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A collection of the several statutes, and parts of statutes, now in force, relating to high treason, and misprision of high treason.
London: Printed by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, decens’d; Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, 1710. Second printing (first was in 1709). 113,[15],44,[4]p "A form and method of trial of commoners, in cases of high treason" has a separate titlepage; the register is continuous - With an initial imprimatur leaf. ESTC T136808 Old calf, spine with raised bands, titling piece, gilt decoration, edges decorated in gilt. Mild spine rubbing, inner hinges cracked but quite firm; else fine. Parliament ordered the statutes published in order to harmonize the laws of England and Scotland, following the union of 1707 and the Treason Act of 1708.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49681More details Price: USD $295.00 -
A DISCOURSE ON THE STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY. With an Introduction by Sir Eric Ashby and Mary Anderson
Edition: First of this edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 26206More details Price: USD $17.50 -
A HISTORY OF NORTHUMBERLAND. Volume IV. Hexhamshire: Part II (Hexham, Whitley Chapel, Allendale, and St. John Lee)...
Edition: First edition.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and London: Andrew Reid / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1897. Volume IV only. Also includes the parishes of Chollerton, and Throckington, and the chapelry of Kirkheaton. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blind, top edge gilt, floral endpapers. pp xxxii, (480) + photogravure frontispiece with tissue guard, colour folding map with tissue guard, and numerous other plates and photogravures with tissue guards; many illustrations in text. Small tear at foot of spine; bump to foot of spine and outer corners; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names, hinges not cracked. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30030More details Price: USD $125.00 -
A NEWNHAM ANTHOLOGY
Cambridge (UK): Newnham College, 1988. Second edition. Card covers. Pp (xiv), 278 + plates. Index. Fine copy. Ink inscription at front. Newham was described Viginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51816More details Price: USD $12.95 -
A VICTORIAN CANVAS: the memoirs of W.P. Frith, R.A. Edited by Nevile Wallis
Edition: First Edition
London: Geroffrey Bles, 1957. Dark blue cloth. pp 238 + numerous b&w reproductions. Index. Ink owner name at front, nearly fine otherwise. Price-clipped jacket has a short tear and creases at head of spine, bit of rubbing to spine folds, VG otherwise. A condensation of the three volumes of reminiscences of this once hugely popular British painter.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44503More details Price: USD $19.00 -
ACCOUNTS RENDERED BY PAPAL COLLECTORS IN ENGLAND 1317-1378. Transcribed with Annotations and Introduction by William E. Lunt. Edited with Additions and Revisions by Edgar B. Graves.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1968. Khaki cloth, 12 inches.. [2], liv, 579 pp. Latin text in double columns. Ink name to top margin of front pastedown, and to top margin of front free endpaper (blacked out there in ink), else fine. Beige price-clipped jacket has some edge tears , internal repairs, VG otherwise. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 17574More details Price: USD $40.00 -
ALBUM OF VIEWS OF WEYMOUTH
Liverpool: Brown & Rawcliffe, no date (ca 1890s). Oblong format, 8.5 x 12 inches, olive flexible cloth boards, stamped in gilt on front cover. 12 panels of photos in a continuous strip, accordian or leporello style. Publisher's pictorial ad inside rear cover. Bit of wear to outer corners, spine ends; front cover a bit warped and bubbled from damp, lesser bubbling to rear cover, VG clean copy otherwise, contents clean, tight, and unworn, no owner names. A volume in the publisher's "Camera" series.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41951More details Price: USD $30.00 -
AN INQUIRY INTO THE SHARE, WHICH KING CHARLES I HAD IN THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE EARL OF GLAMORGAN, afterwards the Marquis of Worcester for bringing over a band of Irish rebels to assist the King in the years 1645 and 1646...
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49755More details Price: USD $195.00 -
Answer. To Three Scurrilous Pamphlets, Entitled The Jockey Club. By a Member of the Jockey Club
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49933More details Price: USD $175.00 -
ARMS AND THE TOWER
Edition: First Edition
London: John Murray, 1939. Green cloth. xii, 246, [2] pp + plates. Text paper a bit yellowed, with tanning to the page edges; endpapers and first and last leaf have foxing and tanning; 1945 ink gift inscription to front free end paper; thin covers just a bit bowed; else a VG tight and unworn copy. Worn price-clipped dust jacket has large chips, tanning, rubbing; fair. Reminiscences of the man who was for 25 years Curator and Master of the Tower [of London] Armouries. Much on antique arms and armour.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16810More details Price: USD $18.95 -
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, first Earl of Balfour...
New York: Putnam's, 1937. Two volumes, red cloth, Vol. I (1848-1906) pp 336 + plates; index. Vol. II (1906-1930) pp 343 + plates; index. Vol. I: ink owner name, page edges yellowed, else fine in VG jacket. Vol. II: ink owner names, yellowing to page edges and endpapers, near fine otherwise. Jacket has chips, rubbing, abrasion at foot of spine, just good. 2.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47959More details Price: USD $34.05 -
BATTLE OF NIEUPORT 1600. Two News Pamphlets and a Ballad . With an Introduction on News in Elizabethan England by D.C. Collins.
London: Oxford University Press for the Shakespeare Association, 1935. Octavo, cream card covers. Spine lightly darkened, else fine. Facsimile reprint. Shakespeare Association Facsimiles, No. 9. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 46024More details Price: USD $18.95 -
BEATRICE WEBB'S AMERICAN DIARY 1898
Edition: First printing
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963. Grey cloth. pp 181; biographical directory, index. Ink owner name, else fine in VG price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48684More details Price: USD $17.95 -
BELOVED MAMA. Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess.
Edition: First printing
London: Evans, 1981. Green boards. (xiv), 209 pp + plates; index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48111More details Price: USD $16.95 -
Biographical Studies. Edited by Richard Holt Hutton
New York: AMS Press, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the London, 1881, edition. Dark blue cloth without jacket, as issued. Ink owner name, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48155More details Price: USD $18.95 -
BLOOMSBURY IN SUSSEX. Illustrated by Barbara Childs
Edition: First edition
Alfriston, Sussex: Snake River Press, 2007. Printed boards. pp 96. Bound in ribbon marker. Fine copy. Pink jacket suuned on the spine, else fine. A Sussex Guide. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51763More details Price: USD $9.95 -
BLOOMSBURY PAST: a visual history
Edition: First edition
London: Historical Publications, 1993. Blue boards. pp 144. Many illustrations, index. Short tear in top margin of one leaf, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51693More details Price: USD $13.95 -
BRITISH PAMPHLETEERS: Volume I, From the 16th century to the 18th century
Edition: First printing
London: Allan Wingate, 1948. Brown cloth. Yellowing to the page edges, text paper very lightly toned, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has remains of a sticker from the Canadian distributor; nicks and tiny chips at head of spine; small tear to front panel, VG+ otherwise. Page 6-17 contains an Introduction by George Orwell.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49668More details Price: USD $34.95 -
British Tradition and Interior Design: Town and Country Living in the British Isles
Cologne: Konemann, 2001. Green cloth. pp 399. Colour illustrations. Fine in fine jacket. The chapters are: basic principles of British style; country life; city life; the entrance hall; the living room; the dining room; the kitchen; the bathroom; a weekend in the country; the bathroom; the study & library; the nursery; the conservatory; the garden; home from home. 3 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51961More details Price: USD $26.95 -
CANTUAR: the Archbishops and their office
Edition: First printing
London: Cassell, 1971. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (10), 562 + plates; indexed. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a creased corner tear to rear panel, VG otherwise. A history of the Archbishops of Canterbury. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41993More details Price: USD $19.50