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THE HISTORICAL ANTIQUITIES OF HERTFORDSHIRE: With the Original of Counties, Hundreds or Wapentakes, Boroughs, Corporations, Towns, Parishes, Villages, and Hamlets; the Foundation and Origin of Monasteries, Churches, Advowsons, Tythes, Rectories, Impropriations, and Vicarages, in General . . . etc.
by Chauncy, Sir Henry
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Bishops Stortford: J. M. Mullinger, et al, 1826. Reprint of the 1700 first edition. Hardcover. Covers moderately scuffed, light scattered foxing to text, lithograph plates are very foxed. 2 volumes, large octavo, brown calf and boards with later rebacking, red and green morocco spine labels; xx, 502; (1), 614 pp. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, folding county map, and 43 lithograph plates (38 are double-page). Text interleaved with a great many blanks, most with manuscript additions by an unknown hand, a few illustrations added, some bound in, some tipped to blank leaves. Recent cloth slipcase.
Originally published in 1700, an exhaustive study of the history and habitation of Hertfordshire.
Originally published in 1700, an exhaustive study of the history and habitation of Hertfordshire.
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- THE HISTORICAL ANTIQUITIES OF HERTFORDSHIRE: With the Original of Counties, Hundreds or Wapentakes, Boroughs, Corporations, Towns, Parishes, Villages, and Hamlets; the Foundation and Origin of Monasteries, Churches, Advowsons, Tythes, Rectories, Impropriations, and Vicarages, in General . . . etc.
- Author
- Chauncy, Sir Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Covers moderately scuffed, light scattered foxing to text, lithograph plates are very foxed
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- 1
- Edition
- Reprint of the 1700 first edition
- Publisher
- J. M. Mullinger, et al
- Place of Publication
- Bishops Stortford
- Date Published
- 1826
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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