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Mellersh, W L. A Treatise on the Birds of Gloucestershire with a reference list of all the birds known to have appeared in the county, John Bellows, Gloucester, 1902
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Playne, Arthur Twisden. A History of the Parishes of Minchinhampton and Avening, John Bellows, Gloucester, 1915
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The Spectator 8 volumes, printed for C Bathurst etc., London 1775, 8vo. cont. calf, spines gilt
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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Works of, 13 volumes, Smith Elder & Co., London 1892, 8vo. cont. half calf
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Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies, new edition, Macmillan, London 1889 and another copy, illustrated by Ethel F Everett, London, 8vo. cont. half red morocco
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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan and Co, London 1871 and Through the Looking Glass, Macmillan and Co, London 1873, 8vo. orig. cloth
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Gillanders, A T. Forest Entomology, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1912, School Prize, and nine other leather bound books, 8vo.
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Atlas to the Topographical Dictionary of England, 1845, 4to, half leather, folding engraved maps, with two others
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Fitzgerald, E. trans. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Edmund J Sullivan, Methuen and Co, London 1913, 4to. orig. red cloth gilt
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Malory, Sir Thomas. Morte D'Arthur, 2 volumes, No. 157 of a limited edition of 370 copies, Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford 1933, 4to. half red morocco, teg. (soiled)
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Bond, J. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Cum Scholiis Perpetuis, Parisiis 1806
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Gatty, Mrs. The Book of Sundials, third and enlarged edition, edited by H K F Eden and Eleanor Lloyd, George Bell and Sons, London 1890, 8vo. orig. cloth (soiled) Text illustrations
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Greenaway, K. Under the Window, Frederick Warne. n.d. 4to; orig. boards. colour plates
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Blackmore, Richard Doddridge. Lorna Doone, illustrated by Charles Brittan and Charles Brock, 4to, 1910 and
Varley, T. Hampshire, illustrated by Wilfrid Ball, Black, London 1909, 8vo. orig. cloth
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Buckler, B. Stemmata Chicheleana or a Genealogical Account of Some of the Families Derived from Thomas Chichele, Clarendon Press, London 1765, bookplate Lord Auckland, 4to. cont. calf, engraved frontispiece
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Works 8 volumes, Carlyle, T. Works 15 volumes, Edinburgh Edition and Hope, A. Works 6 volumes, 8vo. leather Hardy, T. Works of Macmillans Pocket Hardy, London 1923, 25 volumes, orig. cloth
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Thomson, James. The Book of Silchester, 2 volumes, No 131 of a limited edition of 175, signed and dated by the author, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., London 1924, 4to. orig. cloth. Plates
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Shakespeare, William. Complete Works, 40 volumes, No 235 of Editor's Autograph Edition of 250 sets, George D Sproul, New York 1907, 4to. orig. boards, cloth spines
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Gray, Thomas. Poems, Eton Leaver's Book 1925 and three others 1946, 1948 and 1968, all dated and inscribed 4to.; orig. vellum gilt
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Tilley, Joseph. The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, 2 volumes, 1892, with book plate, 4to. orig. cloth and two others
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Yarrell, William. A History of British Birds, second edition, 3 volumes, 1845, 8vo. cont. half green calf, spines gilt. Text illustrations
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Trollope, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vols, 1867, half red morocco and another by the same. Illustrated - Strickland, Agnes. How Will it End? 3 vols, 1865, half black stained calf - [Irving, Washington] The Sketch Book, New Edition, 1826, half maroon morocco (spines faded). With 24 others, mostly literature. 8vo. (33)
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Lubbock, Sir John. Prehistoric Times, fifth Edition, 1890, 2 copies, 8vo. cont. blue morocco gilt, a.e.g. Winchester School prize with arms on upper covers. Chromolithographic plates and other illustrations
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Fabre, J H. Souvenirs Entomologiques, 10 volumes, Paris 1914 and La Vie, Paris 1915. 8vo. cont. half blue stained calf. Photographic plates
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Edwards, Lionel. Sketches in Stable and Kennel, 1st edition 1933 with dust jacket, colour plates, mounted
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Evelyn, John. Silva or a Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber: Robert Scott, London 1706, Fourth Edition, Folio, cont. panelled calf (some wear)
