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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 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 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 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 MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETY: An Abridgment in One Volume.
Berkeley: University of California Press. 8vo., pp.xxii,503, quarter red cloth, gilt,with contrasting paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece portrait; small nick to paper covering of front board, else fresh and near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with original price sticker to rear.
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A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR.
Harlow: Pearson Education, 2005. 8vo., pp. xv,308, hardcover, gilt, b/w maps and figures; light toning to edges of text block, a very good, clean copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial 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 RECORD OF D245 BATTERY, 1914-1919.
London: Renwick of Otley, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),182, textured blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, large folding map to rear of volume; b/w sellotape repair stain to inner margin between prelims, mostly erased (but still visible) scribbles to rear endpapers, paper repair to reverse of map, foxing to endpapers, a few marks to front board, rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good.
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A STORY OF JUDGESPORE, 1858.
London: Army and Navy Co-Operative Society, Ltd, 1858. 8vo., pp.52, half navy leather, cloth boards, unlettered spine with title in gilt to front board; toning to free endpapers, light wear to edges of leather, with a couple of small holes to rear inner margin, light partial sunning to cloth over front board, internally fine and fresh, a very good copy.
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A Study of Cassius Dio
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. First published in 1964 this a special edition reprint distributed by Sandpiper Books. 8vo., pp. xiv,239, black hardcover, gilt; small mark to page one, otherwise internally clean, very minor bruise to right corner of front board, a very good copy indeed, in a vg dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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A SURVEY OF LONDON. In Two Volumes. Reprinted from the text of 1603.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xcix,352;(iv),476,30, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates, folding map in pocket to rear of Volume II; neat ownership autograph and inkstamp to front paste-down endpaper of both volumes, the same small name inkstamp to prelims, folding map, and occasionally throughout, a fresh and near-fine set. (No dust-jacket).
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A TASTE FOR CHINA.
English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism.
Oxford University Press, 2013. 8vo., pp.xi,282, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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A TOPOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PRIVATE TOMBS OF THEBES.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1913. First edition, folio, pp.45 + 15 full page plates, printed grey paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, gilt; light wear to extremities of boards, slight marking/surface soil to boards, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ROME.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, special edition for Oxbow Books, 2008. Reprint of the 1926 edition, 8vo.,pp. xxiii,608, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates and figures, fold-out map to rear; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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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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