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Barnstaple Yesterday. Over 160 Photographs from the 1860's onwards. [Second Edition].

BARNES Julia · 1992 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Roberts & Young, Swimbridge, 1992]. 8vo., Second and Best Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1980. Scarce

Windmills and Waterways. The Log of a Summer Cruise through Holland. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

IRVING Laurence · 0 · Island Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

Heinemann, [1927]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, free endpapers lightly browned; decorative cloth blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a ve...

Cranborne Chase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

HAWKINS Desmond · 1980 · Island Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Gollancz, 1980. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 35 plates on 22 and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. WITH A SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.

The Sea-Board of Mendip. An Account of the History, Archaeology, and Natural History of the Parishes of Weston-super-Mare, Kewstoke, Wick St. Lawrence, Puxton Worle, Uphill, Brean, Bleadon, Hutton Locking, Banwell, and of the Steep and Flat Holms. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

KNIGHT F. A. · 1902 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Dent, 1902. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, 39 illustrations and plans (24 full-page) in the text, and a folding map on japon, two neat inscriptions on front free endpaper, free endpapers moderately browned; original pictorial cloth gilt, gilt b...

The Phoenix Suburb. A South London Social History. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

WARWICK Alan R. · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Blue Boar Press, [Richmond], [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 32 and front and rear endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A standard reference on Norwood and the Crystal Palace. THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC STU...

Instructions agreed upon in Parliament for Commissioners, for surveying the Forest of Sherwood,. The Forest, or Chase of Needwood; the Forest, or Chase of Kingswood; the Forest, or Chase of Ashdown, or Lancaster Great Park; and Endfield Chase. SURVEYING THE GREAT FORESTS OF ENGLAND

FOREST SURVEY 1657 Act of Parliament · 1657 · Island Books

£215.00 (€257.75 | $284.09 | ¥45,371)

Henry Hills and John Field, 1657. 8vo., 7ll, on laid paper, BLACK LETTER, woodblock seal on front cover, some mild age-staining; disbound, a very good copy ideal from framing and display. Wing, E5192, records the British Library (Thomason Collection) copy and six others, of wh...

The Buildings of England. Buckinghamshire. [First Paperback Edition]. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PEVSNER Nikolaus · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Penguin, [1960]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, 101 plates on 64 and several illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The paperback edition precedes the cloth version. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION....

The Last Age of Roman Britain.

FOORD Edward · 1925 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

1925]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and 3 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy. With the errata slip. The first work devoted solely to the subject and now increasingly hard to find.

West-Country Historical Studies. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

FINBERG H.P.R. · 1969 · Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1969. 8vo., First Edition, with several maps in the text and folding map; sage cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A collection of classic essays, including 'St. Patrick at Glastonbury' and 'The Open Field in Devon', from...

The Beauties of England. Or, a comprehensive View of the chief Villages, Market-Towns and Cities; Antiquities; Remains of Palaces; Monasteries; Camps; and Castles; the two Universities: London and Westminster.

ANON · 1767 · Island Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

1767. 12mo., with an engraved folding map; contemporary speckled calf, sides with double gilt frame border, back gilt with five raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt to a floral design, calf label gilt, sprinkled edges, binding a little rubbed and worn else a very good, cr...

Monastic Life in Mediaeval England. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

DICKINSON J. C. · 0 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.36 | ¥5,487)

A&C Black, [1961]. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 56 plates on 31 and 6 full-page plans in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in dustwrapper, the latter a little rubbed and frayed at extremities. Dickinson's account covers m...

Clock Jacks and Bee Boles. A Dictionary of Country Sights.

DAINTON Courtney · 1957 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

1957]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 22 plates on 16; cloth, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A delightful yet uncommon work.

Bocking Deanery. The Story of an Essex Peculiar.

HOFFMAN Ann · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Phillimore, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 25 plates on 16 and 12 illustrations and facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor and its Borderland. Revised [Second] Edition. Illustrated by T.A. Falcon. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED

CROSSING William · 1902 · Island Books

£72.00 (€86.32 | $95.14 | ¥15,194)

James G Commin, Exeter, 1902. 8vo., Second and Best Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 21 plates on 19, wanting folding map, neat signature on half-title; original red ribbed cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers mildly age-marked, hinges cracke...

The Face of the Home Counties. portrayed in a Series of eighteen Week-End Drives from London. Photographs by J. Dixon-Scott, Will Taylor and the Author. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

CLUNN Harold · 0 · Island Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Simpkin Marshall, [1936]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous plates, title lightly spotted; green cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a bright, clean copy. Arguably the best illustrated account of the region immediately before the outbr...

Landslips near Lyme Regis. Presidential Address delivered 2 March 1973. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY

ARBER Muriel A. · 0 · Island Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

[Serendip Books, Lyme Regis], [1986]. Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, with 9 photographs and several diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

The Bronze Age Round Barrow in Britain. An Introduction to the Study of the funerary Practice and Culture of the British and Irish Single-Grave People of the Second Millennium B.C.

ASHBEE Paul · 1960 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

1960]. 4to., with two portraits as frontispiece, 78 plates on 32 and 61 illustrations and diagrams (several full-page) in the text, small but unsightly inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The standard study, dedicat...

Some of the Antiquities of 'Moche Malverne' [Great Malvern] Including a History of its ancient Church and Monastery, Engravings of the Seals of the Convent, and the Publication of Grants and Documents, and much other Matter never before printed. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

NOTT James · 1885 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Malvern, 1885. 8vo., with frontispiece and 10 plates, some offsetting onto tissue guard of frontiepiece only; original pictorial cloth, a very good, clean copy.

The Somerset Coast. [With Illustrations by the author].

HARPER Charles G. · 1909 · Island Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Chapman & Hall, 1909. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in blue and black, 16 plates (including the map; one plate lightly soiled at lower blank margin) and 50 illustrations by the author in the text, some very light occasional spotting; original pictorial cloth ...

Famous South Coast Pleasure Resorts Past and Present. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

CLUNN Harold · 0 · Island Books

£62.00 (€74.33 | $81.92 | ¥13,084)

Whittingham, [1929]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 210 plates on 108, free endpapers browned; original blue cloth gilt, gilt back, partially unopened, joints lightly rubbed else a very good bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED ...