Storia

By Moor and Fell. Landscapes and lang-settle lore from West Yorkshire. With seventy seven illustrations by George Herring.

SUTCLIFFE, Halliwell · 1909 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,385)

London: T. Unwin Fisher 1909. 3rd Impression. 316 pp, illustrations. Original green cloth, black lettering, 21 cm x 14.5 cm. Minor loss of cloth to spine tips, rear hinge cracking but holding firm.

Report of Proceedings on the Claim to the Earldon of Devon in the House of Lords. With notes, and an appendix containing copies of patents, and cases illustrative of the claim.

NICOLAS, Sir Harris · 1832 · John Turton

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London: J. & W.T. Clarke / William Pickering / M. Stevens & Sons. 1832. xiii, 199 [cc] pp, folding pedigree, large appendix to rear. Modern blue cloth gilt, 22.5 cm x 15 cm. Minor foxing to some pages, bookplate to fpd.

Old Leeds. Its byegones and celebrities.

ODMAN, Jeremiah · 1868 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.50 | $49.05 | ¥7,833)

Leeds: H.W. Walker. 1868. 165 pp. Original brown cloth gilt, gilt emblem to front board, 19.5 cm x 13.5 cm. Minor loss of cloth to spine tips, front hinges cracking but holding firm.

A Brontë Moorland Village and its People.

CRAVEN, Joseph · 1907 · John Turton

£40.60 (€48.67 | $53.65 | ¥8,568)

Keighley: The Rydal Press. 1907. xv, 159 pp, frontis, plates. Original green cloth gilt, 19 cm x 13 cm. Pages lightly foxed, occasional plate loose from binding.

Traditions of Lancashire (4 Vols.). [First and Second Series.]

ROBY, J. · 1830 · John Turton

£208.80 (€250.32 | $275.90 | ¥44,063)

London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830 (First Series 2nd edition); 1831 (Second Series 1st edition). 8vo. Various paginations; additional engraved pictorial title-pages to the First Series volumes; steel engraved plates with tissue-guards, wood-cut text illustrati...

The History of the Urban District of Spennymoor, with occasional references to Kirk Merrington, Middlestone, Westerton, Byers Green, Page Bank, Croxdale and Ferryhill.

DODD, James J. · 1899 · John Turton

£48.72 (€58.41 | $64.38 | ¥10,281)

Darlington: printed by James Dodds, 1899 cheap edition. 8vo. iv, 252pp, 4 plates. Original brown cloth gilt Extremes rubbed with wear; partly resewn and recased; damage to some fore-edge margins; lacks the folding map; occasional light soiling to margins.

The History of the Parishes of S. John's Chapel and Heathery Cleugh, in the County Palatine of Durham.

SURTEES, Brigadier-General H. Conyers. · 1923 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

Newcastle-on-Tyne: printed by Patrick and Page, 1923. 8vo. 26pp. Original printed paper wraps, re-sewn. Lacks errata slip.

The Parish of New Kilpatrick.

McCARDEL, James. · 1949 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Glasgow: privately printed by Robert Maclehose and Co, 1949. 8vo. 116pp, frontis, 10 double-sided plates. Original blue cloth gilt, torn and repaired soiled d/w. White stains to cloth.

History of Sunderland.

MITCHELL, William Cranmer. · 1919 · John Turton

£40.60 (€48.67 | $53.65 | ¥8,568)

Sunderland: Hills Press, 1919. 8vo. vii[i], 196pp, [4]pp index, frontis, text device, 7 plates. Original green cloth gilt. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; isolated small light stains to cloth; presentation inscription in a neat hand to head of title-page.

Abstracts of Yorkshire wills ... illustrative of Sir William Dugdale's visitation of Yorkshire in 1665-6. 'The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association. Record Series. Vol. IX. for the year 1890.'

CLAY, John William (Editor). · 1890 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,385)

[Worksop: printed for the Society by Robert White,] 1890. 8vo. iv, 208pp. Original decorated brown cloth gilt, yellow eps. Extremes very lightly rubbed.

