352 MACCULLOCH, Diarmid. [Editor] The Chorography of Suffolk. Suffolk Records Society, 1976. FIRST EDITION, pp.(14)170; 3 facsimile plates (one double-page); a very good copy in dust-wrapper. SRS vol.XIX.  £15

353 MALSTER, Robert. The Mardler's Companion. A dictionary of East Anglian dialect. Malthouse Press, Suffolk, 1999. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.viii,88; illustrations in line & half-tone; fine copy in dust-wrapper of this very readable 'dictionary'.  £12

354 MANNINGTREE & MISTLEY. CLEVELAND, David. Manningtree and Mistley. The people, the trades and the industries. Malthouse Press, Suffolk, 2007. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.x,150; illustrations in colour & half-tone throughout; new in pictorial boards. Full of detail & well put together with excellent range of illustration. Just Published.  £17

355 MAXWELL, Donald. Unknown Suffolk. Being a series of unmethodical Explorations of the County illustrated in line and colour. John Lane, 1926. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xiv,202(6) adverts; 12 colour plates and illustrations in line throughout; a nice copy in original blue cloth, gilt; ownership signature of C.R. Grimsey, ex libris David Gurling of Lavenham. SB 389.  £24

356 McCANN, John. The Dovecotes of Suffolk. With a foreword by Professor R.W. Brunskill and an Appendix by Dr Rosemary Hoppitt. Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, 1998. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.128; 10 colour plates and 43 illustrations in line and half-tone; new in pictorial laminated card covers.  £10

357 MEADOWS, John, Rector Of Ousden. TAYLOR, Edgar. The Suffolk Bartholomeans: A Memoir of the ministerial and domestic history of John Meadows... Ejected under the Act of Uniformity from the rectory of Ousden in Suffolk. William Pickering, 1840. FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.viii,166(2)index; corrigenda slip; engraved portrait frontispiece (by Augustus Fox), two double-page pedigrees & litho. portrait of John Fairfax; a good uncut copy in original roan-backed cloth, head & tail of backstrip rubbed but sound; inscribed to 'Horace Howard Esq. with the Editor's kind and grateful Regards. Jan. 17th 1841.' Not recorded by Keynes; SB 3152.  £60

358 MEE, Arthur. Norfolk. Green Pastures and Still Waters. With 502 Places and 184 Pictures. Hodder and Stoughton, 1943. Pp.x,487; sepia half-tone plates throughout; a good copy in original red cloth, backstrip uniformly faded. King's England Series.  £8

359 MEYRICK, F.J. Round About Norfolk & Suffolk. Jarrold & Sons, Norwich, [1925] FIRST EDITION, pp.110; original brown cloth, backstrip a little faded but well preserved. Chapters on Dunwich, Blythburgh, Wenhaston, Theberton and 'Some Fishing Yarns'. NB 579; SB 390.  £10

360 MIDDLETON MOOR. BARNES, Janet. Seven Centuries on Middleton Moor Suffolk. With illustrations by Reg F. Barker. E. & E. Plumridge, Cambridge, 1999. FIRST EDITION, pp.136; sketch maps, facsimiles & illustrations throughout in line and half-tone; new in pictorial laminated card covers.  £6

361 MILDENHALL & BRANDON. DRAINAGE ACT 1760. An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the Isle of Ely, and Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, between Mildenhall River South, Plant Load and Brandon River North, bounded on the West by the River Ouse, and on the East by Winter Load, Earswell Brooke, and the Hard Lands of Mildenhall... Thomas Baskett... and the Assigns of Robert Baskett,, 1760. Folio, pp.(551-)582 + title; printed black letter with woodcut arms & initial; an exceptionally fresh copy preserved in modern green rexine-backed boards.  £35

362 MILDENHALL, LAKENHEATH & BRANDON. DRAINAGE ACTS 1843/4, '74 & '84. An Act for amending and rendering more effectual several Acts for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the Isle of Ely and Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, near Mildenhall River... Eyre & Strahan, 1818. [with] An Act for draining... certain Fen Lands... in the Parishes of Lakenheath and Brandon... Eyre & Strahan, 1844. [with] An Act to amend... Lakenheath and Brandon Drainage... Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1874. [with] An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders uunder the Land Drainage Act, 1861. George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1874. Four Acts, folio, pp.(1941-)1970; (1685-)1704; 9; 4; drop-head titles with woodcut armorial headpieces; very good copies bound together in modern green rexine-backed boards.  £20

363 MILDENHALL. HIGHWAYS ACTS. An Act for making and maintaining a Road from Beck Fen Lane, in the Parish of Mildenhall in the County of Suffolk, to the South-east End of the Bridge over the River Ouze, in the Parish of Littleport in the Isle of Ely... 13th May 1828. Eyre and Strahan, 1828. [with] ditto... 20th May 1851. George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1851. Two Acts, folio, pp.(989-)1004; (273-)284; drop-head titles with woodcut armorial headpieces; very good copies bound together in green rexine-backed boards.  £20

364 MILDENHALL. SIMPSON, Alfred E. A History of Mildenhall and its Celebrities of the Past. Fourth Edition. A.E. Simpson, Mildenhall, 1915. Pp.(8)144; various illustrations in line & half-tone; some page browning but well preserved in original cloth, gilt; rubbed & marked but sound. First published 1892, subsequently enlarged & revised. SB 6858.  £20

365 MILDENHALL. SIMPSON, Alfred E. A History of Mildenhall and its Celebrities of the Past. Third Edition. S.R. Simpson, Mildenhall, 1901. Pp.(8)104; various illustrations in line & half-tone; front endpaper neatly removed, otherwise well preserved in original cloth, gilt; a little marked. First published 1892, subsequently enlarged & revised. SB 6858.  £18

