Storia moderna

The Poetics of English Nationhood 1590-1612.

MCEACHERN, CLAIRE. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 052157031X. 1st edition. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture series No.13. "Claire McEachern argues for the role of Reformation religious culture in shaping Tudor-Stuart nationhood and examines its presence in th...

Edmond Tyllney, Master of the Revels and Censor of Plays.

STREITBERGER, W.R. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

New York: AMS Press Inc, 1986. 0404622852. 1st edition. Ex library. A Descriptive Index to his Diplomatic Manual on Europe. "Tyllney was the first to compile systematically intelligence on foreign countries and organize it into a manual. His work not only provides us with the ...

A Decade of the Commonwealth 1955-1964.

HAMILTON, W.B, ROBINSON, KENNETH AND GOODWIN, C.D.W. · 1966 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1966. 1st edition. Volume 25 of Duke University Coomonwealth-Studies Center Publications. Pp.xx/567. Navy cloth, red and gilt title to spine. VG.

Public Opinion and Politics in Eighteenth Century England. To the Fall of Walpole.

LAPRADE. WILLIAM THOMAS. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Westport: Greenwood Press, 1971. Originally published in 1936. Pp.x/463. Dark red cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

The Life And Death Of John Of Barneveld, Advocate Of Holland; With A View of The Primary Causes And Movements of The Thirty Years' War. (2 volume set).

MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP (1814 – 1877) . · 1874 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1874. 0. A very good two volume set in matching full leather bindings by "Bickers & Son" . First edition. 8.75" x 5.75" x 1.25" 8vo. Navy blue polished calf. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spines 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartme...

History of the United Netherlands (4 volume set).

MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP (1814 – 1877) . · 1867 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1867 - 1868. 0. A very good four volume set in matching full leather bindings by "Bicker & Son" 8.75" x 5.75" x 1.25" 8vo. Vols. 1 & 2 dated 1868 (second editions). Vols. 3 & 4 dated 1867 (first editions) , Navy blue polished calf. Edges ...

History of the Chartist Movement 1837-1854.

GAMMAGE, R.G. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: Augustus M Kelley, 1969. Reprints of Economic Classics series. Reprint of the second edition of 1894, with an introduction by John Saville and Gammage's Pamphlet "The Social Oppression of the Working Classes, Its Causes and Cure". Pp.465, occasional portrait plates. ...

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; From The Manuscript In The Library At Woburn Abbey. To which are prefixed, an introduction, vindicating the character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple, &c. : and the trial of Lord William Russell...

RUSSELL, RACHEL LADY 1636-1723. · 1809 · Chilton Books

£88.00 (€105.50 | $116.28 | ¥18,571)

London: Printed by J. McCreery, Black Horse-Court, Fleet-street, For J. Mawman; J. Walker et al, 1809 . 0. "Embellished With Three Elegant Engravings. The Seventh Edition." A very good full leather binding. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.5". 8vo. pp.8/pp.171/pp.351/[1p. - Books published..] ...

Christians in Cumbria.

BURGESS, JOHN AND OTHERS. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Cumbria: ISBN, 1982. 1st ed. Pub. to commemorate the 850th anniversary of founding of the Diocese of Carlisle in1133. Pp. 62, illust. throughout. P/b.Illust. cover. VG.

Went Missing Redux. Unsolved Great Lakes Shipwrecks.

STONEHOUSE, FREDERICK. · 2008 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios Inc, 2008. 9781892384454. 1st edition. "Tells the exciting tales of ships lost on the Great Lakes with all hands and still missing. Their dead hulls till rest somewhere out in the stormy waters, undiscovered by searchers, past and present.....

The Life and Thought of Japan.

OKAKURA-YOSHISABURO. · 1913 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1913. 1st edition. "The present work is a result of my humble attempts to bring about a better understanding of my native land by the Occidental mind. Its main object is to show that Japan, in spite of such modern developments as the feminist or th...

Weston. The Forging of a Connecticut Town.

FARNHAM, THOMAS J. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing for Weston Historical Society, 1979. 0914016598. 1st edition. "No great battles were ever fought in Weston, but the chronicle of its ordinary people is the enchanting and richly human story of a town whose past is woven through its pre...

England's Hour. (Signed).

BRITTAIN, VERA. · 1941 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London: Macmillan & Co.Ltd, 1941. 1st edition. A vivid impression by the author of "Testament of Youth" of civilian life under fire. Pp.xviii/301, frontispiece + 7 further black & white photo plates, inscribed by the author "Inscribed for Edith Freeman with greetings & best wi...

Angola in Perspective. Endeavour and Achievement in Portuguese West Africa.

EGERTON, F. CLEMENT C. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. 1st edition. "The author begins his account with its discovery in 1482, when Diego Cao sailed up the river Congo and laid foundations on which the Portuguese hoped, for a time, to aid the native ruler to establish a negro monarchy on the l...

Malaya. Outline of a Colony.

PURCELL, VICTOR. · 1946 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946. 1st edition. Pp.viii/151, black & white photo frontispiece with 10 further photos and maps, ownership details to front free endpaper. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed. G+.

Broad Stone Of Empire: Problems Of Crown Colony Administration, With Records Of Personal Experience. By Sir Charles Bruce ...With maps.

BRUCE, CHARLES SIR 1836-1920. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London: Macmillan And Co, Limited, St Martin's Street, 1910 . 0. First edition. A very good 2 volume set in the original bindings. Red cloth covered boards. Edges and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with gilt titles. Clean throughout, just light toningt to endpapers a...

The Book of Reckonings and Other Memoranda 1500-1612.

THE CHURCH OF ST JAMES SHERE. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Privately published, 1978. Booklet. The original book was found in a dilapidated condition at the end of the 19th century and was then preserved and bound. It is an unusual record and probably unique. Pp.21, occasional black & white illustrations. Paperback. VG.

War-time Memoirs of Shirley Residents 1939 to 1945.

SPRING PARK RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION. · 2005 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Croydon: Ptarmigan Press, nd.(c.2005). Includes "Striking accounts of life as an evacuee, whether in a bit of rural Sussex (where the harnessing of ferrets to catch rabbits and the trapping of rates to feed the hungry ferrets takes some beating) or industrial Yorkshire..And th...

Highlights of Central Coast History.

SWANCOTT, CHARLES. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Gosford, Australia: Central Coast Printery, nd. (c.1984). Charles Swancott - Fellow Brisbane Water Historical Society. Snippets of local Australian history. Sixty-Five of these highlights of Central Coast History were broadcast over Radio Station 2GO Gosford during 1972 taken ...

The Tallow Chandlers of London. Volume 1: The Mystery in the Making.

MONIER-WILLIAMS, RANDALL. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Kaye & Ward Ltd, 1970. 0718208633. "a definitive history of the Worshipfull Company of Tallow Chandlers, a craft-guild or 'mystery' which took root in the thirteenth century ..This first volume covers the early period of guild-formation down to the year 1312, when 'the...