Durham and Northumberland--Allan, George (antiquary and printer, 1736-1800).

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• Collectanea Dunelmensia. [c.1780s], 4to, a collection of printed material (a few manuscript), including articles, legal matters (printed and manuscript), historical documents, poetry, Thomas Falkner's Of the Patagonians... printed by the friendship of George Allan Esq. at his private press at Darlington, 1788 [edited by Thomas Pennant], ephemera, etc., printed by Allan at his private press or by others, nineteenth-century half calf, spine faded--Bell, John, compiler. Some Account of the Family of Radclyffe of Dilston, &c. in Northumberland. [compiled c.1852], 4to, a collection of printed material (a few manuscript) relating to the Radclyffe family and the Earls of Derwentwater, including a manuscript plan for the Martket Place in Alston, nineteenth-century half morocco, spine faded--Billings, R.W. Architectural Illustrations... of the Cathedral Church at Durham. London, 1843; Ibid. Illustrations... of the County of Durham. Durham, 1846, together 2 vol., 4to, engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, occasional slight spotting, spines slightly faded--Sykes, John. Local Records... in Northumberland and Durham... a new edition. Newcastle, 1833, 2 vol., 8vo, extra-illustrated with approximately 115 plates, illustrations, nineteenth-century half morocco; and 6 others (12)

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