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FINN AND HIS COMPANIONS.

O’GRADY, Standish. Illustrated by J.B. Yeats. [Jack B. Yeats] · 1892

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. 12mo., pp.xvi,182,8(adverts), decorative cloth, with matching endpapers and edges, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, further b/w plates, decorative b/w headpieces, pictorial half title; foxing to prelims, spine lightly rolled, sunning to spin...

SPIRITUALITY IN CONFLICT. Saint Francis and Giotto’s Bardi Chapel.

GOFFEN, Rona. · 1988

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

University Park/London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. 4to., pp.xvii,142, grey cloth lettered, gilt, 70 b/w illustrations; a fine copy in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century.

BLUMENTHAL, Uta-Renate. Translation by the Author. · 1988

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. xiii,191, red hardcover, white lettering to spine, b/w maps; author’s presentation copy with inscription to front free endpaper, alongside ownership autograph to front free endpaper,light foxing to upper ed...

EDWARD ELGAR: Letters of a Lifetime.

NORTHROP MOORE, Jerrold. · 1990

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xviii,524, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; lightly toned, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

EDWARD ELGAR PROVINCIAL MUSICIAN: Diaries 1857-1896. Edward Elgar: Collected Correspondence, SEries V, Volume I.

BIRD, Martin. · 2013

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Rickmansworth, Elgar Works, 2013. 8vo.,pp. xvii,492, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY. A Study of Gilbert Porreta’s Thinking and the Theological Expositions of the Doctrine of the Incarnation during the Period 1130-1180.

NIELSEN, Lauge Olaf. · 1982

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982. Tall 8vo., pp.396,(i), red cloth lettered in white; unobtrusive ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, light pencil-marking to margins, light rubbing to cloth, with foxing to spine, a good(+) copy. No dust-jacket.

TUDOR HISTORIES OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATIONS, 1530-83.

BETTERIDGE, Thomas. · 1999

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. 8vo., pp.pp.x,246, black hardcover lettered in silver; very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

THE DYNASTY OF CHERNIGOV, 1146-1246.

DIMNIK, Martin. · 2003

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cambridge University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xxxviii,437, black hardcover, 18 b/w plates including frontispiece, 6 b/w maps; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE EMPIRE OF THE HITTITES.

WRIGHT, WIlliam. With Decipherment of Hittite Inscriptions by Prof. A.H. Sayce, a Hittite map by Col. Sir Charles Wilson and Capt. Conder, and a complete set of Hittite Inscriptions revised by W.H. Rylands. · 1884

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London: James Nisbet and Co., 1884. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxi,200,(xxi)plates,(ii)adverts, pictorial brown cloth, gilt, lettering in black, frontispiece map with tissue guard; a couple of small marks to rear board, light bruising to upper corners of boards, a couple of spo...

MARBLE DECORATION AND THE TERMINOLOGY OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN MARBLES.

BLAGROVE, George H. · 1888

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1888. First edition, 8vo., pp.vi,122,40, (publisher’s adverts),16 (adverts), navy cloth, lettered in gilt and with border and insignia in black, 28 b/w figures; stitching/gutter occasionally visible, a couple of small pencil marks to ma...

THE TURKISH EMPIRE. Its Growth and Decay.

EVERSLEY, Lord. · 1917

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1917. First edition, 8vo., pp.392, green hardcover lettered in gilt and red, b/w frontispiece, 3 folding colour maps; spine lightly sunned, slight bruising to corners, light mark to front board, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

LANDFORMS AND GEOLOGY OF GRANITE TERRAINS.

TWIDALE, C.R.; ROMANI, J.R. Vidal. · 2005

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Leiden/London: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2005. 4to., pp.ix,351, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light shelfwear to covers, internally fine, with presentation inscription to title, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.

THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH OF ST. ANDREWS.

McROBERTS, David, ed. · 1976

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Glasgow: John S. Burns and Sons, 1976. 8vo., pp.xii,178, red cloth, gilt, folding colour frontispiece, 24 b/w plates, folding plan of the Medieval Cathedral of St. Andrews; a very good+ copy, in unclipped dust-jacket with light water-staining to inner lower corners, small ch...

THE FIRST HISTORY OF DUNDEE, 1776.

MILLAR, A. H. · 1923

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Dundee: David Winter and Son, 1923. 8vo., pp.xxviii,270,(ii), blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, folding map to rear of volume; owner’s initials to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, spotting to spine, light rubbing to extremities, a good+, internally clea...

PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE WESTERN ISLES.

PADGET, Martin. · 2010

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxvi,294, black hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

SAINT LOUIS. Crusader King of France.

RICHARD, Jean. Edited and abridged by Simon Lloyd. Translated by Jean Birrell. · 1992

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cambridge/Paris, Cambridge University Press/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1992. 8vo., pp.xxix,354, blue hardcover, gilt; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light sunning to top edges, a very good copy indeed, in very good unclipped dust-...

ABC AN ALPHABET.

Written & pictured by, GASKIN, Mrs. Arthur. · 1896

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Elkin Matthews, 1896. First edition, scarce, 8vo., 20pp. of advertisements to rear of volume, text and pictures unpaginated, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title page; pictorial blue cloth, image to front board blocked in cream and black with black le...

CISTERCIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

Edited by, NORTON, Christopher; PARK, David. · 1986

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. Large 8vo.,pp. xix,453, blue cloth, black title band with gilt lettering to spine, b/w plates, b/w figures and maps; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

PLUNDERING THE PAST: Roman Stonework in Medieval Britain.

EATON, Tim. · 2000

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2000. 8vo., pp.160, paperback, colour plates, b/w illustrations and figures; light creasing to margins of wrappers, a very good copy.

THE MAHDI OF ALLAH. A Drama of the Sudan. The Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed.

BERMANN, Richard A. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill. · 1931

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London/New York: Putnam, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,318, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 14 further b/w plates and 2 b/w maps; foxing to fore-edges, some foxing throughout, a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tears and light wear to ...