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The history and traditions of Mallerstang Forest and Pendragon Castle.

NICHOLLS, Rev. W. · 1883 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.38 | $36.79 | ¥5,875)

Manchester: John Heywood. [1883]. 18cm. 128pp. Original brown cloth gilt, decorated front board, stapled. Cloth very lightly rubbed; staples rusted with subsequent loosening of leaves - all present. A scarcer item than his work on Ravenstonedale.

Hampstead Hill: its structure, materials, and sculpturing. With The flora of Hampstead by Henry T. Wharton. The insect fauna of Hampstead by F.A. Walker. And The birds of Hampstead by J. Edmund Harting.

LOBLEY, J. Logan. · 1889 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.94 | $42.92 | ¥6,854)

London: Roper and Drowley, 1889 21cm. 100pp, [4]pp publisher's list, 9 plates, map and section. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt, patterned endpapers. Cloth very lightly rubbed and soiled.

Twelve Lakeland Poems.

NICHOLSON, Norman (Introduction). · 1975 · John Turton

£40.60 (€48.67 | $53.65 | ¥8,568)

Ambleside: Charlotte Mason College, 1975. Fo. 3 leaves introduction and biographies, plus 12 leaves, each printed on one side with a facsimile holograph poem. Original foolscap folder with cover illustrations by Steve Muscutt. Ex-reference library with minimal evidence includi...

The Post Office London Court Directory for 1890.

1890 · John Turton

£69.60 (€83.44 | $91.97 | ¥14,688)

London: printed and published by Kelly & Co, 1890. 26cm. 2pp, pp[2237]-2452, endpaper adverts. Original decorated blindstamped red grained-cloth gilt. Small isolated ink stains to boards otherwise a fine copy. Not listed in Atkins' 'Directories of London 1677-1977' but appear...

Jarrow march, 1936. Book and exhibition compiled and organised by Bede Gallery ...

DOUGAN, David (Text). · 1976 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,938)

Jarrow: Bede Gallery, (c.1976). Square 8vo. 104pp, full-page text illustrations. Original pictorial printed stiff-card wraps. Wraps very lightly rubbed.

The Giggleswick Chronicle. No. 53a. Vol. VI. October, 1897.

1897 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

Settle: printed by J. W. Lambert, 1897. 18cm. [2]pp, pp [323]-348, frontis, 14 further plates. Original printed pictorial paper wraps, stapled. Very light wear to wraps; front wrap and frontis with light diagonal crease to lower fore-edge; staples rusted but holding firm. Wel...

The Northamptonshire Regiment, 1914-1918. Compiled under the direction of the Regimental History Committee.

REGIMENTAL HISTORY. · 1932 · John Turton

£98.60 (€118.20 | $130.29 | ¥20,808)

Aldershot: Gale & Polden, [1932]. 8vo. [10], 366pp, folding colour map in rear pocket. Original navy grained-cloth gilt, marbled endpapers. Extremes lightly rubbed; scattered light stains to boards; half title and title very lightly spotted. Date from preface. This is the 1st ...

An Englishman at home and abroad: 1792-1828, with some recollections of Napoleon: being extracts from the diaries of J. B. Scott of Bungay, Suffolk; with an appendix. Edited by Ethel Mann; with a foreword by Lilias Rider Haggard.

SCOTT, J. B. · 1930 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

London: Heath Cranton, 1930. 8vo, 240pp, portrait frontis, 11 further plates. Original green cloth lettered in navy. Spine faded.

The Clyde Steamers.

BANKS, Desmond. · 1947 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Edinburgh: Albyn Press, [1947]. 12 x 19cm. 64pp, text illustrations. Original pictorial colour printed glazed paper wraps, stapled. Wraps lightly creased and rubbed.

Cruchley's railway and telegraphic county map of Huntingdon. "Cruchley's railway and telegraphic county maps of England Series. 17."

CRUCHLEY, G. F. · 1868 · John Turton

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London: G F Cruchley, N.D. (c.1868). Map: 54 x 48 cm., on sheet 60 x 50 cm., folded in cover to 18 x 11 cm, hand-coloured. Original printed orange paper wraps. Wraps very lightly rubbed and soiled. Other title: Cruchley's railway and station map of Huntingdon showing all the r...

Birdham: notes on its village life and natural history. The Harvest of a quiet eye. With a few illustrations photographed by Mr. G. H. Allen ... from paintings by W. R. Read.

