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New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 324 pp, acknowledgments, list of b&w illustrations and maps, 16 chapters, books consulted, index. Inked name on ffep with small black dot remainder mark at top edge, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine..

Bath: Adams and Dart, 1973 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. vii, 192 pp, foreword, text with b&w photographs throughout, select bibliography, index. Private owner plate on front pastedown, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Light blue cloth..

London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932 Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 343 pp, tissue-protected frontis, preface, list of five b&w illustrations, list of four maps, Prologue: An Act for Encouraging Trade; Book I. Europe: I. The London Venture; II. The Company in Scotland; III. Amsterdam and Hamburg. Book II. Africa and the Indies: I. The African Merchant: An Interlude; II. The Speedy Return: A Melodrama; III. The Speedwell: A Romance; IV. The Worchester: A Tragedy; Epilogue: The Redding Up; appendix: documents relating to the voyage of the content and speedy return from Port Glasgow to Madagascar, 1701; index. First Edition, 1932. Inked name on front pastedown. Only the slightest edge wear with faintly age-toned text block edges, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1924 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Thick Octavo. Large Thick 8vo. xxii, 404 pp, illus. First Edition, 1924. Owner's ex libris plate on front pastedown. Only the slightest edge wear with age-toned text block and margin edges, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding and clean. 6.5" x 9.5". Dark-red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "8 Essays on Pepys, Benjamin Disraeli, William Monson, Thomas Blood, Cromwell, John Wentworth, The Venerable Bede, and John Scott, as the title suggests, are bound by a common thread. Each in its way is an illustration of the vicissitudes of fame, a story of the struggle to achieve reputation, and the adventures of those reputations once they were achieved; not so much biographical essays as studies in the universal conflict with oblivion.".

London: Cassell, 1963 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Thick Octavo. Large Thick 8vo. Volume I. frontis. vii (v), 528 pp + 2 large foldouts. (1963). Volume II. frontis. vii, 559 (1) pp + 2 large foldouts. (1964.). Price clipped. Light wear with light background soiling to dj, else, Near Pristine. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 7" x 10". Beige boards with white title plate and gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector..

East Lothian, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1996 Book. Illus. by Stead, Michael - Photography. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First Trade Paperback. Octavo. xii + 211 pp, list of 21 illustrations - 12 tables - 22 maps & plans, Prologue, 6 chapters, glossary, further reading, index. Splay of upper forecorner wrap clear taped (less than .5"), shows very light wear to wrap edges - minimal, else binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 6.2" x 9.2" blue illustrated wraps.

London: Hutchinson of London, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 176 pp, the crime, 14 chapters, appendix A-B, bibliography, index with 4 b&w portraits. Third Impression, April 1967. Minor edgewear to front top edge of dj with slight yellowing, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth..

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. xiv, 345 (1) pp, illus. First Edition, 1987. list of 16 illustrations, preface, introduction, 4 Parts / 9 chapters, Conclusion, Notes, Selected Bibliography, index. Not Price Clipped. Lightly foxed front panel dj, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6" x 8.5". Green faux leather with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector..

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. xvi, 359 (1) pp. Edited and with Introductions and Commentary by Paul L. Hughes and Robert F. Fries: First Edition, 1959. Price clipped. 1/2" square chip to top edge front panel near spine dj with three 3/4" closed tears and creases along top and bottom edge, and a few additional smaller closed tears, all to front pane of same. Faintly scuffed bottom text-block edge corner, else, Pristine. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 7.5" x 10.25". Red cloth with black lettering to front board and spine, and genealogical chart on endpapers. In removable acetate protector. to teacher and student, general introduction, Documents of the Reign of Henry VII; of Henry VIII; of Edward VI; of Mary; of Elizabeth; of James I; Charles I; Documenets of the Civil War and Interregnum; of Charles II; of James II; of William and Mary; of Anne; additional readings, index..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990 Book. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. First Trade Paperback. Small 4to. xiv + 217 pp, list of 58 illustrations - 6 maps - 3 battle plans, preface, introduction, 8 chapters, notes, index. Very minor signs of use at the extremities, else Text clean, binding tight, covers crisp. 6.7" x 9.8" illustrated wraps..

Hampshire, UK / New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Slim Octavo. x + 246 pp, list of 11 illustrations, 8 chapters with notes, bibliography, index. 1/4" nick on front hinge about 3" from the top, two polka dot black marker points on bottom edge text block, else Fine / HC 5.75" x 8.75" blossy pictorial boards. Binding tight, pages clean, unmarked, exterior with nick, else Fine..

