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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 HABSBURG EMPIRE 1273-1700
Longman, 1994. 8vo.pp.,xiii, 407, black hardcover, gilt, b/w maps; offsetting to half-title page, a very good copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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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 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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A HISTORY OF WHARRAM PERCY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS.
Wharram, A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds, XIII. Archaeological Publications 15.
York: University of York, 2012. 4to.,pp. xiv,403, pictorial glazed hardcover, b/w and colour illustrations, folding plan; upper corners bumped, else clean and very good. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A L'EST DU SOLEIL ET L'OUEST DE LA LUNE. Contes Anciens du Nord.
Paris: H. Piazza, 1919. First French edition, limited to 1,500 copies, of which this is no.181, 4to., pp.123, half dark green morocco, five raised bands, gilt, contrasting green cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, original pictorial wrappers bound in, 24 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards, pictorial title in black and white, with lettering in red, b/w illustrations and decorations within, with illuminated capitals in red and black; toning to margins, slight mustiness, some creasing to corners of tissue guards, light wear to leather along lower edges of boards and at corners (retouched), some light rubbing along joints, a very good copy indeed.
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A LIFE-TIME COLLECTION OF 688 RECIPES FOR DRINKS.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1934. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.viii,124,(iii)adverts, ecru cloth stamped in black; foxing to edges and margins, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with chipping and light loss to extremities.
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A LINGUISTIC HISTORY OF ITALIAN.
Abingdon: Routledge, 1995. 8vo., pp. xvi,300, paperback; fresh and clean, a very good copy indeed.
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A LYTELL CRONYCLE: Richard Pynson’s Translation (c1520) of La Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient (c1307).
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. lx,202, ochre cloth, black lettering, b/w plates, b/w frontispiece; small stain to front board, with a few light markings to rear, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A MANUAL OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE, DESCRIBING THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, AND TREATMENT OF THE MOST COMMON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL AFFECTIONS; The Whole Intended as a Family Guide in all Cases of Accident and Emergency, and to give Directions as to the Proper Method of Proceeding in Those Cases Where the Surgeon’s Aid is Obtained After Difficulty and Much Delay.
London: Virtue and Co, 1867. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,204,10 (publisher’s adverts), red cloth wrappers with unlettered spine and front cover stamped in gilt and blind; crosses marked to margins, corners have been folded, marking to wrappers, with light wear to edges, darkening to cloth, a good copy.
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A MEDIEVAL SOCIETY. The West Midlands at the End of the Thirteenth Century.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Reissued, 8vo., pp.ix,305, brown hardcover, gilt; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, else very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A MEMOIR
A Memoir of George Smith by Sidney Lee; Some Pages of Autobiography by George Smith (from The Cornhill Magazine): I. In the Early Forties; II. Charlotte Bronte; III. Our Birth and Parentage; IV. Lawful Pleasures.
London: Privately published. First edition, 8vo., pp.151, morocco wrappers with inner dentelles in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., spine unlettered, loose ribbon bookmark, b/w frontispiece portrait after the painting by G.F. Watts, with tissue-guard; ex libris Emery Walker, Hammersmith, with ownership nameplate to head of front paste-down endpaper, small area of loss to headband, rubbing to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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A MIDDLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM PETRARCH’S SECRETUM.
Early English Text Society O.S. 351.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 8vo., pp.lxviii,96, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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