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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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Ref e60001  : £5


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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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Ref e60131  : £4


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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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Ref e60137  : £4


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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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Ref e60132  : £5


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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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Ref e60134  : £5


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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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Ref e60133  : £4


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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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Ref e60135  : £6


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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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Ref e60129  : £4


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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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Ref e60127  : £5


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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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Ref e60128  : £5


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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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Ref e60125  : £4


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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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Ref e60126  : £4


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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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Ref e60130  : £5


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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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Ref e60136  : £5


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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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Ref e60022  : £5


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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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Ref e60024  : £7


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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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Ref e60023  : £5


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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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Ref e60027  : £6


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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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