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CHEPSTOW TOWN GATE
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1327840
Published by Chepstow Town Council. 1986. Very good condition.

Card wrap booklet. ISBN: 0951125508. Spotting to spine edge of rear cover. Contents fine.

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BRUNEL'S TUBULAR SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WYE
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1327839
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wrap booklet. 500 printed. B/w photos. Reprint of the 1856 pamphlet with additional illustrations and notes. ISBN: 090027834X. Some light foxing to rear cover. Light vertical crease to the margin of the fold-out plate at the back of the book. Contents fine.

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CHEPSTOW ROAD BRIDGES
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1327837
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1980. Slightly better than very good condition.

White cardwrap booklet. 500 copies printed. B/w illustrations. 19 pages. ISBN: 0906134099. Light crease to top corners of front cover and first few pages.

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THE PARISH DOCTOR
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1327834
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st thus 1984. Nearly fine condition.

Chepstow Series No. 2. Green pictorial card wraps. 20 pages. ISBN: 0906134242.

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POOR PEOPLE
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1327833
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st thus 1984. Nearly fine condition.

Chepstow Series No. 3. Blue card wrap booklet. 39 pages. ISBN: 0906134269. Minimal rubbing to corners.

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THE WINE TRADE OF THE PORT OF CHEPSTOW
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1327832
Published by The Chepstow Society. Almost very good condition.

1019 copies printed. Card wrap booklet with orange covers. Fading to front cover edges. Top of spine is been bumped. Contents clean.

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CHEPSTOW CELEBRATES 1851-1951
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1327831
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1950. Good condition.

White pictorial card wrap 10 page booklet. Covers a bit grubby. Name in ink inside front cover. Light vertical crease to covers and pages (as though the book was folded in half at some point). Contents clean.

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RALPH TAILOR'S SUMMER: A SCRIVENER, HIS CITY, AND THE PLAGUE
Written by Keith Wrightson.
Stock no. 1828153
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780300174472. Name & date in ink to half-title page else a lovely copy.

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CITIES OF THE WORLD: 363 ENGRAVINGS REVOLUTIONIZE THE VIEW OF THE WORLD
Written by Georg Braun; Franz Hogenberg; Stephan Fussel.
Stock no. 1327829
Published by Taschen. 2011. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Complete edition of the colour plates of 1572-1617. Very large and very heavy book. Orange cloth with black titles. 501 pages including index. Colour plates throughout. ISBN: 9783836526852. Spine very slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed. Contained in a pictorial slipcase which is very slightly edge rubbed and has a small nick to centre of spine.

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FAMILY AND DYNASTY IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1977 HARLAXTON SYMPOSIUM
Written by Richard Eales; Shaun Tyas.
Stock no. 1828152
Published by Shaun Tyas. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume IX. Edited by Eales & Tyas. Many of the families examined in this volume show a rearkable resilience to adversity. They could rise in favour as quickly as fall from it, but the shock of disinheritance which faced many families during political reversals, especially after failed bids for greater power, is balanced by their not infrequent recover of title, sometimes decades later. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates to rear. ISBN: 1900289547. Name & date in ink to front endpaper else a lovely copy. Green dustwrapper is lightly creased and lightly scuffed.

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THE LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Written by Nicholas J. Higham; Martin J. Ryan.
Stock no. 1828151
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited by Higham and Ryan. Publications of The Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Volume 9. Topics here range from the impact of coppicing to medieval field systems, from the representation of the landscape in manuscripts to cereal production and the type of bread the population preferred, these offer striking new approaches to the central issues of landscape change across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England. Matt pictorial boards. B/w maps and illustrations. ISBN: 9781843835820. Minor scuffing to boards. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Else a lovely copy.

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LANDSCAPES, DOCUMENTS AND MAPS: VILLAGES IN NORTHERN ENGLAND AND BEYOND AD 900-1250
Written by Brian K. Roberts.
Stock no. 1828150
Published by Oxbow Books. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book integrates evidence from geography, history, economic history, archaeology, place-name studies, anthropology and church architecture. The underlying subject matter always engages with landscape studies. The objective is to combine these with the descriptive and analytical practices of history, and to draw both together using the cartographic methods of historical geography. Red glazed pictorial boards. B/w maps. ISBN: 9781842172377. Base of spine lightly bumped. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Else a lovely copy.

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