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SANDWICH The ‘completest medieval town in England’ A study of the town and port from its origins to 1600
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. 4to., pp.xviii,326, pictorial hardover, pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, many colour illustrations; partial split to upper joint, else a very good, clean copy.
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LOVE, WAR AND THE GRAIL. Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150-1500.
Leiden: Brill. 8vo., pp.xiii,273, paperback; internally fresh and fine, with light indentation to rear wrapper and slight curl to front wrapper, overall very good+.
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EARLY WELSH GENEALOGICAL TRACTS.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966. 8vo., pp. x,165,167-228 (Indices), red cloth, gilt; small bruise to upper edge of rear board, otherwise a very good copy indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light sunning to spine, and a little light chipping to upper edge, and slight evidence of removed price sticker to front lower margin.
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EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGSHIP.
Leeds: The School of History, University of Leeds. Reprint (first published 1977), 8vo., pp.193, paperback; just light rubbing to corners of wrappers, a very good, fresh copy.
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FIREARMS, TRAPS, & TOOLS OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN.
A Guide in Pictures and Text to the equipment of the trappers and fur traders who opened the Old West from the 1820s to the 1840s.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 8vo., pp.,xv,448, orange hardcover,decorative spine,gilt, b/w illustrations; top shaded, tail scuffed, pages lightly toned, o/w a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket which has some slight chipping to spine and top edge of front cover.
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SKETCHES OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND. In Two Volumes.
Edinburgh: John Donald, 1977. Facsimile reprint of the 1822 edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.iv,595;viii,455,ci (Appendix), blue cloth, gilt, folding colour map to Volume I, folding table to Volume II; a very good set, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are uniformly sunned to the spines, but otherwise very good.
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A NEW HISTORY OF IRELAND, Volume I.
Prehistoric and Early Ireland.
Oxford University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.lxxxii,1219, paperback, 140 b/w plates to rear of volume, maps and further b/w figures within; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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RICHARD FITZRALPH: HIS LIFE, TIMES AND THOUGHT.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 8vo., pp,.vii,216,black hardcover, gilt; ink signature to front end-paper, ink inscription to front paste-down, o/w a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE 1070-1154.
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1970. 8vo.,pp.,xxxvi,136,blue hardcover, gilt, fold-out map;a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket which is lightly scuffed.
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GOLD AND GILT, POTS AND PINS.
Possessions and People in Medieval Britain.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 8vo., pp.xi,439, black hardcover, gilt, many b/w and colour illustrations; a near-fine copy in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE BRITISH SETTLEMENT OF BRITTANY.
Stroud: Tempus Publishing Limited, 2003. 8vo., pp.,320, paperback, many b/w illustrations, maps; pages very lightly thumbed, else a very good, fresh copy.
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WRITING, KINGSHIP AND POWER IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND.
Cambridge University Press, 2018. 8vo., pp.,xxix,335, paperback, b/w photo frontispiece, b/w illustrations; small mark to fore-edge, o/w a fine copy.
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THE ROCK TOMBS OF EL AMARNA, Parts I-VI in three volumes:
Volume I. Parts I-II; Volume II. Parts III-IV; Volume III. Parts V-VI. First published 1903-1908.
London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2004. Facsimile reprint, six volumes in three, 4to., paperback, b/w illustrations; a fine set.
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ANCIENT RECORDS OF EGYPT [Set of Five Volumes:]
Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest.
London: Histories & Mysteries of Man, 1988. 8vo., pp.xliv,343;xxx,428;xxix,279;xxx,520;xi,203, purple hardcover, gilt; light foxing to edges of text block, not affecting margins, internally clean, light bruise to rear upper right corners of volumes four and five, else very good indeed.
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THE DE EXCIDIO OF GILDAS.
Its Authenticity and Date.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. 8vo., pp.viii,200, blue cloth, gilt; fine.
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EGYPTIAN HISTORICAL INSCRIPTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY.
Documenta Mundi: Aegyptiaca 2.
Jonsered, Sweden: Paul Astroms Forlag, 1997. 8vo., pp.x,363, pictorial glazed hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy, with slight nick to head of upper joint.
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DIE ERZAHLUNG DES SINUHE.
Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca XVII.
Bruxelles: Editions de la Fondation Egyptologique, 1990. 4to., pp.(v),81,81 (transcription), paperback; very good indeed.
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THE BYZANTINE HELLENE.
The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century.
Cambridge University Press, 2019. Large 8vo., pp.xx,441, black hardcover, gilt, colour plates; a fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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MERCIAN STUDIES.
Leicester University Press, 1977. 8vo., pp.255, paperback, b/w illustrations; spine lightly creased and sunned, rubbing to extremities of wrappers, a good, internally clean copy.
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THE FIRST CRUSADE AND THE IDEA OF CRUSADING.
London: The Athlone Press, 1986. First edition, 8vo., pp.vii,227, red hardcover, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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