HISTORY
ARCHIVES DE FRANCE: Des Etats Generaux au 18 Brumaire.
La Revolution Francaise a Travers Les Archives.
Paris: Archives Nationales - La Documentation Francaise,
1988.
First edition. French text. Illustrated in colour.
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ASTLEY / LE STRANGE / HASTINGS: Minutes of Evidence given
before the Committee of Privileges to whom the Petitions of Sir
Jacob Astley, Baronet, and of Henry Le Strange Styleman Le Strange,
Esquire, Respectively Claiming to be Co-Heirs to the Title and
Dignity of Baron Hastings.
[London]: Ordered to be Printed, 16th July, 1840.
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BANCKS,
JOHN: A New History of the Life and Reign of the Czar Peter
the Great : Emperor of all Russia, and Father of his Country,
containing: I. His travels, studies, and personal fatigues
...; II. His introduction of arts and sciences, naval
force, and commerce with foreign nations ...; III. His
wars with the Swedes, Turks, Tartars, and Persians ...; IV.
His regard to genius and merit ... .
London: Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on
London Bridge, 1740.
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BAINVILLE,
JACQUES: Histoire de France.
Paris: Artheme Fayard, n.d.
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BESANT, WALTER: Besant's History of London - The Stuarts.
London: Village Press, 1990.
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BIANCO, ALFREDO: Asti ai tempi della rivoluzione e dell'impero.
Cronaca e Storia.
Asti: Cassa di Risparmio, 1964.
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BIANCO, ALFREDO: Asti Medioevale.
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BIRCH, WALTER DE GRAY: Domesday Book: A popular
Account of the Exchequer Manuscript so called, with Notices of the
Principal Points of General Interest which it contains. Second
edition, revised.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1908.
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good copy.
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BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. JOHN, LORD VISCOUNT: Letters on the
Study and Use of History. A New Edition, Corrected.
Edinburgh: Charles Elliot, 1777.
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BUHLMANN, PROF. JOSEPH and WAGNER, PROF. ALEXANDER: Ancient
Rome with the Triumphal Entry of Constantine in the Year 312.
A Panorama painted by Prof. Joseph Buhlmann .....
Munich: Franz Hanfstaengl, ca. 1885.
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CARLYLE, THOMAS: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches:
With Elucidations.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1857.
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CARLYLE, THOMAS: Sartor Resartus. Lectures on Heroes.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1858.
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CARLYLE, THOMAS: The French Revolution: A History.
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CARPENTER,
EDWARD [Editor]: A House of Kings. The History of Westminster
Abbey. LIMITED EDITION - SIGNED.
London: John Baker, 1966.
Number 102 of a limited edition of 500 copies, signed, and
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CHAUDON, L.M. and DELANDINE, F.A.: Nouveau dictionnaire historique ou Histoire abrégée de tous les hommes qui
se sont fait un nom par des talens, des vertus, des forfaits, des
erreurs, etc., depuis le commencement du monde jusuq'à nos jours
........ (complete in 13 volumes).
Lyon: Bruyset Aine et Comp. 1804.
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CHURCH, A.J: Heroes of Chivalry and Romance. Fifth
edition.
London: Seeley, Service, 1913.
Coloured plates by George Morrow. 8vo, pp.vii:342,
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CRAIK, GEORGE
L. & MACFARLANE, CHARLES: The Pictorial History of England
during the Reign of George the Third. Illustrated with Several
Hundred Woodcuts.
London: Charles Knight, 1841-1844.
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CREASY,
SIR EDWARD: The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon
to Waterloo. Thirty-second edition.
London: Richard Bentley, 1886.
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CRUICKSHANKS, EVELINE
[Editor]: Ideology and Conspiracy:
Aspects of Jacobitism, 1689-1759.
Edinburgh: John Donald
Publishers, 1982.
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D'AUBIGNE, J H
MERLE: History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.
Translated from the French by Walter K. Kelly.
London: Whittaker & Co, n.d. ca. 1850.
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DEROY, LEON: Les Chroniques du Chateau de Fontainebleau.
Paris: Pierre Roger, n.d.
