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URBAN HIGHLANDERS: Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900.
East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1998. 8vo.,pp. 271, paperback, b/w figures; a very good copy.
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URBAN SPACE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN AGE.
Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 8vo., pp.vii,757, pictorial hardcover; light discolouration to rear board, very slight bruising to corners, else fresh and near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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UTRECHT: Britain and the Continent.
Archaeology, Art and Architecture. The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XVIII.
British Archaeological Association, 1996. Large 8vo., pp.xvii,269,XLIIIb.(plates), paperback, b/w figures; a very good, clean copy.
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VALUING CULTURAL HERITAGE.
Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts.
Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002. 8vo., pp.xi,280, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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VIKING TREASURE FROM THE NORTH WEST: The Cuerdale Hoard in its Context. Selected papers from The Vikings of the Irish Sea conference, Liverpool, 18-20 May 1990. VIKING TREASURE FROM THE NORTH WEST: The Cuerdale Hoard in its Context. National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Occasional Papers, Liverpool Museum No.5.
Liverpool: National Galleries and Museums on Merseyside, 1992. 4to.,pp. viii,115, pictorial wrappers, b/w figures; ownership autograph to margin of title page, wrappers covered in clear adhesive covering which is wrinkled, internally very good.
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VIKING WORLDS.
Things, Spaces, and Movement.
Oxford/Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. 8vo., pp.ix,234, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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VIRGINIA BARON: The Story of Thomas 6th Lord Fairfax.
Berryville: Chesapeake Book Company, 1965. 8vo.,pp. ix,245, navy cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, maps to endpapers; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed.
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VISIONS AFAR: THE JOURNAL OF RW CARR 1905-2005.
The Life and Times of a Yorkshire Railwayman as Told Through his Writings and Journals.
Sherburn-in-Elmet: Write Books, 2007. 4to., pp.xiv,205, paperback, colour illustrations; vertical crease to inner margin of front wrapper, a very good, fresh copy.
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Volumes 1-12: NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY MAGAZINE 1911-1922; Volumes 13-37: LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY MAGAZINE, 1923-1947. Plus volumes I and II of BRITISH RAILWAYS MAGAZINE North Easter Division, for 1948 and 1949.
York: Head Offices, 1911. 39 volumes, large 8vo., green pictorial cloth, gilt; 11 volumes with bookplate to front endpapers, a very good set of this very scarce regional railway magazine.
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VOX GRAECIA: A GUIDE TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF CLASSICAL GREEK.
Cambridge University Press. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,174, blue hardcover, gilt; light foxing to top edges, slight mustiness, else clean and very good, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and foxed to extremities, and now in protective cover.
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VOYAGER FROM XANADU.
Rabban Sauma and the First Journey froM China to the West.
Tokyo/New York/London: Kodansha International, 1992. 8vo., pp.xvii,219, cloth-backed paper-covered boards, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of Professor Bernard Hamilton, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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WAR BOOKS. A Critical Guide.
London: Peter Davies, Limited. 8vo., pp.xiv,318, red cloth lettered in black; partial sunning to cloth (mottled sunning to spine, rear board, and - slightly - to front upper and fore-margins), else very good. No dust-jacket.
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WE MEN WHO FEEL MOST GERMAN. A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914. Routledge Library Editions: German History, Volume 6.
London/New York: Routledge, 2020. Reprinted, 8vo., pp.xiv,365, paperback; small crease to upper corner of rear wrapper, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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WEARING THE CLOAK.
Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times.
Oxford: Oxbow, 2012. Small 4to., pp.vii,144, pictorial glazed boards, colour and b/w illustrations; slight shelfwear, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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WEIBLICHE ELITEN IN DER FRUHGESCHICHTE: Female Elites in Photohistoric Europe.
Internationale Tagung vom 13. bis zum 14. Juni 2008 im RGZM im Rahmen Forschungsschwerpunktes.
Mainz: Verlag des Romisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2011. 4to.,pp. vi,410, pictorial wrappers, b/w figures; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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WEST KIRBY & HILBRE. A Parochial History.
Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, Ltd, 1928. First edition (scarce), 8vo., pp. xv,395, green hardcover, gilt, uncut, b/w frontispiece, many b/w illustrations; ownership signature to front free endpaper, occasional spots of foxing throughout text, rubbing to boards, a few small marks and a scratch to rear board, spine lightly sunned, gilt somewhat faded, overall a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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WESTERN MEDICAL THOUGHT FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES.
Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.vi,478, paperback; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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WESTERN TRAVELLERS TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
The West and Byzantium, 962-1204: Cultural and Political Relations. (The Medieval Mediterranean: People, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453, Volume Ten).
Leiden: E.J. Brill. 8vo., pp.xiv,396, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and plates, 3 b/w maps; a fine copy in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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WHEN GOSSIPS MEET. Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England.
Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.ix,398, navy hardcover, gilt; fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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WIDOWHOOD IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE.
Harlow: Longman (Pearson). 8vo., pp.xiii,272, paperback; a very good, fresh copy.
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