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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 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 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 REVENUES OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND 1066-1399. Two Volumes.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition, two volumes, the set, 8vo.,pp. viii,365; 440, blue cloth, gilt, tables and fold-out table; toning to edges of text block, endpapers and lightly to margins, rubbing to extremities with light toning to spines, otherwise a very good set. No dust-jackets.
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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 JEWISH PRINCEDOM IN FEUDAL FRANCE 768-900.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. 8vo., pp.,xvi,490, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w maps; light rubbing to front and back cover, edges lightly bumped, slight toning to head, hinge cracked with netting showing very slightly, o/w a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. 8vo.,pp. lx,371, black cloth, silver lettering, b/w illustrations and maps; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, front free endpaper missing, light toning and foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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A KNIGHT OF GREAT RENOWN. The Life and Times Of Othon De Grandson.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961. 8vo.,pp. xvii,312, turquoise cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, pictorial frontispiece and endpapers; light toning to edges of boards and to edges of text block, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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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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A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT HOUSE.
Being the History of Alfred Booth and Company, 1863-1958.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1959. 8vo., pp.197, blue hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; offsetting to endpapers, minor foxing to endpapers and fore-edge, rubbing to extremities, in very good clipped dust-jacket which is rubbed and chipped to spine and edges, in clear book protective sleeve.
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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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