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Genuine account of the escape of Lord Nithsdale, printed from the original letter, written by the Countess of Nithsdale, to her sister, Lady Lucy Herbert, Abbess of the Augustine Nuns, at Bruges ...

[MAXWELL, Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale.] · 1816 · John Turton

£46.40 (€55.63 | $61.31 | ¥9,792)

Durham: printed by F Humble & Co, at the Office of the Durham Advertiser, 1816. 8vo. 8pp. Disbound. Light soiling to title-page; a scattering of light ink stains to last page - not affecting legibility. * Concerning the 1715 Rebellion. COPAC: NLS, Durham, Edinburgh, Newcastle,...

The Peak and the Plain: scenes in woodland, field, and mountain.

HALL, Spencer T. · 1853 · John Turton

£46.40 (€55.63 | $61.31 | ¥9,792)

London; Houlston and Stoneman, 1853. 12mo. viii, 395pp, frontis with tissue-guard, additional engraved title-page, tail-piece. Original decorated brown cloth gilt, yellow eps, uncut. Small neat repairs to spine tips; boards a little faded.

The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, compiled from original records preserved in public repositories and private collections. Sunderland and District Section.

SURTEES, Robert. · 1908 · John Turton

£69.60 (€83.44 | $91.97 | ¥14,688)

Sunderland: Hills and Co, 1908. 4to. [viii], 223pp, multi-folding and folding pedigrees, text pedigrees, text tables. Original quarter brown cloth gilt, printed grey paper boards, uncut. Extremes lightly rubbed with very slight wear to board corners; eps browned; very occasion...

Some Durham College Rolls. [Extracted from Collectanea?]

BLAKISTON, Herbert E. D. (Editor). · 1895 · John Turton

£29.00 (€34.77 | $38.32 | ¥6,120)

[1895.] 8vo. 76pp, frontis and further plate with guards, folding plate at rear. Recent quarter linen, green paper sides, printed paper spine label.

The Head-Constable's-Assistant: or, a Mize-Book for the County-Palatine of Cheshire. The same being tables ready cast up; whereby any township's just proportion of any tax charged by way of the mize, may readily and exactly known.

JOLLEY, John. · 1726 · John Turton

£174.00 (€208.60 | $229.92 | ¥36,719)

London: printed by J Read for the Author, 1726. 8vo. Pp [i]-viii, [9]-381, [3]pp subscribers list and postscript, head-piece, decorated capital, text tables, printed device to ffep verso and last page. Contemporary panelled calf gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Old repair to joints...

Analysis of the Warrington Improvement and Market Act, 1854, and the various consolidation acts incorporated therewith, digested into methodical order, with a copious index ...

M[ARSH], J[ohn] F[itchett]. · 1854 · John Turton

£44.08 (€52.84 | $58.25 | ¥9,302)

Warrington: printed by Haddock and Son, 1854. Tall 12mo in sixes. viii, 116pp. Original blind-stamped black cloth gilt. Small neat repair to spine head; light spotting to eps and prelims. Ex-reference library with only evidence ink-stamps to fpdep. Not in HLL.

Report of proceedings at a meeting of the county of Hants, held at Winchester, March 1, 1823, "To take into consideration the propriety of petitioning parliament ..." From the notes of a special reporter.

1823 · John Turton

£71.92 (€86.22 | $95.03 | ¥15,177)

Portsmouth: printed by Mottley and Harrison, 1823. 8vo. Pp [i]-v[i], 7-59. Disbound. Light spotting and browning. COPAC locates a copy at Southampton University. OCLC adds Tilane University.

Full account of the calamitous earthquake in East Sussex, on Tuesday morning, April 22, 1884. Reprinted from "The Essex Telegraph."

1884 · John Turton

£69.60 (€83.44 | $91.97 | ¥14,688)

Colchester: printed and published by Frederick Wright, 1884. 16cm. 107pp. Original printed brown paper wraps. Re-backed with plain maroon cloth; wraps lightly rubbed and soiled; light spotting to prelims, last few leaves and leaf-edges. Good copy in original wraps. Only copy o...

Hodgson Pratt & his work for the Workmen's Club Movement. Second annual memorial lecture, 1913.

HALL, B. T. · 1913 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.66 | ¥4,896)

London: Hodgson Pratt Memorial Ltd, 1913. 8vo. 16pp (including wraps), text illustration. Original pictorial printed paper wraps, sewn. Wraps lightly soiled. Pratt a notable social reformer and advocate for working men's clubs. COPC: LSE only. Nothing added in OCLC.

Report of the public meeting at Liverpool, on Wednesday, January 28, 1829, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of removing the restrictions imposed upon commerce by the present charter of the East India Company. Compiled for the Oriental Herald.

1829 · John Turton

£40.60 (€48.67 | $53.65 | ¥8,568)

London: published by W Lewer, 1829. 8vo. 39[1]pp. Modern blue buckram gilt. Contents spotted and lightly browned. Ex-reference library with minimal evidence.

