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Newcourt (Richard). Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London..., 1st ed., 1708-10, eng. port. frontis., folding eng. map, three eng. plts. (2 folding), first few gatherings of vol. 2 with minor worming to blank gutter margin, index at rear of second vol. browned, contemp. Cambridge pane calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving orig. spines, vol. 2 with upper cover sl. waterstained, 4to. (2)

Newman (& Co., pub.). Twenty Four Views of Dover, c.1830s, 24 engraved views, orig. green cloth gilt, sl. marked, oblong 8vo, together with Thirty Views of Hastings & St. Leonards, pub. Newman, c.1830, 30 engraved views, orig. decorative cloth, sl .rubbed, oblong 8vo, and Trotter (William Edward), Views of the Environs of London, c.1870, numerous steel engraved views, two leaves loose with a little marginal fraying, orig. decorative cloth, 8vo, plus Ireland (W.H.), England's Topographer, or A new and complete history of the County of Kent, 4 vols., 1828-30, engraved title to vol. one, folding map with many paper repairs, numerous engraved plates, a few spots, contemp. half calf, worn with some boards detached and loss to spines, 8vo, and other topographical books relating to Surrey, Sussex, Kent and London including a slightly defective set of David Hughson's History of London with five folding maps and plans, vol. two only of Paterson's British Itinerary, etc. (approx. 47)

Philipott (Thomas). Villare Cantianum, or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated... to which is added An Historical Catalogue of the High-Sheriffs of Kent, collected by John Philipott, pub. William Godbid, 1659, three engs. and one woodcut to text, lacking folding map (as often), one or two minor ink annotations, 18th c. full tree calf, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., upper joints partly cracked, folio. Ex-libris John Tolhurst F.S.A., with his bookplate to front pastedown. (1)

Rocque (John). An Exact Survey of the City's London Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country near 10 Miles Round London; A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the Contiguous Buildings from an Actual Survey, Edited by Harry Margary, Introductory Notes by James Howgego, Kent, 1971, forty-two facsimile maps, orig. cloth-backed printed wrappers, sl. rubbed and spotted in places, approx. 560 x 830 mm, together with Sussex County Maps, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Map-Making in the County of Sussex, a Collection of Reproductions of Printed Maps Published Between the Years 1575 and 1825, with Introductory Notes by R.A. Skelton, edited by Harry Margary, Kent, 1970, twenty-eight facsimile maps, orig. cloth-backed printed wrappers, sl. foxed and frayed, approx. 640 x 900 mm. (2)

Royal Commision on Historic Monuments. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, 5 vols., 1924-30, numerous b & w photos. and plans, some folding, orig. cloth, together with An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire, 1911, b & w plts., folding county map loosely inserted, orig. cloth, 4to. (6)

Sammes (Aylett). Britannia Antiqua Illustrata: Or, The Antiquities of Ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians: wherein the original trade of this Island is discovered, the names of places, offices, dignities, as likewise the idolatry, language, and customs of the primitive inhabitants are clearly demonstrated ..., vol. 1 [all published], 1676, vignette title printed in red and black, double-page eng. map of Europe, engs. to text, contemp. half calf, upper board detached, slight wear to extrems., folio. Bookplate of Charles Bathurst, Lydney Park. Wing S535. (1)

Sayer (W., pub.). Sayer's History of Westmorland Containing the Substance of all the Remarkable Events Recorded by Burn & Nicholson..., 2 vols., Kendal & London, 1847, folding map (lined with linen to verso), closed tear to one leaf of text in vol. 1, contemp. half calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Greenwood (J.), A Picturesque Tour to Thornton Monastery, with Notices of Goxhill Nunnery, Barrow, New Holland, and British Remains in the Neighbourhood, pub. Hull, 1835, eng. frontis. and plts., occ. scattered spotting, late 19th c. half sheep, 8vo, with [Scotland], Illustrations to the history of Scotland, c.1840s, fifty eng. plts. after T. Allom & others, some minor spottinf, contemp. half calf, 8vo, with Harding (Martin J.), An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire..., 2 vols., 1901, b & w plts., contemp. qtr. morocco gilt, large 4to, and Coxe (Henry), Rogeri de Wendover Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum, 5 vols. (inc. Appendix), 1841-44, contemp. calf, spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus four others. (15)

Seymour (Robert). A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, 2 vols., Printed for J. Read, 1734, eight eng. plts. (some folding), engs. in the letterpress, lacks the folding map, but extra-illustrated with eight large folding eng. plts., vol. 2 without the list of Subscribers, ink scoring on the title-page of vol. 2, some text soiled and browned, damage to the top corners at the beginning and end of vol. 1, 19th century half morocco, a trifle rubbed, cloth sides stained, folio. The extra illustrations comprise views of Bridewell, South-Sea House, Admiralty Office, Buckingham House, St. Mary le Strand, Powis House, and ten City Gates, all with the imprints of Sutton Nicholls or Thomas Bowles; and a fine unsigned view of Grovenor [sic] Square. (2)

