Catalogue 91 - Collection of Devonshire Books
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For this our first internet catalogue we are offering a selection of books from one of our
specialist subjects - Devonshire. The books mainly come from the personal collection of the
engaging Totnes bookdealer Ken Parnell, and are in excellent condition.
Ken a former mountain guide in New Zealand, was a keen Dartmoor walker, and climber : we
will be offering online a selection of his antiquarian mountaineering books in the New Year.
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[000253] ( ANON ). The Rectors of Parkham, Devonshire . Exeter: William Pollard & Co,
1888. First Edit. 4to. 6 pages. Reprinted from Notes & Gleanings, Fifty copies, "Not published."
Modern bookplate. Ms wrappers £10.00
[000240] ALECTO Historical Editions ... Publisher. The Devonshire Domesday. 1991. First
Edit. Folio. Near Fine. 3 volume set in original slipcase. Original cream buckram cloth with
paper covered boards. Maps, with facsimile plates of hand writing, etc. Ownership name inside
each volume. £75.00
[000223] ALEXANDER, J. J & HOOPER, W.R. The History of Great
Torrington in the County of Devon. Sutton: Advance Studio, 1948. First
Edit. 4to. Very Good. xiii; 261 pages. Addenda slip. Large folding map, 30
plates, 4 coloured plates of arms. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers.
Bookplate on the front pastedown. Original fawn coloured cloth lettered in
black on the spine and upper cover. A good sound copy £60.00
[000091] ANDREW, Robert D'Arcy. Braunton
Home of the Last Sailing Coasters. Published by
Braunton & District Museum, 2007. First Edit. 4to. Mint (xviii); 224
pages. Copiously illustrated mainly from old photographs inc. colour.
Original pictorial laminated card covers. Scarce work out of print £35.00
[000313] ANDRIETTE, Eugene A. Devon and Exeter in the Civil
War. David & Charles, 1971. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine / Fine. 237 pages.
Illustrated. Bookplate stuck on the front endpaper. Original cloth in
complete dust wrapper. Still the standard work on the subject. £10.00
[000277] BACON'S. New Library Map of Devonshire and Part
Somersetshire. 700 x 1150mm. Scale : two miles to one inch. Folding
coloured map, mounted on linen, dissecting into 20 sections, folding into
original cloth covers with title in gilt £60.00
[000125] (BAIRD, Henry). Poetical Letters Tu Es Brither Jan, a Witch Story ... In the
Devonshire Dialect. Torquay: A. Iredale, 1888. First Edit. 8vo. Fair. 75 pages. Bookplate.
Original pictorial wrappers detached. £10.00
[000214] BARBER, Judy. Little Torrington & Taddiport the
Memories of a Devon Parish. Little Torrington Parish Council, 2005.
First Edit. 4to. Near Fine. 159 pages. Illustrated. Original pictorial
laminated card covers £20.00
[000107] BARING-GOULD, S. A Book of Dartmoor. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1900. First Edit. 8vo. xvi; 283; (i) + publisher's
catalogue. Illustrated. Neat near contemporary inscription on front blank
endpaper. Light crease to corner of first few pages. Light foxing. Original red lightly faded on
the spine. £20.00
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[000088] BARING-GOULD, S. Devonshire Characters and Strange
Events ... With 62 Full-page Illustrations Reproduced from Old Prints,
Etc. London: John Lane, 1908. First Edit. Large stout 8vo. Good. xv;
813;(iv) + 16 (publisher's adverts) pages. Illustrated. Prominent
contemporary inscription on the front pastedown. Light foxing. Original
green cloth gilt lettering, faded spine and pulled at the head. Offered as a
cheap copy of the superior first edition. £60.00
[A1852] BEACHAM, Peter. Devon Buildings an Introduction to Local Traditions. Tiverton:
Devon Books, 1990. First Edit. Oblong 4to. Book. Fine / Fine. 160 pages.
Well illustrated throughout inc. in colour, line illustrations in the text.
Original black cloth in complete dust wrapper. " Devon Buildings presents
the most authoritative and comprehensive picture of the County's building
traditions." A fine copy of the desirable first edition £30.00
[000299] BELLCHAMBERS, J. K. Devonshire Clockmakers. Printed in Torquay: 1962. First
Edit. 8vo. Very Good. 41 pages. Illustrated. Bookplate. Original card covers £12.00
[000236] BERE, Alice J. Buckland Monachorum. Buckland Monachorum W. I, 1930. First
Edit. 8vo. Very Good. 64 pages. 5 plates. Neat contemporary ownership inscriptions on the front
pastedown and endpaper. Original cloth £10.00
[000064] BESLEY, Henry ... Publisher. The South of Devon and Dartmoor. Torquay,
Teignmouth, Dartmouth, Dawlish, Totnes, Ashburton, Newton, Moreton, Kingsbridge,
Tavistock, &c. Exeter. 8vo. Fair. No date. 173 + (xx)(advert) pages. Large folding map of South
Devon, folding plan of Torquay, 8 colour printed vignette plates. Slight adhesion damage to
reverse of the plan which also has a short closed tear. Original cloth with the title in gilt on the
upper cover, spine torn and becoming detached from binding £20.00
[000073] BESLEY, J. W. Mate's Illustrated Okehampton a Pictorial
and Descriptive Souvenir. Bournemouth: W. Mate & Sons, Ltd, 1904.
First Edit. Oblong 8vo. Very Good. Well illustrated from photographs.
Original limp red cloth with black lettering a little faded, with the stapled
binding rusting. Photographs were by Lugg & Sons of Okehampton.
£20.00
[000166] BICKLEY, Francis. Where Dorset Meets Devon. (Exeter):
Constable & Co. Ltd, 1911. First Edit. Tall 8vo. Good. ix; 267 pages.
Illustrated throughout inc. colour frontispiece by J.W. King. Foxing mainly
to endpapers and pastedowns which also have 8 contemporary postcards
stuck to them. Original pictorial cloth. A good sound copy. £25.00
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[000189] BILLING'S, M. Directory and Gazetteer of the County of
Devon, Containing a Descriptive Account of Every Town, Village,
Hamlet, Etc. Followed By a General Directory. Birmingham: M. Billing's
Steam-Press, 1857. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. (vi); vi; 777; (iii); 192
(advert) pages. Near contemporary ownership inscription on the title-page.
Original brown gilt cloth rebacked with the spine relaid. A scarce and
important mid-nineteenth century Devon directory, which was only published in this one edition.
A feature of this directory are the 192 pages of advertisements for local businesses, containing a
whole social history £250.00
[000222] BLACK, Adam & Charles ... Publisher. Black's Guide to
Devonshire. Edinburgh: 1864. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. vii; 291+ 32
(publisher's catalogue) pages. Frontispiece, folding county map (short tear
without loss), 2 folding plans, 2 plates, 3 single page plans. Original flexible
green cloth. A lovely fresh copy of what appears to be the first edition of
Black's Guide to Devonshire £30.00
[000312] BOOKER, Frank. Industrial Archaeology of the Tamar Valley. Devon & Charles,
1971. Second Edition. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. 303 pages. Plates, diagrams, etc. Bookplate.
Original cloth in complete dust wrapper £20.00
[000249] BORN, Anne. A History of Kingsbridge and Salcombe .
Chichester: Phillimore, 1986. First Edit. 4to. Very Good / Fine. 179 pages.
Illustrated. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper
£10.00
[000197] BOUQUET, Michael. Westcountry Sail
Merchant Shipping
1840 - 1960. David & Charles, 1971. First Edit. 4to. Fine / Fine. 112 pages.
Well illustrated from old photographs. Original cloth in complete dust
wrapper. £18.00
[000265] BRETON, H. Hugh. Beautiful Dartmoor ...
Part 111. The Southern Quarter of the Moor. Hoyten & Cole: Plymouth,
1912. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. (xii); 68; (xvi) pages. Illustrated. Original
pictorial wrappers a little faded £12.00
[000280] BRETON, H. Hugh. The Forest of Dartmoor ... Part 1 - SouthEast. Plymouth: Hoyten & Cole, 1931. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. 82 pages.
Adverts on endpapers. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers £12.00
[000096] BRITTON, J & BRAYLEY, E.W. Devonshire & Cornwall
Illustrated, from Original Drawings By Thomas Allom, W.H. Bartlett,
&c. With Historical and Topographical Descriptions. London: H & R.
Fisher; & P. Jackson, 1832. First Edit. 4to. Near Fine. (ii); (iv); (5)-106; (5)48 pages. General title-page, 2 engraved frontispieces, 2 county maps with
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vignettes, 2 engraved title-pages with vignettes, 138 steel engraved views. Modern bookplate.
Contemporary nice quality half calf. The COLERIDGE family copy, signed “Jas. Geo.
Coleridge, Manor House, Ottery St. Mary” .... important association copy £350.00
[000168] BRITTON, John & BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake. The
Beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations, Topographical,
Historical, and Descriptive ... ( DEVONSHIRE ) ... Vol. 1V. London:
Printed by Thomas Maiden, 1803. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. 320 pages.
Additional engraved vignette title, 19 copper engraved plates. Spotting to
engraved title otherwise nice crisp contents. Rebound in half brown morocco
£85.00
[000156] BROCKETT, Allan. The Devon Union List (D.U.L.) a
Collection of Written Material Relating to the County of Devon. Exeter:
The University Library, 1977. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine. iii; 571 pages.
Rebound by Grace of Brixham in quarter blue morocco with marbled sides.
Essential reference £60.00
[000198] BRUNEL, Isambard. The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civil Engineer (1870). David & Charles, 1971. Facsimile. 8vo. Very Good / Fine. xxviii; 568
pages. Illustrated. Foxing only to the top edge. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper £15.00
[000042] BRUNSDEN, Denys. British Landscapes Through Maps. 12 ...
Dartmoor. Sheffield: The Geographical Association, 1968. First Edit.
4to.Very Good. 55 pages. Plates, diagrams, maps. Original printed wrappers.
" Dr. Brunsden has presented an authorative account of the development of
the landscape of Dartmoor and its fringes, giving due prominence also to the
problems of conversation and planning ... " £7.00
[000040] BURNARD, Robert. Dartmoor Pictorial
Records. Plymouth: Privately Printed : W. Brendon & Son,, 1890. First Edit.
8vo. FOUR VOLUME SET. 56; 60; 74; 84 pages. 69 photographic plates,
from negatives by the Author, illustrations, plans, etc in the text. New floral
endpapers. Neat contemporary ownership inscription. Original cloth
professionally rebacked (to the original style) with new morocco spines, gilt
lettering, and all contained within a custom made slipcase. LIMITED
EDITIONS : Volume 1 to 150 copies; volumes 2-4 to 200 copies, all signed
by the printer and Robert Burnard. Rare to find all four volumes, usually lacking the first volume.
