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HISTORIC LANDSCAPE OF THE WELD ESTATE DORSET
Written by Laurence Keen; Ann Carreck.
Stock no. 1827743
Published by Lulworth Heritage Ltd.. 1st 1987. Nearly fine condition.

The Weld Estate, covers some 12,500 acres of which the focal point is Lulworth Castle. The Weld Family archive of documents and maps has enable the estate to be examined in detail with regard to its archaeology, history and natural history. Much of the estate is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Pictorial cardwraps and 10 maps contained in folding hardboard pictorial wallet. ISBN: 0951157507. A nice copy. All maps present.

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AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET: VOLUME THREE CENTRAL DORSET (2 VOLUMES)
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827727
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England. 1st 1970. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Describing the contents of 58 parishes in the centre of Dorset, in two volumes. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt titles and crest to front. B/w frontis, b/w photos and plans, some folding. Maps in pocket to rear of part 2. ISBN: 0117011932. A lovely set. Maps present in rear folder. Price-cut pictorial dustwrappers are lightly rubbed at corners, part 2 has a tiny tear at lower front panel.

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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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HOD HILL VOLUME ONE: ANTIQUITIES FROM HOD HILL IN THE DURDEN COLLECTION
Written by J.W. Brailsford.
Stock no. 1827549
Published by The Trustees Of The British Museum. 1st 1962. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Hod Hill holds an early Iron Age hill-fort and Roman fort. B/w illustrations and plates. Green cloth boards, silver title to spine. A lovely copy. Dustwrapper is a little browned and slightly grubby.

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A BRIDPORT CAMERA
Written by John Sales.
Stock no. 1326503
Published by Dovecote Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Bridport's character as a bustling market town is superbly documented by the more than 150 b/w photographs, many of which have never been published before. Cardwraps. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0946159351. Minimal rubbing to corners and slight sunning to spine. Contents fine.

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THE BOOK OF THE MARTYRS OF TOLPUDDLE 1834-1934
No author listed. Illustrated by David Low; J.F. Horrabin; W.G. Easton.
Stock no. 1826743
Published by The Trades Union Congress General Council. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

The story of the Dorsetshire labourers who were convicted and sentenced to seven years transportation for forming a trade union. Large format. Three-quarters green/blue calf leather, blue cloth boards, colour frontis, colour plates, b/w photos and illustrations. Top edge gilt. Top & tail of spine & corners worn, base of spine has some discolouration. Some staining to rear board. Text block browned. Some foxing and a few grubby marks throughout. Name in ink and also in pencil to front endpaper. Remains of dustwrapper included, loosely inserted.

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DORSET A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Michael Pitt-Rivers.
Stock no. 1826368
Published by Faber & Faber. 1968. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth. B/w photos. New edition. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and lightly browned.

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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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