Skelton (Joseph). Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from Original Drawings by F. Mackenzie..., pub. Oxford, 1823, eng. frontis. and vign. title, single-page map and forty-eight eng. plts. on india paper, numerous eng. illusts. to text, list of subscribers, occ. scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, modern half morocco, gilt dec. spine, cloth sides slightly damp mottled, folio. (1)

Thomas (William). Antiquitates Prioratus Majoris Malverne in agro Wicciensi cum Chartis Originalibus Easdem Illustrantibus, ex Registris sedis Episcopalis Wigorniensis, 1725, folding eng. map frontis., folding plan and folding eng. plt., addn. albumen photo tipped-in, few marginal notes, contemp. panelled calf, old reback, spine & extrems. rubbed, 8vo, together with Rudge (Thomas), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester..., 1807, folding hand-col. eng. map frontis. (detached), folding map of the Thames & Severn Canal Navigation, folding hand-col. plan, occ. scattered spotting, contemp. calf, boards detached, lacks spine, 8vo, with Lees (Edwin), Pictures of Nature in the Silurian Region around the Malvern Hills and Vale of Severn..., pub. Landon & Malvern, 1856, occ. minor spotting, bookplates of Prinknash Abbey Library, contemp. cloth gilt, worn to joints and head & foot of spine, 8vo, with Warner (Rev. Richard), The History of Bath, 1801, eng. port. frontis., folding eng. plan and eng. plts., occ. scattered spotting, later half morocco gilt, joints worn, 4to, and Devon, Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Devon: being Observations on many Churches in Devonshire..., Exeter, 1828, near contemp. calf gilt, 12mo, plus three others. (8)

Virtue (George, pub.). Virtue's Pictureque Beauties of Great Britain: in a Series of Views..., 3 parts in one, 1835, eng. general title and two other eng. titles, 159 eng. plts. (many with to images per plt.), folding eng. map of Essex, eng. titles to each section, occ. minor scattered spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, 4to. Includes Kent, Surrey, Sussex & Essex. (1)

Westall (William and Owen, Samuel). Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, R. Ackermann, 1828, folding eng. map, col. aquatint vign. on the title-page, twenty-four col. aqua. plts. after Westall and Owen, col. aqua. vign. at the end, near-contemp. publisher's red cloth, spine gilt, sides blocked in blind, rubbed at extrems., rebacked, orig. backstrip laid down, 4to. Abbey, Scenery, 435. Tipped in at the front is Westall's invoice to Ackermann for seven Thames DrawingsÓ, executed in May 1828, each being charged at five or six guineas. (1)

Worcestershire. Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of the County of Worcester (with an Appendix), [1873], large hand-col. folding map frontis. (some short tears to folds), free endpapers pasted to pastedowns, orig. cloth, faded, joints frayed, gilt lettered label to spine and upper cover, that to spine chipped and frayed, thick 8vo, together withBentley's History, Gazetteer, Directory, and Statistics of Worcestershire..., vol. 6 only (of 7), [1841], folding eng. map (browned, and with fabric repair to verso), stitching partially broken, and final two leaves and free endpaper detached, orig. cloth, lacking spine and covers detached, 12mo in 6's. (2)

Bayley (A.R.). The Great Civil War in Dorset 1642-1660, Taunton, 1910, folding map, orig. red cloth, rebacked in red morocco, 8vo, together with Godwin (G.N.), The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House, 1882, the errata leaf present, recent half maroon morocco, earlier marbled board sides, square 8vo, and The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House, new and rev. ed., 154/500 copies, Southampton, 1904, coloured view of Basing House as frontis., 7 ports., orig. maroon cloth, a little soiled, rebacked to match, black lettering-piece, t.e.g, others untrimmed, royal 8vo, and two others related. (5)

Boswell (Edward). The Civil Division of the County of Dorset, Methodically Digested and Arranged... with a complete Nomina Villarum, in Four Parts... Also, an Appendix, containing Abstracts of Returns of Charitable Donations. Second Edition, Dorchester, 1833, folding map, orig. cloth-backed boards, soiled and worn, edges untrimmed, together with [Criswick, (James)], A Walk Round Dorchester... also an account of the Abbeys of Milton, Cerne, and Bindon, together with Sherborne, Lulworth, and Corfe Castles, Dorchester, 1820, eng. frontis., folding map (torn without loss), inscription on the title-page, text stained at the beginning and end, contemp. half morocco, worn, and Cutler (Richard), Original Notes of Dorchester and the Durotriges, Dorchester, 1865, orig. printed wrappers, spine worn, and [Hall, (Peter)], Ductor Vindogladiensis. An Historical and Descriptive Guide to the Town of Wimborne-Minster, Dorsetshire, London, William Pickering, 1830, three eng. plts. (foxed), orig. printed boards, soiled, spine hand-lettered, 8vo. (4)

