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THE LEX IRNITANA: A NEW FLAVIAN MUNICIPAL LAW.
Reprinted from The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol.LXXVI, 1986.
4to., pp.147-243, paperback (printed wrappers), b/w plates; a very good copy.
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THE LIBER AUGUSTALIS; Or Constitutions of Melfi Promulgated by the Emperor Frederick II for the Kingdom of Sicily in 1231.
New York: Syracuse University Press, 1971. 8vo., pp. xxxviii,163, grey cloth, silver lettering, b/w frontispiece; two ownership autographs to front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, which is toned to spine and rubbed to extremities with light wear to head and foot of spine.
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THE LIBERAL PARTY IN RURAL ENGLAND 1885-1910. Radicalism and Community.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo.,pp. viii,262, hardcover, gilt, b/w tables; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with slight creasing to head of spine.
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THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER LESLIE, FIRST EARL OF LEVEN.
London: Longmans, Green And Co, 1899. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xix,518, brown cloth, gilt, b/w maps and illustrations, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, foxing to title page, frontispiece and to edges of text block, with occasional light foxing to margins, cracking to inner hinge with webbing visible but all contents firm, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to corners, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE LIFE OF GEORGE STEPHENSON, Railway Engineer.
Fifth Edition, Revised, with Additions.
London: John Murray. 8vo., pp.xvi,557,(2)adverts, uncut, pictorial cloth with blindstamped borders, gilt; light residue from removed bookplate to inner margin of front free endpaper, foxing to prelims, spine sunned, wear to extremities, with loss to headband, staining to front board, internally clean, a good working copy.
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THE LIFE OF NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8vo., pp.xii,337, black cloth, top edges black, 4 b/w plates; pencilled notes to rear paste-down endpaper, and very minor pencilling within, light foxing to fore-edges, else very good, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has closed tear to head of spine, and some creasing, rubbing and slight chipping to extremities, and is now in a protective cover.
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THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES RADCLIFFE, THIRD EARL OF DERWENTWATER (Co. Northumberland),
Viscount Radcliffe and Langley and Baron Tynedale (Co. Cumeberland) and Fifth Baronet of Dilston. With an Account of his Martyrdom for the Catholic Faith and Loyalty to his Rightful King. Followed by Some Particulars of the Life and Execution of his Brother Charles Radcliffe, De Jure Fifth Earl of Derwentwater & Other Curious Details Relating to the Family.
London: Hutchinson & Co. Limited. Limited edition, no.124 of 250 signed and numbered copies, 8vo., pp.192, uncut, bound in half dark red morocco, 5 raised bands, gilt, red cloth, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece portrait and further b/w plates with tissue guards, title in red and black, marbled endpapers, 2 folding genealogies; ownership autograph and bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small amount of dampstaining to lower margins of boards, else a very good, clean copy.
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THE LION OF FREEDOM: Feargus O’Connor and the Chartist Movement, 1832-1842.
London: Croom Helm, 1982. 8vo., pp.(viii),327, black hardcover, gilt; ownership signature to front free endpaper, pages very slightly yellowed, some light pencil scoring and notes throughout text, light rubbing to extremities, small gold mark to upper margin of front board, overall a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is somewhat faded, particularly to spine, also lightly creased to upper margin, with slight chipping to headband.
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THE LIT DE JUSTICE OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE: Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual, and Discourse.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. 8vo.,pp. xiii,387, hardcover, gilt lettering, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, slight knock to front lower margin of board, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with a creased tear to front upper corner near spine.
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THE LOCOMOTIVE AND THE TELEGRAPH; Or Steam and Electricity as Applied to Railway Travelling; with Illustrative Anecdotes and Diagrams.
London: R. York Clarke and Co, 1848. Pocket 8vo., pp.(iv),84, blindstamped red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board, pictorial vignette to title, engraved frontispiece plate, further plates, pictorial headpieces, illuminated letters and figures; foxing to margins of plates, wear to head and foot of spine, wear to corners, else very good.
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THE LOMBARD LEAGUE. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 8vo.,pp. xiv,231, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and maps; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE LORDLY ONES. A History of the Neville Family and their part in the Wars of the Roses.
Shipley: Baildon Books. 8vo., pp.137, paperback, b/w illustrations; light crease to corner of front wrapper, a very good, clean copy.
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THE LOST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND. The People’s Education.
London: Croom Helm, 1984. 8vo.,pp. viii,296, hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation copy, with inscription to title page, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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THE LOYAL CLANS.
Cambridge: At the Universtiy Press, 1932. 8vo.,pp. viii,590, orange cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; small inscription to front free endpaper blocked out in white tip-ex, with a a similar tip-ex mark to rear paste down endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and light toning to margins, light sunning and spotting to spine, rubbing to extremities with light wear to corners and to rear upper edge, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE MAKING OF ADDICTION.
The ‘Use and Abuse’ of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. 8vo., pp.vi,199, black hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MAKING OF GRATIAN’S DECRETUM.
Cambridge: Cambridge Universtity Press, 2000. 8vo.,pp. xvi,245, paperback, b/w illustrations and tables; a fine copy.
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THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
London: Simon and Schuster, 1986. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 886, hardcover, with black cloth covered spine, gilt lettering, b/w illustrations and figures; light toning to endpapers and to edgesof text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE MAN WHO WAS JOHN BULL. The Biography of Theodore Edward Hook 1778-1841.
London: Allendale Publishing, 1996. 8vo., pp.508, blue hardcover, gilt; a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MANOR AND ADVOWSON OF MEDBOURNE, 1086-1550.
Reprinted from the Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society, Part I, Volume XIII., 1923.
Leicester: W. Thornley and Son, 1550. 8vo., pp.45, paperback (printed wrappers), b/w frontispiece and plates; wear to wrappers, creasing to rear wrapper, contents clean, a good copy.
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THE MANOR, LORDSHIP AND CASTLE OF DANBY.
Whitby: Horne & Son. 8vo., pp. 165, green hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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