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THE LANDSCAPE OF PLACE-NAMES
Written by Margaret Gelling; Ann Cole.
Stock no. 1830227
Published by Shaun Tyas.
1st
2000.
Slightly better than very good condition.
A study of the type of settlement-name which defines the settlement by reference to a landscape feature, as found in Britain south of the Forth-Clyde line. A major rewrite of the author's previous work: Place-names in the Landscape. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and maps. xxiv and 391 pages including index. ISBN: 1900289261. Light vertical crease to spine (formed from reading). Text block very lightly browned, with minor marks. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- PLACE-NAMES
COVENTRY PRIORY REGISTER
Written by Peter Coss; Joan C. Lancaster Lewis; Nat Alcock.
Stock no. 1830226
Published by The Dugdale Society.
1st
2013.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Dugdale Society Vol. 46. The Coventry Priory Register is a precious survivor from the rich records that once existed of the Benedictine monastery which lay at the centre of the city. The Register was compiled by an unknown monk and completed in or after 1419. Edited by Peter Coss and Joan C. Lancaster Lewis. With Coventry in 1411 by Nat Alcock and Indexes by Angela Coss. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. x and 723 pages. ISBN: 9780852200964. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WEST MIDLANDS
- WARWICKSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
THE GREYWACKE: HOW A PRIEST, A SOLDIER AND A SCHOOLTEACHER UNCOVERED 300 MILLION YEARS OF HISTORY
Written by Nick Davidson.
Stock no. 1830224
Published by Profile Books.
1st
2021.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Nick Davidson follows in the footsteps of Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Murchison and Charles Lapworth, letting us see as if for the first time, some of the most intoxicating scenery in Britain, from the West Country to the Scottish Highlands. Drawing on wonderfully vivid diaries, letters, field notes and contemporary accounts, 'The Greywacke' is a momentous drama of discovery, and an irresistible celebrtion of our wild places. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 280 pages including index. ISBN: 9781788163774. A lovely copy. White pictorial dustwrapper is slightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- GEOLOGY
- HISTORY
AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD
Written by Susan Whitfield.
Stock no. 1830222
Published by Serindia Publications.
1st
2004.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Evocatively illustrated account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who travelled the Silk Road nearly a century ago in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and the seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim monk Xuanzang. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 143 pages including index. ISBN: 1932476113. 1cm crease to cloth at top front edge of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- ASIA
- ART
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- EXPLORATION
- TRAVEL
- BUDDHISM
- BIOGRAPHY
THE HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNT BOOK OF SIR THOMAS PUCKERING OF WARWICK, 16:20: LIVING IN LONDON AND THE MIDLANDS WITH HIS PROBATE INVENTORY, 1637
Written by Mark Merry; Catherine Richardson.
Stock no. 1830220
Published by The Dugdale Society.
1st
2012.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Dugdale Society Vol. 45. Edited by Mark Merry and Catherine Richardson. A rare and significant insight into the life and society of a baronet and member of parliament. The accounts record both routine occurences , such as weeding the garden or paying servants' wages, and extraordinary events such as the building of a banqueting house of the welcoming of travelling players. Blue cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. x and 341 pages. ISBN: 9780852200933. Couple of minor foxspots to vertical edge of text block else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, vertical creasing to rear flap.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- WARWICKSHIRE
- LONDON
CELTIC AND ANGLO-SAXON ART: GEOMETRIC ASPECTS
Written by Derek Hull.
Stock no. 1830219
Published by Liverpool University Press.
1st
2003.
Very good condition.
Much of early medieval Celtic and Anglo-Saxon art is based on the display of motifs - key, interlacing, spiral and zoomorphic - in well-defined panels in simple and complex arrays. This book reflects the author's life-long interest in interpreting the exciting and exotic patterns revealed by scientific studies using light and electron microoscopes. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 254 pages including index. ISBN: 085323549X. A few minor marks to covers, spine faded but title bright, minor foxing to vertical edge of text block. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- ART
- CELTS
- ANGLO-SAXON
- HISTORY
BEACONS IN THE LANDSCAPE: THE HILLFORTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Written by Ian Brown.
Stock no. 1830218
Published by Windgather Press Ltd..
1st
2009.
Very good condition.
Were the hillforts of Britain's landscape something special by those who created them or is the 'hillfort' purely an archaeologists' 'construct'? How were they built, who lived in them and to what uses were they put? A valuable synthesis of the rich vein of research carried out in England and Wales on hillforts. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos, b/w illustrations. xi and 267 pages including index. ISBN: 9781905119226. A lovely copy, marred only by creasing to tip of lower corners from page 181 to the rear cover.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- LANDSCAPE
- ARCHITECTURE
GANGSTA GRANNY
Written by David Walliams.
Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1330083
Published by Harper Collins Childrens Books.
1st
2011.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Ben's granny is a textbook granny and an international jewel thief! Black boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. B/w illustrations. 296 pages. ISBN: 9780007371440. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at edges.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
THE RIVER RUNNING BY
Written by Joan Fleming-Yates.
Stock no. 1330082
Published by Wedderburn Art Ltd..
1st
2005.
Nearly fine condition.
An Historical Journey Through the Monnow Valley. Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 1905037058. Minimal rubbing to corner tips of covers. Faint indentations to front cover where book has been leant on to write.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- RIVERS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
MORE MEMORIES OF A DEAN FOREST RAILWAYMAN
Written by Bob Barnett.
Stock no. 1330081
Published by Silver Link Publishing.
1st
2008.
Very good condition.
Working Lives Series. Railway Heritage from the Nostalgia Collection. Card wraps. B/w photos. SIGNED by the author by means of an inscription to title-page. Minimal rubbing to corners. Contents otherwise fine.
BRITISH RAILWAYS PAST AND PRESENT No. 16 AVON, COTSWOLDS AND THE MALVERNS
Written by Geoff Dowling; John Whitehouse.
Stock no. 1330077
Published by Past & Present Publishing.
2006.
Nearly fine condition.
Over 250 photographs black & white and colour taking a nostalgic and comparative look at the area's railways. Card wraps. 144 pages. ISBN: 1858950775. Minimal rubbing to corners.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- RAILWAYS
- SOUTH WEST UK
- COTSWOLDS
- WORCESTERSHIRE
- WEST MIDLANDS
THE OLD INDUSTRIES OF DEAN
Written by David E. Bick.
Stock no. 1330075
Published by The Forest Bookshop.
1989.
Very good condition.
Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0946252208. Corner tips of covers very slightly rubbed. Pencil markings erased from title-page.