130 Rare Old Books on Manchester England History Ancestry and Genealogy Medieval Records Parish Registers Directories - Instant PDF Download

THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

RARE BOOK COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 130 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering the history and people of MANCHESTER & ITS SURROUNDS.

Officially founded by the Romans in AD 79 as Mancunium and flourishing at the turn of the 19th century with the boom in textile production during the Industrial Revolution, today’s Manchester is the 6th largest city in the United Kingdom. Read about the antiquities of this fascinating city and its surrounding area. Discover its history, its landscape and its people. Search the old local parish registers for genealogical information, revealing ancestry and family lineage. Explore the old buildings, the scenery and the legends that have shaped over hundreds of years. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in Manchester, its history, ancestry and genealogy. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

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Full List of Books Included:


A centenary of science in Manchester (in a series of notes) - R. Smith (1883)

A classified catalogue of the works on architecture and the allied arts in the principal libraries of Manchester and Salford - H. Guppy (1909)

A Description Of Manchester - J. Aikin (1795)

A disclosure of parochial abuse, artifice, & peculation, in the town of Manchester - T. Battye (1796)

A history of Newton chapelry in the ancient parish of Manchester Vol. 1 (1904)

A history of Newton chapelry in the ancient parish of Manchester Vol. 2 Pt. 1 (1904)

A history of Newton chapelry in the ancient parish of Manchester Vol. 2 Pt. 2 (1904)

A history of Newton chapelry in the ancient parish of Manchester Vol. 3 (1904)

A history of the ancient chapel of Birch, in Manchester parish (1859)

A history of the ancient chapel of Stretford in Manchester Parish (1899)

A history of the ancient chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton, in Manchester parish - J. Booker (1857)

A history of the chantries within the county palatine of Lancaster Vol. 1 (1862)

A history of the chantries within the county palatine of Lancaster Vol. 2 (1862)

A Hundred Years of Road Passenger Transport in Manchester (1921)

A short history of the rise and progress of the Manchester Royal Infirmary from the year 1752 to 1877 - F. Renaud (1898)

An account of an investigation of the sickness and mortality experience of the I. O. O. F. Manchester Unity, during the five years 1893-1897 - A. Watson (1903)

An account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - H. Booth (1830)

An Historical Record of Some Recent Enterprises of the Corporation of Manchester (1894)

Annals of Hyde and district containing historical reminiscences of Denton, Haughton, Dukinfield, Mottram, Longdendale, Bredbury, Marple, and the neighbouring townships - T. Middleton (1899)

Annals of the lords of Warrington for the first five centuries after the conquest Pt. 1 (1872)

Annals of the lords of Warrington for the first five centuries after the conquest Pt. 2 (1872)

Athenaeum address, 1843-8, and report of the soirée of 1875 (1875)

Bolton bibliography, and jottings of book-lore; with notes on local authors and printers - J. Scholes (1886)

Chapters in the history of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce - E. Helm (1902)

Chetham College the oldest free library in the world - R. Blatchford (1910)

Cobden as a citizen - W. Axon (1907)

Collectanea relating to Manchester and its neighbourhood Vol. 1 (1866)

Collectanea relating to Manchester and its neighbourhood Vol. 2 (1866)

Continuation of the court leet records of the manor of Manchester, A.D. 1586-1602 (1865)

Cremation in Manchester and elsewhere - J. Simpson (1902)

Criminal Manchester (1888)

Didisburye in the '45 - F. Moss (1891)

Family of Bayley of Manchester and Hope - E. Axon (1889)

Gimcrackiana; or, Fugitive pieces on Manchester men and manners ten years ago - J. Gregson (1833)

Guide to Manchester and Salford - Adam & Charles Black (firm) (1882)

Handbook of the public libraries of Manchester and Salford - W. Axon (1877)

Haslingden, a topographical history (1922)

Historical sketches and personal recollections of Manchester - A. Prentice (1851)

History of the Foundations in Manchester of Christ's College, Chetham's Hospital (and Library, with a genealogical account of the Founder), and the Free Grammar School Vol. 1 - S. Hibbert (1834)

History of the Foundations in Manchester of Christ's College, Chetham's Hospital (and Library, with a genealogical account of the Founder), and the Free Grammar School Vol. 2 - S. Hibbert (1834)

History of the Foundations in Manchester of Christ's College, Chetham's Hospital (and Library, with a genealogical account of the Founder), and the Free Grammar School Vol. 3 - S. Hibbert (1834)

History of the Manchester Ship Canal Vol. 1 - B. Leech (1907)

History of the Manchester Ship Canal Vol. 2 - B. Leech (1907)

Housing conditions in Manchester & Salford - T. Marr (1904)

Abbott's journal & The trials at Manchester in 1694 (1864)

Liverpool and Manchester photographic journal Vol. 1 (1857)

Liverpool and Manchester photographic journal Vol. 2 (1857)

Mamecestre - being chapters from the early recorded history of the barony; the lordship or manor; the vill, borough, or town, of Manchester Vol. 1 (1861)

Mamecestre - being chapters from the early recorded history of the barony; the lordship or manor; the vill, borough, or town, of Manchester Vol. 2 (1861)

