WEST COUNTRY FARMS: HOUSE-AND-ESTATE SURVEYS, 1598-1764
Written by Nat Alcock; Cary Carson.
Stock no. 1828362
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This major innovative study explores the significance of a unique type of document that has hitherto been almost unknown to scholars. House-and-estate surveys - which add details of the village's houses, outhouses, and farm buildings to the standard evidence of an estate survey - survive for South-West England for the period from the end of the 16th to the mid-18th century. Large format. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and colour photos. ISBN: 9781842172995. Previous owner's initials and date in ink to top corner of front endpaper. Else a lovely copy.

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A HISTORIC GUIDE TO THE ALMSHOUSE OF ST. JOHN BAPTIST AND ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST SHERBORNE
Written by Charles Herbert.
Stock no. 1327849
Published by Oxford University Press; John Johnson. 1926. Very good condition.

Blue paperwraps with black titles and vignettes. B/w plates and photos. 80 pages. Covers lightly creased and lightly browned at edges.

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ALTON PANCRAS: PEOPLE AND HOUSES 1841-2006
Written by Colin Dean. Illustrated by Mike Squires.
Stock no. 1327844
Published by Alton Pancras History Project. 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

White spiral bound cardwraps. B/w photos. 102 numbered pages (includes index and a couple of blank pages to rear). Textblock is slightly fingered. A near fine copy.

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AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET: VOLUME TWO SOUTH-EAST (3 VOLUMES)
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827723
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England. 1st 1970. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Describing the contents of 53 parishes in the south-eastern part of Dorset, in three seperately bound parts. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt titles and crest to front. B/w photos, illustrations and plans, some folding. Maps in pocket to rear. A very heavy set. ISBN: 011700457X. A lovely set. Price-cut dustwrappers are lightly rubbed at corners.

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AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET: VOLUME FIVE EAST DORSET
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827722
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England; Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Describing the contents of 25 parishes in the eastern part of Dorset. Large format. Grey cloth boards, gilt titles and crest to front. Colour tipped-in frontis, b/w photos and plans, some folding. Maps in pocket to rear. ISBN: 0117007218. A few minor marks to cloth boards. Else a lovely copy. All maps present in rear pocket. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners.

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AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET: VOLUME FOUR NORTH DORSET
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827721
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Describing the contents of 34 parishes in the northern part of Dorset. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt titles and crest to front. Colour frontis, b/w photos and plans, some folding. Maps in pocket to rear. ISBN: 011700460X. A lovely copy. All maps present in rear pocket. Picotrial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to top of spine.

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WIMBORNE MINSTER: THE HISTORY OF A COUNTRY TOWN
Written by Jude James.
Stock no. 1826072
Published by Dovecote Press. 1983. Very good condition.

Orange cardwraps. B/w photos. Reprint. Spine faded. Corners rubbed. Rear copver a little scuffed. Strong smell of tobacco present else a clean copy.

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DORSET SPORTING RUNS
Written by Rodney Legg; Chris Copson.
Stock no. 1826060
Published by Halsgrove. 1st 2001. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Huntsmen writing on hunting through the best of hunting country. Drawing on original and exhilarating accounts, the author presents a fascinating panorama of a Dorset which remained largely unaltered well into the twentieth century. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1841140821. Front joint between board and contents not glued down meaning front board can pull out of place but binding is still tight. Top edge of text block grubby. Corner crease to one or two pages. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is ligthly rubbed at corners and lightly creased across top edge.

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THE WEYMOUTH HARBOUR TRAMWAY
Written by J.H. Lucking.
Stock no. 1824115
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Countless summer visitors, as well as passengers for the Channel Islands and France, have come to know Weymouth as 'the place where the trains run through the street'. This comprehensive study provides a full account, from arly unfulfilled proposals in the 1840s, through the line's horse-drawn bneginnings in the 1860s and long years of commercial importance, to the almost complete decline following the withdrawal of freight traffic in 1970. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0860933040. Top corners of boards bumped. Lower board edges browned and with red pen marks to corners and lower text block. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, tiny nick to top 1/3 of spine and corners rubbed.

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THE BIRDS OF DORSET
Written by E.D.V. Prendergast; J.V. Boys.
Stock no. 2140707
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive account of the birdlife of dorset. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715383809. Foxing and marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine and edges with some marks and foxing; small tear hole on spine, repaired to verso with sticky tape.

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A VILLAGE HERITAGE: THE STORY OF BLANDFORD ST. MARY
Written by T.F. Almack.
Stock no. 1823599
Published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd.. Circa 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a much loved village in Dorset. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. Tape marks to endpapers and dustwrapper flaps. Text block lightly browned.

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DORCHESTER 1854: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A COUNTY TOWN SEEN THROUGH ITS LOCAL NEWSPAPER
No author listed.
Stock no. 2137691
Published by Dorchester Community Play Research Group. 1ST 1985. Very good condition.

A portrait of the Dorchester of 1854 from the chroniclers of the time. Large format. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. B/w photos. ISBN: 0951068717. Light wear to cover edges.

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