Malmesbury, Corsham, Lacock, Bradford-on-Avon & Downside
Brakspear, H. & others
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion E: Malmesbury, Corsham, Lacock, Bradford-on-Avon & Downside. 24 pp. 6 illustrations of views and buildings around the area, mostly full page and two large fold out plans of the Abbeys at Malmesbury & Lacock. Book Condition: Very Good. A description of the area and its historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered.
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Aden
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1947. 23 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the colony and the protectorate and its perceived future at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Britain and the Colonies
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. N.D. (1947). 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which describes the colonial organisation at the conclusion of World War II, from the Ground-nut scheme in East Africa to the fact that Girls' Education lags behind. Two images available.
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China
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1946. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the history of the country, especially the events of the first half of the twentieth century: the Kuomintang, the Japanese invasion, the rise of communism and its position at the conclusion of World War II. Also an insert of 4 pp being an essay on an Imaginary Visit to China by a pupil of a school near Rotherham. Two images available.
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Cyprus
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1947. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the island and how the British arrived, Enosis and "What Colonial Development Really Means", at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Egypt
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1946. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers its history and geography, the British Occupation and the Treaty of 1936, railways, air routes and the country at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Gibraltar and Malta
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1947. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the Rock, its history, its apes and life there at the conclusion of World War II. A similar description of the Maltese Islands with their history of invasions, the British, the Fleet in Valetta harbour and the beginnings of Self-Government. Two images available.
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Gold Coast
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1946. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the history of the country, the position of women, the slave trade, how the British Rule the Africans and the sources of its wealth at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Iraq
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1947. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the history of the country and the struggles of both Arab and Jew under the British mandate at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Palestine
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1946. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the area at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Peasant Europe (I) The Background
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1947. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the area from Austria and Czechoslovakia to Bulgaria at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Peasant Europe (II) Who is to be Master of it?
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1947. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the political struggles at the time between the peasants parties and collectivism in the area at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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South Africa
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. N.D. (1947). 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers the history and geography of the country, the various foreign influences and the position of the indigenous peoples at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
British Survey, Popular Series
George Gill & Sons, London. 1946. 24 pp booklet in pale blue paper covers with Sailing Ship motif. Very Good condition. Many photographs to accompany the text which covers history of the country, The Mahdi, The Slave Merchants, Kitchener's Victory with Railways and Education at the conclusion of World War II. Two images available.
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Tintern & the Wye Valley
Jervis, W.W.
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion G: Tintern & the Wye Valley. 20 pp. 4 full page illustrations of views and buildings around the area and a fold out plan of Chepstow castle and a large fold out plan of Tintern Abbey. Book Condition: Very Good. A description of the buildings and their historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered which included Monmouth and Ross.
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Wells, Glastonbury and Wookey Hole
Robinson, Very Rev J.A.; Horne, Very Rev Dom E. & Balch, H.E.
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion C: Wells, Glastonbury and Wookey Hole. 32 pp. 4 illustrations of views and buildings around the area, mostly full page , a plan of the Glastonbury Abbey and a fold out plan of Wells Cathedral. Book Condition: Very Good. A description of the area and its historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered.
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Historic Bristol
Simpson, J. J.
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion K: Historic Bristol. 40 pp. 11 illustrations of views around the area, mostly full page. Book Condition: Very Good except for a little light foxing to the covers and centre opening margins. A description of the buildings and their historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered. Two images available.
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The Cotswolds
Simpson, J. J.
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion B: The Cotswolds. 28 pp. 4 full page illustrations of views and buildings around the area and a fold out plan of the Roman Villa at Chedworth. Book Condition: Very Good. A description of the Cotswolds and details of the Roman Villa and explanation of the floor plan. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route which covered Cirencester and Birdlip.
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Deerhurst, Tewkesbury & Gloucester
Thompson, Prof. A. Hamilton
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion F: Deerhurst, Tewkesbury & Gloucester. 26 pp. 5 full page illustrations of views and buildings around the area and three floor plans. Book Condition: Very Good. A description of the buildings and their historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered.
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Bath
Walls, Ernest
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion A: Bath. 34 pp. 5 full page illustrations of views and buildings around the town. Book Condition: Very Good except for a little light foxing to the upper cover. A description of the happenings in Bath over the centuries. An Itinerary which included a visit to the modern bathing establishment................Some of the principal methods of treatment by the thermal waters will be demonstrated.
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Stonehenge, Marlborough and Avebury.
Walls, Ernest
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion D: Stonehenge, Marlborough and Avebury. 26 pp. 6 illustrations of views and buildings around the area, mostly full page and a fold out plan of Stonehenge. Book Condition: Very Good. A description of the area and its historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered which included Devizes.
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Badminton
Wells, Charles
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion H: Badminton. 11 pp. 2 full page illustrations of views and buildings around the area. Book Condition: Very Good. A description of the buildings and their historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered.
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The Mendips & Cheddar
Wells, Charles
Book Description: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol Meeting, 1930. Softback booklet. Handbook for Excursion J: The Mendips & Cheddar. 15 pp. 3 full page illustrations of views around the area. Book Condition: Very Good except for a little light foxing to the lower cover. A description of the buildings and their historic development. An Itinerary is included and a sketch map of the route covered.
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