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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT OWEN, THE SOCIALIST 1771-1858. The National Library of Wales. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

1925

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Aberystwyth/London: Published by the National Library of Wales, in association with the Press Board of the University of Wales/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925. 8vo., pp.viii,90, uncut, quarter beige cloth, lettered in black, with pale blue paper-covered board...

WITCHCRAFT PERSECUTIONS IN BAVARIA. Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe.

BEHRINGER, Wolfgang. Translated by: GRAYSON, J.C.; LEDERER, David. · 1997

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xxiii,476, brown hardcover, gilt; very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine/front upper margin.

RICHARD TUTTLE: TRIUMPHS.

DAWSON, Barbara; TUTTLE Richard; MCEVILLEY, Thomas; DEMPSEY, Michael. · 2011

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Dublin: Dublin City Gallery/The Hugh Lane, 2011. Exhibiton catalogue, folio., pp.101, paperback, colour plates; ownership autograph to front endpaper, else a fine copy.

THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND LITTLE MY.

JANSSON, Tove. · 1965

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1965. Second impression (first published in 1953), English text, 4to., pp.(26), cloth-backed pictorial boards with decorative aperture to front board, cut-out details throughout, full colour illustrations; contents (a single quire) loose within b...

LUTHER'S LEGACY. The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of ‘State’ in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s.

VON FRIEDEBURG, Robert. [Author’s presentation copy] · 2016

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Cambridge University Press, 2016. 8vo., pp.vi,441, black hardcover, gilt; fine, with author’s inscription to front free endpaper, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

CONSIDERATIONS ON RAILWAYS, PROVING THEIR UTILITY, WITH EXPLANATORY REMARKS, DEMONSTRATING GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING INTERESTS, FROM THE PROJECTED LINE BETWEEN HULL AND SELBY.

MALAM, John. · 1835

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Hull: Printed by George Lee, Rockingham Office, Bowlalley Lane, (1835). 12mo., pp.15, pamphlet in lilac paper wrappers; light surface soil and slight wear to wrappers, a good+ copy of this scarce treatise.

BACON: Portraits and Self-Portraits.

BOREL, France. Introduction by, KUNDERA, Milan. · 1996

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1996. 4to.,pp. 215, black cloth, silver lettering to spine, silver emblem to front board, colour illustrations and fold-out illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclippe...

THE FIRST EAGLE.

HILLERMAN, Tony. [Signed by the author] · 1999

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: HarperCollins, 1999. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo., pp.(v),278, hardcover, gilt; author’s signature on a presentation plate to title page, toning to upper edge, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, with sunning to spine.

GIRL MEETS BOY.

SMITH, Ali. [Signed copy] · 2007

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

Edinburgh, Canongate, 2007. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.164, hardcover, white lettering; author’s signature to title page, a near-fine copy in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with an adhesive stain to front where ...

THE RELIGIOUS CULTURE OF MARIAN ENGLAND. Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, Number 6.

LOADES, David. · 2010

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Pickering & Chatto, 2010. 8vo.,pp. viii,209, printed hardcover; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.

ANIMALS ON PARADE.

Illustrations by, ECKERSLEY, Thomas. Words by, CABRELLY, E.A. · 1948

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, Conrad Press, 1948. First edition, scarce, 4to., unpaginated, pictorial beige cloth, black lettering to spine, colour illustrations, colour frontispiece, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to endpapers, stitching of spine slightly visible at hinge of endpapers, all co...

FAITH, ETHICS AND CHURCH. Writing in England, 1360-1409.

AERS, David. · 2000

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp.xii,153, green hardcover, gilt, with printed paper label to front board; slight toning to margins, a very good, clean copy.

REGESTA REGUM SCOTTORUM I: The Acts of Malcolm IV, King of Scots 1153-1165. Together with Scottish Royal Acts Prior to 1153 Not Included in Sir Archibald Lawrie’s ‘Early Scottish Chaters’.

Collected and edited by: BARROW, G.W.S. · 1960

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1960. 8vo., pp.xvi,339, red cloth, gilt, b/w map; a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small area of loss and small closed tears to head of spine.

THE LIFE OF ST. NORBERT BY JOHN CAPGRAVE, O.E.S.A. (1393-1464).

Edited by: SMETANA, Cyril Lawrence. · 1977

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1977. 8vo., pp.ix,179, paperback (red academic wrappers lettered in black), b/w frontispiece; sunning to spine and upper margins of wrappers, light toning within, else a very good, clean copy.

LOVE IN THE SUN.

WALMSLEY, Leo. [Signed by the author] · 1939

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London/Glasgow: Collins, 1939. First edition signed by author, 8vo., pp.(xi),380, blue cloth, gilt; small, pictorial bookplate dated 1939 with neat ownership inscription to front free end-paper, signed by author with a biographical notice to half title verso, sunning to lowe...

TALES FROM DENMARK.

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Translated by: BONER, Charles. · 1847

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

London: Joseph Cundall, 1847. First edition thus, small 8vo., pp.174, half dark brown morocco with 5 raised bands and gilt borders to compartments, lettering gilt, paper-covered boards with checked design, a.e.g., frontispiece and 7 further dichromatic plates, as well as num...

THE EPISCOPAL COLLEAGUES OF ARCHBISHOP THOMAS BECKET. Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1949.

KNOWLES, David. · 1951

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Cambridge University Press, 1951. 8vo. pp.vii,190, garnet cloth; ex libris Bernard Hamilton, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good dust-jacket which has light surface soil and toning to spine.

BUDDHA'S WARRIORS. The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet.

DUNHAM, Mikel. · 2004

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

New York: Penguin Group, 2004. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,433, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; pen mark to bottom edge, otherwise near-fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light sunning to spine and margins.

OPERATION VICTORY.

DE GUINGAND, Major-General Sir Frances. · 1947

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,488, red cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece portrait, 53 b/w maps plus endpaper maps; sunning to upper edges of boards, light partial sunning/mottling to boards, overall a very good copy, in unclipped dus...

THE ANTHROPOCENE AS A GEOLOGICAL TIME UNIT. A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate.

Edited by, ZALASIEWICZ, Jan; WATERS, Colin N; WILLIAMS, Mark; SUMMERHAYES, Colin P. · 2019

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019. 8vo.,pp. xiv,361, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.