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DES,
FONTAINES, M. L'ABBE: The History of the Revolutions of Poland
from the Foundation of That Monarchy, to the Death of Augustus II.
London: for T. Woodward and C. Davis, 1739.
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DUNBAR, ARCHIBALD H.:
Scottish Kings.
A Revised Chronology of Scottish History
1005-1625.
With Notices of the Principal Events, Tables
of Regnal Years, Pedigrees, Calendars etc.
Edinburgh: David
Douglas, 1899. First edition.
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ENGLAND:
Les larmes de l’Angleterre, ou La source des malheurs qui ont
afflige´ ce royaume sous le regne de Jaques I. & de son fils, et qui
ont cause´ la guerre civile, la mort de Charles I. & enfin
l’abdication de Jaques II.
Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1692.
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FITZGERALD, PERCY [Editor]: Bardell v. Pickwick.
The Trial for Breach of Promise of marriage held at the Guildhall
Sittings, on April 1, 1828 before Mr Justice Stareleigh and a
Special Jury of the City of London.
London: Elliot Stock, 1902.
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FORREST, ALAN: The
Revolution in Provincial France.
Aquitaine 1789-1799.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1996.
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GIBBON, EDWARD: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: The Folio Society, 1983-1990.
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GOMME, GEORGE LAURENCE: Folklore as an Historical Science.
London: Methuen, 1908.
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GREEN, J.R.: Henry the Second.
London: Macmillan, 1903.
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GREGOIRE, LOUIS: Histoire de France Periode Contemporaine.
Regne de Louis-Philippe - Republique de 1848 Empire - Republique
Jusqu'a la Constitution de 1875.
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1879 - 1883.
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HENISCH, BRIDGET ANN: Cakes and Characters. An
English Christmas Tradition.
London: Prospect Books, 1984.
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HIGGONS,
B: Historical and Critical Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History
of Our Time. London: for P. Meighan, 1725.
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HUNT, R.W: PANTIN, W.A.; and SOUTHERN, R.W.
[Editors]: Studies in Medieval History presented to Maurice
Powicke.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1948.
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cloth. Neat name and date on front free endpaper, else a very
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ISRAEL, JONATHAN: The
Dutch Republic.
Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1995.
First edition. Black &
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LATIMER,
JOHN: The History of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City
of Bristol. With some account of the Anterior Merchants' Guilds.
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1903.
First edition. Frontispiece & armorial plate in gold and colours.
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LEWIS,
EDWARD: The Patriot King Displayed: in the Life and Reign of
Henry VIII. King of England: from the Time of his Quarrel with
the Pope, to his Death. By Edward Lewis, M.A. Rector of Waterstock
and Emington, in Oxfordshire.
London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1769.
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MCCARTHY,
JUSTIN: A History of Our Own Times from 1880 to the Diamond Jubilee.
Sixth thousand.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897.
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McCARTHY, JUSTIN: A History of Our Own Times. From the
Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress. Second edition.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1879.
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MACAULAY, THOMAS
BABINGTON: Critical and Historical Essays, contributed to the
Edinburgh Review.
Fifth edition.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1848.
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MASSIE, ROBERT K: Nicholas and Alexandra.
London: Folio Society, 2002.
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METCALF, THOMAS R: Land, Landlords, and the British Raj. Northern
India in the Nineteenth Century.
University of California Press, 1979.
First edition. Frontispiece. Maps. 8vo, pp.xiv:436, original cloth;
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MILLOT, L'ABBE: Elemens de l'Histoire de France. Nouvelle Edition.
Paris: Les Libraires Associes, 1809.
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MUNCK, THOMAS: The
Peasantry and the Early Absolute Monarchy in Denmark 1660-1708.
Kobenhavn:
Landbohistorisk Selskab, 1979.
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NEWTON,
RICHARD: The Reformation and its Heroes.
London: T. Nelson, 1889.
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OLDCASTLE,
HUMPHRY: Remarks on the History of England.
London: for R. Francklin, 1743.
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PARKER, SAMUEL: Bishop Parker's History: or, The Tories
Chronicle, from the Restoration of King Charles II 1660, to the Year
1680, in Four Parts....