READ, William Roebuck. · 1928 · John Turton

£16.24 (€19.47 | $21.46 | ¥3,427)

Chichester: printed by Moore & Wingham, 1928 2nd revised edition. 18cm. 56pp, tinted plates. Original grained-cloth-backed printed paper boards. Hinge paper between pages 8 and 9 cracked - hanging on cords. Contents: A descriptive outline -- Some of our wild flowers -- Birds -...

A history of the Wilbraham parishes (Great and Little) in the county of Cambridge. "Octavo Publications: No. L "

STOKES, Rev. Canon H.P. · 1926 · John Turton

£41.76 (€50.06 | $55.18 | ¥8,813)

Cambridge: printed for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society [by W. Lewis, C.U.P], 1926. 8vo. x, 180pp, plates, text illustrations. Original blue grained cloth gilt. Binders stamp of E. Morley & Sons, Leeds, on fpdep. Small very light stains to front board.

Explosion at Easington Colliery, County Durham: report on the causes of and circumstances attending the explosion which occured at Easington Colliery, County Durham, on the 29th May, 1951.

ROBERTS, H. C. W., H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines. · 1952 · John Turton

£41.76 (€50.06 | $55.18 | ¥8,813)

London: HMSO, 1952. 25cm. 49[1]pp, 3 folding plans in rear pocket. Original printed blue-paper wraps. Wraps rubbed, worn and detached; staples rusted and pages loosening. Plans as new. At head of title: Ministry of Fuel and Power. Command papers: Cmnd ; 8646.

The album of Teignmouth views.

CHARLES, REYNOLDS & CO. · 1895 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

London: [printed in Germany for] Charles, Reynolds & Co, N.D. (c.1895). Leporello album. 18 views on 12 folding glazed pages. Original linen-backed highly decorated green grained cloth. Extremes lightly rubbed; rear hinge-paper cracking.

Woman in political evolution. An historical survey and a plea for woman suffrage.

McCabe, Joseph. · 1909 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.50 | $49.05 | ¥7,833)

London: Watts & Co, 1909. 21cm. 80pp. Original pictorial printed blue paper wraps. Wraps rubbed with slight wear to spine; spotting to leaf edges. Subtitle from front wrap.

[Chalfont St. Giles.]

[R., J. D.] · 0 · John Turton

£41.76 (€50.06 | $55.18 | ¥8,813)

N.P., N.D. 23cm. Pp199-205, printed in double-columns. Fine three quarter olive morocco gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, spine lettered direct, matching marbled sides, blanks bound in at rear, signed bing by Tout. Unknown periodical contribution in superb binding.

Genealogical memoirs of the Duffs.

[BAIRD, William.] · 1869 · John Turton

£116.00 (€139.06 | $153.28 | ¥24,479)

Aberdeen: printed for private circulation by D. Wyllie & Son, 1869. 8vo. vii[i], 144pp, real photo portrait frontis with tissue-guard, head-piece, decorated capitals. Original decorated blindstamped maroon grained-cloth gilt, bevelled edges. Extremes very lightly rubbed; spine...

The city & country purchaser & builder.

P[RIMATT], S[tephen]. · 1667 · John Turton

£348.00 (€417.19 | $459.83 | ¥73,438)

London: [for S.Speed; sold by T.Rookes & J.Wright, 1667.] 8vo. [12], 167[1]pp, engraved title page, 2 plates (one folding), text figures. Contemporary blindstamped boards, modern reback. Boards a little 'cockled'; lacks H6 and possibly an initial blank; L4 is imperfect; preli...

Autobiography of John Younger, shoemaker, St. Boswells.

YOUNGER, John (1785-1860). · 1881 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

Kelso: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd ; Edinburgh and Glasgow: John Menzies & Co, 1881. 8vo. 457[1]pp, publisher's list, fine litho frontis. Original blindstamped blue grained-cloth gilt, floral endpapers. Extremes lightly rubbed; very light spotting to title and frontis; hinge-paper cr...

The history & antiquities of the Hundred of Compton, Berks, being a topographical, statistical, and archaeological description of the parishes of Aldworth, Compton, East Ilsley, West Ilsley, Chilton, Catmere, and Farnborough: to which are added dissertations on the Roman station 'Calleva Attrebatum', and the Battle of Ashdown; with an account of Cuckhamsley, Lowborough, and other antiquities in the neighbourhood.

HEWITT, William, Jun. · 1844 · John Turton

£69.60 (€83.44 | $91.97 | ¥14,688)

Reading: published and sold by John Snare, 1844. 22cm. xii, 164pp, portrait frontis, maps (one folding), suite of plates at rear. Original blindstamped brown grained-cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes lightly rubbed; small neat repairs to spine. Very good ex-library copy with minimal...