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A CENTENARY AND THREE GENERATIONS with a short history of Tunbridge wells.
Tunbridge Wells: Brackett & Sons, No date. (1928.). viii, [1], 2-63pp. Folding colour frontispiece, 4 black & white plates and numerous black & white illustrations throughout the text. Original boards. Octavo. Compliment slip of Brackett & Sons mounted on front fixed endpaper. Spine sunned; some spotting to fore-edges and here and there throughout else; a very good copy with John N. Brackett's ownership inscription on front endpaper.
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A CENTURY OF THE EAST KENT YEOMANRY (The Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles). With coloured illustrations.
Ashord.The kentish Express (Igglesden and Co.) Limited. 1899. vii, [1 blank], 61, [11]pp. Illustrated with seven coloured plates. Original blue cloth decorated in silver and lettered in red. Octavo. Some slight browning to the tissue-guards; later (1942) presentation inscription on half-title; else an excellent fresh copy.
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A CORNER OF KENT; Or Some Account of the Parish of Ash-Next-Sandwich, Its Historical Sites and Existing Antiquities.
London.Robert Hardwicke. 1864. xxvii, 413pp. Black & white lithographic frontispiece. Black and white illustrations throughout, including a plan of the Church of St Nicholas by Robert Goodsall tipped on to page179. Original brown cloth gilt, with decorative border in to boards in blind. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate. Recased, with the head & heel of the spine expertly repaired and the inner joints strengthened; else an excellent clean copy of a scarce book rarely found in this condition.
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A CORNER OF KENT; Or Some Account of the Parish of Ash-Next-Sandwich, Its Historical Sites and Existing Antiquities.
London: Robert Hardwicke. 1864. xxiii, [ 1 blank], 413pp. Illustrated with 13 lithographic full-page plates, and woodcuts on the title and in the text. Rebound, sometime probably early twentieth century in full cloth. Octavo. First edition. Some light spotting to the plates; hinges cracked; binding rubbed and a little worn at extremities, and somewhat faded on the spine; else a very good copy. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title: 'To Mrs Bushell as a trifling recognition of her great kindness to me and mine J. R. Planche.'
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A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS, and its Environs: Historical and Descriptive.
London: G. Pearch, 1771. viii, 54 pages, plus I page ad's. Contemporary calf, re-backed. 12mo. This is a poor copy of a scarce book. There is a large ink-stain starting in the inner blank margin of vii and extending to page 10; the title-page is torn with loss to the blank margins; lacks half-title; there is some water-staining and general light soiling throughout; the replacement spine, which is sheep, is worn and splitting.
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A GLIMPSE AT CRANBROOK, the Town of the Weald. A Descriptive and Historical Handbook to the most beautiful district in the Garden of England, including the outline excursions in and around this well-known health and holiday resort.
Cranbrook. E. J. Holmes. No date [ circa 1905]. 101 pages, plus numerous pages of illustrated ad's at rear. Illustrated throughout. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. Edition unknown. Spine worn a frail; joints weak; but generally very good and clean. Very scarce.
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A HISTORY OF ROCHESTER.
London. The C. W. Daniel Company, 1928. 516 pp. Hardback in unclipped dust-wrapper. Black and white plates throughout. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed, 'From the author F.F.S' on the title. Slight tears to edges of dust-wrapper, with approximately the top inch of the spine of the wrapper missing; fore-edges a little dust-soiled; else a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF THE KENT COALFIELD.
Printed and Published by John Hilton, No date [1986]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 5o pages. Limited edition of 250 copies. Ownership name on endpaper; else a fine copy.
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A MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS; illustrating the beneficial influence of its mineral waters, climate, soil, etc., in restoring and preserving health: accompanied with an outline of hygiene.
Tunbridge Wells.John Colbran. 1846 [1847]. xx, 174pp. lacks map and list of subscribers. Bound with; LEE, Edwin. THE SOUTHERN WATERING-PLACES: Hastings, St. Leonards, Dover, and Tunbridge Wells. Reprinted, with Alterations, from the third edition of the "Watering-Places of England." With Remarks on the Remedial Influence of Climate. London. J. Churchill. 1856. 76pp. The pair bound as one in contemporary red pebbled cloth. Endpapers a little browned; else a very good pair.
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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 Chartitable 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.
1776. xxxvi, 827 pages. Nineteenth century binding of half sheep over marbled boards, with matching endpapers. Octavo. First edition. Title-page lightly dust-soiled; binding rubbed; else a very good copy.
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A PERAMBULATION OF KENT with an Introduction by Richard Church.
Bath. Adams & Dart, 1970. Hardback in pictorial price-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. Light water-stain to to fore-edge; else a fine copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. I. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The Kentish Express, 1942. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 96 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. Fifth edition. A fine, fresh copy in a bright binding.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. II. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The kentish Express, 1900. 80 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. First edition. A very good copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. IV. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The kentish Express, 1902. 90 pages plus 2 ad's. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. First edition. Title, tissue guards, and last leaf a little foxed; light rubbing to head & heel of spine; else a very good copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. IV. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The Kentish Express. No date [circa 1933]. 96 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. Reprint. A fine copy in a bright binding.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. IX. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The Kentish Express. No date [circa 1933]. 90 pages plus 1 ad. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. Reprint. Small tape repair to last blank leaf; else a fine copy in fresh and bright binding.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. V. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The Kentish Express. No date [circa 1929]. 110 pages plus 3 ads. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. Reprint. Some browning to endpapers; small mark to front endpaper and title-page; else a good, fresh copy in a bright binding.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. V. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The Kentish Express, 1942. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 111 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. Reprint. Some rubbing to spine and extremities; small tear (approx 1cm) to top front of spine; brown mark (approx 2.5cm) to bottom of rear cover; else a good, fresh copy.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. VI. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The Kentish Express, 1909. 88 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. 4to. First edition. Light browning to to front and rear endpapers, else a very good, fresh copy in a bright binding.
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A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Vol. XII. Illustrated by X. Willis.
Ashford. The Kentish Express. No date [circa 1933]. 77 pages. Original blue cloth with white lettering and a pictorial vignette. Quarto. First edition. Bookplate of the Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men to front paste-down. Light browning to endpapers, else a fine copy in a bright binding.
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