366 MILITARY. ADAIR, R.A. Shafto. A Memoir on the Defence of East Suffolk, by a force composed of Militia Artillery... supported by the County Militia of the Line and by Irregulars. [with] The Militia of the United Kingdom; with suggestions for the permanent organisation of the force. [with] The organisation and duties of the Militia of the United Kingdom... [with] The Defences of Portsmouth. A Lecture... [with] The Defence of London... [with] The National Defences and organisation of the Militia of the United Kingdom... James Ridgway; S.H. Cowell, Ipswich, 1855-60. Six pamphlets; pp.iv,35; 16; (2)iv,26; 27; 22; 42; five large folding maps, including 'England & Wales showing the railways, canals & inland navigation, for Militia Defensive Operations', hand-coloured (short tears without loss); edges of maps frayed, otherwise a well preserved collection of these important & scarce pamphlets in contemporary red blind-stamped cloth; ex libris S.F. Watson (of Cowell's) and A.T. Copsey. Adair was Lieut.-Col. in the Suffolk Artillery Militia from 1853 and was created Baron Waveney of South Elmham in 1873. SWII 10; SB 1023.  £220

367 MILITARY. GIBBONS, Lt.-Col. T. With the 1/5th Essex in the East. Benham and Company, Colchester, 1921. FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,198; 6 maps (4 folding) & 24 plates; occasional light soiling but generally well preserved in original red cloth, gilt, a little rubbed but sound. Ownership signature of A/Cpl. F. Sutton, who served with the regiment 1914-18.  £75

368 MILITARY. LUMMIS, Lieut. W.M. The March of the 1st. Bn. Suffolk Regiment through the County of Suffolk. 16th to 23rd August, 1927. Printed by the East Anglian Daily Times, Ipswich [1927] FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.32; illustrations in half-tone throughout; a little crumpled but otherwise well preserved in original printed wrappers (lightly soiled & repaired). SB 1003.  £25

369 MILITARY. NICHOLSON, Col. W.N. The Suffolk Regiment 1926 to 1946. Suffolk Regiment Old Comrades Assoc., [1988] Pp.374(2); 28 sketch-maps & numerous half-tone plates; a very good copy in original cloth of this useful reprint of the original 1948 edition. (SB 1008).  £40

370 MILLICAN, Percy [Editor] Norfolk Archaeology. Original Papers... The Centenary Volume. Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1946. FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,256; illustrations in line & half-tone; a good copy in original blue cloth, lightly marked. Includes: Bells of Norwich Cathedral; The Brownes of Wacton; Yarmouth under Queen Mary; The Butts Family of Norfolk; Joseph Burney, the Dancing Master.  £16

371 MINSMERE. AXELL, Herbert. Minsmere. Portrait of a Bird Reserve. Photographs by Eric Hosking. Hutchinson, 1977. FIRST EDITION, pp.256; illustrations in line & half-tone; a very good copy in the dust-wrapper.  £10

372 MONEWDEN. DYKE, Gwen [General editor] Monewden. [Survey of the Parish] Deben Valley Place Names. Suffolk Local History Council, [1980s] FIRST EDITION, A4; pp.x + 31 leaves printed on rectos only; folding parish maps from different periods; with introduction, glossary & bibliography; well preserved in original card covers & plastic binder.  £8

373 MOOR, Edward. Suffolk Words and Phrases; An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county. Printed by J. Loder, Woodbridge: for R. Hunter, 1823. FIRST EDITION, pp.xx,525 + advert. leaf; a good uncut copy in 19thC brown cloth, lettered in gold, sometime rebacked retaining original backstrip; ex libris Suffolk printer & book collector, S.F. Watson. SB 2080.  £85

374 MOULTON. ENCLOSURE ACT. An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Moulton in the County of Suffolk. 14th May 1839. Eyre and Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen, 1839. Sm.folio, pp.(101-)144; disbound; a well preserved copy. Not recorded by Steward.  £15

375 MURRAY, John. Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. With map and plans. Second edition, carefully revised. John Murray, 1875. Pp.lxxvi,472; 72 (advertiser); folding plans of Colchester and Cambridge but LACKS 'travelling map' from pocket at end; a good copy of this uncommon guide in original red cloth; backstrip rubbed but sound; ownership signature at head of title; ex libris David Gurling, Lavenham. First published 1870, a 3rd edition appeared in 1892. SB 372.  £65

376 MUTFORD & LOTHINGLAND. POOR LAW. An Act to alter, amend and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Hundred of Mutford and Lothingland in the County of Suffolk. 17th May 1833. [with] An Act to confirm a Provisional Order...under the... Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, relating to the Hundred of Mutford and Lothingland. 4th August 1890. Eyre and Strahan, 1833, 1890. Two Acts, folio, pp.(1101-)1120; 4; drop-head titles with woodcut armorial headpieces; very good in green rexine-backed boards.  £15

377 NAYLAND. BLOMFIELD, Charles J. Some Notes on Alston Court and its Reparation. [As contained in pp.244-256 of] The Architectural Review, Vol. XXI, no. 126, 1907. Folio, pp.xvii(235-)284 (xxxiii-)1; illustrations in line & half-tone throughout; the complete issue though bound without 16pp. of adverts; modern blue cloth boards. SB 6934.  £20

378 NEAVE FAMILY. NEAVE, Edward [Compiler] Family Wheel of the Neave Family descended from Thomas Le Neve of Ipswich about 1566 temp. Elizabeth, and Jordan Le Neve of Quiddenham Norfolk, about 1307, temp. Edward 2nd. Compiled by Edw. Neave of Leiston, Suff. 1899. Original Manuscript on waxed linen; 750 x 640mm.; well preserved & folding into large 4to. modern blue cloth binding. Detailed genealogy with some corrections, descended to Fordingbridge, Ransome, Reynolds, Candler, Spalding & Leiston branches of the family.  £35

