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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. Volume the Fifty-Fifth and Volume the Fifty-Sixth

By: A Society of Gentlemen

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, A. Hamilton: 1783

Seller ID: 003005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

3 + 498 pp + 480 pp + (viii) Index. Two Volumes. Various articles including Dr. Burney's General History of Music; Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative; Letter to Governor Johnstone on India affairs; Retaining Gibraltar; Dr. Priestley's Sermon at Birmingham; Raley's Treatise on the Management of Potatoes; Remarks on various works of Dr. Johnson; The American Wanderer; Practical Thoughts on Amputation; Observations on Jail or Ship Fever; and much more. Leather spines with red labels are worn and cracking; boards are detached, along with first few pages. Pages are deckled with some general wear ...
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Triskel Two; Essays on Welsh and Anglo-Welsh literature

By: Adams, Sam; Hughes, Gwilym Rees

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Llandybie, C. Davies: 1973

Seller ID: 9053

ISBN: 715400460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

181pp + 11 unnumbered pages. English and Welsh languages. Notes, plates. DJ is cream with green and black text on the front and spine, black text on back, designs on front, spine and back. DJ has minor wear to head and top corners, sunning to top edge, price clipped and covered in protective mylar. Book has dark blue cloth covers with gold text on the spine and back. Minor wear to head, tail and corners, minor sunning to top edge. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 181 pages
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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northampton. Vol. IV. Archaeological Sites in sourth-West Northamptonshire

By: Adeane (Lord); Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1982

Seller ID: 003784

ISBN: 0117009970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

li + 226 pages. Folding map in rear pocket. Illustrated with many maps and figures. Beautiful grey-green buckram -covered hard boards with brilliant gilt including that of the Royal Commission are clean and bright, just the slightest hint of shelf wear. Interior has small price sticker mark on first blank, otherwise clean and fresh. Beautiful copy of a beautiful book. Heavy -- may require add'l shipping.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Memoirs of Caroline. Queen Consort of Great Britain Vol. II. With 9 Hand-Coloured Plates and Frontis

By: Adolphus, J.H., Esq.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Jones & Co.: 1833

Seller ID: 9025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

526 pp. Colored frontis with view of the House of Lords, hand-colored title page with a view of the Bay of Naples and 9 other hand-colored plates. Dark green calf leather with gilt double ruling. Spine in compartments with blind decoration as well as gilt, two red labels, one with title and one with "Vol. II." Gilt edges and edge dentils. First free end paper torn out, some foxing especialy near the plates but otherwise clean and unmarked, nice and sturdy. Gorgeous plates in this sumptuous biography. Vol. II, complete in and off itself, only. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 526 pages
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A History of the County of York EAst Riding. Volume I The City of Kingston Upon Hull

By: Allison, K.J., Editor

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 7931

ISBN: 0197227376,

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xx, folding map, 498 pp. Index. Illustrated with maps and plans, as well as photos. Frontis plate, red & black title. Red cloth with gilt British Lion coat of arms to front cover, spine gilt, red library tape masking spine numbers, bit of wear at corners and extremities, interior has normal library marks including pocket, otherwise clean and unmarked. Lovely big book but heavy to ship. ; The Victoria History of the Counties of England; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 498 pages
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Power Culture and Religion in France, C.1350-C.1550

By: Allmand, Christopher (editor)

Price: $43.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press: 1989

Seller ID: 5678

ISBN: 0851155146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

+ (14) 163 pages +(7) English and French languages, contains photographs, notes and index, DJ light blue with dark blue lettering and illustration on front, minor wear to head, tail and corners, minor marks and faint colour fading near spine and edges, book dark blue with silver lettering on spine, minor wear to head, tail and corners, signed on endpaper by author Penelope Billings Reed Doob, pages 58-74 show underlining and marks in margins, otherwise pages clear and unmarked ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 163 pages
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Seminary Priests Volume 4: 1716-180 Dictionary of the Secular Clergy of England and Wales, 1558-1850. IV. 1716-1800

By: Anstruther, Godfrey

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Great Wakering, Mayhew-Mccrimmon: 1977