Bowles (W.L., and Nichols, John Gough). Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey, in the County of Wilts... including Notices of the Monasteries of Bradenstoke, Hinton, and Farley, 1835, twelve eng. plts. and plans, engs. in the text, folding and other pedigrees, later half morocco, rubbed, t.e.g., others untrimmed, together with Bowles (W.L.), The Parochial History of Bremhill, in the County of Wilts... including illustrations of the Origin and Designation of ... Avebury, Silbury, and Wansdike, 1828, map, plan, three eng. plts., lightly foxed, advert. leaf present at the end, recent quarter morocco, earlier marbled board sides, and Smith (James), Wilton and its Associations, Salisbury, 1851, wood-engs. in the text by W.F. Tiffin, recent boards, edges untrimmed, and Jones (William Henry), Fasti Ecclesiae Sarisberiensis, or a Calendar of the Bishops, Deans, Archdeacons, and Members of the Cathedral Body at Salisbury, from the Earliest Times to the Present, Salisbury, 1879, contemp. half morocco, marbled board sides, slightly rubbed, edges untrimmed, and [Britton, John], The Beauties of Wiltshire, displayed in Statistical, Historical, and Descriptive Sketches: interspersed with Anecdotes of the Arts, vol. 3 (of three) only, Printed for the Author, 1825, addn. eng. title-page, folding map, and fourteen eng. plts., some foxing, orig. boards, detached, lacks backstrip, stitching defective, edges untrimmed, all 8vo. The first two volumes of Britton's BeautiesÓ were published in 1801. (5)

Britton (John, and Brayley, E.W.). The Beauties of England and Wales, Vol. 4, containing Devonshire and Dorsetshire, 1803, eng. frontis., addn. eng. title-page, and thirty-one eng. plts., some foxed, recent cloth-backed boards, together with Sumner (Heywood), Local Papers. Archaeological & Topographical Hampshire, Dorset, & Wiltshire, 1931, folding map and plan, full-page and smaller illusts. from drawings, orig. green cloth, and Nathan (Sir Matthew), The Annals of West Coker, Camb. U.P., 1957, four maps, orig. green cloth, and Lane Poole (E.H.), Damerham and Martin. A Study in Local History, Tisbury, 1976, endpaper maps, dec. head-pieces, and other Wessex topography, including twelve vols. of Somerset and Dorset Notes & Queries. (3 shelves)

Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. Third Edition, corrected, augmented, and improved, by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson, 4 vols., 1861-70, num. eng. plts. and plans, some of them double-page, double-page and other pedigrees, ink inscriptions on the title-page of vol. I, some soiling and staining, a few plts. frayed at the fore-edge, contemp. half red morocco, gilt, rubbed at joints and corners, red morocco-grain cloth sides marked, t.e.g., folio. Collated against G.D. Squibb The Plates in Hutchins History of DorsetÓ, in vol. 68 of the Proceedings of the Dorset Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. The plates called for by Squibb all appear to present, although what must be the plate showing the Rampisham Cross is bound in vol. 3 rather than in its correct place in vol. 2. The set also includes two additional plates not called for by Squibb, who confirms that the county map, called for on the title-page, was not issued. The third edition of Hutchins is textually the best. (4)

Mills (A.D.). The Place-Names of Dorset, 2 vols., English Place-Name Soc., 1977-80, four maps, orig. cloth, d.j.s, together with Hardy (William Masters), Old Swanage. Or Purbeck Past and Present. New and Revised Edition, Dorchester, 1910, port., plts., orig. cloth, a trifle marked, and Oswald (Arthur), Country Houses of Dorset, 1935, folding map, 199 illusts. from photos, orig. cloth, faded, spine rubbed, and Kerr (Barbara), Bound to the Soil. A Social History of Dorset 1750-1918, 1968, map, plts., text illusts., signature of Joan Brocklebank on front free endpaper, and Berkeley (Joan), Lulworth and the Welds, Gillingham, 1971, fourteen plts., folding pedigree, orig. cloth, and twenty-one others, Dorset topography and history, 8vo and royal 8vo. (28)

Robinson (C.E.). A Royal Warren or Picturesque Rambles in the Isle of Purbeck, Typographic Etching Co., 1882, five etched and five photogravedÓ plts. by Alfred Dawson, full-page map, other illusts., slight foxing, orig. buckram, gilt, together with Eyton (R.W.), A Key to Domesday... an Analysis and Digest of the Dorset Survey, 1888, orig. cloth, a little rubbed, and St George (Henry, and Lennard, Sampson), The Visitation of the County of Dorset, Taken in the Year 1623. Edited by John Paul Rylands, Harleian Soc., 1885, nine plts. of seals and signatures, orig. cloth, spine worn, and Foster (J.J.), Wessex Worthies (Dorset). With an Introductory Note by Thomas Hardy, 1920, 216/325 copies, thirty-one plts., light foxing, orig. cloth-backed boards, a trifle rubbed, and Nightingale (J.E.), The Church Plate of the County of Dorset, Salisbury, 1889, sixteen plts. and text illusts., name on title-page, orig. cloth, a trifle rubbed, and three others, 4to and royal 8vo. (8)

