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17 Penny pamphlets relating to Rochester.
17 Penny pamphlets relating to Rochester bound together as one, without wrappers, in 19th century cloth, the spine titled: 'Guide to Rochester.' Titles: Reminiscences of Old Rochester; The History of Rochester Castle; History of Rochester Cathedral; Bishops of Rochester; A Trip Down the River Medway; A Trip up the River Medway; Historic Houses of Old Rochester; The Life of Bishop Gundulph; The Priory of Rochester; Civic Rochester; Old Churches of Rochester; Local Legends; Quaint Kentish Epitaphs and Signs; Kentish Customs; The Guildhall, Rochester; Bygone Inns of Rochester; Guide to Rochester Castle. Binding a little faded, particularly at spine; name on endpaper; else very good.
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A BRIEF HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF MAIDSTONE AND ITS ENVIRORNS. By S.C.L.
Maidstone: Printed and Published by J. Brown, 1834. v, [4], 2-128 pages. Illustrated with a double-page map and nine engraved plates on India Paper. Original green cloth gilt. 203 x 127 mm. First edition. Some foxing to the map and, occasionally to the borders of the plates; slight loss at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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A Collection and abstract of all the material Deeds, Wills, Leases, and legal Documents, relating to the several Donations and Benefactions to the Church and Poor Parish of Dartford, in Kent, and of the ‘Spittal Alms-Houses, &c., &c. By John Landale, (late Churchwarden). And Published by him, at the desire of the several persons whose names are annexed as Subscribers.
London: John Hearne, 1829. viii, [4], 140, iv pages. Illustrated with three had-coloured plans, 2 of which are folding. Original paper-covered boards, sometime re-backed in plain cloth. Original printed title-label to upper board. 225 x 148 mm. The two large folding plans both have short tears near the margin; boards a little rubbed and knocked; armorial bookplate of George H. Whitehead, and blind-stamped address to title; else a very good copy.
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A COLLECTION OF THE STATUTES RELATING TO THE CINQUE PORTS.
London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, And by the Assigns of Henry Hills, deceas’d, 1726. [8], 128 pages. Contemporary calf, sometime re-labelled. 165 x 105 mm. Some worming in the lower margin in the middle section of the book, but not affecting text; some damp-staining; three bookplates; else very good. Scarce.
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of FOLKESTONE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. By J, Mackie, Esq., F.G.S., F.S.A. Etc., Etc. (second edition) with Gleaning from the Municipal Records, reprinted from the Folkestone Express.
Folkestone: J. English, 1883. vi, [2], 352 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth gilt. Octavo. Couple of signatures beginning to spring; else a very good copy.
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A GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY; accompanied by a History and Description, collected from the most authentic documents, and drawn up from repeated surveys of the Venerable Fabric. With descriptions of its monumental structures, and an account of its chapels, altars, shrines, and Chantries. Also comprising biographical sketches of the lives of the Archbishops, and Deans of Canterbury; and historical notices of the celebrated Convent of Christchurch; with list, and interesting particulars of its Deans, Priors, and distinguished monks. By W, Woolnoth; containing twenty plates, engraved by himself, from drawings by T. Hastings, Member of the Royal Liverpool Academy.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816. viii, 174 pages. Illustrated with an additional engraved pictorial title-page, engraved plan, and; 18 other engravings of which seventeen are full-page. engraved. Contemporary full calf gilt. All edges gilt. Folio. 376 x 270 mm. Some off-setting from plates to text; spine expertly restored; else an excellent of a scarce large paper copy.
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A GUIDE TO COAST OF KENT: Descriptive of Scenery, Historical; Legendary; and archaeological.
London: Edward Stanford, 1859. viii, 128, 16 ad’s pages. Original printed cloth. 166 x 106 mm. Lacks the folding map; covers a little soiled; else a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF ROCHESTER.
Rochester: John Hallewell Publications, 1976. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 523, [4] pages. Illustrated. One of a 1000 copies of this reprint of the original 1928 edition. Wrapper dulled on the spine; and just a little rubbed at extremities; else a very good copy.
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A JOURNEY ROUND THE COAST OF KENT; containing remarks on the principal objects worthy of notice throughout the whole of that interesting border, and the contiguous district; including Penshurst, and Tunbridge Wells; with Rye, Winchelsea, Hastings, and Battle, in Sussex: being original notes made during a summer excursion. With a Map.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. Iv, 304 pages. Folding map. Original blue paper-covered boards, recently re-backed with a printed paper label. First edition. Octavo. Edges untrimmed. First edition. Corners a little worn; else a fine, clean copy.
