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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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THE DIARY OF A. J. MOUNTENEY JEPHSON. Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-1889. Edited by Dorothy Middleton With Preface, Prologue and Epilogue compiled by the Editor in collaboration with Maurice Denham Jephson.
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society at The University Press, 1969. xi, 454 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth, gilt. Original price-clipped dust-wrapper. First edition thus. A fine copy.
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THE DOMESDAY MONACHORUM OF CHRIST CHURCH CANTERBURY. Edited with an introduction by David C. Douglas, M.A. Professor of Medieval History in the University of Leeds.
London: The Royal Historical Society, 1944. [6], 127 pages, followed by 16 leaves of reproductions of the Domesday Monachorum. Original buckram gilt. Folio. First edition. A very good, clean copy. David Douglas’s own copy with his bookplate to the front pastedown; pencil annotations in the margins on several pages, and loosely laid in various notes, including two letters from Geoffrey H. White, Editor of The Complete Peerage, concerning the text. The editor, David Charles Douglas (1898-1982), became a distinguished historian of the Norman period and was the author of William the Conqueror (1964) and other works on the Normans.
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THE EFFECT OF PROTECTION ON WAGES. Speech delivered at Leeds Dec. 1st 1888.
London.Cassell and Company Limited. 1904. [1-3] 4-32 pp. Pamphlet, paper covers. Some minor stains to front cover. Else an excellent copy.
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THE FEN AND MARSHLAND CHURCHES : A Series of Photographs, with Short Historical and Architectural Descriptive Notes. [First, Second and Third Series bound as one volume.]
Wisbech/ London.Leach and Son/ Simpkin Marshall & Co. [No Date[ circa 1867-69.]]. Three parts bound in one. First Series: vi, 51pp., 15 mounted albumen photographs. Second Series: vi, 91pp., 17 mounted albumen photographs. Third Series: vi, 76pp., 15 mounted albumen photographs; plus 9 ground plans. Recently rebacked in quarter green morocco, gilt over original green cloth boards. Quarto. Boards a trifle rubbed and some wear to corners. Ownership plate to paste-down endpaper. Some chipping to extremities of front free endpaper. Else a handsome copy.
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THE FOOTMAN'S DIRECTORY, and Butler's Remembrancer; or, the advice of Onesimus to his young friends: comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of their work; rules for setting out tables and sideboards; The Art of Waiting at Table, and conducting large and small parties; directions for cleaning plate, glass, furniture, clothes, and all other things which come within the care of a man-servant and advice respecting behaviour to superiors, tradespeople, and fellow-servants. With an appendix, comprising various useful receipts and tables. A New edition, with considerable additions and improvements.
London: Simpkin and Marshall, and Henry Colburn, 1825. xvi, 288 pages. Folding engraved plate. Original printed boards recently re-backed and re-labelled. Binding: 18 x 11 cm. Boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good copy.
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THE HAWKERS AND STREET DEALERS OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS; Including Quack Doctors. - Cheap John. - Booksellers by Hand. - Bookstall-Keepers. - Watch-Sellers. - Needle-dodgers. - "Land Sharks" alias "Turnpike Sailors, alias "Duffers. - Nut-Sellers. - Bird -Sellers; Wild Fowl Dealers. - "Dollopers." - Flying Stationers. - Street Ballad Sellers. - Cheese Hawkers. - Cum Multis Aliis. Being some account of Their Dealings, Dodgings and Doings by Felix Folio.
2005: 2005. A facsimile edition of the original publication reprinted by Chetham’s Library, Manchester in an edition of 200 copies, Summer 2005. Cloth gilt. A fine copy.
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THE HISTORIE OF CAMBRIA, Now called Wales: a part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the British Language aboue two hundredth yeares past. Translated into English by H. Lhoyd, Gentleman. Corrected, augmented, and continued out of records and best approoued authors by Dauid Powel, Doctor in Diuintie. Cvm Priuilegio. [1584.] London.
Reprinted for John Harding, 1811. xxxvi, 355 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text. Bound in contemporary half calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Binding: 29 x 24.5 cm. Corners worn and boards rubbed; spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy bearing the bookplate of James Lovatt.
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The History of Government From the Earliest Times.
Oxford University Press, 1997. Three Volumes. vol. 1: 'Ancient Monarchies and Empires', vol. 2: 'The Intermediate Ages', vol. 3: 'Empires, Monarchies and the Modern State'. Hardbacks. Original dust-wrappers. Embossed ownership stamp to flyleaves with date of acquisition, ‘6. 98.’ Fine copies in fine dust-wrappers.