The great early set photographic books of Dartmoor. £650.00
[000078] BUTLER, Jeremy. Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities. Devon Books, First Edit. 4to.
Very Good. 1991-95. Volume One East, 174 pages. Volume Two North, 248 pages. Volume
Three South-West, 216 pages. Volume Four South-East, 252 pages. Volume Five Second
Millennium BC, 296 pages. Well illustrated with maps inc. colour plates and line drawn maps.
Recognised as one of the most informative and innovative works relating to Dartmoor
antiquities. Includes the scarce first volume. £125.00
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[000230] BUTTERIS, V. Butteris's Guide to the Dart, Dartmouth, and
the Neighbourhood, in Which are Given Authentic Facts Concerning the
Principal Places of Interest in the Town and Neighbourhood .....
Dartmouth: V. Butteris, 1852. First Edit. 8vo. Good. 62; (vii)(local advert)
pages. Steel engraved vignette frontispiece. Modern bookplate. Original
orange coloured printed wrappers rebacked. Some foxing, but a scarce guide
book. £65.00
[A10018] CAPERN, Edward (1819-1894). Autograph letter signed to William Pengelly.
Book. Three page letter in the hand of Edward Capern (the Postman Poet), addressed from
Bideford and dated Jan. 28th 1858. To the eminent geologist and discoverer of Kent's Cavern,
William Pengelly. Edward Capern was known as the Bideford postman poet, born at Tiverton,
much of his early life was taken up working in a lace factory at Barnstaple where his family had
moved to. This work over a period of time affected his eyesight, suffering hard times he
eventually found employment as a rural postman at Bideford, here he began writing his poetry,
with his first work published in 1856 simply called " Poems." Lord Parmerston was so taken with
his poetry he eventually awarded him a pension of £60 per year £50.00
[000050] CARRINGTON, N.T. Dartmoor: a Descriptive Poem. (London): John Murray,
1826. Second Edition, Revised. 8vo. Very Good. xix; 206; (x);
(ii)(subscribers) pages. 12 etched plates. With additional subscribers slip. A
degree of foxing throughout mainly in the vicinity of the plates which are
also offsetting. Bookplate and most attractive contemporary ownership
inscription. Splendid contemporary gilt crushed morocco, lacking the title
label. Important work, the second part of the book (103 pages) consists of a
topographical description, which is generally regarded as the first
individually published substantive book on Dartmoor. With the ownership
inscription of the author Jack Simmons. £90.00
[000233] CATTELL, Raymond B. Under Sail Through Red Devon
Being the Log of the Voyage of 'Sandpiper'. (London): Alexander
Maclehose, 1937. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. xiv; 366; (ii) pages. Plates.
Original cloth (no dust wrapper) £12.00
[000242] CHALK, E.S. Kentisbeare. Devonshire Association, 1934. First
Edit. 8vo. Very Good. (viii); 112 pages. Illustrated. Bound with ...
Blackborough alias All Hallows. Illustrated inc. large folding map with a single clean tear
without any loss. Original cloth £25.00
[000065] CHANTER, Charlotte. Ferny Combes a Ramble After Ferns in
the Glens and Valleys of Devonshire. Lovell Reeve: 1857. Third Edition.
8vo.(viii); 118 +(ii)(advert) pages. Folding map of Devon, 8 colour plates.
Adhesion mark in the upper margin of the title page. Ownership inscription
on front pastedown. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, bright copy. £40.00
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[000055] CHANTER, John Roberts. Lundy Island: a Monograph,
Descriptive and Historical; with Notices of Its Distinguishing Features in
Natural History. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1877. First Edit. 8vo.
Near Fine 171 pages. Large folding map. Light foxing. Original decorated
green bevelled cloth. The first individually published history of Lundy.
£100.00
[000079] CHAPMAN, Chris. Wild Goose & Riddon The Dartmoor Photographs of Chris
Chapman. Halsgrove, 2000. First Edit. Oblong large 4to. Near Fine / Near Fine. 256 pages.
Copiously illustrated throughout with the exceptional photographs of Chris Chapman. Original
cloth in complete dust wrapper, slightly bumped at the corners. The photographs in this book
represent a remarkable body of work created by the photographer Chris Chapman over a period
of 25 years. These highly evocative photographs document the people and the landscape of
Dartmoor. Now long out of print and already a collector's item. £90.00
[A12487] CHAPMAN, Chris. The Dartmoor Photographs of Chris Chapman . 10 high
quality black & white prints. Throwleigh: Tythe Barn Studio, 1994. First Edit. 8vo. Fine. Ten
original silver prints, with 4 page descriptive text, in original pictorial printed card portfolio. A
rare portfolio believed to have had a very small print run. Chris Chapman moved to Dartmoor in
1975, since then he has documented aspects of Dartmoor life. His pictures have concentrated on
the indigenous population, reflecting in his images traditional farming skills and local custom.
This portfolio is out of print. £80.00
[A9937] CHASE, Beatrice. Dartmoor Snapshots. London: Longmans,
Green & Co., 1931. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good xii + (ii) (author's adverts)
pages + 41 half-tone plates after photographs by the Author. Light staining
to final few pages. Original pink and blue wash card covers with the title in
violet on the upper cover and spine. Slight pulling to inner hinges. A
wonderfully evocative series of photographs of Dartmoor. Probably one of
the most difficult of Beatrice Chase's Dartmoor books to
find £35.00
[000229] CHOPE, R. Pearse. The Augustinian Priory of Frithelstock.
1928. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. 24 pages. Folding plan, 5 plates. Bookplate.
Original printed wrappers. Includes a 'Frithelstock Priory Ruins' typed
appeal, dated 1935 £20.00
[000209] CHUDLEIGH HISTORY GROUP ...
Compilers. The Chudleigh Book. Chudleigh: Orchard Publications, 2009.
First Edit. Large 4to. As New / Fine. 413 pages. Copiously illustrated.
Bookplate. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper. Limited edition of 750
numbered copies. Extensive work £50.00
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[000314] CLARK, E.A.G. The Ports of the Exe Estuary 1660-1860. University of Exeter,
1968. Second Edition. Very Good / Very Good. (xii); 247 pages. Bookplate. Original cloth in
slightly edge worn dust wrapper £12.00
[000190] CLIFFORD, Hugh. The House of Clifford from Before the
Conquest. Chichester: Phillimore, 1987. First Edit. 4to. Near Fine / Fine. xv;
320 pages. Illustrated, pedigrees. Bookplate. Original cloth in complete dust
wrapper £35.00
[A1614] COCK, John. Records of Ye Antient Borough of South Molton
in Ye County of Devon. Exeter: Published by the Author, 1893. First Ed.
8vo.Very Good. (vi); 255 pages. 17 plates, illustrations in the text. Original
blue cloth gilt lettering on the spine and upper cover with device, a good bright copy of the
standard history, being the records of the borough of South Molton £85.00
[000315] COCKS, J.V Somers. Devon Topographical Prints 1660-1870 a Catalogue and
Guide. Exeter: Devon Library Services, 1977. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good / Near Fine. viii; 324
pages. Bookplate. Inner hinge paper flaw due to careless attachment of the
endpaper. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper. Over 3,500 Devon
prints listed £10.00
[000195] COLLINSON, Don. The Chronicles of Dartmouth an
Historical Yearly Log 1854-1954. Dartmouth: Richard Webb, 2000. First
Edit. 4to. Near Fine / Fine. 296 pages. Well illustrated. Original cloth in
complete dust wrapper. Author’s signed copy. £20.00
[000199] COTTON, William. A Graphic and Historical Sketch of the
Antiquities of Totnes. Plymouth: Roger Lidstone, 1850. First Edit. 4to. Very
Good. vi; 101 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations in text, hand coloured coats of
arms. Original blue gilt cloth neatly rebacked. With the ownership inscription
of Jack Simmons £75.00
[000231] CRANFORD, R & Son ... (publisher).
Guide to Dartmouth. Dartmouth: 8vo. Good. c1906. 52
pages + many local advert pages. Modern bookplate. Original printed
wrappers soiling £20.00
[000258] CRESSWELL, Beatrix F. Notes on the Churches of the
Deanery of Kenn. Devon . Exeter: James G. Commin, 1912. First Edit.
8vo. Very Good. 192 pages. Plates. Original black cloth slightly chipped at
the head of the spine, but bright £20.00
[000052] CRESSWELL, Beatrix F. Dartmoor with Its Surroundings.
(London): The Homeland Association, . Fifteenth Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover.
Good. 120; xxiii (advert) pages. Folding map detached, illustrated. Original
dark green cloth lightly rubbed. £7.00
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[000247] CRESSWELL, Beatrix F. Little Torrington the Church and Manor Lands and
the Magdalen Hospital of Taddiport ... With an Introduction, and Additional Notes By
W.R. Hooper. Exeter: Southwoods Ltd, 1937. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. 36 pages. 5 plates.
Modern bookplate. Original cloth lettered in black on the upper cover. Two manuscript letters
inserted from W.R. Hooper, and other pieces of ephemera £20.00
[A10897] CROKER, John Gifford. A Guide to the Eastern Escarpment of Dartmoor, with
a descriptive map. Chudleigh: J. E. Searle, 1851. First Ed. 8vo.Very Good. 28 pages. Large
folding hand coloured map which has two short tears without any loss. Original dark green cloth
with the title in gilt on the upper cover. The author was a doctor at Bovey Tracey, he had a wide
knowledge of Dartmoor, published in Chudleigh this is one of the scarcest of all Dartmoor titles.
£300.00
[000045] CROSSING, William. The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor; with a Description of
Their Surroundings. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1887. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. xii; (ii); 132
+ (iv) (advert) pages. Frontispiece, map, 9 plates. Original dark blue bevelled cloth. AUTHOR'S
PRESENTATION COPY £60.00
[000047] CROSSING, William. Amid Devonia's Alps; or, Wanderings &
Adventures on Dartmoor. Plymouth: W.H. Luke, 1888. First Edit.
8vo.Very Good 231; (i) + (x)(advert) pages. Illustrated. Near contemporary
ownership inscription on front endpaper. original decorated bevelled cloth
rubbed at the head of the spine and corners but bright £50.00
[000044] CROSSING, William. The Old Stone Crosses of the Dartmoor
Borders; with Notices of the Scenery and Traditions of the District.
