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The ancient Chapel of St. Peter-ad-Murum, Bradwell-juxta-Mare, Essex.. Built by Saint Cedd, Apostle of Essex, circa AD 654. [With a Foreword by the Bishop of Chelmsford]. NEAR FINE COPY

BRADWELL-JUXTA-MARE · 0 · Island Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

[Privately Printed], [c.1950]. 8vo., with 3 full-page illustrations and a plan in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

The County Books. Hertfordshire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

THOMAS Sir William Beach · 0 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Hale, [1950]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Publishe...

Essex Worthies. A biographical Companion to the County.

ADDISON William · 1973 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 6 plates on 4; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.

Essex Heyday.

ADDISON William · 1949 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 34 collogravure plates on 30, a full-page ilustration in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter worn at edges and joints.

The Victoria History of the County of Durham. Volime II. Edited by William Page. SOUND WORKING COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION: 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED

COUNTY DURHAM · 1907 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Archibald Constable, 1907. Sm. folio, First Edition, with title and series title in red and black, frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) plates, plan and full-page map in the text; original series binding of decorative red cloth, upper board and backst...

A Short History of Sherborne from 705 AD. Third Edition. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED: SOUND WORKING COPY

WILDMAN W.B. · 1911 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Bennett, Sherborne, 1911. 4to., LARGE PAPER, on laid paper, with 8 plates and 2 plans (one folding); plum buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers faded (but all gilt wholly legible) joints rubbed else a sound working copy of the limited editio...

Dorset Barrows.

GRINSELL L.V. · 1959 · Island Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Dorchester, 1959. 4to., with a frontispiece, 3 plates on 2 and 6 full-page illustrations in the text; wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good copy. One of the (apparently) many copies bound without the five location maps at end, a shortcoming largely overcome by exhaustively de...

The Story of Chester.

WILLIAMS J. · 1907 · Island Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

Phillipson and Golder, Chester, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and a folding plan, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip lig...

Ipswich through the Ages.

REDSTONE L.J. · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

East Anglian Magazine Limited, Ipswich, [1948]. 8vo., First Edition, with 38 plates on 28, 4 double-page plates and numerous illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, small neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, a near fine copy i...

A Breath of England. [Complete set, comprising 'A Breath of England. The Southern Shires', 'Wheatsheaf and Willow. The Eastern Shires', 'Green Hills and Grey Spires. The West Midlands' and 'Mere and Moorland. The Northern Counties'].

WYMER Norman · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Lutterworth Press, [1948-51]. 4 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 4 frontispieces, very numerous plates and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in the dustwrapper (one price-clipped). Wymer's delightful sequence, covering vir...

A Story-Book about Mortlake and her Church. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

COCKIN Maurice S. · 1954 · Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

Privately Printed, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 5 plates on 3 and a double-page plate, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one tape repair on front panel a...

Companion into North Riding. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

INGRAM J. H. · 0 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Methuen, [1952]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, 4 sepia-toned plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-...

An Act for incorporating the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Company. and authorising them to construct railways and works in the County of Surrey and for other purposes INCORPORATION OF WIMBLEDON AND SUTTON RAILWAY

WIMBLE DON AND SUTTON RAILWAY 1910 Act of Parliament · 1910 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1910. 4to., 34 leaves, with fine woodblock arms of Edward VII at head; sewed as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy ideal for framing and display. 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5. The Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Company Ltd., incorporated in law by the present A...

Rambles beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot. With Illustrations by Henry C. Brandling.

COLLINS W.W. · 1851 · Island Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.30 | ¥92,797)

Richard Bentley, 1851. 8vo., First Edition, with a tinted lithographed frontispiece (skilfully mounted on pale cartridge) and 11 tinted lithographed plates; late-nineteenth century half calf, neatly rebacked with new endpapers to style, old blind-tooled backstrip laid down, or...

The New History, Survey and Description of the City and Suburbs of Bristol, or Complete Guide, 1794 [with] Matthews's New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1793-4. [Facsimile re-issue].

MATTHEWS W. · 1898 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

1898]. 2 works in 1 vol., sm. 4to., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and a large folding street plan, fore-edges lightly browned; original boards, cloth back, paper label on upper board, neatly rebacked with original endpapers preserved, boards slightly age-ma...

Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses, Streets, City Companies, Wards, etc, intended as a Lounge-Book for Londoners and their Country Cousins. By One of the Old School.

WEST] [W. · 1825 · Island Books

£128.00 (€153.43 | $169.11 | ¥26,996)

William Cole, 1825. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece after Eckstein, engraved and printed titles (the former by Heath) and a folding plate containing twenty-two humorous depictions of London's 'tavern clubs', frontispiece, engraved title and fol...

Georgian London. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

SUMMERSON John · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Pleiades, [1948]. 8vo., with frontispiece, 79 plates on 48 and illustrations in the text; ivory buckram gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. This classic study was first issued in 1945.

Dam the Thames: A Matter of Sanitation, Comfort and Economy. A Plan for a Tideless River in London. Third Edition.

THAMES BARRAGE ASSOCIATION · 1936 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.16 | $34.35 | ¥5,483)

Thames Barrage Association, 1936. 4to., with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly age-browned else a very good, clean copy. With a reprint of a relevant page from 'The Times' loosely inserted. One of the plates is a ...

Old Wiltshire Market Towns and Villages. Illustrated by M.E. Sargent.

DOWDING M.K. · 1896 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.16 | $34.35 | ¥5,483)

Houlston & Sons, 1896. 4to., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and numerous line illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly browned, inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial boards, lowest quarter of backstrip rubbed, boards a li...

One Hundred Years in a Chelsea Parish. A History and Survey of Christ Church. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

REID Hilda · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

J B Shears, Chelsea, [1939]. Sm. 4to., with frontispiece and plates; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE ON TITLE.