"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
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
Under Thirty-Seven Kings. Legends of Kent and Records of The Family of Boys.
London: The Saint Catherine Press, 1926. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.[14]; 163; [1]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper board, top edge gilt, other untrimmed. With twenty-one plates and a number of in-text illustrations. Finely printed at the Arden Press. Two neat ownership... More
The Birds of Sussex.
London: R. H. Porter, 1891. [Local Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 385; [13]. With six hand-coloured lithographic illustrations after Keulemans, including a frontispiece, and a hand-coloured folding map of Sussex. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Brown endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Black... 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
The History of Tunbridge-Wells.
London: M. Hingeston, J. Dodsley, T. Caslon; Tunbridge Wells: E. Baker, 1766. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 317; [7]. Bound in contemporary tan full calf, gilt titles on a morocco square to spine. Very attractive label of Tunbridge Wells bookseller and printer Jasper Sprange to front pastedown... More
The History of Tunbridge-Wells.
London: M. Hingeston, J. Dodsley, T. Caslon; Tunbridge Wells: E. Baker, 1766. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 317; [7]. Respined to style using contemporary brown calf boards, with repairs to corners. Raised bands and gilt titles on a burgundy label to spine. All edges speckled red;... 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
Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Kent. To Which is Prefixed a Copious Travelling Guide, Forming a Complete County Itinerary, also a List of Markets and Fairs; And an Index Table.
London: C. Cooke, 17 Paternoster Row, n.d. [c.1810]. Duodecimo, pp.359; [1], Table of Contents. With a hand-coloured fold-out map of the county, this copy EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by a former owner with 68 inserted illustrations (67 engravings, many folding, 1 photograph) being mounted on pale yellow paper, some plated with hand-written titles/captions... More
![Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Sussex [together with] Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Surrey. George Alexander COOKE.](/pictures/thumb/47035.jpg?v=1500288490)
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 History of Winchelsea, One of the Ancient Towns Added to the Cinque Ports.
London: John Russell Smith, Hastings: Henry Osborne, 1850. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii,264,12 of publisher's catalogue. Original green blind stamped cloth with gilt titles to spine, spine has at some point been professionally rebacked with the original cloth laid on. Folding street plan of Winchelsea facing the title page, ten other... More
The history of the town of Gravesend in the county of Kent and of the Port of London.
London: William Pickering, and Gravesend: James Johnston, 1843. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.v; [3]; 569; [1]. Bound in contemporary brown half pebbled morocco over marbled boards, edges speckled red. Numerous in text illustrations plus nine plate and plans, some folding. Top edge slightly dusty, some spotting to the plates with offsetting... 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
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. [Kent] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.lvi, 277, [1] blank; [5] index; [1] advertisements. Finely bound in later burgundy crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and compartments to spine, gilt margin to boards. Fore and tail edges untrimmed. Illustrated with... More
The Broad Highway. A Romance of Kent.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, etc., n.d. [1912]. FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 493 [3]. With 24 chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by Brock. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and extensive gilt decoration and titles to upper board, with a small illustrated roundel affixed... 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 History of the Weald of Kent. With an Outline of the Early History of the County.
Ashford: Henry Igglesden. 1871-1874. First Edition. Two volumes bound in three parts as issued. Octavo, pp. xvi, 462, pp. xii, 424, pp. iii, 425-935. Bound in the publisher's handsome green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black stamped tooling and gilt motifs to the upper boards, matt brown endpapers. Numerous... 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. 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. Edward HASTED.](/pictures/thumb/49288.jpg?v=1510224384)
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. [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
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