From the New Library Edition of Parkman's work, featuring the latest revisions. Top edge gilt. With tissue guarded frontispiece and maps. Bumping to edges. Tanning and light foxing to page edges, otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Hefty guide to Australian landscape, culture, industry and more, presumably to promote the country to emigrants. With numerous images, often arranged into collages. 4to. DJ has numerous tears with loss. Some toning to covers. Contents clean and tight. Go [more...]
From the Handbook of European National Dances series. With a history of the dances, diagrams of their steps and music, plus full page colour illustrations of the dancers. Complete with DJ. DJ is price-clipped with toning and spotting. Mild foxing to page e [more...]
From the Handbook of European National Dances series. With a history of the dances, diagrams of their steps and music, plus full page colour illustrations of the dancers. Complete with DJ. DJ is price-clipped with light toning and rubbing to edges. Content [more...]
Fascinating account of the political machinations of Georgian england. Some mild shelf-wear to edges of DJ. Contents bright and clean. Very good. [more...]
Illustrated in b/w by Howard Penton. Rewritten by Lubbock from Englefield's account of the buildings and halls of London's various trade guilds. Handsome blue faux-leather, printed on thick paper. 4to. Small crease to bottom of title page, else clean and t [more...]
Folio Society edition of Keegan's groundbreaking work. A study of the realities and mechanics of three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. With b/w images. Pictorial cloth covers. Complete with slipcase. Some very light rubbing to corners, els [more...]
A selection of Lawrence's insightful writings on war and diplomacy and his own role in history. Faint mark to fore-edge. Else crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
From the Handbook of European National Dances series. With a history of the dances, diagrams of their steps and music, plus full page colour illustrations of the dancers. Complete with DJ. DJ is price-clipped with light toning and rubbing to edges. Content [more...]
Close, dispassionate study of the nobility and landed classes of Britain. Dust jacket has some rubbing to edges. Light tanning to page edge. Otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Quarter cloth edition of monk Jocelyn de Brakelond's 12th century history of the monastery of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough cut. Raised bands to spine. Some spotting within, otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Macaulay's letters together with a biography by his nephew Trevelyan. Bumping and rubbing to edges. Light toning to page edges. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Third edition. With b/w images. Lacks folding map. Rubbing and fraying to edges. Scratch to cover. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Tanning to edges. Binding sound, contents clean. Fair. [more...]
The collected volumes of the British Commonwealth in Pictures series, in a single volume. Includes Canada, East Africa, Australia, India, etc. with an introduction and chronology. DJ has some toning and small tears to edges, Light spotting to page edges, ta [more...]
First biography of the interesting yet overlooked second son of Queen Victoria. With b/w illustrations. EX-LIBRARY with stamps and tags to end-papers. Mild bumping to DJ. Occasional light marking within, binding sound. Good. [more...]
Accounts of some well known stars, their history, how they can be observed and their composition. With numerous b/w plates. Dust-jacket has some rubbing and small tears at extremities. Contents are clean. Binding tight. Good condition. [more...]
Illustrated edition of Thackeray's satirical fantasy novel. With 12 colour tipped in colour plates by J. R. Monsell and b/w illustrations within the text. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Rubbing and fraying to spine. Cracking to inner hinge. [more...]
Revised eighth edition of the well regarded history of Royal Air Force aircraft since 1918 to the 1980s. With numerous b/w images and diagrams. 8vo. 685pp. DJ is sunned to spine with some creases. Light foxing to page edge. Contents crisp and clean. Good [more...]
Interesting, charmingly dated, somewhat triumphalist account of the City of London, featuring its other landmarks in addition to the financial district. With numerous b/w and colour images. Large 4to. (340x260mm) 191pp. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear [more...]
lively history of the 1820 failed conspiracy to murder the prime minister and all the members of his government. No dust jacket. Mild foxing to page edges. Contents clean and bindings tight. Good. [more...]
