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THE RIFT VALLEYS AND GEOLOGY OF EAST AFRICA. An Account of the Origin and History of the Rift Valleys of East Africa and Their Relation to the Contemporary Earth-Movements which Transformed the Geography of the World. With Some Account of the Prehistoric Stone Implements, Soils, Water Supply, and Mineral Resources of the Kenya Colony. With Appendices on the Edible Earths, Soils, Fossils, Rocks, and Masai Place-Names.
London: Seeley, Service and Co. Limited, 1921. First edition, 8vo., pp.479, pictorial charcoal cloth stamped in green, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates and figures; (water?)staining to lower margin of front board, light foxing to edges of text-block, light toning to half title, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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THE RISE OF A VICTORIAN IRONOPOLIS: Middlesbrough and Regional Industrialization.
Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. 8vo., pp.xvii,230, hardcover, b/w plates, maps and figures and tables; pencil scoring to a few pages, extensive pencil notes to rear endpapers, otherwise a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE RISE OF PERSIA AND THE FIRST GRECO-PERSIAN WAR The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon.
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2022. 8vo., pp. ix,225, green hardcover, silver lettering, colour illustrations; new, in dust-jacket.
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THE RISE OF THE EGALITARIAN FAMILY; Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-Century England.
London: Academic Press, 1978. 8vo., pp.xviii,324, brown faux leather, orange lettering, b/w frontispiece and illustrations; ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, a few light marks to boards, a very good copy in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with light sunning to spine.
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THE ROLE OF THE SCROLL. An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages.
New York/London: W.W. Norton, 2019. 8vo., pp.xiii,181, quarter bound in contrasting paper, hardcover, gilt, many colour plates; new, in dust-jacket. RRP $29.95 USD
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THE ROMAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xxi,238, green hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ROMAN GLADIUS. And The Ancient Fighting Techniques Volume I Monarchy & Consular Age.
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2022. 8vo., pp.xv,390, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; new, in dust-jacket RRP £35
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THE ROMAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND ITS INFLUENCE. A Birthday Tribute to John Peter Wild.
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001. 8vo., pp. xiii,200, pictorial hardcover, many b/w illustrations, seven colour plates; small mark to contents page and rear free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy indeed.
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THE ROMANS OF PARTENAY,
Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as The Tale of Melusine: Translated from the French of La Coudrette (about 1500-1520 A.D.). Early English Text Society, Original Series, No.22.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO, 1899. 8vo., pp.xx,287, uncut, paperback (printed wrappers); ink mark struck through the advertisements to rear wrapper and front wrapper verso, internally fresh, with shelf-wear to extremities of wrappers, a good copy.
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THE ROMANTIC CROWD: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture.
Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. 8vo., pp.ix,294, black hardcover, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations; fresh and near-fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ROMANTIC STORY OF THE HIGHLAND GARB AND THE TARTAN.
With Appendix Dealing With the Kilt in the Great War.
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1924. Limited edition of 575 copies, 4to., pp.208, uncut, bevelled blue cloth, gilt, with heraldic emblem in gilt to front board, colour frontispiece and colour and b/w plates with tissue guards; webbing occasionally visible between leaves, staining to front endpapers, light wear to extremities, light sunning to spine, a good copy, which is internally clean.
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THE ROME OF POPE PASCHAL I. Papal Power, Urban Renovation, Church Rebuilding and Relic Translation, 817-824.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp. xvii, 385, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, else a near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket with a small crease to front upper margin, and a few light surface marks and scratches.
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THE ROSE-GARDEN GAME. The symbolic background to the European prayer-beads.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 239, burgundy cloth, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with creasing and toning, and light wear to corners.
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN LITERATURE.
London: Routledge, 2011. Large 8vo., pp.xxx,660, pictorial hardcover; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, lightly shelfworn, with a few small bumps to edges of boards and light marking to edges of text-block, internally clean, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE ROYAL:
The History of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1794-1994.
Glasgow: Published by the Bicentenary Committee on behalf of Glasgow Royal, 1994. 8vo., pp.296, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; bumping to extremities, else very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to extremities.
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THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND.
The Antiquary’s Books Series.
London: Methuen and Co, 1905. First edition, 8vo., pp.372,(4)adverts, uncut, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 24 further b/w plates and 23 in-text illustrations; small ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, light foxing to upper margins, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear at headband, light partial sunning to cloth, a very good copy.
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THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AND THE KING’S AFFINITY.
Service, Politics and Finance in England 1360-1413.
New Haven: Yale University Press. 8vo., pp.viii,327, red cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, staining to lower corner of front free endpaper, otherwise very good, in partially sunned unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ROYCROFT BOOKS. A Catalog and Some Remarks
without prejudice concerning the publications issued from the shop this year. Herein is included and appreciation of East Aurora and its folks, the same casting some light on the origins, workings and possible final destiny of the Roycroft idea.
East Aurora: Roycroft Books, 1908. 8vo., pp.(iv),32,(ii), reverse calf wrappers with blind-stamped insignia and gilt lettering, endpapers done in silk, mounted monochromatic plates, decorative border in red to title page; presentation inscription to opening blank, ownership bookplate (dated 1908) to same leaf, front inner hinges cracked, light wear to extremities of leather, with the leather flaking at the margins, o/w very good.
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THE RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND. [In Two Volumes]
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839. First edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xx,396; xii,386,16 (adverts), decorative green cloth stamped in blind and gilt, uncut), b/w illustrations throughout; ink ownership inscription (dated 1839) to front free endpaper of both volumes, sunning to spines (and, lightly, to margins of boards), a little light marking to cloth, rubbing to head/tail of spines, internally fresh, overall a very good set.
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THE SALISBURY PLAIN POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Salisbury Plain, or A Night on Salisbury Plain; Adventures on Salisbury Plain (including The Female Vagrant); Guilt and Sorrow or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/Harvester Press, 1975. 8vo., pp.xviii,310, teal cloth, gilt, b/w ms. facsimiles; Harvester Press blindstamp to half title, foxing to edges, internally clean, a very good copy, in a very good, partially sunned unclipped dust-jacket, which has archival tape repair to closed tear at foot of rear flap-fold.
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