[Smart, Thomas William Wake]. A Chronicle of Cranborne, being an Account of the Ancient Town, Lordship, and Chase of Cranborne, in the County of Dorset, 1841, eng. frontis., folding map of Cranborne Chase, list of Subscribers, one leaf, present, and the tipped-in errata slip, orig. cloth, soiled and rubbed, hinges cracked, together with Moule (H.J.), Old Dorset. Chapters in the History of the County, 1893, orig. cloth, a trifle soiled and rubbed, and Thompson (C.W.), Records of the Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's OwnÓ), Dorchester, 1894, thirteen ports. and other plts., bottom half of the last leaf of Appendix excised, without loss of letterpress, orig. blue cloth sides, slightly rubbed, recent red cloth spine, and Fowler (Joseph), Mediaeval Sherborne, Dorchester, 1951, num. half-tone plts., orig. cloth-backed boards, slightly faded, and Good (Ronald), A Geographical Handbook of the Dorset Flora, Dorchester, [1948], frontis., forty-two maps, orig. cloth, spine faded, and others, including Ronald Good's The Lost Villages of DorsetÓ, 1979, and The Old Roads of DorsetÓ, 1966, royal 8vo et infra. (8)

Wheeler (Charles Henry, publisher, Winchester). Wheeler's Hampshire and West of England Magazine, vol. I, nos. 1-12, January-December, 1828 [all publ., the periodical was then incorporated into The CryptÓ], folding map, two eng. plts., ex-libris copy, some soiling, contemp. half calf, rubbed, together with Ferrey (Benjamin), The Antiquities of the Priory of Christ-Church, Hampshire. Second Edition. Revised by John Britton, Bohn, 1841, twenty eng. plts. and plans, some foxing, orig. cloth, faded, lacks backstrip, and King (Edward), Old Times Re-visited in the Borough and Parish of Lymington, Hants., Second Edition, 1900, plts., text illusts., orig. blue buckram, rubbed, hinges weak, and Fowler (Sir James K.), A History of Beaulieu Abbey A.D. 1204-1539, pub. by The Car Illustrated, [1911], full-page and folding plts. and plans, orig. red cloth, spine faded, and others, Hampshire history and topography, 8vo and 4to. (36)

Wise (John R.). The New Forest. Its History and its Scenery, 38/350 copies of the Artist's Edition, Henry Sotheran, 1883, twelve etched plts. by Heywood Sumner, sixty-three wood-eng. illusts. in the text by W.J. Linton after Walter Crane, all on India paper, folding map, orig. qtr. roan, rubbed, printed wood-effect board sides, rubbed at corners, t.e.g., others untrimmed, large 8vo. (1)

Bloomfield (Robert). The Banks of Wye, a Poem, 1st ed., Printed for the Author, 1811, ad. leaf present at the end, extra-illustrated with a pen-and-ink map, col. in outline, and eighteen skilfully-executed and attractive orig. watercolour views, neatly listed in MS at the end, a little light soiling in the text, near-contemp. green straight-grained morocco, rubbed at extrems., a.e.g., small 8vo. The watercolours, within black-ruled borders and with captions, include views of Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Castle, Llandogo, Monmouth, Abergavenny, and Brecon. They are contemporary with the book, but are without any attribution or provenance. (1)

Evans (J.). A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Monmouth, Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1810, eleven eng. plts. as called for, and extra-illustrated with upwards of sixty copper-eng., steel-eng., etched, aquatint, or litho. plts., some of them double-page, with a double-page col. county map published by G. Jones, 1817, and county maps by Morden, Bowen, and J. & C. Walker sectionalised and mounted onto six, eight, and six pages respec. at the end, half red morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, marbled board sides, a.e.g., 8vo. Evans's Topographical and Historical DescriptionÓ forms part of Vol. II of the Beauties of England and WalesÓ, and is here supplied with a specially printed title-page. The extra illustrations include aquatints by Hassell, small Buck's views, a series of copperplates with the imprint of S. Hooper, 1784, and some attractive lithographs, including double-page views of the Wye at Piercefield by Madeley, and single and double-page views of Tintern Abbey by G. Rowe of Cheltenham. (1)

Evans (Rev. John). Companion for the Steam-Packet, in Excursions to Chepstow, Newport, Swansea, Ilfracombe, Tenby, and their Vicinities, Bristol: Sold by Bulgin [and others], 1824, eng. map of the Bristol Channel area, ad. leaf present at the end, woodcut vign. tail-pieces, orig. printed boards, with a vign. of a steam packet on the lower cover, soiled, spine rubbed, edges untrimmed, 12mo. The principal steam-packet excursions from Bristol, embarking at the Cumberland Basin. Dedicated to George and Samuel Lunell, Merchants, to whose spirit of enterprise Bristol is principally indebted for the first steam-packet established from its port with permanent success.Ó. (1)

Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.). The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast, 1861, map, num. wood-engs. in the text, contemp. full purple morocco, gilt border to sides enclosing an ornate gilt panel, spine lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments between raised bands, slightly faded and rubbed, a.e.g., together with The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast. Part I. The Tourist's Companion from Gloucester to Ross and Monmouth [and] Part II. A Guide to Raglan Castle, two parts in 1 vol., 1861, num. wood engs. in the text, orig. green cloth, frayed at extrems., printed paper label on the upper cover, both 8vo. (2)