London: Printed in the Year 1730.
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PENNINGTON, DONALD
and THOMAS, KEITH
[Editors]: Puritans Revolutionaries.
Essays in Seventeenth-Century History
Presented to Christopher Hill.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1978.
First edition. Portrait
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PHIPSON, DR. T.L.: The Storm and its Portents. Scenes
from the Reign of Louis XVI.
London: Richard Bentley, 1878.
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dark green cloth blocked in gilt. One gathering partly
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POLYBIUS: The General
History of Polybius. Translated from the Greek by Mr. Hampton. Fifth
Edition.
Oxford: by W. Baxter for J. Parker, 1823.
Two volumes. 8vo, pp. xxiv:422 & 507, original blue ribbed cloth
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Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1911.
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ROBERTS, MICHAEL: Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of Sweden.
London: The English Universities Press, 1973.
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ROBERTS, MICHAEL: The
Early Vasas.
A History of Sweden 1523-1611.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1968.
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ROBERTS, MICHAEL
[Editor]: Documents of Modern History.
Sweden as a Great Power 1611-1697.
Government:
Society:
Foreign Policy.
London: Edward Arnold
Ltd, 1968.
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SADLER,
SIR RALPH: Letters and Negotiations of Sir Ralph Sadler,
Ambassador of King Henry VIII of England to Scotland;
Containing the Transactions of two memorable Embassies. The
First to King James V in the Year 1540, in Order to dispose him
towards a Reformation .... The Second, to the Governor and
States of Scotland, in the Year 1543, concerning a Marriage betwixt
Mary their Queen and Edward VI then Prince of Wales; and a
perpetual Friendship and Union between the two Nations.
Edinburgh: for James McEuen and George Stewart, 1720.
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SALMON,
THOMAS: The Chronological Historian Containing a Regular
Account of All Material Transactions and Occurrences Ecclesiastical,
Civil and Military Relating to the English Affairs, from the
Invasion of the Romans to the Present Time.
London: W. Mears, 1723.
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portraits. 8vo, pp.(8):422:(21, index):(5, publisher's list),
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SCOTT, SIR WALTER: Tales of a Grandfather (History of Scotland).
With Notes.
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1859.
Three volumes. Engraved plates. Small 8vo, original
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SEWARD, DESMOND: The Monks of War. The Military Orders.
London: Folio Society, 200.
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orange; fine in slipcase.
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STREET, A.G: Hitler's Whistle.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943.
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SYMONDS,
JOHN
ADDINGTON & PEARSON, ALFRED: Short History of the
Renaissance in Italy taken from the Work of John Addington Symonds
by Lieut. Colonel Alfred Pearson.
London: Smith, Elder, 1893. Portrait. 8vo, pp.vi:(1):354:(2),
contemporary full rich polished 'tree' calf, spine gilt extra within
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TAYLOR, GEORGE HENRY: The Excursions of a Village Curate;
or, The Fruits and Gleanings of a Month's Ramble in Quest of Health.
London: Lupton Relfe, 1927.
First edition. 8vo, pp.iv:178, original cloth-backed boards
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TAYLOR, W.C: Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr Goldsmith's
Abridgement of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius
Caesar to the Death of George II ......
London: Whittaker , 1837.
Frontispiece, woodcuts in the text, folding map. 8vo, pp.viii:508:24
(Whittaker's list), full contemporary burgundy roan; headband a
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THIERS, ADOLPHE: Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. 20
volumes.
Paris: Paulin, 1845 - 1862.
Twenty volumes. 8vo, contemporary half tan calf with black
lettering and numbering pieces. A number of headbands chipped,
a few chipped at base of spine, a few lettering pieces chipped.
That apart this is still an attractive set on the shelf.
Image available on request. Extremely heavy and therefore
not viable for export.
Quote Item No. 4999
Price: £200.00
TREVELYAN, SIR GEORGE OTTO: The American Revolution.
Longmans, Green, 1899.
Four volumes comprising: Part 1, 1766-1776; Part 2 (in
two volumes); and, Part 3, Saratoga and Brandywine, Valley Forge,
England and France at War.
