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1. A Pedestrian Tour of 
thirteen hundred and forty-seven miles
through Wales and England 1838- 2.
Price : $300 Buy now

Volumes.Volume 1; by Pedestres, and Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg, knight of Snowdon. Published by Saunders & Otley; London;-1st Edition 1838;- 2 volumes. Re-bound in half leather, with red-labels and gilt lettering to the top of both spines. No Original copies to be found anywhere on the world wide web...Very Rare.. $300
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2. General View of the Agriculture 
and Domestic Economy of South Wales ;- 1814 2 Vols.
Price : $5,000 Buy now

Containing the Counties of Brecon, Caermarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Pembroke, Radnor by Walter Davies 1814;- 2 Volumes ;- 1st. Editions. Published by B. McMillan Covent Garden London;- with a stunning hand-coloured map. Beautifully re-binded in half-leather.Gilt red/black labels to both spines. 

Walter Davies (15 July 1761 – 5 December 1849), commonly known by his bardic name Gwallter Mechain, was a Welsh Poet, editor, translator, antiquary and Anglican clergyman. Davies was born at Y Wern, near Tomen y Castell,Llanfechain, Montgomeryshir.  He was educated at the village school and was to become a cooper, he lived  in Montgomeryshire where he remained for 30 years and did most of his literary work.

In 1797 he had begun a survey of the agriculture and economy of North Wales, which was published in two volumes in 1810 and 1813. This was followed in 1814 by a report on South Wales. there is no other original copies to found on the world wide web...Very Rare..in very fine condition $5,000

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3. General View of the 
Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales 1813.
Price : $2,500 Buy now

1st. Edition by  Walter Davies 1813;-  Published by Sherwood, Needly, and Jones,London;- with a stunning hand-coloured map of North Wales;- Beautifully re-binded in half-leather. Black label with gilt lettering to the spine. 

Walter Davies (15 July 1761 – 5 December 1849), commonly known by his bardic name Gwallter Mechain, was a Welsh Poet, editor, translator, antiquary and Anglican clergyman. Davies was born at Y Wern, near Tomen y Castell, Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire.  He was educated at the village school and was to become a cooper, he lived  in Montgomeryshire where he remained for 30 years and did most of his literary work.

In 1797 he had begun a survey of the agriculture and economy of North Wales, which was published in two volumes in 1810 and 1813. This was followed in 1814 by a report on South Wales. there is no other original copies to found on the world wide web...Very Rare..in very fine condition.
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4. Rev. J. EVANS  
A Tour Through Part of North Wales in the Year 1798.
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1st. Edition;- Published by J White, London 1800 - And at other Times Principally Undertaken with a View to Botanical Researches in That Alpine Country: Interspersed with Observations on Its Scenery, Agriculture, Manufactures, Customs, History, and Antiquities. Re-binded in full tan leather with red label with gilt lettering to the spine John Evans (b.1767/8, d. in or after 1812), who was also a schoolmaster, topographer, and sometime resident of Bristol. He was the author of A Tour through Part of North Wales (1800) and Letters Written during a Tour through South Wales (1804). He also wrote volume 12, on North Wales, and contributed to volume 11 of The Beauties of England and Wales, compiled by E. W. Brayley and J. Britton.  A handsome copy of a very collectable book. Complete

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5. Rev. J. EVANS 
LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES, in the year 1798,
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Rev. J. EVANS  LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES, in the year 1798, 

and at other times; containing views of the history, antiquities, and customs of that part of the principality; and interspersed with observations on its scenery, agriculture, botany, mineralogy, trade and manufactures.

       Third edition C. and R.Baldwin . 1804 - Original paper boards with a light blue paste down label in black lettering and 8 shillings price on the label to the spine. un-cut paper. A very beautiful copy. 

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Rev. J. EVANS  LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A TOUR THROUGH NORTH WALES, in the year 1798, and at other times; containing views of the history, antiquities, and customs of that part of the principality; and interspersed with observations on its scenery, agriculture, botany, mineralogy, trade and manufactures;-

Third edition C. and R.Baldwin . 1804 - Original brown leather binding, with a  black label and gilt lettering to the spine A very beautiful copy.

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6. BINGLEY W. Rev 1774-1823.
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North Wales 1814

Delineated from two Excursions Through All the Interesting Parts of That Highly Beautiful and Romantic Country, and Intended as a Guide to Future Tourists

       Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 1814. Bound in contemporary half brown leather with marbled boards, corners and edges a little bumped and worn. Spine has gilt and blind tooling, title in gilt to the spine, edges and joints a little worn. 1 pull out map, of North Wales, hand-coloured, showing the authors tours-there. The two plates are of Pont y Pair in Betws-y-Coed and Pistyll Rhaidr. Bingley, naturalist and Church of England clergyman, whose major projected work was his county history of Hampshire. Though much material was collected he did not live to complete this, and only a small portion of it was ever published. Rare collectable book.

