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Various sermons bound together, comprising: THE SHINING CONVERT; Or, Riches of Divine Grace, Displayed. With: A SERMON PREACHED AT THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF YORK, September 22nd, 1745; On Occasion of the present Rebellion in Scotland. With: Mercy and judgment; or, Intestine war but soon over: cattle die; but men not oblig'd to eat their carcasses. A sermon [on Isa. ix. 13] occasioned by the general fast; on Wednesday January 7, 1746. Appointed by His Majesty. To which is added, An hymn to the creator for the... victory over the rebels at Culloden, on the 16th of April, 1746... And a letter of expostulation to the ladies of Manchester, upon their late and present behaviour...; With: MARRIAGE AN HONOURABLE ESTATE. A SERMON PREACHED AT DRIFFIELD IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, On Occasion of the Happy Marriage of Gabriel Hanger, Esq. and Mrs. Elizabeth Bond. With: POPERY ALWAYS THE SAME; Exemplified in an Account of the Persecution now carrying on against Protestants in the South of France.
London: R. Hett; York: John Hildyard; John Oswald; James Crokatt; J. Oliver, 1745. 8vo., pp.xiv,88,viii,14;35;30;100, full contemporary calf, five raised bands, gilt fillets; owner’s initials (J. B.) in gilt to both boards, owner’s engraved bookplate to front paste-down, darkening to calf, light wear to extremities, fillets partially rubbed, some water-staining to lower corners of 3rd section, a very good copy.
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VATHEK: AN ARABIAN TALE 1786.
Menston, Scolar Press, 1786. Facsimile, 8vo.,pp. vii,334, paperback; creasing to spine and slightly rolled, rubbed to extremities and light soiling, otherwise very good.
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VATHEK AND OTHER STORIES: A William Beckford Reader.
London, William Pickering. First edition, 8vo.,pp.xxxviii,314, blue hard covers, gilt; near-fine copy in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which has some soiling to rear, small closed tears and chips to extremities o/w good.
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VEILED WOMEN, Volume II. The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England; Volume II. Female Religious Communities in England, 871-1066. Studies in Early Medieval Britain Series.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 8vo., pp.xii,274, red hardcover, gilt, b/w map; very good indeed. (No dust-jacket).
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VENICE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.337, pictorial red cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; slight roll forward to spine, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to edges, with light rubbing to front, else very good.
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VENICE CITA EXCELENTISSIMA Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp. xlii,598, red hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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VENICE & THE GRAND TOUR.
New Haven, Yale University Press. Large 8vo.,pp.v,137, hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations, colour frontispiece; lightly toned to margins, a near-fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.
London: William Heinemann, 1906. Signed, limited edition, no. 48 of 100 copies, 4to., pp.viii,305, uncut, full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates with caption sheets; loss to corner of mounted plate at p.163, paper-cracking to front inner hinge, with webbing visible (board firm), surface soil and light wear to edges of endpapers, a very good copy.
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VERTUMNUS SIVE ANNUS RECURRENS (printed 1607); TRES SIBYLLAE (printed 1607). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 5.
Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction), unpaginated facsimile, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, light marking to wrappers, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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VICKERY'S FOLK FLORA. An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp., xxiv, 823. Green hardcover, gilt with pictorial dust-jacket; new.
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VICTOR PASMORE. Towards a New Reality.
London;: Lund Humphries, 2016. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.120, hardcover, colour and b/w plates; a few light marks and surface scratches to boards, else a near-fine copy.
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VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM - THE TAPESTRY COLLECTION: Medieval and Renaissance.
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1980. Oblong 8vo., pp.83, oatmeal cloth, lettering in brown and gilt, colour frontispiece, 108 b/w plates; a near-fine copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, with one small closed tear to rear upper margin, else very good indeed, and now in a protective cover.
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VICTORIAN MEDICINE AND SOCIAL REFORM. Florence Nightingale among the Novelists.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 8vo.,pp. xxi,193, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustration to rear; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS MEN AND FAIR WOMEN.
London: Chatto and Windus. Revised, expanded edition, 4to., pp.32(text), 44 monochromatic plates, maroon hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which has a little creasing to extremities and is now in a protective cover.
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VICTORIAN STONE CARVERS IN DORSET CHURCHES 1856-1880.
With Excerpts from the Reports of the Consecration Ceremonies in the Dorset County Chronicle and Other Sources.
The Dovecote Press, 1856. 8vo.,pp.72, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, sunned to spine, small ink mark to front.
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VIENNA AND THE FALL OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE.
Total War and Everyday Life in World War I.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 8vo., pp.xv,333, paperback, 18 b/w plates, 2 b/w maps; slight crease to upper corner of rear wrapper, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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VIENNA AND VERSAILLES: THE COURTS OF EUROPE'S DYNASTIC RIVALS, 1550-1780.
Cambridge: University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.,xi, 349, pictorial paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good copy indeed.
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VIEWS IN DERBYSHIRE,
London: Bremrose & Sons, 1860. Oblong 8vo., pp. 12, yellow cloth-backed card wrappers, 12 tipped-in steel engravings; foxing throughout but plates unaffected except for no.s 5 and 12, light wear to wrappers, overall very good copy.
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VIKING TREASURE FROM THE NORTH WEST: The Cuerdale Hoard in its Context. Selected papers from The Vikings of the Irish Sea conference, Liverpool, 18-20 May 1990. VIKING TREASURE FROM THE NORTH WEST: The Cuerdale Hoard in its Context. National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Occasional Papers, Liverpool Museum No.5.
Liverpool: National Galleries and Museums on Merseyside, 1992. 4to.,pp. viii,115, pictorial wrappers, b/w figures; ownership autograph to margin of title page, wrappers covered in clear adhesive covering which is wrinkled, internally very good.
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VIKING WORLDS.
Things, Spaces, and Movement.
Oxford/Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. 8vo., pp.ix,234, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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