Heath (Charles). Monmouthshire. Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey... to which are added, The Charters for its Foundation, with Curious Notices of the Monastic Order. And an History of the Settlement of Tintern, as a Wire and Iron Manufactory, Printed and Sold by him [Charles Heath] in the Market Place, Monmouth, [etc], 1803, extra-illustrated with some fifty-six eng. plts. (mainly views, a few portraits), some of them double-page or folding, with a map of Monmouthshire by Kitchin, and A New Map of Glocestershire Drawn from the Latest AuthoritiesÓ, some soiling, late 19th Century full green morocco, spine gilt, rubbed at joints, lettered Tintern AbbeyÓ in gilt on the upper cover, and John Loraine BaldwinÓ on the lower, t.e.g., others untrimmed, 8vo. John Loraine Baldwin was a warden of Tintern Abbey. His death, in his 88th year, was recorded in the Chepstow Weekly Advertiser in November 1896. This copy contains an ALS to him from A. Baker F.S.A., including a transcript of the Grant by King John for the supply of wire. With Baldwin's attractive circular monogram label on the front pastedown. (1)

Ireland (Samuel). Picturesque Views on the River Wye, from its Source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its Junction with the Severn below Chepstow: with Observations on the Public Buildings, and other Works of Art, in its Vicinity, Published by R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1797, full-page map of the course of the river, eng. port., and thirty sepia aquatint plts. after Ireland, the tipped-in errata slip present, lacks the half-title, some light browning, a little pencil scoring, recent half calf, cloth sides, t.e.g., small 4to. Abbey, Scenery, 544. Bookplate of J. Arthur Hutton on the front pastedown. (1)

[Naylor (Sir George)]. A Collection of Coats of Arms Borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Glocester, Printed and Sold by J. Good, 1792, William Bazeley, the Gloucestershire bibliographer's, copy, interleaved throughout, sixty-two eng. plts., showing 370 coats of arms, with a few genealogical notes by Bazeley, eng. title-page, but without the 49 pages of letterpress sometimes present, 19th Century black leather, rubbed, rebacked in black buckram, 4to, together with Bigland (Ralph), Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections, relative to the County of Gloucester, Printed by John Nichols, for Richard Bigland, 1786, a part of the first volume only, containing pp. 1-296, Parishes I-LXI, Abbenhall-Charfield, seven eng. plts. only, other engs. in the letterpress, half of U2 torn away, half calf, marbled board sides, slightly rubbed, folio, and Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, vol. 2, edited by William Page, 1907, folding map, plates, orig. red cloth, spine slightly faded, t.e.g., folio, and Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, Vol. 5, The Forest of Dean, edited by N.M. Herbert, 1996, forty-four plts., maps and text figs., orig. red cloth, d.j., folio, and three others, Gloucestershire topography. (7)

Newman (J., publisher). The Stranger's Illustrated Guide to Chepstow and its Neighbourhood; with Copious Notices of Tintern Abbey, Wyndcliff, and the Districts of Chepstow, Caldicot, Rhaglan, Monmouth, Goodrich, and Ross, 1843, seven eng. plts., foxed, orig. cloth, faded, together with Wioni, pseud., Songs of the Wye, and Poems, 1st ed., 1859, orig. cloth, gilt, spine dull, and Willett (M.), The Strangers Guide to the Banks of the Wye, 3rd ed., Bristol, T. Bedford,, 1831, map, three folding plans, title-page browned, orig. printed wrappers, soiled, spine defective, and Furness (J.R.), The Massacre of Abergavenny. An Historical Drama, in Five Acts, Conway, 1897, author's signed presentation copy, half calf, cloth sides, slightly rubbed, and others, guides, verse, maps, relating to the area, 8vo et infra. (13)

Price (Henry and Chas. G., surveyors, Hereford). New Map of the County of Monmouth, 1823, a large uncoloured map, engraved by Joseph Cross of London, on two sheets, each 610 x 940 mm, mounted in sections on linen and folding into 8vo, in the orig. board slip-case, with the printed label of James Wyld, Geographer, on the slip-case and the reverse of each of the sheets, slip-case now rubbed. (1)

Tithe Maps. Wood (Wm. Bryan), surveyor, Banbridge, Chippenham. A collection of 6 Monmouthshire parish plans, surveyed by Wm. Bryan Wood and lithographed by Standidge & Co., London, on the scale 6 chains to an inch, comprising the Parishes of Llansoy, 1842; Micheltroy (on 2 sheets), 1845; Raglan (on 2 sheets), 1843; Gwernesney (mounted on linen), 1843; Llangeview, 1843; and Bettws Newidd, 1843; plus an additional original pen-and-ink plan, believed to be of Monkswood; various sizes, the sheets varying between 1090 x 760 mm and 760 x 550 mm, some soiling and creasing at the edges, four of the maps with the accompanying manuscript tabular reference books, giving details of land owners, occupiers, reference number on the map, names and description of the land, state (arable, pasture, wood, garden, etc.) and quantity; two books per map, one listed numerically by map reference, the other alphabetically by landowner, with the books only relating to the Parish of Llanishen, without the map, one of the books in printed form, with a printed title-page with imprint of Shaw & Sons Printers and Publishers of the Books and Papers of the Tithe and Factory Commissions, with the indelible stamp of the Tithe Commission, repeated in one other book, the volumes generally stained, with some wear, in wrappers, small folio. (-)

