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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 hardcover, b/w and colour plates, b/w figures and tables and fold-out;
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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 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
With Some Pages of Autobiography.
London: Privately published. First edition, 8vo., pp.151, black leather soft-covers, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; neat bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small area of loss to headband, internally fine, a very good copy.
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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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A MILLENNIUM OF SALTMAKING: PREHISTORIC AND ROMANO-BRITISH SALT PRODUCTION IN THE FENLAND.
Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage Reports Series no 4.
Sleaford: Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire, 2001. 4to., pp.xvi,509, paperback, b/w illustrations and figures; wrappers covered with adhesive plastic, a few leaves with tiny crease to lower corners, a very good, clean copy.
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A MONETARY HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
(Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 8vo., pp.xxvi,276, brown hardcover, gilt; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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A NATURE DIARY.
New York: Viking, 1985. First edition, signed by author and illustrator, 8vo., pp.160, hardback, gilt, colour illustration to title page, black and white illustrations throughout; slight soiling to top-edge, neat dedication to previous owner and very light soiling to extremities on front free endpaper, otherwise very good in very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
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A NEW CORPUS OF ANGLO-SAXON GREAT SQUARE-HEADED BROOCHES.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1997. Large 8vo., pp.vii,374,124, black cloth, silver lettering, fold out chart, b/w illustrations, 124 b/w plates; from the library of Penelope Walton Rogers, light pencilling to a couple of pages, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust jacket with light chipping and creasing to extremities, and 1 cm tear to head of spine.
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A NEW HISTORY OF IRELAND.
Volume III; Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691.
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Reprint; 8vo., pp.lxiii,788, paperback, 21 b/w maps, 14 b/w illustrations; ownership plate to front wrapper verso, slight shelf wear to extremities, light rubbing to ends of spine, a very good copy indeed.
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A NEW HISTORY OF IRELAND, Volume I.
Prehistoric and Early Ireland.
Oxford University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.lxxxii,1219, paperback, b/w plates to rear of volume; neat ownership nameplate to front wrapper verso, light shelfwear, including scotch-tape reinforcement to corners of rear wrapper, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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A NEW POPULAR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO LYNTON, LYNMOUTH, EXMOOR, MINEHEAD & DULVERTON. With Excursions Into the Land of “Lorna Doone,” etc.
London: Ward, Lock & Bowden Limited, 1898. 12mo., pp.vi,20,xxiv,112,51, paperback, very numerous b/w illustrations and 1 map; toning to endpapers and lightly throughout, light foxing to prelims and slighlty throughout, map working loose, light pencilling to title, edges lightly foxed and toned, light rubbing and soiling to wrappers, spine lightly sunned, otherwise a very good copy.
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