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A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRICIPAL CROSS ROADS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Containing, I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages: with their Market-Days, and Counties they are situated in. II. The Direct Roads from London to all the Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea-Port Towns…. The Whole on a Plan entirely new, and far preferable to any Work of the Kind extant. The Sixth Edition, Corrected, and greatly Improved; with Additions. [Price Two Shillings, sewed.]
London: T. Carnan, 1784. viii, xxiv, 272 [136], 273-280 pages. Bound with: Paterson, Daniel, A TRAVELLING DICTIONARY… The Fourth Edition corrected. London. T. Carnan 1781. iv, 180 pages. Double-page map frontispiece to volume I. Original quarter vellum over marbled boards, with printed paper label to spine. Octavo. Binding worn, with some light damage to spine; front inner joint widely cracked; front endpaper loosening; else a good, clean copy.
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A NEW HISTORY OF DOVER, and of Dover Castle, during the Roman, Saxon, and Norman Governments, with a short Account of the Cinque Ports, Compiled from Ancient Records, and continued to the present time; by W. Batcheller. Embellished with four plates, & illustrated by four plates. To which is added A New Dover Guide, and a Description of the villages near Dover.
Dover: William Batcheller, 1828. 365, [1 blank], xv, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Illustrated with four wood-engraved plans, 2 engraved maps, and two engraved views, one of which is by Thomas Sidney Cooper. Bound in later half-calf gilt over marbled boards. 172 x 111mm. First edition. Bookplate; two pages browned where an envelope had been left; else a very good copy in a pleasant binding.
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A NEW TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND COMMERCIAL SURVEY OF THE CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Arranged in Alphabetical Order. This work includes a minute and interesting account of the antient and present State of Kent, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military, from the earliest times to this century, with all the improvements of the Arts of Civilization, and Luxury. It comprehends all the chief Harbours, Bays, Rivers, Docks, Forests, Hills, Valleys, Medicinal Springs, and other Curiosities both of Nature and Art; and not only takes Notice of all the Manors and Seats in the County, but also points out the old military Ways, Camps, Castles, and other remarkable Ruins of Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Anglo Norman Antiquity. It shews particularly the Estates that were formerly Abbey Lands, and mentions the Manufacture and Trade, the Privileges and Customs, the principal Buildings and Charitable Foundations of the two Cities, Corporations, and the most noted Villages, with their Distances from London, in measured miles. The ancient and obscure Terms of the Feudal Law, and the obsolete Tenures and Customs relative to it, and also explained. By Charles Seymour, Teacher of the Classics, &c. at Canterbury.
Printed for the Author…, 1776. xxxvi, 827 pages. Bound in early twentieth century full morocco gilt. Book plates. A very good, clean copy.
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A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customs of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570. By William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. And nowe increase by the addition of some things which the Authour him self hath observed since that time….
London: Imprinted at London for Ralph Newberie, dwelling in Fleetstreet a little above the Conduit, 1576. [15], [1 blank], 435 pages. Bound in 19th century half calf over marbled boards. 160 x 136 mm. Lacks the original map, but a map from the section edition of 1596 (which is all but identical) had been stuck to the blank verso of the leaf preceding page 1; occasional contemporary annotation; the odd mark; boards rubbed; else a very good copy of the first edition of the first County History published in England.
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A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customs of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570. By William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. And nowe increase by the addition of some things which the Authour him self hath observed since that time….
London: Imprinted at London for Ralph Newberie, dwelling in Fleetstreet a little above the Conduit, 1576. [15], [1 blank], map tipped on to the blank verso of the preceding leaf; 435 pages. Bound in 19th century full calf, sometime re-backed. 197 x 142 mm. Occasional contemporary annotation; the odd mark; else a very good copy of the first edition of the first County History published in England.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. XI. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date[circa 1930]. 97, [3 index] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. Reprint. Printed ownership name on endpaper; slight rubbing on spine; else a very good copy. Covers Whitstable, Nettlestead, Seasalter, Swalecliffe, Graveney, Monks-Horton, and Harrietsham.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. XXXIV. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date [1946]. 74 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. First edition. Endpapers lightly browned; else a very good copy. Covers Ashford, Lower Hardres, Nackington, Upper Hardres, Stelling, and Thanington. The last title in the series.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL.. Volume III. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1901. 95, [1] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men. A very good copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL.. Volume IV. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1902. 90, [2] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men.’ A very good, clean copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume IX. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date. 88 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Little rubbed at head & heel of spine; else a very good copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume V. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1903. 112, [2] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men.’ Title and last leaf of ad’s browned; else a very good copy.
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