Storia moderna

The Old Book of Wye. A Record of a Kentish Parish from the Reign of Henry VIII to that of Charles II.

HUBBARD, G.E. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Derby: Pilgrim Press Ltd, 1951. "Between the years 1515 and 1663 ninety-five successive churchwardens of Wye entered their accounts - as well as sundry other matter - in a large vellum-bound book which had been presented to the parish by one of their predecessors in Edward IV'...

Dubrovnik in War.

VARIOUS. · 2002 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Dubrovnik: Matica Hrvatska Dubrovnik, 2002. 9536316161. The articles for this edition were written between autumn 1991 and spring 1992. They were published, together with all the photos, in the review "Dubrovnik" under the Croatian title "Dubrovnik u ratu". Contents: The Defen...

Kearton's Nature Pictures Beautifully Reproduced In Photogravure, Colour, and Black and White from photographs By Richard and Cherry Kearton.

KEARTON, RICHARD (1862-1928) / KEARTON, CHERRY (1871-1940) . · 1910 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1910 . 0. Deluxe half leather binding. First edition. 30cm x 23.0cm x 3.3cm. Matching black leather spine and corners over green buckram covered bords. Each spine 5 raised bands, gilt volume number and original red leather title label: "Ke...

The Story of Some English Shires.

CREIGHTON, MANDELL. · 0 · Chilton Books

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London: The Religious Tract Society,nd. Rep. "Though the shires are now only divisions of the English Kingdom, they still keep the traces of their independent life, and each of them has much that is peculiar to itself. Though they have all shared in the history and the fortune...

An Alleged Worcester Charter of The Reign of Edgar. By Eric John, M.A., Lecturer In History, University Of Manchester.

JOHN, ERIC (1922–2000) . · 1958 · Chilton Books

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Manchester: John Rylands Library, 1958 . 0. Original grey-green card covers , with printed title. [2pp.]/pp.54-80/[1p.]. Clean text throughout on cream coloured paper. "Reprinted from the "Bulletin of John Rylands Library," Vol. 41, No. 1, September, 1858" . VG. Eric John (192...

Medieval Merchants. York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages.

KERMODE, JENNY. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 052149737X. 1st edition. "Based on some 1,400 individuals who lived in three northern English towns during the later middle ages. It analyses the many aspects of merchant society visible to the historian: achievements in politics, a...

Origins, Imitation, Conventions. Representations in the Visual Arts.

ACKERMAN, JAMES S. · 2002 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002. 0262011867. 1st edition. These studies are based on articles and lectures written during the period following the publication of Ackerman's earlier collection, 'Distant Points'. "Reflects the poststructural critique of the presump...

Viking Age Yorkshire.

TOWNEND, MATTHEW. · 2014 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Pickering: Blackthorn Press, 2014. 9781906259396. 1st edition. "In 866, the city of York was captured by a 'Great Army' of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader ...

The Casualties of Peterloo.

BUSH, MICHAEL. · 2005 · Chilton Books

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Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing Ltd, 2005. 9781859361252. 1st edition. "When the cavalry charged to disperse the huge crowd assembled to discuss parliamentary reform on St Peter's Field, over 600 people were injured, some 15 of them dying of their wounds. Was this a massacre? O...

A Compendious Ecclesiastical History from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.

PALMER, REV. WILLIAM. · 1840 · Chilton Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London: James Burns, 1840. New edition, enlarged. 17cms x 110cms x 2.5cms. Pp.viii/254/2(publisher's catalogue), coloured folding map frontispiece of The Patriarchates and Princpal Provinces of the Christian Church, historated capitals, armorial bookplate (Collegium S.Maria Ma...

English Society in the Eleventh Century. Essays in English Mediaeval History.

VINOGRADOFF, SIR PAUL. · 1968 · Chilton Books

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Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1968. Originally published in 1908. Contains essays on government and society, land and people, rural organization, social classes, and land and people - general survey. Pp.xii/599.Dark blue cloth, dustwrapper has small loss to base of spine but is...

Arnold Prize Essay. 1863. The Holy Roman Empire. by James Bryce, B.A., Fellow of Oxford College .

BRYCE, JAMES VISCOUNT 1838-1922. · 1864 · Chilton Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Oxford: T. & G. Shrimpton, Broad Street / London And Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1864 . 0. First Edition. A very good original cloth binding, carefully re-cased. 8vo. 9.0" x 5.75" x 0.5". [4pp.]/pp.176. Brown patterned boards. Edges lightly rubbed and corners bumped. Spine re-b...

The Chinese and their Rebellions with an Essay on Civilisation and its Present State in the East and West.

MEADOWS, THOMAS TAYLOR. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972. 0716520389. Unabridged facsimile of the original 1856 edition. Full title: The Chinese and Their Rebellions, Viewed in Connection with their National Philosophy, Ethics, Legislation, and Administration, to which is added, An Essay on Civi...

Religions in Antiquity. Essays in Memory of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough.

NEUSNER, JACOB. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1970. contents include: I.Posthumous Paper; II.Biblical Studies; III.Apocrypha amd Pseudepigrapha; IV.History of Judaism; V.Symbolism and History of Religion; VI.Bibliography, Pp.x/688, black & white portrait frontispiece. Brown cloth, gilt title to front an...

The History of India. The Hindu and Mahometan Periods.

ELPHINSTONE, HON. MOUNTSTUART. · 1966 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1966. "Beginning with the ancient period when Manu's code guided the deliberations of kings and kingdoms..the author has dealt exhaustively with the mood and tendency of rulers and the ruled, noting with care all the vicissitudes through which the count...

The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus.

CRUSE, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK & BOYLE, ISAAC. · 1976 · Chilton Books

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Grand Rapids: Guardian Press, 1976. 0890860211. 8th printing. Full title: The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus, Bishop of Cesarea, in Palestine, Translated from the Original with an Introduction by Christian Frederick Cruse and an Historical View of The Council of ...

The Story of the Church of St Michael at the North Gate. (Oxford).

MARTIN, THE REV. ROBERT REGINALD. · 1939 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Birmingham: Bradmores, 1939. Revised edition. The Parish Church of St Michael, at the North Gate, is one of the oldest in Oxford, and mentioned in the Domesday Book. Pp.43, 7 pages of black & white photos. Cream card wraps have uneven toning. G+.

The Cambridge Shorter History of India.

ALLAN, J / WOLSELEY HAIG, SIR T AND DODWELL, H.H. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934. 1st edition. Pp.xxii/970, 21 maps, owner's name to front free endpaper, slight toning to pages, minor spotting to endpapers but mainly affecting closed page edges, rippled creasing affecting pp.293-310. Green cloth, gilt title to sp...

The Reformation in Spain.

M'CRIE, THOMAS. · 1998 · Chilton Books

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Rapidan, Virginia: Hartlands Publications, 1998. 0923309586. Facsimile copy of the original 1829 edition. Full title: History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Spain in the Sixteenth Century. "His most interesting source is that of Juan Antonio Llorente, Se...

The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome.

ALFÖLDI, ANDREW. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 0198143567. Translated by Harold Mattingly. "Shows the consequences of Constantine's conversion - his growing favour to the Christian Church, his turning from paganism,and, in the end, his deliberate intention of destroying pagan worship - and he...