Region by region investigation of English surnames. Inscribed by the Author, with his signature to half title. Dust-jacket has some light shelfwear and is price clipped. Otherwise prim and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Readable history of the Napoleonic Wars with ample b/w illustrations. DJ is price-clipped with some light shelfwear. Volume clean and prim. Very good overall. [more...]
English translation of this lavishly illustrated history of Saint-Gobain, who started as glass and mirror manufacturers in the 17th century, expanding into a international materials company. With a presentational card to front pastdown, made out to Robert Tho [more...]
Interesting illustrated history, tracing London's development from a Roman Garrison to a sprawling metropolis. With numerous b/w images and maps. 4to. Dust jacket is price clipped, with slight markings and shelfwear. Minor foxing to page edges. Contents c [more...]
Interesting volume detailing the experience of attending Marlborough College in the 1960s, as told by the students. With maps to endpapers and diagrams. Dust jacket has some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Foxing to top edge and fore-edge. Contents cle [more...]
Expansive survey of European history, examining the fusion of germanic and mediterranean culture. Dust jacket has minor sunning to spine and some foxing to extremities. Contents are clean and prim. Very good. [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Fielding's great comic novel. Complete in two volumes. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. In crisp fine condition. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of the poet Blunden's traumatic WWI memoir. Dark Brown leatherette covers with lavish gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers and silken ribbon marker. With original illustrations by David Whitfield. Foxing to top and fore ed [more...]
Biography of the seventeenth century churchman and writer. EX-LIBRARY with neat withdrawn stamp and tags to endpapers. Stamp to title page and label to spine. Light marking to covers. Otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Sensitive series of sketches of life behind-the-scenes in the Scotland of the 19th century and earlier. Established from historical articles in the Daily Herald. Includes a retired soldier, a lady's maid and a 'moral force'. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough [more...]
Revised and expanded edition to include native american and african american history. A compliation of signpost markers, many now removed, that detail virginia's history. Light mark to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Early reprint of Sitwell's account of the lives of two of his ancestors, drawn from their journals and written from their perspective. With b/w images an decorated initials. Dust jacket is torn with loss to top and tail of spine and marked, rubbed. Toning t [more...]
Sumptuously illustrated account of Belgium's medieval and gothic past with 20 tipped in colour images by Bruckman. No date but c. 1910. Toning to spine. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents tight and sound. Good+ [more...]
Biography of the Cambridge antiquarian, who grew up around the university and had a unique look at college life. Rubbing and marking to covers. Light foxing to page edge. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Handsome edition of Smiles' biography of the Potter and early industrialist who later became a leading abolitionist. Decorative red cloth with gilt to spine. Fore-edge rough cut. Large John Murray catalogue to rear. Sunning to spine. Light foxing to end-pa [more...]
Account of this boom period for Country Houses and how it changed the physical and cultural landscape. With b/w images. Some light rubbing to edges. Contents crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]