(Exeter): James G. Commin, 1892. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine. xiv; (ii); 152 pages. Frontispiece,
map, 14 plates, light age discolouration of the paper used for the illustrations. Original dark blue
bevelled cloth, slightly frayed at the head of the spine. Lovely fresh copy with attractive
contemporary bookplate of Reginald Kelly £65.00
[000310] CROSSING, William. Gems in a Granite Setting : Beauties of the Lone Land of
Dartmoor. Plymouth: Western Morning News, 1905. Fourth Edition. 4to.
Very Good. 220 + (iv)(advert) pages. many nice cameo photographical
illustrations. Ownership inscription on the front endpaper. Original white
buckram lettered and decorated in gilt. A good sound unusually clean copy
£25.00
[A1651] CROSSING, William. Gems in a Granite Setting : Beauties of
the Lone Land of Dartmoor. Plymouth: The Western Morning News, 1905.
Fourth Edition. 4to. Near Fine. 220 + 4 (advert) pages. Illustrated throughout
with photographic illustrations including many full-page. Neat near
contemporary inscription on the inside cover. Original white buckram cloth with gilt lettering
and illustration of a clapper bridge on the front cover, an unusually bright clean copy of a very
handsome Dartmoor book £35.00
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000049] CROSSING, William. Guide to Dartmoor: a Topographical
Description of the Forest and Commons . Plymouth: The Western Morning
News, 1909. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good (x); 528 +(xx)(advert) pages.
Illustrated with sketches and maps. Endpapers a little tanned. Original
pictorial yellow cloth slightly soiled, still a good sound copy of the first
edition of this iconic Dartmoor guide * there have been many, but has this
been bettered ? £45.00
[000241] CROSSING, William. Guide to Dartmoor: a Topographical Description of the
Forest and Commons. Plymouth: "The Western Morning News", 1912. Second Edition. 8vo.
Very Good. (xii); 529; (iii)+xv (advert) pages. Line illustrations and maps. Modern bookplate on
verso of one page. Original silver-coloured moire cloth decorated and
lettered in dark blue, spine lightly browned £25.00
[000054] CROSSING, William. Guide to Dartmoor: a Topographical
Description of the Forest and Commons. Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd,
1914. Third Edition. 8vo. Very Good. Two volumes, confusingly volume one
has parts one, four and five each with their own title page. Volume two, parts
two & three. xiv; 113; xv; 112; xv; 112 & xv; 112; xv; 107 pages + advert
pages etc. Maps, line illustrations throughout. Small neat ownership
inscription on front pastedowns. Original red boards lettered in black £25.00
[000062] CROYDON, E & George H. The Torquay Guide, Containing
a Description of the Town, and of Most Remarkable Objects of Interest
in the Neighbourhood .... By Several Literary Gentlemen . Teignmouth:
1848. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. (iv); 160 pages. Folding map of South
Devon, 10 steel engraved vignettes (J. Harwood). Light foxing. Probably recased with light marks at inner margin, binding tight. Original dark and light
blue cloth in a horizontal pattern with the title in gilt on the spine and upper
cover. An unusual example of a Victorian publisher's binding £100.00
[000224] CURTIS, J. Sydney. Devonshire : Historical and Pictorial ...
Illustrated with About Two Hundred Splendid Photogravures .
Southampton: The Topographical Publishing Co, First Edit. 4to. Very Good.
No date, c1890s. 189; (iii); viii (advert) pages. Bookplate. Original bubble
grained brown cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover. £20.00
[A11887] DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK. Draft National Park Plan.
Issued by the Dartmoor National Park Committee for consultation purposes
only October 1976, 1976. 4to (30 x 25 cms). Book. Very Good. 95 pages. Many maps. Original
orange coloured printed card covers with ring binder £15.00
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[000297] DAVIES, E.W.L. Dartmoor Days or Scenes in the Forest. a Poem . (London):
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. First Edit. Smal 8vo.Very Good. (viii); 148
pages. Modern bookplate. Original green gilt cloth slightly frayed at the head of the spine
£30.00
[000202] DELDERFIELD, Eric R. West Country Historic Houses and
Their Families. David & Charles, First Edit. 4to. Very Good / Very Good.
1968-73. THREE VOLUME SET. 160; 127 & 124 pages. Copiously
illustrated throughout. Original cloth in complete dust wrappers £28.00
[000303] DEVON ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SOCIETY. The Archaeology of Dartmoor
Perspectives from the 1990s. 1994. First Edit. 4to. Near Fine. viii; 286
pages. Illustrated. Bookplate. Original pictorial laminated card covers.
Essential reference work £15.00
[000056] DEVONSHIRE ASSOCIATION. Reports and Transactions.
Plymouth: Hard Cover. Very Good 1863 - 1903. VOLUMES 1 - 35. Maps,
plates, diagrams, etc. Half sheep, marbled boards, some minor wear, and the
last five volumes are not uniform in colour. IMPORTANT COMPLETE RUN OF THE FIRST
35 VOLUMES. From the library of Edward Windeatt. Early volumes of the Transactions are
hard to locate; containing a wealth of original material relating to the county of Devon £850.00
[A7519] DONN, Benjamin. A Map of the County of Devon, with the City and County of
Exeter, Delineated from an Actual Survey, on Twelve Sheets of Imperial Paper, the Scale
an Inch to a Mile. By Benjamin Donn, Teacher of Mathematics, &c. late of Bideford, now
of the City of Bristol. London: Printed for The Author, 1765. First Ed. Atlas folio ( 540 x 400 ).
Book. Near Fine. Printed title, (x) pages. Double page county map, 12 double page uncoloured
maps inc. plans of Exeter, and Plymouth. Maps re-mounted on new guards. Contemporary half
crimson morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Contents clean and fresh, a near
perfect copy of this highly important large scale map of Devon, published in atlas form. In 1754,
the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce, was founded in
London -- since 1847, it has been known as the Royal Society of Arts. It was at the suggestion of
one of its Cornish members, the antiquarian William Borlase, that the Society decided to offer a
"premium" for an actual large-scale survey of a county. In 1760, Benjamin Donn began work on
his immense task to survey the county of Devon. After many difficulties the work was completed
in 1765. The Society accepted the map as an "accurate, actual survey", and awarded Donn a
gratuity of £100. Ironically Donn estimated the survey cost nearly £2000. It is impossible to over
estimate the importance of Donn's accurate map to the archaeologist, historian, and
topographer. Here is recorded the face of the County of nearly two hundred and fifty years ago:
roads, rivers, principle towns, villages, mileage distances between towns, even some individual
houses, all are shown, together with a mass of other information. This is the first large scale map
of Devon, or any other County; a magnificent copy of this major contribution to the history of
English cartography. The first large scale map of any county to be published, and a major
contribution to the history of English cartography £1,650.00
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[000217] DONN, Benjamin. A Map of the County of Devon. University of Exeter, 1965. First
Edit. 4to. Very Good / Good. v; 20; (ii) pages. Folding county map, 24 double-page maps. A few
isolated foxing spots. Original cloth in price clipped dust wrapper, which has edge tears which
have clear tape repairs, now in a clear loose plastic sleeve. Published to commemorate two
hundred years since the publication of the 'first' large-scale map of any county. £40.00
[000228] DRAKE-BROCKMAN, E.D. Staverton on the Dart from Records of Church and
Parish. Exeter: Sydney Lee Ltd, 1946. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. (ii); 97 pages. Illustrated.
Original blue cloth lettered in black on the upper cover. Author's signed presentation copy.
£20.00
[000255] DREDGE, John Ingle . The Marwood List of Briefs, 1714-1774. Reprinted from the
Devon Association Transactions, 1893. 4to. Fair. 27 pages. Disbound £10.00
[A12550] DUNSFORD, Martin. Historical Memoirs of the Town and Parish of Tiverton, in
the County of Devon. Collected from the best authorities, with notes and observations.
Exeter: T. Brice, 1790. First Ed. 4to.Very Good xiv; (ii); (17)-466 Pages + errata leaf. Engraved
portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title, 2 maps, 3 plates. Some spotting and offsetting from
the plates due to the porous nature of the paper stock used. Splendidly rebound in contemporary
style half dark blue morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering and devices on the spine, attractive
marbled boards. An exceptionally handsome copy of the very scarce first edition of the first
individually published history of the town of Tiverton £350.00
[000186] DURRANCE, E.M & LAMING, D.J.C .... (ed). The Geology of Devon. University
of Exeter, 1982. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine. xxi; 346 pages. 20 plates + diagrams, maps. Original
pictorial laminated boards. No dust wrapper (as published). No inscriptions or markings £20.00
[000175] ELLIS, Arthur C. Some Ancient Churches Around Torquay
with Other Notes on the Respective Parishes. Privately Published ?, 1936.
First Edit. Tall 8vo. Very Good. 160 pages. Illustrated. Neat contemporary
ownership inscription. Original light blue cloth, clean fresh copy of quite a
scarce book £40.00
[000082] ELMHIRST, Dorothy. My Special Anthology. Totnes:
Dartington Press Ltd, 1979. First Edit. 8vo. Fine. Not paginated. Decorative
paper covers. Beautiful typographical item £10.00
[000300] ELWIN, Malcolm. Devon Dumplings Cricket Club Jubilee Book, 1902-1952.
Privately Printed (for the club), 1952. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good / Near Fine. 120 pages.
Illustrated. Bookplate, label on f.e.p. Original green cloth in complete dust wrapper. Very fresh
copy £10.00
[000291] EVANS, George Eyre. Colytonia : a Chapter in the History of Devon : Being
Some Account of the Old and George's Meetings, Colyton, from 1662 to 1898. F & E.
Gibbons, 1898. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. xv; 136 pages. 13 plates, facsimile plates, folding
pedigrees. Full dark blue calf morocco label with monograph on the upper cover by Birdsall of
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Northampton. Signed by the author, only 102 copies subscribed to. John
Tricks Spalding's copy with his bookplate and distinctive binding. A rare
work £275.00
[000257] EVANS, Rachel. Home Scenes : Or Tavistock and Its Vicinity.
Tavistock: T.W. Greenfield, 1875. Second Edition. 8vo. Very Good. viii;
176 pages. Photographic frontispiece, 7 steel engraved vignette plates.
Original dark red cloth lightly unevenly faded. £50.00
[000302] EWANS, M. C. The Haytor Granite Tramway and Stover Canal. David & Charles,
1966. First edition in Hardback. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. 72 pages. Illustrated. Bookplate.
Original cloth in complete dust wrapper. £10.00
[000152] FAIRWEATHER, James. Salcombe, Kingsbridge, and
Neighbourhood, a Descriptive and Historical Guide to All Places of
Interest Between Start Bay and the River Avon. Salcombe: Jas.
