Descripción
24pp. Inked ownership inscription to title page. [Bound with:] PETTIGREW, T. J. The journal of the British Archaeological Association. December 1856. On the antiquities of somersetshire. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [1856]. [1], 292-396pp. With two engraved plates and an engraved folding plan. [And:] STUBBS, William. The foundation of waltham abbey. Oxford & London. J. H. and J. Parker, 1861. xxxii, 60pp, [4]. [And:] GREEN, Emanuel. The earliest map of bath. Bath. Printed at the Herald Office, 1886. 19pp. With an engraved coloured plate. [And:] The pretended discovery of a roman bath. With remarks on a recent publication entitled the bathes of bathe's ayde in the reign of charles II. London. Wyman & Sons, 1884. 32pp. [And:] GREEN, Emanuel. A letter to the members of the somerset archaeological and natural history society. London. Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1887. 123pp, [1]. [And:] GEORGE, William. Lytes Cary Manor House, somerset, And its Literary Associations; with notices of authors of the lyte family, from queen elizabeth to the present time. Bristol. William George, [s.d.] 14pp. With a frontispiece. [And:] On an Inscribed Stone, at orchard wyndham, somerset, called "Old Mother Shipton's Tomb." Bristol. William George, 1879. 32pp. With six illustrations. [And:] PRING, James Hurly. The Place-name "hampton," with observations on mr. j. r. green's derivation of it. Taunton. Printed by J. F. Hammond, 1883. 7pp, [1]. [And:] Caer pensauelcoit: a long lost unromanised british metropolis. London. Reeves and Turner, 1882. [2], 45pp, [1]. With an engraved folding map. [And:] BOND, Thomas. [Drop-head title:] Holme Priory. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] 6pp. [And:] MAYO, Charles Herbert. The municipal records of the borough of shaftesbury: A Contribution to Shastonian History. Sherborne. J. C. Sawtell, 1889. v, [3], 87pp, [1]. [And:] LONG, William. Abury illustrated. Devizes. Printed by H. Bull, 1858. v, [1], 72pp. With eight engraved plates (three folding). Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of original publisher's upper wrapper (lower wrapper not present). Four extracts concerning Avebury, taken from issues of the Gentleman's Magazine, bound between upper wrapper and title page. [And:] WORTHY, Charles. The history of the Manor & Church of Winkleigh, in the county of devon. Plymouth. William Brendon & Son, 1876. 62pp. With a tipped-in errata slip. 8vo. Later purple cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine and top-edge sunned. Scattered foxing. A sammelband of fourteen Victorian pamphlets relating to the history of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, and Essex. Highlights include: A presentation copy of a rare survival of an authoritative pamphlet on the history of the Neolithic henge monument at Avebury, Wiltshire; including theories as to the prehistoric use of the site and notes on the survey undertaken by antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley in the seventeenth-century. A succinct monograph on the medieval manor house of Lytes Cary, Somerset, with biographical notices on the scholarly residents of the estate, including botanist and antiquary Henry Lyte (1529?-1607), translator of the Cruydeboeck, or herbal of Rembert Dodoens (Antwerp, 1554). The first edition of a transcription of the municipal records of Shaftesbury by Dorset clergyman and antiquary Charles Herbert Mayo (1845-1929), author of the Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis (1885), the standard antiquarian bibliography of the county. An apparently unrecorded offprint of an article by sometime secretary of the Somerset Archaeological Society, James Hurly Pring (1815-1889) on the etymology of the place- name 'Hampton', first published in the Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer (Vol. III, March, 1883). N° de ref. del artículo AQ12470
Contactar al vendedor
Denunciar este artículo
