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IN KENTISH PILGRIM LAND Its Ancient Roads and Shrines.
London.The C. W. Daniel Company. 1927. 326 (328)pp. Illustrated. Original red cloth gilt with coats of arms to the upper boards. Octavo. 2cnd impression (first published 1925). Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper. A near fine copy - the binding bright and fresh, the contents clean and unfoxed.
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KEARSLEY’S GENTLEMAN & TRADESMAN’S POCKET LEDGER. For the Year 1811.
London: G. Kearsley…, 1811. To be continued annually. Price Two Shillings and Six-pence, Bound in tan sheep gilt, wallet style with a brass clasp, with pockets front and rear. viii, [112], 64 pages. The Memorandum/diary has been quite extensively annotated. The front pocket contains a few pieces of ephemera, including a receipt for twenty-six numbers of the Kentish Gazette, and a receipt for the sale of sheep. Binding rubbed with a small piece of leather missed from the flap, else sound. The owner of the book was a Richard Beal [1793-1874], a farmer from Biddenden, Kent.
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KENT HOUSES. English Domestic Architecture.
Antique Collectors' Club, 1993. Hardcover. Pictorial unclipped dust-wrapper. 4to. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is very heavy and will incur extra shipping charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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KENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2001. 418pp. Illustrated with numerous black & white illustrations, maps including 2 folding, figures and tables. Original boards, silver gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in like wrapper.
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KENT. Painted by W. Biscombe Gardner.
London.Adam and Charles Black. 1907. [vi], x, 1-240pp [4]pp adverts at rear. 73 colour plates including frontispiece with 3 maps, 2 folding. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Top edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. head and heel of spine a trifle bumped; light spotting to endpapers and fore-edges; crease mark to frontispiece tissue guard; else a very good, bright copy.
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Kent Records. THE PARISH REGISTERS AND RECORDS IN THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER: A summary of information collected by the Ecclesiastical records Committee of the Rochester Diocesan Conference.
London.Kent Archaeological Society. 1912. xi, [1 blank], 125pp. Frontispiece. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First edition. Head & heel of spine lightly bumped; else a very good copy.
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KENTISH BRASSES. Collected by W. D. Belcher, Member of the Kent Archaeological and Harleian Societies.Vol. I.
London. Sprague & Co, 1888. Hardcover. 109 pages. Black and white engravings throughout. Dark green decorative cloth, gilt. 4to. Approximately 28.5 x 23 cm. First edition. Bookplate to paste-down front endpaper. Hand-written letter from author to previous owner, taped to front endpaper. Printed 'notice of publication' tipped-in between title-page and dedication. Binding a little shaken; some rubbing to cover's extremities, and cloth worn through at the base of spine; else a very good, clean copy.
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KENTISH BRASSES. Collected by W. D. Belcher Member of the Kent Archaeological and Harleian Societies. Vol. I.
London: Sprague & Co, 1888. [4], [10] pages; 109 leaves, printed on both sides, of which 109 pages bear illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt. 4to. Some spotting to endpapers; name of Philip Rogers, a noted Kent historian and author. A very good copy.
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MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT.
London. Elliot Stock, 1887. 77 pp. Black & white engravings throughout. Originl pictorial cloth. Octavo. Second edition. Bookplate: "W. J. Allen" to front endpaper; slight rubbing to cover's extremities; else a very good copy.
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MISSION WORK AMONG THE HOP-PICKERS in the Weald of Kent (Conducted by the Rev. J. J. Kendon); with notices of past times and former men. With numerous full-page illustrations. Price three shillings and sixpence.
London: Morgan and Scott, No date [circa 1896]. 211, [ 1 blank], [2 ad's] pages. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. Later inscription on fixed endpaper; lacks front free endpaper; half-title a little browned; else a very good clean copy.
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ODO; or, The Siege of Rochester Castle.
Rochester.Edwin Harris and Sons. 1900. xv, [1 blank], 255pp. Black & white frontispiece. Full decorative red calf with black label to spine. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. De luxe issue in a presentation binding from the publishers. Some black spotting on lower board; else a near fine copy in a handsome binding.
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PARISHES AND CHURCHES IN ROMNEY MARSH. Drawings by Peter Kent.
London. Ronald Spinney, 1991. Hardback in unclipped dust-wrapper. First edition. Minor creasing to top of front cover; else a fine copy of a scarce book.
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Particulars and Conditions of Sale of "Hill Farm".
1883. Parish of Saint Cosmus and Damian in The Blean. Particulars and Conditions of Sale of "Hill Farm," with Farm House Premises, and sundry enclosures of Ararble & Pasture Land, also Detached Cottage, with Plot of Accommodation Pasture & Arable Land, containing together about 18 acres, fronting on the Whitstable Road, within easy distance of the City of Canterbury. For sale by auction by Messrs. Cooper and Wacher at The Mart, Canterbury, on Saturday, the 7th day of July, 1883, at three o'clock in the afternoon. In two lots. A four page original sale prospectus, folio size when unfolded., the rear being a signed agreement of sale. Little dust-soiled, else very good.
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Particulars and Conditions of Sale Of Important Freehold Estates.
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PROPOSED PLAN FOR IMPROVING DOVER HARBOUR, by an extension of the south pier head, &c. Also, copious extracts from various authors in support of the plan, and shewing the importance of Dover Harbour, from the time of its first construction. Together with practical observations & illustrations.
Dover. W. Batcheller, 1838. [2], i-ii, [4-5], 6-174 pages. Folding frontispiece, and six other plates, some of which are folding and have hand-colouring as issued. Original titled brown cloth, sometime rebacked, with consequent repairs to the inner joints. First edition. Some spotting to endpapers and to one of the folding plates; bookplate; light wear to corners; else a very good copy.
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RECORDS OF WALMER together with "The Three Castles that keep the Downs." Illustrated with thirteen photo-engravings and two maps.
London. Henry Gray, 1890. xxii, 440 pages. Original brown cloth gilt. 4to. First edition. Small wear split ( less than a centimetre long) in rear spine joint; cloth a little rubbed; else a very good copy of an increasingly scarce book. This is a heavy book; please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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REPORT ON THE HARBOUR OF REFUGE TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN DOVER BAY. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.
London. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1846. xii, 131 pages. With seven lithographed maps, plans and plates, two of which are hand-coloured. Recent cloth-backed boards with title-label to the upper board. 4to. Slight bumping to text-block corners, where once Disbound; else a very good copy.
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RICHARD WATTS; or, Rochester in the Time of the Tudors.
Rochester.Edwind Harris and Sons. 1903. xii, 235, [16]pp. Illustrated. Publisher's presentation binding of full tan calf decorative gilt with red label to spine. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. Slight blotching on lower board, else a handsome copy.
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Shipbuilders of the Thames and Medway.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 336 pages. Illustrated. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy.
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STROOD a pictorial history.
Rainham. Meresborough Books/, 1977. Hardback. Gazed pictorial boards. 4to. First edition. A fine copy.
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