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THE THURGARTON CARTULARY.
Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1994. 8vo., pp.ccxxi,813, hardcover, gilt, b/w tables and maps; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE LAST RISING OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.
Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 8vo.,pp. xiii,226, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, figures and maps; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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MASTER AND SERVANT LAW.
Chartists, Trade Unions, Radical Lawyers and the Magistracy in England, 1840-1865.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 8vo.,pp. x,283, hardcover, silver lettering; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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KING JAMES IV OF SCOTLAND.
Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. 8vo., pp.vii,300, green cloth, endpaper maps, 8 b/w plates and one further map; a very good copy, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which is chipped to extremities, with scotch-tape repair to closed tear at foot of fold over upper joint - now in a protective cover.
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THE MACLARENS: A History of Clan Labhran.
Privately printed, 1960. 8vo., pp.xxi,153, green hardcover, gilt, 4 colour plates, b/w plates and maps, including folding plate at p80, and folding map to rear of volume; lightly toned to edges, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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DAILY LIFE IN STUART ENGLAND.
Westport Connecticut/London: Greenwood Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.xii,261, pictorial glazed hardcover, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy.
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THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF THE NORTH.
The Region and its Transformation, 1000-1135.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 8vo., pp.(viii),329, black hardcover lettered in silver, 11 b/w maps; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and slightly chipped to extremities, and sunned to spine.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CLAN ROBERTSON (CLANN DONNACHAIDH). Shewing How, When and Where the Clan Originated. With Historical Notes and Some Account of its Branches, Septs, and Dependants.
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1933. 8vo., pp.144, fawn cloth, burgundy lettering, coloured top edge; partial toning to endpapers, foxing to fore edges and very slightly to front endpapers, very slight rubbing to head of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and lightly rubbed and scuffed to spine, slightly creased to upper edge, else very good.
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WEST KIRBY & HILBRE. A Parochial History.
Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, Ltd, 1928. First edition (scarce), 8vo., pp. xv,395, green hardcover, gilt, uncut, b/w frontispiece, many b/w illustrations; ownership signature to front free endpaper, occasional spots of foxing throughout text, rubbing to boards, a few small marks and a scratch to rear board, spine lightly sunned, gilt somewhat faded, overall a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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THE GREAT MARQUESS Life and Times of Archibald, 8th Earl, and 1st (AND ONLY) Marquess of Argyll (1607-1661)
Edinburgh and London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1903. First Edition, 8vo., pp. xxiii, red cloth, gilt, teg, b/w frontispiece, 9 b/w illustrations; light foxing to endpapers, a few spots of foxing to rest of text, pages somewhat yellowed, light wear to boards, spine and upper margin sunned, gilt still bright, overall a very good copy.
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THE MARVELLOUS CHANCE. Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, and the Ridolphi Plot, 1570-1572..
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. 8vo., pp.416, grey hardcover, gilt; dent to foot of spine, light sunning to edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, slightly rubbed to edges.
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SCIENCE, RELIGION AND POLITICS IN RESTORATION ENGLAND. Richard Cumberland’s De Legibus Naturae. Royal Historical Society Studies in History.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xi,251, hardcover, red lettering, b/w frontispiece; a fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket with very light rubbing to extremities.
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THE FARMING AND MEMORANDUM BOOKS OF HENRY BEST OF ELMSWELL 1642. Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, VIII.
London: Oxford University Press, 1984. 8vo., pp.lxvii,347, green hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 4 plates and 6 maps/figures; smaller ownership sticker to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy indeed in a good unclipped dust-jacket with slight rubbing to extremities, creasing, small areas of loss and two closed tears to rear.
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THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN: A LAND AND ITS PEOPLE.
London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. 8vo., pp.xxix,242, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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DOMESDAY BOOK:
A Complete Translation.
London: Penguin, 1992. 8vo., pp. x,1436, navy hardcover, gilt; ownership sticker bookplate to front paste-down, otherwise internally fresh and clean, very light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a near-fine copy in vg+ colour pictorial unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE SOUTHWOLD DIARY OF JAMES MAGGS 1818-1867. [Two Volumes.]
Volume I: 1818-1848. Volume II: 1848-1867. (Suffolk Records Society Volumes XXV and XXVI)
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, for the Suffolk Records Society, 1983. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.ix,149;vii,183, olive hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w frontispiece, 10 further b/w illustrations to volume I, 5 further b/w illustrations to volume II; volume I contains ink inscription to front free endpaper verso, and is very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, volume II contains editor’s ink inscription to front free endpaper verso and signature to title and is very lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, both in unclipped pictorial dust jackets which are lightly shelf-worn and very slightly soiled but otherwise very good.
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THE PROCLAMATIONS OF IRELAND, 1660-1820. Set of Five Volumes:
Volume I. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1820; Volume II. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of James II, 1685-1691; Proclamations Issued During the Reigns of William III, 1689-1702, and Mary II, 1689-94; Proclamations Issued During the Reign of Anne, 1702-1714; Volume III. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George I, 1714-27; Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George II, 1727-60; Volume IV. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George III, Part I. 1760-90; Volume V. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George III, Part II, 1791-1820.
Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2014. Five volumes, 8vo., pp.lxxxii,483; lxii,742;lxii,567;lxi,552;lxii,596, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; mild pencilling to Introduction (Volume I), else a fine set, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets.
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THE CLAN MACKINTOSH AND THE CLAN CHATTAN.
Midlothian: MacDonald Publishers, 1982. New, revised edition, 8vo., pp.xii,81, brown hardcover, gilt, 16 b/w plates plus frontispiece map; slight mark to fore-margin of first plate, light toning to edges, a very good+ copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly rubbed to extremities with two small closed tears to rear upper margin, otherwise very good.
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THE SCOT WHO WAS A FRENCHMAN. Being the Life of John Stewart, Duke of Albany in Scotland, France and Italy.
London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: William Hodge and Company Ltd, 1940. 8vo., pp.(vi),327, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece portrait; ex Education Library copy, with bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, lending plates to rear endpapers, inkstamp to title, top edges, and p.63, acquisition numbers in ink to rear paste-down endpaper, spine unmarked, toning to edges/margins throughout, rubbing and light wear to extremities, rear board marked, a good+ copy.
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THE HISTORY OF THE MACLENNANS.
Inverness: John G Eccles Printers Ltd, 1978. 8vo., pp.264, burgundy hardcover, gilt, 31 b/w plates and one colour plate, b/w maps; headband lightly creased, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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