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7. A Tour in Wales 1773 
by Thomas Pennant;
Publisher Henry Hughes 1778.
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A Tour in Wales 1773 by Thomas Pennant; Publisher Henry Hughes 1778 

Published  by Henry Hughes, London: 1778; with Index, Proposals and Advertisement;-  Twenty-seven engraved plates, many foldout all in good condition and complete. Engraved and decorated title page.  Rebound in three quarters leather over marbled boards. Original label to spine, 1st. Edition by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was probably the foremost 18th century Welsh intellectual. A naturalist, zoologist, and antiquary, he is best known for this 'A Tour in Wales'. In his famous autobiography The Literary Life (1793) he states that he sometimes marveled at his own industry. His first book was the 1766 folio, British Zoology. This made a financial loss as it had been printed on paper that was too large. Thereafter all his major works appeared in smaller formats, either octavos or quartos. The current view of his contribution to natural history is that its importance lies in the fact that he popularized and promoted its study. His tours and topographic works also display his insistence on detailed research. Among the accounts of tours he published are those of two separate visits to Scotland, a tour from Chester to London, and an account of London itself. His A Tour in Wales (1778-1783) is regarded as being quite outstanding and easily the finest work in a considerable corpus of Welsh tour literature published from ca. 1770 onwards. Pennant also became a collector more as a scholar than as a connoisseur. As a patron he tended to purchase pictures which were directly commissioned from the artist. Very Collectable and rare.

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8. MALKIN Benj. Heath 1769-1842

 The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales in the year 1803


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  Published by Longman and O Rees 1804. 1st. Edition with embellished with 12 views and one fold-out map of Wales;- Plates by LaporteMalkin,  schoolmaster and antiquary. His taste for the picturesque is to be seen in his topographical work The Scenery, Antiquities and Biography of South Wales, published in 1804 and reissued in a two-volume edition in 1807. Written after a tour of south Wales in 1803, it was one of the best travel books of its kind, displaying Malkin's acute observation and considerable knowledge of Welsh history. Re-binded in half dark red leather with gilt lettering to the spine and date. Some slight foxing, but otherwise a very fine collectable copy, uncut paper.
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9. BINGLEY, REV W.

 North Wales :

 Including Its Scenery, Antiquities, Customs and Some Sketches of its Natural History Delineated from Two Excursions Through All the Interesting Parts of That Country During the Summers of 1798 and 1801.


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      Published in  London by Longman and Rees, 1804. 2 Volumes;- First Edition. Large fold-out hand-coloured map to volume I. Frontispiece to volume 2. plus 12 pages of music (sixteen songs) to volume II. and Index, Uncommon Welsh Plants. An essay on the Language. re-binded in green cloth covers. a fine clean copies of a very collectable books.
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10. Borrow, George 1803-81

 WILD WALES: Its People, Language, and Scenery, 

in Three Volumes -1862


   Published in London by John Murray;- 1862. First Edition. [1000 copies printed]. p. [v] "Notice. Some slight portions of this work appeared in the 'Quarterly Review' for January, 1861" [The London Quarterly Review, Jan. 1861 "The Welch and Their Literature by George Borrow"]. 3 volumes. Original dark blue cloth covers with paper labels to all three spines.

rare in original covers, highly collectable.
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George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences traveling around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the  Romani people  of Europe, who figure prominently in his work. His best known books are The Bible of Spain, the autobiographical Lavengo,  and The Romany Rye, about his time with the English;- Romanichal (gypsies).Having a military father, Borrow had a childhood of growing up at different posts. In the autumn of 1815, he accompanied the regiment to Clonmel in Ireland. There he attended the Protestant Academy, where he learned to read Latin and Greek ‘from a nice old clergyman’. He was also introduced to the Irish Language by a fellow student named Murtagh, who tutored him in return for a pack of playing cards. In keeping with the political friction of the time, he learned to sing "the glorious tune ‘Croppies Lie Down’  at the military barracks. He was introduced to horsemanship and learned to ride without a saddle. After less than a year in Ireland, the regiment returned to Norwich. With the threat of war having receded, the strength of the unit was greatly reduced.

