Storia moderna

Cathedral, College, and Hospital. An Account of the Chaplaincy of The Royal Hampshire County Hospital 1736-1986.

MOXLEY, CYRIL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Winchester: Privately published, 1986. 0951128906. Short history traces the account of the spiritual and pastoral care of staff and patients through the centuries and was published to co-incide with the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital's foundation. 24c...

St Peter's Anglican Church Twillingate. One Hundred and Twenty-Five Year History 1845-1970.

MANUEL, EDITH M. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

St John's, Newfoundland: Creative Publishers and Printers, 1983. 0920021026. 2nd printing. With Supplementary Material from 1970 to 1983, and in Addition Early History of the Church from 1813. Pp.74, many black & white photos and illustrations, inscribed by the author to the r...

Reminiscences of Ware's Past No.6. Growing up in Ware 1926-1936.

PAGE, HENRY / THE WARE SOCIETY. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Ware: The Ware Society and Museum, 1989. 1st edition. "Henry Page grew up in a town very different from the Ware of today. It had open fields within the town and dairies where milk could be brought fresh from the cow. The children's cinema cost two old pence and a bag of sweet...

Vanguards of the Frontier. (Illustrated).

DICK, EVERETT. · 1941 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: D.Appleton-Century Company, 1941. Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homemaker. Prequel to "The Sod-House Frontier". Pp.xviii/574, black & white frontispiece + 31 further black & white plate...

Egypt Under The Pharaohs. A History Derived Entiely from The Monuments By Heinrich Brugsch-Bey. A New Edition Condensed And Thoroughly Revised By M. Brodrick. with Maps, Plans, And Illustrations.

BRUGSCH-BEY, HEINRICH / BRODRICK, M. · 1891 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1891 . 0. First edition with an interesting provenance. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm x 4cm. pp.28/pp.469/pp.28 Original black cloth covered boards. Gilt image of a Pharaoh to the front board and gilt titles an decoration to the spine. Boards and spin...

Medieval French Bridges. A History.

BOYER, MARJORIE NICE. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1976. 0910956588. 1st edition. "While there are now many more bridges than at any time in the past, no single one of them can match the central importance of the medieval bridge to its community, or fulfil the variety of ...

Saints in Herefordshire. A Study of Dedications.

ANNETT, D.M. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Almely: Logaston Press, 1999. 1873827261. 1st edition. "Herefordshire is peculiar amongst English counties, along with Cornwall, in having many churches dedicated to Celtic saints, and brief biographies of these, as well as of biblical and legendary saints, are included. The i...

French & English.

FABER, RICHARD. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 0571107273. 1st edition. "This examination of the complexity of Anglo-French relations throws light on some contemporary preferences, prejudices, insights and blind spots. Above all, it demonstrates that this long association has been of major im...

The Matlocks and Bakewell. Famous Derbyshire Health Resorts 1893.

ANON. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Matlock: The Arkwright Society, 1984. Facsimile reprint of a guide book to the Health Resorts of Derbyshire. "There were many guide books to the Matlock area printed in the nineteenth century but this one is remarkable in its wide view of local, commercial and industrial activ...

The Reformation Crisis.

HURSTFIELD JOEL. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Edward Arnold, 1976. 3rd. ed. Edited series of talks for B.B.C. Reformation in England. Pp. 7/128. Occas. underlining. P/b plain. Slight sunning. G.

The Latin Church in the Middle Ages. (Translated by Archibald Alexander).

LAGARDE, ANDRE. · 1915 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1915. International Theological Library series. Pp.viii/600/8(publisher's catalogue), a few light spots. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine, chipping to top of spine. G+.

Glastonbury: Truth and Fiction.

THOMPSON, BEATRICE HAMILTON. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: A.R.Mowbray & Co Ltd, 1947. 2nd impression. Did our Lord visit Britain? A competent historian examines the story in the light of the authorities alleged for it, and shows it to be without foundation. Pp.22, rusting to staples. Blue card covers, slightly sunned to edges...

Why, When, and Where. The Consecration of Samuel Seabury.

WILKINSON, J. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Selkirk: The Scottish Chronicle Press, 1934. The Consecration of Samuel Seabury at Aberdeen, on November 14, 1784, and how through Suffering, the dispossessed and shattered Church of Scotland made good, and proved her fealty to Evangelic Truth and Apostolic Order. Pp.26/3(list...

The Apology of Aristides.

ARMITAGE ROBINSON, REV. J. · 1893 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1893. A Lecture Delivered in Norwich Cathedral on 5th January 1893. Pp.51, some pages un-cut. Paperback, rubbed and dusty with publisher's label (File Copy) to front cover. G+.** "Having briefly spoken of the divine nature in the terms of Greek philo...

The Printed English Bible 1525-1885. With Portraits and Fac-similes. (Present Day Primers series).

LOVETT, REV.RICHARD. · 1894 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Religious Tract Society, 1894. Briefly sets forth the chief facts in the history of the Printed English Bible, and to describe the principal editions. 16.5cms x 11cms. Pp.159, frontispiece + 12 further engraved portraits and bible page facsimiles, ads to endpapers, end...

Joan of Arc and Her Secret Missions.(Translated by Jennifer Taylor).

SERMOISE, PIERRE DE. · 1973 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Robert Hale, 1973. 070914105X. "An objective analysis of the facts, based on exhaustive research, which proves conclusively that Joan was indeed of royal blood, and was not burned at the stake.." Pp.251, 22 black & white illustrations/photos + 2 genealogy tables. Black...

Bosnia and Hercegovina. A Tradition Betrayed.

DONIA, ROBERT J AND FINE JR, JOHN V.A. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Hurst and Company, 1994. 1850652112. 1st edition. "Examines Bosnia's rich historical traditions in light of the conflict that erupted there in 1992. The authors explain the origins of Bosnia's major ethnonational groups in the religious conversions of the Middle Ages a...

An Extraordinary Commission. The Story of a Journey Through Europe's Disaster.

PERRY, PETER J.C. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

Bristol: Privately published by the author, 1997. 090567507X. "The terror through which Germany, and then Europe, passed during the Nazi period is vividly described in this autobiography and in Ellen's Chronology, which forms part of it. The writer was born into a German-Jewis...

The Romance of the Catholic Presbyterian Church.

DIXON, W.GRAY. · 1918 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Dunedin: Wm.H.Adams, 1918. Lectures delivered to the Teachers' Training Classes of the Dunedin Presbytery. Pp163, bookseller's inkstamp to front free endpaper, spotting to closed page edges occasionally touching into margins. Brown cloth, black title to front. G+.

Private Vices - Public Virtues. Bawdry in London from Elizabethan Times to the Regency.

BURFORD, E.J. AND WOTTON, JOY. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London; Robert Hale, 1995. 0709057245. 1st edition. "An exuberant social history of the seamier side of London's life..This is a rampant history of bawds and their various lodgings, from coffee-house to whore-house. It delineates the growth of a sub-culture shaped by the devel...