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A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF A LONDON BOROUGH: ST. PANCRAS. With a foreword by Hilda Ormsby, D.Sc.
London.University of London Press. 1932. 68pp. Illustrated with maps and plans. Original cloth. Quarto. First edition. Upper, lower corner bumped with small area of surface loss; little tired at extremities; some insignificant marking on endpapers; later bookplate. Else a very good copy; being the author's own copy with her ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Loosely inserted are a postcard of the author with an original photograph of her mounted on the blank address side. Plus a letter from the publishers explaining why they will not be paying royalties; plus a record of the sales.
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A NEW PICTURE OF LONDON; or, the stranger and foreigner's correct guide and companion through the cities of London and Westminster, and the country round, within a circuit of fourteen miles, accurately describing the situation, antiquity, and curiosity of every place, taken from an actual survey of each object, and assisted by the labours of Mr. Pennant, and other celebrated typographers. A new edition. Illustrated by a correct Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark; a map of the surrounding Country, and Views, of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and Lambeth Palace.
London: Printed by Dewick and Clarke… for J. Wilson….. And Sold by all other Booksellers, No date [1791]. xvi, 320 pages. Folding Plan showing the ‘New Buildings to the Year 1791.’ Map of London and the country fifteen miles round; three full-page engraved plates. Original full sheep titled in gilt on front board. Binding rubbed and spine cracked, but firm; else a very good, clean copy of rare London guide. Rare. Not in ESTC; one copy only in Worldcat.
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AMBULATOR: or, A Pocket Companion in a Tour Round London, within the circuit of twenty-five miles. Describing whatever is most remarkable for Antiquity, Grandeur, Elegance, or Rural Beauty; including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations. To which are prefixed, A Concise Description of the Metropolis, and a map of the country described.
London.Scatcherd and Whitaker. 1794. The seventh edition, corrected and improved. 332pp. Folding hand-coloured engraved map at start. Bound in fairly recent paper-covered boards with a paper label to spine. 12mo in sixes. A very good copy.
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CHELSEA HOSPITAL, and its Traditions.
London: Richard Bentley, 1839. Hardcover. x, 465 pages. Black & white engraved frontispiece. Half calf, gilt marbled boards. Octavo. Some light spotting throughout text block and to frontispiece; some wear to cover's extremities; spine splitting at lower joint; small tear in fore-edge of Dedication leaf; else a good copy.
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CHELSEA OLD CHURCH.
London.Duckworth and Co. 1904. [i- vii] vii- xix 1-320pp. Illustrated by 18 plates including frontispiece. Original brown cloth gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. Number 126 of limited edition of 320. Some browning to endpapers. Cloth boards a trifle rubbed. Else a very good copy.Limited Edition.
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EMMANUEL BURDEN Merchant of Thames Street., in The City of London, Exporter of Hardware A Record of his Lineage, Speculations, Last Days and Death.
London.Methuen & Co. 1904. [i-vi] vii-xx, 1-312 pages. 33 plates and frontispiece by G.K. Chesterton. Cypress green pictorial cloth gilt. Octavo. First Edition. Bookplate. Minor spotting to end-papers; else a very good, bright copy. Cahill 17.
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ESSAYS ON OLD LONDON.
Cambridge: The University Press, 1927. Hardback. No dust-wrapper. 4to. First edition. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''To S. B. Mountford Esq With Best wishes from the author SYDNEY Perks.' Lower outer corners a little knocked; some spotting to endpapers; else a very good copy.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWER BRIDGE and of other bridges over the Thames built by the Corporation of London. With a description of the Tower Bridge by J. Wolfe Barry, C.B., M. Inst. C. E., And an Introduction by The Rev. Canon Benham, B.D., F. S. A Prepared under the direction of The bridge House Estates Committee.
London.Smith, Elder and Co. 1894. x, [1], 2-284pp. Numerous illustrations throughout, including colour. Original half leather over decorative cloth gilt. Quarto. t.e. g. Fore-edges uncut. First edition. Ex-library copy once belonging to the University Library, Cambridge, and beraring their stamps on title and here and there. Later bookplate. Binding a little rubbed at extremities; else a very good copy.
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KENSINGTON Picturesque & Historical with upwards of three hundred illustrations (some in colour) by William Luker Jun. From drawings taken on the spot.
London.Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press. 1888. xix,[1] [1-2]3-287pp. plus, lxiv notes & subscribers and 7pp adverts to rear. Profusely illustrated in colour & black & white, with 4 black & white maps. original blue decorative cloth gilt. Large octavo. First edition. Bookplate to paste-down endpaper. Some slight bumping to head and heel of spine; else, an excellent bright copy.
