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WILLIAM MASON: A STUDY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE.

DRAPER, John W. · 1924

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

New York University Press, 1924. 8vo., pp.xvi,397, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, partial loss to half title at inner margin, light rubbing to corners, a very good copy.

REFORMATION UNBOUND. Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525-1590.

GUNTHER, Karl. · 2014

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Cambridge University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.x,284, black hardcover, gilt; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, publisher’s ‘damaged’ stamp to title verso, just slight bruising to lower corners of boards, a fresh and near-fine copy, in very ...

MEDICINE IN THE CRUSADES: Warfare, Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon.

MITCHELL, Piers D. · 2006

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Cambridge University Press, 2006. Reprint, 8vo., pp.ix,293, hardcover, gilt, 15 b/w illustrations; ‘damaged’ stamp to title verso, slight shelfwear to boards, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.

GEORGE BUCHANAN TRAGEDIES.

Edited by: SHARRATT, P.; WALSH, P.G. · 1983

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.viii,350, black hardcover lettered in silver; very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.

THE MOVEMENT FOR GREEK INDEPENDENCE, 1770-1821. A Collection of Documents.

Edited and translated, with Introduction, by: CLOGG, Richard. · 1976

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London/Basingstoke: Macmillan, in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1976. 8vo., pp.xxiii,232, black cloth, gilt; a very good, clean copy, in price-clipped dust-jacket.

THOMAS LAWRENCE. Regency Power and Brilliance.

Edited by ALBINSON, A. Cassandra; FUNNELL, Peter; PELTZ, Lucy. · 2010

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: Yale Center for British Art/National Portrait Gallery, in association with Yale University Press, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.xxi,314, black cloth, gilt, colour plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.

5 EASY PIECES. The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems.

PAULY, Daniel. · 2010

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Washington/London: Island Press, 2010. Large 8vo., pp.xii,193, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.

THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF RAILWAY SIGNALLING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, Volume III: FREIGHT MARSHALLING YARD OPERATION, CONTROL AND SIGNALLING.

PARKER, Richard; PEART, Mike. · 2014

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

York: Friends of the National Railway Museum, 2014. 4to., pp.218, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; fine, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.

THE FORTH BRIDGE. Reprinted from ‘Engineering’, February 28, 1890.

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: Offices of ‘Engineering’, Folio, pp.71,unpaginated plates, claret cloth, gilt, 19 b/w plates, most of which are double-page, 156 in-text figures; toning to endpapers, paper-cracking along inner hinges, extremities rubbed, with dampstaining to lower margi...

NORTHUMBERLAND FAMILIES, Volume I.

HEDLEY, W. Percy. · 1968

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1968. 4to., pp.xi,289, black hardcover, gilt, folding cloth-backed genealogy (Carnaby of Halton) to front of volume; a very good, clean copy. Volume I only (of two).

RENAISSANCE WARRIOR AND PATRON: The Reign of Francis I.

KNECHT, R. J. · 1994

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Cambridge University Press, 1994. Large 8vo., pp.xxv,612, yellow hardcover, gilt (with stamped title band), 101 b/w illustrations and 11 b/w figures; a near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

COMMUNE AND STUDIO IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SIENA. Centro interuniversitario per la storia delle universita italiane, Studi 7.

DENLEY, Peter. · 2006

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

CLUEB (Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice Bologna), 2006. 4to., pp.xvii,495, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light creasing to spine, slight thumbing to fore-edges, else very good indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.

CHIEFTAIN TO KNIGHT. Tibbott-ne-Long Bourke (1567-1629), First Viscount Mayo.

CHAMBERS, Anne. · 1983

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.207, tan hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; toning to margins, else very good, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket.

A RECORD OF D245 BATTERY, 1914-1919.

GEE, Sergeant A.E.; SHAW, Corporal A.E.. · 1931

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: Renwick of Otley, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),182, textured blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, large folding map to rear of volume; b/w sellotape repair stain to inner margin between prelims, mostly erased (but still visible) scribbles to rear endpapers...

CATHEDRAL SHRINES OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.

NILSON, Ben. [Author’s presentation copy]. · 1998

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.x,276, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece; small crease to upper corners of pp.147-58, with very slight crease to several leaves thereafter, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

A GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRE OF GERMANY, HOLLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, PRUSSIA, ITALY, SICILY, CORSICA, AND SARDINIA; With a Gazetteer of Reference to the Principal Places in Those Countries. Compiled and translated from the German. To which are added, Statistical Tables of all the States of Europe; Translated from the German of J.G. Boetticher of Konigsberg. With a Supplementary Table, Showing the Changes Since the Commencement of the Present War. Illustrated with Twemty-Four Plates, and a large Three-Sheet Post Map of Germany, Holland, Italy, Etc.

CHAUCHARD · 1800

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

London: John Stockdale, 1800. 4to., pp.390,viii,87, full contemporary speckled calf, 5 raised bands, red title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, frontispiece map, 3 folding maps, 23 city plans; light evidence of removed bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor mar...

THE EARLY WHISTLER. No.6 of The Ariel Poems.

GIBSON, Wilfrid. Illustrated by John Nash. · 1927

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London: Faber and Faber, printed at The Curwen Press, Plaistow, (1927). Limited edition, no. 13 of 350 copies, 8vo., pp.(iv), pictorial paper-covered boards, Zanders’ handmade paper, colour plate; light toning and slight foxing to pale covers and endpapers, a very good...

FAMOUS REGIMENTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. A Pictorial Guide and Celebration.

BOND, Dorian. · 2009

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Stroud: The History Press, 2009;2013;2017. Three volumes, small 4to., pp.192;208;208, hardcover, gilt, colour and b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jackets.

RIFLE GREEN IN THE PENINSULA, Volumes I, II, III and IV [Set of Four Volumes]. An Account of the 95th Foot in the Peninsular Campaign of 1808-14.

CALDWELL, George; COOPER, Robert. Illustrated by James Dann. · 1998

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Leicester: Bugle Horn Publications, 1998;2006;2012;2015. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.224;287;283;413, green faux-leather lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; a fine set, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets. Volume III covers the sieges of Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz and the Battl...

A DORSET SOLDIER: The Autobiography of Sgt William Lawrence 1790-1869.

Edited by, HATHAWAY, Eileen; Foreword by, GRANT, Major-General S.C. · 1993

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1993. 8vo., pp.176, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and maps; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket. 9781873376055