Williams (David). The History of Monmouthshire; Illustrated and Ornamented by Views of its Principal Landscapes, Ruins and Residences; by John Gardnor ... Engraved by Mr Gardnor and Mr Hill, Printed by H. Baldwin, 1796, eng. map (trimmed within the plate mark at the fore-edge), thirty-six hand-col. aquatint plts., two folding and other pedigrees, one repaired on the reverse, the six-page list of subscribers present at the end, text generally spotted, some neat ink marginalia, H4 damaged at the head and restored, with loss of head-line, two following leaves with clean tears neatly repaired, short clean tear at the fore-edge of the title-page, recent full calf, red leather label, 4to. Abbey, Scenery, 537. Abbey remarks that 168 copies of the book were subscribed, 32 of them coloured. See front cover illustration. (1)

Hills, two artists Proofs, both signed in margin, “Evening”; “Afternoon”; together with a further 20th Century Map of Persia (former bookplate) (3).

Balsamo (Paolo). A View of the Present State of Sicily: its Rural Location Economy, Population, and Produce, particularly in the County of Modica, with an Appendix, containing Observations on its General Character, Climate, Commerce, Resources, &c... to which are added, with Notes Throughout the Work, an Examination of the Sicilian Volunteer System, and Extracts from Letters Written in Sicily in 1809 and 1810, by Thomas Wright Vaughan, 1st ed., 1811 folding map frontis., and folding table, errata leaf and errata slip, frontis. and title a little browned, two leaves detached (frayed and browned at edges), R1 frayed with loss to lower blank margin, untrimmed, orig. boards, worn and stained, lacking spine, 4to. (1)

Beattie (William). The Danube, its History, Scenery and Topography, pub. Virtue, 1844, addn. eng. vign. title, seventy-eight steel eng. plts. by W.H. Bartlett, single-page map, wood eng. illusts. to text, contemp. half calf, upper board detached and some spine defective, rubbed & scuffed, 4to. (1)

Debes (Lucas Jacobsen). Faeroae, & Foeroa Reserata: that is a Description of the Islands & Inhabitants of Foeroe: Being Seventeen Islands Subject to the King of Denmark, Lying under 62 deg. 10 min. of North Latitude. Wherein Several Secrets of Nature are Brought to Light, and some Antiquities Hitherto kept in Darkness Discovered..., Englished by J.S. Doctor of Physick, 1676, few holes & paper wear to title affecting one line of text, one eng. illust. to text, (lacks folding map and folding plt.), a.e.g., 19th c. calf, elaborate gilt dec. spine, slightly rubbed at head & foot of spine, 12mo. (1)

Drake (Samuel G.). Biography and History of the Indians of North America..., 3rd ed., Boston, 1834, eng. port. frontis. and addn. eng. title, five eng. plts. and wood eng. illusts., contemp. sheep, rubbed & scuffed, 8vo, together with Hoare (Sir Richard Colt), A Classical Tour Through Italy and Scily..., 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1819, folding eng. map frontis. to vol. 1, contemp. diced calf, gilt dec. spine, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, with Pardoe (J.), Traits and Traditions of Portugal..., 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1834, litho plts. on india paper, occ. minor spotting, contemp. half calf, rubbed, 8vo, plus six others. (11)

France. Paris et ses Environs, n.d., c. 1850, fifteen fine hand-col. litho. views, some heightened with gum arabic, with four similar views loosely inserted, orig. cloth, upper cover lettered and blocked in gilt, a little soiled and some minor wear to extrems., inner joints cracked, oblong folio, together with Paris and its Environs. An Illustrated Handbook, edited Thomas Forester, pub. Bohn, 1859, num. steel engs., orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little worn on spine, thick 8vo, plus Galignani's Illustrated Paris Guide for 1884, num. steel eng. views, commercial ads. both front and rear, lacks folding map from rear pocket, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some minor wear to extrems., small 8vo. (3)

Gestel (Cornelius van). Historia Sacra et Profana Archiepiscopatus Mechliniensis; sive Descriptio Archi-Diocesis illius; item Urbium, Oppidorum, Pagorum, Dominiorum, Monasteriorum, Castellorumque sub ea, 2 vols. in 1, Hagae Comitum, apud Christianum van Lom, 1725, half-title present, title-page to vol. 1 printed in red and black, large folding map, thirteen eng. plts., seven of them folding, and nine eng. ports., errata leaf present at the end, some staining in the upper margins, slight dust-soiling, contemp. sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, joints cracked, folio. Ex libris John Basil Lowder Tolhurst. (1)

Hodges (C., publisher). New Geographical Cards, pub. C. Hodges, Portman Square, 1828, forty hand-col. eng. map cards (each approx. 9.5 x 6.5 cm), with 32 pp. explanation booklet, all contained in orig. card box with printed labels, rubbed and a little worn at extrems. (1)

