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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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Irish People's Edition. YOUNG IRELAND. [Two volumes:]
A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-1845; Part II, or Four Years of Irish History, 1845-1849.
Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1884. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.289;x,293; Volume I recased in terracotta cloth binding, with original pictorial paper cover pasted to front and rear boards, Volume II in original pictorial boards overlaying cloth spine, b/w frontispiece; neat ownership nameplate to front free endpaper of both volumes, ownership inscription in coloured pencil to prelim blank of Volume II, toning and foxing to prelims, light wear to paper covering at head- and tailband of Volume II, a very good set.
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FAR EASTERN FRONT.
London: Jarrolds, 1934. First edition, 8vo., pp.318,viii, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates, endpaper maps; marginal creasing to two of the plates, with light chipping to edge of plate at p.112, foxing to prelims and somewhat throughout, stitching on occasion visible between leaves, spine sunned, marking to cloth, with partial light sunning to boards, a good working copy of this scarce volume.
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PAPACY, MONARCHY AND MARRIAGE, 860-1600.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 8vo.,pp. xiii,355, hardcover, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, slight spotting to cloth, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly foxed to reverse.
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GEORGE WADE, 1673-1748.
Torrs Park: Arthur H. Stockwell, 2009. 8vo.,pp. 259, hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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ROBERT PARKER AND COMTE DE MERODE-WESTERLOO: The Marlborough Wars.
Military Memoirs.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1968. 8vo.,pp. xxiv,276, orange cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; light soiling to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good price clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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UPRISING!
One Nation’s Nightmare: Hungary 1956.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 628, hardcover gilt, b/w illustrations and maps; light soiling to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT BLACKNALL FIELD, PEWSEY, WILTSHIRE.
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Monograph No. 4.
Devizes: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2010. 4to., pp.xvi,320, glazed hardcover, colour-illustrated; a little rubbing and slight wear to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE LATE ROMAN CEMETERY AT LANKHILLS, WINCHESTER.
Excavations 2000-2005. Oxford Archaeology Monograph No.10.
Oxford Archaeology Ltd, 2010. 4to., pp.xvii,569, pictorial boards, colour illustrations; light wear to extremities, including bump to lower edge of rear board, internally fresh, overall a very good copy.
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IAN FLEMING AND SOE'S OPERATION POSTMASTER.
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. 8vo., pp.x,255, red hardcover, gilt lettered in silver, b/w plates; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS HOUSES: IRELAND.
With an Appendix to Early Sites.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988. Reprint (omitting the map of Monastic Ireland included in the 1970 first edition), 8vo., pp.xii,479, green hardcover, gilt; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, a fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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A CORPUS OF WHEEL-THROWN POTTERY IN ANGLO-SAXON GRAVES.
The Royal Archaeological Institute Monograph Series.
The Royal Archaeological Institute, 1979. Large 8vo., pp.ix,148,(x) b/w plates, black cloth, gilt, original card front wrapper bound in; numerous b/w figures, charts and maps, b/w plates to rear of volume; a fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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MEDIEVAL WOMEN: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain.
Essays for Felicity Riddy.
Turnhout: Brepols. 8vo., pp.xv,436, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations and figures; a mint copy, still in shrinkwrap.
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THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK: Cultural Approaches.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 8vo.,pp. xii,302, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, marked as ‘damaged’ with red ink stamp to front free endpaper, otherwise clean and very good, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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FRANCE IN THE CENTRAL MIDDLE AGES.
The Short History of France.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo.,pp. xi,237, paperback, b/w maps to rear; lightly rubbed and marked to extremities, a very good copy.
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ELECTRIC RAILWAYS 1880-1990.
The IEE History of Technology Series 31.
Stevenage: The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xxi,452, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to head of spine, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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FEASTING THE DEAD: Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals.
Anglo-Saxon Studies 9.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007. 8vo.,pp. xiv,176, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, figures and tables; light spotting to fore-edge, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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CLOTHING THE CLERGY: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c.800-1200.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. Large 8vo.,pp. xviii,286, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE MEAD-HALL: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England.
Hockwold-cum-Wilton: Anglo-Saxon Books, 2003. 8vo.,pp. 283, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, with some light shelf wear.
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ITALY IN THE CENTRAL MIDDLE AGES 1000-1300.
The Short Oxford History of Italy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 8co.,pp. xiv,299, paperback; small piece of clear adhesive tape to front lower corner, a very good copy.
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