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11. John TORBUCK;-
A Collection of Welsh Tours; 
or, a Display of the Beauties of Wales, selected principally from Celebrated Histories and Popular Tours, with occasiona; Remarks, bound with A Tour of the River Wye and its Vicinity 1798
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  Publisher, G. Sael, London 1798 - Scarce. 2 volumes in one. The Collection of Welsh Tours is the  third corrected edition of 1797 and The Tour of the River Wye is a 1798 first edition, with a separate title page. The name of the author is not given in the book but confirmed by British Library records. With 5 engraved sepia plates, including the frontispiece, in Welsh Tours and 2  engraved sepia plates in the Wye (all checked and present). Half black leather binding with a red label with gilt lettering to the spine, and decorated gilt lines and the date in gilt 1798 on the spine. Its a fine copy of a very collectable book.
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12. The Cambrian Tourist 1828 
or Post=Chaise Companion Through Wales; Containing Cursory Sketches of the Welsh Territories, and a Brief Description
Price : $200 Buy now

     London: Geo. B Whittaker, 1828;- Original Blue buckram. Spine has the title in gilt and some gilt lines, and gilt lettering to the front covers. This is the Rare Six Edition of 1828, the whole corrected, and considerable enlarged,  with two foldout maps in very fine condition. At the back pages are the Sonnets & an Index of all the Welsh Towns and Villages.. A frontispiece of The Suspension Bridge over the Menai  at Bangor Ferry. the book is in very fine condition and is highly collectable. Rare.
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13. The Cambrian Tourist 1821

 or Post=Chaise Companion Through Wales; Containing Cursory Sketches of the Welsh Territories, and a Brief Description     

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 Published in London: by Edwards and Knibb, 1821 Through Wales; containing cursory sketches of The Welsh Territories, and a description of the manners, customs and games of the Natives. With charts, comprehending at one view the available routes, best Inns, distances, and objects most worthy of attention. The whole corrected and considerably enlarged. With a beautiful engraving of the Suspension Bridge now erected over the Menai Straits, at Bangor Ferry. 2 pull- out charts in very fine condition;- 5th. Edition corrected and Enlarged. Frontispiece of the Suspension Bridge. Original paper boards with paper label to the spine, a fine copy of a very collectable travel book.

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14. George Nicholson
The Cambrian Traveller's Guide, and Pocket Companion 1808

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    Published in Stourport;- by George Nicholson 1808. A scarce first edition of this little companion to Welsh travel. 'Containing the collected information of the most popular and authentic writers, relating to the principality of Wales, and parts of the adjoining Counties; Expanded by considerable additions, the results of various excursions: comprehending histories and descriptions of the cities, towns, villages, mansion, palaces, abbeys, churches, inns, mountains, rocks, waterfalls, ferries, bridges, passes etc arranged in alphabetical order. Also, descriptions of what is remarkable in the intermediate spaces as solitary houses, forts, encampments, walls, ancient roads, caverns, rivers, aqueducts, lakes, forests, woods, fields of battle, islets, cromlechs, carneths, tumuli, pillars, druidic circles, works of iron, tin, copper etc. The roads are described, the distances given, and the distinct routes of Aikin, Barber, Bingley, Coxe, Donovan, Evans, Hutton, Malkin, Pennant, Skrine, Warner and Wyndham, are preserved. The whole interspersed with historic and biographical notices with natural history, botany, mineralogy, and with remarks on the commerce, manufactures, agriculture and manners and customs of the inhabitants'. Additional illustrated title with a charming vignette. Condition: In original half calf binding with red marbled boards. Gilt lettering and gilt lines to the spine. Externally sound although slightly rubbed. Internally a very fine copy, with 3 old lettered attached to the back cover of the book, and handwritten notes to the end papers. A Scarce and highly collectable early travel book.
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15. Skrine, Henry
Two Successive Tours Throughout the Whole of Wales 1812


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Published by Turner, London, 1812. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. With Several of the Adjacent English Counties; So as to Form a Comprehensive View of The Picturesque Beauty, The Peculiar Manners, and the Fine Remains of Antiquity, in that Interesting Part of the British Island." Second edition with a a hand- coloured map, and additions. Rebound in dark brown half-leather, and marble paper stunning covers, with gilt lettering and gilt decoration along the spine. A very fine, rare collectable copy.
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16. SKRINE, HENRY:
Two Successive Tours of Wales. 1798;-
Two successive tours throughout the whole of Wales with several of the adjacent English counties; so as to form a Comprehensive View of the picturesque beauty, the peculiar manners, and the fine remains of Antiquity, in that interesting part of the British Island.
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       London. 1798 . 8vo. In original brown half calf leather binding with gilt to black morocco title label on spine. Marbled boards. Speckled edges. 280pp. In very good condition. Boards rubbed at faces and edges.Neat handwritten inscription to half title page. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. An account of two journeys through Wales in the late 18th century. The author had previously described journeys through the North of England and Scotland .

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