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THE STREETS OF LONDON: From the Great Fire to the Great Stink.

Edited by, HITCHCOCK, Tim; SHORE, Heather. Foreword by, PORTER, Roy. · 2003

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, River Oram Press, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xvi,256, paperback, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.

FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE. 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.

BARZUN, Jacques. · 2001

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, HarperCollins, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xviii,877, hardcover, gilt; light toning to margins, foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

THE PATENT MEDICINES INDUSTRY IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND. Constructing the Market by the Potency of Print.

MACKINTOSH, Alan. · 2018

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 8vo.,pp. xvi,320, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures and tables; presentation copy from the author with inscription to front free endpaper, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.

THE BEETLES OF SPURN PENINSULA.

DENTON, Michael. · 1995

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

York, Yorkshire Museum, 1995. 8vo.,pp. 96, paperback; light sunning to extremities, a very good copy.

POETRY AND POPULAR PROTEST. Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy.

GARDNER, John. · 2011

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 8vo.,pp. xix,272, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

PROSTITUTION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD. The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East.

LEISER, Gary. · 2017

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, I.B. Tauris, 2017. 8vo.,pp. xv,332, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

POLITICAL UNIONS, POPULAR POLITICS AND THE GREAT REFORM ACT OF 1832.

LoPATIN, Nancy D. · 1999

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999. 8vo., pp. xii,236, hardcover, gilt; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

THE MUSIC LIBRARY. Graphic Art and Sound. Featuring over 325 sleeves plus an exclusive CD of rare library recordings.

Conceived and compiled by TRUNK, Jonny. Afterword by Julian House. · 2005

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: Murray and Sorrell, FUEL, 2005. Oblong 8vo., pp.207(i), hardcover, colour illustrations throughout; light rubbing to extremities, else very good indeed. CD in loose paper case to rear of volume.

SECRETARY OF EUROPE. The Life of Friedrich Gentz, Enemy of Napoleon.

MANN, Golo. · 1946

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. 8vo., pp. 323, hardcover, black lettering, b/w frontispiece, 5 b/w illustrations; foxing and toning to front and rear paste-downs and endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket with area ...

THE LIFE OF ST. EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR. The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund in MS Harley 2278. [Full colour deluxe facsimile edition plus Commentary volume]

LYDGATE, John. Introduction, transcript and commentary by A.S.G. Edwards. · 2004

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London: The Folio Society, 2004. Limited edition, no. 431 of 1010 copies, two volumes, 8vo., Facsimile volume: pp.119r,119v, bound in publisher’s cream morocco binding with three raised bands and inlaid red morocco panel to front board, stamped in blue, black, and gilt...

THE ADJUSTMENT & TESTING OF TELESCOPE OBJECTIVES

[Third Edition] · 1921

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

York: T. Cooke & Sons, Ltd. 1921. 8vo., pp.123, boards quarter bound in contrasting paper, tan title inlay to spine, uncut, one b/w plate, b/w illustrations throughout, toning to margins, occasional pencilling, closed tears to pages, 73, 75, 77, light wear to boards, par...

THE CHURCH AND LEARNING IN LATE MEDIEVAL SOCIETY: STUDIES IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR R.B. DOBSON. HARLAXTON MEDIEVAL STUDIES VOLUME XI.

Edited by: BARRON, Caroline and Stratford, Jenny. · 2002

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2002. 8vo., pp.,xii,398, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w photograph portrait frontispiece, many b/w photos and b/w illustrations; stamp to front paste-down, a very good hardback in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

THE CELTIC ANNUAL 1916.

Edited by MACLEOD, Malcolm C. · 1915

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Dundee: Dundee Highland Society, 1915. 8vo., pp.ii,140, green hardcover, gilt lettering to front board, b/w frontispiece with coloured lettering and borders, b/w illustrations; foxing to endpapers, light toning to margins, otherwise internally clean, lightly rubbed, small br...

MACAO ET COSMAGE OU L'EXPERIENCE DE BONHEUR.

EDY-LEGRAND [Edouard-Leon-Louis]. · 1919

£420.00 (€503.44 | $554.88 | ¥88,607)

Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919 First edition, square folio, pp.(liv) unpaginated, recased in black cloth, preserving original covers, which are pasted down to boards, pochoir colour plates throughout, designed by Legrand and hand-coloured by Jean Saudé, colour endpape...

THE PUTNEY DEBATES OF 1647 The Army, The Levellers, and the English State.

MENDLE, Michael. · 2010

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.xii,297, paperback; lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

THE SWINEHERD.

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. With illustrations by Einar Nerman. · 1924

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London: Duckworth & Co., 1924. First edition, 4to., pp.(21), pictorial paper-covered boards, 10 colour plates, pictorial endpapers; wear with light loss to headband, light wear to tailband, rubbing to extremities, with toning and surface soil to pale boards, clean within...

THE HIGH HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAAL.

Translated from the Old French by EVANS, Sebastian. Illustrated by Jessie M. King. [Signed by the translator] · 1903

£1,750.00 (€2,097.65 | $2,311.99 | ¥369,196)

London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1903. First edition, with translator’s ink presentation inscription to head of front free endpaper, tall 8vo., pp.xvii,379, uncut, pictorial pale blue cloth lettered in black, with gilt accents to front board, t.e.g., frontispiece and picto...

HISTORY, PROPHECY, AND THE STARS. The Christian Astrology of Pierre D’Ailly, 1350-1420.

SMOLLER, Laura Ackerman. · 1994

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.,xii,233, grey cloth, red lettering, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; neat ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (concealed by flap of dust-jacket), a fresh and near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclippe...

CASTOR AND POLLUX. Two Jacobite Maclean Knights from The Sound of Mull at War in The Hebrides, The Highlands of Scotland, Ireland & Mainland Europe 1674-1716.

MACLEAN-BRISTOL, Nicholas. · 2012

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Scotland: Society of West Highland & Island Historical Research in 2012, 2012. 8vo., pp.xxi,480, paperback, pictorial wrappers; a very good copy indeed.

ROMISCHE GESCHICHTE BIS ZUM BEGINN DER PUNISCHEN KRIEGE. Mit Drei Karten.

BELOCH, Karl Julius. · 2015

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

De Gruyter, 2015. Facsimile reprint of 1926 edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,664, hardcover, three colour maps; slight shelfwear, internally fine, a very good+ copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.