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MEDIAEVAL FARNHAM Everyday Life in an Episcopal Manor. With twenty-four full-page illustrations.
Farnham.E. W. Langham. 1935. xiii, [2], 326pp. Illustrated throughout. Original two colour buckram with label on spine. Quarto. First edition. Bookplate. Very minor wear to corners; else a fine copy.
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MEMOIRS OF KING CHARLES I. And the Loyalists who suffered in his cause. Chiefly extracted from Lord Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Illustrated with their portraits. From Vandyke, &c.
London: Printed by R. Hindmarsh for I. Herbert, Bookseller and Publisher, No. 29 Great Russel-Street, Bloomsbury, 1795. [ii], 54 pages. Illustrated with 20 engraved plates. Bound in quarter art vellum over marbled boards. 262 x 190 mm. A manuscript plate list has been bound in at the start. Two plates are spotted, else a very good copy.
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NO SURRENDER! A Tale of The Rising in La Vendée. With eight illustrations by Stanley L. Wood.
Glasgow and Dublin: Blackie and Son, Limited, 1900. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [vi], 352 pages + 32pp catalogue at rear. 9 black & white plates including frontispiece. Original pictorial red cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. Boards a little rubbed; head and heel of spine and upper board corners a little bumped; browning to front and rear free endpapers; else a very good copy.
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OLIVER CROMWELL.
London: Goupil & Co, 1899. 216, [1] pages. Extensively illustrated including a hand-coloured frontispiece. Bound in full calf gilt. No 42 of a limited edition of 1475 copies. Binding a little rubbed and worn; some occasional foxing; bookplate; else a very good copy.
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PROOFS OF CONSPIRACY against all Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies. Collected from good authorities, by John Robison, A.M. Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The second edition, corrected; to which is added a Postscript.
London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies… W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1797. [4] 531 pages. Contemporary speckled calf, recently re-backed; red label to spine. Octavo. A handsome and clean copy. A member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society when it received its royal warrant, John Robison was appointed as the first general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783–98). He invented the siren and also worked with James Watt on an early steam car. Following the French Revolution, Robison became disenchanted with elements of the Enlightenment. His Proofs of a Conspiracy is a polemic accusing Freemasonry of being infiltrated by Adam Weishaupt's secret society, the Order of the Illuminati.
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ROBERT EMMET.
London.Martin Secker. 1931. [4], 5-339pp. Black & white frontispiece plus four other illustrations. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Spine a trifle sunned with a tiny nick at the head; corners very slightly bumped; fore-edges uncut; else an excellent copy of this scarce title.
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ROUNDHEAD REPUTATIONS. The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity.
London: Allen Lane. The Penguin Press, 2001. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy.
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RURAL RIDES In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex …. During the years 1821 to 1832; with Economical and Political Observations. A new edition, with notes, by Pitt Cobbett.
London: Reeves and Turners, 1885. Two hardcover volumes. No dust-wrappers. Frontispiece to vol' I and a folding map in volume II. Original green decorative cloth. Octavos. First edition thus. Spine of volume II a somewhat duller than that of volume I; some spotting towards the end of volume I; light wear to head & heels; else a very good set.
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S. MATTHEW'S NORTHAMPTON. The Oxford Movement in an English Parish.
London and Oxford: A. R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd, 1932. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 94 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy.
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Some Civil War Accounts, 1647-1650. Vol. XI. Part II. Publications of the Thoresby Society. Miscellanea. 1902.
Leeds: Thoresby Society, 1902. Softcover. Pages 137-280;, folding map, [8], [8],[11] pages/ Original wrappers. Wrappers worn at spine with some loss of paper; name on verso of front cover; else very clean.
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Some Further Portions of the DIARY of LADY WILLOUGHBY which do relate to her Domestic History and to the stirring Events of the latter Years of the Reign of King Charles the First, the Protectorate and the Restoration.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1848. [4], 178, [2[ pages. Bound in full morocco with elaborately decorated gilt panels and spine; gauffered edges. Quarto. First edition thus. Gift inscription on endpaper; spine a little darkened; some light wear to edges and corners; else a very good copy in handsome binding.
