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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 | ¥8,439)

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 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

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 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

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 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

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 | ¥3,797)

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 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

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 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

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 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

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...

St Anselm's and the Catholic Life of Dartford.

WHITEHEAD, SHEILA. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Dartford: STAP, 2000. 0953821609. 1st edition. "This book recalls the generations of praise by Catholics in Dartford". Pp.x/110, colour frontispiece + 14 pages of colour and black & white photos and illustrations,map to end, inscribed by Sheila (author?) to front free endpaper...

Essays on the History of Keele.

HARRISON, CHRISTOPHER. (EDITOR). · 1986 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Keele: The University of Keele, 1986. Essays on the history of the village and manor of Keele. 25.5cms x 18cms. Pp.168, many black & white photos, illustrations and maps. Paperback, shadow of old price label to rear. VG.

The Story of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

GRAHAM, BRIGADIER GENERAL C.A,L. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Woolwich: Royal Artillery Institution, 1944. 5th edition. Pp.108, 11 black & white plates + further occasional in the text, owner's details ( including 14820879 Gnr Gibson G.F.) to front free endpaper. Blue card covers with red zigzag outline. VG.

Suffragettes (London Connection No.12).

ATKINSON, DIANE. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥949)

London: Museum of London, 1988. 0904818284. "A fascinating insight into the dramatic and sometimes violent campaign for Votes for Women waged by the militant members of the women's suffrage movement, the Suffragettes". 20cms x 21cms. Pp.16, illustrated throughout with black & ...

English Mediaeval Pilgrimage.

HALL, D.J. · 1973 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Bath: Cedric Chivers Ltd, 1973. "The author examines in detail several diverse shrines, and gives their histories to show how they played an important part in the fabric of mediaeval life." Pp.xiv/233, 27 black & white illustrations. Purple cloth, dustwrapper has wear to top a...

The Debate on the English Reformation.

O'DAY, ROSEMARY. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Methuen, 1986. 0416726704. 1st edition. "Combines a discussion of the successive historical approaches to the English Reformation from 1525 to the present [sic] with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern political, soc...

Principles of the Reformation. Practical and Historical.

WACE, THE VERY REVEREND HENRY. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: James Nisbet & Co. Ltd, 1910. 1st edition. Ex-library. Contents include: The First Principles of Protestantism; The Course of Protestant Theology in the Sixteenth Century; The Primary Principles of Luther's Life and Teaching; Plus some urgent points in the Controversy ...

The Register of the George Cross. (Revised edition).

ANON. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Exeter: BPCC Wheatons Ltd, 1990. 0906324173. Second edition (revised). "Brief biographical details are given, together with a photograph in most instances, and this book, in addition, contains accounts of the actions in which the awards were won." Pp.151. Blue cloth, dustwrapp...

From Ranke to Toynbee : Five Lectures on Historians and Historiographical Problems. By Pieter Geyl . [ Smith College Studies In History Volume XXXIX ] .

GEYL, PIETER (1887-1966) . · 1952 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Northampton, Massachusetts : Smith College, Department of History, 1952 . 0. A very good original booklet. pp.4/[2pp.]/pp.80 . Brown card covers with printed title. Edges rubbed and creased. Printed title with ink inscription: "With the Author's compliments". Clean English tex...