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A COLLECTION OF COATS OF ARMS BORNE BY THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOCESTER
No author listed.
Stock no. 628236
Published by J. Good. 1792. Almost very good condition.

Leather spine and corners. Gilt title to spine. 7 pages list of subscribers; 49 pages of text; 62 b/w heraldic plates with typically 6 images per plate. Marbled edges and endpapers. Large format, 12 x 9.5 inches. Book: all plates present. Title page browned. Some scattered foxing throughout. Plates in general clean and bright. Spine has 3 inch crack at base. Spine rubbed, corners worn. REDUCED FROM £440.

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MANWOOD'S TREATISE OF THE FOREST LAWS
Written by William Nelson.
Stock no. 628241
Published by E. Nutt. 1717. Almost very good condition.

Shewing Not Only the Laws Now in Force But the Original of Forests, What They Are, and How They Differ from Chases, Parks and Warrens With All Such Things As Are Incident to Either. Together With the Proper Terms of Art, Collected Out of the Common and Statute Laws of This Realm; as Also From the Assises and Iters of Pickering and Lancaster and Several Other Ancient and Learned Authors. Treating Also of the Offices of Agistors, Beadles, Foresters, Keepers, Rangers, Verderors and Woodwards and of the Courts of Attachment Etc. With All the Variety of Cases Relating to Forests, Chases, Parks and Warrens and All the Laws Concerning the Game Made, Adjudged or Repealed Since the Year 1665. The Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Full brown leather binding. Raised bands, gilt title to spine. 435 pages + 23 pages "The Table". Endpapers browned. Contents in general very good. Boards scuffed. Top and tail of spine chipped with loss. Corners worn.

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THE MODEL MERCHANT OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Written by Samuel Lysons.
Stock no. 809544
Published by Hamilton, Adams & Co.. 1st 1860. Very good condition.

Exemplified in the story of Whittington and His Cat being an attempt to rescue that interesting story from the region of fable and to place it in its proper position in the legitimate history of this country. Dark red cloth, gilt titles. 3 b/w plates plus 1 large folding genealogical table. Corners a little bumped and rubbed.

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BRITAIN 1996
No author listed.
Stock no. 808494
Published by HMSO. 1996. Very good condition.

An official handbook. Colour photos. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0117020249. Book: Ex-lib. Contents fine. Covers slightly browned.

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BRITAIN 1995
No author listed.
Stock no. 808493
Published by HMSO. 1995. Very good condition.

An official handbook. Colour photos. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0117018597. Book: Ex-lib. Minimal stamps. Contents fine.

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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF WINCHESTER (2 VOLUMES)
No author listed.
Stock no. 808371
Published by J. Wilkes. 1st 1773. Slightly better than good condition.

Setting forth its original constitution, government, manufactories, trade, commerce and navigation; its several wards, parishes, precincts, Districts, churches, religious and charitable foundations, and other public edifieces. Together with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of that ancient city. Two volumes. Small format. 7.5 x 4.5". Original grey boards with paper spines. 13 b/w plates. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Contents very good. Boards rubbed and slightly marked. Spines browned and chipped. REDUCED FROM £250.

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BOROUGH SESSIONS PAPERS 1653-1688
Written by Arthur J. Willis; Margaret J. Hoad.
Stock no. 807545
Published by Phillimore. 1st 1971. As new condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Portsmouth Record Series. This volume gives a fascinating picture of life in 17th century Portsmouth. It is a full summary of all the surviving papers of cases heard by the Borough Justices. Large format. Folding b/w map. Endpapers are also maps. ISBN: 0850330114.

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 23
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 807476
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1990. As new condition in a as new dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1870402502.

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MERTHYR HISTORIAN VOLUME 2
Written by Joseph Gross.
Stock no. 807500
Published by Merthyr Tydfil Historical Society. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0950484512. Name in ink to inside of front cover.

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANAESTHETIC APPARATUS
Written by K. Bryn Thomas.
Stock no. 807451
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1980. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A history based on the Charles King collection of the Association of Anaesthetists. Large format. Red cloth. B/w photos and illustrations. 268 pages includes index. ISBN: 0632001771. White pictorial dustwrapper is faded at edges and spine, small closed edge-tear at top.

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WE REMEMBER IT WELL
Written by Joan Collins.
Stock no. 807370
Published by Penarth Past Oral History Group. 1st 1995. Fine condition.

A Patchwork of Personal Recollections of Penarth. Glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 1872808360. SIGNED by author.

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