OLD CHESHIRE FAMILIES & THEIR SEATS
Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. "A twofold object has been kept in view in writing this book. In the first place the aim has been to describe the rise of the great..... More
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THE EMERGENCE OF ESTATE MAPS; Christ Church, Oxford 1600-1840
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 32 color plates, with 3 figures and 3 tables. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. First edition. "...examines critically the part played by maps in the early modern period..... More
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE: Delineated by Hanslip Fletcher, with Introduction by J. Willis Clark, M.A., Registrary of the University of Cambridge, and Notes by Various Writers
New York: Wessels and Bissell Co., 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. An etcher, illustrator, and painter specializing in architectural studies, Fletcher (1874-1955) published several books of his work, including Bombed London (1947). Quarto. Original light brown..... More
GLYN'S, 1753-1953: Six Generations in Lombard Street
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Standard history of the private bank founded in London in 1753, which existed until 1969, when it became part of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Twenty..... More
Great Britain and Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. "This book is primarily concerned with diplomatic relations between Britain and the states of the European continent. It also takes into account economic interests, religious aversions, dynastic..... More
THE SHAPING OF THE ELIZABETHAN REGIME
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. Trade paperback. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
A VACATION IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS AND OTHER PLACES
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 280 p. 24 plates. Macdonald (1866-1942), a prominent Los Angeles attorney, was descended from the Clan Macdonald, a Scottish Highland clan and one of the largest clans..... More
THE STONE CROSSES OF THE COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON
London and Northampton: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. with Joseph Tebbutt, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Limited to 200 numbered small paper copies. An annotated catalogue of the memorial, churchyard, market, boundary, wayside, preaching..... More
THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND PARISH OF HALIFAX, CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN, THE NATURE OF THE SOIL, &c. &c. &c. An Account of the Gentry and Other Eminent Persons Born in the Said Town, and the Liberties Thereof, Also, Its Ancient Customs, and Modern Improvements. Also the Unparalleled Tragedies Committed by Sir John Eland of Eland, and His Grand Antagonists; With a Full Account of the Lives and Deaths of Wilkin Lockwood, and Adam Beaumont, Esquires. Also, a Catalogue of the Several Vicars of Halifax Church, with the Time of Their Institution and Death.
Halifax: Printed by E. Jacobs, for J. Milner, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. 648 p. plus 70 p. with a folding frontispiece, a table (printed on the recto and verso), the guillotine plate, and the folding..... More
THE VICTORIAN COUNTRYSIDE
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 172 illustrations. The land, agriculture, country towns and industries, landed society, and the labouring life are examined by a group of distinguished scholars in..... More
Private Matters and Public Culture in Post-Reformation England
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 309 p. 13 illustrations. Weaving a complex tapestry out of intellectual history and literary analysis, Orlin examines how the private issues of contentious marital relations..... More
ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Literature is used to elucidate not only the cultural but also the economic and political history of the period; studies of manuscripts provide important evidence for..... More
THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDAR
London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1926. Hardcover. Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers and Account of the Voyages and Plunders..... More
THE LIFE OF FULKE GREVILLE: First Lord Brooke
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "This biography of Fulke Greville, first Lord Brooke, is an attempt to relate the development of his thought to his experience as a a private and public..... More
The Eighteenth Century Constitution, 1688-1815: Documents and Commentary
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Soft cover. 488 p. Original printed paper wrappers. Previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf. The wrappers are a bit browned along the extremities, with a minor crease to..... More
ON FOOT IN DEVON or Guidance and Gossip being a Monologue in Two Reels
London: Alexander Maclehose & Co., 1933. Hardcover. 196 p. Eight illustrations, with endpaper maps. First edition. Small octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with black titles. Previous owner's ink signature to a prefatory blank leaf. The..... More
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