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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

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

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+.

Heroic Endeavour. One Attack, a Victoria Cross, and 206 Brave Men. (Signed).

FEAST, SEAN. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Grubb Street, 2006. 1904943519. 1st edition. "It is 23rd December 1944 and a heroic yet dreadful action is about to take place over Cologne, involving the bravest of the brave - The Pathfinder Force..Journalist Sean Feast has written Heroic Endeavour in two parts, the ...

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

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

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...

The Theory of Toleration under the Later Stuarts.

SEATON, A.A. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

New York: Octagon Books, 1972. 0374972338. Reprint. The Prince Consort Prize winner, 1910. "Toleration is the practical recognition of the right of the individual to form and to act upon his own opinions on the great issues of life generally, as against the claim of external a...

The Poetics of English Nationhood 1590-1612.

MCEACHERN, CLAIRE. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

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 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

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 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

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 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

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 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

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 ...

The Guards' Chapel. (Centenary edition).

WILKINSON, NEVILE. · 1938 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: Chiswick Press, 1938. Centenary edition. Pp.xiv/246, illustrated title page, black & whilte photo frontispiece + 16 further black & white illustrations, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper, spotting to closed page edges. Blue cloth, bright gilt title and sta...

History of the Chartist Movement 1837-1854.

GAMMAGE, R.G. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

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 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,565)

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.

The Masai Story.

KOENIG, OSKAR. · 1956 · Chilton Books

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

London: Michael Joseph, 1956. 2nd impression. "It is over twenty years since I first made friends with the Masai, that famous warrior tribe, and since then I have probed deeper and deeper into their fascinating, ancient and almost uncharted country - perhaps some two thousand ...