Fairweather, Second Edition. 8vo. Good. No date. (viii)(advert); 264 pages.
Illustrated. Inner hinges weak. Neat ownership inscription on front endpaper.
Original green cloth lettered in gilt. £60.00
[000153] FAIRWEATHER, James. Salcombe and Neighbourhood. A descriptive and
historical gude to all places of interest between Start Bay and the River Avon. Salcombe:
Published by the Author, Third Edition. 8vo. Good. (1913). (viii)(advert); 376 pages. Portrait
frontispiece, illustrations throughout. New endpapers. Original mauve cloth with the title in gilt
on the upper cover, rebacked. For this the final edition of this guide, the work was considerably
extended by over one hundred pages. £65.00
[000048] FALCON, T. A. Dartmoor Illustrated a Series of One Hundred
Full Page Plates of Its Scenery and Antiquities with Some Short
Topographical Notes. Exeter: James G. Commin, 1900. First Edit. 8vo.
Very Good. xxxix pages + 100 plates. Original green cloth lettered in gilt.
Name on half-title. Limited edition of 300 copies in demy 8vo. £60.00
[A8081] FALCON, T. A. Dartmoor Illustrated. A series of one hundred
full page plates of its scenery and antiquities with some short topographical notes. Exeter:
James G. Commin, 1900. First Ed. Royal 8vo ( 10.5 x 6.5 inches ). Book. Very Good xxxix
pages + 100 half-tone plates taken from photographs. Light spotting to endpapers with neat
ownership stamps and inscription. Original cream coloured gilt buckram cloth. Large Paper
Copy Limited to 125 Copies. Published as an intended illustrated supplement to the limited
edition of Rowe's "Perambulation of Dartmoor", 1896, in a matching binding, which was
published four years earlier. Not to be confused with the ordinary demy 8vo trade edition of
which there were 300 copies printed, published in an inferior binding and smaller in size
£140.00
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[000099] GILL, Crispin. Plymouth River a History of the Laira and Cattewater. Tiverton:
Devon Books, 1997. First Edit. Oblong 4to. Fine / Fine. 216 pages. Well illustrated. Original red
cloth in price-clipped otherwise complete dust wrapper. £25.00
[000172] ( GOTTO, E.R ). Down in Devon Humorous Tales Told By
Uncle Tom Cobleigh. (London): Heath, Cranton & Ouseley, Ltd, First Edit.
8vo. Very Good. ( 1914 ). 255 pages. Foxing quite heavy at the beginning
and end of the book. Original pictorial cloth, an attractive cover, a scarce set
of parochial tales £35.00
[A14144] GOVER, J.E.B; MAWER, A & STENTON, F.M. The PlaceNames of Devon . Parts 1 & 2 . English Place-Name Society. Vol. V111, Vol. 1X & map vol..
Cambridge: University Press 1931-2, 1931. First Ed. 8vo. Book. Very Good. Two volumes +
slipcase of maps. lx; 334; xiv; (335)-754 pages. 2 large folding maps. Light foxing. Original blue
cloth very slight fading. A very fresh complete set for Devon, often found without the map volume
£75.00
[000174] GOVER, J.E.B; MAWER, A & STENTON, F.M. The Place-Names of Devon.
Cambridge University Press, 1931. First Edit. 8vo. Good. 2 vols (no map supplement volume).
lx; 334; xiv; (335)-754 pages. Neat small ownership inscription. Original mauve cloth unevenly
faded especially on the spines, but good sound volumes. £40.00
[000213] GRANT, Alison. The History of Instow. Instow: Honeytone Promotions, 1999. First
Edit. 4to. Fine. 196 pages. Well illustrated. Bookplate. Original pictorial pictorial boards. £25.00
[A10576] GRANVILLE, A & Son . publisher. A View of Plymouth-Dock, Plymouth, and
the adjacent country, being a description of every object in the vicinity, that can interest
the Stranger, or the Tourist; in two parts . with a map of the surrounding country.
Plymouth-Dock: 1812. First Ed. Small 8vo. Very Good. vii; 130; 4 (appendix) pages. Folding
frontispiece map which has a short tear without loss and is covered in what looks like badly laid
down archival tape. One page torn and professional repaired without loss. Early neat ownership
stamp on title-page. Later endpapers and dark blue half morocco, matching cloth sides. A very
rare early guide to Plymouth. Brockett, 74180. Not in Davidson £225.00
[000235] GRAY, Todd ... (editor). Travels in Georgian Devon the
Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete (1789-1800). Tiverton:
Devon Books, First Edit. 4to. As New / As New. 1997-2000. FOUR
VOLUME SET. Copiously illustrated inc. in colour. Original cloth in dust
wrappers and original slipcase with the title in gilt on the side. Each volume
has a signed and numbered limitation slip of 1000 COPIES £120.00
[A7092] GRAY, Todd; ROWE, Margery and ERSKINE, Audrey.
Tudor and Stuart Devon the common estate and government essays presented to Joyce
Youings. University of Exeter Press, 1992. First Ed. 8vo. Fine / Fine. xix; 230 pages. Illustrated.
Original cloth in complete dust wrapper £20.00
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[000307] GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ..... Devon the Shire of the Sea
Kings. GWR. London: 1926. Fifth Edition. 8vo.Very Good. 140 pages. 2
folding maps one torn without loss, many plates. Ownership inscription in
upper margin of the title-page. Original printed paper covers with minor
damage to the yap edges. Lovely fresh copy in the original glassine dust
wrapper £10.00
[000085] [ GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ]. Legend
Land Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told
in Those Western Parts of Britain Served By the Great Western Railway,
Now Retold By Lyonesse . GWR. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine 1922-23. FOUR
PARTS BOUND IN ONE, each with separate title pages. Illustrated. Brown
cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. The full set of four bound in one. £35.00
[000104] GREEVES, Dr. Tom. The Archaeology of Dartmoor From the
Air. Devon Books, 1985. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. 21 plates with seethrough acetate overlays. original pictorial laminated card covers, ring
bindings. Photographic, aerial survey of some of Dartmoor's most
interesting archaeological sites £10.00
[000094] GREEVES, Tom. Tin Mines and Miners of Dartmoor.
Tiverton: Halsgrove, 2001. Revised Edition. Oblong 4to. Fine / Fine. ix; 86
pages. Illustrated from many old photographs some unique. Original cloth in complete dust
wrapper. The well produced standard work on the subject. £25.00
[000162] GREGORY, Charles. Brixham, in Devonia. Illustrated Guide,
with Historical & Descriptive Sketch, and Hand Book to Torbay and the
Neighbourhood. Totnes: Times & Western Guardian, First Edit. Small 8vo.
Good. No date (1896). 166 inc. local advert pages. Large folding map,
folding plates, illustrated. New endpaper, contents shaken in the binding.
Pencilled annotations in the margins. Original dark red cloth lettered in
black. Ownership inscription on the half-title is smudged and dated 1896. A
scarce guide book £80.00
[000163] GREGORY, Charles. Brixham in Devonia illustrated guide, with historical and
descriptive sketch, and hand book to Torbay and the Neighbourhood. Torquay: Goss'
Albion Printing Works Ltd, 8vo. Good. No date c192? 160 pages inc. local adverts. Folding
plate, illustrated. Bookplate. Original red cloth spine printed silked patterned printed boards. This
later edition published by the author without a map is not listed in Brockett £60.00
[000282] HARDING, W. Thompson. Devon a Survey of Its Coast,
Moors, and Rivers with Some Suggestions for Their Preservation.
(London): Council for The Preservation of Rural England, 1932. First Edit.
4to. Very Good / Good. xx; 144 pages. Folding maps, many plates.
Modern bookplate. Original red cloth in slightly edge worn dust wrapper.
With nice large contemporary C. P. R. E. Devon branch bookmark £35.00
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[000296] HARPER, Charles G. The North Devon Coast. (London): Chapman & Hall, 1908.
First Edit. Royal 8vo. Near Fine. xiii; 247 pages. Light foxing mainly affecting the rough cut
page edges. Original pictorial light blue cloth. Apart from the light foxing a lovely fresh copy.
£35.00
[000295] HARPER, Charles G.. The South Devon Coast. (London): Chapman & Hall, 1907.
First Edit. Royal 8vo. Near Fine. xiii; 304 pages. Illustrated throughout by the author. Original
light blue cloth. A lovely fresh copy £35.00
[000167] HARPER, Charles G.. The Exeter Road the Story of the West
of England Highway. (London): Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1899. First Edit. Tall
8vo. Very Good. xvii; 318 pages. Well illustrated inc. by the author. Original
blue pictorial cloth slightly dull on the spine. A good sound copy £65.00
[000165] HARPER, Charles G. From Paddington to Penzance the
Record of a Summer Tramp from London to the Land's End. London:
Chatto & Windus, 1893. First Edit. Tall 8vo. xxiv; 272 pages + publisher's catalogue. Illustrated
throughout many by the author. Some light foxing. Inner hinge cracked but very firm. Bookplate.
Original pictorial cloth spine darkened, and torn on the upper part of the upper spine (therefore
offered as a cheap copy). £25.00
[000306] HAWKINS, A. Kingsbridge and Salcombe, with the
Intermediate Estuary, Historically and Topographically Depicted.
Kingsbridge: R. Southwood, 1819. First Edit. Small 8vo. Very Good. (iv);
vi; 210 pages. Folding plan, 3 copper-engraved views. Light foxing, titlepage lightly soiled. Modern ownership label on front paste down indicating a local provenance.
Half calf. A nice copy of this scarce early provisional printing £275.00
[000215] HEARN, Michael. Frithelstock Past and Present. Frithelstock
Book Group, 2004. First Edit. 4to. Fine / Near Fine. 224 pages. Copiously
illustrated throughout. Bookplate. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper.
(out of print) £35.00
[000043] HEMERY, Eric. Historic Dart. David & Charles, 1982. First
Edit. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. 268; (blank); (i) pages. Plates, maps.
Original cloth in complete dust wrapper. £12.00
[000066] HEMERY, Eric. High Dartmoor Land and People. Robert Hale, 1983. First Edit.
