Chelsea: A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall… (1888) SCARCE.
£50.00DILKE, Right Hon. Sir Charles (1843-1911). Chelsea: A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Chelsea by the Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart, on Wednesday, January 11th 1888. 8vo. West Middlesex Advertiser [1888]. A curious historical account, detailing various buildings including public houses, and the Royal Hospital and the Queen’s Elm- where Elizabeth 1st ‘ “stood up” for shelter from a shower with the great Lord Burleigh”.
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Charlemagne (Charles The Great) The Hero of Two Nations. (1900).
£45.00CARLESS DAVIS, H.W. (1874-1928). Charlemagne (Charles The Great) The Hero of Two Nations. 8vo. London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1900. PROVENANCE: School prize inscription dated 1904 on front endpaper. SCARCE in this condition and edition. Charlemagne (748-814) was King of the Francs from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what we call now the Carolingian Empire from 800 until his death in 814. An attractively bound book from the turn of the last century.
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The Vaudois… a Tour to the Valleys of Piedmont, In the Summer of 1844. (1845)
£55.00HENDERSON, E. (1784-1858). The Vaudois Comprising Observations Made During a Tour to the Valleys of Piedmont, In the Summer of 1844: Together with Remarks, Introductory and Interspersed, Respecting The origin, History, and Present Condition of That Interesting People. Folding map. PROVENANCE: Signature to front endpaper : ‘Thos Spalding’. 8vo. London, John Snow, 1845.
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Martial-Lore. 1918.
£28.00King’s Lynn Interest – [ANON]. Martial-Lore. [1]-15, [1] pp. Interior: pages age toned. Exterior: Tan/yellow wrappers, detached, tearing and chipping, some marks. Relating to military matters in 17th/18th century. Reprinted from ‘The Lynn Advertiser’, Lynn, 1918.
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The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles… 1870.
£600.00Sir Anthony Coningham Stirling’s (Crimea Campaign) copy- SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Sir William Stirling Maxwell. MAXWELL, William Stirling (1818-78). The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles The Fifth Designed By Martin Heemskerck In M.D. L. V. Xxxvi, 91, [1]. Beautifully illustrated throughout, decorative endpapers. Interior: some occasional light soiling. Binding: Publisher’s yellow and black pictorial cloth (some wear). Folio. London and Edinburgh: Privately Printed For The Editor, 1870.
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Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland… 1885.
£85.00HAWKINS, Edward (1780-1867). Augustus W. Franks, Herbert A. Grueber. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II. 2 volumes. Frontispiece to volume 1, frontispiece (bound in facing upwards) to volume 2. Interior: Volume 1 staining to top right hand corner of text block throughout. General age toning to pages in both volumes, a few repairs in clear tape. Exterior: Later brown cloth (blind stamped to both volumes with Library markings). 8vo. London: Printed by the Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1885.
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Old Provence. 1925.
£45.00COOK, Sir, Theodore Andrea. Old Provence. 2 volumes. 2 folding maps, one folding chart, monochrome plates throughout. 8vo. London: Rivingtons, 1925.
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View of The State of Europe During The Middle Ages. 1834.
£150.00HALLAM, Henry (1777-1859). View of The State of Europe During The Middle Ages. 3 volumes. 8vo. London: John Murray, 1834.
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Historical Record of the Eighty-Seventh Regiment, or The Royal Irish Fusiliers… (1853). SCARCE.
£90.00CANNON, Richard (1779-1865). Historical Record of the Eighty-Seventh Regiment, or The Royal Irish Fusiliers..Containing An Account of the Formation of the Regiment In 1793, and its Subsequent Service To 1853. FIRST EDITION. Engraved title page before the Preface and Introduction. 4 hand-coloured plates.
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