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THE VALOIS.
Kings of France 1328-1589.
London: Hambledon and London, 2004. 8vo.,pp. xii,276, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, genealogical table; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE VARANGIANS In God’s Holy Fire
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 8vo., pp.xviii, 212, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light mark to fore-edge of text-block, else very good indeed.
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THE VERNACULAR WORKSHOP.
From Craft To Industry, 1400-1900.
York: Council for British Archaeology, 2004. 4to., pp.xv,201, paperback, b/w illustrations; crease to lower corner of rear wrapper and pp.189-201, light rubbing to edges of wrappers, else clean and very good.
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THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.
The History of its Building.
Oxford: Phaidon/Christie’s, 1982. Small 4to., pp.288, olive cloth, gilt, colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VICTORIAN WORKING-CLASS WRITER.
London/New York: Cassell, 1999. 8vo., pp.viii,164, pictorial glazed hardcover; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE VICTORS AND THE VANQUISHED, Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. 8vo., pp.xxiv,449, black hardcover, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VICTORS AND THE VANQUISHED. Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300.
Camrbidge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Digitally reprinted, 8vo., pp.449,xxiv, paperback, b/w figures; a near-fine copy.
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THE VIGIL OF VENUS.
London: Frederick Muller Ltd. Signed, limited edition, no.39 of 250 copies signed by author and illustrator, small 4to., pp.50, quarter cream cloth, gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, wood-engraved plates and in-text illustrations; slight evidence of tape-marks to paste-down endpapers, light wear to paper at corners of boards, overall very good indeed.
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THE VIKING AGE IN THE ISLE OF MAN. Select papers from The Ninth Viking Congress, Isle of Man, 4-14 July 1981.
Viking Society for Northern Research, UCL, 1983. Large 8vo., pp.187, blue cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, without dust-jacket.
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THE VIKING AGE: IRELAND AND THE WEST. Papers from the Proceedings of the Fifeenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxviii,569, black hardcover, gilt, 22 colour plates as well as numerous b/w illustrations; light fingermark to fore-edges, a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VIKINGS AND THE VICTORIANS:
Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Cambridge: B.S. Brewer. 8vo., pp.xv,434, blue cloth, gilt, 12 b/w illustrations; fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VIRTUES OF ARISTOTLE.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. 8vo., pp.ix,139, blue cloth, gilt; from the library of Gordon Leff, with ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to top edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM IN IBERIA. Construction and Invention.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 8vo.,pp. xiv,183, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE VISITATION OF THE HEREFORD DIOCESE IN 1397.
The Canterbury and York Society Vol. CXI.
Woodbridge: The Canterbury and York Society, by The Boydell Press, 2021. 8vo., pp.xliii,271, pictorial hardcover; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, a fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE VIVESECTOR.
London: Johnathan Cape. First edition, 8vo., pp.642, orange cloth, gilt, blue top edge; very light foxing to fore-edge of text block, else a near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust jacket.
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THE VOICES OF MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2000. 8vo., pp.256, paperback; light sunning to the spine and small crease at the bottom of the front cover, a very good, clean copy.
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THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ROUND THE WORLD
ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD AND STEEL
London: John Tallis. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., pp. xx, 596, xi, 556, 89 b/w illustrations, 5 full page engravings (including frontispieces), 12 double page maps, 56 b/w illustrations, half-calf boards; p3-4 torn with loss, p.504-44 missing from vol i, duplicate pp.501 from Cook’s voyage to the pacific ocean vol ii, pp. 412-420 missing from vol ii, pp. 417-424 duplicate vol i Cook’s second voyage round the world. Defective copy but maps and engravings complete. Please email for fuller description of maps.
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THE WALTHAM CHRONICLE.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.liii,99, dark blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near fine copy in very good dust-jacket which has a very small tear to top edge.
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THE WAR AS I KNEW IT.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,425, uncut, red cloth, top edges yellow, b/w frontispiece, b/w maps; ownership autograph, dated 1953, to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to edges, remains of dust-jacket pasted down to rear blanks, a tiny crease to cloth over spine, with just slight dulling to spine, a very good copy.
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THE WAR AT SEA, 1939-1945. [THREE VOLUME SET IN FOUR PARTS].
Vol I: The Defensive; Vol II: The Period of Balance; Vol III Part I: The Offensive, 1st June 1943-31st May 1944; Vol III Part II: The Offensive, 1st June 1944-14th August 1945. [History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series].
London: Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1954. Three volume set in four parts, Vol. I Fifth impression, Vol. II third impression, Vol. III first edition, 8vo., pp.xxii,664; xvi,523; xv,423; xvi,502, green cloth with title-bands in black, lettering gilt, b/w frontispieces, b/w maps (some which are foldout), b/w plates; very light fading/rubbing to boards, else a near fine set in vg+ price-clipped dust-jackets which are slightly toned and very lightly rubbed to extremities, with very slight surface soiling, particularly to rear top left corner of jacket to Volume II. Now in protective covers.
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