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The Economic History Review. Second Series, Volume XXXIX (39), No. 2, May 1986

R A Church & E A Wrigley (eds) · 1986 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

The Economic History Society; Titus Wilson & Son Ltd. London; Kendal, Cumbria, 1986. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contents are: Surveys and Speculations - In Search of the Urban Variable - Towns and the English Economy, 1500-1650, by N R Goose; P…

Wayside and Woodland Ferns: A Guide to the British Ferns Horsetails and Club-Mosses

Step, E.; Jackson, A.B. · 1945 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Warne London 144, 64 col + 79 b/w plates. . HB. Sm. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, some spotting to edges. Vg in d/w (not price clipped). From the library of Keith Hyatt (1932-2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Soc…

Harlequin in Whitehall: a Life of Humbert Wolfe, Poet and Civil Servant: 1885-1940

BAGGULEY, Philip · 1997 · Cotswold Internet Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Nyala Publishing, 1997. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket First Edition. 1997 1st edition with B&W illustrations and colour frontispiece; tightly bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket not price-clipped with light wea…

Creating Small Faith Communities. A Plan for restructuring the Parish and renewing Catholic life.

BARANOWSKI, ARTHUR R. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥950)

Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1988. 1st.ed. "This is the story of a pastor's vision of church and a parish's journey to renewal. Father Art Baranowski brought the church into the homes of his people by restructuring his parish into Small Basic Christian Communities. T…

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 0 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, c1930. Cloth. A very neat illustrated edition of this classic and exciting work by Daniel Defoe. Not dated. Illustrated throughout with 17 plates. Collated complete. The well-known tale of Robinson Crusoe, a castaway who spends 28 years on a …

East Anglian Privies: A Nostalgic Trip Down the Garden Path

Turner, Jean · 1995 · Bookbarrow

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Countryside Books, Newberry, Berkshire, 1995. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. When Jean Turner was a child in the Norfolk countryside in the 1940’s, the family loo was an earth closet at the end of the garden. This was emptied on a weekly basis by her father and t…

Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome 20-23. Clupéoïdes-Salmonoïdes.

Cuvier, G. & A. Valenciennes · 1847 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€143.00 ($157.62 | £119.28 | ¥25,172)

1847-1848 (reprint 1969) 3 volumes. xviii, [4], 472, xiv, [2], 536, xx, 532, 91, [1] p., 16, 27, 16 b/w pls (a few folded), cloth. The last three volumes published in this series and complete Clupeidae and Salmonidae sections, with the general index to the whole work at end of v…

Conchologia Iconica. Monograph of the genus Marginella.

Reeve, L. A. · 1864 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.49 | ¥105,618)

London, Lovell A. Reeve, 1864-1865. 4to (28.0 x 22.0 cm). Title page and 27 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each with explanatory text leaves and printed index. Original "The Oast House, Brook, Ashford" pictorial wrappers. = Rare copy of the gastropod genus Marginella (Margin…

A TALE Of TWO CITIES. Film / Movier Poster

[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870] - Inspiration · 1958 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$385.00 (€349.30 | £291.37 | ¥61,487)

Bradford: Printed in Great Britain by W. E. Berry, Ltd, 1958. Cf. Bolton ATTC-115. Stored folded, and housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. An English "3-sheet" poster, in two overlapping sections, approximately 79" x 40" Here offered a scarce poster advertising a 1958 b&w Br…

Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst

SWANBERG, W. A. · 1961 · Round Table Books, LLC

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, red lettering on gilt stripe on cover, red and gilt lettering on red and gilt panel on spine, t.e.g. (black). Illustrated with sixteen pages of B&W photographs. William Andrew Swanberg (1907-19…

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION a series of adresses, essays and sermons designed to set forth great truths in popular form

STRONG,Au.HOPKINGS · 1888 · Moby Dick

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New ork 1888, 632 pp., not ill., binding discol. and inside repaired (code B-160)

The New Housekeeper&Apos;S Manual: Embracing a New Revised Edition of the American Woman&Apos;S Home; or, Principles of Domestic Science. Being a Guide to Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes Together with the Handy Cook-Book: A Complete Guide to Wholesome, Economical, and Delicious Cooking

Catherine E. Beecher; Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1874 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

New York, J. B. Ford and Company , 1874. Cloth. A smart revised edition of this richly illustrated housekeeping manual for the American home. A revised edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With guidance on ventilation, home decoration, health, exercise, clo…

An INTRODUCTION To ELECTRICITY. In Six Sections. I. Of Electricity in General. II. A Description of the Electrical Machine. III. A Description of the Apparatus (belonging to the Machine) for Making Electrical Experiments. IV. How to know if the Machine be in good Order for performing the Experiment, and How to put it in Order if it be not. V. How to Make the Electrical Experiments, and to Preserve Buildings from Damage by Lightning. VI. Medical Electricity. Illustrated with Copper-plates

Ferguson, James [1710 - 1776] · 1770 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$825.00 (€748.50 | £624.36 | ¥131,758)

London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1770. 1st edition (Ronalds, p. 171). Modern brown quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards. Eps renewed. [4], 140 pp. Illustrated with 3 fold-out plates at rear. 8vo: [A]^2 B - I^8 K^6. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Binding - Fine. Text…

The Lost Prime Minister a Life of Sir Charles Dilke

David Nicholls · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Hambledon Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A biography of the British politician Sir Charles Dilke, who would have been Prime Minster in 1885 were it not for a well-publicised divorce case. With monochrome photographs, and frontispiece of Charles Dilke. In 1885, Dilke …

Painting Restoration Before the Restauration. The Origins of the Profession in France,

A. Massing; · 2012 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€137.00 ($151.00 | £114.28 | ¥24,116)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, 320 p., 204 b/w ill., 240 x 280 mm. ISBN 9781905375349. The art of painting restoration is almost as old as the art of painting itself. Accidents and time inevitably alter the appearance of a painting, and these changes begin as soon as it leav…

MENTAL HEALTH IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND A Surprising History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment in Society

SCHINDLER Michele · 2025 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Pen and Sword History, 2025. 9781399092449 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. viii + 215, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

A Japanese, Meiji Period (1868-1912) Photograph Album JAPON 1883

1883 · Antiquariaat Novemberland/Novemberland Rare Books

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

Book Fine Nineteenth-century album, oblong folio (315 x 455 mm), original dark blue morocco with gilt title 'JAPON AP 1883' on front board, spine with 5 raised bands, original marbled endpapers; containing 50 albumen print photographs (35 in colour, 15 in b/w), in uniform 215 x …

Liturgy of the Canons regular of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. A Study and a Catalogue of the Manuscript Sources,

C. Dondi; · 2004 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€69.90 ($77.04 | £58.31 | ¥12,304)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Hardback, 344 p., 17 b/w ill., 160 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503514222. The liturgy of the Holy Sepulchre is the use created by the Latin Catholics who settled in Jerusalem as a result of the first crusade, in 1099. It originated within the cathedral church of t…

Know the Soil You Build on (Information Bulletin 320)

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (A. A. KLINGEBIEL) · 1967 · S. Howlett-West Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Washington D. C.: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1967. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a larger than trade sized booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacke…

THREE VICTORIES AND A DEFEAT The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire 1714-1783

SIMMS Brendan · 2007 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Allen Lane, 2007. 9780713994261 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xvii + 81, illus with b&w maps and photos in text (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down; no inscr…