London-Yorkshire Motorway
Ministry of Transport. pub. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 1959. 23 pp. 2 maps (1 fldng.) 1 photograph. Stapled paper covers a little time-stained, with some separation to the spine.
Covers the first section: London to Birmingham.
Rustic Walking Routes in the London Vicinity : South to East District
W.R.Evans and S.Sharpe. pub. George Philip & son. 4th series. (c.1890). Original cloth boards with gilt titling. Binding beginning to weaken. Slight rubbing. Occasional very pale spotting. 64pp + adverts. featuring 45 routes. Folding map to rear pocket.
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Metropolis Improvements
pub.August 1836. Rebound in red cloth with gilt titling. 61pp of report,proceedings, minutes and appendix + 15 large folding litho. plans, partly hand coloured, illustrating proposed new streets and alterations to existing ones - including discussion of the purchase and removal of tolls from Waterloo and Southwark Bridges. Some marginal dusting and occasional splitting to folds.
Ogilby s Road Maps of England and Wales
(from John Ogilby’s Britannia 1675). pub. Osprey. 1971. Original red cloth with gilt titling. General map + 100 double page strip road maps. Portrait, title page, index, etc. Hardly used. SOLD
History of Caerphilly Castle
“Morien” (O.Morien Morgan). pub. Jones Bros. Treforest. 1905. Original red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Slight sunning to edges. 158pp. B/w illusts. + plan. Neat marginal notes to pp. 83 and 133.
Bygone Liverpool
Henry and Harold Young. pub. Henry Young and Sons Liverpool. 1913. Original cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Slightly darkened and bumped. Uncut. Frontis + 96 plates with descriptive text. Ink signature of ‘x.x. Young Dec. 1913′ to ffep.
Water Works Fittings Catalogue
Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd. 1931. Original green cloth with gilt titling. Approx. 400pp + index. Reduced from larger volume. Neat ink receipt stamp to ffep. Fully illustrated. Hardly used.
Cook's Practical Guide to Algeria and Tunisia
pub. Thomas Cook & Son. 1908. Original light blue cloth picture boards, somewhat used. Gilt titling. 420pp + 20pp of prelims. 11pp of adverts. Eps missing. 4 folding maps and photographic ills.
Domesday Studies: an analysis and digest of the Staffordshire Survey
Rev. Robert W. Eyton. pub. Trubner & Co. 1881. Original decorated cloth boards. Gilt titling to spine. Some rubbing and weakening. 135pp inc. index and errata + subscibers list + 8 tables. Subscriber copy – bookplate of James Henry Stone JP (brother of John Benjamin Stone MP and photographer).
(Stafford) Castle Church with some account of its Parish and Manor and of its Escheat tempore Henry viii
Anon. (but T.J. de Mazzinghi). printed Harrison and Sons London. n.d. (but 1877). Marbled boards. Half leather binding. Slight loss to head and base of spine. Internally clean and tight. 152pp + addenda + index. Originally part of ‘Historical Collections for Staffordshire’.
