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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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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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A VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF IRELAND.
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition, 8vo., pp. 230, navy cloth, gilt, b/w map; light foxing to endpapers and edges only very occasionally affecting margins, otherwise internally clean, very light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, with very light foxing, and with rather inconspicuous splash-mark to spine.
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