Keppel (Captain the Hon. George). Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, in the Year 1824, 2 vols., 2nd ed., Colburn, 1827, hand-col. frontis. to each, tinted litho. view, folding map, b&w illusts. to text, contemp. full calf gilt, spines rubbed, joints of first vol. partly cracked, 8vo. (2)

Mahan (Captain A.T.). The Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900, 2nd ed., 1900, port. frontis., folding map with short closed tear, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, (ownership signature and bookplate of Col. Frank Rhodes, brother of Cecil), together with Carter (A.C.R.), The Work of War Artists in South Africa, The Art Journal, 1900, b & w plts. and illusts., leaf of text with closed tear, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to, with Salt (G.E.S.)Letters and Diary of Lieutenant G.E.S. Salt During the War in South Africa, 1899-1900, facsimile reprint, Daveon Press, Johannesburg, 1974, port. frontis., orig. morocco in slipcase, 4to, (limited ed. 20/250), with Scheibert (Major J.), Der Freiheidskampf der Burden und die Gelchichte Ihres Landes, 2 vols., Berlin, 1900-02, double-page frontis. to vol. 2, folding map at rear of vol. 1 (few closed tears repaired with adhesive tape), b & w illusts. from photos, pages browned, orig. pictorial cloth, 8vo, together with Meister (F.), Burenblut. Bilder aus dem Lerten Transvaalkriege..., Leipzig, 1902, frontis. and port. plt., b & w illusts., closed tear to title, some marks and finger soiling, orig. pictorial cloth, rubbed, 8vo, with Bredell (H.C., & Grobler, P.), Lebenserinnerungen der PrŠsidenten Paul KrŸger..., MŸnchen, 1902, port. frontis. (ink stamp to verso), few illusts. to text, ink stamp and number to title, orig. dec. cloth with inset portrait to upper board, remains of paper label to spine, frayed to extrems., 8vo, plus others related. (23)

Payne (John). Universal Geography Formed into a New and Entire System... , vol. 1 only (of 2), 1792, hand-col. frontis., detached and frayed at edges, eleven folding eng. maps, hand-col. in outline, uncol. eng. plts., some marginal dust soiling, contemp. half calf, worn, covers detached, folio, sold with all faults, not subject to return. The maps comprise double-hemisphere world map (slightly torn, without loss), Asia, China, India (torn without loss), Persia, Ottoman Empire, Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Barbary, Pacific Ocean, North & South Poles, together with Johnston (Alexander Keith), The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1871, forty-eight double-page litho. map sheets, coloured in outline, several split along centre-fold, title soiled and creased, a.e.g., orig. half morocco gilt, soiled and worn, with one other. (3)

Pollok (Colonel F.T. and Thom, W.S.). Wild Sports of Burma and Assam, 1st ed., 1900, port. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos, three maps, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., together with Deasy (Captain H.H.P.), In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan. Being the Record of Three Years Exploration, 2nd imp., 1901, port. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos, large folding map with minor repair, t.e.g., orig. pict. cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., plus Duncan (Jane E.), The Summer Ride through Western Tibet, 1st ed., 1906, num. b & w illusts. from photos, folding map and single ad. leaf at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, and Pigot (Brigadier General R.), Twenty-Five Years Big Game Hunting, 1st ed., 1928, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, faded and rubbed on spine, all 8vo, and others related including a few ex-lib. copies. (22)

Schoberl (Frederic). Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan, by Way of the Simplon: Illustrated with Thirty Six Coloured Views of the Most Striking Scenes and of the Principal Works Belonging to the New Road Constructed Over that Mountain, Engraved from Designs by J. & J. Lory, of Neufchatel, 1st English ed., pub. Ackermann, 1820, uncol. eng. map frontis., thirty-six hand-col. aqua. views of Switzerland, first and final leaves a little browned, upper hinge splitting between frontis. and title, plt. list with small piece missing from blank fore-margin (repaired on verso), near contemp. half sheep, rubbed, extrems. worn, large 8vo. (1)

Shackleton (E.H.). The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. W. Egeworth David, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1909, half-title and photogravure frontis. to each, col. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. taken from photos., three folding maps and a folding panorama contained in rear pocket to vol. 2, endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. dec. cloth, spines faded and rubbed at ends, covers marked, and cloth lifting in places, some corners bumped, thick 4to, together with Nansen (Fridtjof), Farthest NorthÓ, being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96..., 2 vols., pub. George Newnes, 1898, b & w photo. plts., folding map at rear of first vol. with short handling tear, orig. gilt-dec. blue-green cloth with bevelled edges, extrems. rubbed, and a few damp-marks, spines sl. darkened, and small nick in that to vol. 1, 8vo, plus Fuchs (Sir Vivian, and Hillary, Sir Edmund), The Crossing of Antarctica, 1st ed., 1958, numerous col. and b & w photo. plts., edges foxed, orig. cloth in price-clipped d.j., spine foxed (offset to binding) and a little frayed at ends, 8vo, plus three others related. (8)