Illustrated with folding maps & plans. Four volumes, pp. 468;
384; 374; & 539, original purple cloth; spines unevenly faded and
spotted. The last volume with corners bumped. Part 1 was published
in 1899, Part 2 in 1903; & Part 3 in 1907.
The first three volumes contain the armorial bookplate of Baron
Manners.
Quote Item No. 8474
Price: £30.00
London: Baldwin, Cradock, 1821.
Two volumes, one of 64 engraved plates, the other of text, pp.264.
Square 12mo, contemporary full grained roan; backstrips and
extremities rubbed, headbands chipped. Contemporary inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 2017
Price: £50.00
TULARD, JEAN: The French
Revolution in Paris.
Seen Through the Collections of the
Carnavalet Museum.
Paris-Musees, February, 1989.
First edition. English
text. Illustrated in
colour and black & white.
Folio, pp.241, original burgundy vinyl
decoratively blocked in gilt on spine and lettered and
blocked in gilt on front cover, no dustwrapper;
two lower corners of binding bumped and with small white
marks to front corner;
in all other respects, excellent.
Quote Item No. 9228
Price: £50.00
INSCRIBED COPY.
Paris: Eugene Dumont, Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1933.
1 of 1000 copies printed. Large 8vo, pp.252 plus unpaginated
index. Original printed wrappers; text block detached from
wrappers, wrappers edge rubbed and worn at head and tail of
backstrip.
* Bold signed inscription, dated 1933, from the author to Edward
Shackleton, on half-title and with a typed letter signed and an
autograph letter signed from the author to Shackleton and retained
copies of Shackleton's replies, and a few other pieces.
Quote Item No. 6678
Price: £50.00
VELLEIUS PATERCULUS: C.
Velleii Paterculi Historiæ Romanæ ad M. Vinicium cos. Libri duo /
interpretatione et notis illustravit Robertus Riguez e Societate
Jesu. Jussu christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.
London: Gul. Innys, 1730.
Engraved frontispiece. Title in red and black. 8vo, pp.xxviii:164
plus substantial unpaginated index. Contemporary panelled calf;
re-cased retaining the original backstrip but joints chipped and
headband pulled, inner joints reinforced with cloth.
Frontispiece and title foxed.
Quote Item No. 8919
Price: £55.00
VINCENT, BENJAMIN: Haydn's
Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information relating to All Ages
and Nations. Well Bound.
London: Ward, Lock, 1910.
Twenty-fifth edition, containing the History of the World to
Midsummer, 1910. Large 8vo, pp.1614, well and strongly bound
contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, spine with raised bands,
all edges gilt. Gilt arms on upper cover. Eton prize presentation
inscription on front fly and armorial bookplate on front pastedown.
Very good.
Quote Item No. 9130
Price: £30.00
WELLS, STEPHEN: The Tudor, Queen Mary, being an Abridged
History of the Events and Personages connected with her reign.
London: Richardson and Son, 1854.
First edition. 12mo, pp.(4, list of subscribers):(2, contents):83,
original red cloth armorially blocked in gilt. Binding spotted, a
little worn at head and base of spine. Presentation copy from the
author, so inscribed and dated, 1854, on endpaper, further later
inscription below. Ink annotation to the list of subscribers by the
author.
Quote Item No. 10460
Price: £35.00
WHITHAM, J. MILLS: A Biographical History of the French
Revolution.
London: Routledge, 1933.
Reprint. Black & white portraits. 8vo, pp.xiii:493, original
red cloth; no dustwrapper; spine browned, headbands and corners
bumped and slightly rubbed; page edges browned; internally, some
foxing, prize label on endpaper, in all other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 1385
Price: £12.00
WILLIAMS,
HELEN MARIA: A Residence in France during the Years 1792,
1793, 1794, and 1795; described in a Series of Letters from an
English Lady .... Prepared for the Press by John Gifford.
Volume 2 only (of 2).
London: Longman, 1797.
Volume 2 only (of 2). 8vo, pp.464, contemporary full tan calf
with lettering piece; lacking numbering piece. A trifle
rubbed but generally very good. Anonymous.
Quote Item No. 8290
Price: £50.00