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Price: $175.00
Publisher: London, A. Hamilton: 1783
Seller ID: 003005
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 ... View more info
By: Adams, Sam; Hughes, Gwilym Rees
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Llandybie, C. Davies: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9053
ISBN: 715400460
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 View more info
By: Adeane (Lord); Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003784
ISBN: 0117009970
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 View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, Jones & Co.: 1833
Seller ID: 9025
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 View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1969
Seller ID: 7931
ISBN: 0197227376,
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 View more info
By: Allmand, Christopher (editor)
Price: $43.00
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5678
ISBN: 0851155146
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 View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Great Wakering, Mayhew-Mccrimmon: 1977
Seller ID: 6839
ISBN: 0855971185
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 View more info
By: Barnes, Reginal H.; Brown, Charles E.
Price: $99.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1885
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004074
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 ... View more info
By: Barton, Richard
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Dublin, A. Reilly: 1751
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9507
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 ... View more info
By: Beaty, Nancy Lee
Price: $55.00
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1970
Seller ID: 10373
ISBN: 0300013361
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 ... View more info
By: Bede The Venerable; Spitzbart, Gunter (Trans)
Price: $105.00
Publisher: Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1982
Seller ID: 5464
ISBN: 3534045548
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 View more info
By: Bede The Venerable; Spitzbart, Gunter (Trans)
Price: $105.00
Publisher: Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1982
Seller ID: 5465
ISBN: 3534045548
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 View more info
By: Bertucci, Prof. Conte Temistocle
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Milan, Dora: 1962
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 8981
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... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden Gmbh: 1994
Seller ID: 6371
ISBN: 3515065954
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 View more info
By: Boney, Knowles
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons Ltd.: 1960
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 7659
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 View more info
By: Bonser, Wilfrid
Price: $79.00
Publisher: London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library: 1963
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 5679
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 View more info
By: Booty, John E.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, SPCK Publishing: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7251
ISBN: 0281002800
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... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Toronto, The Copp, Clark Company Limited: 1901
Seller ID: 7085
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 View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5751
ISBN: 0521199220
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... View more info
By: Britton, Edward
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005132
ISBN: 0770514383
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
xvii + 291 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Illustrated with 57 tables. Buff paper covers with medieval scene in sepia. Bit of wear and small chipping at corners, flaps intact. Book itself has old price mark on inside front free endpaper, otherwise clean and fresh. Nice copy. With research based upon English village court rolls, Dr. Britton examines the structure of peasant society. Topics such as marriage, children, family groups, land-holding, movable property and social mobility are described and analysed in details. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall View more info
