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A Brief History of Gresham College 1597-1997.

CHARTRES, RICHARD AND VERMONT, DAVID. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Bury St Edmunds: Gresham College, 1998. 094782216X. Published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College "a unique and remarkable educational institution which has been called 'a Renaissance jewel in the City of London'." Pp.100, portait frontispiece. Red cloth, dus...

The Ku Klux Klan. A Century of Infamy.

RANDEL, WILLIAM PEIRCE. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. 1st edition. Contents iclude: 1.The Birth of the Klan; 2.White Supremacy; 3.The Klan Impeaches a Governor; 4.South Carolina: The Lawless Temper; 5.The Way of the Scalawag; 6.The Klan and the Northern Teacher; 7.Georgia Scenes; 8.Friction in Flori...

Among Men and Beasts.

TREPMAN, PAUL. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

South Brunswick and New York: A.S.Barnes and Company, 1979. 0498021688. Second printing. Translated from the Yiddish by Shoshana Perla and Gertrude Hirschler. "September 1, 1939, saw the beginning of World War II in Europe - the beginning of a bestial nightmare called the Holo...

I Flew for the Fuhrer.

KNOKE, HEINZ. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Corgi Books, 1969. The exciting, uncensored diary of a German fighter pilot. Pp.156, pages toned, owner's name to front free endpaper. Paperback, creasing and wear to spine with chipping to top of spine. Good.

The History of a Slave.

JOHNSTON, H.H. · 1889 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1889. 1st edition. "The 'History of a Slave' is an attempt to give a realstic sketch of life in the Western Sudan. It is the outcome of some considerable experience of the Dark Continent, but is especially based on what I have seen and heard w...

Three Who Made a Revolution. A Biographical History.

WOLFE, BERTRAM D. · 1956 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Thames and Hudson, 1956. 1st British edition. Pp.661, 6 pages of black & white photo illustrations, owner's name to front free endpaper, minor spotting to endpapers. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper toned with edge chips. G+/Good.

Slaithwaite Notes of the Past and Present.

SUGDEN, JOHN. · 1905 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Manchester: John Heywood, 1905. Second edition. With 27 page booklet with green card covers "Slaithwaite Notes" by J. Sugden (Printed by J.W.Roberts) dated December 1906, tipped in to front of book before the front free endpaper, some rusting to staples. Pp.xvi/220, black & wh...

Huddersfield: Its History and Natural History.

HOBKIRK, CHAS P. · 1868 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Huddersfield: Geo. Tindall,"Minerva Press", 1868. A Descriptive, Historical, Geological, Botanical, and Zoological Sketch of the Town and Neighbourhood. Second Edition, Illustrated. Pp.xii/256/4(publisher's ads), folding plate frontispiece of Huddersfield Market Place + 9 furt...

Annals of the Church in Slaithwaite, (near Huddersfield), West Riding of Yorkshire...

HULBERT, CHARLES AUGUSTUS. · 1864 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Longman & Co, 1864. 1st edition. From 1593 to 1864, in Five Lectures, with a Continuation and Notes. By Charles Augustus Hulbert, M.A. Perpetual Curate of Slaithwaite-cum-Lingards, Author of the "Gospel Revealed to Job". Pp.244/6(publisher's ads), portrait sepia photo ...

The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists & Plug-Drawers.

PEEL, FRANK. · 1895 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Brighouse: John Hartley, 1895. Third edition. Revised with several new chapters added. Nineteenth century social and political history. Pp.350, portrait frontispiece + 7 further black & white illustrations, toning to endpapers, small pink waterstains to rear endpapers, plus fo...

The Sun Insurance Office 1710-1960.

DICKSON, P.G.M. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London:Oxford University Press, 1960. 1st edition. The History of Two and a Half Centuries of British Insurance. "Drawing on the Sun's extensive records and on other sources, the author describes the origins of the Office and the leading part which it has played in creating an...

Memorials of Old Whitby. or Historical Gleanings from Ancient Whitby Records.

ATKINSON, G.C. · 1894 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Macmillan and Co, 1894. 1st edition. Contents: Myths, Legends, and Traditions Connected with Whitby: a)The Story of Caedmon. b)The Horngarth; Whitby and the District before the name Cleveland was given; Whitby: What it used to be Called, and Why; Shreds of Old Whitby H...

North Wilts And District Directory For 1916 .

WILTSHIRE DIRECTORY . · 1916 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Swindon: "North Wilts Herald," Bath Road, 1916 . 0. A disbound copy of a scarce directory. 7.25" x 4.75" x 0.75". [2pp.]/[42pp.]/pp.317/[28pp.]. Soiled front cover with chips and small tears. Spine covered in brown paper. No rear cover. A few preliminary pages and a few pages ...

The Washington and Franklin Country. Northamptonshire, England.

BROWN, REGINALD W. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Northampton: Archer & Goodman, nd. (c.1925). Northamptonshire proudly claims to have been the birthplace of the ancestors of two world-famous Americans, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Pp.45, many black & white photo and line-drawing illustrations + pedigrees of the W...

Dolby's Directory of Stamford. Almanack and Directory.

DOLBY BROTHERS LTD. · 1964 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Stamford: Dolby Brothers Limited, 1964. Almanack and Directory for Stamford in Lincolnshire. 18cms x 11.75cms x 1cm. Infrmation on local government, employers and businesses, clubs, schools, and other organisations, with a folding street plan to rear which has become loose. Or...

Bridgwater Directory, Almanack and Tide Table.

WHITBY, LIGHT & LANE. · 1939 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Bridgwater: Whitby, Light & Lane Ltd,.1939. Published just before the start of World War II, this is a useful source of information for genealogists and local historians. "Nearly 900 premises in Bridgwater changed their occupiers during 1938. This means that about one-sixth of...

Barber's Littleport & District Directory & Almanack. Golden Jubilee Edition. Price Two Shillings (Including 6d. Purchase Tax) .

BARBER · 1950 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Littleport, Cambridgeshire: G. Watson, 1950 . 0. A very good original publication in printed paper covers. 7" x 5.0" x 0.25". [24pp.]/ff.25/[4pp.]/ff.9/[72pp.]. Unusual pagination. Most leaves numbered on one side, with adverts on the verso. Well illustrated with black & white...

Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church .(signed).

ANDREWS, WILLIAM (EDITOR). · 1897 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: William Andrews & Co, Hull Press, 1897. 1st edition. 5ff./pp.285/4ff. (adverts) . Frontispiece and occasional illustrations throughout the text. Floral endpapers browned to edges, bookplate of SSM Kelham to inside front board browned. Inner endpapers browned. Author's ...

The Lord Protector: Religion and Politics in the Life of Oliver Cromwell.

PAUL, ROBERT S. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Lutterworth Press,1955. 1st edition. "His Independent or Congregational churchmanship, with roots in Separatism and spiritual "democracy", appears to run counter to so much within his life, and we submit that the issues raised by hus life and thought must therefore be ...

History of the Thirty Years' Peace. A.D. 1816-1846. (In Four Volumes).

MARTINEAU, HARRIET. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971. 0716517531. Facsimile of the third edition of 1877-78 (unabridged). The Development of Industrial Society Series which reprints contemporary documents and commentaries on the social, political and economic upheavals in nineteenth-century ...