Historical & Antiquity from Bird's Books

London: T. Werner Laurie, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt decoration and titles on front and spine. Upper edge gilt. Viii + 321pp + 6pp publisher’s catalogue. Coloured tissued guarded frontispiece and 3 other coloured plates from paintings by Stafford Leake accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress, other black and… Read more about this item

Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, cloth covered boards with gilt titles on front and spine. This is the plates volume only. 778 black and white photographs. Front end paper has a some crossed out text and wear to top corner (see picture). Inner book nice and clean and in lovely condition. ***Over… Read more about this item

Jersey: La Societie Jersiaise, 1972. Hardcover. Very good +/Fair. Stevens. And Those Who Lived in Them 1500-1700. Folio, pictorial dust jacket over blue boards with gilt titles on spine. 255pp including index. Illustrated with 36 plates and numerous figures and drawings throughout the text. Includes fold out maps. This covers the history of some Jersey houses and… Read more about this item

John Donald Publishers Ltd, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 4to, 407pp, well illustrated with figures, plans, maps and photographs. Photographic dust jacket over black cloth boards. Contents include chapters on the physical geography of region, the cultural landscape, building materials, construction, circular buildings, rectilinear buildings, single-cell houses, long-houses, multi-cell houses, farm buildings , hearth and home,… Read more about this item

New York, 2007. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Folio with unclipped dust jacket, 111pp, illustrated coloured endpapers. Contents include a description of the document, the provenance this particular copy, the text Latin and also the translation into English, the seal, etc. As you might imagine this is an extremely well illustrated and informative sales catalogue for a distinguished and… Read more about this item

4to, 285pp, illustrated throughout. Very good+ with previous owner's pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Pictorial good+ dust jacket with some edge wear/ sunning . 'From the late Middle Ages, when it embodied spirituality, through the end of the eighteenth century, when it offered pleasurable surroundings for banquets, poetry readings, and amorous pursuits, the garden figured prominently in everyday Roman life.… Read more about this item

A history of the Fitches of Connecticut, from their roots in England in the 1400s to the 1600s. The book contains the English genealogy, a glossary of terms and index. 273pp illustrated with photographs, maps and figures. Endpapers illustrated with the Fitch family tree.

This is more than just a biography, it covers the reformation, moving to an American colony, rise of puritanism in America, interactions with the native populations etc., as well as personal history. 319pp including index and glossary, illustrated with photographs, figures and maps. Decorated endpapers.

Mendip Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. 174pp with a fold out family tree at rear. Dust jacket with colour portrait on front. This book tells the story of Abraham Portal, would be poet and skilled craftsman, 1726-1809. With two colour and other black and white illustrations. By use of his correspondence and interests, supplemented by published sources and public records, thus illuminating… Read more about this item

Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. The Domesday Book is a statistical survey of England in 1086 A. D. It is a census of the population and resources of the country, of their value and ownership. This edition provides a parallel , uniform, modern English translation; with a map, indices and an explanation of the… Read more about this item

Oxbow Books, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Photographic boards, folio, 339pp, illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and diagrams. 'Dolaucothi, near the modern village of Pumsaint in south-west Wales, is the only site in Britain where the Romans are known certainly to have mined for gold. The main workings, which are thought to span various phases of exploitation… Read more about this item

Routledge, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and… Read more about this item

George Kelsall, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. From humble beginnings on a Pennine hillside in the earliest period of the cotton industry to one of the most successful nineteenth century dynasties, this traces the story of the Fieldens of Todmorden. The author deals extensively with the contrasting personalities and lifestyles of the family through the generations and… Read more about this item

London: Elliot Stock, 1881. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, half leather binding with red cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Leather rubbed to spine and corners. 82pp including an appendix regarding a public meeting to protest against the continuation of gaming in Monte Carlo, appealing for an end to the ‘ruin and misery….dishonour and death’ . Illustrated with tissue guarded… Read more about this item

Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1976. Softcover. Very Good. A Study in Growth and Contraction. 8vo, pictorial card covers by Muirhead Bone. 124pp with index, illustrated with maps of Glasgow on the endpapers and eight illustrations by Muirhouse Bone. Lovely and clean inside, slight edge wear to the covers. Previous owner’s name scored out on front free endpaper.… Read more about this item

Glasgow: John Menzies & Co, 1893. A New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Blue-green cloth with blindstamped borders to boards and gilt titles on spine. 178pp with adverts on the endpapers. Portrait frontispiece tissue guarded and twenty illustrations throughout the text. Humorous chapters on aspects of what was then the second city of the British Empire. Some of these… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1987. Softcover. Very good +. An overview of the connections between Scotland and Russia. The essays illustrate the more important contributions made by Scots to the varied history of Russia. Published to coincide with the 1987 exhibition by the Scottish Library. 105pp illustrated throughout in black and white.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1883. A New Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete in 4 volumes. 8vo, half leather with green boards. Gilt titles on spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Two gift dedications on front free endpaper, one dated 1884 and the other 1932. Vol. I 662pp., vol II 598pp, vol III 558pp, vol IV 572pp. Some shelf wear,… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1857. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, full calf binding with marbled endpapers, with gilt titles and decoration on spine. Emblem of Trinity College in Oxford in gilt on front and back boards. From the collection of George Gilbert Ramsay of Glasgow University with his personal bookplate on the front pastedowns. Ramsay studied at Trinity… Read more about this item

London : John Murray, 1863. A New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, half calf binding with marbled paper on boards, matching marbled endpapers, with gilt titles and decoration on spine. All edges red. Vol. I viii + 472pp, slight crack to binding and some shelf wear, vol. II iv + 474pp, vol. III iv + 518pp, including index.… Read more about this item