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Richardson, Sir John and others. The Museum of Natural History, 2 volumes, 4to; cont. half calf (rubbed), hand coloured plates
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Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley. Berkeley Manuscripts 1821, 4to; original boards
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Rider Haggard, H. Rural England, Longmans Green and with ALS from the Author to Rosebery, two vols 8vo; orig. cloth in slip case, Armorial bookplates of Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery
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Cellini. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini written by himself, edited and translated by John Addington Symonds, with a biographical sketch by the same hand, 2 vols, 8vo, brown levant morocco gilt by J W Meyer & Co., New York 1906 plates
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Fussell, G E. Old English Farming Books, 1947, 8vo, orig. cloth and five others on agriculture and natural history
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Pratt, Anne. Flowering Plants Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain, 6 vols., Frederick Warne and Co., 8vo; orig. cloth gilt, aeg colour plates
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Lowe, Edward Joseph. A Natural History of British Grasses, 8vo, orig. cloth, colour plates, 1865
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Bewick, Thomas. A History of British Birds, two volumes (I) containing the History and Description of Land Birch; and a supplement with additional figures (II) containing the History and Description of Water Birds; and a Supplement with additional figures, Edward Walker, Newcastle 1821, 2 vols, 8vo, cont. half calf (spines defective), Text illustrations
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Marshall, William. The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire including Dairy together with Dairy Management in North Wiltshire and Management of Orchards and Fruit Liquor in Herefordshire, G Nichol, 1789
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Butler, Charles. The Feminine Monarchie or The Historie of Bees showing their admirable nature and properties, their generation and colonies; their government, loyaltie, art, industrie, enemies, warres magnanimite etc, John Haviland, 1623, small 4to, modern boards, cloth spine
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Rusden, Moses. A Full Discovery of Bees, Nathaniel Ranew, 1687, small 8vo, cont. calf boards, engraved frontispiece, folding plate (defective), browning
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Purchas, Samuel. A Theatre of Political Flying Insects wherin especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder and the manner of right ordering of the bee, 15 observations physical concerning them, RI for Thomas Parkhurst, London 1657, small 4to, old calf (rebacked), lacks longitudinal table
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Ballard, Stephen. Treatise on Nature of Trees and the Pruning of Timber Trees: showing the Impossibility of Increasing the Quantity of Timber by Pruning, printed and sold by Thomas Word, Ledbury 1833, orig. boards (lacks backstrip)
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Appert, M. The Art of Preserving, 8vo, cloth, 1812, Ernest Ridley Debenham Book Plate, folding engraved frontispiece (spotted)
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Armstrong, Sydney Frederick. British Grasses and their employment in agriculture, 1919, 8vo, orig. cloth with 2 others; Pratt, A. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain, volume I, Frederick Warne and Co., London and Stephens, H. The Book of the Farm
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Worlidge, John. Vinetum Britannicum, or A Treatise of Cider and Other Wines extracted from Fruits growing in this Kingdom: with the method of Propagating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees: printed for Thomas Dring 1678, 8vo; modern tan morocco, a.e.g. engraved plates
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Atkyns, Sir Robert. The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, Second Edition. 1712. Folio, cont. calf. Engraved double page map and plates
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Cervantes, M de. La Galatea, published Madrid 1772, 4to, bound in original vellum (soiled)
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Smyth, John of Nibley: The Berkeley Manuscripts Proof Copy of Vols II and III with corrections by Sir John MacLean - Editor, bound together 4to, half reversed calf, Bristol & Glos Archaeological Society, Gloucester, 1883
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The Patriot, A Tragedy, London printed for Shepperson and Reynolds, quarter calf with marbled boards
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Beattie (J) Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Free Speech and Writing, Edinburgh 1787, bookplate of J R P Forrest, full calf
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Simpson (C) A Compendium of Practical Musick, London 1667
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The Spectator, 8 vols, Edinburgh 1776, calf bindings (two renewed) and a quantity of late 17th and Early 19th Century volumes, mostly leather bound
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