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Part 2 : Topography, Guide Books and Local Directories

Title Author Date Description Damage Contribution Guide
Topography and Guide Books          
Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Enville and the Leasowes 2 volumes (65-66) Heeley, Joseph 1777

6.5" x 4" x 0.75".  Full brown calfskin binding, tight back, decorated on spine and both boards with gold lines and tooling. Six panels on spine. Trimmed and sprinkled edges.

Boards detached and loose. Badly rubbed on all corners. One headband missing. £300
A Topographical Dictionary of England Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, With Historical and Statistical Descriptions Vol 2 D-K (94) Lewis, Samuel 1831

13" x 10" x 1.75".  Maroon cloth binding with a black gold blocked label to spine

Board attachments weak. One section of pages detached £110
Chorography Britanniae or A set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales (24) Badeslade T & Toms, W H 1742

6.5" x 4.5" x 0.75".  Full tan coloured leather with double gold line around edge of boards sewn on tight back with five raised cords.

Both boards detached. Spine and corners very worn. Headbands in red and white silk missing.

£170

A Journey to Paris in the year 1698 (31)

Lister, Dr Martin 1699

7.75" x 5" x 1".  Full leather binding, brown coloured sprinkled calf with tight spine and four raised bands. Green and white silk headbands. Boards decorated in panelled design.

Front board missing. Back board detached. £270
The Agreeable Historian or the Compleat English Traveller Vol 2, (53) Simpson, S 1746

7" x 5" x 1.5".  Tan coloured leather spine and corners with marbled paper sides. Tight back.

Both boards detached. Leather on spine very weak. Corners very rubbed £190
Local Directories

 

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Red Book (3) 1878

7.75" x 5" x 0.75".  Red paper binding with basic sewing structure and no original spine.

Covers detached. Sewing structure failed. Covers badly torn. £90
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Red Book (119)   1879

7.75" x 5" x 0.75".  Red paper binding with basic sewing structure and no original spine.

Front cover detached. Back cover missing. Sewing structure failed. £90
Blocksidge's Illustrated Dudley Almanack, Diary and Directory (124)   1902

7.25" x 4.75" x 0.5".  Paper backed binding with metal stapled (sewing) structure.

Front cover detached. Rear cover loose. Spine fragmentary with missing pieces. £60
Staffordshire County Council Technical Instruction Committee Directory (101)   1895

8.25" x 5.75" x 1.25".  Full tan coloured leather binding with hollow spine and five false raised bands. Gilded panels on spine and gilded lines to board edges.

Board attachments very weak. Spine hollow split on front edge and very weak on back edge.

£140 
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