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A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD A.D. 1501 TO 1540, Supplementary Volume.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. 8vo., pp.xxiv,742, grey cloth, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a near fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light sunning to spine, one small closed tear and small length of scotch-tape reinforcement to upper margin.
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A CENTURY OF BROADSIDE ELEGIES,
Being Ninety English And Ten Scotch Broadsides Illustrating The Biography And Manners Of The Seventeenth Century
London: Ingpen and Grant. Limited edition of 275 copies, folio, pp.xviii,229, cloth-backed boards, gilt, uncut, t.e.g.; minor foxing, a very good copy in a good dust jacket.
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A COMPANION TO BRITAIN IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES.
United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 8vo.,pp.,xviii,665, black hardcover, silver lettering, b/w plates, b/w maps; a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear protective cover.
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A HISTORY OF CLAN GRANT.
Chichester: Phillimore, 1983. 8vo.,pp. ix,114, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and map; light toning to edges of boards, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities and sunned to spine.
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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 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 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 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 TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.
London: C. Dolman, 1851. 8vo., pp.xiv,127, brown cloth; toning to free endpapers, loss to lower corner of rear free endpaper, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with evidence of removed label across spine, and rubbing to front board, a good working copy.
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AN AGE OF EQUIPOISE?
Reassessing Mid-Victorian Britain.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 8vo., pp.x,253, printed hardcover; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional marginal pencilling, else clean and very good. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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AN UNHAPPY CIVIL WAR. The Experiences of Ordinary People in Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1642-1646.
Bath: Landsdown Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.312,viii, paperback, b/w illustrations; one light mark to fore-edge of text block, else a clean copy, light rubbing to wrappers, small bruise to tailband, a very good indeed copy.
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ANGUS OG OF THE ISLES
Edinburgh & London: W. & R. Chambers Ltd, 1969. 8vo., pp. x,193, black hadcover, gilt, illustrated endpapers, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations: very slight yellowing to edges, otherwise a very good copy indeed in a vg+ dust-jacket with very light rubbing to extremities and light toning to spine.
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ATHEISM AND DEISM REVALUED. Heterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 8vo., pp.xxiv,265, black hardcover, gilt; a fine copy.
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AUTHORITY AND CONFLICT: England, 1603-1658.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. 8vo.,pp. viii,390, terracotta cloth, silver lettering to spine and silver emblem to front board; publisher’s ‘file copy’ ink stamp to title page, dusting and light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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BARTLOMIEJ BENIOWSKI 1800-1867.
Cosmopolitical Chartist and Revolutionary Refugee.
Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu, 2019. 8vo.,pp. 598, paperback; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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BEHOLD THE PAINFUL PLOUGH.
Country Life in West Tilbury, Essex 1700-1850.
Norfolk: Thurrock Unitary Council Museum Service, 2006. 8vo., pp.ix,395, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout, pictorial end papers; very light marking to fore edge, overall a near fine copy, in a pictorial dust jacket with very slight rubbing to edges, overall very good indeed.
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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN BRITISH RADICALS, Volume III. [In two volumes:] Volume I. A-K; Volume II. L-Z.
Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.502;503-888, blue cloth, gilt; light rubbing to cloth, a couple of slight marks to cloth, a very good, internally clean set. No dust-jackets.
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BISHOPS IN THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY OF ENGLAND, 1213-1272.
Oxford University Press, 2017. 8vo., pp.ix,231, navy hardcover, gilt; fine, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has 2cm closed tear and creasing to rear upper margin, else near-fine.
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BLACK LONDON: LIFE BEFORE EMANCIPATION.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 8vo., pp.xii,244, black hardcover lettered in silver, 22 b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BRITAIN, HANOVER AND THE PROTESTANT INTEREST, 1688-1756. Studies in Early Modern Cultural History.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006. 8vo., pp. xi,267, hardcover; internally clean and fresh, a few light stains to boards, else a very good copy.
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