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1. The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.

The vale-royall of England, or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated : wherein is contained a geographical and historical description of that famous county, with all its hundreds and seats of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders; its rivers, towns, castles, buildings ancient and modern. Adorned with maps and prospects, and the coats of arms belonging to every individual family of the whole county / performed by William Smith, and William Webb, gentlemen. Published by Mr. Daniel King. To which is annexed, an exact chronology of all its rulers and governors both in church and state, from the time of the foundation of the stately city of Chester, to this very day: fixed by eclipses, and other chronological characters. Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants. Of the state ecclesiasticall. Of the civil government. Of the trade; and, of the strength of the island.

Creator:: King, Daniel, -1664?
Date:: 1656
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages, 99 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 239 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 34 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families : and a memoir of the Cheshire Domesday roll / compiled from original authorities by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Tyldesley and Sedbury Park; author of The history of Cheshire.

Creator:: Ormerod, George, 1785–1873
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [4], 55 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Photograph album of scenes in the Lake District, Cheshire, Scotland, and Wales.

Creator:: Mudd, James, 1821–1906
Date:: 1860s
Physical Description:: 1 album (40 photographic prints) : albumen prints from wet collodion negatives ; prints 30 x 38 cm, or smaller, in album 38 x 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Twelve prospects in Derby-shire, Cheshire, Lincoln-shire, York, Durham, and noblemen's parks [graphic].

Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Hunting diary commenced October 4th, 1884.

Creator:: Barlow, William Wycliffe, 1854–1913
Date:: 1884, Oct. 4-1887, March 30
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([62] p.) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Britannia depicta : a series of one hundred and thirty views of the most interesting and picturesque objects in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, & Derbyshire / engraved by John Landsheer, Wm. Byrne, S. Middiman, Geo. Cooke, John Scott, John Pye, and J. Neagle, from drawings made by J. Farington, R.A., Thos. Hearne, F.S.A., W. Turner, R.A., and others ; with brief descriptions by Samuel Lysons, F.R.S., F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 6 pt. in 1 v. : ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A memoir on the Cheshire Domesday roll : formerly preserved in the exchequer of that Palatinate : to which are appended a Calendar of fragments of this lost record collected by the author, and notices of the just-iciaries of Chester in the thirteenth century / by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Tyldesley and Sedbury Park.

Creator:: Ormerod, George, 1785–1873
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: [4], 27, [1] p ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A topographical survey of the counties of Somerset, Gloucester, Worcester, Stafford, Chester, and Lancaster.: Containing a new-engraved map of each county, with a complete description of the great, direct, and cross roads; the situation, bearing and distances of the seats of the nobility and gentry upon or near such roads, together with elegent engravings of their arms, arranged on a new plan, by Messrs. Woodman and Mutlow, London. To which is added, the direction and survey of the great roads, accurately describing the situations and distances of places, adapted to the use of the gentleman and traveller, ... / By William Tunnicliff, ...

Creator:: Tunnicliff, William
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 34, [2], 35-87, [3], 40, [2], 41-68, 101-108, [2], 69-100, 109-118, [2] p., [48] p. of plates, [5] leaves of folded plates: ill., coats of arms, maps ; 23 cm. (8 vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The counties of Chester, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, and Rutland, illustrated / From original drawings by Thomas Allom. With historical and topographical descriptions. By T. Noble and T. Rose ...

Creator:: Noble, Thomas
Date:: [1836-1837]
Physical Description:: [2], 76 p., 37 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester : containing its geography, natural and civil; principal productions; river and canal navigations; a particular account or its towns and chief villages; their history, population, commerce, and manufactures; buildings, government, &c. / The materials arranged, and the work composed by J. Aikin, M.D. embellished and illustrated with seventry-three plates.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [8], 624 pages, [62] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Cheshire / by Walter M. Gallichan.

Creator:: Gallichan, Walter M. (Walter Matthew), 1861–1946
Date:: 1957
Physical Description:: xi, 136 p., [17] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill., fold. col. map ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Francis Frith's Cheshire / Clive Hardy.

Creator:: Hardy, Clive
Date:: 2001
Physical Description:: 123 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Cheshire : the official county map and guide : shewing its railways, telegraphs, roads, rivers, canals, market twons and days : with geological, archaeological, historical, statistical, descriptive, parliamentary, and postal county information for home reference, and for travellers, tourists, and men of business.

Date:: [1877]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Lancashire and Cheshire, past and present: a history and a description of the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester, forming the North-western division of England, from the earliest ages to the present time (1867). With an account of the rise and progress of manufactures and commerce, and civil and mechanical engineering in these districts, by William Fairbairn. With numerous illustrations from original drawings by H. Warren, R. A., and a series of portraits.

Creator:: Baines, Thomas, 1806–1881
Date:: [1868-69?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. (464, cclx p.) illus. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. A handbook for residents and travellers in Shropshire and Cheshire.

