Books on Local History
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A Guide to the Fens and Fenland Churches including Marshland.
39p stapled guide, pink cover, illustrations by the author, pages are clean, a well preserved copy
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Sikkim: Democracy and Social Change.
168p hardback with pictorial jacket, pages clean with index and bibliography, very good
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Kamakhya Hills and Elsewhere: A Novel.
189p cloth with black/white dustjacket, author inscription to front endpaper, pages unmarked, ...
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Civil Defence in War.
72p large format hardback with illustrated price-clipped dustjacket, chips and tears to top edge ...
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The Journal, No 21, Report for 1965. (Birkenhead School Natural History Society and Field Club).
16p stapled card cover, very good
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The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway. Essay in: The Railway Magazine, July/August 1949.
longer essay, with illustrations, for sale is the entire issue of The Railway Magazine for ...
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Lord Novgorod the Great: Sociopolitical Experiment and Cultural Achievement.
32p stapled booklet, brown card cover, many illustrations, also in colour, author inscription, very ...
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Novgorod in Focus: Selected Essays.
192p dark blue cloth very fresh, author inscription, excellent copy, as new
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Dedication of Memorial Window in the Church of St Mary Magdalene by the Lord Bishop of Ely, 5th March, 1933. Order of Service.
4p white booklet, slightly foxed
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The Folkestone Fiery Serpent and other Kentish Poems.
68p stapled booklet, white card cover, reproduced from typescript, very good
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Archaeologia Aeliana, or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. 4th Series, Vol 5.
134p brown cloth with black title label, fresh nice copy, many folding plates and illustrations, ...
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Memorial Service for Kathleen Teresa Blake Butler, former Mistress of Girton College.
White booklet, editorial pencil notes throughout, adapting this copy to become a printer's copy for ...
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Liber Eliensis.
lx p463 dark purple blue cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, a neat and clean copy, binding ...
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Blakeney in the Eighteenth Century.
28p laminated green card cover, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library with usual ...
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But Little Dust: Life Amongst the Ex-Untouchables of Maharashtra.
180p purple paperback, some shelfwear, author signature to title page, pages unmarked, very good ...
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The Bloomsday Book. A Guide Through Joyce's Ulysses.
xi 273p paperback, beige and tan cover, minimal wear, binding firm, pages clean and neat, a little ...
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The Topographers of Suffolk 1561 - 1935. Brief Biographies and Specimens of the Hands of Selected Suffolk Antiquaries.
50p A4 paperback, cream card illustrated cover with black plastic strip binder, very good condition
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De Vondelstraat: Verslagen van Radio STAD 29 Februari - 3 Maart 1980.
199p paperback, illustrated cover with yellow lettering, many illustrations in the text, includes ...
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The Middle Valley of the Wharfe: From Woodhall Bridge to Otley and Ilkley.
xiv 127p original paperback, many illustrations in the text, period advertising, very well ...
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Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900 - 1914.
xxi 560p large format paperback, well preserved copy, many plates, very few pages with faint pencil ...
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The Story of Morwellham.
40p b/w booklet with stapled card cover, pages clean with plates and maps, very good
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Six Poems: Matthew XXV, 30, A Compass, My Entire Life, Houses Like Angels, A Key in Salonica, The Card - Trick. (Encounter, May 1963, Volume 20, No 5)
96p journal with pink and lilac card cover, little use, pages clean with articles on the Sino - ...
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The City of London School Magazine. April 1922. Volume 45, No. 222.
48p original card covers, spine worn, otherwise a nice copy
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The Lion Yard.
40p white paperback, stapled binding, shiny card cover, line drawn illustrations and maps, scarce, ...
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Essex: Past and Present.
238p brown cloth with floral embossing on spine and front board, foot of spine hurt and damaged ...
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Prehistoric Yorkshire. Journal of the Prehistoric Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Volume 48, 2011.
122p spiral bound, A4 format, light brown cover, many illustrations, a well preserved copy, very ...
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Prehistoric Yorkshire. Journal of the Prehistoric Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Volume 51, 2014.
126p spiral bound, A4 format, many illustrations, also in colour, a well preserved copy
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Prehistoric Yorkshire. Journal of the Prehistoric Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Volume 52, 2015.
162p spiral bound, A4 format, many illustrations, also in colour, a well preserved copy
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Prehistoric Yorkshire. Journal of the Prehistoric Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Volume 55, 2018.
116p spiral bound, A4 format, many illustrations, also in colour, a well preserved copy, light ...
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Prehistoric Yorkshire. Journal of the Prehistoric Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Volume 56, 2019.
116p spiral bound, A4 format, many illustrations, also in colour, a well preserved copy, light ...
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Les cités oubliées des Mayas: La vie, l'art et les découvertes de Frederick Catherwood.
300p very large cloth, white illustrated jacket, minor shelfwear only, near fine condition, ...
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East Anglian Village and Town Signs.
32p illustrated card covers, stapled, b/w illustrations throughout, very good
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Durham City.
32p stapled booklet, black cover, very good condition, some very light wear to spine, pages ...
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Seven Royal and Ancient Burghs of Scotland: Their Past and Present.
42p cloth with white dustjacket, corners slightly bumped, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w ...
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Commoners in My Time: 1868 - 1871 and Earlier.
63p cloth, foldout maps, roughcut edges, some pages uncut, pages clean, excellent copy
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The History of Radley College, 1847 - 1947.
xv 464p hardback, navy cloth, boards and binding in good condition, folds and cuts to a few page ...
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Jura Franche-Comté.
255p paperback, colourful illustrated jacket with clear plastic cover, very good condition, light ...
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A Sketch of the History of Maryland, During the Three First Years After its Settlement; to which is Prefixed, a Copious Introduction.
388p full calf binding, front board detached, engraved frontispiece, errata to last page, original, ...
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English Country Pubs.
160p paperback, oblong format, many colour photographs with description, texts on pub culture, ...
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Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire.
204p green cloth, plates, a very little used, stamps and shelfmarks from a Cambridge library of ...
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Repton Sketches. With Drawings by Arthur Norris.
87p blue cloth, dusty, b/w frontispiece, short anecdotes, illustrations, very good
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The Brentwoodian. No 220 May 1964.
96p white and blue stapled booklet, 2 halftone plates, pages clean, very good
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Ab-o'th'-Yate Sketches and Other Short Stories in three Volumes. Subscriber's Edition.
3 volumes in firm brown buckram cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece with tissue-guard, ...
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Cambridge Iron Founders.
97p light blue staple bound booklet, staples tight and holding, pages and plates clean and bright, ...
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A Short History of Jesus College Cambridge.
67p red cloth, frontispiece, fresh and tight copy, newspaper clipping inserted
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The Manchester Medical Society and the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
12p offprint with grey card cover, frontispiece, printed author compliments, removed from binding ...
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A Glossary of North Country Words with their Etymology and Affinity to other Languages and occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions.
254p 242p 2 vols bound in one, engraved frontispiece, library donation bookplate, oversized "Do Not ...
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Carte Nativorium. A Peterborough Abbey Cartulary of the Fourteenth Century.
lxv 261p large green cloth, appendices, indices, glossary, nice clean copy with library bookplate
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The Cambridgeshire of Rupert Brooke.
75?p paperback, wide landscape format, good condition, light wear to covers and edges, binding ...
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