British Travel and Topography

Stone, Sir Benjamin Pictures Records of National Life and History, Festivals, Ceremonies and Customs.

London, Cassel & Co., circa 1905.
96 full page delightful and evocation photographs illustrating British festivals, ceremonies and customs forming a unique record of British tradition. The subjects include swan upping on the Thames, the Abbots Bromley horn dance, the Northumberland Baal fire and many others. The clarity and immediacy of these photographs testify that Sir Benjamin was no mean photographer. They are a delight.
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Price: £75.00
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Corbet Anderson, J. Antiquities of Croydon Church, Destroyed by Fire, January 5th, 1867.

Small 4to. (25.5x17.5cm), (iv) + 84 pages + 8 pages of adverts all of local Croydon businesses + 10 full page plates and many other illustrations within the text. A few spots of foxing, the brown endpapers a little faded. Bound in the original red cloth binding, the title etc. in gilt on the front cover. The cover somewhat marked, rubbed on the corners, the spine worn and frayed at the top and bottom, the cloth split on the front hinge for most of its length and the cloth on the rear hinge split for about 6cm. Read more about this item about Corbet Anderson, J. Antiquities of Croydon Church, Destroyed by Fire, January 5th, 1867.

Price: £80.00
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West, Thomas The Antiquities of Furness

The Antiquities of Furness, Thomas West

Ulverston, George Ashburner, 1805
A new edition with additions by William Close. 8vo. (21x12.5cm), xxiv+426 pages + index and seven plates. The title page rather browned and light browning and slight creasing to some pages. Bound in brown leather, the front cover nearly detached, the spine very worn with a piece of leather missing at the bottom of the spine (1.5x1.5cm). £85 Read more about this item about West, Thomas The Antiquities of Furness

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Britian at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

A Tour Through the British Isles

Wakefield, Priscilla

A Family Tour Through The British Empire

London, Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1814

By ’The British Empire’ the authoress means the United Kingdom, not overseas territories. Read more about this item about Britian at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Price: £24.00
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Wonderful London - Nostalgic Photographs

London, Many rare photographs

Sir. John Adcock - editor

Wonderful London

  The glory of this set of books are the black and white photographic illustrations. In the three volumes there must be considerably more than 500 pictures, many of them full page, evocative of the grandeur of London’s past, but also of the life of its streets and ordinary citizens. Even now one constantly looks at these pictures and says, ‘I remember that’, or ‘My dad told me about that’. They will give hours of pleasure to anyone who loves London. Read more about this item about Wonderful London - Nostalgic Photographs

Price: £60.00
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Survey of London Volumes XXXI and XXXII

Survey of London, 2 volumes, for sale

Survey of London Volumes XXXI and XXXII The Parish of St. James Westminster Part Two: North of Piccadilly

London, Athlone Press for London County Council, 1963.

Two volumes, 4to. (29x22.5cm). Both volumes with colour frontispieces. Volume XXXI: xii + pages 1- 338. Volume XXXII: xx + pages 339- 648 + 159 pages of illustrations from photographs. Many figures within the text and a folding plan in a pocket at the back of volume 2. Read more about this item about Survey of London Volumes XXXI and XXXII

Price: £85.00
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