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The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century. 1514-1559 (2 Vols).

JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte, Lady. · 1886 · John Turton

£63.80 (€76.47 | $84.29 | ¥13,460)

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. xii, [ii], 396pp, errata slip tipped in; x, [ii], 400pp, errata slip tipped in, 8 portrait plates including frontis to each vol. Original ¾ blue crushed moroco gilt, spine lettered direct, raised bands, marbled boards and eps, teg o/w uncut…

Bird-Life of the Borders. On moorland and sea with faunal notes extending over forty years.

CHAPMAN, Abel. · 1907 · John Turton

£92.80 (€111.24 | $122.60 | ¥19,578)

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1907 2nd edition. 8vo. xii, 458pp including index, frontis, folding coloured map, plates, text illustrations. Original cloth gilt. teg o/w uncut. Spine slightly discoloured, marginal age-browning to text, leaf-edges browned. Author's signed presentati…

Flowers and Flower Lore. (2 vols)

FRIEND, Hilderic, Rev. · 1892 · John Turton

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1892. xvi, 352pp; [ii], 353-704pp including notes, index, additions and corrections. Decorated woodcut title-page to each vol, numerous woodcut text ills. Green ½ mor gilt, matching cloth sides, marbled eps, teg o/w uncut. Signed binding by Hatc…

Canon Atkinson and his country. Foreword by Lord Downe.

BURNS, Tom Scott. · 1986 · John Turton

£46.40 (€55.62 | $61.30 | ¥9,789)

[Leeds: published by M T D Rigg for T S Burns, 1986 signed limited edition no 37 of 50. 8vo. 115[1]pp, text illustrations. Original quarter calf, marbled sides by Smith Settle. Fine.

Autobiographical notes: also, Reminiscences of a journey to London in 1840. Edited with notes and a bibliography by John A. Fairley.

MURRAY, Thomas. · 1911 · John Turton

£90.48 (€108.45 | $119.54 | ¥19,088)

Dumfries: printed at the Standard Office, 1911 signed limited edition no. 30 of 100 copies printed. 21cm. 100pp, portrait frontis. Original green grained-cloth gilt, teg. Very light spotting to prelims. The editor's copy with his bookplate to front paste-down endpaper. DISCOVER:…

Dog muzzling.

THORNHILL, Mark. · 1896 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.71 | $45.98 | ¥7,342)

[Brighton]: N.P., [1896]. 8vo. 8pp. Stapled. Very light creasing and soiling. Drop-head title. Signed and dated at end: Mark Thornhill, J.P. 43, Brunswick Place, Brighton, September 19th, 1896. DISCOVER: BL.

[Chalfont St. Giles.]

[R., J. D.] · 0 · John Turton

£41.76 (€50.06 | $55.17 | ¥8,810)

N.P., N.D. 23cm. Pp199-205, printed in double-columns. Fine three quarter olive morocco gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, spine lettered direct, matching marbled sides, blanks bound in at rear, signed bing by Tout. Unknown periodical contribution in superb binding.

Genealogical memoirs of the Duffs.

[BAIRD, William.] · 1869 · John Turton

£116.00 (€139.04 | $153.25 | ¥24,472)

Aberdeen: printed for private circulation by D. Wyllie & Son, 1869. 8vo. vii[i], 144pp, real photo portrait frontis with tissue-guard, head-piece, decorated capitals. Original decorated blindstamped maroon grained-cloth gilt, bevelled edges. Extremes very lightly rubbed; spine a…

Report of the cause between Charles Sturt, , plaintiff, and the Marquis of Blandford, defendant, for criminal conversation with the Right Hon. Lady Mary Ann Sturt, tried in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster, on Wednesday, the 27th May 1801, before Lord Kenyon, and a special jury. With an appendix ... a preface, and notes.

STURT, Charles. · 1801 · John Turton

£110.20 (€132.09 | $145.59 | ¥23,249)

London: printed for J. Ridgway [by S. Gosnell]. 1801 third edition. 21cm. large 8vo in fours, xxiii[1], 149[3]pp. Disbound. General text age-browning, some irrelevant pencillings; final leaf loosening. Printer statement from title page verso. Advertisements on pages [xxiv] and […

A long life's work: an autobiography.

GEIKIE, Sir Archibald. · 1924 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.71 | $45.98 | ¥7,342)

London: Macmillan and Co, 1924. 8vo. 426pp, portrait frontis with guard, one further plate. Original navy cloth gilt. Endpapers a little browned. Author's signed presentation copy.

