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ROMAN CARMARTHEN. Excavations 1978-1993. Britannia Monograph Series No. 20.

JAMES, Heather. Various contributors. · 2003

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London: Published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2003. 4to., pp.xxii,398, paperback, b/w figures; light roll to spine, otherwise a fresh and near-fine copy.

CELTI PENAFLOR. The Archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica.

KEAY, Simon; CREIGHTON, John; REMESAL RODRIGUEZ, Jose. · 2000

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2000. 4to., pp.xii,252, paperback, b/w illustrations and figures; a very good, clean copy.

OCTOPUS: PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR OF AN ADVANCED INVERTEBRATE.

WELLS, M.J. · 1978

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1978. 8vo., pp.xiii,417, blue faux-leather, gilt, colour frontispiece, 1 further colour plate and 3 b/w plates, numerous b/w in-text illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light toning to margins throughout, a very good copy, in ...

VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS MEN AND FAIR WOMEN.

CAMERON, Julia Margaret. With Introductions by Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. Edited by: POWELL, Tristram. · 1992

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1992. Revised, expanded edition, 4to., pp.32(text), 44 monochromatic plates, maroon hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which has a l...

THE SEVENTH SENSE: FRANCIS HUTCHESON AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH AESTHETICS.

KIVY, Peter. · 2003

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. Second, revised and enlarged edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,402, paperback, b/w frontispiece; light crease to spine, partial sunning to wrappers, else clean and very good.

THE BIRDS OF ST HELENA. British Ornithologists’ Union Checklist No. 16

ROWLANDS, Beau, et al. · 1998

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

British Ornithologists’ Union, c/o The Natural History Museum, Tring, 1998. 8vo., pp.295,(i), pictorial hardcover, 50 colour illustrations; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, slight bruising to upper edge, else clean and very good indeed. No dust-jacket.

THE STAR AND CRESCENT. Being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922.

YEATS-BROWN, Major F.C.C.

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Naval and Military Press in association with The Imperial War Museum, n.d. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,358, paperback, b/w illustrations; light vertical crease to front wrapper and peeling to laminate coating of wrappers at fore-margins, else very good, and internally fine.

THE BRAHMO SAMAJ AND THE SHAPING OF THE MODERN INDIAN MIND.

KOPF, David. · 1979

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

Princeton University Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.xxiii,399, purple cloth, gilt; small ownership autograph to title verso, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with a couple of small closed tears to extremities, and with su...

POLICE DETECTIVES IN HISTORY, 1750-1950.

Edited by: EMSLEY, Clive; SHPAYER-MAKOV, Haia. · 2006

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 8vo., pp.x,255, pictorial hardcover lettered in white, b/w illustrations; internally fine and fresh, with light shelfwear to boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

ENGLISH COUNTRY TRADITIONS.

NIALL, Ian. Illustrated by: WORMELL, Christopher. · 1988

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988. Signed, limited edition, no.390 of 500 copies signed by illustrator, 8vo., pp.75, dark green cloth with inlaid pictorial label, gilt-lettered to spine, wood engraved plates and illuminated letters, pictorial endpapers; a fine, fr...

EPIGRAMMATA EX LIBRIS GRAECAE ANTHOLOGIAE (GREEK ANTHOLOGY) Sive Florilegium Latinum ex Graeco Florilegio. Accessit Musaei Poematium Versibus ab Eodem Expressum.

CHRISTIANO, Florente. [CHRESTIEN, Florent]. · 1608

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

Lutetiae: Ex Typographia Roberti Stephani, 1608. First edition, 12mo., pp.(4)115,(1) (paginated to rectos only: pp.230), full calf, five raised bands, decorative floral design in gilt to compartments, triple gilt rules to boards, printer’s pictorial vignette to title, ...

A STORY OF JUDGESPORE, 1858.

1904

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Army and Navy Co-Operative Society, Ltd., 1904. 8vo., pp.52, half navy leather, cloth boards, unlettered spine with title in gilt to front board; toning to free endpapers, light wear to edges of leather, with a couple of small holes to rear inner margin, light partia...

PREHISTORIC EGYPT. Illustrated by over 1,000 Objects in University College, Dublin. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account Twenty-Third Year, 1917.

FLINDERS PETRIE, W.M. · 1920

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London: British School of Archaeology in Eygpt/Bernard Quaritch, 1920. Folio, pp.viii,54,liii(b/w plates), half red cloth, gilt, pale grey boards lettered in black, b/w frontispiece and 52 further plates; wear to paper covering at edges of boards, some damping to margins of ...

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF POVERTY AND POLICY.

GLENNERSTER, Howard; HILLS, John; PIACHAUD, David; WEBB, Jo. · 2004

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2004. Small 4to., pp.188, paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good, fresh copy.

A GUIDE TO THE ROWNTREE AND MACKINTOSH COMPANY ARCHIVES 1862-1969. Borthwick Texts and Calendars 22.

BURG, Judith. · 1997

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, 1997. Large 8vo., pp.xiv,239, paperback; light shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean, a very good copy.

JAMES DODDS: TIDE LINES. [Artist’s presentation copy].

COLLINS, Ian. · 2011

£73.00 (€87.51 | $96.46 | ¥15,405)

Studio Fine Arts/Jardine Press Ltd., 2011. Oblong 4to., pp.(viii),203, beige cloth lettered in black and terracotta, colour plates and b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; artist’s inscription to half title (‘To Jane/James Dodds’), a fine copy, in vg+ un...

INNOCENT: HER FANCY AND HIS FACT. A Novel.

CORELLI, Marie. · 1914

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.432, pictorial blue cloth, lettered in white to front board and in gilt to spine, and with illustration stamped in gilt and white to front board and to spine, b/w frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue g...

THE WILD RUE. A Study of Muhammadan Magic and Folklore in Iran.

DONALDSON, Bess Allen. · 1938

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London: Luzac and Co., 1938. First edition, 8vo., pp.216, brown cloth lettered in dark green, 6 b/w plates (including frontispiece); light partial foxing to free endpapers, small area of sunning to head and foot of spine, light rubbing to extremities, with rubbing to upper m...

LORD DALHOUSIE’S ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONQUERED AND ANNEXED STATES. (A Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the University of Nagpur).

RAHIM, M.A. · 1963

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

Delhi: S. Chand and Co., 1963. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,396, brown cloth, gilt; pencilled ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light mark to front board, a very good, clean copy, with the usual light toning to paper, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has 2cm closed...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN JEWELLERY.

ANDREWS, Carol. · 1990

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: British Museum, 1990. 4to., pp.208, blue hardcover, gilt; fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has crease to rear upper margin, and is now in a protective cover.