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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 4
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 817469
Published by Stewart Williams. 1ST 1982. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807504. Price-cut wrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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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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MONOGRAPHS & COLLECTIONS I ROMAN SITES
Written by George C. Boon.
Stock no. 816556
Published by Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1978. Nearly fine condition.

Excavations in Wales. Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. Large folding b/w plans.

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MONOGRAPHS & COLLECTIONS I ROMAN SITES
Written by George C. Boon.
Stock no. 816562
Published by Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1978. Fine condition.

Excavations in Wales. Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. Large folding b/w plans.

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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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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
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. Dampstaining to corners of first 40 pages of Volume II else contents very good. Hinge of front board of Volume II slightly cracked. Edges a little worn.

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THE DESCRIPTION OF LEICESTERSHIRE
Written by William Burton.
Stock no. 816353
Published by W. Whittingham. 1777. Very good condition.

The Description of Leicestershire Containing Matters of Antiquity, History, Armoury and Genealogy by the Late William Burton Esq. The Second Edition Enlarged and Corrected. Large format. 15 x 9 inches. Brown leather spine and corners. Gilt decorations and title to spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Large paper edition. This copy contains a significant number of additional plates. Pagination: iv + 2 page list of subscribers + 298 pages + 4 page list of Sheriffs + 2 page index. Large folding map + two numbered plates. In addition there are 20 plates of views and heraldic shields. Tipped-in manuscript letter dated 1810 on front endpaper. 1 1/2 pages additional handwritten topographical and genealogical information on Scalford tipped-in to first blank page. Spine rubbed with small split at top. Boards slightly spotted. Corners bumped and worn. Blank pages browned, dampstain to last blank page. Contents very clean and bright. Overall a superb copy of this antiquarian history.

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