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REMINISCENCES OF CAPTAIN GRONOW 1810-1860

£40.00

TWO VOLUMES IN FINE CONDITION – PROTECTED WITH ACETATE COVERS AND NO DUSTWRAPS.PREVIOUS OWNER`S BOOKPLATES ON EACH VOLUME. 13 COLOUR PLATES.

Author: GRONOW CAPTAIN
Place, Publisher, Date: SOMERSET, R.S.SURTEES, 1984/85
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE
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REMINISCENCES OF OXFORD BY OXFORD MEN 1559-1850

£32.00

VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN BLUE CLOTH – NO DUSTWRAP. ARRANGED SO FAR AS POSSIBLE CHRONOLOGICALLY ACCORDING TO THE DATE OF BIRTH OF EACH AUTHOR.

Author: QUILLER COUCH LILIAN M. (EDITED BY)
Place, Publisher, Date: OXFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 1892
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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REPORT ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE LATE REGINALD RAWDON HASTINGS (VOL. 3)

£75.00

FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL CARD COVERS WITH CLOTH SPINE. A VERY GOOD COPY. MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE MANOR HOUSE ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH. 435 PAGES.

Author: BICKLEY FRANCIS (EDITOR)
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, H.M.S.O., 1934
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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ROMAN BRITAIN

£16.00
Author: SALWAY PETER
ISBN: 019821717
Place, Publisher, Date: OXFORD, CLARENDON PRESS, 1987
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: NEAR FINE
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SAPIENS

£17.00
Author: HARARI YUVAL NOAH
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, CAPE, 2020
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE
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SAVED FOR HUMANITY

£30.00
Place, Publisher, Date: LENINGRAD, AURORA, 1985
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE
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SCRIVELSBY, HOME OF THE CHAMPIONS

£45.00

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MARMION AND DYMOKE FAMILIES. FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL MAROON CLOTH BEVELLED BOARDS SOME WEAR TO THE SPINE AND BOARDS BUT VERY GOOD. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF GEOFFREY INGOLD.

Author: LODGE SAMUEL
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, STOCK, 1893
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SHARDELOES PAPERS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES

£15.00

1ST EDITION VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH NO DUSTWRAPPER BOOK PLATE TO FRONT FACE DOWN ILLUSTRATED.

Author: ELAND G. (EDITOR)
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1947
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SHIP MONEY PAPERS AND RICHARD GRENVILLE’S NOTEBOOK

£15.00

VOLUME 13 OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY. ORIGINAL CREAM BOARDS ISSUED WITHOUT A DUSTWRAPPER. NEAT BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. A VERY GOOD COPY.

Author: BONSEY J.AND JENKINS J. (EDITORS)
Place, Publisher, Date: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY, 1965
Binding: VERY GOOD
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SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S TABLES FOR RENEWING AND PURCHASING THE LEASES OF CATHEDRAL-CHURCHES AND COLLEGES – SIGNED BY THOMAS ASTLEY

£500.00

SIXTH EDITION FINE COPY IN A RECENT FULL LEATHER BINDING. 32mo (3.5 by 5.5 inches). MABBUT’S BOOK COMPRISES 108 PAGES INCLUDING A ONE-PAGE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED BY ASTLEY. IT IS BOUND WITH ‘THE MONY’D MAN’S POCKET-BOOK BEING TABLES OF SIMPLE INTEREST (102 PAGES). INTERESTINGLY NEWTON’S BOOK HAS A NOTE FROM ASTLEY POINTING OUT THAT THERE IS A ‘SPURIOUS EDITION OF THE BOOK WHICH IS VERY IMPERFECT AND CONSEQUENTLY A GREAT ABUSE AND IMPOSITION TO THE PUBLIC’. TO DISTINGUISH THE CORRECT AND GENUINE COPIES ASTLEY HAS EXAMINED THE BOOK AND SIGNED THE BACK OF THE TITLE PAGE. ALSO THE TABLES OF INTEREST ARE SIGNED BY ASTLEY AS A GUARANTEE OF THEIR ACCURACY. HE STATES THAT IF THE TABLES SIGNED BY HIM ARE FOUND TO BE IN ERROR OF A PENNY HE WILL ‘GIVE A PERFECT AND CORRECT COPY IN THE ROOM OF IT’. THE FRONT PASTEDOWN HAS THE AMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF THOMAS HOLME OF HOLME HALL (CUMBRIA). A FINE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE ITEM.

Author: MABBUT GEORGE
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, THOMAS ASTLEY, 1742
Binding: FULL LEATHER
Condition: FINE
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SMALL TALK AT WREYLAND

£22.00

FIRST EDITION. SECOND SERIES. ORIGINAL BROWN BOARDS. CLOTH SPINE. VERY GOOD BUT WITH WEAK BINDING. SIGNATURE ON FRONT PASTEDOWN. COUNTRY GOSSIP FROM LUSTLEIGH IN DEVON.

Author: TORR CECIL
Place, Publisher, Date: CAMBRIDGE. 1921
Binding: BOARDS
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SMEETON’S HISTORICAL TRACTS (EIGHT)

£400.00

EIGHT OF SMEETON’S HISTORICAL TRACTS VERY NICELY BOUND IN A MODERN QUARTER LEATHER BINDING WITH MARBLED BOARDS. THESE WERE PUBLISHED AROUND 1820 AS REPRINTS OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TRACTS. BOUND WITH THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AT THE REAR. ALL IN VERY NICE CONDITION AND EACH WITH AN ENGRAVED PORTRAIT. THE TRACTS ARE: COUNT GONDAMOR’S TRANSACTIONS (1820 30 PAGES); THE COURTAND CHARACTER OF KING JAMES (1817 61 PAGES); THE SPANISH INVASION IN 1588 BY CLARK (1819 35 PAGES); JAMES THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH (1820 45 PAGES); GEORGE VILLIERS THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (1819 54 PAGES); HUGH PETERS (1818 41 PAGES); THE KING’S DECLARATION TO HIS SUBJECTS CONCERNING LAWFUL SPORTS TO BE USED (1817 11 PAGES); THE LIFE OF HENRY THE THIRD (1820 21 PAGES).

Author: VARIOUS
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, SMEETON, 1817-20
Binding: QUARTER LEATHER
Condition: VERY GOOD
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SOME PARTICULARS OF THE ROYAL INDISPOSITION OF 1788 – 1789 AND ITS EFFECTS UPON ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES AND OPPOSITE PARTIES

£250.00

FIRST EDITION 111 PAGES BOUND IN LATER RED CLOTH AND WITH WORN LEARHER LABEL. VERY GOOD PREVIOUS OWNER’S BOOKPLATE. VERY SCARCE. A DETAILED ACCOUNTOF THE ILLNESS OF GEORGE THE THIRD OF ENGLAND.

Author: ANONYMOUS
Place, Publisher, Date: LONDON, R TAYLOR, 1804
Binding: CLOTH
Condition: VERY GOOD
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STOCKPORT PROBATE RECORDS 1578-1619

£15.00

VOLUME 124 OF THE RECORD SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. HARDBACK FINE IN DUSTWRAPPER.

Author: PHILIPS C. (EDITOR)
Place, Publisher, Date: THE RECORD SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE, 1985
Binding: HARDBACK
Condition: FINE