379 NEWMARKET. BASHAM, Mary S. A look back at Newmarket. Newmarket Adult Education Centre, 1984. FIRST EDITION, landscape format; pp.36; illustrations throughout; very good in original pictorial card and later cloth case.  £8

380 NEWMARKET. BASHAM, Mary S. Newmarket in old picture postcards. European Library - Zaltbommel, Netherlands, 1985. FIRST EDITION, landscape format; pp.(4) + 76 pages of plates with detailed captions; very good in original pictorial card covers.  £12

381 NEWMARKET. HIGHWAYS ACT. An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from Christopher's Bridge in the Borough of Thetford in the County of Suffolk, to the North-east End of the Town of Newmarket in the County of Cambridge. 13th May 1828. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1828. Folio, pp.(1073-)1079; drop-head title with woodcut armorial headpiece; very good in green rexine-backed boards.  £15

382 NEWMARKET. HORE, J.P. The History of Newmarket, and The Annals of the Turf: with memoirs and biographical notices of the habitués of Newmarket, and the notable turfites of olden times. [In three volumes] Published by the Author, Newmarket, 1885/6. FIRST EDITION, 3vols., pp.xii,364; (8)386; viii,434; 3 plates (1 folding) & map; a good set in original green cloth, vol.1 a little rubbed at extremities; ex libris David Gurling of Lavenham. SB 6957.  £95

383 NEWMARKET. JAMES, Henry. A Sermon Preached before the King at Newmarket, October 11 1674. Printed by W[illiam] Godbid, and are to be Sold by M[oses] Pitt, 1674. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.(2)33; title lightly soiled with short (closed) tear in fore-margin but a good copy with large margins in 19thC wrappers, manuscript titling. James was a Fellow of Queen's, Cambridge and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King. Not recorded by Steward; ESTCR34476.  £85

384 NORFOLK. ANDREWS, William [Editor] Bygone Norfolk. William Andrews & Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)290(14)adverts.; half-tone frontispiece & other illustrations; a good copy in original blue cloth, gilt, of this collection of 17 essays on Yarmouth, Walsingham, Kings Lynn, Pockthorpe, Norfolk Gilds, &c. NB 669.  £25

385 NORFOLK. [CROMWELL, Thomas Kitson.] Excursions in the County of Norfolk... forming a complete guide for the traveller and tourist. Illustrated with one hundred engravings, including a map of the county. In two volumes. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown... 1818/19. FIRST EDITION, 2vol., 12mo., pp.(8)224; (2)198(2) corrigenda leaf; folding map of Norwich, extra-engraved titles & 79 engraved plates, LACKING the county map & 17plates; a nice set in modern calf-backed marbled boards, morocco labels, gilt. NB 556.  £150

386 NORFOLK. INGLEBY, Clement. [Editor] A Supplement to Blomefield's Norfolk. being a series of articles on the antiquity of the County... profusely illustrated... With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey. Clement Ingleby, 1929. FIRST EDITION, no.285 of 350 copies; lg.4to., pp.xxxii,350; 73 plates (many tipped-in & in colour), 14 pedigrees (many folding) & numerous text illustrations including coloured shields; original green buckram a little rubbed & faded but sound; 8pp, 4to., prospectus for Mason's History of Norfolk, laid in. Thirteen essays including much on ecclesiatical art: M.R. James on The Wall Paintings in Brooke Church & Mural Paintings in Wickhampton Church; Ingleby on Denton and its Glass; Bradfer-Lawrence on Castle Rising and the Walpoles and The Merchants of Lynn.  £240

387 NORFOLK BIBLIOGRAPHY. DARROCH, Elizabeth & TAYLOR, Barry. A Bibliography of Norfolk History. [with] Volume II 1974-1988. University of East Anglia, [Norwich] 1975/91 FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., pp.xviii,447; xiv,215; very good copies in original boards. 10242 items arranged by subject & place, with index of authors & editors.  £25

388 NORFOLK BIBLIOGRAPHY. DARROCH, Elizabeth & TAYLOR, Barry. A Bibliography of Norfolk History. Volume II 1974-1988... FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,215; very good in original boards. This supplementary volume adds c3000 items and amends 200, with index of authors & editors.  £15

389 NORTHEAST, Peter. [Editor] Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury 1439-1474. Wills from the register 'Baldwyne' Part 1: 1439-1461. Suffolk Records Society, 2001. FIRST EDITION, pp.lvi,526; 3 plates; endpaper sketch-maps; a very good copy in the dust-wrapper. SRS vol.XLIV.  £20

390 NORWICH. KIRKPATRICK, John. Notes concerning Norwich Castle, from a manuscript volume of the collections of Mr John Kirkpatrick, in the possession of William Herring. Printed by J.&H. Cox, 1847. Pp.(4)113; original green cloth blocked in gold on upper cover, neatly rebacked in style; two small circular stamps of the Archaeological Institute Library and later bookplate of Harold Sands. NB 5802.  £35

391 NORWICH. MARSHALL, Emma. Castle Meadow. A story of Norwich a hundred years ago. Seeley and Co., 1897. FIRST EDITION, pp.x,286 + advert. leaf; frontispiece; corner torn from front fly, otherwise well preserved in original cloth, gilt, a little cockled.  £15

392 NORWICH. STEPHEN, Geo. A. Books on Printing and some related subjects. A select annotated and classified catalogue of books in the Norwich Public Library. Norwich & District Master Printers' Association, 1921. FIRST EDITION, pp.36; good copy in stiff printed wrappers.  £8

