Storia

Yorkshire by the sea.

RADFORD, George (Text); J. A. SYMINGTON (Illustrations). · 1891 · John Turton

£81.20 (€97.35 | $107.29 | ¥17,136)

Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1891 limited edition number 78 of 300 copies. Tall 4to. 192pp, etched frontis, tp vignette, 11 etched plates (some with tissue-guards), text illustrations, head and tail-pieces, pictorial capitals. Original pictorial brown cloth gilt, black eps, teg. Cl...

A collection relating to Morpeth News Room, established 1859, which appears to have evolved into the Morpeth Men's Mutual Instruction Association in October 1862.

1859 · John Turton

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

Small 4to ruled notebook containing detailed yearly accounts from May 1859 to May 1893 together with annual lists of members running, non-consecutively at the rear of the volume, from session 1875/6 to session 1893/4. After the accounts for 1861/2 are two-and-a-half pages of d...

Whitby Wild Flowers: a complete botanic list of the flowers, grasses, and ferns of the Whitby district (including Levisham and Scarborough), with notes on their history and habits.

REYNOLDS, Bernard. · 1915 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.50 | $49.05 | ¥7,833)

Whitby: Horne and Son, 1915. 17cm. 60pp, [6]pp 'notes' at rear. Original linen-backed printed pictorial glazed-paper boards. Spine rubbed, with slight wear, and spotted; boards lightly soiled and spotted; eps lightly spotted and browned.

Notes on the history, geology and botany of the Vale of Derwent, being papers read before the Vale of Derwent Naturalist's Field Club Vol. II.

VALE OF DERWENT NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. · 1892 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,385)

Carlisle: printed by G and T Coward, 1892. 8vo. [ii], 117pp. Original printed paper wraps. Archival tape repairs to wrap edges; small hole to front wrap. * Includes 'The Ferns of the Derwent Valley' and 'The rate of wages about Burnopfield one hundred and forty years ago.'

The General Infirmary at Leeds (2 Vols). [Comprising:] Volume I. The first hundred years 1767-1869. Volume II. The second hundred years 1869-1965.

ANNING, S. T. · 1963 · John Turton

£52.20 (€62.58 | $68.98 | ¥11,016)

Edinburgh: E & S Livingstone, 1963, 1966. 8vo. xii, 107[1]pp; xii, 188pp; plates and plans. Original blue embossed-cloth gilt, d/ws. D/ws partly browned. * Author's signature to front paste-down end-papers.

Memories of old friends: being extracts from the journals and letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871.

PYM, Horace N. (Editor). · 1882 · John Turton

£52.20 (€62.58 | $68.98 | ¥11,016)

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1882. Large 8vo. xxvii[i], 355pp, portrait frontis, after an etching by Herkomer, on laid paper, title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's parchment-gilt-backed blue paper boards, uncut. Binding spotted and rubbed, with slight wear to boards;...

Notes of an excursion to Shipton-under-Wyehwood, Swinbrook, Asthall and Burford, Ducklington, Cokethorpe, Stanlake, Yelford and Bampton (2 vols bound together).

NORTH OXFORDSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. · 1871 · John Turton

£55.68 (€66.75 | $73.57 | ¥11,750)

Banbury: John Potts, 1871. 20 cm. [38] pp; [54] pp, 8 pp letter from Rev. Philip Hookins, General Secretary to Sir Charles? re Oxfordshire deeds at rear. Disbound, speckled leaf-edges. Last page of letter partly loose.

Musings on moor and fell.

COULSON, William Lisle B. · 1907 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.50 | $49.05 | ¥7,833)

London: George Bell and Sons, 1907. 8vo. xii, 67[1] pp, frontis, plates. Original decorated green cloth gilt, recased with new eps, original ffep bearing author's presentation inscription loosely inserted. Light wear to spine tips; minor foxing to pages. * Northumberland, Four...

Memorials of Lincoln and the Cathedral.

WALCOTT, Mackenzie E.C. · 1866 · John Turton

£44.08 (€52.84 | $58.25 | ¥9,302)

Lincoln: Chas. Akrill; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1866. 8vo. 73[1] pp. Disbound, speckled leaf edges. Minor paper loss to bottom edge of last page; light foxing and soiling to last page.

On the brain of the Sumatran rhinoceros.

GARROD, A.H. · 1878 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,938)

N.P. 1878. 32 cm. pp[411-413], 1 plate. Disbound, stab-sewn.

A further contribution to the knowledge of the existing ziphioid whales.

