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Leicester: Leicester Mercury, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy. 144 pages. The book is a pictorial walk through the streets and changing scenes of the county, evoking fond reminiscences of the past. Taken from the archives of the Leicester Mercury, the photographs contained in the book provide reminders of landmarks long since demolished, of streets familiar even today and moments in time consigned to memories. A1A. First. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. xii + 445 pages. 45 illustrations. Captain Bligh and the voyage of the Bounty are the starting point of this new study of the famous mutiny in history, literature and film. By juxtaposing an account of the mutiny with an analysis of its evolving place in history and culture, it offers a new interpretation of the mutiny in the context of its historic and cultural representations. Beginning with an anlysis of naval life and ritual abord the Bounty, the author argues that the mutiny did not take place due to punitive violence , as Captain Bligh is shown to be one of the least violent of British Navy captains. Instead, he argues, Bligh misunderstood the theatrical nature of shipboard life, especially his role as captain. Moving to a larger stage, the book shifts to the reception of the mutiny in 18th century England. Connecting the voyage of the Bounty with the cultural exploration and revolutions of the age, Dening… Leer más

London: Methuen, 1985. Gold title on yellow boards which have slight bumping to top corner tips else a near Fine uninscribed copy. Dustjacket is complete with a touch of wear to top of spine. A portrait of the Edwardians who set out for the tropics when the imperial sun stood at it's zenith, traders, soldiers, sportsmen, hunters, missionaries, pro-consuls et al and earnest young men enlisted to bear the white man's burden in steamy Asian jungle or African bush. Leonard Woolf is here in his role as a district officer in Ceylon, Joyce Carey struggles to administer 10,000 square miles of Nigeria, Lord Curzon plunges from triumpth to humiliation as Viceroy of India and many more. Bases largely on contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs. Pictorial endpapers and profusely illustrated by photographs and cartoons of the period. ***NOT EX LIB *** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS **** 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Leer más

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy in red quarter cloth with inset picure to front board. A large format volume of 223 pages. Illustrated with original illustrations by Shirley Felts and contemporary paintings. Mary Russell Mitford was born in Hampshire in 1787 and her village sketches, which after a time were augmented by memories from her childhood and stories from further afield, were first published in book form, in five volumes, between 1824 and 1832. But though her work was successful, it did not make her rich, and when increasing ill health obliged her to give up writing, Queen Victoria herself contributed to a private fund formed to supplement Miss Mitford's Civil List pension. This new selection of her sketches of village life is lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings, complemented wit specially commissioned watercolours and pencil drawings that recapture a long-vanished rural England. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.97 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE… Leer más

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket xii + 382 pages. 25 illustrations. 9 maps. The book provides a lively and challenging synthesis of Irish history from the earliest times to the present day. Written by an expert team of scholars, all known for their innovative work, richly illustrated throughout, and gives a uniquely authoritative history of Ireland. Comprises: Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland by Donnchadh O. Corrain; The Norman Invasion and the Gaelic Recovery by Katharine Simms; Early Modern Ireland c. 1500-1700 by Nicholas Canny; Ascendancy and Union by R.F. Foster; Ireland Since 1870 by David Fitzpatrick; Irish Literature and Irish History by Declan Hibberd. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.26 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** **** NOT EX LIB **** 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Wiltshire: Select Editions, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy. 96 pages of period photographs from the Hulton Picture company, Europe's largest photographic archive. Features: London People; The Heart of the Empire; Shopping; Markets; Streets; Transport; The Thames. 50. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. A very Good+ unmarked copy. First American Edition, First Printing. A rectangular format book of 240 pages. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs Old photographs painstakingly reproduced in duotone. Memorabilia - the nostalgic and affecting artifacts of another time. Lush paintings of a romantic landscape. And the words and memories of more than sixty people who were part of it all - the oldest born in 1876 the youngest when partition still divided India. Drawing on journals, memoirs, diaries, family albums, scrapbooks and private letters and most especially over 250 hours of taped interviews of the men and women who lived and worked for the Raj. D4C. First. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. Silver title and vignette of Victorian gentleman and woman on dark blue boards which have minor marks. Internallythere is age toning to endpapers and closed edges. 322 pages. Victorian and Edwardian charicatures of the famous by R. S. Sherrifs as endpapers. Illustrated throughout by R.S. Sherriffs. Starts with the Great Exhibition and proceeds to cover all aspects of life the wars and the arts. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1A. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by R. S. Sherriffs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Croom Helm, 1985. A near Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. There is a D marked to rear pastedown, signifying 'damaged' but the only damage which can be detected is an imperfection to the front pastedown. 270 pages. The author is one of the foremost Scottish historians to have emerged since the Second World War. In this book he has turned to a topic that has long fascinated him, the 1745 Rebellion. What is the truth about the '45? How can some historians depict Charles Edward as the dashing leader of heroic forces fighting against odds in a just and reasonable cause, while others dismiss him as an egotistical adventurer, reckless with the lives of others? Professor Youngman produces two accounts of the '45 and the events that led up to it, one of them sympathetic to George II and the government of the dat. Each is an exciting historical narrative; each is based strictly contemporary sources; each contain all the facts. Yet the two versions are very different. It is… Leer más

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 160 pages. Travelling together, author Adam Nicolson and illustrator Peter Morter have visited twelve small towns across the breadth of England, from Weymouth on the South coast to Alnwick, almost on the borders of Scotland. Each of these towns 'has enjoyed a moment when it has come into its own, when the forces at work have brought something to fruition and have given the place its enduring personality'. These 'shaping moments' - a different point in history for each successive town - are strung together in the book to form a continuous chain of town life from the planning of Roman Chichester to the radically nostalgic ideals of the Garden City in early 20th century Letchworth. The result is a remarkable portrait of small town England, with the triumphs of provincial architecture, rich with the details of everyday life, both now and in the past,… Leer más