393 NORWICH. WILLINS, Edward Preston. Quaint Old Norwich. Published by the Author, Norwich, 1884. FIRST EDITION no.31 of 500 copies printed; folio, eight leaves of prelims. & 50 plates of illustrations in line, all printed on light card, rectos only; some light spotting but a good copy in original blue cloth, all edges gilt, re-backed with morocco label; extremities rubbed but sound.  £85

394 NOWTON. ENCLOSURE ACT 1827. An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Nowton in the County of Suffolk. 14th June 1827. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1827. Folio, pp.(689-)710; drop-head title with woodcut headpiece; a very good copy in modern green rexine-backed boards.  £15

395 NOWTON. ENCLOSURE ACT. An Act for Enclosing Lands in the Parish of Nowton, in the County of Suffolk. [Royal Assent, 14 June 1827.] 7-8 Geo.IV - Sess. 1826-7. Sparke, Holmes & Jackson, Buiry St Edmunds 1827. Folio, pp.28; stabbed as issued; margins slightly browned but a very well preserved copy in original state. Not recorded by Steward.  £30

396 OAKLEY. ELVIN, C.F.C. An Account of The Oakleys [Suffolk.] With a compiler's vagaries about some inhabitants there whose names have been found in various records... Privately Printed between the years 1936 and 1942. FIRST EDITION, no.39 of 54 copies printed; pp.174(16)index; 8 plates & 2 other illustrations; a good copy in original blue cloth, paper label; backstrip faded; inscribed 'Presented to H.A. Harris - November 1942 by C.F.C. Elvin.' Notoriously scarce and printed by (rather than for) the Author, who recalled to S.F. Watson the Ipswich printer & collector, 'My little Press here produced 54 copies in six years...' ; presumably one page at a time. SB 7009.  £120

397 ORFORD. KINSEY, Gordon. Orfordness - Secret Site. A History of the Establishment 1915-1980. [With chapters on the early development of radar at Orfordness by Arnold Wilkins.] Terence Dalton, 1981. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xii,180; half-tone illustrations througout; very good in dust-wrapper.  £25

398 ORFORD. W[AYMAN], H.W.B. Suffolk Wills (Orford) proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury between 1383 and 1800. With a preface by The Rev. T.W. Oswald-Hicks. Poole and Pemberton, 1915. FIRST EDITION, no.77 of 125 copies; pp.(8)30; a good copy of this deluxe production on hand-made paper; original blue cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut; ex libris S.F. Watson. SB 7048.  £32

399 OTLEY. DYKE, Gwen [General editor] Otley. [Survey of the Parish] Deben Valley Place Names. Suffolk Local History Council, [1980s] FIRST EDITION, A4; pp.x + 97 leaves printed on rectos only; folding parish maps from different periods; with introduction, glossary & bibliography; well preserved in original card covers & plastic binder.  £10

400 OXENBURY, T.B. Suffolk Planning Survey. Prepared for East Suffolk County Council and The West Suffolk Joint Planning Committee... With a foreword by Sir Patrick Abercrombie. W.S. Cowell, Ipswich, 1946. FIRST EDITION, landscape format; pp.39; a good copy in original cloth-backed boards; extremities rubbed & a little chipped but sound. '..seventeen coloured diagram maps & short explanatory letterpress descriptive of the County as it is to-day'. SB 1637.  £15

401 PAGE, Augustine. A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller; or Topographical and Genealogical collections concerning that county. Joshua Page, Ipswich, 1844. FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.(4)viii,1054; slight spotting of first & final leaves but a very good copy of this important county history; contemporary half calf, marbled sides, morocco label; a little rubbed but well preserved with errata & list of (just 106) subscribers. Ex libris Francis Augustus Brooks. SB 367.  £150

402 PAKEFIELD. HUNT, B.P.W. Stather. Flinten History being the story of Pakefield and its Church. Seventh Edition. The Lion Press, Lowestoft, 1953. First edition with this title. pp.202; 41 half-tone plates & line illustrations in text; a very good copy in repaired dust-wrapper. Also issued in wrappers without the plates. SB 7072.  £12

403 PAKENHAM. ENCLOSURE ACT. An Act for Dividing and Inclosing the Open and Commonable Fields, Lammas and Commonable Meadows, Heaths, Fens and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Pakenham, in the County of Suffolk. [House of Commons] [1797] Sm.folio, pp.18; disbound; margins slightly browned, a well preserved copy. Not recorded by Steward.  £20

404 PARHAM HALF HUNDRED. H[ERVEY, Lord] J[ohn William Nicholas] Suffolk Domesday. Parham Half Hundred. The Latin text extended and translated into English for private circulation by J.H. Printed [for the translator] at the 'Free Press' Works, Bury St Edmund's, 1890. Pp.13; Latin & English parallel texts on facing pages; original printed grey wrappers, staples rusted, otherwise well preserved. Hervey produced 25 parts in total, 1888-91. SB 692.  £15

405 PARLIAMENTARY BILL. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY. A Bill to confer further powers upon the East Anglian Electric Supply Company Limited relative to the supply of electricity in Essex Norfolk and Suffolk and for other purposes. 17 & 18 George 5 - Session 1927. Sharpe, Pritchard & Co., Westminster, [1926] Folio, pp.19; light vertical central fold but well preserved in original printed wrappers and recent rexine-backed marbled boards.  £15

406 PARTRIDGE, Charles Stanley] Prose and Poetry by Silly Suffolk [pseud. C.S. Partridge] W.E. Harrison, The Ancient House... Ipswich, 1925. FIRST EDITION, pp.117; a sound copy in lightly rubbed original wrappers, inscribed 'To S.D. Wall with the writer's kind regards 2 Oct. 1934'; several ms. corrections by the author and repairs to two leaves reinserting excisions. With a 4pp. ms. letter from Partridge to Wall, discussing, inter alia, Walton Castle, Felixstowe, and various publications. Partridge edited the East Anglian Miscellany and wrote extensively on Suffolk history & churchyard inscriptions, this collection is culled from over 300 columns contributed to the East Anglian Daily Times 'during the last six years'. SWII 270; SB 2108. (Wall's typescript history of Felixstowe is SB 4897.)  £30

407 PARTRIDGE, Charles] ATBUSH, Peregrine [pseud.] King Edward's Ring. A West African Yarn of Adventures More or Less True. [A facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1908 with a new introduction by John Blatchly] Jeremy Mills, 2006. Pp.(8)228; new in pictorial laminated paper covers. Born at Ofton Place, Suffolk, and educated at Ipswich School and Christ's, Cambridge, Partridge served in the Nigerian Colonial Service and presented a fine collection of African artfacts to Ipswich Museum when he returned to Suffolk. Founding Editor of the East Anglian Miscellany he wrote many articles on local history as 'Silly Suffolk'. King Edward's Ring is his only novel and doubtless influenced by the better-known Old Ipswichian Rider Haggard.  £15

408 PAYN, William H. The Birds of Suffolk. Ancient House Publishing, 1978. Pp.xvi,256; colour & half-tone plates throughout; very good in dust-wrapper. First published in 1962, this second edition extensively revised & up-dated.  £12

409 PAYN, William H. The Birds of Suffolk. Foreword by The Earl of Cranbrook. Barrie and Rockliff, 1962. FIRST EDITION, pp.xviii,238; colour frontispiece, 2 maps & 8pp. half-tone plates; very good in slightly frayed dust-wrapper.  £15

410 PEVSNER, Nikolaus. North-East Norfolk and Norwich [with] North-West and South Norfolk. Buildings of England [series]. Penguin Books, 1977/9. 2 vols., pp.404 & 440; 128pp. half-tone plates; a very good set of the hardback edition in lightly rubbed dust-wrappers.  £24

411 PEVSNER, Nikolaus. Suffolk. Buildings of England [series]. Penguin Books, 1961. FIRST EDITION, pp.516; 64pp. half-tone plates; a very good copy in original wrappers & pictorial dust-wrapper of this classic guide, currently being revised for a two-volume edition due in c2010. SB 2191.  £12

412 PHILLIPS, John South. The Grand Juries of Suffolk, 1800-1880, The Judges of Assize, and The High Sheriffs of the County. With Occasional Notes by John South Phillips. [Printed for the Author by] E.L. Barker, Bury St Edmunds, 1882. FIRST EDITION, pp.iv,91; a very good copy of this extremely scarce account in contemporary half calf, gilt, maroon cloth sides, blank interleaving throughout. SB 1688.  £85

413 PIGOT & CO. Pigot and Co's National Commercial Directory... of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers, and traders in all the cities, towns... and principal villages in... Norfolk & Suffolk... Pigot & Co., 1830. Facsimile Edition, Michael Winton, 1992. Pp.(4)132; two folding county maps; a very good copy in original printed wrappers of this useful facsimile. SB 6.  £15

414 PILLING, Keith. Suffolk Landscape Drawings. Keith Pilling, Barham, Ipswich, 1990 FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.96; 70 line drawings and 6 colour plates; very good in pictorial laminated card & dust-wrapper (creased).  £12

415 PLAYFORD. BIDDELL, Manfred. [Materials towards a History of Playford. Privately Printed by F.A. Crisp, 1884] 4to., pp.29; printed on hand-made paper; a very good uncut copy in original vellum-backed boards, sides marked and worn at edges but sound; printed presentation note from Crisp laid in. A sequence of ten letters sent to Crisp over a six-week period for his projected history of Playford. Biddell provides details of Overseer's, Town Constable's, Surveyor's and Churchwarden's expenses, extracted from the Parish Books. Extremely scarce, probably only a handful of proof copies were printed; not in British Library, Copac nor NSTC. SB 7108.  £180

416 PLOMESGATE HUNDRED. H[ERVEY, Lord] J[ohn William Nicholas] Suffolk Domesday. Plomesgate Hundred. The Latin text extended and translated into English for private circulation by J.H. Printed [for the translator] at the 'Free Press' Works, Bury St Edmund's, 1891. Pp.27; Latin & English parallel texts on facing pages; original printed grey wrappers, staples rusted, otherwise well preserved. Hervey produced 25 parts in total, 1888-91. SB 692.  £15

417 POWELL FAMILY. POWELL, Edgar. The Pedigree of the Family of Powell sometime resident at Mildenhall, Barton Mills and Hawsted, in Co. Suffolk, and afterwards at Homerton and Clapton, Co. Middlesex... to which are added Pedigrees of the families of Baden and Thistlethwayte, of Co. Wilts. Printed for the Editor, 1891. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.viii,139 + errata slip; three plates & large folding pedigree in pocket at end; a good copy of this scarce account in original crimson cloth, backstrip faded, a little rubbed but sound. SB 3228.  £65

418 POWELL FAMILY. POWELL, Edgar. [Editor] Some Autograph Letters of the Powell Family. Reproduced in facsimile. [Printed for the Editor] by William Clowes, 1901. FIFTY COPIES PRINTED, lg. 4to., pp.(8) + 13 Autotype facsimile plates printed in sepia, each with accompanying leaf of letterpress; well preserved in original buckram, backstrip sometime reinforced with paper; Constitutional Club Library bookplate, 'The gift of Ellison Powell'. SB 3229.  £65

419 PRETYMAN FAMILY. PRETYMAN, William. Pretyman of Bacton, Suffolk. Notes on their history under five Edwards. 1905. William Pollard & Co., Printers, Exeter. [Now reprinted in facsimile... Claude Cox, Ipswich, 2007] EDITION LIMITED to 225 numbered copies (200 for sale); 4to., pp.(2)xviii,40; armorial in line & four facsimile plates: Charter, 1393; Rent Roll of 1566; Commissioners appointed by Act of Parlt., 1660; various Pretyman signatures, 1567-1803. William Pretyman contributes an 18pp. introductory essay, followed by 40pp. of pedigrees, royal descents, transcriptions of Wills, Inquisitions, Chancery Proceedings, &c.; new in gilt-lettered boards, acetate wrapper. A useful reprint of copy no. 12 (kindly loaned by the present owner, a descendant of William Pretyman) of this extremely scarce family history of which only 12 copies were originally printed for private circulation. Copac locates British Library copy only; not known by Steward.  £24

420 PROBATE RECORDS. GRIMWADE, M.E. [Compiler] Index of the Probate Records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Sudbury 1354 - 1700. [In two volumes] Edited by W.R. & R.K. Serjeant. British Record Society, 1984. 2vol., pp.viii,330; vi(331-)667; a good set in original printed stiff wrappers.  £35

421 PROBATE RECORDS. GRIMWADE, M.E. [Compiler] Index of the Probate Records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Suffolk 1444-1700. [In two volumes] Edited by W.R. & R.K. Serjeant. British Record Society, 1979/80. 2vol., pp.(8)319; (6)(320-)617; a very good set in original printed stiff wrappers.  £35

422 RAILWAY ATLAS. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Maps of the Intended Eastern Counties Railway from London to Norwich and Yarmouth. [John Braithwaite Esq. Engineer. John Doyley Sen. Surveyor.] On Stone by C.F. Cheffins, Holborn, 1835. Elephant folio, landscape format, 700 x 425mm; title & 23 lithograph maps; title frayed at fore-edge and some subsequent marginal damage but well clear of maps; preserved in modern calf-backed buckram boards. First two maps, Shoreditch to Bethnal Green, at the larger scale of 16 inches to 1 mile, remainder at 4 inches per mile with 18 maps plotting the proposed route to Norwich via Chelmsford, Colchester and Ipswich, a further 3 maps continue the line to Yarmouth. In the event only the London to Colchester section of this first East Anglian railway was completed, the extension of the railway to Suffolk and Norfolk was taken up by the Eastern Union Railway in the following decade. An extremely scarce atlas, this copy from the library at Shrubland Park near Ipswich.  £550

423 RANSOMES. C.C. Ransomes' Royal Records. A Century and a Half in the Service of Agriculture. Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ltd., Orwell Works, Ipswich, [1939] FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.79; illustrations & facsimiles throughout, a few tipped-in colour plates; a good copy of this deluxe celebration of the firm's 150th Anniversary in slightly marked original cloth-backed boards. SB 5719.  £15

424 RANSOMES. WEAVER, Carol and Michael. Ransomes 1789-1989 200 years of excellence. A Bicentennial Celebration. Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich, 1989. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.132; illustrations & facsimiles throughout, many in colour; very good in original blue cloth, gilt; presentation slip laid in.  £25

425 RAVEN, John James. The History of Suffolk. Elliot Stock, 1895. FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,287; original two-tone cloth, lightly rubbed & marked, inner hinges reinforced; early ownership signature of H.J.S. Rope of Blaxhall, whose family featured in Ewart Evans' classic account of Suffolk life, 'Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay'. A good uncut copy of this standard history by the headmaster & antiquary now best remembered for his work on campanology. SB 545.  £30

426 RAVEN, John James. The History of Suffolk. Elliot Stock, 1895. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 4to., pp.viii,287; a very good copy of this deluxe edition on handmade Van Gelder paper in original morocco-backed cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut; attractive circular armorial bookplate of S. William Lowther. SB 545.  £65

427 REDSTONE, Lilian. Our East Anglian Heritage or between the Wash and the Stour. Illustrated by Cecil G. Trew. Methuen, 1939. FIRST EDITION, pp.xiii,157; vignette line illustrations throughout; four newspaper cuttings from the East Anglian Daily Times, 1938-57, laid in. A very good copy in pictorial dust-wrapper (chipped); author's ownership inscription on fly-leaf and her manuscript corrections or longer notes on c25 pages, evidently in preparation for the second edition of 1951. AUTHOR'S COPY WITH MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATIONS  £25

428 REDSTONE, Vincent B. [Editor] Calendar of Pre-Reformation Wills, Testaments, Probates, Administrations, Registered at the Probate Office, Bury St. Edmunds. W.E. Harrison, Ipswich, 1907. FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,246; extensive pencilled annotation but alas no ownership mark; very good in contemporary buckram, lettered in gold along backstrip. SB 2424.  £28

429 REDSTONE, Vincent B. [Editor] Memorials of Old Suffolk. With many illustrations. Bemrose & Sons, 1908. FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,288(4)adverts); half-tone plates; slight spotting but a nice copy in original cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. 14 essays, the majority by Redstone, on Roman & Saxon Suffolk; Riots & Ruins; Orford & Framlingham Castles; Suffolk Schools; Superstition & Witchcraft; &c. SB 551.  £38

430 RENDLESHAM. ASHTON, Patrick. Rendlesham. A brief history & guide. [The Author for the Parish, 1975] FIRST EDITION, pp.16; very good in original pictorial wrappers & modern blue boards. SB7158.  £8

431 RENDLESHAM. DYKE, Gwen [General editor] Rendlesham. [Survey of the Parish] Deben Valley Place Names. Suffolk Local History Council, [1980s] FIRST EDITION, A4; pp.x + 23 leaves printed on rectos only; folding parish maps from different periods; with introduction, glossary & bibliography; well preserved in original card covers & plastic binder.  £8