Sparrman (Anders). A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World: but chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776, by Andrew Sparrman..., Translated from the Swedish Original, 2 vols., printed by R. Morison Junior, Perth, 1789, folding eng. frontis. to first vol., nine eng. plts. (hippopotamus plt. with short closed tear), folding eng. map, contemp. ms. name to head of title-pages, two leaves with closed tear to fore-margins, both clipping edge of text (one repaired), two further leaves with small piece missing from blank fore-margin, a few leaves foxed, contemp. half calf, rubbed, gilt dec. spines, 12mo in 6's. (2)

Urquhart (David). The Spirit of the East: or, Pictures of Eastern Travel, 2 vols. in 1, 2nd ed., Colburn, [1839], col. litho. frontis. (blank margins foxed), eng. plan, folding map at rear, hinges cracked, first gathering working loose, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blindstamped cloth, rubbed, extrems. frayed, spine and upper cover faded, 8vo. (1)

Whymper (Edward). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1st ed., 1892, num. wood engs., large folding eng. map contained in rear pocket, minor marginal dustsoiling, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, (without the Supplementary Appendix, pub. 1891), together with Nancy (Fridtjof), Farthest North, Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96 ..., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1897, col. plts., folding maps, num. b & w illusts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and some minor wear to extrems., thick 8vo, plus Scott (Captain R.S.), Scott's Last Expedition, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1913, half-titles present, photogravure frontis. to each, num. b & w illusts. from photos., folding maps, etc., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on the spines, thick 8vo. (5)

Bede (The Venerable). Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum libri quinque, una cum reliquis ejus Operibus Historicis in unum Volumen Collectis, ed. Johannis Smith, Cambridge, typis Academicis, 1722, half-title, eng. frontis. by M. van der Gucht of the altar of Bede and St. Cuthbert below the east window of Durham cathedral, two full-page eng. plts. by van der Gucht (Tomb of St. Cuthbert, facing p. 264, & Tomb of the Venerable Bede, facing p. 805), large folding eng. map of Britannia Saxonica facing p. 654 (closed tear, repaired), eng. illust. to text on p. 721, text printed in Latin and Anglo-Saxon, some minor foxing and light soiling to first and last few leaves (generally in clean cond.), 18th-c. blind-panelled full calf, some marks, later reback, rubbed and somewhat scuffed, folio. Ex-libris Francis Palgrave, with his signature to head of title, and autograph note to verso of frontis. The plates of this work afford singular proofs of the slow progress which the arts had made in England - see in particular the plate of Bede's tomb. p. 805 F.P.. The best edition, with learned notes and dissertations (Lowndes 144). (1)

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties speciall Commandement, 2nd ed., Great She Bible], imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 16[13/]11, black letter text, each full-page with fifty-nine lines in double columns, woodcut initials and head-pieces, lacks woodcut general title (A1) and without the Speed map usually found after the Genealogies, first four leaves of prelims. somewhat creased and first two leaves worn at lower margin, old light dampstaining to upper and lower margins of first six gatherings, conjugate leaves 3Z3/4 det. and sl. frayed at edges not affecting text, NT woodcut title present (in good condition), light old dampstaining, soiling and creasing to last seven gatherings, marginal closed tear to folios V3 & V6, lacks folio Y1, dampstaining, soiling, creasing and damage increasing at very end with gutter marginal worming and slight textual loss to folios Y2,5, and Z1-3,6, final two leaves (2A5/6) both with major loss and some repairs, contemp. calf, joints cracked, some wear, large thick folio (page size 395 x 265mm). Herbert 319. A good copy of the Great She Bible, with the correction she for he in Ruth iii.15. (1)

Bible [English]. The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke..., [Geneva version], Christopher Barker, 1583, titles with woodcut borders to general title, Psalter title, Aprocrypha title and N.T. title, general title printed in red and black with some contemp.(?) red ink colouring to border design, old family inscriptions of William Kingston and (later) George Dickins at upper margin, full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden at end of prelims., woodcut map to N.T. verso, black letter text in double columns with woodcut initials, lacks initial blank and blank before Apocrypha part-title, folios 3K3/4 (Isaiah xxxvi-xxxix) torn and neatly repaired at upper outer corners without loss, a little soiling and light dampstaining at front and rear, occ. pepper wormholing to final seven gathers, lacks folio *1 from Second Table at end and following (final) three leaves cut down at margins without affecting text, modern calf with seven old stamped corner bosses and two centre cover bosses retained, thick folio (page size 413 x 270mm). Herbert 178. (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible..., Printed by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625, decorative woodcut titles with printed details within heart-shaped frames, black letter text, spotting and some soiling throughout, only pp. 21-34 of genealogies and double-p. Speed map (det.) present before OT title, Metrical Psalms (1620) at rear, title defective and ends p. 66, modern plain half calf with marbled boards, 4to. Herbert 396. (1)

A modern silver map of Great Britain 21 x 14in.

Johannes Janson coloured engraving Map of Shropshire 15 x 19in.

Robert Morden - Map of Hampshire, 37 x 43 cm

A Swiss made draughtsmans/architects map converter inch/cms to km/miles, in case

John Speed Essex, Divided into Hundreds, A hand coloured engraved map, 1629 edition 38 x 50cm