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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL.. Volume VIII. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1908. 87 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men.’ Slight cracking to front endpaper; couple of marks on endpaper; else a very good copy
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume X. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1913. 82, [2] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men.’ A fine copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume XI. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date [1914]. 96 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Traces of light marking to two pages where a pressed flower has been laid in; 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 XIII. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1919. 85, [3] 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 XIV. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1920. 84, [2] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Pictorial bookplate of the ‘Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men.’ Top outer corner of front panel a little bumped; else a very good, clean copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume XXIX. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date. 73, [3], [3] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. An unusually fine copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume XXX. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date. 81, [3], [2] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. A fine copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume XXXI. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date. 76, [4], [3] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. An unusually fine copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume XXXII. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, [1939.]. 77, [3] pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. An unusually fine copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN and PENCIL. Volume XXXIV. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, 1946. 74 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering. First edition. Ownership name stamp on endpaper; else a very good, clean copy. A very copy. Quite scarce.
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A SAUNTER THROUGHT KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Illustrated by X. Willis. Volume III.
Ashford: The Kentish Express, No date [circa 1901]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Covers a little rubbed & marked; else very good.
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A SECOND LAKELAND SKETCHBOOK.
Kendal: Westmorland Gazette, No date[1970]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. with the price £1.05 21/- on flap of wrapper. Little creasing to top edge of wrapper; else very good.
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A Short Historical Sketch of the TOWN OF DOVER, and its Neighbourhood; Containing a Concise History of the Town, from the Earliest Accounts to the present Time. To which is added, a Description of the Villages near Dover. Within the Distance of Six Miles. The Third Edition.
Dover: Printed by and for Ledger and Shaw, 1815. iv, 196 pages. Nineteenth century quarter calf over paper-covered boards. 152 x 100 mm. Binding a little rubbed and worn; bookplate; else a very good copy of a scarce early edition of this work.
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A TOPOGRAPHICAL AN STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER; Containing an Account of its Situation, Extent, Towns, Roads, Rivers, Lakes, Mines, Minerals, Fisheries, Manufactures, Trade, Commerce, Agriculture, Fairs, Markets, Curiosities, Antiquities, Natural History, Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions, &c. To which is prefixed, A COPIOUS TRAVELLING GUIDE, Exhibiting The Direct and Principal Cross Roads, Inns, Distances of Stages, and Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats.
London: Sherwood & Co, No date. Also, A List of the Markets and Fairs, AND AN INDEX TABLE, Shewing, at one View, the Distances of all the Towns from London, and of the Towns from each other: The whole forming a complete County itinerary. Illustrated with Engravings, and a Map of the County. Hardcover. 180 pages. Black & white frontispiece and two plates; hand-coloured folding map. Half sheep, gilt over red cloth. Measures approximately 14.5 x 9 cm. New edition. Ownership inscriptions and small ownership label to front endpapers; some wear and soiling to cover; head of spine a little worn; slight foxing to frontispiece; else a very good copy.
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A TREATISE OF THE ROMAN PORTS AND FORTS IN KENT. By William Somner. Publish'd by James Brome, M.A. Rector of Cheriton, and Chaplain to the Cinque-Ports. To which is prefixt the life of Mr. Somner. Oxord: printed at the Theater.
Oxford: James Brome, 1693. [10],118, [2],117, [15] pages. Engraved Portrait frontispiece. Bound in late half calf over marbled boards. 172 x 113 mm. First edition. Bookplates. A very good, fresh copy.
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A WALK IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, with many Observations not to be found in any description hitherto published. By Willam Gostling, M.A. a native of the place, and minor canon of the cathedral. A new edition with considerable additions, and embellished with numerous engravings.
Canterbury: William Blackley…, 1825. xxii, 366, [14 index] pages. Illustrated with a folding engraved plan of the city, and 34 engraved plates. Original marbled boards, recently re-backed in calf gilt with a black label and vellum tips to the corners. Octavo. Some foxing to the frontispiece and the title, and occasionally throughout; ownership name partly erased from head of title; else a very good copy
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A WALK IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, with many Observations not to be found in any description hitherto published. By Willam Gostling, M.A. a native of the place, and minor canon of the cathedral. A new edition with considerable additions, and embellished with numerous engravings.
Canterbury: William Blackley…, 1825. xxii, 366, [14 index] pages. Illustrated with a folding engraved plan of the city, and 34 engraved plates, plus several extra engraved plates. Contemporary black sheep gilt over cloth. Octavo. Lacks front free endpaper; Map has some tears neatly repaired; rub on front endpaper where a bookplate has been removed; binding a little rubbed at extremities; else a very good copy with some interesting additional plates.
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A WALK IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, With many Observations not to be found in any Description hitherto published. By William Gostling, M.A. A Native of the Place, and Minor Canon of the Cathedral. Embellished with a new and correct Plan of the City, in which is introduced, the Old Church of St. Andrew, Archbishop Abbot’s Conduit, and a North View of St. Augustine’s Monastery. – Also an elegant Engraving of the Church Gate, and a Chart of those Parts described in a Tour through East Kent.
Canterbury: Printed and Sold by Simmons and Kirkby, and W. Flacton. Sold also by R. Baldwin and Joseph Johnson, Booksellers, in London. And by all the Booksellers in the County of Kent, 1774. viii, 138 pages. Folding plan at start, two plates. recent full calf gilt with a red title label to the spine. 166 x 116 mm. First edition. The folding plan of the City which is often missing has been strengthened from the blank verso at the edges; contemporary name on title; else a very good and handsome copy of the scarce first edition of this classic work.
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An Account of the Legacies, Gifts, Rents, Fees &c. appertaining to the Church and Poor of the Parish of St, Alphege Greenwich in the County of Kent, to which is added An Appendix, containing the Plan and Survey of the Royal Manor. The Grant of the Manor of Old Court, to Sir J. Morden, the Local Act for the Government of the Poor, &c. &c. By John Kimbell, one of the Governors,and Directors of the Poor of the Parish. Printed for the Benefit of the Poor Women in the Jubilee Alms House.
No date [1816]. 292 pages. Illustrated with a splendid hand-coloured folding map, a lithographed view of St. Alphege Church and 20 plates of plans etc. Original embossed blue cloth. 285 x 225 mm. First edition. Spine worn at head; short split in margin of map; hinges a little shaken; bookplate of the Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men. A very good copy of this scarce book that is often found stripped of its map. £300. 00.
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AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL PALACE AT ELTHAM.
London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1828. [4], 108 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original brown cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Last leaf browned; frontispiece a little water-stained and with a corner creased; else a very good copy. The front paste-down bears the pictorial bookplate of the Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men. .
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