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A History of the British Army. 20 Vol. Set
by Fortescue The Hon.J.W
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- 1st American Edition
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- 1910
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London: MacMillan, 1910. Complete 20 volume set. 1910 and later (14 text with 6 map volumes) All maps (most color folding maps) present and in vg condition. Red cloth. Some spines faded. Text clean and unmarked.. 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
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The History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debatable Land
by Armstrong, Robert Bruce
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- 1st Printing
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- 1883
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$875.00
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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1883. 280pp/illus + 116pp Appendix. #33 of 105 large paper edition. Col. illuminated title page + 20 plates on stiff card (5 coloured) + 2 fold-out maps + 12 other illus. (3 coloured). Great Scottish history. Has colored coat of arms illustrations. Small tape repair at bottom of spine. Top quarter of cover sunned. Text clean… Read more about this item Item Price
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Stanfield's Coast Scenery, a Series of Views in the British Channel
by Stanfield, Clarkson
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- 1st Edition
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- 1836
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- Hardcover
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$157.50
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London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1836. 128pp with 40 engraved plates and title page. Contemp. half calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with raised bands and morocco titling-label. Gilt page edges. Some light foxing but overall very clean an nice. Beautiful plates. 1st Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
$157.50
A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire
by Fenton, Richard
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- 1st Edition
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- 1811
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$245.00
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London: Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, 1811. First Edition 1st Ed. 4to. [xii] + 587pp. + 75pp. + [viii] Index + [ii]. With 8pp. Port. frontis., engraved title page., 30 engraved plates, folding map. Some light browning, contemporary brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Richard Fenton (1746-1821), topographical writer and poet was born at St. David's Pembrokeshire. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Nation, The Law and the King: Reform Politics in England, 1789-1799 (Volumes I and II)
by Jenny Graham
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- As New
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- 1st Edition
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- 1999
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- Paperback
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- 9780761814849
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Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A.: UPA, 1999. 2 Vols. 1,093pp/illus. argues that the English reform movement from 1789-1799 was motivated by a distinctively revolutionary ethos that was largely responsible for the extreme reaction of the governing classes. Graham fully explores the role of the middle class radicals to support her assertion that the revolution was pro-French for far longer than many other… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Treasury: The Evolution of a British Institution
by Henry Roseveare
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- 1st Edition
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- 1969
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- Hardcover
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- 9780231034050
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New York: Columbia Univ Pr, 1969. 406pp. Roseveare surveys the Treasury from its beginnings to the post Fulton days.For this first time the evolution of this crucial British institution is traced, iluminated and analysed as a whole. Clean no marks.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND with THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME
by A'Beckett, Gilbert A.
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- 1864
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$895.00
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London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1864. c. 1864. Bindings and contents quite fine, the hand-colored plates exceptionally bright. Three volumes bound as two. Large 8vo. xviii, 320p, 304p; xii, 308p. in original blue cloth box. Profusely illustrated by John Leech with many wood engravings and 30 hand-colored steel engravings. From the publishers of Punch. Uniformly bound in… Read more about this item Item Price
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From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919 (Complete 5 Vol set)
by Marder A.J
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- 1st Edition
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- 1961
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$595.00
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London, England: Oxford University Press [1961-70], 1961. First Edition 5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 5 portrait frontispieces, 66 plates on 40, 7 illustrations and charts in the text, 22 folding or double-page charts (most coloured in outline) bound in, and 16 folding charts coloured in outline in pocket at end of third volume; blue cloth, gilt backs, a very… Read more about this item Item Price
$595.00
The Battleship Dreadnought (Anatomy of the Ship)
by John Roberts
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- Near Fine
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- Revised Edition
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9780851776002
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London: Conway Maritime Press, [2001], 2001. 256pp/illus. Revised Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. One of the scarcest titles in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical… Read more about this item Item Price
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Admiral Memorandum on Naval Court-Martial Procedure 1937
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- 1937
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Ottawa, ONT, Canada: King's Printer, 1937. 185pp with changes in packet inside back cover. Library markings on cover and title page. Text clean.. Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket - Boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Item Price
$124.50
The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain
by MAHAN (Captain A.T.)
