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THE STAR AND CRESCENT.
Being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922.
Naval and Military Press in association with The Imperial War Museum. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,358, paperback, b/w illustrations; light vertical crease to front wrapper and peeling to laminate coating of wrappers at fore-margins, else very good, and internally fine.
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THE STORY OF PETERLOO, WRITTEN FOR THE CENTENARY, AUGUST 16, 1919. Pre-print of an Article which is to appear in “The Bulletin of the John Reynlds Library”, April- October, 1919.
Manchester: At the University Press, 1919. 8vo.,pp. 45, printed wrappers, b/w illustrations, b/w fold-out plan; toned to title page and margins throughout, wrappers heavily rubbed, chipped to extremities and spine, with loss to head and foot of spine, toned and foxed to margins and toned and cracked to spine, contents still firm, a good copy.
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THE STORY OF STONES AND STONEMASONS IN AND AROUND SWAINBY.
Joan Hartley, 1995. 4to.,pp. 50, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; light creasing to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.
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THE STORY OF THE ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT (FORMERLY THE SIXTH FOOT).
London: published at the Offices of ‘Country Life’ Ltd./New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 8vo., pp.x,235, pictorial full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, 12 b/w plates and 26 b/w illustrations, 4 folding maps to rear of volume; light toning to endpapers, foxing and toning to spine, with some further foxing and light toning to boards, overall a very good copy.
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THE STREETS OF LONDON: From the Great Fire to the Great Stink.
London: River Oram Press, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xvi,256, paperback, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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THE TELL AMARNA TABLETS.
London: Published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by Alexander P. Watt, 1893. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,212,(iii)adverts, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece map, 3 further b/w maps plus one b/w illustration; front free endpaper with gift inscription addressed to Austen Henry Layard’s wife, Lady Layard, some light pencilling within, rubbing and light wear to extremities, else very good, a good+ copy overall.
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THE TEMPLAR'S CURSE.
Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2008. 8vo., pp.xxi,200, black hardcover, gilt, 6 colour plates, 2 b/w plates, 3 maps; slight shelf-wear, a near fine copy, in a near fine unclipped dust-jacket, now in a protective cover.
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THE THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE MAN
The Story of the Reverend W. Awdry and his Really Useful Engines.
London: Heinemann, 1995. 8vo., pp.336, blue hardcover, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else internally clean, a near-fine copy in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE TOBACCO LORDS. A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities.
Edinburgh University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.x,209, paperback, b/w illustrations, sunning to front cover, slight creasing to upper right edge of front cover and first few pages, otherwise a very good copy.
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THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 8vo., pp.viii,485,32 (adverts), uncut, pictorial green cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates and in-text illustrations; foxing to fore-edges, light tobacco odour, rubbing to extremities, spine lightly sunned, otherwise very good.
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THE TOWN-WALL FORTIFICATIONS OF IRELAND.
Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1914. Small 4to., pp.90, cloth-backed paper-covered boards, gilt, b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates and in-text illustrations; light toning and foxing to endpapers, rubbing and light wear to extremities, surface soil to boards, internally clean, a good copy.
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THE TOWNSHENDS AND THEIR WORLD.
Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk c.1450-1551.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8vo., pp.xiv,279, navy hardcover, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, ink-stain to edges of text-block at foot of fore-edges (up to p.173, and lightly affecting corners of leaves), else fresh and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE TRANSFORMATION OF A RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE. Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150.
Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press. 8vo., pp.xiv,222, quarter cloth, 5 b/w maps; slight spotting to top edges, a fresh and near-fine copy, in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE TREE OF BATTLES OF HONORE BONET.
An English Version. With a Hitherto Unpublished Historical Interpolation.
Liverpool University Press, 1949. Small 4to., pp.316, black cloth, gilt, top edges red, b/w frontispiece; light toning to edges, slight bruising to corners of rear board, just slight marking to boards, a very good, internally clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE TRIAL OF THOMAS HUNTER, PETER HACKET, RICHARD M'NIEL, JAMES GIBB, AND WILLIAM MCLEAN, THE GLASGOW COTTON-SPINNERS, BEFORE THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, AT EDINBURGH, ON CHARGES OF MURDER, Hiring to Commit Assassinations - and Committing, and Hiring to Commit, Violence to Persons and Property. To Which is Annexed Statistics Connected with the Spinning Trade, &c., of Glasgow. With Portraits of the Prisoners.
Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838. 8vo., pp.(ii),141,(i),8, b/w frontispiece, stitched leather-coated wrappers; faint ink ownership autograph to front endpaper, foxing to title and frontispiece, wear to extremities of wrappers, with partial loss to spine, a good copy.
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THE TROPHIES OF TIME. English Antiquarians of The Seventeenth Century.
Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.xi,382, navy hardcover, gilt, 16 b/w illustrations; a very good, fresh copy, in vg just slightly creased unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE TURKISH EMPIRE. Its Growth and Decay.
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1917. First edition, 8vo., pp.392, green hardcover lettered in gilt and red, b/w frontispiece, 3 folding colour maps; spine lightly sunned, slight bruising to corners, light mark to front board, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE UNAPPROPRIATED PEOPLE: Freedman in the Slave Society of Barbados.
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1974. 8vo.,pp. xii,225, yellow cloth, gilt, b/w tables and figures; light foxing to edges of text block and to endpapers, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities with a small indentation to spine.
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THE UNVARNISHED DOCTRINE:
Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution.
Durham/London: Duke University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.x,247, black cloth lettered in red; light marking to lower margin of front board, else very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE URBAN DIALOGUE.
An Analysis of the Use of Space in the Roman City of Empúries, Spain. BAR International Series 901.
Oxford: Archaeopress. 4to., pp.vi,132, paperback; slight shelfwear to wrappers, a near-fine copy.
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