MANUEL DES MARINS OU EXPLICATION DES TERMES DE MARINE TOME I & II
Written by Bourde.
Stock no. 818625
1773. Almost very good condition.

Sailors Handbook, explanation of the nautical terms. Two volumes bound as one. Calf leather binding, raised bands to spine, brown title label with gilt title to top of spine, gilt decoration between bands of spine. Marbled endpapers. Text in French. Leather boards marked, edges worn exposing board. Front and rear hinge pulled. Some annotation to verso of half-title page and index page. Text block a little marked. Some scattered foxing and margin marks as to be expected in a book almost 250 years old. A very nice copy of a scarce antiquarian book. Text in French.

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NOTES ON THE OLD CROSSES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by Charles Pooley.
Stock no. 817875
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1868. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth. Gilt titles. Colour frontis. B/w lithographs and engravings. Book: name in ink to front endpaper. Some pencil annotation to index. Corners bumped and rubbed.

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A CONCISE HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM
No author listed.
Stock no. 817589
Published by R. Jabet And Co.. 1817. Slightly better than good condition.

Small format. 7 x 4 inches. Grey boards. 3 b/w plates. One folding map and b/w text illustrations. 124 pages. Rebacked with matching cloth spine. Boards a little grubby.

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HISTORY OF THE WHITGIFT GRAMMAR SCHOOL
No author listed.
Stock no. 817253
Published by W.D. Hayward. 1892. Good condition.

Together with A Register of All Whitgiftians from 1871 to 1892. B/w portrait frontis. Folding colour plan. List of subscribers. 509 pages. 10 x 8 inches. Dark green boards, gilt vignette to front cover. Top edge gilt. Contents very good. Leather spine missing. Handwritten title on spine paper.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE WOOLHOPE NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB 1893-1894
No author listed.
Stock no. 817235
Published by Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club. 1896. Very good condition.

Dark green cloth, gilt titles. Colour plates. List of members. Inscription in pencil to title page. Contents very good indeed.

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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GROCERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON
Written by John Benjamin Heath.
Stock no. 817052
Published by The Worshipful Company Of Grocers. 1854. Good condition.

Large format. 10.5 x 7 inches. Brown embossed cloth. Gilt title to spine and gilt crest to front cover. B/w frontis. B/w text illustrations. 2nd edition. Contents very good. Top of spine split and repaired. Base of spine bumped and worn. Corners rubbed. Covers and gilt dull.

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THE ENGLISH ART OF COOKERY
Written by Richard Briggs.
Stock no. 816819
Published by G.G. And J. Robinson. 1794. Very good condition.

According to the Present Practice; Being a Complete Guide to All Housekeepers on a Plan Entirely New Consisting of 38 Chapters. 12 b/w illustrations of Bills of Fare. Modern tan full leather binding with red title label and gilt title to spine. xx + 564 pages. Bookplate of Eleanor Lowenstein to front cover, the author of 'The Bibliography Of American Cookery Books 1742-1860'. First few pages are foxed at edges, light browning to contents which in general are very good indeed. In a very handsome binding.

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THE HISTORY OF WALES
Written by B.B. Woodward.
Stock no. 816528
Published by Virtue And Co.. 1854. Almost very good condition.

From the Earliest times to it's final incorporation into the Kingdom of England with notices of its Physical Geography, and Mineralwealth, and of the Religion and Literature, Laws, Customs, manners and Arts of the Welsh. Black leather spine and corners. Gilt title to spine. Marbled edges. 76 b/w plates (including illustrated title page). 608 pages. Book: all plates present. Front joint slightly split. Corners and spine edges worn. REDUCED FROM £150.

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HERALDIC VISITATIONS OF WALES
Written by Samuel Rush Meyrick.
Stock no. 816480
Published by William Rees. 1st 1846. Slightly better than good condition.

Very large format. 14.5 x 11 inches. Two volumes. Gilt titles to spines. Numerous b/w illustrations. Lithograph of drinking horn as frontis to Vol I. B/w frontis to Vol II. List of subscribers in Vol I. Pagination: Vol I xxxii + 340 pages; Vol II 370 pages. Inscriptions in ink to front endpapers. Corners bumed and worn. Top and tail of spines bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly scuffed. Contents very good.

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MUSICAL AND POETICAL RELICKS OF THE WELSH BARDS
Written by Edward Jones.
Stock no. 816482
Published by Edward Jones. 1794. Very good condition.

Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards: Preserved, by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts, From Very Remote Antiquity; Never Before Published. To the Bardic Tunes are Added Variations for the Harp, Harpsichord, Violin or Flute: With a Select Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, or, Epigrammatic Stanzas, Poetical Blossoms, and Pastoral Songs of Wales With English Translations. Likewise a General History of the Bards and Druids, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Account of Their Music and Poetry. To Which is Prefixed a Copious Dissertation on the Musical Instruments of the Aboriginal Britons. A New Edition Doubly Augmented and Improved. Large format. 13.5 x 9.5 inches. Full brown leather binding. Gilt titles, decorations and raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers. B/w frontis after Loutherbourg. PLus one b/w plate of harps. viii + 183 pages including numerous pages of musical score. List of subscribers at front. Verso of frontis foxed. Some marks and browning to contents else generally clean. Board edges rubbed but overall a handsome copy.

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THE ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD
Written by Richard Johnson.
Stock no. 816426
Published by J.B. Nichols and Son; E.K. Jakeman. 1st 1868. Very good condition.

Brown cloth. Gilt title to spine. Full-colour half-title page. viii + 176 pages + 1 page Town Council list + 1 page list of Mayors + 1 page notes. 4 newspaper columns of obtuaries of Mr. Alderman Anthony pasted on first two blank pages. A small amount of ink annotation to text.

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PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN
Written by William Cullen Bryant.
Stock no. 816352
Published by D. Appleton & Company. 1872. Fair condition.

Two volumes. Large format. Full brown leather binding, raised bands and gilt gilt decorations to spine. Gilt titles and decorations to front cover. All edges gilt. Numerous b/w steel engravings. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities and Other Picturesque Features of our Country. 12.5 x 10 inches. Book: all plates present. Damage to first two pages of Volume I, with slight loss; damage horizontally to front board (small dip to centre as if tightly bound by a rubber band at some point). Dampstaining to both volumes also affecting plates. Hinge of front board of Volume II slightly cracked; mark to frontis and title page. Edges a little worn. Name in ink to prelims of both volumes and page edge browning. Overall, not too bad for the age, size and weight of books.

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