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UNTOLD STORIES.
London: Faber and Faber/Profile Books, 2005. Signed, limited edition, no. 134 of 250 copies produced for sale, 8vo., pp.xv,658, cloth-backed boards, b/w plates; a near-fine copy, in matching slipcase.
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UNVEILING THE HAREM. Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo.
New York: Syracuse Uiversity Press, 2012. 8vo.,pp. xvii,331, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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UOMO DEL PAESE DI BAGANI, PROVINCIA DELL’ AQUILA ABBRUZZO ULTRA
[Man from the village of Bagani, in the province of L’Aquila, Abbruzzo Ultra]
1830. Original hand-coloured Italian lithograph. Dimensions: Mount W 32.7 x L 38.4 Print W 17.3 cm x L 23 cm. Michela De Vito, herself the daughter of the artist Camillo De Vito, was a Neapolitan artist working during the first half of the nineteenth century, known for her colourful yet softly rendered watercolour depictions of folk life and costume. These plates, whilst unattributed, pay careful homage to her work both in style and subject-matter, and provide glimpses of local colour from the northerly regions of Italy from around the same time.
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UOMO DEL PAESE DI VILLALAGO, PROV. DELL’ AQUILA, ABBRUZZO ULTRA.
[Man from the village of Villalago, in the Province of L’Aquila, Abbruzzo Ultra]
1830. Original hand-coloured Italian lithograph. Dimensions: Mount W 32.7 x L 38.4 Print W 17.3 cm x L 23 cm. Michela De Vito, herself the daughter of the artist Camillo De Vito, was a Neapolitan artist working during the first half of the nineteenth century, known for her colourful yet softly rendered watercolour depictions of folk life and costume. These plates, whilst unattributed, pay careful homage to her work both in style and subject-matter, and provide glimpses of local colour from the northerly regions of Italy from around the same time.
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UPON MY HUSBAND’S DEATH. Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. 8vo. pp.x,351, grey cloth, gilt; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, else a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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URBAN EUROPE 1100-1700.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 8vo., pp.xii,239, paperback, 12 b/w maps; slight creasing to lower corner of rear wrapper, a very good, clean copy.
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URBAN GROWTH AND THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH.
Gloucester and Worcester.
Ashgate, 2004. 8vo., pp.xviii,413, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and figures; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is a little creased to upper edge.
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URBAN HIGHLANDERS: Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900.
East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1998. 8vo.,pp. 271, paperback, b/w figures; a very good copy.
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URBAN SPACE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN AGE.
Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 8vo., pp.vii,757, pictorial hardcover; light discolouration to rear board, very slight bruising to corners, else fresh and near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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UTOPIANISM AND EDUCATION: Robert Owen and the Owenites. Classics in Education No.37.
New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1968. Pocket 8vo., pp.ix,256,(i), blue cloth lettered in black; edges lightly toned, else very good indeed, in a lightly edgeworn unclipped dust-jacket, with 3cm closed tear to rear lower margin.
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VALSE DES FLEURS.
A Day in St Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868.
York: The Fairfax Press, 1980. Limited edition, no. 68 of of 400 copies on Merkall mould-made paper, with two wood-engraved devices (at title and colophon) by Reynolds Stone and colour pictorial endpapers and slip-case design by Henry Moore, pp.xi,90, quarter blue cloth, gilt, grey paper-covered boards, one b/w plate; owner’s nameplate to half title, else fresh and fine, in matching slipcase with one bruised corner, else near-fine.
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VALUING CULTURAL HERITAGE.
Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts.
Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002. 8vo., pp.xi,280, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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VAN GOGH, THE MASTER DRAUGHTSMAN.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.191 blue hardcover lettered in white, 170 colour illustrations; a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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VANGUARD OF NAZISM. The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1970. Reissue (first published 1952), 8vo., pp.xii,344,(i), red cloth, gilt; fine, in a near-fine price-clipped dust-jacket.
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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 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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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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VERNEUIL: THE SECOND AGINCOURT 1424. The Battle of the Three Kingdoms.
Gloucestershire: Spellmount, 2015. 8vo., pp.256, blue hardcover, gilt, 22 b/w plates; very slight rubbing to extremities, a near fine copy, in a near fine, unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, now in a protective cover.
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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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![Another image of 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. by TOMS, Isaac; HERRING, Thomas ( 'THOMAS, Lord Archbishop of York') ; LEWIS, Edward; HUMPHREYS, Thomas; SERCES, James](https://images.vialibri.net/production/31/13780_2---height_100.jpg?v=1731525332)