Essex.- Harwich.- Taylor (Silas) Samuel Dale. The History and Antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt, first edition, 14 engraved plates, 4 folding, title very lightly browned, light occasional foxing, new endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, red morocco spine label, slightly rubbed, rebacked and recornered preserving original backstrip, 4to, C. Davis & T. Green, 1730 § Charters Granted to the Borough of Harwich by King James I and King Charles II, light occasional spotting, ink inscription to front free endpaper, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, rebacked and recornered, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1798; and 5 others, Harwich, including a second edition of Dale's Harwich, v.s. (7)
⁂ The first includes a bibliography and plates of the cliff showing the geological strata, fossils, shells, and a 'Bottle-Head or Flounders-Head Whale' stranded above the bridge at Maldon in 1717. The second is exceptionally rare with only two copies registered on ESTC: in Cambridge University Library and the British Library.
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