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TROUBLESOME CORPSES: Vampires & Revenants From Antiquity to the Present.

KEYWORTH, David. · 2007

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Southend-on-Sea, Desert Island Books, 2007. 8vo., pp. 320, hardcover, silver lettering; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

THE BOOK OF VICES AND VIRTUES. Part I: A Fourteenth Century English Translation of The Somme Le Roi of Lorens D’Orleans; Part II: Being A Soul’s Confession of its Sins with Reason’s Description of the Virtues. A Middle-English Dialogue of About 1200 A.D.

Edited from the Three Extant Manuscripts by, NELSON FRNACIS, W; Edited by, HOLTHAUSEN, F. · 1967

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1967; 1968. Two volumes, part I & II, the set, 8vo.,pp. part I, lxxxii,378; part II, 154-268, part I in brown cloth, gilt lettering, part II in paperback, b/w frontispiece to part I; sunning to spines...

THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND. The complete watercolours commissioned by Queen Victoria from Kenneth MacLeary of her Scottish retainers and clansmen.

MACGREGOR, Amelia Murray. · 1986

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Haggerston Press, 1986. 4to.,pp. 64, 31 plates; blue cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and map, colour plates; light toning to margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine and l...

THE LYFE OF SIR THOMAS MOORE, KNIGHTE, Written by William Roper, Esquire, which married Margreat, daughter of the sayed Thomas Moore.

[ROPER, William] Edited from thirteen manuscripts, with collations, by HITCHCOCK, Elsie Vaughan. · 1978

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1978. Facsimile reprint of the 1958 Early English Text Society edition, 8vo, pp.142, brown cloth, gilt; pale foxing to endpapers and edges, light bloom to cloth, else very good. No dust-jacket.

Early English Text Society Extra Series, LXXV. SPECULUM GY DE WAREWYKE. An Early English Poem. With Introduction, Notes and Glossary.

Edited by MORRILL, Georgiana Lea. · 1898

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1898. 8vo., pp.cxcvi,116, uncut and unopened, lilac wrappers; sunning to spine and margins, light shelfwear to wrappers, a very good copy.

THE CHIA-TING LOYALISTS. Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany, 126.

DENNERLINE, Jerry/ · 1981

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo., pp.xix,389, cloth-backed hardcover, front board lettered in gilt; a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

ETUDE ET RECREATION, OU L'INTERIEUR D'UN PENSIONNAT.

Mme CARROY. · 1825

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris: Parmantier, Libraire, 1825. Small 8vo., pp.viii,327, rebacked marbled calf boards, red title label and gilt embellishments to spine, engraved frontispiece and four further engraved plates; neat ink ownership inscription, dated 1826, to front free endpaper verso, light...

UNTOLD STORIES.

BENNETT, Alan. · 2005

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,303)

London: Faber and Faber/Profile Books, 2005. Signed, limited edition, no. 134 of 250 copies produced for sale, 8vo., pp.xv,658, cloth-backed boards, b/w plates; a near-fine copy, in matching slipcase.

LORDS OF THE ATLAS: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956.

MAXWELL, Gavin. · 1966

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Longmans, 1966. First edition, 318, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, pictorial endpapers; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with light surface soiling.

A LYTELL CRONYCLE: Richard Pynson’s Translation (c1520) of La Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient (c1307).

HETOUM. Edited by, BURGER, Glenn. · 1988

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. lx,202, ochre cloth, black lettering, b/w plates, b/w frontispiece; small stain to front board, with a few light markings to rear, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

DISENCHANTED NIGHT. The Industrialisation of Light in the Nineteenth Century.

SCHIVELBUSCH, Wolfgang. Translated from the German by Angela Davies. · 1983

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Oxford: Berg, 1983. 8vo., pp.(vi),227, blue hardcover, silver, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.

POPULAR CONTENTION IN GREAT BRITAIN 1758-1834.

TILLY, Charles. · 1995

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Harvard University Press, 1995. 8vo., pp.xvii,476, grey cloth with title-band in black, silver-lettered; a fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

CHILDHOOD AND CHILD LABOUR IN INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND. Diversity and Agency, 1750-1914.

GOOSE, Nigel; HONEYMAN, Katrina. · 2013

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 8vo., pp.xii,358, black hardcover lettered in silver; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

COLONIAL EDUCATORS. The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983.

WHITEHEAD, Clive. · 2003

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 8vo., pp.xv,286, black hardcover, gilt; slight bruise to front lower corner, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

DOMESTICITY IN COLONIAL INDIA. What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice.

WALSH, Judith E. · 2004

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. 8vo., pp.xviii,235, paperback; a fine copy.

IRELAND IN OFFICIAL PRINT CULTURE, 1800-1850. A New Reading of the Poor Enquiry.

CIOSAIN, Niall O. · 2014

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Oxford University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.viii,191, navy hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

HSUN YUEH AND THE MIND OF LATE HAN CHINA.

CH’EN, Ch’i-Yun. A Translation of the Shen-Chien With Introduction and Annotations. · 1980

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1980. 8vo.,pp. ix,225, beige cloth, with green cloth spine and silver lettering; foxing to beige cloth boards, light foxing to upper edge of text block, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

MYTH AND MEANING IN EARLY TAOISM. The Theme of Chaos (hun-tun).

GIRARDOT, N.J. · 1983

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1983. 8vo.,pp. xiv,422, grey cloth, purple lettering, b/w figures and tables; ink underlining and annotation to pp.3-5, foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.

The British Academy. KINGS OF THE HITTITES. The Schweich Lectures 1924.

HOGARTH, David George. · 1926

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926. 8vo.,pp. viii, 67, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w fold-out map to rear, b/w frontispiece; toning to margins and endpapers, light foxing to margins of fold-out map, light rubbing to head and foot of spine and...

SOPWITH SCOUT 7309.

TAYLOR, Sir Gordon. · 1968

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: Cassell, 1968. First edition, 8vo., pp.(x),177, blue hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is a little rubbed to extremities, with light creasing at headband, else very good.