Search Results: Titles starting with J from AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish)

1710.. Slip of paper, the top part only of a document which has been torn horizontally, heading as above, lists sum for postage of letters (a hefty œ50) and Stationary ware. Size approx. 4" x 7". Craggs became secretary to Stanhope, the envoy to Spain, in 1708, but was made a minister in Spain so he could stand in for Stanhope when he was away. After his return to England he became M.P. for the 'rotten borough' of Tregony, in Cornwall, later becoming a member of the Privy Council. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include GENERAL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

Reprinted from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. H.F. Bull, Devizes: n.d. . Folding pedigree, 14pp, original printed wraps, wraps slightly soiled and loose and split at spine. Presentation inscription by the author on first leaf. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

First edition, Bible Christian Book Bookroom, London: 1873.. With two portraits, 312pp, original cloth, occasional light foxing, covers lightly rubbed. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Leonard Parsons, London: 1925. . Frontis, 192pp, original cloth, occasional foxing. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

Cambridge at the University Press: 1936.. With 17 plates, textual illusts, xvi + 207pp, short tear to top dustwrapper, and a small portion torn from top corner of rear of dustwrapper, wraps slightly spotty, few spots to page edges. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham: 1983.. Numerous illusts, 116pp, cr 4to, dustwrapper. Numbered Limited Edition. With 4 page 'Subscribers List'. Signed by the author on the title-page. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1997. . Plates, map endpapers, 242pp, dustwrapper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include BRISTOL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

Wiltshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 1991. . Illusts, 116pp, original pictorial card covers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

c1840.. Slip ballad in two columns, size 10" x 7". No. 4. top right. Humourous attack on taxes and the Corn Laws. 'And for to raise some money/For the wedding of the Queen/They'll tax old maids and bachelors/That have turned seventeen... To tax and starve the nation/They do cobble up some laws/And the devil swears he'll tax them all/When they get into his claws.' --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include YORKSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---

Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1996.. Illusts, some in colour, maps, 72pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial 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. ) ----

New York: New York University Press, 1978.. 2 volumes, 16 coloured plates, 321pp, and 243 black and white plates on 166 pages, 4to, dustwrappers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

E.J. Rickard, Plymouth: (1971) . Illusts, 76pp, roy 8vo, few short tears and splits to dustwrapper, light spotting to prelims, presentation inscription to front endpaper. Gill was a Quaker and pacifist, he founded the Penryn Advertiser and when he retired he toured round the country preaching non violence. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 20. 1974.. Frontis, 203pp, original card covers. Includes 11 page index of persons and places. ---- 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: Hutchinson, 1911.. With 51 illustrations. xvi + 376pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, and partly faded, with a 1" split to rear outer hinge, short scuff to cloth on rear board, occasional light foxing. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

Third Edition, Revised, London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1878.. Illusts, 6 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, 16mo, original decorative cloth, lightly rubbed, few small marks to cloth, front inner hinge cracked, few marks mainly to fore-edge margins. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1990.. With 4 plates, 30pp, 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. ) ----

Bristol Branch of the Historical Association, 1970.. Illusts, 23pp, 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. ) ----

Edited and Published by E.W. Newton, for the Cornwall Joint Scientific Reception Committee.. Illusts, 162pp + Errata leaf, qtr cloth printed paper boards. Includes:- 'Visit to the St. Ives Consolidated Mines', 'Messrs. Holman Bros., Ltd.,' 'Cornish China Clay and China Stone Industries.' etc., etc. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include CORNWALL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---

Religious Tract Society, London: c.1869.. Vignette title, 24pp, 12mo, signed 'Catherine Mary Pugh, Devizes, 1869.' on title-page. Seventeenth century clergyman born in Devizes. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

1825.. Manuscript declaration signed by Joseph Pope about the children of Joseph and Mary Pope. 14 lines, 1p., folio. Blank conjoint leaf. Folds. Says all the children were buried at the Baptist Burying Ground in Elbroad Street, Bristol. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include BRISTOL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---