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Kent & Sussex
Waters of Arun.
London: Methuen, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv; [2]; 170; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket. With 21 maps and 6 illustrations. Some offsetting to endpapers, some rubbing to spine ends. Dust-jacket has some loss at the top, rubbing to folds, and some tears. A...... More
The Botanical Pocket-Book. With Observations on Some of the Rare Plants Growing in the Neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Clifford, 1840. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.v; [1]; 179; [1]; [one of publisher's advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green textured cloth with paper labels to spine and upper board. Hand-coloured folding plate of Dentaria Bulbifera facing title page. Bookplate of W. H. Hills to pastedown, some..... More
Tonbridge Legends, Etc.
London: Kent and Co, Tonbridge: Richard Ware, n.d. [1866]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.232. With seven engraved plates. Green cloth with ornate gilt margins to boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Spine has at some point been professionally rebacked. Bookbinders label of Hanbury and..... More
The Poll for the Knights of the Shire, to Represent the Western Division of the County of Kent in Parliament, including the Registered Electors who did not vote, also, a General Index, and an Abstract of the Number of Votes for each Parish. Candidates: Thomas Law Hodges, Esq.; Thomas Rider, Esq.; Sir William R.P. Geary, Bart.
Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835. [Kent Voting Register] RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 192 [2]. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail..... More
The Bees of Westerham. A Poem.
Beckenham: Printed and Published by the Author, September 1952. [Kent Poetry] INSCRIBED PRIVATE PRESS. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 16cm), pp.[4] 18. INSCRIBED by the author on a headed note card in blue ink: 'To wish Mr. and Mrs. | Wadey long and happy | years together - a belated |..... More
Varied Verse.
London and Tunbridge Wells: The Reliance Press, no date [1925]. [Kent and Sussex Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.63 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Major Heron, with the author's | kindred regards & in remembrance | of many a hearty..... More
Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells and the Calverley Estate. With Brief Notices of the Picturesque Scenery, Seats, and Antiquities in the Vicinity, Embellished with Maps and Prints.
London: Published by the Author, 1832. [Town Guide] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 148; [4 of adverts]. Illustrated with 3 folding maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and 2 in-text woodcuts. Bound in the original pink satin-effect cloth with paper title labels to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Light spotting..... More
Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells and the Calverley Estate. With Brief Notices of the Picturesque Scenery, Seats, and Antiquities in the Vicinity, Embellished with Maps and Prints.
London: Published by the Author, 1832. [Town Guide] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xii; 148 [4]. Illustrated with 3 folding maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and 2 in-text woodcuts. Twentieth-century brown full morocco with gilt titles to black label on spine. Spotting to plates. Quite heavily thumbed with..... More
Lydden: A Parish History.
Dover: Thomas Beckett Books, 1967. [Topography] FIRST EDITION and SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION with order form. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.98. With a folding map at centre, folding family tree at rear, and four black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's glossy card covers, both copies with the matching dust-jacket. Order form consists..... More
The First 100 Years: The Story of the Tunbridge Wells Golf Club.
Tunbridge Wells: Tunbridge Wells Golf Club, n.d., [c. 1989]. RARE PRIVATE PRINTING. Demy Octavo. pp. 58. With b/w photographic illustrations. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original blue dust jacket; gilt titles. Slight wear to jacket edges; near-fine. More
The Medway River and Valley: The Story of the Medway; Aspects of Life on the Medway; Journeyings on the Medway.
London: The C.W. Daniel Company, 1929. [Kent topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.239 [1]. With 47 half-tone plates, most double-sided, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, with a ship design to upper, dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 10/6..... More
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Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Sussex [together with] Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Surrey.
London: C Cooke, [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Two volumes in one. pp.180; 168. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards, ruled in gilt to spine, later/replacement title labels. Illustrated with a map of the county to each title, and further including a table of information concerning the principal towns of the county..... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. First Edition. Octavo, pp. vi, 371. Professionally recased dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, black decoration to boards. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's presentation copy inscribed "to Mr. T. Jones with the..... More
An Historical Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent, With Eight Engravings and a Map.
Cranbrook: Printed for and sold by S. Reader, 1814. Octavo, pp.lvi,277, [1] blank; [5] index; [1] advertisements. Hand coloured map of the Weald, eight hand coloured aquatint views. Together with a loosely inserted aquatint addition copy of one of the prints in the book, printed on letter paper, presumably for..... More
The History and Antiquities of Dartford. With Topographical Notices of the Neighbourhood.
London: John Russell Smith, 1844. [Kent] FIRST EDITION, SUBSCRIBER'S COPY WITH MLS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; [1]; 478; [2]. Modern russet cloth, gilt titles to a red calf label to spine, the binding done by Canterbury Bookbinders. Portrait frontispiece and hand-coloured engraved title page plus fourteen further plates (some..... More
A History of Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells.
Chichester: Phillimore and Co., 2003. [Kent Topography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 484. With black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece map. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, being number 17 of 500 copies thus, hand numbered to a label on the verso..... More
A Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Hastings: G. Wool, 1833. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 94. Folding chart with four hand coloured geological sections bound in at the rear, plus in text illustrations. Original patterned cloth, with recent paper label to spine. Cancelled library stamp and neat inscription to..... More
A walk in and about the city of Canterbury with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published.
Canterbury: Simmons and Kirkby, 1777. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp.[2]; 36; 402; [16]. With 24 copper plates including a frontispiece portrait of the author, a folding plan of Canterbury, and two other maps. Bound in contemporary tan calf, professionally respined to style with gilt titles on a red morocco square. Bookplate..... More
The History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.... V. The Natural History of Kent.
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent.
Canterbury: W. Bristow, 1797-1801. [Kent history] SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. Twelve volumes, octavo (24 x 15 x 46cm). With 34 folding maps and 33 plates, (volume twelve lacking two plates). Solidly bound in brown quarter cloth over green cloth sides, gilt titles to spine. Modern bookplates to pastedown of..... More
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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history]. FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
English Homes and Villages (Kent and Sussex).
Sevenoaks: J. Salmon, 1909. [Kent and Sussex Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 296. With 63 colour plates including a frontispiece, and 17 black and white plates, as well frequent in-text engravings. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and an elaborate gilt illustration of..... More
The History and Antiquities of Lewes and its Vicinity.
Lewes: J. Baxter, 1824-1827. [Sussex Topography] FIRST EDITIONS, ex libris Bishop Ashurst Gilbert of Chichester. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.viii [2] 344; xlvi; vi; pp.x; 268; xxv [5]. With 30 lithographic plates to volume I, some folding, after drawings by F. Pollard, including a frontispiece..... More
The Kentish Note Book. A Half-Yearly Magazine of Notes, Queries, and Replies on Subjects Connected with the County of Kent.
Gravesend: Smithers Brothers (Vol.I); London: Henry Gray (Vol.II). 1891-1894. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo, two volumes, pp. vii, 470, x, pp. vii, 436. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt titles to spines, gilt border and 'Invicta' to upper boards. Yellow endpapers, speckled edges to volume two. Volume one bears the..... More
The Cinque Ports. A Historical and Descriptive Record.
William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. [Kent]. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.xiv; 403; [1]. Publisher's beige clath blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, red endpapers. Fourteen photogravure plates with tissue guards, nineteen in text and other illustrations. Small repaired marginal tear to page 43, discreet cancelled library stamp to flyleaf with..... More