London: Collins, 1961. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has a decorative bookplate to front pastedown and a little light foxing to closed edges with Very Good+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 192 pages. 11 illustrations. First published as 'The England of Charles II' in 1934 and revised by the author in 1960. An indispensable companion to Sir Arthur Bryant's other seventeenth century studies. Stock of the original edition was destroyed in the Blitz of 1940: this new edition is both revised and illustrated. The book describes 'a visit to a far country....the land we now inhabit, but then occupied by our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents'. 'I have tried', the author writes, 'to depict that century as they knew it - the feel and sense of it, its sights, sounds and even smells.' **** NOT EX LIB **** A1B. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Charles and Co., 1887. Dark brown tree and cloud motif, gilt sun and lettering on lighter brown cloth boards which have light wear to spine head and tail, corner tips and a little to front. Internally there is light foxing to the reverse of the frontispiece, decorative floral endpapers else a clean, tight copy. vii + 442 pages. Photogravure portrait of Queen Victoria aged 18 to frontispiece and 6 other illustrations. Good+. Selected from the works of standard historians and other writers. This volume is a compilation on the same lines as the editor's 'Scenes from Three Centuries' first published in 1874. Covers the major events of the 19th century with their sources. **** An attractive and SCARCE title **** C3B. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Lomond Books, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy. 384 pages. Illustrations in the text. A thousand years ago Scotland was one of the first medieval European kingdoms. This immensely readable history charts the long, painful, sometimes tragic, often inspiring process that has formed Scotland today. A special and unique feature of the book are the 'windows' in the text which light up many fascinating aspects of the national story not normally covered in history books and present a range of outstanding people who at different times played a part in Scotland's life. 24. First Thus. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. A Near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from slight age toning to page edges) with near Fine dustjacket (Fine apart from a hint of wear to lower front edge) which is not price clipped. 192 pages. 174 illustrations. In the two centuries since Adam Smith described England as a nation of shopkeepers, there have been many analyses of the importance of retail trade to the wealth of the nation. Yet few writers have explored the part played by shops and shopping in the everyday life of all the citizens of England's capital city, from poorest to richest. This book is a history of retailing in which trade statistics have given way to a many sided story of shopkeepers and shopworkers, shopping customs and customers. A fully illustrated social history which follows the topographical development of London and its shops from the Restoration to the period before the First World War. **** NOT EX LIB **** 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over… Leer más

Wimborne, Dorset: The Dovecote Press, 1990. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy.The book is a compilation of some of the unusual and remarkable murders that took place 50 or more years ago. These include the unfortunate Mr.Trat who was parboiled, cut up and salted down into barrels, John Walford condemned to rot after being hung on the spot where he murdered his wife and Mary Norwood, who after poisoning her husband became the last woman in Britain to be burnt. 51. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Peter Davies, 1933. Gold title on cream cloth boards which are very clean for the age with some very minor small marks at back. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked with no previous owner inscriptions. A Very Good + copy. 13 illustrations. A comprehensive account of the Spanish Armada which set sail on 19th May 1588, comprising ten galleons and two large pinnaces of Portugal, the galleons of the Indian Guard, the four ships and two pinnaces of the Flota of New Spain, with 27,000 men in the care of 180 friars. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Fourth Estate, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 288 pages. Greenwich has been an emblem of British history for over a thousand years. A seat of learning and intellectual enquiry, exploration and discovery, it resonates with echoes of great characters and stirring national events. The Royal Observatory, constructed in Greenwich Park in the 1670's, has been the origin of standard time around the world. The ancient royal palace was the birthplace of three monarchs: Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I. Blackheath , at the top of the park, has often featured as the scene of insurrection and revolt, and it was here that Wat Tyler assembled his band of a hundred thousand rebels against the Poll Tax. Lord Nelson's body was brought to the Royal Naval Hospital in 1805 after his death at Trafalgar, and the 17th and 18th centuries bestowed upon Greenwich an incomparable parade of great and innovative buildings by Inigo Jones,… Leer más

Sevenoaks, Kent: Amherst, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy. Revised edition. 212 pages. Illustrated throughout. Buckingham Palace is one of the most familiar buildings in the world, but how many of us know the real tales hidden behind its ceremonial gates? Who was the witch who lived in the royal courtyard? How could courtesans once have plied their trade in front of the present royal windows? How dared a Prime Minister call the Palace a monstrous insult to the nation? Neither conventional history nor guide, the book reveals how Buckingham Palace came to be the place it is today, from a time when it probably formed the escape route from a Roman battle nearly 2,000 years ago to the establishment of the first gentleman's house there in the 17th century, and on into a chequered royal history. The first of several female owners was a Saxon queen whose lust for power vied with that of her husband's courtiers; the monks of St. James's once also owned part of the site and were condemned by their… Leer más

Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1995. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. Telford may be a new town, but it also contains a World Heritage Site. The book tells the story, in words and pictures, of the many towns and villages that were included in the newly created Telford, most of them of great antiquity, having been established long before the Domesday Book was compiled. A1F. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965. A near Fine unmarked copy with Very Good dustjacket which is price clipped. 220 pages. Family tree of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York endpapers. An anthology of historical events in Tudor and Stuart timesdescribed by men and women who were eye witnesses of those events. 87 accounts in all of great variety with a short explanatory paragraph and a reading list. A1B. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.