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Guide to the Flodden Memorial and to the principal places connected with the battle. With plans. For the use of visitors.

NORMAN, Francis Martin. · 1911 · John Turton

£17.40 (€20.86 | $22.99 | ¥3,672)

Alnwick: printed for the author by Henry Hunter Blair; sold by G. C. Grieve, Berwick-on-Tweed, 1911. 8vo. 23[1]pp, folding plan at rear, text illustrations. Original pictorial printed blue-card wraps, stapled. Spine sun-faded.

Vanduara; or, Odds and Ends, personal, social and local, from recollections of by-past times.

HECTOR, William. · 1880 · John Turton

£52.20 (€62.58 | $68.98 | ¥11,016)

Paisley: J. & R. Parlane, 1880. 8vo. 170pp, plates, head & tail-pieces, decorated capitals, title printed in red and black. Original red grained cloth, modern printed paper spine label, uncut. Cloth lightly soiled and 'rippled'; occasional isolated soiling to leaf-edges. [Sket...

Dove Dale and other dales; or, from the Charles Cotton to the Izaak Walton, with descriptive notes of Beresford Dale, The Manyfold Valley, Lathkiln Dale, Bradford Dale, the Roman Road, and other interesting places in the neighbourhood of Hartington.

FYLDES, Rev W. · 1897 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.72 | $45.98 | ¥7,344)

Buxton: C F Wardley, N.D. [1897]. Small 8vo. viii, 129[15]pp, map to rear wrap verso, numerous local adverts, photo plates. Original pictorial colour printed card wraps. Wraps rubbed, soiled and chipped. F M Bateman's copy with his signature to title page.

An angler's catch: essays and verses on nature and wild life.

DENWOOD, E. R. & M. · 1926 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.94 | $42.92 | ¥6,854)

Cockermouth: Bailey and Sons, 1926. 18cm. 94pp. Contemporary quarter red calf gilt, matching watered-cloth sides. Very good ex-lib copy with only evidence Dewey number to spine tail and labels and stamps to front paste-down. Collection of 16 pieces of verse and prose SOLD ON ...

Southern Fingal: being the sixth part of a History of County Dublin, and an extra volume of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.

BALL, Francis Elrington. · 1920 · John Turton

£41.76 (€50.06 | $55.18 | ¥8,813)

Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1920. 24cm. xi[i], 183[1]pp, plates, text illustrations. Original printed card wraps. Wraps browned, lightly rubbed; isolated small ink blot and light pencil note to front wrap. Half-title: Extra volume of the Royal Society of A...

Historic Notes on Wellingborough. Illustrations by Miss Gertrude M. Dulley, G. J. De Wilde, W. Talbot Brown, A. Moseley, Herbert Norman, and others.

1899 · John Turton

£46.40 (€55.63 | $61.31 | ¥9,792)

Northampton: The Dryden Press: Taylor & Son, 1899. 23cm. [iv], 58pp, [12]pp publisher's adverts, folding engraved frontis, title page vignette, plates, text illustration, head and tail-pieces. Original printed card wraps, uncut/partly unopened. Wraps lightly rubbed and browned...

Edinburgh street traders and their cries. Extracted from the Second Volume of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, July 1910.

JAMIESON, James H. · 1910 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

N.P., 1910. 4to. Pp [177]-222, plates, text illustrations. Modern unlettered green grained-cloth; original printed grey card wraps bound in. Near fine

On summer roads in Mashamshire. A guide to Masham.

STEVENSON, Mrs M. E. · 1919 · John Turton

£18.56 (€22.25 | $24.52 | ¥3,917)

Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1919. 18cm. 47[1]pp. Original colour printed decorated card wraps, sewn. Extremes very lightly rubbed. 'Church Monthly' loosely inserted with associated browning to adjacent leaves. Very good copy.

The guide to the Church Congress, and ecclesiastical art exhibition, to be held at Bradford, September 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30, 1898, including a guide to the town, with two maps and numerous illus., the list of readers and speakers at the congress, &c.

CHURCH CONGRESS 1898. · 1898 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.72 | $45.98 | ¥7,344)

London: Maltravers House, 1898. 8vo. 288pp, vi pp adverts on blue paper, 2 multi-folding maps. Original highly decorated colour-printed stiff-card wraps. Wraps soiled and worn with loss to spine.

Mylne's Court: three hundred years of Lawnmarket heritage.