Creator:: John Murray (Firm)
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: vi, 47, 162 p., [7] fold. leaves of plates : col. maps (1 fold. in pocket), col. plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Cheshire / by Walter M. Gallichan ; with ill. by Elizabeth Hartley.

Creator:: Gallichan, Walter M. (Walter Matthew), 1861–1946
Date:: 1905
Physical Description:: xii, 235 p., [27] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill., fold. col. map ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Beeston Castle.

Date:: c1981
Physical Description:: 1 leaf : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Cheshire, the romantic north-west, edited by Arthur Mee. With 150 places and 117 pictures.

Creator:: Mee, Arthur, 1875–1943
Date:: [1950]
Physical Description:: ix, 191 p. ont., illus., plates. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. North Midland country; a survey of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire, by J. H. Ingram. Illus. from prints, engravings and photos.

Creator:: Ingram, Harold, 1912–
Date:: [1948]
Physical Description:: xii, 116 p. illus. maps (on lining-papers) 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. History, gazetteer, and directory of Cheshire : comprising a general survey of the county, with separate historical &topographicaldescriptions of all the boroughs, towns, parishes ... : shewing their situation, extent, and population ... / by Francis White and Co.

Creator:: Francis White & Co
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: xvi, 1016 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Kelly's directory of Cheshire.

Physical Description:: v. fold. maps. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. The story of a Cheshire parish : or, Glimpses of rural life and worship in days gone by / by Francis E. Powell.

Creator:: Powell, Francis Edward
Date:: [pref. 1897]
Physical Description:: xiii, 109., [18] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill. (some fold.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. The Victoria history of the county of Chester / Edited by B.E. Harris.

Date:: 1979-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. The visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, 1533 A.D., by special commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux. Ed. By William Langton.

Creator:: Benolt, Thomas, d. 1534
Date:: 1876-82
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port., v.2) illus. (incl. coats of arms) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Historic sites of Lancashire and Cheshire; a wayfarer's notes in the Palatine counties, historical, legendary, genealogical, and descriptive.

Creator:: Croston, James, 1830–1893
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xxvii, 499 p. illus. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. East Cheshire: past and present; or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield, in the county palatine of Chester. From original records.

Creator:: Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons), 1847–1895
Date:: 1877-80
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., illus., plates, phot. ports., map, facsims. 33 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. A history of Cheshire / Dorothy Sylvester ; drawings by Grace Corbett ; cartography by Geoffrey Barber and Fred Castle.

Creator:: Sylvester, Dorothy
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: 127 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Herzog.

30. Cheshire.

Creator:: Crossley, Frederick Herbert, 1868–1955
Date:: [1949]
Physical Description:: xii, 376 p. plates, fold. map. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Handbook for Shropshire, Cheshire and Lancashire ...

Creator:: John Murray (Firm)
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: xc, 328 p. map in pocket. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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2. Genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families : and a memoir of the Cheshire Domesday roll / compiled from original authorities by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Tyldesley and Sedbury Park; author of The history of Cheshire.

3. Photograph album of scenes in the Lake District, Cheshire, Scotland, and Wales.

4. Twelve prospects in Derby-shire, Cheshire, Lincoln-shire, York, Durham, and noblemen's parks [graphic].

5. Hunting diary commenced October 4th, 1884.

6. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

7. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

11. The counties of Chester, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, and Rutland, illustrated / From original drawings by Thomas Allom. With historical and topographical descriptions. By T. Noble and T. Rose ...

13. Cheshire / by Walter M. Gallichan.

14. Francis Frith's Cheshire / Clive Hardy.

17. A handbook for residents and travellers in Shropshire and Cheshire.

18. Cheshire / by Walter M. Gallichan ; with ill. by Elizabeth Hartley.

19. Beeston Castle.

20. Cheshire, the romantic north-west, edited by Arthur Mee. With 150 places and 117 pictures.

21. North Midland country; a survey of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire, by J. H. Ingram. Illus. from prints, engravings and photos.

22. History, gazetteer, and directory of Cheshire : comprising a general survey of the county, with separate historical &topographicaldescriptions of all the boroughs, towns, parishes ... : shewing their situation, extent, and population ... / by Francis White and Co.

23. Kelly's directory of Cheshire.

24. The story of a Cheshire parish : or, Glimpses of rural life and worship in days gone by / by Francis E. Powell.

25. The Victoria history of the county of Chester / Edited by B.E. Harris.

26. The visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, 1533 A.D., by special commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux. Ed. By William Langton.

27. Historic sites of Lancashire and Cheshire; a wayfarer's notes in the Palatine counties, historical, legendary, genealogical, and descriptive.

28. East Cheshire: past and present; or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield, in the county palatine of Chester. From original records.

29. A history of Cheshire / Dorothy Sylvester ; drawings by Grace Corbett ; cartography by Geoffrey Barber and Fred Castle.

30. Cheshire.

31. Handbook for Shropshire, Cheshire and Lancashire ...