green cloth in fine condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is in excellent condition and now protected in a removable clear cover. As new. [A complete natural history and the first large-scale survey of this unique part of the country. The borderland between England and Wales has long been a region of contention. Its distinctive geography, wedged roughly between Welsh mountains and English river beds has not only isolated this rural, sparsely-populated slice of land, but created a unique identity. Stretching alo...
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To Introduce the Hebrides

By: Anderson, Iain F.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited : 1933

Seller ID: 018029

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second printing, 1933. Illustrated, small thick octavo, pp 306, slightly age-toned, fore-edge a little foxed, very occasiobal foxing internally, blue cloth faded and slightly worn.
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Peak District

By: Anderson, Penny

Price: £41.00

Publisher: London, Collins : 2021

Seller ID: 018326

ISBN-13: 9780008257378

Binding: Cloth

Condition: New

Illustrated, octavo, pp 496, green cloth, a very good NEW copy, still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. [The Peak District, Britain's first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year. This New Naturalist volume on the region highlights the wonder and magic of its windswept vistas, rock formations, storied history and fantastic wildlife, revealing its ecological foundations, showing how it has fared over the centuries and projecting what the future might hold. As a botanist and ecologist who has spent her working life in the Peak District, P...
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The Hundred of Hoo [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Arnold, Ralph

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Constable : 1947

Seller ID: 019567

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp x,164, very clean internally, blue cloth veru slightly faded at margins, a blotch on the spine, in a slightly worn and browned dustwrapper, lacking pieces of the spine, but now preserved in a removable clear film. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his signature on the front endpaper.]
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Famous Trees (Alan Mitchell's copy)

By: Baker, Richard St. Barbe

Price: £70.00

Publisher: London, The Dropmore Press : 1992

Seller ID: 019406

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition of 999 copies - this one being number 212. Well illustrated with twenty line-drawn plates by S.R. Badmin, octavo, pp 117, (i), untrimmed edges, very clean internally, green buckram with small gilt decoration, the dustwrapper is poor and worn, lacking several pieces with sellotape marks and repairs and rather foxed, now protected in a removable clear cover. [With the bookplate of Green Scene - Alan Mitchell and Victoria Hallett.]
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Mendip : It's Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters

By: Balch, H.E.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Wells, Clare, Son & Co. : 1937

Seller ID: 018032

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with photographs, one folding chart, small octavo, pp 211, clean internally, front and rear hinges very lightly repaired, green cloth rubbed and slightly worn. the spine dull. Still a good sound copy.
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The Land of Lochiel and the Magic West

By: Barnett, T. Ratcliffe

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Edinburgh, Grant & Murray : 1927

Seller ID: 017789

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

First reprint, same year as first edition. Small octavo, pp 193, (iii), illustrated with 20 photographic plates, slightly used internally, the hinge before the frontispiece cracking, fore-edge a bit foxed and marked, blue cloth slightly worn, corners bruised, lower cover slightly creased, the spine a little faded. {With inscription to Miss Drusilla Hunter, from the Scottish scholar James Hutchison Coburn.}
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Oxford Gardens - the University.s influence on garden history

By: Batey, Mavis

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Amersham, Scolar Press : 1986

Seller ID: 015361

ISBN-13: 9780859677240

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Illustrated, small octavo, pp xvi, 256, very slight signs of use internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn, a crease to the spine. [From the library of the botanist Frank White, with his signature to the front endpaper.]
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