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1807: FROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND.
The Polish Campaign.
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2007. 4to., pp.144, pictorial hardcover, colour maps and illustrations; near-fine.
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A BARONIAL FAMILY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: THE CLARES, 1217-1314.
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.332,x, red cloth, gilt, folding genealogy; light tobacco odour, a good copy, in good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed, with wear to edges (now in a protective cover).
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A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD TO A.D. 1500 (In Three Volumes). With: A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, A.D. 1501 TO 1540. [Four Volumes]
Volume I. A-E; Volume II. F-O; Volume III. P-Z; Volume IV. 1501-1540.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.lix,662;xx,663-1416;xlvii,1417-2242;xxiv,742, navy cloth, gilt, Volume IV. grey cloth, gilt; light rubbing to cloth of first three volumes, light creasing to spines, light bruise to lower inner corner of front board to Volume III, otherwise very good (without dust-jackets), Volume IV near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A CLASH OF CULTURES.
Awadh, The British and the Mughals.
Riverdale, Maryland: The Riverdale Company, 1987. 8vo., pp.x,284, dark brown cloth, gilt; slight marking to cloth, a very good, internally fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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A COMPANION TO JOHN OF SALISBURY.
Leiden: Brill, 2015. 8vo., pp.ix,466, pictorial hardcover; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper and small inscription to front paste-down endpaper, a few tiny pencilled annotations within, light rubbing to head and foot of spine, small scratch to rear board, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A CRITICAL COMPANION TO ENGLISH MAPPAE MUNDI OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES.
Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019. 8vo., pp.xxiv,314, pictorial hardcover, 10 colour plates, b/w figures; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A CULTURE OF FACT:
England, 1550-1720.
Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.x,284, cloth-backed hardcover lettered in black; very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A DOMESDAY OF ENGLISH ENCLOSURE ACTS AND AWARDS.
Reading: The Library, University of Reading, 1978. 4to., pp.viii,459, brown cloth binding with stamped title-label to spine, gilt; toning to Index, a very good, clean copy.
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A DORSET SOLDIER: The Autobiography of Sgt William Lawrence 1790-1869.
Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1995. 8vo., pp.176, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and maps; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A GENEALOGY OF MANNERS.
Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century.
Chicago/London: University of Chicago. 8vo., pp.x,312, paperback; sunned to spine, slight shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean and fine, overall a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF BRUNEI.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. First edition, 8vo., pp.xx,212, grey hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, endpaper maps; rubbing to foot of spine, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF CLAN CAMPBELL. [Three Volume Set].
Volume I: From Origins to Flodden. Volume II: From Flodden to the Restoration. Volume III: From the Restoration to the Present Day.
Edinburgh: Polygon. Three volumes., 8vo., pp.xxx,338;xxx,338;xxvii,444, black cloth, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations; a near-fine set, in vg unclipped dust-jackets.
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A HISTORY OF DURHAM ROWING
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid and Co. Ltd, 1922. First edition, 8vo., pp.xx,250, purple cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and plates; lightly sunned to head of spine, minor crease to tail end of spine; foxing to edges, light rubbing to extremities, and very light toning to free endpapers, a very good copy in a unclipped dust-jacket with wear to edges, some large areas of loss and surface soiling.
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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 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 INDIAN MUTINY REVIEWED AND ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. [Set of Three Volumes:]
Volume I. Siege of Delhi - Defence of the Residency at Lucknow - The Story of Cawnpore - Havelock’s Campaign. Volume II. Havelock’s Succour of the Lucknow Residency - The Second Defence - Relief by Sir Colin Campbell - Outram’s Defence of the Alum Bagh - Siege and Capture of Lucknow. Volume III. The Campaign in Central India - The Rebellion in Rohilcund - Mutiny in Western Behar - Siege and Relief of Arrah - Suppression of Mutiny in Behar - The Final Campaign in Oudh - Pursuit of Tantia Topee.
New Delhi/Chennai: Asian Educational Services, 2006. Facsimile reprint, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxii,507;xvi,415,8,32(adverts);xlii,651,4(adverts), uncut, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispieces and plates, folding maps and plans in pockets at rear of volumes; very good.
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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 OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 8vo.,pp. xx,393, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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