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Growing Up In Cambridge: From Austerity to Prosperity
by Alec Forshaw
The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. This fascinating story of life in Cambridge is written from the idiosyncratic perspective of an author who not only grew up in the city during the 1950Â’s and 1960Â’s but who also attended its prestigious university. Alec Forshaw has remained connected to Cambridge ever since. Brought up on the north side of town, his reminiscences detail not only domestic life with his parents and...
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£7.00
A Concise History of the University of Cambridge
by Elisabeth Leedham-Green
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Cover photographs (front - General Admission to Degrees, and rear - the Great Gate of Trinity College) by Paul Langham. This concise illustrated history of the University of Cambridge, from its thirteenthÂcentury origins to the present day, is the only book of its kind in print and is intended as a standard introduction for anyone interested in one of the world's greatest academic institutions. Many individuals...
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£15.00
The shaping of Cambridge botany
by Walters, S.M
Cambridge University Press, 1981. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Scarcely used. No inscriptions.
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£18.00
Will's shoot revisited
by Garfit, W
The Sportsman's Press, 2005. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Scarcely used.
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£12.00
Fauna Cantabrigiensis: the vertebrate and molluscan fauna of Cambridgeshire
by Preece, R.C. & Sparks, T.H. (eds.); Jenyns, L
Ray Society, 2012. 1st edition thus. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. A transcription of Jenyn’s field notes, with extensive commentaries.
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£48.00
Corbusier comes to Cambridge: post-war architecture and the competition to build Churchill College
by Goldie, M
Churchill College, 2007. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.
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£28.00
Royal Cambridge: Royal Visitors to Cambridge from Queen Elizabeth I to Queen Elizabeth II
by Marion Colthorpe
Cambridge: Cambridge City Council, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All in good internal order. Pages beginning to loosen however, so best regarded as a reading copy. 8vo. 120pp
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£5.00
A flora of Cambridgeshire
by Perring, F., Sell, P., Walters, M. & Whitehouse, H.K.L
Cambridge University Press, 1964. Paper covers. Good/No Jacket. Front hinge starting. Uncorrected proof?
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£8.00
Ackermann's Cambridge
by Williamson, Reginal Ross
London: Penguin. 1951. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with 20 colour plates from Ackermann's History of the University of Cambridge. 34 pages plus plates. King Penguin No 59. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£7.93
THE CAMBRIDGE SCENE Being Sketches of the Colleges
by H P Stokes
Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1921. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Constance Prescott. Charmingly illustrated and in VG internal condition throughout. Gift dedication in ink to early blank. Endpapers tanned. Quarter cloth binding with gilt titling on grey boards. These a little bumped and worn to all edges, esp at base of spine. A nice copy. 12mo. 149pp.
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£15.00
Victorian and Edwardian Cambridgeshire from old photographs
by Reeve, F.A. (intro.)
B.T. Batsford, 1976. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Sadly, no index. Jacket price-clipped.
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£10.00
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge: Catalogue of paintings (vol. 1)
by Gerson, H. et al
Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum , 1960. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. No inscriptions.
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£12.00
Will's shoot
by Garfit, W
The Sportsman's Press, 1993. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by the author, thanking the recipient with his help on the botanical species list.
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£18.00
Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge from Old Photographs
by F. A (Introduction and Commentaries by) Reeve
B. T. Batsford, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 133 b/w. photographs with introduction and commentaries by F .A. Reeve, an authority on the history, associations and past citizens of Cambridge. The photographs in the book show both Town & Gown, also the villages and countryside as well as the City itself, with portraits of past citizens,both the famous and the less known. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall....
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£6.00
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A Short Account Of King's College Chapel [SIGNED]
by W P Littlechild
Cambridge: W Heffer & Sons, 1921. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. All in VG internal order bar toning to false title, this signed in pencil by Littlechild. Pleasing and well-illustrated booklet. 12mo. 48pp.
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£10.00
Old Cambridge: A Series of Original Sketches
by W. B. Redfarn
Land of Cokaygne Ltd, Cambridge, 1975. Facsimile Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: W. B. Redfarn. This facsimile reprint of the 1876 original was published in January 1975 by the 'Land of Cokaygne Ltd.' for the Cambridge History Agency. The sketches were reproduced by offset lithographic printing process on Queen Anne Antique Cream card & the text on White Register Offset Cartridge. The covers are blue Energy tinted bound four sheet. & the book's...
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£80.00
A Texan In England
by J Frank Dobie
London: Hammond, Hammond & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. ND. [1946 - WorldCat]. In which the Texan lectures at Cambridge for a year and explores the locality. A good read and quite different from others in the 'American in wartime England' genre (eg. Suffolk Summer). Stock lightly toned but otherwise all in VG clean and bright internal order. Endpapers lightly foxed with former owner's small stamp to ffep. Cream cloth lightly marked. 8vo. 192pp
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£7.50
Cambridge Fragments
by Sayle, Charles
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1913. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. black titles front on grey paper covers, illustrated by b/w. frontis. & three further b/w. plates, these fragments of early printing were found covering beams in the Master's Lodge of Christ's College during restoration work during 1911; most of the fragments date to the sixteenth century the buildings having been established in the first decade of that period; among the finds are included...
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Christ's College Cambridge
by H Rackham
London: Dawsons Of Pall Mall, 1967. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Reprinted from 'The Victoria History Of The Counties Of England' (1959) for the University of London Institute Of Historical Research. Large format booklet. All in good, clean and bright internal order. Green card covers heavily sunned. 4to. 8pp
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£10.00
Catalogue of plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden
by King, C.J. (ed.)
Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 1990. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Owner's inscription.
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£28.00
Cambridge: a concise guide to the town and university
by Clark, J.W
Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge, 1902. 1st edition. Hard covers. Good/No Jacket. Edge wear to spine.
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£10.00
Flora of Cambridgeshire, or a catalogue of plants found in the County of Cambridge (etc.)
by Babington, C.C
John Van Voorst, London, 1860. 1st edition. Publisher’s boards. Good/No Jacket. Owner’s signature, no other inscriptions. Tip of spine chipped.
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£24.00
An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, vol. 1: west Cambridgeshire
by RCHM
RCHM, 1968. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./Good. Little used; no inscriptions. Small area of damage to spine of jacket. Map in pocket at rear intact.
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£28.00
Period piece: a Cambridge childhood
by Raverat, G
Faber & Faber, 1953. 5th impression. Hard covers, dust jacket. Good/Fair. Jacket badly frayed and torn(repaired), now in polyester wrapper. Pencil donor's inscription.
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£20.00
Britain in Old Photographs: Cambridge University
by Helen Callaghan
Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Cambridge University in Old Photographs is a photographic record of the ancient institution, its people and its traditions. This selection of photographs, chosen from the extensive collection of Cambridge City Library, and the author's informative captions detail diverse aspects of University life, from lectures to the bumps races, and from laboratories to May Balls. Of particular interest are the photographs...
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