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- 1st Edition
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- 1897
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$395.00
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London: Sampson and Low, 1897. 454; xx, 427, [3, ads]pp. 2 vols. Original blue cloth, Mixed publishers - Vol 1 Sampson & Low gilt naval fleet illus on cover. Vol 2 Little Brown - gilt portrait of Nelson on upper cover, fine. First Edition. Illustrated with portraits, maps and battle plans. Both first eds. 1897. Both volumes clean… Read more about this item Item Price
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THREE SEA JOURNALS OF STUART TIMES. FIRST, THE DIARY OF DAWTREY COOPER, CAPTAIN OF THE 'PELICAN' OF THE NAVY OF HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES I. SECONDLY, THE JOURNALS OF JEREMY ROCH, CAPTAIN OF THE KING'S NAVY THIRDLY, THE DIARY OF FRANCIS ROGERS, LONDON ME
by Ingram, Bruce S. (Ed.)
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- 1936
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$195.00
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London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1936. 244pp. Original cloth/gilt. 16 illustrations. Number 50 of 500 numbered copies. The diary of Dawtrey Cooper, 1628, kept during the expedition to relieve La Rochelle; the journals of Jeremy Roch, 1666, describing voyages and adventures at sea under Charles II, James II and William III; and the diary of Francis Rogers, kept on his… Read more about this item Item Price
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George III: A Life in Caricature
by Baker, Kenneth
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 9780500251409
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New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 224pp/illus in b&w/color. Kenneth Baker draws on his own extensive experience of high politics as well as his personal collection of caricatures to give us a fascinating vision of how the English saw their king. Many of these amusing, often irreverent images have not been published before and they provide a new dimension… Read more about this item Item Price
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Colleges ofHistory of the University and Colleges of Cambridge.(1814) (Uniformly bound with) History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, attached to the University of Oxford (1810)
by Dyer, G
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- 1st Printing
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- 1810
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London, UK: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1810. 2 sets bound in 4 uniform bindings, complete, Cambridge (1814) 268pp/452pp + index and Oxford (1810) 260pp/226pp + index, 11 inches tall. Magnificent full straight grain morocco bindings of the highest quality with twin gilt raised bands and splendid gilt tooling to the panels. The boards are framed withing superb gilt… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Churchill War Papers: Never Surrender (Vol. 2)
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- As New
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- As New
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- 1st Printing
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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- 9780393037463
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. 1,359pp/illus. Churchill's papers from the time of the Battle of Britain. This volume contains documents from May 1940, the month that Churchill became Prime Minister and Germany invaded France and the low countries, through December 1940, with Britain having fought off the immediate threat of Nazi invasion in the Battle… Read more about this item Item Price
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The British Army and the Theory of Armored Warfare, 1918-1940
by Larson, Robert H.
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- 1st Edition
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- 1984
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- Hardcover
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- 9780874132199
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Newark, NJ: Univ of Delaware Pr, 1984. 265pp. An analyis of the evolution of British thinking on armoured warfare between the wars and the failings which left Britain unprepared to cope with the Blitzkreig. Clean no marks.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Item Price
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Came to Oxford
by Bone, Gertrude
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- Very Good+
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- 1st Edition
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- 1953
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- Hardcover
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New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1953. 140pp large quarto, with many illustrations by muirhead bone. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Bone, Muirhead. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
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Military Antiquities Respecting A History Of The English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time (2 Vols) (1786-8)
by Grose, Francis
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- 1786
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$1,950.00
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London, England: S. Hooper, 1786. 1786-1788, London] First Edition vi, 434pp; vi, 352pp + appendices & plates. With frontisp., title-vign., and 61 full-page plates of early armour. A fine and desirable work. Uniform volumes. Full tan calf. Gilt titles on spines. Appendix X has its own title page, A General and Compleat List-Military of every Commission-Officer of Horse and Foot,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Peerage of England; or, a Short of the Families of the Present English Nobility (2 vols) 1779
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- 1st Edition
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- 1779
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London, England: T Booker, 1779. 450pp plus indexes. 2 volumes bound as one. Leather spine with six ribbed compartments. Includes marriages, posts of homour in government and details of their crests. Clean and in very nice condition. 1st Edition. Quarter Leather/Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
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Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559
by Hudson, Winthrop Still
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1982
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- Hardcover
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- 9780822304401
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1982. 158pp. Chapters include: The Elizabethan "Establishment," 1558-1560, The Athenian Tribe at Cambridge, The Cambridge Connection in London, The Religious Settlement of 1559: Athenian Involvement, The Religious Settlement of 1559: Parliamentary Acts and Royal Injunctions, The Religious Settlement of 1559: Elizabeth and the Royal Perogative. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine.… Read more about this item Item Price
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