Seller ID: 6839

ISBN: 0855971185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Xiv + 312 pp. 2 appendices and index at rear - unpaginated. Pink and white soft cover. Book is in good condition. Some faint wear along cover edges. Very clean. Signed by previous owner in pen on front fly page. ; X X ; 368 pages
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Jane Austen. Her Life and Letters, a Family Record With Interesting Provenance

By: Austen-Leigh, William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Company: 1913

Seller ID: 10638

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Xv, 437, [3] pp. Index, chronology, bibliography. Frontis portrait of Jane, 2 folding genealogy charts before the index. Octavo. Red and black title. Dark red original cloth with blind ruling, gilt title and gilt facs Austen signature, spine gilt. Covers have a bit of rubbing at extremities, spine little faded. Interior has two interesting owner marks, one the stamp of C. R. Councer, a member of the Kent Archeological Society and a medieval stained glass expert; and the other the signature of Charles William Previté-Orton, a British medieval historian. The book is quite nice and clean. At the...
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Charles George Gordon. A Sketch

By: Barnes, Reginal H.; Brown, Charles E.

Price: $99.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1885

Seller ID: 004074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

This book is a hardcover, 7 1/2" by 5", 104 pages, plus several unnumbered preliminaries and 4 pages of facsimile letters before the title page; in fair condition. Cloth covers show rubbing at the corners, spine tip chipping. Interior hinges cracked, the 4 pages of facsimile letters are detached and the last fly is similarly cracking away from the binding at the gutter. There are old "Mercantile Library" stamps on the title page and a few other pages, otherwise, all pages are clean and unmarked. This is an exceedingly rare hardcover on Charles George Gordon, "Gordon ...
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Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Designed, To be a foundation, for reasoning pertinently upon the petrification, gems, crystals and sanative quality of Lough Neagh, etc. BOUND WITH Some remarks AND A dialogue concerning some things

By: Barton, Richard

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Dublin, A. Reilly: 1751

Seller ID: 9507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Frontis, xvi, [8], [ii], 186 (misnumbered) , ad; frontis, 27; frontis, 14, [i]. First book has frontis and 6 plates, including 3 folding. A Dialogue concerning some Things of Importance to Ireland, Particularly to the County of Ardmagh, Printed by Oll Nelson for the Author, 1751, has the same frontis as the first part. Some Remarks, Towards a Full Description of Upper and Lower Lough Lene, Near Killarny, in the County of Kerry, printed by S. Powell, 1751 has a frontis perspective of Lower Lough Leune. Rebound with green art paper covered hard boards, 1/2 leather dark brown spine with 5 raised ...
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The Craft of Dying; A Study in the Literary Tradition of the Ars Moriendi in England,

By: Beaty, Nancy Lee

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1970

Seller ID: 10373

ISBN: 0300013361

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Xii, 299 pp. Index, bibliography. Octavo. Dark brown and cream paper dust jacket with the image of an old gravestone. DJ has some general wear, some tears at the top back, front flap price clipped but otherwise good. Book itself has some fading at the top and bottom edges, interior clean and nice. Good copy. "Examining 5 key treatises in the English tradition of devotional literature, the author traces the progressive enrichment of one particular subgenre, the ars moriendi, which reached its artistic culmination in Jeremy Taylor's Holy Dying...she explores the stylistic variations in Holy ...
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Kirchengeschichte des englischen Volkes (German Edition)

By: Bede The Venerable; Spitzbart, Gunter (Trans)

Price: $105.00

Publisher: Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1982

Seller ID: 5464

ISBN: 3534045548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued

+ (8) 311 pages +(1) German and Latin languages, navy blue and white covers with navy blue lettering, minor wear to head, tail and edges, ex-library with usual marking including attempted removal of pocket and spine sticker, otherwise pages clear and unmarked ; Texte zur Forschung; Ex-Library; Vol. 1; 311 pages
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Kirchengeschichte des englischen Volkes (German Edition)

By: Bede The Venerable; Spitzbart, Gunter (Trans)