Thick 8vo. Near Fine xii; 1073 pages. Maps, plates throughout. Original brown cloth contrasting
green and gilt title labels in original slipcase which has the original price label removed. The
most comprehensive modern work on the wilderness of Dartmoor £65.00
[000226] HENDERSON, Charles & JERVOISE, E. Old Devon Bridges. Exeter: A. Wheaton
& Co. Ltd, 1938. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. 96 pages. 42 illustrations. Slight foxing on fore
page edges. Original green cloth, bright copy £20.00
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[000126] HERVEY, Maurice H. Dartmoor. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, First Edit. 8vo. Good
(1896). iv; 303 pages. Bookplate. Original cloth lightly soiled and unevenly
faded. £20.00
[000251] HINGESTON-RANDOLPH, F. C. The Rectors of Wear Gifford,
Devonshire . Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1890. 4to. Very Good. 5 pages.
Reprinted from Notes & Gleanings, 100 copies, "Not published." Modern
bookplate. Original printed wrappers. £15.00
[000250] HINGESTON-RANDOLPH, F.C. The Rectors of Huntshall, in
the Deanery of Torrington. Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1892. 4to. 6 pages. Light soiling.
Reprinted from Notes & Gleanings, 125 copies. "Not Published." Disbound £10.00
[000252] HINGESTON-RANDOLPH, F.C. The Rectors & Patrons of Bideford in the
Deanery of Hartland. Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1895. First Edit. 4to. Fair. 16 pages.
Modern bookplate. Original printed wrappers worn. "Not Published." £10.00
[000232] HOLE, M.A. Bovey Tracey and District. Oxford: Printed for
The Author, 1930. First Edit. Small 4to. Near Fine. (viii); 92 pages.
Frontispiece. Bookplate. Original paper covered boards with printed paper
label on the upper cover. Author's signed presentation copy. £15.00
[000159] HOLNE .... A History of Holne Written in the year of the Silver
Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth 11 by the Villagers of Holne. Plymouth: St
Nicholas Books, 1977. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated with
black and white photos plus four colour. " Sold In Aid Of The Queen's
Silver Jubilee Fund ." Original red card covers. Foreword by Lord Ramsay
of Canterbury. Sold in aid of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Fund. Chapters
include 'The village yesterday' The village today' 'first and second world
war' 'The road over the moor.
£12.00
[000158] HOLNE .... A History of Holne Written in the Year of the
Silver Jubilee ... By the Villagers of Holne. Plymouth: St Nicholas Books,
1977. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. 64 pages. Map, illustrations. Typed and signed slip stating this
is number 146 of a Limited Edition of 300 copies, signed by the chairman of the parish council.
Bookplate. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover. Sold in aid of the Queen's Silver
Jubilee Fund. £25.00
[000259] HOSKINS, W.G & FINBERG, H.P.R. Devonshire Studies. (London): Jonathan
Cape, 1952. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good / Good. 470 pages. Maps, plans, plates. Page edges
foxed. Original cloth in lightly soiled price-clipped dust wrapper. £20.00
[000188] JELLICOE, Ann & MAYNE, Roger. A Shell Guide Devon. (London): Faber &
Faber, 1975. First Edit. 4to. Near Fine / Very Good. 180 pages. Large folding map, many plates.
Original cloth in price-clipped dust wrapper. Lovely fresh copy £12.00
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[000069] JUKES-BROWNE, A.J. The Hills and Valleys of Torquay a
Study in Valley Development and an Explanation of Local Scenery.
Torquay: Published by the Author, 1907. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. viii;
104; (iv) pages. 7 plates, diagram maps. Neat contemporary ownership
inscription on the front endpaper. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt £25.00
[000170] KELLY'S. Directory of Devonshire. (London): Kelly's
Directories Ltd, 1906. 4to. Good. xxvii; 1168 + 60 (advert) pages. Folding
coloured county map tipped-in to the front endpaper. Title-page soiled and
laid down. First page of the text torn without loss along the inner margin.
Well rebound in red cloth £100.00
[000171] KELLY'S. Directory of Devonshire. (London): Kelly's
Directories Ltd, 1926. 4to. Good. (55)(advert) + xxvii; (i); 1281 pages.
Lacking the map. First advert pages torn with loss in the top corner. Well
rebound in red cloth £80.00
[000051] KING, Richard John. The Forest of Dartmoor, and Its Borders. An Historical
Sketch. London & Plymouth: John Russell Smith & Roger Lidstone, 1856. First Edit. 8vo.
Good. xii; 138 pages. Light foxing. Front endpaper removed, inner hinges becoming weak.
Original cloth lightly damp stained on the spine. One of the earliest individual published
accounts of Dartmoor. £45.00
[000216] KNAPMAN, Margaret. Langtree Parish History and
Memories. Bideford: Edward Gaskell, 2004. Second Edition. 4to. Very
Good. 184 pages. Well illustrated. Bookplate. Original pictorial laminated
card covers. (out of print) £20.00
[000205] KNAPMAN, Margaret. Langtree Parish History and
Memories. Bridport: Edward Gaskell, 2003. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. 183
pages. Well illustrated from 'old' photographs. Original pictorial laminated card covers. (long out
of print). The book is slightly"wavy" in shape. £15.00
[000184] ( F. L ). Some Account of the Ancient Rood Screen in
Harberton Church, Totnes, Devon. Plymouth: I. Latimer, 1872. First Edit.
4to. Good. 23 pages. 5 mounted mounted albumen photographs. EXTRA
ILLUSTRATED with 4 mounted albumen photographs, and 3 loosely
inserted. Some light soiling throughout. Contemporary ownership inscription
on the front endpaper. Original blue cloth a little dull with the title in gilt on
the upper cover, neatly rebacked £85.00
[000211] LANE, John. Devon Churches a Celebration. Dartington: Green Books, 2007. First
Edit. 4to. Fine / Near Fine. 256 pages. Photographic illustrations throughout by Harland
Walshaw. Bookplate. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper. Like new. £20.00
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[000161] LUSCOMBE, Ellen. Myrtles and Aloes; or, Our Salcombe
Sketch Book. With Some Addenda in the Shape of a Discursive Gossip
About Kingsbridge. By Francis Young . Kingsbridge: G.P. Friend, 1861.
First Edit. 8vo. viii; 152 pages. 8 lithographs inc. tinted. Bookplate. Original
green pebble grained cloth lettered in gilt with a pictorial central device on the
upper cover, light wear to the extremities of the spine. A nice bright tight copy
of this rather scarce title. £120.00
[000191] LYSONS, Daniel & Samuel. Magna Britannia; being a concise topographical
account of the several counties of Great Britain. Volume the sixth, containing Devonshire.
(London): Printed for Thomas Cadell, 1822. First Edition. Stout 4to. Very Good. (xii); (355);
682 pages. The correct collation with a double page county map, 3 double page charts, one
folding plan of Exeter, 29 engraved plates including double page. Occasional light foxing (as is
quite usual with this work). Bookplate on the front pastedown. Half calf with contrasting black
morocco label and extra gilt on the spine, marbled boards, neatly rebacked with the spine relaid.
A major county history, the first part of the work deals with the general history of Devonshire;
the second part with the parochial history of the county. £375.00
[000219] MAIS, S.P.B. Glorious Devon. Paddington Station: Great
Western Railway Company, 1928. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good / Good. viii;
152 pages. Illustrated. Original grey cloth in edge worn highly decorative
dust wrapper, now protected in a loose clear plastic
sleeve. A nice fresh hardback edition £20.00
[000311] MARTIN, E.W. The Shearers and the
Shorn a Study of Life in a Devon Community.
(London): Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine / Near
Fine. vii; 250 pages. Double-page map. Bookplate. Original green cloth in
complete dust wrapper. "Studies in Rural Sociology" £15.00
[000239] MATES, W & Sons ... Publisher. Mate's
Illustrated Devonshire a Descriptive and Historical Guide ... 1906. First
Edit. 4to. Very Good. 311 pages. Many phographic illustrations. Original
green cloth decorated and titled in white. £25.00
[000076] MILLS, Thomas H. A Week's Wanderings in Cornwall and
Devon. London & Bristol: William Freeman, 1863. First Edit. 8vo. Good.
(iv); 139 pages. Extra illustrated with 3 steel engraved plates. Inner hinges
weak. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover, torn at the head of the spine. £45.00
[A5851] NEWMAN, John & Co ... engraver. Twelve Views of Exeter. Exeter: Worth, First
Ed. Oblong 8vo.Very Good. 12 vignette steel engraved plates.Original brown cloth, decorated in
black with the title in gilt on the upper cover, slightly affected by damp. Good crisp impression
of the plates. No date, plates date 1874-78. £70.00
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[000237] NEWMAN, Thomas. The History of Coryton. (London): Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1940.
First Edit. 4to.Very Good / Good. vii; 216 pages. Illustrated. Modern bookplate. Ownership
inscription on the blank front endpaper. Original cloth in slightly worn with loss dust wrapper
£25.00
[000072] ( N.U.T ). Conference Souvenir of the National Union of
Teachers Held During Easter Week at Torquay. Stead's Publishing
House, 1922. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine. 126; viii pages. Double-page map,
illustrated. Original cloth. Includes a 'tale' by (Jan Stewer) "A Devonshire
Tell about School Teachers" £10.00
[000278] ORDNANCE SURVEY. Sheets XXV 15, 16. XXXV 3, 4, 6, 7, 8,
11, 12, 15, 16. XXXV1 5. XLV1 4. A collection of 12 double-page maps, each sheet size 960 x
645mm. Scale : 25 miles to one inch. Finely bound in a large folio cloth covers with a printed
morocco title-label on the upper cover. Covers the Wellington/Holcombe Rogus/Tiverton rural
area, several showing the route of the Grand Western Canal, first and final maps show signs of
use and wear, some pencil annotations. A grand collection of large-scale maps full of minutest
detail £275.00
[000276] ORDNANCE SURVEY. Sheet CXX1. 7 ... (Barton Pines/Berry Pomeroy). 1000 x
690mm. Scale 25 inches to one mile. Folding map mounted on linen, dissecting into 36 sections.
Original slipcase. 1905, section edition, published by Edward Stanford. £40.00
[000274] ORDNANCE SURVEY .... Sheet 24 (south coast line). 940 x
630mm. Scale : one inch to one mile. 1809 [but later]. Prawle Point in the
east to Looe in the west. Folding map mounted on linen, dissecting into 18
sections, folding into cloth covers. Showing the South Devon Railway,
printed from electrotype, price 2s. Publisher faint blind-stamp in one margin
bears the date 1861. With the bookplate of Septimus Peacock. £100.00
[000111] PAGE, John Lloyd Warden. The Rivers of Devon from Source
to Sea with Some Account of the Towns and Villages on Their Banks.
(London): Seeley & Co; Ltd, 1893. First Edit. 8vo. xv; 348 + (iv)(advert)
pages. Folding map, 21 plates inc 4 etched. Original green pictorial gilt cloth.