Town geology.

KINGSLEY, Charles. · 1895 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.93 | $42.91 | ¥6,852)

London: Macmillan and Co, 1895. 8vo. 151pp. Contemporary half morocco gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, spine lettered direct, marbled sides, endpapers and leaf-edges. Signed binding by Mudie. Light spotting to endpapers.

Shropshire: its early history and antiquities, comprising a description of the important British and Roman remains in that county: its Saxon and Danish reminiscences: the Domesday Survey of Shropshire: and the history of its forests, towns, manors, abbeys, churches, castles, and great baronial houses.

ANDERSON, John Corbet. · 1864 · John Turton

£44.08 (€52.84 | $58.24 | ¥9,300)

London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864 Large 8vo. viii, 491pp. including Subs List, numerous woodcut plates and text illustrations, tables. Contemporary decorated full calf gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, aeg. Signed binding by Hayday. Extremes rubbed; lacks spine label.

Queen Elizabeth. 'The Bedford Historical Series: 1'

NEALE, J. E. · 1947 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.65 | ¥4,894)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1947 reprint. 8vo. 402pp, frontis, plates. Contemporary blue half calf gilt, raised bands, matching blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, teg. Signed binding by Truelove and Hanson. Small flaw to one raised band; small light stain to front board.

Chronicles of Finchampstead in the county of Berkshire.

LYON, William. · 1895 · John Turton

£98.60 (€118.19 | $130.26 | ¥20,802)

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1895. Large 8vo. xii, 321pp, frontis with tissue-guard, text illustrations, text pedigrees, head and tail-pieces, decorated capitals. Original quarter tan calf gilt, blue cloth sides, uncut. Front free endpaper recto browned. Signed book plate of …

Tudor townscapes: the town plans from John Speed's Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine 1610.

SPEED, Jeffery John (Intro.). · 2000 · John Turton

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

[Waddesdon]: Map Collector Publications, 2000 signed limited edition No. 9 of 250 copies. Oblong 8o (22 x 30cm.). 172pp, coloured plans and text illustrations. Original green cloth gilt, d/w. As new.

The British experience with river pollution, 1865-1876. 'American university studies. Series IX History vol. 139.'

BREEZE, Lawrence E. · 1993 · John Turton

£25.52 (€30.59 | $33.72 | ¥5,384)

New York: P. Lang, c.1993. 8vo. 297pp, text figures. Original printed paper-covered boards. Author's signed presentation inscription to title-page.

Shooting flying. A bibliography of shooting books 1598-1950.

CHUTE, Robin. · 2001 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.37 | $36.78 | ¥5,873)

London: Foxbury Press, 2001. Limited Edition, . 404 / 500 copies signed by author. 30cm. iv, 213[1]pp, 16 colour and b/w plates. Blue cloth gilt, leather label. Considerable damp damage to text, loss occuring where leaves have had to be prised apart; text and boards cockled; us…

Memoir of the late Rev. W. H. Massie, rector of St. Mary's, Chester, and first ecclesiastical secretary to the Chester architectural, archaeological, and historic society.

HUGHES, Thomas. · 1857 · John Turton

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

Chester: N.P., 1857. 20cm. 33pp, oval portrait laid down to printed frontis, 5 litho plates, 5 further plates (2 folding), 2 folding maps. Modern paper boards, printed paper spine label. Although pagination is regular and book is complete page [3] is signed 3c. Not in NSTC, COP…

Golden String: a day book for busy men and women.

[HARRIS,] Susan, Countess of Malmsbury; Violet BROOKE-HUNT (Editors). · 1912 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.49 | $49.04 | ¥7,831)

London: John Murray, 1912 2nd edition. 8vo in fours. vii[i], 374[2]pp, [6]pp calendar at rear. Contemporary full polished-calf gilt, raised bands, inner-dentelles, integral silk place-marker, aeg - signed binding by Bumpus of Oxford Street. Calf very slightly rubbed and stained.

The wool-dealer's calculator; being a new and complete set of tables, so constructed that staplers buying or selling wool by any weight whatever, may find the weight thereof immediately; ...

SHACKLETON, W. · 1826 · John Turton

£87.00 (€104.28 | $114.94 | ¥18,354)

Bradford: printed by J Stanfield; and sold by Longman & Co, and Baldwin & Co, London, 1826. Tall 12mo in sixes. lx, 251[1]pp, text tables. Original green cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut. Small neat repairs to spine extremes; cloth rubbed and soiled; light spotting throug…