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A HISTORY OF GRAYS OF YORK, 1695-1988.
York: William Sessions Limited, The Ebor Press, 1989. 8vo., pp.xiv,234, paperback, 12 b/w illustrations; a very good copy, with slight crease and superficial tear to spine, and slight shelfwear to wrappers.
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A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, Volume II. The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xix,554, paperback; lightly sunned to spine, bruise to upper right corner, else very good indeed.
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A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, Volume One: THE EARLIER PRESOCRATICS AND THE PYTHAGOREANS.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xv,539, paperback, gilt; some underlining which has been mostly rubbed out but light indentations remain, spine lightly sunned, a few light marks to fore-edge. lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy.
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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 PALESTINE 634-1099.
Cambridge University Press. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxvi,968, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with partial sunning to spine and to front upper margin.
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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 CURE OF SOULS.
London: SCM Press Ltd, 1952. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,371, orange cloth, gilt; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, partial toning to free endpapers, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed and has scotch-tape reinforcement to extremities.
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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 KNIGHT'S LEGACY. Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England.
Manchester University Press, 2011. 8vo., pp.xi,216, maroon hardcover, gilt; tiny stain to fore-edges, an otherwise fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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