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A HALIFAX CIDER JAR.
With an appreciation of the potter, Isaac Button, by Barry L. Sheridan, Keeper of Exhibitions, Calderdale Museums Service.
Castleford: Yorkshire Art Circus, 1987. Limited edition, one of 100 copies illustrated by this artist, and one of 800 copies overall, 8vo., pp.21,(i), quarter green cloth, gilt, marbled boards with printed paper title label, 6 tipped in b/w plates; with loose advertisement for the publication, and invitation to the accompanying exhibition, a fine copy.
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A HAUNTED IMAGINATION.
David & Charles, 1994. 4to.,pp. 128, hardcover, white lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, colour frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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A HISTORY OF BREDENBURY AND ITS LANDED ESTATE.
Bromyard: Bromyard & District Local History Society, 1997. 8vo., pp.viii,197, paperback, b/w illustrations; very good+.
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A HISTORY OF BRUNEI.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. First edition, 8vo., pp.xx,212, grey hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, endpaper maps; rubbing to foot of spine, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOGRAPHY
Oxford University Press. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo., pp.xiv,vii461, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 7 b/w plates; author’s obituary neatly pasted in to front paste-down endpaper, with neat ink ownership autograph above, review of the volume pasted to rear endpapers, causing undulation to final few plate leaves, a very good, clean copy in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF CLAN CAMPBELL. [Three Volume Set].
Volume I: From Origins to Flodden. Volume II: From Flodden to the Restoration. Volume III: From the Restoration to the Present Day.
Edinburgh: Polygon. Three volumes., 8vo., pp.xxx,338;xxx,338;xxvii,444, black cloth, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations; a near-fine set, in vg unclipped dust-jackets.
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A HISTORY OF DURHAM ROWING
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid and Co. Ltd, 1922. First edition, 8vo., pp.xx,250, purple cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and plates; lightly sunned to head of spine, minor crease to tail end of spine; foxing to edges, light rubbing to extremities, and very light toning to free endpapers, a very good copy in a unclipped dust-jacket with wear to edges, some large areas of loss and surface soiling.
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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH GLASS-PAINTING,
With Some Remarks Upon The Swiss Glass Miniatures Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd. First edition, folio, pp.x,226, uncut, original parchment-backed boards, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, b/w and colour plates; neat ownership bookplates to front paste-down endpaper, toning and foxing to prelims, a very good copy, in pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to extremities, with all-over adhesive plastic covering, and paper reinforcement to reverse of spine.
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A HISTORY OF JEWISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Cambridge/Paris: Cambridge University Press/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1985. 8vo., pp.x,477, olive hardcover, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, slightly creased to headband.
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A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
London/New York: Routledge. Second edition, large 8vo., pp.xv,343, paperback, 24 b/w plates, 20 maps, and 7 b/w figures; tiny creases to corners of wrappers, else fresh and fine.
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A HISTORY OF THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 280, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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A HISTORY OF THE FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF YORK.
City of York Gild of Freemen, 1955. 8vo., pp.48, stapled wrappers, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF THE HEREDITARY SHERIFFS OF GALLOWAY.
With Contemporary Anecdotes, Traditions and Genealogical Notices of Old Families of the Sheriffdom, 1330-1747.
Edinburgh: Adam and. 8vo., pp.xxii,646,(i), uncut, rebacked with new endpapers, pictorial brown cloth, gilt, with original spine laid down over new spine, engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, further b/w plates with tissue-guards; pencilled ownership inscription to title, foxing to early leaves, light wear at lower corners of boards, a good+ copy.
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A HISTORY OF THE MILITARY TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH NATION IN INDOSTAN FROM THE YEAR MDCCXLV.
To Which is Prefixed a Dissertation o the Establishments Made by Mahomedan Conquerors in Indostan. With: A COLLECTION OF MAPS AND PLANS TO ACCOMPANY THE HISTORY OF THE MILITARY TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH NATION IN INDOSTAN FROM THE YEAR MDCCXLV, Being Volume III of the New Edition of that Work, Now Republished Under the Patronage of the Supreme Government of India, and of the Governments of Madras and Bombay..
London: F. Wingrave, Successor to Mr Nourse in The Strand; (Volume II:) reprinted by Pharoah and Co.;(Volume III:) Madras: Lithographed for and republished by Pharoah and Co, 1861. Three volumes, of which Volume I is the fourth, revised edition, two volumes of text plus further volume of maps and plates, 8vo., pp.436,cxvi (Index);740,(xv), rebacked with new endpapers, brown cloth, gilt; ex library, with stamps to plates, adhesive plastic reinforcement and repair to many of the maps, and to edges of boards, a good working set, sold with all faults.
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A HISTORY OF THE MORAVIAN MISSIONS.
London: Moravian Publication Office, 1922. 8vo., pp.(vi),550, claret cloth, gilt, 4 folding colour maps and 3 single-page maps; a little foxing to edges, prize bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, toning to free endpapers, a little rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY ARCHITECTURE. Three Volumes.
Voume I: The Pioneers. Volume II: A Mature Art. Volume III: Bell and Beyond.
North Eastern Railway Association, 2001. Three volumes, the set, 4to.,pp. 184; 200; 256, pictorial hardcovers, b/w and colour illstrations, b/w figures, pictorial endpapers; sunned to spines, lettering visible, a very good, internally clean set. No dust-jackets.
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A HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 8vo.,pp. xx,393, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE.
Volume I. Universities in the Middle Ages.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xxviii,506, black hardcover, gilt; from the library of Professor D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. [Set of Four Volumes:]
Volume I. The University to 1546; Volume II. 1546-1750; Volume III. 1750-1870; Volume IV. 1870-1990.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Four volumes, reprints, 8vo., pp.xxi,399;xxii,613;xviii,797;xxiii,652, blue cloth, gilt; ex libris D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine set, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets, with small closed tear to lower margin of jacket to Volume II.
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A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE IN THE EARLY ALGERIAN COLONY.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 8vo., pp.207, pictorial hardcover; a fine, fresh copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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