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KENTISH TOWN ROLLS. From the original drawing by James Frederick King in the St. Pancras Public Libraries. Chestnut Row, Kentish Town to Old St. Pancras Church.
No date [circa 1940’s]. A 16 cm x 2.1 metre long photographically reproduced panorama. Contained in the original cardboard tube with printed paper label. Tube lacks one end piece; the other end taped. Else very good.
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LINCOLN'S INN Its Ancient and Modern Buildings with an account of the Library.
London.William Pickering. 1850. xvi, 324pp. Engraved frontispiece. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Small octavo. First edition. Corners a little knocked; split at base of spine on lower side - 2.5 cm's.; front hinge just cracking; neat ownership inscription; else a very good copy.
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LONDON AND THE KINGDOM A history derived mainly from the archives at Guildhall in the custody of the corporation of the City of London. Printed by order of the Corporation under the direction of the Library Committee.
London.Longmans, Green & Co. 1894. 3 volumes. Vol' 1: frontispiece, xv, [i], [1], 2-566pp. Vol' 2: folding frontispiece, xi, [i], [1], 2-650pp. Vol' 3: folding frontispiece, ix, [i], [1], 2-565pp +1pp errata. Original green decorative cloth gilt. Octavo. Hinges on vol' 1 just cracking; rear hinge of vol' 2 just cracking; some spotting; else a very handsome set.
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LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR: The Condition And Earning Of Those That Will Work, Cannot Work, And Will Not Work.
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1864. Four hardcover volumes: 543 pages, plus index and 8 ad's; 576 pages plus 2 ad's; 452 pages; 504 pages. Original purple pictorial cloth, gilt. Black & white illustrations throughout. Volumes 1-3, second edition, 22.2 x 14.5 cms; volume 4, first edition, 23.7 x 16.4 cms. All volumes have been expertly repaired at the spines; plate at p. 223 of volume IV is damaged at edges; all volumes have ownership labels to front pasted endpaper, and small, numbered labels to rear covers; indentation to top, right corners of volumes I and II; The binding of the fourth volume is quite faded; some wear and fading to covers of the other volumes, but generally a very good set.
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LONDON PICTURES Drawn with Pen and Pencil. With one hundred and thirty illustrations.
London: Religious Tract Society, 1890. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 224, 8 ad's pages. Original pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 28.2 x 20 cm. Some light spotting at start; binding a little worn and rubbed; prize label on front endpaper; else very good.
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LONDON SIGNS AND INSCRIPTIONS with many illustrations.
London.Elliot Stock. 1897. xx,1-237pp. 25 black & white illustrations including frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamped decorative cloth. Octavo. Bookplate to paste-down endpaper. Pages very lightly browned. Some slight wear to spine edges with very minor splitting in a couple of places. Head and heel of spine very lightly bumped. Occasional pencil annotation; else, a very good copy.
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LONDON- WORLD CITY 1800-1840.
London.Yale University Press. 1992. 624pp. Original green boards. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. Small bookplate; else a near fine copy in a like wrapper.
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REBUILDING ST. PAUL'S after the Great Fire of London.
London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 269 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Brick-red cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Measures approx 25.5 cm x 20 cm. First edition. A very good copy.
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SURVEY OF LONDON. Issued by the Joint Publishing Committee representing the London County Council and the London Survey Committee. Under the general editorship of Sir James Bird (for the Council) Philip Norman (for the Survey Committee). Volume IX The Parish of St. Helen, Bishopsgate (Part I).
London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd, 1924. Hardcover. 100 pages plus 122 full-page plates.Colour frontispiece, and bBlack & white illustrations throughout. Blue buckram, gilt. 29.3 x 23.5 cms. Very slight browning to endpapers; else a very good copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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TAPE INDICATOR MAP OF LONDON.
London: G. Smith & Son, No date [circa 1890]. 59 page street index; a large folding coloured oblong map of London [52x76cm], with attached tape measure; in original decorative cloth gilt covers, 184 x 120mm. Name on front cover in ink; else a very good clean copy. .
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The Annals of the Parishes of ST. OLAVE HART STREET and Allhallows Staining, in the City of London. Ecclesiastically united, A.D. 1870.'London.
Blades, East & Blades…, 1894. xxiii, [1], 429 pages. Illustrated. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt. 4to. First edition. Bookplates; binding rubbed, worn at head & heel of spine, with a small split halfway up the spine of the upper board. Loosely laid in is an 8 pages illustrated pamphlet entitled: ' The Parish Church of St. Olave Hart Street After Enemy Action 1941. Resurgam! 1951.'
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