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THE HISTORY OF JOHNSON AND PHILLIPS. A Romance of Seventy-five Years.
London. Privately printed, 1950. xi, 212 pages. Illustrated. This a presentation copy, signed by the entire Board of Directors on a special leaf at the start, and bound in full red morocco, gilt, with raised hubs to the spine, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. All edges gilt. A fine copy, in a superb binding.
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THE HISTORY OF LEWIS THE ELEVENTH. With the most memorable accidents which happened in Europe during the two and twenty yeares of his Raigne. Enricht with many Observations which serve as Commentaries. Divided into eleven Bookes. Written in French by P. Mathiey Historiographer to the French King. And Translated into English by Edw: Grimeston. Sergeant at Armes.
London: George Eld, 1614. 232; 231; [1]; [10 Index] pages. Bound in 19th century half calf gilt over cloth. 290 x 195 mm. First edition. Lack first and last blanks; blank corner lost from A2; corner torn from leaf, pages 5 & 6 with the loss of some letters; library stamps to title and last leaf; generally a little tired, but a very good and sound working copy.
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THE HISTORY OF TEMPLE BAR. One Penny.
London.Published at 50 Holywell Street, Strand. No date. (Circa 1870's.). 8pp. in chapbook format. Large wood-engraving on upper cover/title. Unstitched as issued. Few tiny wear holes in last leaf where folded; some old crease marks at corners; else a very good copy.
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THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAIL, Englisht, AB. 1450 A.D. by Herry Lonelich, skynner, from the French prose (AB. 1180-1200) of Sires Robiers de Borron. Part I.
London: N. Trübner & Co for the Early English text Society, 1874. Softcover. 172 pages. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. Wrapper has some wear, a few chips and discoloration; brown liquid stain to rear free endpaper; pages unopened; else a good copy.
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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND MONARCHY.
London.George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1920. 188 +3pp catalogue. Original orange cloth with black lettering. Printed dustwrapper. First edition. Fore-edges foxed and some foxing at the start; dustwrapper repaired at spine (from the reverse side - invisibly - but with sellotape), and with some minor chipping; else a very good, bright copy. Cahill 74A.
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THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL and the story of Dunkirk. A genealogical history of the descendants of the Protector with anecdotes and letters. Illustrated by engravings, portraits and plans.
London: Elliot Stock, 1891. Hardcover. vii, 389 [2 Index] pages. Original red cloth with worn paper label to spine. Large Octavo. Hinges cracked but firm; some spotting to endpapers; else good plus.
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THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM DOWSING, of Stratford, Parliamentary Visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c. with the County of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644. A New Edition, with a Introduction, Notes, etc...
Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, 1885. Hardcover. 61, [1 'errata'], 2 ad's] pages. Original red cloth, gilt. 4to. Covers patchily faded on covers; else a fine copy.
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM THE THIRD, King of England, and Stadholder of Holland. By the Hon. Arthur Trevor, M.A. F.A.S. M.R.S.L. of Christ Church, Oxford. In Two Volumes.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835. Volume I, vii, [1], 2 - 441 pages. Portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes on title, and one plate. Volume II, v, [1], 519 pages. Engraved frontispiece; vignettes on title. Contemporary half calf, gilt. Octavos. First edition. Title of Volume one; ‘inscribed, ‘With the author’s kind regards.’ Corners a little worn; some light spotting at start and end of each volume; else a very good set.
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THE OLD COURT SUBURB, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical & Anecdotical.
London.Freemantle and Co. 1902. 2 Vol's: Vol I i-xvii, [1], 2- 212pp. 55 illustrations including frontispiece. Vol II i-x, [1], 2-208pp. 52 illustrations including frontispiece. Original green pictorial cloth, stamped gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. Book plate to Vol I. Slightly faded at spines, else, a handsome set.
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THE PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONS VOIAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION. A photo-lithographic facsmile with an introduction by David Beers Quinn and Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and with a new index by Alison Quinn.
Cambridge. Hakluyt Society, 1965. Two volumes. Hardbacks bound in blue buckram gilt, with the original unclipped dust-wrappers. Folio. First edition thus. A fine set.
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THE REALM OF VICTORIA 1837:1887.
London: Perry & Co. Limited, No date [1887]. 62[ 64 including covers] pages. Illustrated throughout in colour with full and double-page plates by Richard Andre [though he receives no credit], and in black & white. Original full-colour pictorial stiff card covers [ by Andre] some time expertly re-backed in cloth. 4to. Some wear to corners; occasional light foxing; else a very good copy of a very scarce title.
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