Mamecestre - being chapters from the early recorded history of the barony; the lordship or manor; the vill, borough, or town, of Manchester Vol. 3 (1861)

Manchester as it is - B. Love (1839)

Manchester its political, social and commercial history - J. Wheeler (1836)

Manchester literary club, some notes on its history, 1862-1908 - J. Swann (1908)

Manchester Poetry - J. Wheeler (1838)

Manchester Ship Canal, Manchester a timber port - Lumber (1887)

Manchester streets and Manchester men, fifth series - T. Swindells (1908)

Manchester streets and Manchester men, first series - T. Swindells (1906)

Manchester streets and Manchester men, fourth series - T. Swindells (1908)

Manchester streets and Manchester men, second series - T. Swindells (1907)

Manchester University roll of service (1922)

Manchester worthies and their foundations - E. Edwards (1855)

Mancuniensis - R. Hollingworth (1839)

Mary Barton, a tale of Manchester life - E. Gaskell (1893)

Mediaeval Cheshire (1922)

Mediaeval Manchester and the beginnings of Lancashire - J. Tait (1904)

Memorials of bygone Manchester - R. Procter (1880)

Memorials of Manchester streets - R. Procter (1874)

Mortality rates in Manchester and Liverpool (1862)

Old Hanging Ditch its trades, its traders and its renaissance - H. Wilkinson (1910)

On the Ages of the Population in Liverpool and Manchester - J. Danson (1858) (article)

Pott's Discovery of witches in the county of Lancaster (1845)

Reminiscences of Manchester fifty years ago - J. Slugg (1881)

Report of The Officer for Health Manchester 1872-1873 (1873)

Report on the amount and causes of death in Manchester (1845)

Report on the sanitary condition of certain parts of Manchester (1853)

Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester 1887, official catalogue (1887)

Rules, for the government of the Infirmary, Lunatic-Hospital, and public baths in Manchester (1791)

Sketches of the lives and work of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830 when it became the Royal Infirmary - E. Brockbank (1904)

South Lancashire in the reign of Edward II (1919)

Statistical Illustrations of the Past and Present State of Lancashire, and More Particularly of the Hundred of Salford - H. Ashworth (1842) (article)

The admission register of the Manchester school with some notices of the more distinguished scholars (1866)

The admission register of the Manchester school, with some notices of the more distinguished scholars Vol. 1 (1866)

The admission register of the Manchester school, with some notices of the more distinguished scholars Vol. 2 (1866)

The admission register of the Manchester school, with some notices of the more distinguished scholars Vol. 3 Pt. 1 (1866)

The admission register of the Manchester school, with some notices of the more distinguished scholars Vol. 3 Pt. 2 (1866)

The annals of Manchester - a chronological record from the earliest times to the end of 1885 - W. Axon (1886)

The Byrom pedigrees. I. Byrom of Byrom. II. Byrom of Salford. III. Byrom of Manchester - F. Raines (1901)

The Byroms of Manchester - a unique collection of deeds and wills relating to a Manchester family and their home, the black-and-white timber building, which still stands in the Market Place - W. Thomson (1911)

The cathedral church of Manchester - T. Perkins (1901)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 1 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 2 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 3 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 4 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 5 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 6 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 7 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 8 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 9 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 10 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 11 (1884-90)

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846 - Vol. 12 (1884-90)

The History Of Manchester – J. Whitaker (1775)

The history of the church & manor of Wigan in the county of Lancaster Pt. 1 (1888)

The history of the church & manor of Wigan in the county of Lancaster Pt. 2 (1888)

The history of the church & manor of Wigan in the county of Lancaster Pt. 3 (1888)

The history of the church & manor of Wigan in the county of Lancaster Pt. 4 (1888)

The Jacobite trials at Manchester in 1694. From an unpublished manuscript - W. Beaumont (1853)

The Manchester Grammar School, 1515-1915, a regional study of the advancement of learning in Manchester since the Reformation - A. Mumford (1919)

The Manchester guardian; a century of history - W. Mills (1922)

The Manchester rebels of the fatal '45 - W. Ainsworth (1880)

The Manchester Ship Canal - H. Moulton (1910)

The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture in Manchester - J. Phillips (1832)

The pole booke for Manchester, May ye 22d 1690 (printed 1861)

The portmote or court leet records of the borough or town and royal manor of Salford, from the year 1597 to the year 1669 inclusive Vol. 1 (1902)

The portmote or court leet records of the borough or town and royal manor of Salford, from the year 1597 to the year 1669 inclusive Vol. 2 (1902)

The story of Peterloo - F. Bruton (1919)

The story of the Manchester high school for girls, 1871-1911 - S. Burstall (1911)

The township booke of Halliwell (1910)

The Victoria University of Manchester Medical School (1908)

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. Pt. 1 (1876)

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. Pt. 2 (1876)

The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567 (1870)

The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1613 (1871)

The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster,made in the year 1664-5 Pt. 1 (1872)

The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster,made in the year 1664-5 Pt. 2 (1872)

The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster,made in the year 1664-5 Pt. 3 (1872)

Three Lancashire documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1868)

Tracts relating to the civil war in Cheshire, 1641-1659 (1909)

Warrington in M.CCCC.LXV (1849)

Where consumption is bred in Manchester and Salford (1888)



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