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LEICESTER ABBEY: MEDIEVAL HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
Written by Joanna Story; Jill Bourne; Richard Buckley.
Stock no. 2136584
Published by The Leicestershire Archaeological And Historical Society. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Maroon boards, larger format. Gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780954238810. Pale page edge browning. Wrapper edges have some wear.

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PACKMEN, CARRIERS AND PACKHORSE ROADS: TRADE AND COMMUNICATIONS IN NORTH DERBYSHIRE AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Written by David Hey.
Stock no. 1823388
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A network of routes travelled by packmen, carriers and packhorse teams carried much of Britain's trade before the era of the turnpike road. In many parts of the country, a wealth of visual evidence survives - holloways, causeys, guide stoops and packhorse bridges. This book studies the system of routes, taking as an example the wild and difficult terrain of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0718511921. Board corners lightly bumped. Minor mark to lower edge of text block. Contents otherwise fine. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at top of spine and lightly scuffed.

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THE IRONSTONE QUARRIES OF THE MIDLANDS: HISTORY, OPERATION AND RAILWAYS PART VII RUTLAND
Written by Eric Tonks.
Stock no. 1823368
Published by Runpast Publishing. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1870754077. Pale browning to endpapers. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, rear panel is lightly scuffed.

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THE DERBYSHIRE MINERAL STATISTICS: METALLIFEROUS AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS 1845-1913
Written by Roger Burt; Peter Waite; Michael Atkinson; Ray Burnley.
Stock no. 1823355
Published by The Mining Research Group. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

This is the first volume only in a continuing series of county studies of metalliferous mining in Britain during the 70 years preceding the First World War. White cardwraps. ISBN: 0950762407. A few scuff marks to covers. Contents clean.

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THE DERBYSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL VOLUME CIII FOR THE YEAR 1983
Written by Graeme Barker; D.V. Fowkes.
Stock no. 1819478
Published by Moorland Publishing. 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Grey cardwraps. B/w illustrations. Contents include: The Survey and Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement Area at Mount Pleasant, Kenslow; The prehistoric Pottery from Mam Tor: Further considerations; Excavations at Poole's Cavern, Buxton: an Interim Report; The Curzons of Fifteenth-Century Derbyshire; and more.

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HANDBOOK FOR NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND RUTLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1208690
Published by John Murray. 1st 1878. Good condition.

Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles. With Map. A Murray's Guide. Map in rear pocket present and complete without tears. Covers marked. Spine browned with wear and small split at top. Joints cracked. Tear to lower edge of front endpaper. Name and date in ink to half-title page. Foxspots to prelims else contents clean. A sound copy of the first edition.

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RECORDS OF THE BOROUGH OF LEICESTER VOL VI
Written by G.A. Chinnery.
Stock no. 1813066
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 1967. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Chamberlains' Accounts 1688-1835. Edited by Chinnery. Blue cloth boards, gilt title and crest to spine. Folding map to rear. xii and 581 pages including index. ISBN: 0718510690. Light blue dustwrapper is slightly faded at spine, slightly worn at edges.

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THE NOTTINGHAM & MELTON RAILWAY 1872 - 1990
Written by Colin Aldworth.
Stock no. 1608016
1991. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. Reprint. Covers slightly grubby, old price sticker to rear cover. Old receipt stuck to inside of rear cover.

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ASPECTS OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Written by Michael J. Elsden.
Stock no. 2118177
Published by Michael J. Elsden. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Bright orange cloth with gilt titles B/w photos. SIGNED by author to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased, with some light fading to spine.

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CORBY A PICTORIAL HISTORY
Written by Ron Sismey.
Stock no. 2117880
Published by Phillimore. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. Maroon boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0850338611. Bump to base of spine. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing.

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THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE
Written by John Heath.
Stock no. 1809457
Published by Barracuda Books. 1st 1982. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. This is a Limited edition. A complete list of original subscribers to rear. ISBN: 0860231275. A nice, clean copy.

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A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SCARSDALE MISCELLANY
Written by Philip Riden; J.V. Beckett; J.P. Polak; et al.
Stock no. 2113468
Published by Derbyshire Record Society. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Contains 'The Scarsdale Surveys of 1652-62' edited by Beckett and Polak; 'The Autobiography of Leonard Wheatcroft'; Lawrence Oxley's Accounts, 1672-81 etc. ISBN: 0946324166. Some marks to outer page edges. Pages internally have some wrinkling.

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