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SOME PARTICULARS CONTRIBUTED TOWARDS A MEMOIR OF MRS. MYDDELTON, the great beauty of the time of Charles II.
Oxford: Printed by Messrs. Parker, Cornmarket, Oxford, 1864. Printed for private circulation. [4], 67 pages. Photographic portrait frontispiece, and extra-illustrated with 36 engraved portraits of Mrs. Myddelton’s contemporaries. Bound in full morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf in 1901. Top edge gilt. Octavo. Bookplate of William Crampton. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on titlepage. Spine expertly repaired; some foxing to blank versos of plates. A very good, extra-illustrated, copy.
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STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1948. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Spine a little sunned; covers marked; else a very good copy.
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THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1934. 288 pages. Folding map and a chart at rear. Original cloth. Octavo. First edition. No dust-wrapper. but a very good copy.
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THE BARONAGE OF ENGLAND, or An Historical Account of the Lives and most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility In the Saxons time, to the Norman Conquest; and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of king Henry the Third's reign. Deduced from Publick Records, Antient Historians, and other Authorities, by William Dugdale Norroy Kings of Arms.
London: Tho. Newcomb, for Alex Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringmant, 1675. 1676. [12], 790, + 2 Index. 5 double-page charts. Tome the Second [8], 191, [1 blank] pages. Tome the Third. [2], 195 – 312 – 438, + 3 Index, [ 1 blank] pages. Usual fault in paging at page 313, printed paging jumping to 361 and ending at 488pp. Folio. First edition. Three volumes bound as one, with continuous paging to volumes 2 & 3. Contemporary full calf, sometime re-backed. Head of spine a little pulled and worn; corners bumped; blank head of title has an expert paper restoration where, probably, a name has been removed; front inner joint strained; some very occasional contemporary annotation. A very good copy.
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THE BUILDING OF THE EMPIRE The Story of England's Growth from Queen Elizabeth and her Majesty Queen Victoria in photogravure and upwards of one hundred portraits and illustrations from contemporary prints. In two volumes.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1897. Two volumes bound as one in full half calf gilt; the spine elaborately decorated in panels; black gilt label. Octavo. Prize label to fixed front endpaper; edges rubbed; else a handsome, clean copy. This book is heavy and will require extra shipping. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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THE CAUSE A short history of the women's movement in Great Britain.
London.G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1928. 429pp. Illustrated with black & white plates. Original red cloth titled in black. Octavo. First edition. An excellent copy.
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THE CHURCH BELLS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: Their Inscriptions, Traditions, And Peculiar Uses; With Chapters on Bells and the Northants Bell Founders.
Leicester.Samuel Clarke. 1878. [i-v],vi-xvii, [xviii-xxi],[1], 2-471pp plus [1] errata, and 2pp adverts to rear. 20 b/w plates and many figures within text. Brown stamped cloth gilt. Quarto. One of an edition of 250 copies. Ink presentation inscription to front endpaper. Minor damage to fore-edge of plates ix-xii. Hinges cracked. Spine splitting. Edges, and head and heel a little worn. Front hinge crudely repaired. Internally very nice.
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THE COMMUNITY OF KENT AND THE GREAT REBELLION 1640-60.
Leicester University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed on front endpaper: 'William Hoskins with best wishes from Alan – March 1966.' Beneath is pasted a small biography of Hoskins academic career and publications. Price-clipped dust-wrapper; else an excellent copy.
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THE DECLARATION of the Knights, Gentry, and Trained Bands of the County of Kent, Presented to the Honourable House of Commons. Wherein they declare their Resolution to march against the Kings Army with all the power they can raise, and to rescue His Majesty out of the Cavileers hands. Likewise the Answer of the House of Parliament to the said Declaration and Propositions. December 22. 1641. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in parliament, that this Declaration and Answer be printed and published.
Hen. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Com: Decemb. 22 printed for J. Barks, 1642. 8 pages. 18.2 x 13,6 cm. Spine repaired and re-stitched; first page [cover] little faded in parts; else a very good copy.
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