A lovely fresh bright copy. £40.00
[000109] PAGE, John Lloyd Warden. The North Coast of Cornwall Its Scenery, Its People,
Its Antiquities, and Its Legends. Truro: Joseph Pollard. First Edit. 8vo. No date c(1897). xiii;
283 pages. Large folding map, 21 plates. Lightly tanned endpapers. Near contemporary local
ownership stamp in upper margin of the half-title. Original green pictorial gilt
cloth. A lovely tight fresh copy, the binding is immaculate £30.00
[000112] PAGE, John Lloyd Warden. The Coasts of Devon and Lundy
Island. (London): Horace Cox, 1895. First Edit. 8vo. Fair. xix; 444 pages.
Large folding map, 21 plates. Inner hinge spreading and shaky, contents
slightly dusty. Original green pictorial gilt cloth lightly rubbed £20.00
21
[000304] PAGE, John Lloyd Warden. An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities with
Some Account of Its Borders. (London): Seeley & Co; Ltd, 1889. Second Edition. 8vo. xvi;
(ii); 316 pages. Folding map, 4 etched plates, other full-page plates. Original green gilt cloth
slightly rubbed but bright, with a school presentation plate on the rear cover.
£28.00
[000284] PAGE, William ... Editor. The Victoria History of the County
of Devon. (London): Archibald Constable, 1906. First Edit. Folio. Very
Good. Volume one ( all published ). xxv; 630 pages. Frontispiece, 3 plates, 7
double-page map, illustrations in text. Modern bookplate. Original red cloth
£70.00
[000227] PATEMAN, Leslie Lownds. Pictorial and Historical Survey of
Babbacombe and St. Marychurch. Babbacombe & St. Marychurch Trader's Amd Hotelier's
Association, Oblong large 4to. Very Good. c1980. 216 pages. Copiously illustrated mainly from
'old' photographs. Childish scribble on blank rear endpaper. Original blue cloth. LIMITED
EDITION of an unspecified limitation. £35.00
[000208] PERKINS, Roger. The War Dead of Chudleigh, Devon a Biographical Register.
Newton Abbot: Published by the Author, 2002. First Edit. 4to. Near Fine. 127 pages. Bookplate.
Original red cloth. Author’s signed copy. £12.00
[000193] PHILIP & Son, Ltd ... Shipbuilders & Engineers. Dartmouth Shipbuilding
Industry. Dartmouth: First Edit. Oblong 4to. Very Good circa 1930s. ( 50 )
pages. Well illustrated. Bookplate. Original gilt pictorial cloth a little
discoloured. £75.00
[A13686] PHILLPOTTS, Eden. Up-Along and Down-Along. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1905. First Ed. 4to.Very Good / Very Good. (viii); 16
pages. 8 tissue-guarded plates by Claude A. Shepperson. Original linen
backed boards in complete very slightly worn dust wrapper. LIMITED
EDITION OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR &
ILLUSTRATOR. Scarce in dust wrapper, this edition printed on superior
rag-paper £50.00
[000283] PHILLPOTTS, Eden. My Devon Year. (London): Methuen &
Co. Ltd, 1904. First Edition. 4to. Very Good. viii; 229; (i) pages. 38 tinted
photogravure plates in sunken mounts. Original green cloth. Large-paper
LIMITED EDITION of 500 signed copies £40.00
[A7180] POLE, Sir William. Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon. By
Sir William Pole, of Colcombe and Shute ... London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1791. First Ed. 4to.
xviii; 568 pages. Half-title present. Finely rebound in half brown calf, raised bands and
contrasting black morocco label on the spine, marbled boards. A most ATTRACTIVE COPY of
this scarce, early seventeenth survey of the county; one of the most important source works for
Devonshire historical study. £395.00
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[A9145] POLWHELE, Richard. The History of Devonshire. Exeter: Printed by Trewman and
Son 1797-1806, 1797. First Ed. Folio (430 x 275 mm). Book. Near Fine. Three volumes bound
in one. xii; 329;(i); (iv); ii; (ii); (1)-46; (i)-247; (iii); (247)-504; (i)(corrections) pages. Engraved
map by John Cary, 24 full-page copper engraved plates. Original lemon yellow page edges.
Contemporary full tree calf, neatly rebacked with the original flat-backed spine relaid, which is
divided into six compartments decorated in gilt, with morocco title label, marbled endpapers. A
fine contemporary copy. £1,150.00
[000117] POMROY, Lawrence W. The Heathfield to Exeter (Teign Valley) Railway.
Newton Abbot: Ark Publications (Railways), 1999. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine. 160 pages. Well
illustrated. Bookplate. Original pictorial card covers. £10.00
[A3922] PONSFORD, Clive N. Time In Exeter a History of 700 Years
of Clocks and Clockmaking in an English Provincial City, with
Details of More Than 300 Former Makers. Exeter: Headwell Vale
Books, 1978. First Ed. 8vo. Fine / Fine. 200 pages. 50 plates, illustrations
in text. Original blue hardback cloth with lettering in gilt in slightly torn
but complete dust wrapper. This book was based entirely on newly
researched material, it is the history of 700 years of the clock and
watchmaking trade in this important English provincial city. Biographical details are given on
more than 300 former makers. Essential reference work. £38.00
[000116] PONSFORD, Clive N. Devon Clocks and Clockmakers. David &
Charles, 1985. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine / Fine. 360 pages. Well illustrated.
Bookplate on the front pastedown. Original red cloth in complete dust
wrapper. £40.00
[000298] PONSFORD, Clive N ... (et al). Clocks and Clockmakers of
Tiverton. Tiverton: W. P. Authers, 1982. Second Edition with Supplement.
8vo. Very Good. 61; (v) pages. Illustrated. Bookplate stuck to the
acknowledgements page. Original pictorial laminated card covers. £12.00
[000301] POPE, William. Glimpses of the Past in and Around Crediton b y a Kyrtonian in
His Anecdotage. Tiverton: Gregory & Son, 1927. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good
/ Good. 96 pages. Long contemporary inscription on f.e.p. Bookplate.
Original cloth in defective dust wrapper. Scarce. £25.00
[000187] POTTS, C.R. The Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway (18441988). Oxford: Oakwood Press, First Edit. 8vo. Fine / Fine. No date. (1988).
vi; 218 pages. Large folding map tipped-in on rear endpaper, many
photographic plates (many previously unpublished). Unused copy. £20.00
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[000100] PRESLAND, John ... WIDGERY, F. J. Torquay the Charm
and History of Its Neighbourhood. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First
Edit. 8vo. Very Good. vii; (190) pages. 16 colour plates by F.J. Widgery.
Light tanning and foxing mainly to uncut page edges. Original white cloth
with gilt lettering. A lovely clean bright copy of the DE-LUXE edition, in
special binding, with the plates on thick paper in sunken
mounts. £45.00
[000243] PYE, A.R & ROBINSON, R. An Archaeological Survey of the
Gunpowder Factory at Powdermills Farm, Postbridge, Devon. Exeter
Museums Archaeological Field Unit. 1990. First Edit. Folio. Very Good. (viii);
55 pages. 32 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. £20.00
[000093] REED, Margaret . Mortehoe & Woolacombe on the Record. The
Friends of Mortehoe Cart Linhay, 1997. First Edit. 4to. Fine. viii; 196 pages. Illustrated.
Bookplate. Original pictorial laminated hard covers (no dust wrapper, as issued ?) £20.00
[A14253] RAVILIOUS, James & Robin . foreword by Ronald Blythe. The Heart of the
Country. London: Scolar Press, 1980. First Ed. 4to. Book. Fine / Very Good. Unpaginated text
by Robin Ravilious. Illustrated throughout from the evocative photographs of James Ravilious.
Original pictorial laminated boards (HARDBACK) in price-clipped but otherwise undamaged
dust wrapper. This book celebrates an almost forgotten way of life; because of its remote, almost
secret location, and a certain native conservatism, things change slowly. Ancient buildings,
traditional farming methods, country wisdom, country festivities, all are beautifully and
sensitively reflected here in the work of the photographer £90.00
[000093] REED, Margaret . Mortehoe & Woolacombe on the Record. The Friends of
Mortehoe Cart Linhay, 1997. First Edit. 4to. Fine. viii; 196 pages. Illustrated.
Bookplate. Original pictorial laminated hard covers (no dust wrapper, as
issued ?) £20.00
[000046] RICHARDSON, P.H.G. British Mining Vol. 44 Mines of
Datmoor and the Tamar Valley After 1913. Northern Mine Research
Society, 1992. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine. 160 pages. Well illustrated. Original
laminated pictorial card covers. Signed by the author. Essential reference to
20th century mining on Dartmoor. £20.00
[000183] RISDON, Tristram. The Chorographical Description of Survey of the County of
Devon. Plymouth: Rees & Curtis, 1811. First Edit thus. 8vo. Good. 432; 22; (xvi); (x)(index)
pages + corrections slip. Age discolouration due to the poor quality of the paper stock used for
this edition. Nineteenth century cloth backed grey paper covered boards, rebacked. £65.00
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[A14169] RISDON, Tristram. The Chorographical Description, or,
Survey of the County of Devon, with the city and county of Exeter.
Containing matter of history, antiquity, chronology, the nature of the
country, commodities, and government thereof: with sundry other
things, worthy of. London: Printed for E. Curll, 1714. First Ed. 8vo. Very
Good. Two volumes bound in one. Advert leaf; (vi); (v)-xiv; 186;
(xii)(index); 1-34; 1-4(Account of the Family of the Spicers); (ii)(second title); 35-425 pages.
Two printed title-pages. 2 engraved plates. Early ownership inscription in the upper margin of
the title-page. Contemporary panelled calf rebacked with contrasting red morocco label. The
complete two volumes bound with " A Continuation of the Survey of Devonshire." A manuscript
of the seventeenth century work by Risdon, is said to have fallen into the hands of the notorious
bookseller, publisher and auctioneer Edmund Curll, who then published the book with many
errors and additions of his own. £385.00
[000087] ROGERS, Eva C. The Magic Mist and Other Dartmoor Legends. London: Andrew
Melrose, First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. (1901). 295; (i) pages. Illustrated. Neat contemporary
inscription on the verso of the frontispiece. Contemporary dark blue half morocco extra gilt on
the spine. Attractive copy. £30.00
[000169] ROGERS, W.H. Hamilton. Wanderings in Devon. Seaton: John
Newbery, 1869. First Edit. Small 4to. Very Good. (iv); 204 page.
