Lot 139 , [Rochester] The History and Antiquities of Rochester and its Environs (and) a Description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats (etc) on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover.

[Rochester] The History and Antiquities of Rochester and its Environs (and) a Description of the towns, villages, gentlemen's seats (etc) on, or near the road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover. folded plan and 5 plates, subscribers list; old calf, cr. 8vo. Rochester: printed and sold by T. Fisher ... 1772; [Dunkin, John] Memoranda of Springhead and its Neighbourhood, during the Primeval Period. Limited Edition (of 100 copies). portrait frontis.; 6 plates and some text engravings; original blind decorated cloth (sometime rebacked). printed for private circulation, 1848. *author's presentation inscription title; [Poll Books] 3 bound together - City of Rochester (1835); Borough of Chatham (1835); City of Rochester (1837). old half calf and marbled boards. Rochester: William Wildash, 1835/37; Chatham: Robert Reynolds, 1835; together with others on the Medway towns and North Kent. (27)
£100-140

Condition:
Rochester - title and few other stains, neatly rebacked with gilt ruled panelled spine, retaining old red label, e/ps. replace. xiv, 288, *281-288, (289) - 354pp.; Dunkin - upper cvr. marked anbd some corners wear, frontis. marginally marked and lt. on title, fore-margin mark pp.93-96, e/ps. replaced, lacks half title? (3-9), 10-154pp.; another Dunkin curiosity; Springhead just south of Gravesend; Poll Bks - some spine wear, lt. intermittent spotting, lists the 'unspoiled' also; Others include - Smith's Rochester (1928); Golding-Bird's Meopham (1934), Smetham's Strood (1899), Medway Conservancy Bill (1939- constitution changes, further powers etc.), Hughes's Weeks Tramp in Dickens land (1893); Hall's Gravesend, Milton, and Northfleet Directory (orig. wrapps., 1887), Keyes Dartford (1933); MacDougall's Hoo Peninsula (1980); Rogers The Sixth Trumpeter: Jezreel and His Tower (1963), MacDougall's Hoo Peninsula (1980)