432 REYCE, Robert. HERVEY, Lord Francis [Editor] Suffolk in the XVIIth Century. The Breviary of Suffolk by Robert Reyce, 1618, now published for the first time from the Ms in the British Museum. John Murray, 1902. FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)300; large folding genealogies of the Wingefeild and Waldegrave families at end; a very good copy of this handsome production in original decorated parchment-backed crimson cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut; backstrip a little darkened as usual. SB 750.  £35

433 RICHES, Naomi. The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk. With a new bibliographical note by W.H. Chaloner. Frank Cass, 1967. FIRST EDITION, pp.x,194; 5 maps & illustrations; very good in slightly faded dust-wrapper.  £15

434 RISBY. WEBLING, A.F. Risby. Pen and Ink Drawings by Sidney T. Beeson. Edmund Ward, Leicester, 1946. Pp.192; a good copy in original cloth. SB 7179  £8

435 RISBY & FORNHAM ALL SAINTS. ENCLOSURE ACT. An Act for Dividing, Allotting, and Inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Lammas and other Commonable Meadows, Heaths, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the several Parishes of Risby and Fornham All Saints, in the County of Suffolk. [House of Commons] [1801] Sm.folio, pp.36; disbound; a well preserved copy. Not recorded by Steward.  £20

436 RITCHIE, J.Ewing. East Anglia. Personal recollections and historical associations. Second Edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. Jarrold & Sons, 1893. Pp.viii,344; a very good copy in slightly rubbed original; brown cloth. Significantly enlarged from the first edition of 1883, includes Yarmouth & Norwich but otherwise focussed on Suffolk with chapters on Wrentham, Lowestoft, Bungay, Woodbridge & surroundings, Stowmarket, Constable country, Ipswich, Suffolk politics, the Stricklands.  £20

437 RYE, Walter. Records and Record Searching. A Guide to the Genealogist and Topographer. Elliot Stock, 1888. FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)204 + advert. leaf; a very good copy in contemporary brown cloth; ex libris Hugh Robert Hughes of Kinmel.  £18

438 SAMFORD HUNDRED. An Act for The better and more effectual Relief and Employment of the Poor in the hundred of Samford, in the County of Suffolk. 39 Geo. III. 1799. FIRST EDITION, sm.8vo., pp.72(6)index; a very good copy of this original Act, preserved in modern green rexine-backed marbled boards; contemporary MS annotation on title: 'Cap 42. Royal Assent 13. June 1799'.  £25

439 SANDON, Eric. Suffolk Houses. A Study of Domestic Architecture. Antique Collectors' Club, 2003. Folio, pp.348; 10 colour plates, 483 black & white illustrations, 24 pencil sketches by John Western; new in dust-wrapper. The standard work back in print at a very reasonable price.  £25

440 SCARFE, Norman. The Suffolk Landscape. Phillimore, 2002. Sm.4to., pp.xiv,210; map, 87 half-tone & 32 colour plates; a fine copy in the dust-wrapper of this extensively revised edition.  £25

441 SCARFE, Norman. GREENWOOD, Jeremy [Editor] Norman Scarfe for his 70th birthday. Jeremy Greenwood, Woodbridge, 1993. FIRST EDITION limited to 290 copies; pp.99 + colophon; frontispiece portrait & various illustrations throughout; original card covers slightly soiled. Tributes & memoirs from the Suffolk great & good in celebration of the distinguished historian.  £10

442 SENIOR, Derek. Industry Thrives in West Suffolk. Pyramid Press for West Suffolk County Council, 1965. FIRST EDITION, pp.72; half-tone illustrations throughout; a very good copy in original boards of this push for investment in West Suffolk and the transformation of several towns. SB 1186.  £10

443 SESSIONS, William K. The first printers at Ipswich in 1547-1548 and Worcester in 1549-1553. William Sessions Ltd., York, 1984. FIRST EDITION, A4 format, pp.(2)190; errata slip laid in; numerous facsimile illustrations; a good copy in original laminated card wrappers.  £15

445 SHOBERL, F. A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Suffolk; containing an account of its towns, castles, antiquities.... picturesque scenery, &c... Illustrated with thirteen engravings and a map. Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1820. Pp.(4)413(10)index; extra engraved title, folding engraved county map by Roper after Cole (dated 1808) & 13 engraved plates; a very nice unsophisticated copy of this re-issue with new prelims. of vol.14 of Brayley & Britton's Beauties of England & Wales; uncut in original cloth, paper label; sometime rebacked retaining old backstrip; some spotting of plates but rather better than usual; Framlingham & Woodbridge have been rather boldly hand-coloured at some point. SB 362.  £110

446 SIBTON. DENNEY, A.H. [Editor] The Sibton Abbey Estates. Select Documents 1325-1509. Suffolk Records Society, 1960. FIRST EDITION, pp.171; a very good copy in original green cloth with adhesive film protection. SRS vol.II.  £10

447 SIMPSON, Francis W. Simpson's Flora of Suffolk. Suffolk Naturalists' Society, 1982. FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,537; 3 half-tone plates & 280 species pictured in colour; a very good copy of this classic county flora in the dust-wrapper.  £45

448 SKEAT, Walter W. The Place-Names of Suffolk. Cambridge Antiquarian Society & Deighton Bell, Cambridge, 1913. FIRST EDITION, pp.x,132; a very good uncut copy in later green cloth, lettered in gold along backstrip. Publication XLVI in the Society's 8vo. series. SB 304.  £55

449 SKOTTOWE, Philip F. The Leaf and the Tree. The Story of an English Family. The Research Publishing Company, 1963. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.85; frontispiece & 18 other half-tone plates; a very good copy in original cloth & dust-wrapper, of this scarce family history from 16thC Norfolk via Yorkshire, Bucks, America, St. Helena, India, Ireland & France to the Isle of Man & South Africa.  £40

