Books on Local History
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A Guide to Cathedrals and Greater Churches.
359p blue paperback, halftone plates, glossary, very good
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Burrow's Guide to the Lake District: A Practical Handbook for the Visitor and Tourist. 8th Edition.
164p paperback, rounded page edges, advertisements, figures in text, map, hurts to spine, cover ...
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Early Settlement in Derbyshire.
95p paperback, figures in text, halftone plates, cover creased, still good
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English Country Pubs.
160p paperback, oblong format, many colour photographs with description, texts on pub culture, ...
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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge. Complete in Two Volumes with Map Case.
cxxix 136p xvii 344p set of two large hardbacks with map case, red cloth with beige jackets, very ...
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A Thousand Families in Newcastle Upon Tyne: An Approach to the Study of Health and Illness in Children.
xiv 217p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, tables, appendices, index, frontispiece, a fresh and ...
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Unsolved Texas Mysteries.
xiii 258p large hardback, index, bibliography, photographic plates, as new
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Society of Friends, London and Middlesex, General Meeting. List of Members 1970.
270p green limp cloth, minor soiling to covers but pages clean with index, very good
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The Sociology of Housing: Studies at Berinsfield.
xix 211p green cloth, dustjacket present with flaws, 8 halftone plates, bibliography, notes, index, ...
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New Communities in Britain: Achievements and Problems.
191p worn paperback, frontispiece, photographs in text, appendices, index, binding rather loose, ...
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Exploring the Lake District 100 Years Ago.
64p large format paperback, many figures in text, the Lake District Wordsworth knew in contemporary ...
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The Harpur Trust 1552 - 1973.
xi 189p green cloth, jacket, maps to endpapers, halftone plates, appendix, index, fresh clean copy
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Portrait of a University 1851 - 1951, to commemorate the Centenary of Manchester University.
x 185p large cloth A4 format, appendices, tables, folding map, photographic plates, frontispiece, ...
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The Health Services in the County of Essex. (The Essex County Health Handbook)
96p booklet, appendices, index, tables, advertisments, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge ...
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Discovering Lost Mines.
63p paperback, maps, diagrams, bibliography, index, very good copy from a Cambridge college library
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Geology of London and South-East England.
viii 192p brown cloth, frontispiece, 3 halftone plates, figures in text, bibliography, folding map, ...
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'The Most Extraordinary District in the World': Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale.
125p hardback with dustjacket, many figures in text, index, clean, from a Cambridge college library
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A History of Wellington College 1859 - 1959.
xii 414p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, emblem to cover, dustjacket, colour frontispiece, 24 ...
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The History and Register of Aldenham School. 8th ed.
xcv 373p brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, emblem to cover, frontispiece, 8 other halftone ...
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The Manchester Grammar School 1515 - 1965.
ix 202p buff cloth, frontispiece, 16 halftone plates, appendices, a well preserved copy from a ...
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Newport Grammar School, Essex: A Brief History.
xvi 127p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine & emblem to cover, frontispiece, 48 halftone plates, ...
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The Story of the Woodard Schools.
224p blue cloth, dustjacket, maps to endpaper, frontispiece, many halftone plates, a well preserved ...
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Kingswood School in Wesley's Day and Since.
xiii 264p green cloth, dustjacket, printed endpaper, frontispiece, 20 other halftone plates, ...
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Education and Change in a Village Community: Mazières-en-Gâtine, 1848 - 1914. Transl. P Tregear.
xiv 270p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, maps, appendix, notes, index, fresh and clean copy ...
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The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wisbech.
12p stapled booklet, frontispiece, 4 halftone plates, cover a hint creased, very good
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London and the Advancement of Science.
321p brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, centenary publication, index, nice fresh copy
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A Centenary History of Halstead Hospital (1884 - 1984).
78p stapled booklet, illustrations, photographic plates, bibliography, appendix, cover a little ...
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Handbook and Directory of the Leys School. Eighth Edition.
282p pink cloth with gilt ornaments, a nice and firm copy, a clean and fresh copy: this is the ...
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Almae Matres: Recollections of some Schools at Home and Abroad.
viii 198p cloth, dustjacket present, photographic plates, index, a fresh and clean copy of the ...
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The Fen and the Furrow: Books on South Cambridgeshire and the Fenland in the County Library.
81p yellow stapled booklet, indices, fresh and clean condition
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The College of St Paul & St Mary Old Students' Association Year Book 1989.
xxviii 171p stapled paper cover, reproduced from typescript, hardly used, very good
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Leicester Schools 1944 - 1974.
191p cloth, dustjacket, sources, local bibliography, laid in note addressed to author (?), as new
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The Buildings of England: London Vol 1. The Cities of London and Westminster.
632p hardback, a well preserved dustjacket, many architectural plates and illustrations, a fresh ...
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Moscow. Capital of the Soviet Union.
188p hardback, many illustrations, also in colour, very good, published for the occasion of the 23 ...
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Sacred Heart Church, Hornsea, Yorks., Building Fund Christmas Draw 1928.
raffle ticket for the 1928 Christmas Draw, stating a number of various 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, for ...
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Sixty Years of the Bakerloo.
23p stapled brown card cover, frontispiece, photographic plates, in excellent condition, as new
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Sixty Years of the Northern.
28p stapled card cover black, frontispiece, photographic plates, in excellent condition
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Windsor and District Girl Guides: The Girl Guide Film, Guides to the Fore.
Single page notice, advertising a showing of the film "Guides to the Fore" with an address by Lady ...
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The Seaweeds of Dale; and: A Key to the Genera of the British Seaweeds.
27p, 32p; 2 stapled offprints, illustrated, very good
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Bill Prouty's Chapel Hill. (Drawings by John Branch)
116p paperback foxing on cover, still a very good copy
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Father Wannyn Memorial Committee.
Single folded sheet with photograph of subject, giving notice of the formation of a committee to ...
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The Distribution and Relations of Educational Abilities: Report by the Education Officer submitting Three Preliminary Memoranda on the Distribution and Relations of Educational Abilities. (No 18868)
xiii 93p original board with cloth tape on spine, good copy from a Cambridge college library
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On Some Derived Fragments in the Longmynd and Newer Archaean Rocks of Shropshire. Offprint from Quarterly Journal of Geological Society.
6p offprint with paper wrappers, corners dogeared, with author's compliments
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The Geology of the Western Approaches of the English Channel: 2: Geological Interpretation Aided by Boomer and Sparker Records. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. No 749, Vol 248, pp 315 - 351)
36p offprint A4 card covers, illustrations, photographic plates, bibliography, very good
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Pollen Analysis of the Cromer Forest Bed Series in East Anglia. With an Appendix on the Non-Marine Mollusca. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. No 729, Vol 246, pp 149 - 202).
53p offprint A4 card covers, bibliograhy, photographic plates, illustrations, very good
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A Survey of the Plate of Leeds Parish Church and its Ancient Chapelries. (= Publications of the Thoresby Society, Monographs 2, No 97, 1949)
iii 68p paperback, cover rubbed, index, photographic plates, mostly uncut, very good: church silver
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Social Reform in Victorian Leeds: The Work of James Hole, 1820 - 1895. (= Publications of the Thoresby Society, Monographs 3, No 100, 1952).
70p paperback, light foxing to cover, index, notes, bibliography, very good
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Links with Bygone Leeds. (= Publications of the Thoresby Society, Vol 52, No 115, 1969)
124p paperback, index, frontispiece, photographic plates, hardly used, very good
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