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The Regulations And Establishment Of The Household Of Henry Algernon Percy, The Fifth Earl Of Northumberland: At His Castles Of Wressle And Leckonfield In Yorkshire: Begun Anno Domini MDXII. A New Edition, Edited, With Additional Notes.

PERCY, HENRY ALGERNON 5TH EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND 1478-1527. · 1905 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London : A. Brown & Sons, Ltd, 5, Farringdon Avenue, And At Hull And York, 1905 . 0. A very good tight binding. Thick 8vo. 9.0" x 6.25" x 2.0". pp.26/pp.451/[8pp - Adverts] . Plain grey boards, lightly rubbed and soiled. Cloth spine with 4 raised bands, faded printed title lab...

The Goods and Chattels of our Forefathers. Frampton Cotterell and District Probate Inventories, 1539-1804.

MOORE, JOHN S. (EDITOR). · 1976 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Phillimore, 1976. 0850332222. Signed first edition. Frampton Cotterell and District Historical Studies I. "Probate inventories were lists of goods compiled under oath by neighbours and relatives of the dead..They provide a uniquely valuable insight into the homes of ou...

John Petre. Essays on the Life and Background of John, 1st Lord Petre, 1549-1613.

EDWARDS, A.C. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Regency Press, 1975. 1st edition. "John Petre became an Elizabethan knight and died a Jacobean peer. This book uses the family archives to illustrate his various backgrounds - as a young man at the Middle Temple during the last years of his father, Sir William Petre, t...

Why France Collapsed.

CHAPMAN, GUY. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Cassell, 1968. 1st edition. "In June 1940 the armies of France, Great Britain and Belgium succumbed to the onslaught of the German armies in less than six weeks..This book is a bold attempt to clarify responsibilities and to answer the question of how an army - not gre...

Martin Bucer. Reforming Church and Community.

WRIGHT, D.F. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 052139144X. "To mark the 500th anniversary of his birth, an international team of specialists on Bucer highlight his contribution in thought and practice to building the community of the church - in Strasbourg, but also elsewhere in...

Returns Prepared for the Worshipful Company of Grocers In Reply To The Inquiries Addressed To Them By The City Of London Livery Companies' Commission.

WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GROCERS . · 1881 · Chilton Books

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London: Printed By R. Clay, Sons, And Taylor, Bread Street Hill, [no date c. 1881] . 0. Old plain plum coloured cloth binding. 9.75" x 6.5" x 0.75". 8vo. pp.15/[1p.]/pp.239/[1p.] Date of publication from; 'Appendix' . Clean text throughout. Last few leaves with chipped edges (...

The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1946-1959.

GODFREY, F.A. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Leo Cooper, 1988. 0850522536. 1st edition. "Covers the Regiment in action in Palestine, India, Malaya, Trieste and Cyprus, as well as when soldiering to Egypt, Greece, BAOR and at home. A complete chapter is devoted to the activities of the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire T...

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

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

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

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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...