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A SHIPMAN'S TALE
Written by T.W.E. Roche.
Stock no. 809308
Published by Town & Country Press. 1st 1971. Very good condition.

Reminiscenes of ships of Devon from the 1920s to the time of publication (1971). Green cardwraps. B/w photos. Covers a little scuffed and slightly creased. Contents fine.

FROM TRACKWAY TO TURNPIKE
Written by Gilbert Sheldon.
Stock no. 597989
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

An Illustration From East Devon. Brick-red cloth, gilt titles. B/w maps. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Corners bumped and rubbed.

DEVON'S CENTURY OF CHANGE
Written by Helen Harris.
Stock no. 597930
Published by Peninsula Press. 1st 1998. Fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 1872640478.

THE DARTMOOR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Written by Peter Hamilton-Leggett.
Stock no. 597849
Published by Devon Books. 1st 1992. As new condition in a fine dustwrapper.

1534-1991. Including a 1992 supplement. A reference work on the non-fiction books and articles published on Dartmoor. 7000 entries. ISBN: 0861148738. ----

THE TEIGNMOUTH GUIDE
Written by N.T. Carrington.
Stock no. 597671
Published by E. & George Henry Croydon. Circa 1863. Very good condition.

Containing a Description of the Town and of the Places and Remarkable Points of Interest in the Neighbourhood. The Excursions and Walks, Climate Etc. By Several Literary Gentlemen (Carrington and others). 14th edition with considerable additions. Small format. 7" x 4". Brown embossed cloth. Folding b/w map as frontis. 14th Editoin. Spine lightly browned. Corners bumped and rubbed. Reduced from £150

NARRATIVES OF TWO EXCURSIONS TO THE PORTS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
Written by Charles Dupin.
Stock no. 597613
Published by Richard Phillips. Very good condition.

In 1816, 1817 and 1818; Together With a Description of the Breakwater at Plymouth and Also of the Caledonian Canal. Translated from the French of Charles Dupin, Captain in the Corps of Naval Engineers and Member of the Institute of France. And Illustrated by Notes, Critical and Explanatory by the Translator. Two colour illustrations. Folding b/w plan. In modern light grey paperboards with gilt title to spine "Dupin Narratives". Undated but presumably c1818.

THE BANKS OF TAMAR
Written by N.T. Carrington.
Stock no. 597626
Published by John Murray. 1828. Very good condition.

A Poem With Other Pieces. A New Edition. Grey paperboards. Gilt title to spine. SIGNED by author.

KINGSBRIDGE ESTUARY WITH RAMBLES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Written by S.P. Fox.
Stock no. 597376
Published by G.P. Friend. 1st 1864. Very good condition.

Red embossed cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 26 original mounted albumen photographs. 172 pages. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Rebacked some time ago with original spine laid down. Covers very slightly grubby.

VIEWS IN DEVONSHIRE
Written by T.H. Williams.
Stock no. 587489
Published by I. Murray; I. Harding. 1st 1804. Almost very good condition.

Full brown leather binding. Gilt titles, decorations and raised bands to spine. ix + 40 + 108 pages including list of subscribers. 21 engraved plates plus engraved title page. Bookplate of the Lloyd family of Leaton Knolls of Shropshire is on front pastedown. Front of spine cracked causing front board to be slightly loose. Contents are very good.

JOHN LYDFORD'S BOOK
Written by Dorothy M. Owen.
Stock no. 578577
Published by HMSO. 1st 1974. Fine condition.

Pale grey card wraps. Devon and Cornwall Record Society. New Series. Vol. 20.

REMARKABLE ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF EXETER
Written by Richard Izacke; Samuel Izacke.
Stock no. 682846
Published by Edw. Score And John March. 1724. Good condition.

Giving an account of the Laws and Customs of the Place; The Offices, Court of Judicature; Gates, Walls, Rivers, Churches, and Immunities; The Titles and Privileges of the several Corporations, and their different coat of arms, finely engraven on Copper Plates. With a Catalogue of all the Bishops, Mayors, and Sheriffs from the Year 1049 to 1677. Brown leather binding. Gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. Folding plan. B/w coats of arms. iii pages plus 213 pages plus extensive index and catalogue of sheriffs. Second edition, enlarged and continued. Rebacked with attractive tan calf binding. New endpapers. Corners worn. Contents near fine with just a few foxspot to prelims. Map has a small closed tear.