FLOWER, William Henry. · 1878 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

N.P. 1878. 32 cm. pp[415-437], top edge unopened, 3 plates, text illustrations. Disbound, stab-sewn. Small closed tear to title page fore-edge; light staining and foxing to last plate.

Our Hospital A[nzac] B[ritish] C[anadian].

DENNYS, Joyce (Illustrator); Hampden GORDON & M. G. TINDALL (Text). · 1916 · John Turton

£69.60 (€83.44 | $91.97 | ¥14,688)

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, N.D. (c.1916.) 4to. [56]pp colour printed throughout. Original blue-linen-gilt-backed pictorial colour-printed paper-covered sides, pictorial eps, te coloured. Extremes lightly rubbed; gilt to spine faded; binding lightly soiled; light wear ...

A New Flora of Northumberland and Durham, with sketches of its climate and physical geography. With a sketch of the geology of the two counties, and a map, by G. Tate ... 'Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham ... 1867. Vol. II.'

BAKER, J. G.; G. R. TATE. · 1868 · John Turton

£81.20 (€97.35 | $107.29 | ¥17,136)

Newcastle: F and W Dodsworth. London: Williams and Norgate, 1868. 8vo. 316pp, [iv]pp volume and title-page at rear (as issued), hand-coloured engraved geological map, folding coloured map, text tables. Original printed brown paper wraps. Spine rubbed with small isolated areas...

A record of all works connected with Hexham Abbey since January 1899 and now in progress. Also an account of St Wilfrid's Cathedral ...

SAVAGE, Edwin Sidney, Rev.; Charles Clement HODGES. · 1907 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.94 | $42.92 | ¥6,854)

Hexham: J Catherall & Co, 1907. 4to. 66 pp, frontis with guard, suite of plates to rear, title-page device, text illustrations and plan. Original linen-backed red embossed-card wraps lettered and decorated in black Slight wear to spine head; front wrap with small area of wear ...

Incorporation of the Borough of Wallsend, 9th November, 1901.

WALLSEND. · 1903 · John Turton

£39.44 (€47.28 | $52.11 | ¥8,323)

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd, 1903. 25cm. 84pp, portrait frontis, 16 plates. Original green cloth gilt, patterned eps. Spine tips fraying with some small closed tears; rubbing to spine extremes; age-browning to text.

Old Edinburgh Pedlars, Beggars and Criminals. With some other odd characters, their effigies in colour & their characters in type. The whole adorned with head pieces & tail pieces curiously cut in wood.

EDINBURGH. · 1886 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.38 | $36.79 | ¥5,875)

Edinburgh: William Patterson, 1886. 17 cm, 107pp, coloured plates. Old linen-backed original printed card wraps. Minor loss of card to wrap edges.

The Roman Frontier from Wallsend to Rudchester Burn. Overprint from Vol. XIII. of A History of Northumberland.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORY COMMITTEE. · 1930 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,385)

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd, 1930. 28.5 cm, Pp [485]-[565], text illustrations, plates, maps. Original brown cloth gilt. 'Real' photos taped to plate 4-5.

The Cornish Church Guide.

TRURON, Walterus. · 1925 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1925. 20.5 cm, 330 pp, 13 plates, multi-folding map, adverts to front and rear. Original printed beige-paper boards. Ex-library with minimal evidence; fraying and small closed tears to spine tips; eps age-browned.

Abstract from the public records, &c. of charters, acts of parliament, treaties, &c. concerning 1. The Steuartry and principality of Scotland; 2. The Dutchy of Cornwall; 3. The principality of Wales and Earldom of Chester; 4. The Dutchy of Normandy; 5. The Dauphine´ of France.

1824 · John Turton

£63.80 (€76.49 | $84.30 | ¥13,464)

Edinburgh: printed by P. Neill, 1824. 4to. vii[i], 86pp. Original linen-backed grey paper boards, printed paper label to front board, uncut. Boards rubbed, with slight wear, and stained; label stained; spotting to eps and prelims. Cornwall County Record Office copy with oblong...

Bacon's county guide and map of Durham, from the Ordnance Survey.

BACON'S DURHAM. · 1895 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.72 | $45.98 | ¥7,344)

London: G. W. Bacon & Co., (c.1895?) Colour-printed map, 12 sections, folded and laid down on linen giving total total area of 33 x 48cm, compass rose, scale 3''/1 mile; 14pp guide, [2]pp adverts. Original blind-stamped green cloth binding, printed paper labels to boards, publ...