New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. Large Octavo. ix (i), 422 pp, preface, introduction,, 8 titled chapters with b&w illustrations, notes, illustrations acknowledgments, bibliography, index. stated First American Edition, 2004. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.25". Illustrated glossy laminated boards. "Robert Hooke (1635-1703)] was an English polymath active as a scientist and architect, who, using a microscope, was the first to visualize a micro-organism. An impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood, he found wealth and esteem by performing over half of the architectural surveys after London's great fire of 1666.".

Thrupp, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. vii, 234 pp, list of contributors, acknowledgments, Introduction by Richar Britnell; 1. Dress and Fachions c. 1470 by Anne Sutton; 2. Townswomen and their Households by Jennifer Ward; 3. Hospital Nurses and their Work by Carole Rawcliffe; 4. Religion and the Paston Family by Gillian Pritchard; 5. Peasants in Arden by Andrew Watkins; 6. A Priory and its Tenants by Richard Lomas; 7. Artisans, Guilds and Government in London by Matthew Davies; 8. London Parishes: Development in Context by Clive Burgess; 9. York under the Yorkists by Richard Britnell, notes, further reading, index with color plates and b&w illustrations. First Edition, 1998. "Contributors cover the full range of medieval life, from the town life of medieval York and London to the life of peasants in the Durham and Warwickshire countryside. Drawing on newly discovered firsthand accounts, they tell of leisure… Read More

Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Tempus Publishing, 2003 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition / First Printing. 8vo. 224 pp, introduction, 15 chapters b&w illustrations, 29 colour plates, principal dates in Romano-British history, further reading, inddex. 6.25" x 9.5" black boards, gilt spine letters, in red illustrated DJ (in removable clear mylar removable DJ protector). A small bump to top spine, shows 1/4" on back top corner, & very minor along top forecorner, else fine. text unmarked, covers crisp..

London: Cambridge At The University Press, 1916. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Volume I: xvi, 459 pp, preface, chapters I-VI, pocket map of roads of England according to Mr. Ogilby's surface + 4. Volume II: vii, 360 pp, chapters VII-IX, appendices with pocket facimile of Collin's Railway map of England. approx 843 pp in two volumes. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Light wear to edges of spine and corners. Clean pages, tight and strong binding, paper slightly age-toned, with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth..

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. 3 Volumes India Paper Edition complete Reprint, 1928. [Vol. I] (containing vols I-III, 1659-1663): lix + 342 + 407 + 371 pp.; [vol. II] (containing vols. IV-VI, 1664-1667): [iv] + 424 + 423 + 383 pp.; [vol. III] (containing vols. VII-VIII, 1667-1669. Index): [iv] + 387 + 514 pp. Portrait of Pepys in [vol. I]. Original blue cloth; gilt spine titles and gilt top edge. Private library plates with image-like silouette of same on ffep in all three volumes; with tonning on prelimary pages and back inside boards Vols. I & III, Vol. II moderate tonning with foxing to endpapers.Two micro-tears to pastdown at hinge of Vol. I. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia..

New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1967 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 4045 Pictures of Important Americans from Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. xiv +756 pp, b&w photos 6 to a page, on glossy paper. with capsule (brief) biog's of each person. (Dover Pictorial Archives Series). Binding tight, pages clean, unmarked. Closed tear to upper rear edge of DJ, 2" or so, & 1/2" closed tear from bottom edge. 10" x 13" blue-gray cloth boards in turquoise price clipped inner flap DJ (in mylar protector). .

New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xiv (ii), 256 pp, illus. Small chips to spine and age-toning to spine dj, and two closed tears to top edge rear panel of same, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, 6.25" x 9.25". Illustrated green cloth with black lettering to spine. Illustrated price-clipped dj in acetate protector..

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1993 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. Large 8vo. 214 pp, preface, I. The Problems and the Sources; II. The Celtic World of the Druids; III. The druids in the Classical and Vernacular Texts. IV. The Romantic Image; V. Epilogue; notes on the text, bibliography, list of b&w illustrations, index. Ancient Peoples and Places series: Reprinted, 1993. "On no subject has fancy roamed with more liscentious indulgence than on the Druids and their institutiohns. So wrote an English parson in 1784. Disentangling the 'fancy' from the reality, the author here presents in this standard work a marvelously erudite and entertaining account of the Druids as they really were, and of what they have become in the popular imagination." from the rear wrapper. Lightly curled front wrapper corner tips, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Illustrated wrappers..

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1959. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Octavo. 8vo. xxiii (i), 458 pp. + 8 maps at back. Second Edition, 1959, 2ndc printing @1963. Light external wear with lightly age-toned text block, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.75". Grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine..