Welsh Travel Books Page 2


1. James Hews Bransby;
A Description of Carnarvon and Neighbouring District; 1845
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Published by James Rees, Carnarvon 1845;- Original brown embossed cloth covers  with gilt lettering of Carnarvon to the front cover. Engraved Illustrations throughout. A scarce copy of a rare book, no copies to be found world wide web. So highly collectable travel book, In very fine condition. 

2. Twelve Views of Holywell Neighbourhood, 1880?
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Published by Newman & Co. London. Original green embossed covers with black decoration to the corners of the front cover & Gilt lettering also to the front covers ; The book is oblong in size and is very scarce. No copies to be found world wide web.. The book is in very fine condition and all engravings are present. So scarce and very Rare.

3. Louis, M L
Gleanings in North Wales with Historical Sketches
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Published by George Philip, in Liverpool 1853 - Sixth edition. 132 pages, Frontispiece engraving, large foldout map,  & Advertisements to rear of book. Original green embossed cloth covers with a green paper label to the front cover. A good copy of an early Welsh Travel Book.

4. Bennett, G.J.
THE PEDESTRIAN'S GUIDE THROUGH NORTH WALES A TOUR;- 1814.
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Published by J. Cawthorn, London 1814;-

Original light blue paper covers , and fading paper label to the spine....... Frontispiece, with many other plates and maps as plates complete;-Very scarce and rare, no other copies of this 1st. Edition to be found on the world wide web..Only later Editions.

5. Grieve's Cabinet Album 1899.
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Tenby & Neighbourhood.        
 by Grieve's Draper   
Published by Grieve's Draper 1899; The stunning views are;-
1, TENBY from CASTLE HILL.
2. ESPLANDE TENBY
3. TENBY from NORTH CLIFF
4. SOUTH SANDS TENBY
5. ST. CATHERINE ISLAND & FORT- TENBY
6. NORTH SANDS; TENBY
7. ALBERT MEMORIAL TENBY
8. ST. GOWAN'S CHAPEL PEMBROKESHIRE
9. PEMBROKE DOCK
10. MANORBIER CASTLE11. STACK ROCK PEMBROKESHIRE12. PEMBROKE 
                           
This is stunning bit of History of Tenby in Wales. All the Photos are in very fine condition, the book is oblong in length, with navy-blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to the front of the cover. Photos of this period are very Rare, and in such very fine condition. RARE.

6. A  GUIDE TO LLANDRINDOD WELLS,
 Llangammarch Wells, &c
With a Map of the District. 1850?
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Published by Rees and Evans;- Carnarvon 1850? With a Map of Llandrindod Wells & Llanwrtyd Wells. Builth Well. Original purple cloth covered boards, with gilt lettering to the front cover. Slightly fading in colour, otherwise a fine copy of a scarce book. 2 page Hotel advertising to the back pages & A small section on the Twelve Principal Works on Mineral Waters also to the back pages.This is very scarce and rare no other copies to be found world wide..Scarce and rare early travel book. Fine condition, highly collectable.

7. David W. Pughe,
An History Sketch on Conway Castle and its Environ 1847.
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Published by H. Humphrey’s 1847;- This rare book is part of ‘Humphrey’s Series’ Original paper covers with the paper label to the front cover. A frontispiece of Conway Castle & Tubular Bridge, A small illustration of a very early steam train to the bottom of the last page. This is very scarce and rare no other copies to be found world wide..Highly collectable and scarce, fine condition.

8. Twelve Views in Aberystwith, 1869
Published and sold by J. Morgan,
Stationer &c Pier Street, Aberystwith. 1869.
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The Marine Terrace.

Aberystwith S.Wales.

The Pier.

Aberystwith Castle & Church.

Aberystwith Looking South.

The University for Wales.

The Queen’s Hotel.

Waterfall, Devil’s Bridge.

Devil’s Bridge Upper View.

Aberystwith, View from the land.

Aberystwith, View from the See.

Hafod South Wales. 

Original dark purple embossed cloth covers with gilt lettering to the front cover, the book is oblong in size. Yellow endpapers, A scarce and rare book, none to be found world wide. Fine condition., and all 12 engravings are clean and present. Highly collectable, early travel book.

9. Harwood's Views of Wales;- 1844
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Published by Harwood 1844 in Wales. Original card-boards covers with a red cloth spine. Elaborate illustration decoration to front with lettering in the centre of the decoration;- Oblong in size;- With 30 engraved views of Wales, with paper guards to each one. No copies to be found on the world wide web. Scarce, and rare, a very fine copy of a highly collectable book.Scarce.

10. North of England and Scotland in MDCCIV
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     Published in Edinburgh 1818 - [Scotland.] North of England and Scotland in MDCCIV. Edinburgh:  Publisher William Blackwood, 1818. (4), 71  pages.  1st. Edition.  only 100 copies printed so very scarce; The leaf following the title-page contains a brief explanation of the origin of this text: "The following journal is now first published from the original manuscript, formerly in the possession of the late Mr. Johnes of Hafod, the well-known translator of Froissart, Joinville, &c. Nothing is known with regard to the author, but it appears probable that he was a Londoner." The writer found the Scots "commonly blown up with a strange prejudice to the English in general." A printed note on the verso of the title reads, "Only a hundred copies printed." Marbled paper to the covers with a dark brown leather to the spine gilt lettering along the spine; A handsome copy of a scarce book, in fine condition.

11. ROSCOE Thomas 1791-1871
Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales 1836
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Published in  London & Birmingham.: by C Tilt, and Simpkin and Co. & Wrightson and Webb., 1836 With Fifty One Engravings, by Radclyffe, from drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick, &c.1st edition, VG, 1836. Additional engraved title page present, 2-261 pp,  index, 51 engraved plates, some of which are vignettes, frontispiece and second plate and one vignette is water stained. rebound in marbled paper and red leather spine and corners, A fine collectable book. Roscoe, was writer and translator, whose abundant production over a quarter of a century consists chiefly of translations and travel writing. His translations include works of scholarship: a History of the Literature of the South of Europe (4 vols., 1823) from the original by J. C. L. de Sismondi, a History of Painting in Italy (6 vols., 1828) from the original by L. A. Lanzi, and The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes (1839) from the original by Martín Fernández de Navarrete. His translations of literary works include the eleven volumes of The Italian Novelists, German Novelists, and Spanish Novelists .

12. The Falls, Lakes, 
and Mountains, of North Wales.
1845
Louisa Stuart Costello
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Published: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 ...
1st ed, 20 pls. In full original green embossed cloth, titles and tooling in gilt, on the front cover;- Cloth label to the top of the spine, with gilt lettering within. 2  Engraved titlepages present, 1  foldout map, & 20 plates, numerous illustrations within text, printed by S&J Bentley, Wilson, and Fley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane, London. Costello, was a miniature painter and author, published many titles but by far the most appealing was her accounts of tours in Britain and on the continent, such as Falls, Lakes and Mountains of North Wales (1845). Well illustrated and lively they combine graphic description with that kind of anecdotical archaeology which varies the narrative of travel and adventure. Illustrations by Thomas & Edward Gilks from original Sketches by D. H. McKewan. The plates are the finest I’ve seen illustrated. 32 pages of A Catalogue of New Works and New Editions by the Publishers to the back pages. 

No other copies of the scarce and rare book to be found on the world wide web. Highly collectable.

13. WYNDHAM, Henry Penruddocke:
A Gentleman's Tour Through Monmouthshire
and Wales, 1781
In the Months of June and July, 1774. To which is added, an Account of a Journey into Wales, by George Lord Lyttelton.
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Edition 1781 - 8vo. 246pp., Engraved frontispiece, Original Brown Leather binding with a red label to the top of the spine, and gilt lettering within;-of this edition, and includes a welsh pronounciation guide. A fine copy. There were 2 publications of this title by E Easton and 4 publications by T Evans of A Gentleman's Tour.. Wyndham was more a topographer than a politician. In 1774 he visited Wales, and in the following year he published anonymously A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire, and Wales. He revisited the area in 1777, and in 1781 published his Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales, declaring his authorship of the work. He was accompanied on his journey of 1777 by the Swiss water-colourist. Scarce and rare and highly collected;

14. Cooke, George Alexander
Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Northumberland..., & Principality of North Wales;- [2 volumes in 1] 1810
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The County of Northumberland is published in London:- by C. Cooke , no date given, [1810]. 

Principality of North Wales is published in London;- by Sherwood, Neely & Jones;- 1810;- both book have fold-out maps of there areas;- Both books have engraved Illustrations;- Northumberland has 6 engravings before the title pages, North Wales has 4 engravings before the title page;- Both have extensive Index to the back of both books;- Both have ‘containing an account of its situation, extent, towns, . ; to which is prefixed a copious traveling guide . ; forming a complete county itinerary ; also, a list of the fairs’ of each area;- 

Northumberland has 160 pages; North Wales has 231 pages;- Original tan leather binding to the spine and brownish marbled paper to the covers

book. No other copies of this exist on the world-wide web. Scarce/Rare; Fine Collectable book; 2 volumes in one. The fold-out maps and engravings are present and very fine.

15. William Hutton; 
Remarks upon North Wales (1803)
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1st. Edition Published by Knott & Lloyd 1803. Original tan leather binding, with red label with gilt lettering to the spine.  A frontispiece ‘View of Beddkelart and three fold-out Etchings of some of the principal mountainous views to the back pages of the book..no other 1st. copies to be found on the world wide web..very collectable. $600William Hutton (30 September 1723 – 20 September 1815) was a poet and the first significant historian of Birmingham, England. In 1756 he opened a paper warehouse – the first in Birmingham – which became profitable. He built a country house on Bennetts Hill in  Washwood Heath,  and bought a house in High Street. He published History of Birmingham in 1782 and was also elected as Fellow of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. He was elected overseer of the poor, and in 1787, to the Court of Requests, a small claims court  for nineteen years, handling over 100,000 claims. Both his houses were destroyed in the Birmingham Riots in 1791  leading to his historical account in Narrative of the riots. He managed to recover £5,390 in a claim for damages against the town.

