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A handy guide to the ruins of Furness Abbey.

MORRIS, James P. · 1900 · John Turton

£11.60 (€13.90 | $15.33 | ¥2,446)

Ulverston: James Atkinson, N.D. (c.1900). 18cm. 40pp, 2 plates, double-page plan, text illustrations. Original decorated blue glazed-paper wraps. Wraps soiled and rubbed with wear to spine head.

A handy guide to the ruins of Furness Abbey.

MORRIS, James P. · 1878 · John Turton

£16.24 (€19.47 | $21.46 | ¥3,425)

Ulverston: James Atkinson, N.D. (c.1878). 18cm. 40pp, 2 plates, double-page plan, text illustrations. Original decorated blue card wraps. Wraps soiled and rubbed with wear to lower spine; binding weak at page 3 gutter-margin.

An elegy on the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey.

M'NICOLL, David. · 1891 · John Turton

£16.24 (€19.47 | $21.46 | ¥3,425)

Printed for private circulation only, 1891. 8vo. 8pp, engraved plate with guard. All text printed in mauve. Half-title partly soiled. At head of title: Reprint.

On Roman camps in the neighbourhood of Ripon.

HESLINGTON, T. C. · 1867 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.93 | $42.91 | ¥6,850)

Ripon: printed by Johnson and Co., Market-Place, 1867. 8vo. [ii], 22pp, 5 litho plates at rear. Disbound. Stitching almost gone; light spotting and soiling to title-page; inked amendments to a few pages; crude pencil marks and sketches to plate and contents leaf versos.

Coronation of their majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. York celebration, June 15th, 26th, and 27th, 1902: official programme.

1902 · John Turton

£32.48 (€38.93 | $42.91 | ¥6,850)

[York: printed by Delittle Fenwick,] 1902. 18cm. [16]pp, text illustrations. Original decorated pictorial colour-printed mauve paper, bevelled edges. Stitching gone; light isolated soiling to a couple of margins.

A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Part II. - Geometrina. Index and Introduction. 'Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle Upon Tyne. Vol. XII. Part II.'

ROBSON, John E. · 1902 · John Turton

£17.40 (€20.86 | $22.99 | ¥3,670)

London: Williams and Norgate. Newcastle: F & W Dodsworth, 1902. 8vo. [2]pp , pp 193-318, xvi pp Vol. I title-page and introduction bound in at rear. Original wraps laid down on boards with typescript label to front wrap and glassine covering. Ex-reference library with usual ev...

A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Vol. II. - Micro-lepidoptera. Part II. - Tineina and Pterophorina. Index to Vol. II. 'Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle Upon Tyne. Vol. XV. Part II.'

ROBSON, John E. · 1913 · John Turton

£20.88 (€25.03 | $27.59 | ¥4,404)

London: Williams and Norgate. Newcastle: Mawson, Swan and Morgan,, 1913. 8vo. vi pp, pp[107]-289, Vol. II title-page at rear, portrait frontis. Original wraps laid down on boards with typescript label to front wrap and glassine covering. Ex-reference library with usual evidence.

A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Vol. II. - Micro-lepidoptera. Part I. - Pyralidina and Tortricina. 'Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle Upon Tyne. Vol. XV. Part I.'

ROBSON, John E. · 1905 · John Turton

£17.40 (€20.86 | $22.99 | ¥3,670)

London: Williams and Norgate. Newcastle: F & W Dodsworth, 1905. 8vo. [iv], 106pp. Original wraps laid down on boards with typescript label to front wrap and glassine covering. Ex-reference library with usual evidence.

Brookiana (2 Vols). [A collection of anecdotes illustrative of the life and opinions of Henry Brooke. With a portrait, and quotations from his writings. The preface signed: C. H. W., i.e. Charles Henry Wilson.]

W[ILSON]., C[harles]. Henry. · 1804 · John Turton

£185.60 (€222.47 | $245.20 | ¥39,144)

London: printed for Richard Phillips, by Lewis & Roden, 1804. Small 8vo.xv[i], 232; [ii], 236pp, [4]pp publisher's list at rear, title-pages engraved, with vignettes. Nineteenth century full calf gilt, re-spined with red calf gilt spine labels, marbled endpapers and leaf-edges...

A visit to Flanders, in July, 1815, being chiefly an account of the field of Waterloo. With a short sketch of Antwerp and Brussels, at that time occupied by the wounded by both armies.

SIMPSON, James. · 1815 · John Turton

£110.20 (€132.09 | $145.59 | ¥23,242)

Edinburgh: printed for William Blackwood ; and Oliphant, Waugh, and Innes ; and Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, Paternoster Row, London, 1815 3rd edition. 12mo in sixes. vi[ii], 190pp, multi-folding engraved plan frontis. Original grey paper boards, re-spined with matching paper and ...

Flora odorata; a characteristic arrangement of the sweet-scented flowers and shrubs, cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain.