PINKERTON, Roy M.; William J. WINDRAM. · 1983 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Information Office, 1983. 8vo. 113pp, plates, etc. Original pictorial printed glazed-card wraps. Fine.

Aviemore and Rothiemurchus: illustrated brochure and list of furnished houses, hotels, boarding houses and apartments.

1937 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Aviemore: Aviemore and Rothiemurchus Village Council, [1937]. 19cm. [32]pp including local adverts, text illustrations. Original pictorial printed card wraps, stapled. Wraps browned o/w excellent.

A brief account of Worlebury, Weston-super-Mare. Edited under the superintendence of the Rev. W. Jackson ... by L. E. H. J.

L. E. H. J. (L. E. H. Jackson). · 1874 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.94 | $42.92 | ¥6,854)

Weston-super-Mare: C. Robbins, Printer, Bookseller, 1874. 8vo. [32]pp. Original printed blue paper wraps, sewn. Wraps chipped stained and soiled; ex-library with evidence to wraps. Title from front cover. Inside front cover: "The following account of the Ancient Fortress on Wo...

Notes, historical and descriptive, on Giggleswick Church

BRAYSHAW, Thos. · 1905 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.50 | $49.05 | ¥7,833)

Settle: Edmondson and Wilson, 1905. 8vo. 48pp, plates, text illustrations. Original printed card wraps. Wraps spotted and rubbed. One of Bradshaw's standard works, first published in 1885 as a Stackhouse Tract. DISCOVER: BL for this edition.

Illustrated sixpenny guide to Winchester cathedral and Winchester college.

WARREN, William Thorn. · 1902 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

London: Simpkin and Co; Winchester: Warren and Son, 1902. 17cm. [6], 156pp, folding plan, plates and text illustrations, local adverts. Original pictorial printed glazed-card wraps, sewn. Wraps very lightly rubbed and soiled; small piece to front wrap lower corner chipped a...

[Pamphlets relating to churches and chapels of Lancashire and Cheshire].

CHEETHAM, F. H. · 1911 · John Turton

£63.80 (€76.49 | $84.30 | ¥13,464)

Collection of 11 items reprinted from the transactions of the Historic Society of Lancr. and Cheshire, 1911-1934 Various pagings, plates, text illustrations, plans. Library maroon ½ morocco gilt, matching cloth sides, sprinkled leaf edges, original printed wraps bound in at re...

Flax versus cotton; or, The two-edged sword against pauperism and slavery.

WARNES, John. · 1850 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.72 | $45.98 | ¥7,344)

London: James Ridgway, 1850. 8vo. 57pp. Original printed paper wraps, sewn. Wraps soiled & worn; ink marginal lines and annotations to text. No. 1. No more published. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 36837.

Galloway's tourist guide to the River Forth. Leith to Stirling. Leith to Aberdour.

GALLOWAY SALOON STEAM PACKET CO. · 1912 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.38 | $36.79 | ¥5,875)

Leith: printed and published by Mackenzie & Storrie, [1912]. 8vo. [2], 22pp, prefaced and interleaved with adverts, folding colour printed 'Balloon' map frontis, text illustrations. Original decorative printed blue-paper wraps, stapled. Wrap edges browned; staples rusted but ...

Linlithgow and its vicinity.

McALPINE, James. · 1890 · John Turton

£48.72 (€58.41 | $64.38 | ¥10,281)

Falkirk: printed at the Herald office, 1890. 8vo. viii, 97pp, double-page frontis. Original blindstamped red grained-cloth gilt. Fine copy. COPAC: 5 locations but not BL.

Brown's stranger's handbook and illustrated guide to Salisbury Cathedral; being a full historical and descriptive account of the building and monuments. With fourteen engravings on wood by George Measom.

MOORE, J. B. · 1858 · John Turton

£55.68 (€66.75 | $73.57 | ¥11,750)

Salisbury: Brown & Co. London: Simpkin & Co, 1858. 8vo. [4], 63[1]pp, 44pp suite of adverts, text illustrations and plans. Original pictorial pink limp-cloth wraps, endpaper adverts. Wraps partly discoloured. BL hold an 1857 edition with completely different pagination and ap...

The hospital of St. Thomas the Apostle in Doncaster; its origin, progress, and present state.

FALCONAR, James. · 1840 · John Turton

£81.20 (€97.35 | $107.29 | ¥17,136)

London: printed by George Woodfall, 1840. 8vo. 55[1]pp, plates, title device. Original decorated blindstamped navy cloth gilt. Binding very lightly rubbed. Author's presentation inscription to half-title.