450 SMITH-DAMPIER, J.L. East Anglian Worthies. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1949. FIRST EDITION, pp.xiv,210; lacks front free endpaper, otherwise a good copy in original blue cloth. Useful short biographies of 209 subjects for the most part literary, political & business. SB 2335.  £12

451 SOMERLEYTON, BLUNDESTON & LOUND. ENCLOSURE ACT 1803. An Act for dividing, allotting and inclosing the Common Heaths, Marshes, Fens and Waste Lands, within the several Parishes of Somerleyton, Blundeston, and Lound in the County of Suffolk. 11th June 1803. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Folio, pp.(1397-)1411; drop-head title with woodcut headpiece; a very good copy in modern green rexine-backed boards.  £15

452 SOMERVILLE, Peggy. REISS, Stephen. Peggy Somerville An English Impressionist. Antique Collectors' Club, 1996. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.111; illustrated in colour & half-tone throughout; fine in dust-wrapper. With chapters on her time in Newbourne, Westleton and Middleton, and many illustrations of Suffolk scenes.  £20

453 SOTHERTON. ENCLOSURE ACT. An Act for Dividing and Inclosing a certain Piece or Parcel 0f Common Pasture Land, called Sotherton Moor, in the Parish of Sotherton, in the County of Suffolk. 42 Geo.III. 1802. [House of Commons] 1802. Sm.folio, pp.12; disbound; internal tear in final leaf (without loss), otherwise well preserved. Not recorded by Steward.  £20

454 SOUTHWOLD. CLEGG, Rebecca & Stephen [Editors] Southwold. Portraits of an English Seaside Town. Foreword by P.D. James. Phillimore, 1999. FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xii,168; 138 illustrations, some in colour; new in dust-wrapper.  £20

455 SOUTHWOLD. GAULD, Peter. A Southwold Alphabet. The Basement Press, Ipswich, 1995. No.226 of 240 copies; 12mo., pp.(32); wood-engraved vignettes in various single colours throughout; a very good uncut copy in original pictorial wrappers of this affectionate & humorous portrait.  £20

456 SOUTHWOLD. MUNN, Geoffrey C. Southwold. An Earthly Paradise. Antique Collectors' Club, 2006. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.263; colour plates throughout; new in dust-wrapper. A handsome celebration of the seaside town in words & pictures by the many writers & painters for whom it has represented a special holiday retreat.  £30

457 SPENCER, Harold E.P. A Contribution to the Geological History of Suffolk. Suffolk Naturalists Society [1972] FIRST EDITION, pp.(4)195; 12 plates & various text figures; a very good copy in original printed wrappers. First published in the Society's Transactions, 1964-72. SB 232.  £12

458 STEWARD, A.V. [Compiler] A Suffolk Bibliography. Suffolk Records Society, 1979. FIRST EDITION, pp.xxiv,453; a very good copy in original cloth & dust-wrapper. The standard reference listing 8123 books & pamphlets by subject, family & locality.  £15

459 STOKE BY NAYLAND. TORLESSE, Charles Martin. [Some Account of Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk.] An Appendix containing some additions and corrections. Harrison and Sons, [1877?] 4to., pp.7; stitched as issued. Descriptions of armorial shields & sepulchral memorials in the church and some additional transcriptions from the registers; presumably as listed (but not located) by Steward at SB 7435.  £15

460 STOWMARKET. DOUBLE, Harry [Editor] Stowmarket. A Pageant in Pictures. Imaginaire, Stowmarket, 2002. Landscape format; pp.(18) + 244 full-page captioned illustrations from old engravings & photographs; new in pictorial laminated boards. First published in 1982, this edition with new preface and text revised & enlarged by Mike Durrant.  £13

461 STRICKLAND, Agnes. BARTON, Bernard. Fisher's Juvenile Scrap-Book [for] 1837. Fisher, Son & Co., [1836] FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.100; extra-engraved title & 14 engraved plates [of 16]; some light spotting & browning but generally well preserved in contemporary half calf, backstrip gilt with morocco label, by 'Day, bookseller and stationer, Melton' with his ticket; extremities rubbed, short splits in hinges, but sound; contemporary inscription, 'Mary Anne Keal [?] From her cousin M. Shotten'. Started by Barton in 1836 and a joint venture with Miss Strickland for the following three years; then continued as the Juvenile Scrap-Book from 1840 to1850 by Mrs Ellis. SW I pp.37 & 461.  £35

462 STRUGNELL, Kenneth William. Seagates to the Saxon Shore. Terence Dalton, 1973. FIRST EDITION, pp.263; 36 illustrations; very good in dust-wrapper. A history of east coastal defences from the Thames to the Wash.  £8

463 SUCKLING, Rev. Alfred. The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: with Genealogical and Architectural Notices of its several Towns and Villages. [In two volumes] John Weale, The Author, 1846/48 FIRST EDITION, 2vol. lg.4to., pp.viii(2)lii,383; (4)460; 143 illustrations including many lithograph plates, some coloured; large folding genealogy; some spotting but a very good set in half tan calf, double morocco labels, top edge gilt. Bound from the original 8 parts with first & final printed wrappers, the latter with Suckling's apology for an 'incompleted Work', covering only the Hundreds of Wangford, Mutford, Lothingland & Blything, due to the 'sudden and undeserved withdrawal' of his patron's support 'which threatens ruin to himself and his family'.. Suckling fell out with Weale and issued the second volume by subscription. The remaining copies of vol.1 seem to have been destroyed by Weale, leaving a surplus of vol.II which is thus often found alone. SB 533.  £450