He is generally held to be the first person in modern times to walk the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall,  producing an account of his 1801 journey in The History of the Roman Wall. Walking 600 miles from his Birmingham home, along the wall, and back home again, he wrote in the preface, "I have given a short sketch of my approach to this famous Bulwark; have described it as it appears in the present day, and stated my return. Perhaps, I am the first man that ever traveled the whole length of this Wall, and probably the last that will ever attempt it’.

16. William Hutton;=
The History of the Roman Wall 1802
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Which Crosses the Island of Britain, From the German Ocean to the Irish Sea, : Describing Its Ancient State, and Its Appearance in the Year 1801

Published by John Nichols and Son 1802. 1st. Edition with  Folding plan, and engraved frontispiece. included The Journal and an Index to the back of the book & Books by the same Author & Books by the Publisher.

Re-bound in full tan leather with a red label with gilt lettering to the spine..A beautiful book, complete very collectable. No other 1st. copies to be found anywhere on the world wide web.

William Hutton (30 September 1723 – 20 September 1815) was a poet and the first significant historian of Birmingham, England.

In 1756 he opened a paper warehouse – the first in Birmingham – which became profitable. He built a country house on Bennetts Hill in  Washwood Heath,  and bought a house in High Street. He published History of Birmingham in 1782 and was also elected as Fellow of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. He was elected overseer of the poor, and in 1787, to the Court of Requests, a small claims court  for nineteen years, handling over 100,000 claims.

Both his houses were destroyed in the Birmingham Riots in 1791  leading to his historical account in Narrative of the riots. He managed to recover £5,390 in a claim for damages against the town.

He is generally held to be the first person in modern times to walk the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall,  producing an account of his 1801 journey in The History of the Roman Wall. Walking 600 miles from his Birmingham home, along the wall, and back home again, he wrote in the preface, "I have given a short sketch of my approach to this famous Bulwark; have described it as it appears in the present day, and stated my return. Perhaps, I am the first man that ever traveled the whole length of this Wall, and probably the last that will ever attempt it’.

17. W Hutton;- 
A Journey from Birmingham to London
1785
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Pearson and Rollason, London 1785 - 228 pages plus an engraving of London Stone.. Original blue paper covers with-in new re-bound covers, red label with gilt lettering to the spine,  a beautiful copy of a Rare 1st. Edition. of 1785 Un-cut paper, Very collectable 

18. Catherine Hutton;-
The Life Of William Hutton. F.A.S.S.
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ncluding A Particular Account Of The Riots In Birmingham In 1791 To Which Is Subjoined The History Of His Family Written By Himself And Published By His Daughter Catherine Hutton. 1817

 Published by  Baldwin, Craddock and Joy,  London ;- and  Beilby & Knotts, Birmingham . 1st Edition. 1817;- Publishers list at rear. Engraved portrait of William Hutton as the frontispiece. Original half black leather with marbled boards. Red label with gilt lettering to spine and gilt decorations along the spine. A very rare copy . Fine condition .

William Hutton (30 September 1723 – 20 September 1815) was a poet and the first significant historian of Birmingham, England.

In 1756 he opened a paper warehouse – the first in Birmingham – which became profitable. He built a country house on Bennetts Hill in  Washwood Heath,  and bought a house in High Street. He published History of Birmingham in 1782 and was also elected as Fellow of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. He was elected overseer of the poor, and in 1787, to the Court of Requests, a small claims court  for nineteen years, handling over 100,000 claims.

Both his houses were destroyed in the Birmingham Riots in 1791  leading to his historical account in Narrative of the riots. He managed to recover £5,390 in a claim for damages against the town.

He is generally held to be the first person in modern times to walk the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall,  producing an account of his 1801 journey in The History of the Roman Wall. Walking 600 miles from his Birmingham home, along the wall, and back home again, he wrote in the preface, "I have given a short sketch of my approach to this famous Bulwark; have described it as it appears in the present day, and stated my return. Perhaps, I am the first man that ever traveled the whole length of this Wall, and probably the last that will ever attempt it’.

19. Thomas ROSCOE 1791-1871;-
Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
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London. Birmingham.: C Tilt, and Simpkin and Co. Wrightson and Webb., 1836 With Fifty One  Steel Engravings, by Radclyffe, from drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick, &c.1st edition, VG, 1836. In red half leather and  mared marbled paper; Some water stains to about 6 plates. The engravings are lovely and a real treat for the eyes. The Welsh countryside is here brought to life and one feels one is there. Thomas Roscoe, writer and translator, whose abundant production over a quarter of a century consists chiefly of translations and travel writing. His translations include works of scholarship: a History of the Literature of the South of Europe (4 vols., 1823) from the original by J. C. L. de Sismondi, a History of Painting in Italy (6 vols., 1828) from the original by L. A. Lanzi, and The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes (1839) from the original by Martín Fernández de Navarrete. His translations of literary works include the eleven volumes of The Italian Novelists, German Novelists, and Spanish Novelists (1825, 1826, 1832). A good

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