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ST. OMERS AND BRUGES COLLEGES, 1593-1773: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, G. Holt, Catholic Record Society, 1979; biographical notes; 299pp; 8vo; orig. navy cloth gilt, fore-edge spotted, a firm copy. £15.00
THE WOMEN'S WHO'S WHO 1934-5, Shaw Publishing Co. Ltd., 1934; “An Annual Record of the Careers
THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY 1931-1940, ed. L.G. Wickham Legg, Oxford Univ. Press, 1949; with an index covering the years 1901-1940 in one alphabetical series; xvi+968pp; large 8vo; orig. gilt dec. cloth, brief library marks, sound copy, a little marked. £8.00
Genealogical Reference
GESLAGSREGISTERS VAN DIE OU KAAPSE FAMILIES, C.C. De Villiers, completely revised edition, augmented and rewritten by C. Pama, 2 vols., Balkema, Kaapstad, 1981; Genealogies of old South African families; including alphabetical register of families with genealogical and biographical notes, glossary, index, list of corrections and additions; xlviii+617, 618-1217pp; 8vo; orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, a very good set £120.00
VISITATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES, ed. F.A. Crisp, Vol. 14, 1906; only 500 copies privately printed; pedigrees, illus. (mostly armorial), index, 220+xxxpp; large 8vo; orig. half-vellum gilt, top edge gilt, a good, firm copy. £23.00
THE ORIGINAL LISTS OF PERSONS OF QUALITY … 1600-1700, ed. J.C. Hotten, reprinted, Baltimore, 1962; “ … emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations …”; index; 580pp; 8vo; orig. cloth gilt, a good, firm copy, spine slightly dulled. £22.00
RECUSANT DOCUMENTS FROM THE ELLESMERE MANUSCRIPTS, ed. Anthony G. Petti, Catholic Record Society, 1968; index; xvi+368pp; 8vo; orig. blue cloth gilt, a good, firm copy. £9.00 “Only those manuscripts wholly or predominantly concerning Catholic history and in particular, Catholic recusants, have been included in this volume.” (Introduction)
THE GENEALOGIST’S MAGAZINE, Society of Genealogists, Vols. 1 to 7, 1925-1937, bound in 4 volumes; 8vo; uniformly bound in contemporary light blue cloth gilt, very good copies. £20.00
THE GREAT GOVERNING FAMILIES OF ENGLAND, J.L. Sanford & M. Townsend, 2 vols., 1865; each family the subject of a separate chapter; vi +384pp, 363pp; 8vo; contents sound, bound in gilt dec. calf, Vol. 1 worn at top of spine, Vol. 2 lacking upper cover and top half of backstrip. £16.00
A MANUAL FOR THE GENEALOGIST, TOPOGRAPHER, ANTIQUARY AND LEGAL PROFESSOR, R. Sims, 1856; “consisting of descriptions of public records, parochial and other registers, wills, county and family histories, heraldic collections in public libraries, etc., etc.”; list of subscribers; index, xx+526[+4] pp, plus errata leaf; 8vo; orig. cloth gilt, faded, edges rubbed, corners bumped, rebacked preserving most of orig. backstrip, a firm volume. £18.00
THE GENEALOGIST’S GUIDE, G.W. Marshall, 1903; best edition; important reference work for printed British pedigrees; xiii+880pp; 8vo; orig. cloth, a little rubbed, a firm copy, “1903” written in ink on spine. £28.00
CRIMINAL ANCESTORS, A GUIDE TO HISTORICAL CRIMINAL RECORDS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, D.T. Hawkings, paperback edn., 1996; illus.; appendices; index; xiv+458pp; 8vo; orig. pictorial card covers, almost as new. £10.00
ALLEGATIONS FOR MARRIAGE LICENCES ISSUED BY THE VICAR-GENERAL OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ed. G.J. Armytage, 4 vols. covering 1660-1694, Harleian Society, Vols. 30, 31, 33, 34, 1890-1892; abstracts of the marriage licence documents, with index to each volume; large 8vo; a few internal library marks and library classification no. in gilt on spines, orig. gilt dec. plum cloth, some fraying at heads and/or tails of spines, one vol. worn on hinges, otherwise generally a sound set. £72.00
ALLEGATIONS FOR MARRIAGE LICENCES … FACULTY OFFICE OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AT LONDON, 1543 TO 1869, ed. G.J. Armytage, Harleian Society, Vol. 24, 1886; detailed abstracts of the marriage licence documents, with index; 313pp; large 8vo; a few internal library marks and library classification no. in gilt on spine, orig. gilt dec. plum cloth, worn. £17.00
GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS OF WILLS, PROVED IN THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY: REGISTER “WOOTON” 1658, W. Brigg, 7 vols., 1894-1909; bound in two volumes; privately printed for subscribers; index of names and index of places to each vol.; 4to; bound in blue cloth with burgundy spine labels gilt, lightly used, firm, sturdy volumes, boards slightly marked. £60.00
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