Frontispiece. Contemporary red cloth rather dull but sound £40.00
[000264] ROLT, L.T.C. The Potters' Field a History of the South Devon Ball Clay
Industry. David & Charles, 1974. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. 159 pages. Many
plates. Original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper £12.00
[000074] ROWE, Chas. R. South Devon. London: Adam & Charles Black,
1907. First Edit. 8vo. viii; 214 pages. 24 colour plates by C. E. Hannaford. A
degree of light foxing throughout due to the porous nature of the paper stock
used in this publication. FINE SIGNED BINDING full tree calf, extra gilt
within compartments on the spine with two contrasting black morocco title
labels. A most handsome binding. £60.00
[000317] ROWE, J. Brooking. A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of
Dartmoor and Thevenville Precincts or a Topographical Survey of Their Antiquities and
Scenery. . Exeter: James G. Commin, 1896. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. Stout 4to.
Near Fine (viii); 239 + (viii) (index) pages. 4 large folding sectional maps, large folding sketch
map, full-page plates and illustrations in text after drawings by F. J. Widgery, and photographs
by T. A. Falcon. Bookplate. Original cream coloured buckram cloth lettered in gilt on the spine
with a central device depicting a cromlech on the upper cover. Tanned endpapers otherwise an
immaculate copy. LIMITED EDITON OF 250 LARGE PAPER COPIES. Generally recognised
as the most comprehensive edition £225.00
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[A7822] ROWE, J. Brooking. A History of the Borough of Plympton Erle the Castle and
Manor of Plympton and of the ecclesiastical parish of Plympton St. Thomas, otherwise
Plympton St. Maurice. Exeter: James G. Commins, 1906. First Ed. 8vo. Very good. viii; (iv);
419 pages. Folding map, 25 plates. Original red cloth faded on the spine with a short split on the
front hinge. From the library of Crispin Gill, O.B.E, author of many works on Devon with his
signature. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES. One of the scarcest of all Devon parish
histories, having never been published in an ordinary trade edition, or reprinted. £185.00
[000212] ROYAL NORTH DEVON GOLF CLUB .... The Royal North Devon Golf Club ...
a Centenary Anthology 1864-1964. 1964. First Edit. 4to. Near Fine. 96 pages. Colour
frontispiece, 6 large folding tables. Original blue cloth (no dust wrapper as published ?) £35.00
[000260] SHEARS, R.T. Conservation of Devonshire Cottages. Bideford:
Gazette Printing Service, 1968. First Edit. Slim 4to. Very Good / Very Good.
Many examples. Bookplate, and slightly marked endpapers. Original cloth in
price-clipped dust wrapper £18.00
[000225] SHELDON, Gilbert. From Trackway to Turnpike. Oxford
University Press, 1928. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good. (viii); 178; (i) pages.
Original brown cloth very slightly rubbed at the extremities. Part of the
original dust wrapper attached to the front endpaper. Bookplates and neat inscription on the halftitle. £25.00
[000114] SHEPHERD, Eric R. The Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway and the Lee Moor
Tramway. Newton Abbot: Ark Publications (Railways), 1997. First Edit. 8vo. Fine. 116 pages.
Illustrated. Original pictorial card covers. Unread copy £20.00
[000081] SHEPHERD, Eric R. The Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway and the Lee Moor
Tramway. Liverton: Ark Publications (Railways), 1997. First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine. 116 pages.
Well illustrated mainly from old photographs. Original pictorial card covers £20.00
[000151] SHORTT, W.T.P. Collectanea Curiosa Antiqua Dunmonia; or, an Essay on Some
Druidical Remains in Devon, ..... Exeter: W.C. Featherstone, First Edit. 8vo. Good. (1842). vi;
(7)-96; (vi) pages + advert leaf. Vignette title, 6 lithograph plates. Original cloth faded £35.00
[000164] SNELL, Frederick John. The Chronicles of Twyford being a
new and popular history of the town of Tiverton in Devonshire: with
some account of Blundell's School founded A. D. 1604. First Edit. 8vo.
Very Good. No date c1892. (viii); 394; (ii) pages. Well rebound cloth backed
grey paper covered boards with printed title label £60.00
[000127] STEWER, Jan ... (A.J Coles). Lias and Betty. London: Herbert
Jenkins Ltd, 1938. First Edit. 8vo. Good. 312 + (viii) advert pages. Foxing.
Ownership inscription on front endpaper. Bookplate. Original orange coloured cloth lettered in
black. £15.00
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[000124] STEWER, Jan ... (A.J. Coles). In a Devonshire Carrier's Van. The Illustrated
Western Weekly News. First Edit. 8vo. Good. No date. 104 pages. + (ii) advert leaves. Plate.
Bookplate. Original printed wrappers. £10.00
[000122] STEWER, Jan ... (A.J.Coles). Jan Stewer's Devonshire Book. Exeter: Besley &
Copp Ltd, 1915. Third Edition. 8vo. Good (iv); 81 pages. Plate. Bookplate. Paper age toned and
fragile. Bookplate. Original wrappers, spine re-glued £12.00
[000123] STEWER, Jan ... (A.J. Coles). Ole Biskit. Exeter: Besley & Copp Ltd, 1925. First
Edit. 8vo. Fair. (x); 240 pages + advert leaf. Plate. Inner hinges reinforced. Bookplate. Original
cloth rebacked with the remains of the spine relaid. £10.00
[000127] STEWER, Jan ... (A.J Coles). Lias and Betty. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1938.
First Edit. 8vo. Good. 312 + (viii) advert pages. Foxing. Ownership inscription on front
endpaper. Bookplate. Original orange coloured cloth lettered in black. £15.00
[000121] STEWER, Jan ... (A.J. Coles). On the Moor of a Night. (London): Westaway
Books, 1949. First Edit. 8vo. Good / Good. 249 pages. Bookplate, name in pencil on front
endpaper. Original cloth in torn but largely complete dust wrapper now protected by a clear loose
plastic sleeve. £10.00
[000068] SWISS, A.H .... Publishers. Road & Railway Hunting Map of
South Devon, Including a Portion of East Cornwall. Devonport: 880 x 625
mm. Very Good. c1895. Large folding map mounted on linen with outline
colouring indicating the various hunts, folding into red cloth covers lettered
in black. Advert sheet lists all the meets of "The Dartmoor Foxhunds". Batten
& Bennett, 140. £100.00
[A14373] TADDIPORT ... Two pamphlets . Articles of the [Taddiport
Female] Friendly Society. First Ed. 8vo.1) Articles of the Taddiport
Female Friendly Society, for supporting the sick, and burying the dead. Held
at the Buckingham Arms, at Taddiport, in the Parish of Little Torrington.
Instituted 25th, January 1845. 10 pp. Original plain green wrappers. Printed
by M. Fowler, Torrington, 1845. 2) Articles of a Friendly Society, Instituted
at Taddiport . which articles were revised and amended . 12 pp. Original
plain yellow wrappers. Printed by S. Thorne, Shebbear, 1847. Scarce
provincial imprints. £80.00
[000281] THOMPSON, W. Harding. Devon a Survey of Its Coast, Moors, and Rivers with
Some Suggestions for Their Preservation. (London): Council for Thr Preservation of Rural
England, 1932. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. xix; 144 pages. Folding maps, many plates. Original
red cloth £25.00
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[000041] ( TORR, Cecil ). Notes on Wreyland Being a Reprint of a Portion of the
Introduction to the Privately Printed Volume of Wreyland Documents By Cecil Torr.
Lustleigh: Privately Published at the Post Office, 1910. First Edit. 8vo. Cloth. Book. Very Good.
79; (i) pages. Light foxing to page edges. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper
cover. "Wreyland lies in the parish of Bovey Tracey ... the river Wrey is here the boundary
between the parish of Lustleigh and the parish of Bovey Tracey. And on the Bovey Tracey bank
of the Wrey there is a tract of land called Wreyland with a village and a manor and a tithing of
that name." £65.00
[000294] TORR, Cecil. Small Talk at Wreyland. Cambridge University
Press, First Edit. 8vo. Near Fine 1918-23. THREE VOLUME SET. 12
plates. (viii); 120; (viii); 120; (iv)(advert); (viii); 112 pages. Original
buckram cream cloth with paper covered boards. Arthur Quiller-Couch's
copy with his bookplate. A lovely fresh set. £100.00
[000092] TRAVIS, John. Lynton and Lynmouth Glimpses of the Past.
Derby: Breedon Books, 1997. First Edit. 4to. Fine / Fine. 190 pages. Copiously illustrated many
old photographs. Bookplate. Original green cloth in complete dust wrapper. Author's signed
copy. £10.00
[000196] TRUMP, H.J. Westcountry Harbour. Teignmouth: Brunswick
Press, 1976. First Edit. 8vo. Fine / Fine. 204 pages. Illustrated inc. maps.
Original cloth in complete dust wrapper £10.00
[000180] TURTON, W & KINGSTON, J.F. The Natural History of the
District of Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay : or, lists of the different
species of animals, vegetables, and minerals, and their respective localities,
scientifically arranged; with references to the best standard works in which
they are figured and described: together with a geological account of the rock strata, and the
fossils contained in them.. Teignmouth: Printed By and for E. Croydon, 8vo. c1830. Unpaginated
(220) pages. Contemporary cloth rebacked. Brockett, 73480. With the bookplate of T.N.
Brushfield, and the contemporary ownership inscripition of Anne Maria Cotton £180.00
[000075] VARWELL, Emmie. Throwleigh the Story of a Dartmoor
Village. Throwleigh: Published by the Rector, 1938. First Edit. 8vo. Near
Fine. (vi); 132 pages. 8 plates. Original blue paper wrappers. £20.00
[A7820] VARWELL, Emmie. Throwleigh the Story of a Dartmoor
Village. Throwleigh: Sidney Lee (1938), 1938. First Ed. 8vo.Very Good.
(viii); 132 pages. Map, 36 plates. Original blue cloth. Many more
illustrations in this the more desirable hardback edition. A nice fresh copy
£30.00
[000101] WADE, E.A. The Redlake Tramway and China Clay Works. Truro: Twelveheads
Press, 1982. First Edit. 4to. Near Fine. 84 pages. Illustrated. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the
spine. £20.00
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[000102] WADE, E.A. The Redlake Tramway and the China Clay Works. Truro:
Twelveheads Press, 1982. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. 84 pages. Original pictorial card covers.
