1883. Folio. (54.5 x 43.5 cm). Part calligraphic manuscript title page, 13 leaves featuring cuttings from the Sussex Daily News and its Supplement regarding the meeting. Manuscript errata slip inserted at title noting that "Society" should read "Institute", the mistake caused "through an error given to the Writer". Green pebbled..... More
![Item #35626 [Ordance Survey Map of East Hampshire, West Sussex and South-West Surrey]. SUSSEX](https://bowwindows.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/35626.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1580822797)
(London: Edward Stanford, [c.1840]. Folding map on linen with dissections, 88.5 x 97 cm, overall dimensions 100 x 106 cm, to a scale of 1 mile to the inch, from Portsmouth in the east to Worthing in the west and going as far inland as Guildford, the map extending through..... More
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1921. 8vo. xxiv, 223, (1) pp. Green full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels and dated at the foot, marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations, some photographic. Spine slightly sunned, a handsome copy. Including articles on Amberley Castle, Cowfold, Ovingdean..... More
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1932. 8vo. lxxii, 224, (2) pp. Green full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels and dated at the foot, marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations, some photographic. Spine slightly sunned, a handsome copy. Including articles on the Roman Villa at..... More
Brighton: Printed and Published by J.G. Bishop, 1880. First edition. 4to. (viii), 390 pp. Contemporary red half morocco over russet cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 23 plates and 5 other illustrations in the text. Slight discolouration to the..... More
London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 1830. First edition, folio, (viii), xvi, 402, (2) pp. 30 plates and 2 hand coloured Geological maps by Gideon Mantell as well as a folding map of the country hand coloured in outline, this latter map with a closed tear, one other plate hand coloured..... More
Richmond-upon-Thames: Saint Helena Press, 1981. First edition, 4to, 383, (1) pp. Nine colour and over 1,000 black and white illustrations, signed to the title verso by the authors and Bamber Gascoigne. Original cloth with some minor scuffing. The definitive guide to pictures of Brighton down the centuries, with every major..... More
Lewes: Baxter, 1835. First edition. Two volumes. 4to. Publisher's maroon half morocco over marbled paper boards, gilt lettered direct to the spines, original "Subscriber's copy" price label (£4, 4s) to the front pastedown, beneath this the early ownership inscription of what appears to be "J. Wade Butler" with the contemporary..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. First edition, one of 500 copies, small 8vo, 157, (3) pp. Lacking the frontispiece. Modern cloth. Despite his posthumous renown, Mantell never had the funds or the success he would have wished, and this little guide, intended for visitors on the then new railway, was..... More
London: Archibald Constable and Company Limited, 1905. First edition. 4to. (xxiv), 554 pp. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine slightly faded, t.e.g., a very good copy. 7 double page maps, 5 in colour, and 13 plates. Spine sunned, else very good. Containing pieces on Natural History and ancient earthworks... More
Lewes: H. Wolff, 1886. First edition. Folio. xvi, xxviii, 138 pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with bevelled edges, gilt rules and lettering to the spine, the Sussex Archaeological Society crest to the upper board. Frontispiece colour map of the county plus 28 pages of a facsimile of the original record..... More
London: Published by the Artist, 1825. First edition, two volumes - text volume 8vo, plate volume folio. Plate volume containing 148 lithographs - 4 per leaf, text volume with a hand coloured lithographic frontispiece and the bookplate of Rupert Sackville Gwynne, Conservative M.P., preliminaries with some light damp staining. Text..... More
Lewes: Sussex Record Society, [n.d.], 1972-3, 1974-6. Three volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Four, fourteen and ten plates respectively. Some mild wear to the jacket edges, very good overall. More
London: Country Life Limited, 1937. Sole edition. 8vo. 188 pp. Publisher's yellow printed cloth, illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, contemporary ownership inscription to the head of the first free endpaper and the edges. Vignette illustrations at the beginning of each of the 13 chapters. Slight tanning to the jacket..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1924. First edition. 8vo. 239, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, dark green lettering to the spine and upper board, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Very good. More
Lewes: Printed for W. Lee, the Editor and Proprietor, 1795. First edition. 8vo. (xvi), 555, (5) pp. Early 19th century tan full morocco sometime rebacked to style in a near matching leather, now sunned to a different shade, gilt ruled wide bands with gilt lettering to one compartment, both boards..... More
Greenwich: Geo. E. Allen, [1820s]. Single sheet, 28 x 21 cm, printed on one side only. A little marked and creased, with cuttings from contemporary magazines pasted to the verso. A two column description of the tomb of John Oliver, which he prepared three decades before his death in 1793..... More
London: Mills and Boon, [1911]. "Popular edition" (same year as first), 8vo, (xvi), 444 pp. 20 coloured plates and a folding map, bookplate. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spine sunned. More
Brighton: J.G. Bishop, "Herald" Office, 1892. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 22, 434, (12 advertisement) pp. 54 illustrations - including a double page map of the town in 1799, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Keith Nethercoate-Bryant showing the chain pier, faint staining to the half title, small closed tear to the fly..... More
London: John van Voorst, 1875. First edition, 8vo, xliii, (i), 165, (3) pp. Hand coloured double page map, slightly creased, plus a contemporary photograph of the Author tipped onto a front blank, light damp staining to the inner margin throughout, hinge cracked by title, later bookplate. Original gilt titled green..... More
London: Francis & John Rivington, 1853. First edition, 8vo, xii, 369, (3) pp. Original blind stamped cloth, joints cracked with some loss, covered in an old sellophane covering stuck to the paste downs. More
![Item #19025 Gleanings Respecting Battel [sic] and its Abbey. By a Native. SUSSEX, J. VIDLER](https://bowwindows.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19025.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446579239)
Battel: F.W. Ticehurst, [1841]. First edition, small 8vo, 175, (1) pp. 4 plates, including 2 lithographed views. Original dark green cloth, gilt vignette of Battle Abbey to upper cover, spine a little sunned, an excellent copy. More