Price: $105.00

Publisher: Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1982

Seller ID: 5465

ISBN: 3534045548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued

+ (9) 270 pages, pages numbered 312-582, German and Latin languages, contains index, navy blue and white covers with navy blue lettering, minor wear to head, tail and edges, ex-library with usual marking including attempted removal of pocket and spine sticker, otherwise pages clear and unmarked ; Texte zur Forschung; Ex-Library; Vol. 2; 270 pages
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Almanacco Nobilare Italiano. Edizione aggiornata delle Casate Nobili d'Italia, pubblicata in occasione del Centenario dell'Unita d'Italia 1861-1961

By: Bertucci, Prof. Conte Temistocle

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Milan, Dora: 1962

Seller ID: 8981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

xv, 356 pp. Esemplare N. 232. In Italian. Illustrated with plates, some in color, showing family crests. Ocher linen covers with gilt Greek key borders, gilt title and decoration, gilt to spine. Front board a bit concave, spine faded, minor edge wear. Orange end pages. First blank has a gift inscription from a member of the Ranedda family whose crest is included in the volume. Text is clean and unmarked. Last blank and prior two leaves have some humidity rippling but no other signs of that. Priced low to reflect this small defect. Scarce, with a nice provenance. Heavy -- nearly 2 kg p...
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Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective, Thirteenth to Twentieth Century Papers Presented at Session B-3a of the Eleventh International Economic ... Sozial- & Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Beihefte)

By: Blanchard, Ian (Ed. )

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden Gmbh: 1994

Seller ID: 6371

ISBN: 3515065954

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Bibliography and collective index at rear. Edited volume with 12 articles by different authors. English text. White and dark blue softcover. Book has 2 blue marks on front cover. Otherwise book is in good condition with minimal wear. Interior is clean with no marks. ; X X ; 198 pages
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Richard Chaffers, a Liverpool Potter Limited Edition, 101/200 signed by the author

By: Boney, Knowles

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons Ltd.: 1960

Seller ID: 7659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

63 pp. BibliographyFrontis portrait of Chaffers, plate of the journal. Ltd ed 101/200, signed by the author on the limitation page. Blue paper dj is a bit grubby, some wear at top of spine, not price clipped. Boards are clean and nice. Interior has an owner name and small inscription in black marker on first blank, otherwise clean and nice. Includes the journal and ledger of the estate of Chaffers. ; 63 pages; Signed by Author
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Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England A Study in History, Psychology, and Folklore.

By: Bonser, Wilfrid

Price: $79.00

Publisher: London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library: 1963

Seller ID: 5679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

+ (36) 448 pages, contains footnotes and index, DJ tan with green lettering, wear and tears to head and tail, wear to edges and corners, minor smudges on covers, book dark blue with copper lettering on spine, minor wear to head, tail, corners and edges, endpaper signed by author and previous owner Penelope Billings Reed Doob, otherwise pages clear and unmarked, slight smoky scent ; 448 pages
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John Jewel as Apologist of the Church of England

By: Booty, John E.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, SPCK Publishing: 1963

Seller ID: 7251

ISBN: 0281002800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

xi, 244 pp. Bibliography, index. Dark blue cloth has remains of library spine label, gilt to spine, small white mark on front cover, moderate normal wear to corners/edges. Interior has normal library marks including pocket, interior otherwise clean and nice. John Jewel was a leading figure in the early Elizabethan Church of England. Bishop of the diocese of Salisbury (1559-71), he is best known as the apologist of the Elizabethan settlement of religion. This study concentratees on Jewel as apologist and controversialist; therefore it is neither a full biography nor a thorough study of his the...
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Canada under British Rule 1760-1905

By: Bourinot, John G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Copp, Clark Company Limited: 1901

Seller ID: 7085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Xi + 346 pp. 2 appendices and index at rear. 3 fold out maps inside rear. Green cloth boards. Book is in fair condition, covers faded and marked, as well as rubbed along edges. Interior is mostly clean with no signficant marks. Very usable copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400

By: Breen, Dr Katharine

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2010

Seller ID: 5751

ISBN: 0521199220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

X + 287 pp + ads. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. In English with some Latin and Old English. Green and gold glossy dustjacket has very minor shelf wear, interior has some pencil marks on first blank, otherwise fresh and clean. The original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that result from internalizing culture or objective social structures. Beginning by examining medieval theories of habitus in a general sense, Breen goes on to investigate the relationships between habitus, language and Christian vir...
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