AUTHOR'S SIGNED COPY. £12.00
[A12639] WATKIN, Hugh R. The History of Totnes Priory & Medieval
Town Devonshire together with the sister priory of Tywardreath,
Cornwall compiled from original records. Torquay: Published by the
Author 1914-17, 1914. First Ed. 4to. Near Fine. THREE VOLUME SET.
viii; 615; (i); (vi); (617)-1121d; xii; (1122)-1284 pages. 31 plates, 2 plans
inc. one folding, folding map. Very light spotting to pages edges. Neat
restoration to one corner of the half-title to volume one. Original contrasting
buckram cloth. A monumental study dealing with the foundation and history
of this ancient medieval Devon town. A bright fresh copy. £225.00
[000200] WATSON, Brian. Devon Shell Guide. (London): Faber & Faber,
1955. First, thus. 4to. Very Good / Very Good. 112 pages. Maps, plates.
Endpapers very lightly tanned. Original red cloth in price-clipped otherwise
complete dust wrapper. £15.00
[000192] WATSON, Brian. Devon Shell Guide. (London): Faber & Faber,
1955. First Edit. 4to. Very Good / Very Good. 112 pages. Coloured maps,
plates. Light tanning to endpapers. Original cloth in complete but very
slightly edge worn dust wrapper. Bright copy. £20.00
[000182] WESTCOTE, Thomas. A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX,
with a pedigree of most of its gentry by Thomas Westcote, Gent. Edited
by the Rev. George Oliver, D. D; and Pitman Jones. Exeter: William
Roberts, 1845. First Edit. 4to. Very Good (xii); (iii)-xvii;(blank); (19)-649
pages. Some light spotting throughout (as usual), and minimal pencilled
annotations. Modern bookplate. Attractively rebound in dark blue gilt
morocco marbled boards. Important source book for students of seventeenth
century Devon history. The second part of the work with a separate title but
with continuous pagination is the " Pedigrees of Most of Our Devonshire Families." £175.00
[000070] WESTLEY'S. Tourist Guide to Torquay. Westley's Library: First Edit. 8vo. Very
Good. c1884. xvi; 284 pages inc. local adverts. Original green cloth slightly rubbed. £35.00
[000220] WHITE, Walter. A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End and a
Trip to the Scilly Isles. London: Chapman & Hall, 1861. Second Edition.
8vo.Very Good. xiv; 249 pages. 4 large folding county maps. Original cloth
lightly sunned on the spine, but a bright fresh much better copy than usual.
£50.00
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[000134] WHITE, William. History, Gazetteer and Directory of the
County of Devon. Sheffield: William White, Second Edition. 4to. Very
Good. 1878-9. xvi; 1103; (i) + 32(advert) pages. Folding map laid down, and
loosley inserted. Title-page creased and with a small tape mark. Well
rebound in green cloth £185.00
[000309] WHITE, William. White's Devon a Reprint of History,
Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1968. First Edit.
Stout 8vo. Fine / Fine. (x); 804 pages. Bookplate. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper
(unused copy). A reprint of the first White's directory published in 1850. £25.00
[000238] WHITFELD, Henry Francis. Plymouth and Devonport : In Times of War and
Peace. Plymouth: E. Chapple, 1900. First Edit. Large 4to. Very Good. xi; 560 + 48(appendix)
pages. Illustrated. Uncut page edges lightly browned and brittle. Original two-toned blue cloth
rebacked with the original spine relaid. With the attractive contemporary bookplate and blind
stamp of the Devon historian E.L. Radford £45.00
[A7533] WILLIAMSON, Henry. The Village Book. London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First Ed.
8vo. Very Good. 342 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations within text. Original green cloth boards
vellum spine lettered in gilt, light uneven fading to the green cloth. SIGNED BY HENRY
WILLIAMSON LIMITED EDITION OF 504 COPIES £75.00
[000248] WINDEATT, Edward. The Borough of Clifton-DartmouthHardness and Its Mayors and Mayoralties . Reprinted from the
Transactions of the Devonshire : 8vo. Good. 1911-14. Four parts. 89 pages.
Modern bookplate. Light damp stain to endpapers. Cont. half maroon calf,
marbled boards. £35.00
[000053] WOODS, Stephen. Dartmoor Farm an
Illustrated History Based on the Southcombe Diaries
and Photographs from the Hunt Collection. Tiverton: Halsgrove, 2003.
First Edit. 4to. As New / As New. 208 pages. Copiously illustrated
throughout mainly from old photographs. Original cloth in complete dust
wrapper. £25.00
[000305] WOOLCOMBE, Henry. The Picture of Plymouth; Being a
Correct Guide to the Establishments, Charitable Institutions,
Amusements and Remarkable Objects in the Towns of Plymouth,
Plymouth-dock, Stonehouse, Stoke, and Their Vicinity . Plymouth: Rees
& Curtis, 1812. First Edit. 12mo. Good xii; 232 pages. Folding map
frontispiece showing repairs on the verso but complete, title-page soiled.
Half calf sometime rebacked with new endpapers. A very early guide to
Plymouth. £200.00
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[000256] WORTH, R.N. The Three Towns Bibliotheca: a Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets,
Papers, Etc., Written By Natives Thereof; Published Therein; of Relating Thereto ... From
Transactions of the Plymouth Institution, 8vo. 1872-80. 122 pages. Light foxing. Plain wrappers.
With a nine page supplement. Bibliography of nearly 1900 books associated with Plymouth,
Devonport, and Stonehouse £20.00
[000150] WORTHY, Charles. Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, or the
antiquities and history of the Borough of Ashburton in the County of
Devon, and of the Parishes of Buckland-in-the-Moor and Bickington .....
together with an account of several of the adjacent manors & Churches.
Ashburton, Devon: L.B. Varder, 1875. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. vi; (ii);
(7)-160; xxxvi (Appendix) pages + errata slip + advert slip. Half calf,
marbled boards. With the bookplates of John Spalding Tricks, and Henley
Evans. Scarce, the first individually published history of Ashburton; includes
a 36 page Appendix with an additional title page, being an Account of the Charities £125.00
[000210] WRIGHT, W.H.K. Some Account of the Barony and Town of Okehampton Its
Antiquities and Institutions. Tiverton: William Masland, 1889. First Edit. 8vo. Very Good
xxvii; 242 pages. Folding map, illustrations. Ex. Lib. the Royal Empire Society, with a few not
too horrendous stamps. Original cloth. £50.00
[000262] WYATT, B ... Publisher. Views of Kingsbridge, Salcombe &
District. First Edit. Large Oblong 4to (360 x 290 mm). Very Good.
c1900s? 20 printed views from photographs, loose in cloth backed printed
boards, corners bumped. One of the largest 'view' books I have come
across, includes some very interesting views. £35.00
[000254] WYKES-FINCH, W. The Ancient Family of Wyke of North Wyke, Co. Devon .
Reprinted from the Devon Association Transactions, 1903. First Edit. 4to. Very Good. 73 pages.
Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. £20.00
[A14181] YONGE, J. A Letter, Addressed to the Farmers of the South Hams, with some
remarks on a speech delivered by Jasper Parrott, Esq. M.P. for Totnes, at a meeting held in
Exeter, on the 11th of December, 1833. Plymouth: Printed and published by Rowe (1833),
1833. First Ed. 8vo. Good 20 pages. Final page lightly soiled. Disbound. J. Yonge was rector of
Newton Ferrers. Davidson, 110 £125.00
DEVONSHIRE MAPS
A selection of rare and unusual maps of Devon. We have many more antiquarian maps of the
West Country in stock.
[000269] BLAEU, Jan. Devonia Vulgo Devon-Shire. 1645. 495 x 390mm.
Highly important and one of the "earliest" printed maps of Devon. Influenced
by "Speed's" early map, the decorative coats of arms are the same. The Blaeu
map is much clearer in its line and less cluttered (there is no inset of Exeter.)
The decorative cartouche containing the title has a cherub seated on top
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holding a cane, two seventeenth century merchants negotiate over rolls of cloth; sheep, fish and
two birds surround the rest of the cartouche all giving a flavour of the various industries of the
County. The Royal Standard is located in the top corner. A couple of small Ms annotations in an
early hand. Beautifully contemporary style full wash hand colouring. Batten & Bennett, 12.
£550.00
[000273] BOWEN, Emanuel. An Accurate Map of Devon Shire Divided
Into Its Hundreds. Drawn from the Best Authorities ..... Printed for T. &
John Bowles, John Tinney, & Robert Sayer.1760. 680 x 530mm. Highly
decorative large map, with original outline hand colouring to the divisions of
the hundreds. Large inset plan of Plymouth is located in the bottom right
hand corner, and the rest of the map is surrounded by a large amount of topographical and
statistical information relating to the county. The highly decorative title cartouche illustrates the
trades and produce of the county. A smaller cartouche contains a dedication to the Duke of
Bedford. A magnificent example. Batten & Bennett, 37.3. £425.00
[000157] DIX, Thomas. Devonshire, Divided Into Hundreds, and the Parliamentary
Divisions. London: William Darton, First Edit. 445 x 355 mm. Very Good. No date. Hand
coloured folding map, dissecting into 12 sections and folding into original cloth covers with the
title in gilt on the upper cover. A scarce county map with a vignette in the lower corner of
Dartmouth Castle, with lists of the hundreds, market towns & market days,
explanation of the symbols, and various historical information. Appears to
correspond with Batten & Bennett, 82, but without a date accompanying the
imprint. £150.00
000316] HEATHER, W ... Chart of Plymouth Sound . London: J.W.
Norie, 400 x 640 Mm. Near Fine Date 1829, but new edition, with additions
1835. Fabulous hand coloured decorative chart, extending to Saltash, Yealm
in the east, and Whitesand Bay in the west. £350.00
[000268] KIP, William. Devoniae Comitatus Vulgo Denshyre. 1637. 335
x 290mm. Early copper engraved map with subdued outline hand colouring.
The title is contained within a strap work cartouche; William Kip's signature
is found in the bottom left hand corner just below a compass rose, which
indicates a second state; in the top left hand corner is the royal coat-of-arms
and just below a stylised dolphin leaps from the sea. One of the earliest printed maps of Devon.
Batten & Bennett, 5, state 2. £385.00
[000308] JACKSON & PARTRIDGE ... Publishers. Devonshire. The
Children's Friend, 1868. 175 x 125mm. Fine Hand coloured map.
Hieroglyphical Readings. No. 1V. The map appears in the top left hand
corner, the map is a puzzle designed for children; the child has to decipher
the county's descriptions by using the adjoining pictures which depict
places, and produce of the county. A very scarce and unusual
cartographical item. Bennett & Batten, "The Victorian Maps of Devon"
147 (featured on the rear of the dust wrapper). £125.00