Search Results: Authors starting with L from AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish)

First edition, London: Printed by and for J.B. Nichols, 1828.. Textual illusts, 149 + 1pp (advert), untrimmed in early qtr cloth, paper boards, lacks label on spine, spine slightly rubbed to edges, with a couple of short splits, small portion chipped from foot. One of only 250 copies printed. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1939, 1941 and 1933.. Pages numbered 383-390, complete, original printed wraps, ink note on top wrap. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

New Edition. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883.. Frontis, xii + 307 + vipp of adverts, original cloth, some light foxing to prelims, few small spots to cloth. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

First edition, London: Longman, Green.... 1863.. With 2 engraved plates, 148pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, few minor spots to cloth, light spotting to prelims. -- -- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Cardiff: Western Mail, 1933. . Plates, 139pp, original cloth damp spotted, slightly shaken with inner hinge strained. Signed presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper. --- - Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include LOCAL HISTORY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Privately published, London: 1976.. xvi + 138pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, small private ownership stamp to front endpaper. Limited Edition of 500 Copies. Contains a surname index of the Cornish nonconformist registers deposited at the P.R.O. (with the exception of Quakers). Baptisms and Burials are covered, each entry containing surname and forename, year, and the chapel or circuit. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Extracted from the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions, 1845.. With 4 large coloured folding plates, pages numbered 133- 138, complete, 4to, disbound, pages loose. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

Phillimore, London: 1948 Vols 2 & 3 Published by the authors, Gulval and Penzance: - c.1959.. With coloured illustrations, tipped-in plates, textual illusts, pedigrees, some of which are folding, 3 vols, 91pp, 52pp, 92pp, 4to, original cloth, cloth not quite uniform, lettering feint on one volume, and with a few marks to rear board. Presentation inscription by G.R. Gayre to front endpaper of volume 1. Very Scarce. Contains much on the Gayre's of Cornwall. The first volume concerns the origins of the name in Scotland and how they spread to Cornwall and Devon. The whole of volume 2 and approx. a third of volume 3 is devoted to Cornwall. A 4th volume, not present here, was devoted to Devon. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Dorchester: (1948). With frontispiece and 42 maps, 255pp, 4to, original cloth, partly faded, ex-ref.lib. with label to front pastedown, and to title-page, number to spine. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e- mail for a FREE copy, they include DORSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1969.. Plans, 21pp, original printed card covers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

First edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1970.. Plates, maps, textual illusts, 242pp, dustwrapper. Exmoor extends along the coast from Combe Martin, in Devon to Minehead in Somerset. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1972.. Illusts, 24pp, original printed card covers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

London: R. Yorke Clarke & Co., 1849. . Vignette title-page, 120pp, 12mo, original cloth, recased preserving original endpapers, and with new (amateur ?) spine, rubbed, top outer hinge partly split, a.e.g. With the bookplate of Charles Wells. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

British Marine Mutual Insurance Association, 1996.. Coloured and black and white illusts, 116pp, roy 8vo, dustwrapper, presentation inscription on front endpaper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Henry Frowde, Oxford: 1891.. 91pp, recent cloth, original printed board bound in, lacks rear board, few spots to prelims. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

First edition, London: Chas. J. Clark, 1894.. Illusts., xxxi + 217pp, original cloth, small ink note and private ownership label to front-endpaper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

First edition, Cheltenham: Norman Sawyer and Co., 1904.. Illusts, xii + 303pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, and pulled to head of spine, large folding map in pocket at rear, few tears and splits crudely repaired to verso, tipped onto last free endpaper is a small envelope which contains some relevant news cuttings. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e- mail for a FREE copy, they include GLOUCESTERSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

London: William Mackenzie, Preface dated, 1868.. Illustrated with 160 engravings on wood, 20 maps geologically coloured and 10 plates of metals and minerals, xix + 522 + [ii]pp, 4to, recent cloth, margins to a couple of prelims slightly dusty, and one of these leaves slightly ragged to fore-edge. 'M. Simonin visited the Cornish mines in 1862. His work contains numerous accounts of Cornwall and its mining works....' Boase and Courtney. Volume 2, page 653. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

First edition, B.T. Batsford. 1944.. With 84 Illustrations from Engravings, Paintings, and Photographs by Paul Fripp, and others. 118pp, lacks dustwrapper, inscription to verso of front endpaper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1975.. With 7 illusts, map endpapers, xvi + 150pp, roy, 8vo, some holes and damage to the dustwrapper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----