MOTT, Frederick Thompson. · 1843 · John Turton

£87.00 (€104.28 | $114.94 | ¥18,349)

London: Orr & Co., et al., 1843. Small 8vo. viii, [3]-136pp, [2]pp errata leaf. Original blindstamped green grained-cloth gilt. Spine and board edges age-browned. Printed by Brown & Hewitt, Leicester.

Jubilee History of West Stanley Co-operative Society Limited. 1876 to 1926.

WHITE, John W.; Robert SIMPSON. · 1926 · John Turton

£23.20 (€27.81 | $30.65 | ¥4,893)

Pelaw-on-Tyne: Co-operative Wholesale Society's Printing Works, 1926. Small 8vo. 226pp, frontis, 44 text illustrations (many full-page), text tables. Original pebble-grained green cloth gilt. Wear to head of upper joint - binding holding firm; cloth very lightly stained.

An index or abridgement, of the acts of Parliament and convention, from the reign of King James the first including the former index or abridgement, and continuing the same to the ninth session of the current Parliament. Digested into Head, in the Order of the Alphabet.

STEWART, Sir James of Gutters, Her Majesties Advocat. · 1702 · John Turton

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

Edinburgh: printed by George Mosman, and are to be sold at his shop in the Parliament-Closs, 1702. 12mo. [xii], 329[1]pp. Later full calf gilt with plain reversed calf re-spine, marbled endpapers, aeg. Extremes rubbed with wear; light spotting and browning to text. Goldsmiths...

The history of the parish of Brancepeth: together with the civil and ecclesiastical parish and township of Brandon with Byshottles, including East and West Brandon, Holywell, Langley Moor, Littleburn, Browney, Sleetburn and Waterhouses with Hareholm and NewHouse.

SURTEES, Brigadier-General H. Conyers. · 1930 · John Turton

£48.72 (€58.40 | $64.37 | ¥10,275)

[Newcastle-upon-Tyne: G. Flaybourne], 1930. 8vo. 58pp, 10 pedigrees (some folding). Original printed card wraps, stapled. Spine lightly rubbed; staples rusted, with slight loss to wrap, but holding firm; small isolated ink blots to front wrap.

The industrial resources of the district of the three northern rivers, the Tyne, Wear, and Tees, including the reports on the local manufactures, read before the British Association, in 1863. Edited by Sir W. G. Armstrong, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S. I. Lowthian Bell, Esq. John Taylor, Esq. Dr. Richardson. With notes and appendices. Illustrated with maps, plans, and wood engravings.

ARMSTRONG, William George, et al (Editors). · 1864 · John Turton

£324.80 (€389.32 | $429.11 | ¥68,501)

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: A. Reid, Printing Court Buildings, 1864 2nd edition. Small 4to. xlii[ii], 307[1]pp, [4]pp publisher's adverts at rear, double-frontis, plates, maps, plans, diagrams (some colour and some folded). Modern ...

Joseph Crawhall, the Newcastle Wood Engraver (1821-1896).

FELVER, Charles S. · 1973 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,936)

Newcastle: Frank Graham, N.D. [1973]. 8vo. viii, 144pp, 4 double-sided plates, text illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt, very lightly browned d/w.

Souvenir of the 23rd congress held at Bristol, July 9th to 14th, 1906. [Incopororating] The New Guide to Bristol and Clifton, and the Bristol Channel Circuit.

ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE. · 1906 · John Turton

£27.84 (€33.37 | $36.78 | ¥5,872)

Clifton: J Baker and Son, 1906. 16cm. 16, 339[1]pp, xxix pp adverts, text illustrations, 2 multi-folding plans. Original blue cloth lettered in white. Extremes lightly rubbed. 1898 edition at Leicester (Special Collections) and Guildhall. This extended edition not found.

A brief sketch of the life of Anna Backhouse, by one who knew her well, loved her much, and was often instructed by her.

[GURNEY, Eliza Paul Kirkbride.] · 1852 · John Turton

£44.08 (€52.84 | $58.24 | ¥9,297)

Burlington, New Jersey: John Rodgers, 1852. 12mo in sixes. [iv], 201pp. Original blind-stamped brown grained-cloth gilt, yellow eps. Very light spotting to eps, blanks and leaf-edges. 'Edward Pease with E P G's dear love' and 'E B & R A Mounsey from Eliza Barclay 25/11/80' in ...

Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. Volume III. [Including:] The Archaeology of the West Cumberland Coal Trade. By Isaac Fletcher [and] Whitehaven: its Streets, its principal Houses and their Inhabitants. By William Jackson.

FERGUSON, Richard S. (Editor). · 1878 · John Turton

£37.12 (€44.49 | $49.04 | ¥7,829)

Kendal: printed by T Wilson, 1878. 8vo. xxxiv, 127-405pp, plates. Original printed card wraps, uncut/partly unopened. Spine rubbed with slight wear to tips.

How the coaches came to Ribblesdale.

LANGSHAW, Arthur. · 1953 · John Turton

£13.92 (€16.69 | $18.39 | ¥2,936)

Clitheroe: Borough Printing Co, 1953. 21cm. 42pp printed in double-columns. Original decorated blue embossed-card wraps, stapled.