Nottinghamshire and some neighbouring records: historical, biographical and pictorial. 'The Midland Series.'

1909 · John Turton

£174.00 (€208.60 | $229.92 | ¥36,719)

London: Allan North, [1909]. 4to. [366]pp, plates with tissue-guards, title-page printed in red and black. Original quarter vellum gilt, red cloth gilt sides, patterned red eps, integral red silk place-marker, aeg. Vellum lightly soiled; extremes very slightly rubbed. Title pa...

Going Shopping: a glimpse at some of the old markets and shops of Tyneside in former days.

MORRISON, Keith. · 0 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.91 | $15.33 | ¥2,448)

Gateshead: Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Department of Education, N.D. Large 8vo. [28]pp, text illustrations and plans. Original pictorial printed glazed-card wraps, stapled. Wraps very lightly soiled.

Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (New Series.) Vol. I. [Including] A Ramble up Burnhope [Weardale]. By the Rev. W. J. Wingate. The Spiders of the Tyne Valley. By A. Randell Jackson. Larval Trematodes of the Northumberland Coast. By Marie V. Lebour.

NORTH EAST ENGLAND NATURAL HISTORY. · 1904 · John Turton

£29.00 (€34.77 | $38.32 | ¥6,120)

Newcastle: Williams and Norgate, 1904-1907. 8vo. vi, 506pp, plates, text figures and tables. Later quarter blue crushed morocco gilt, matching cloth sides. Spine sun-faded. Ex-reference library with following evidence: Dewey number in gilt to spine tail; 'withdrawn' ink-stamp ...

The Charmed Land of Craven; round about Skipton, Grassington, Burnsall, and Kettlewell.

BOGG, Edmund. · 0 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,406)

Leeds: Edmund Bogg, N.D. 8vo. x pp local adverts, 62pp, [2]pp adverts, folding frontis map, text illustrations. Original printed grey card wraps, stapled. Wraps lightly rubbed; staples rusted but holding firm.

City and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the Sanitary Condition of the City during the year 1920.

[KERR, H., Medical Officer of Health.] · 1921 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.38 | $36.79 | ¥5,875)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [1921.] 8vo. 158pp, folding and multi-folding tables, text tables. Contemporary full diced red calf gilt. Re-spined in matching calf; a couple of isolated dark marks to calf; very light soiling to prelims; oval ' Newcastle Health Department' ink-stamp to f...

Guide to Kirkby Stephen, Appleby, Brough, Warcop, Ravenstone, Mallerstang, &c, including a map of the district, and chapters on the geology of Westmorland, and the botanical features of the neighbourhood.

BRAITHWAITE, J.W. · 1884 · John Turton

£116.00 (€139.06 | $153.28 | ¥24,479)

Kikby Stephen: J W Braithwaite, 1884. 8vo. 134pp including a ''short chapter on the derivation of local names'' by the Rev J. BYERS, [39]pp local adverts (some on tinted paper), folding coloured frontis map, woodcut plates, text illustrations. Original green cloth gilt. Extre...

Three Celebrities of Knaresborough: Mother Shipton; Blind Jack; Eugene Aram.

0 · John Turton

£16.24 (€19.47 | $21.46 | ¥3,427)

Knaresborough: printed and published by Parrs (Stationers), N.D. 8vo. 72pp, 3 plates. Original printed yellow card wraps. Wraps rubbed and soiled with MS title to spine otherwise fine.

A true and faithful history of the family of Smith, originally cradled at Wiverton and Cropwell-Butler, in the parish of Titherby, and more recently established at Nottingham. ... [Half-title: Stemmata Smithiana-Ferraria.]

SMITH, Augustus John (Compiler). · 1861 · John Turton

£278.40 (€333.75 | $367.87 | ¥58,751)

London: printed by Charles Whiting, 1861. Fo. vi, 45 leaves printed on rectos (and occasional versos), 2 double-page engraved maps at front, text pedigrees, pedigrees (some folding) laid down on linen to rear. Contemporary decorated full navy calf gilt. Light spotting to preli...

County Pedigrees. Nottinghamshire, Volume I. (All Published).

PHILLIMORE, W. P. W. (EDitor). · 1910 · John Turton

£232.00 (€278.13 | $306.56 | ¥48,959)

London: Phillimore & Co, 1910. 4to. viii, 393[1]pp, plates (one folding), text illustrations, pedigrees. Original quarter vellum gilt, red cloth gilt sides. Some colour seepage from sides to vellum not affecting spine. COPAC locates copies at Nottingham and Leicester (SPecia...

Justice in a depressed area: a critical study. With a foreword by the Rt. Revd. Bishop Welldon, D.D.

MUIR, Charles. · 1936 · John Turton

£40.60 (€48.67 | $53.65 | ¥8,568)

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936. 8vo. 216pp. Original orange cloth lettered in black, te coloured. Extremes lightly rubbed; spine sun-faded; cloth soiled.