A descriptive catalogue of ancient charters & instruments relating to lands near Sheffield in the counties of York, Derby, Nottingham & Lincoln with genealogies and notes.

HALL, T. Walter (Compiler). · 1935 · John Turton

£18.56 (€22.25 | $24.52 | ¥3,917)

Sheffield: printed and published by J W Northend, 1935. 26cm. [iv], iv, 96pp, 2 plates (one with transcript leaf), 2 maps, text genealogies. Original printed green embossed-card wraps, uncut/partly unopened. Wraps very lightly rubbed and soiled; occasional very slight spotting.

Jingling Lane: a dramatized idyll in a Yorkshire dale. Illustrated by Cecil Walton.

RATCLIFFE, Dorothy Una. · 1954 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,938)

London: published for the author by Lund Humphries & Co, 1954 limited edition number 883/999 copies. Tall 8vo. [viii], 72pp, frontis, text illustrations. Original decorated brown cloth gilt, pictorial eps, very slightly faded d/w. D/w with very small neat repairs to spine tips.

Delightsome Land. Illustrated by Fred Lawson.

RATCLIFFE, Dorothy Una. · 1945 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Square 8vo. 182pp, ht vignette, tinted frontis, text illustrations, head and tail-pieces. Original grey cloth lettered in green. Cloth lightly spotted and soiled.

Up Dale. Illustrated by Fred Lawson.

RATCLIFFE, Dorothy Una. · 1952 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,938)

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, November, 1952. 8vo. ix[i], 110pp including dialect glossary, text illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt, te coloured, lightly rubbed d/w.

"Hampshire and Isle of Wight Illustrated." A complete handbook to their history and antiquities.

MATE'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDES. · 1905 · John Turton

£81.20 (€97.35 | $107.29 | ¥17,136)

Bournemouth: W Mate & Sons, (c. 1905). 4to. 256pp printed in double-columns, text illustrations, unpaginated well-illustrated local adverts before, within and after the main work. Original embossed red cloth lettered and decorated in black, ep adverts. Extremes rubbed with ver...

A Rifle Brigade Register 1905-1963. Part 1. A roll of Regular Officers who have served in the Regiment from 1905-1963.

CURTIS, W. P. S., Colonel. · 1964 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

Winchester: printed by Culverlands Press, [1964]. 8vo. 98pp, addendum slip laid down. Original green cloth lettered and decorated in silver.

Local Studies: Bishop Auckland. 'Ministry of Education Pamphlet; No. 10.'

BISHOP AUCKLAND. · 1948 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

London: HMSO, 1948. Oblong 8vo. 95pp, text illustrations and maps. Original coloured pictorial glazed-paper wraps. Small neat repair to spine; wraps creased. An HMSO publication centred on Bishop Auckland. The handbook was to be used in conjunction with cine-film.

The Early History of the Old South Wales Iron Works (1760 - 1840) From original documents.

LLOYD, John · 1906 · John Turton

£156.60 (€187.74 | $206.93 | ¥33,047)

London: The Bedford Press 1906. 4to. vi, 218 pp. Original green cloth gilt. Sympathetic spine repair, lacks all plates (possibly as published in this issue), pages lightly age browned, ink dedications to ffep. From the library of M.L. Southwood Jones. Probably the family asso...

The Shrewbury Drapers and the Welsh Wool Trade in the XVI and XVII Centuries. 'Oxford Historical Series. British Series.'

MENDENHALL, T. C. · 1953 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

London: OUP, 1953. 8vo. vii[iii], 248pp. Original maroon cloth gilt. Spine and top of boards slightly sun-faded; feps browned.

A History of Harrogate & Knaresborough. Written by the Harrogate W.E.A. Local History Group.

JENNINGS, Bernard (Editor). · 1970 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,938)

Huddersfield: The Advertiser Press, 1970. 8vo. 492pp, double-sided plates. Original blue cloth lettered in black, glassine-protected d/w. Ex-reference library with minimal evidence (confined to feps and title-page verso).