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LIKE HUNGRY WOLVES: Culloden Moor 16 April 1746.

REID, Stuart. Colour plates by, EMBLETON, Gerry. · 1994

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Windrow & Greene, 1994. Deluxe edition limited to 250 copies, this is number 122, Signed by author & artist, 4to.,pp. 128, brown leather, gilt lettering to spine and front board, gilt edges, ribbon page divider, b/w and colour illustrations; 1cm closed tear i...

UNEMPLOYMENT: A Social Study.

ROWNTREE, B. Seebohm; LASKER, Bruno. · 1911

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Macmillan, 1911. First edition, author’s presentation inscription, ‘with love from Seebolm’ and dated ‘9.xi.1911’, 8vo.,pp. xx,317, burgundy cloth, gilt, b/w tables, with 7 fold-out tables and advertisement page to rear; author’s ...

GAZETTEER OF STAINED GLASS BY C.E. KEMPE, LONDON AND C.E. KEMPE AND COMPANY LIMITED. Dorset, Gloucestershire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Included is photocopy of the Yorkshire list.

1993

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

The Kempe Society, 1993. 4to., unpaginated, photocopied leaves with plastic spine; very good.

RAMUS AND TALON INVENTORY. A Short-Title Inventory of the Published Works of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and of Omer Talon (ca. 1510-1562) in Their Original and in Their Variously Altered Forms.

ONG, Walter J. · 2013

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Reprinted, 8vo., pp.(ix),558, red hardcover lettered in black; very slight knock to upper corner of rear board, slight knock to fore-edge of front board, a fresh and otherwise fine copy. No dust-jacket.

STUDIES IN NUMISMATIC METHOD. Presented to Philip Grierson.

Edited by, BROOKE, C.N.L; STEWART, B.H.I.H; POLLARD, J.G; VOLK, T.R. · 2008

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Cambridge University Press, 2008. Digitally printed, Large 8vo.,pp. xxx,337, paperback, b/w figures and tables; a fine copy.

THE ANNALS OF HAWICK A.D.M.CC.XIV.- A.D.M.DCCC.XIV, With An Appendix, Containing Biographical Sketches, and Other Illustrative Documents.

WILSON, James. · 1850

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Edinburgh, Thomas George Stevenson, 1850. Limited edition of 500 copies, 8vo., pp.xii,398, uncut, textured green cloth, gilt, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title; pp.187-90 8cm closed tear repaired from fore-edges to centre of pages and margin trimmed, title and front...

PERSONALENDUNGEN UND VERBALSYSTEM IM ESKIMOISCHEN. Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser, XXIII,2.

HAMMERICH, L.L. · 1936

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Kobenhavn, Levin & Munksggard, 1936. 8vo.,pp. 226, paperback; toned and lightly chipped to extremities, a very good copy.

THE FRONTIER ABLAZE: The North-West Frontier Rising 1897-98.

BARTHORP, Michael. Colour plates by ANDERSON, Douglas N. · 1996

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London: Windrow and Greene, 1996. Deluxe limited edition, no.33 of 250 copies, signed by the author and artist, folio, pp.128, red faux-leather, gilt, colour plates, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in accompanying slipcase, also fine.

ENGLISH SOCIETY AND THE CRUSADE 1216-1307.

LLOYD, Simon. · 1988

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.xiv,329, navy cloth, gilt; light toning to edges, else a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly toned to spine.

THE LEX IRNITANA: A NEW FLAVIAN MUNICIPAL LAW. Reprinted from The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol.LXXVI, 1986.

GONZALEZ, Julian.

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,588)

4to., pp.147-243, paperback (printed wrappers), b/w plates; a very good copy.

PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE. Deirdre - The Green Helmet - On Baile’s Strand - The King’s Threshold - The Shadowy Waters - The Hour-Glass - Cathleen Ni Houlihan.

YEATS, W.B. With designs by CRAIG, Gordon. · 1911

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London/Stratford-upon-Avon: A. Bullen, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,224, uncut, backed in cream cloth, brown paper-covered boards, 4 b/w plates with tissue guards; lacks title label to spine, front endpapers cracked (joint remains firm), else a very good, clean copy.

THE LAWS OF CRICKET.

