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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 MAN OF TWO WORLDS: Pedros Bedik in Iran 1670-1675.
Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 2014. 8vo.,pp. xxix,550, paperback, b/w illustrations, b/w frontisiece; a fine copy.
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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 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 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 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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A WOMAN IN HISTORY
Eileen Power 1889-1940
Cambridge: University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xv,292, black hardcover, lettered in silver, 15 b/w illustrations; neat ownership bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper, newspaper review pasted to front free endpaper, a near fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust jacket.
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ACCOUNTABILITY IN ATHENIAN GOVERNMENT.
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. 8vo., pp.xi,270, grey cloth lettered in silver; pale foxing to edges, otherwise fresh and near-fine, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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ACTS OF THE LORDS OF THE ISLES, 1336-1493.
Scottish History Society Fourth Series Volume 22.
Edinburgh: printed for The Scottish History Society by Blackwood, Pillans and Wilson, 1986. 8vo., pp.lxxxviii,377,45(List of Society’s Members), blue cloth with title-band stamped in black and lettered in silver; owner’s marginal scoring to List of Members at rear of volume, light toning to half title, else clean, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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AGING AND THE AGED IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE.
Selected Papers from the Annual Conference of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, held 25-26 February and 11-12 November 1983. Papers in Mediaeval Studies 11.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990. Tall 8vo., pp.xii,228, paperback; slight tone to edges, light shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean and otherwise very good.
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AIRCRAFT OF THE FIGHTING POWERS, Volume VII.
Harborough Publishing Company Limited, 1946. 4to., pp.v,70, blue cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w plates including numerous folding plates; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly worn to extremities, with chipping, small closed tears, and light loss. Now in a protective cover.
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ALBERTUS MAGNUS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MEDIEVAL RECEPTION OF ARISTOTLE IN THE LATIN WEST, FROM RICHARDS RUFUS TO FRANCISCUS DE MAYRONIS.
Munster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2005. 8vo.,pp. 862, printed hardcover; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine. No dust-jacket.
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