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WATERWAYS POSTCARDS 1900-1930
Written by Hugh McKnight.
Stock no. 2107493
Published by Shepperton Swan. 1986. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0906986044. Spine is faded. Some creasing and wear to corners. A few marks to covers.

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THE CALL OF THE SEA
Written by Steve Humphries.
Stock no. 2107382
Published by BBC Books. 1st 1997. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. A unique record of Britain's maritime past. ISBN: 056338722X. Wrapper is price-cut with light edge-creasing and browning to spine.

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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES OF BRITAIN
Written by Anthony Burton.
Stock no. 2107369
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0297773739. Covers are unevenly faded. Wrapper has a few large closed tears and uneven fading; only a couple of small chips of loss.

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PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH
No author listed. Illustrated by Alexander William.
Stock no. 1805998
Published by John Murray. 1st 1814. Very good condition.

50 hand-coloured aquatint plates, each followed with a page of descriptive text. Modern calf binding, three quarters red leather with blue title block & gilt title and raised bands to spine. Red cloth boards. New, grey marbled endpapers. Leather binding nice and clean. Slight mottling to vertical edge of cloth boards. Scattered spotting throughout and a few grubby marks. All plates present. A delightful copy.

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THE BOOK OF NORTH WALES
Written by Charles Frederick Cliffe.
Stock no. 2107060
Published by Hamilton, Adams & Co.. 1851. Very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt titles. Scenery, Antiquities, Highways and Byeways, Lakes, Streams and Railways. 2nd edition. B/w illustrations. Large folding b/w map. Small format. Bumping and wear, with a couple of chips to spine and corners. Name in ink to verso of front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers. Fold-out map to rear has a couple of large tears along folds.

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NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY ASSOCIATED WITH A FLY FROM GLOUCESTER TO ABERYSTWITH AND FROM ABERYSTWITH THROUGH NORTH WALES
Written by Thomas Turner. Illustrated by D. Cox.
Stock no. 2107056
1st 1840. Good condition.

Green cloth covers; gilt title to spine. 11 b/w plates plus portrait frontis. The journey was undertaken July 21st to September 8th 1837. Privately printed. 2" split to cloth on spine down one edge and then horizontally across both ends of split. Spine is browned. Corners are bumped. Covers are marked. Dedicated by author (No Signature). Browning to pages.

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Y GANRIF AR LAFAR HYD EIN HOES LLEISIAU CYMRU
Written by R. Arwel Jones.
Stock no. 1805866
Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd. 1st 1999. Nearly fine condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Text in Welsh. B/w photos. ISBN: 0752418459. Corners lightly rubbed, contents fine.

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THE DARBYS AND THE IRONBRIDGE GORGE
Written by Brian Bracegirdle; Patricia H. Miles.
Stock no. 1603280
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0715364553. Spine and corners bumped. Wrapper lightly edge creased.

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THE MONMOUTHSHIRE ANTIQUARY VOLUME XXI
Written by Annette M. Burton.
Stock no. 1805772
Published by Monmouthshire Antiquarian Association. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition.

Grey pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Holocene Floodplain Sediments and Associated Archaeology of the Olway Valley (Gwent, UK): An Excavation Report; Roman and Medieval-Early Modern Building Stones in South : Sandstone and Dolomitic Conglomerate (Triassic); The Roads of Trelech: Investigation of the Development of the Medieval Town; Monmouthshire Journeys: The Visits to Monmouthshire of Sarah Eardley-Wilmot (Nee Haslam) in 1795 and 1802; Kingshill, Newport. Edges lightly rubbed. Contents fine.

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THE MOSS ROSE PRESS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Linda Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 1805648
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 150 copies. A complete list of the Chepstow Society and Moss Rose Press publications from 1948 to 1985. Green cloth. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0906134331. SIGNED by author and illustrators to free endpaper. Text block slightly dusty. Wrapper is grubby and lightly edge-worn.

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DEVON IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
Written by Gerald Wasley.
Stock no. 1603072
Published by Devon Books. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 1855227428. Spine bumped. Contents fine. Wrapper is edge creased with a couple of tiny chips.

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