CROMBIE, Charles · 1912

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., c.1912 Later issue, but pre-1912 (when the publisher’s name changed), same format as the first edtion with full page colour advert (for Perrier water) to rear of volume, but without adverts to versos of plates, oblong...

EDWARD BAWDEN - ENGRAVINGS 1927-1929.

BAWDEN, Edward. Introduction by McKITTERICK, David. · 1988

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Merivale Editions, 1988. Limited edition of 500 copies, 8vo., pp.(ii),(5)Introduction,(9)b/w plates, paperback (plain wrappers), decorative dust-jacket with printed paper label; dust-jacket rubbed to head and tail of spine, with very slight crease to upper corners throughout...

FEDERATED AUSTRALIA. Photographs Depicting the Scenery, the Cities, the Industries, and Interesting Phases of Australian Life. Gems of Natural Beauty in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Southern Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania.

1901

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London: Charles Taylor, n.d. (c.1901). Oblong 4to., pp.17-160, red cloth lettered in black, b/w plates throughout (printed rectos only); title creased with slight chipping to upper edge, gutter visible between pp.17/18, partial cracking to front inner hinge (apx.4cm at foot)...

THE HAPPY WINDMILL.

THOMSON, A.A. · 1930

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1930. First edition, 8vo.,pp.312, orange cloth, black lettering; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, spine just slightly cocked, bubbling to cloth along inner margin of rear board, a couple of small dents and small bleached area to front ...

TALES, POETRY, AND FAIRY TALES.

BROWN, Walter. Illustrated by BEWICK, Thomas. · 1878

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London: W. Brown, 1878. First edition, 8vo., pp.vi,181, quarter unlettered cloth, paper-covered boards, illustrated with 90 woodcut illustrations, including frontispiece and pictorial title; rubbing and wear to extremities, with some loss to paper covering of boards, water-s...

PHILLIPPS MS. 8336, THE FAMOUS FOURTEENTH CENTURY COMPOSITE VOLUME CONTAINING EIGHTY SEPARATE TEXTS (of which no less than forty-five are unique). Including; The Autograph Manuscript of the Lyrics of an Otherwise Unknown Early Fourteenth Century English Poet, the earliest manuscript of the First Treatise on Hunting written by an Englishman, Etc, Etc. The volume as a whole constituting a principal source of Anglo-Norman Literature, and the most important authority for the works of Nicholas Bozon the Anglo-Norman Poet.

Directors, ROBINSON, Lionel K; ROBINSON, Philip R.

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Bibliotheca Phillippica/ London, William H. Robinson, Catalogue No.79, edition limited to 500 copies, 4to.,pp.xv,24, printed wrappers, b/w plates, b/w frontispiece; toned and foxed to wrappers with slight loss to head and foot of spine, and light creasing to extremities, t...

THE ATLANTIC - MAY 1938 and JUNE 1938 [Two Volumes]. Includes: ‘Women Must Weep - Or, Unite Against War’, Parts I and II, by Virginia Woolf; A Day at the Zoo, by Storm Jameson; The Harness, by John Steinbeck.

WOOLF, Virginia; JAMESON, Storm; STEINBECK, John, et al. · 1938

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Concord: The Atlantic Monthly, 1938. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.730, printed paper wrappers; ex Gardner & Sage Library, N.J., with ink-stamp to front wrappers, o/w clean, spines sunned, closed tears to head and foot of folds along spine, closed tear to rear upper margin of vo...

NOW & THEN. A Periodical of Books and Personalities Published Occasionally. Summer 1927, No.24. Includes ‘What Is A Novel?’, by Virginia Woolf.

WOOLF, Virginia (contributes). · 1927

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 8vo., pp.33,(4)adverts, printed paper wrappers; small closed tears to margins of wrappers, o/w very good.

FRENCH PAINTING IN THE TIME OF JEAN DE BERRY. In Five Volumes. The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage (Text Volume); The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke (Plate Volume); The Boucicaut Master (Plates and Text); The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries (Text Volume); The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries (Plate Volume).

MEISS, Millard. · 1967

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

Oxford: Phaidon, 1967.;1967;1974;1974; Five volumes, 4to., pp.xi,453;unpaginated, 845 b/w illustrations;x,533;unpaginated - 898 b/w illus;384, with 497 illus, of which 14 in colour; cloth, gilt; a very good set.