Vanishing Cambridgeshire by Petty, Mike

Hardback. Very Good.

Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd. New Condition/New Condition. 2006. Hard Cover. 4to Dimensions: 29.8 x 21 x 2.2 cm 1859835325 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Photographs on every page. 223 pages clean and tight. In 1925, a group of Cambridge antiquarians set off on a journey into the unknown. They loaded their car with cameras, tripods and glass-plate negatives and their journey took them into a landscape of ancient remains, crumbling churches and dilapidated cottages where residents drank water from wells. While others explored the relics of ancient Egypt, these intrepid explorers never strayed more than a few miles from the magnificent towers of the university town of Cambridge. For this was Cambridgeshire in the inter-war years. The explorers - a printer, a doctor, an anatomist and a pathologist - were members of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and they were reviving a project that had begun at the start… Read More

Derby: Breedon Books . As new. . Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 2006.

Cambridge Evening News/Breedon Books, 2006. Cambridge Evening News/Breedon Books. 2006 hardback. Very good/Very good. 4to. 305 x 215mm, 223 pages. Excellent historical b/w photos. Book condition: Very good, clean maroon boards, tight binding. Jacket condition: Very good, clean, bright, not faded, minor rubbing to rear upper edge, not clipped. Comments: The results of a photographic survey of Cambridgeshire carried out in 1925 to record aspects of life in the county which were in danger of being lost. Comprehensive listing of subjects, villages included.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Derby: Breedon Books . As new. Signed by author on title page. . Fine. Hardcover. 2006.