SUMMARY OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT, FROM OCTOBER 1813 TO JANUARY 1823.
Edinburgh: Reprinted by Archibald Constable and Co., 1825. 8vo. ii, folding map, 130 pp. Original brown wrappers, spine has older paper reinforcement. More
British History
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PRINTING AND THE BOOK IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, a Bibliographical Survey.
Charlottesville, VA: U. Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (c1967). First edition. 8vo. xiv, 105 pp. Describes 402 bibliographies, checklists, critical writings, etc., on English incunabula. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated red cloth. (10534). More
MARRIAGE LITIGATION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND; (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. 8vo. x, 246pp. Black cloth gilt stamped on spine, blue dust jacket very good. More
THE QUEEN'S MATRIMONIAL LADDER, A NATIONAL TOY, WITH FOURTEEN STEP SCENES; AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN VERSE, WITH EIGHTEEN OTHER CUTS.
London: printed by and for William Hone, 1820. Sixteenth edition. Plain turquoise wrappers. 8vo.; (22pp). Illustrated with vignettes by George Cruikshank to accompany the short poems. Title page has been archivally repaired along the inner & outer margins; similar repairs to edges of a few other pages. Moderate soiling. Contemporary..... More
KHEDIVIAL SPORTING CLUB. GYMKHANA MEETING to be held at Ghezireh on Friday, 10th July, 1885 at 4.45 P.M.
[Cairo, Egypt]? 1885. Printed broadsheet, faint old fold lines. 22 cm. (2) pp. The program includes 6 races, and describes a list of conditions for entries. Also names the Judge: Maj. Gen. J. C. Dormer, C. B.; the Starter: Maj. Gen. Davis, C. B.; and the Clerk of the Scales..... More
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF COLONEL HUTCHINSON, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town... with Original Anecdotes... and a Summary Review of Affairs: Written by his Widow Lucy... now first published... by Rev. Julius Hutchinson. To which is prefixed THE LIFE OF MRS. HUTCHINSON written by herself.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Patterson Row, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1806. First Edition. 4to. Frontis. [8] which includes subscribers list with hand written additions, xiv, [2], 446 pp, 1 engraved portrait, plate of fascimile handwriting, folding genealogical chart, sepia aquatint of Nottingham Castle..... More
TORT, CRIME, AND POLICE IN MEDIAEVAL, BRITAIN. A Review of Some Early Law and Custom.
London: Williams and Norgate, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 2, 1917. First edition. 8vo. xix, 292 pp. Brown cloth spine stamped in gilt, with gray paper boards. Paper darkened as usual. Signature of previous owner on pastedown. Very good. More
JOURNALS OF THE SIEGES UNDERTAKEN BY THE ALLIES IN SPAIN, in the Years 1811 and 1812, with Notes
London: T. Egerton, Military Library, 1814. First edition. 8vo. xvi, iii, (1), 371 pp. Nine folding plates and maps; half-title. Jones served as brigade-major of engineers in the Peninsula during these campaigns. "In this work, [Jones] fearlessly exposed the deficiencies of the engineer service, which he attributed to the ignorance..... More
HISTORY OF THE LAW OF CHARITY 1532-1827.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo. xxiii, 270pp. Black cloth with gilt stamped spine, blue dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Very good. More
THE / ASSES OF GREAT BRITAIN, / AN ANSWER TO / HARRY H___D'S ASS / BY FART-INANDO / A MODERN POLITICAL ASS-TROLOGER. Tune the Ass in the Chaplet. [followed by 20 lines of text, in two columns]
London: J. Williams next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street, nd [ca.1762]. First edition. Engraved cartoon and two columns of verse, printed on laid paper, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches [plate mark: 11 7/8 x 7 15/16 inches]; the illustration, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, occupies the top third..... More
Historical Record of the Third, or King's Own Regiment of Light Dragoons; Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and Its Subsequent Services to 1857.
London: Printed by B.D. Cousins, (1857). Second edition, "revised from the edition published (by authority) in 1847, by the late Richard Cannon." 8vo. xvi, 288 pp. Illustrated with five plates, four of them hand-colored engravings. Includes extensive service in the Napoleonic Wars and Afghanistan in 1842. Somewhat later black morocco..... More
THE LETTERS OF FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND.; Edited by C.H.S. Fifoot.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Published in association with the Selden Society, 1965. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 397pp. Blue cloth with gilt stamped spine. Very good in light blue dust jacket. More
THE CHURCH UNDER THE LAW. JUSTICE AMINISTRATION AND DISCIPLINE IN THE DIOCESE OF YORK 1560-1640
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo. xi, (ii), 272 pp. Burnt orange cloth with gilt stamped spine. Yellow dustjacket with a few edge tears. Very good. More
The Rural Economy of Norfolk: Comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the Present Practice of husbandry in that County.
London: T. Cadell, 1787. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvii, (2), 400; ix, (6), 392, (4) pp. Folding map. Contemporary calf, gilt rules and leather labels on spines; joints cracking, offset from map to title page of volume one, but a very good copy. More
VOYAGES MADE IN THE YEARS 1788 AND 1789, FROM CHINA TO THE N.W. COAST OF AMERICA: WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE PERFORMED IN 1786, FROM BENGAL, IN THE SHIP NOOTKA. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE OF A NORTH WEST PASSAGE. AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TRADE BETWEEN THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA AND CHINA; AND THE LATTER COUNTRY AND GREAT BRITAIN.
London: printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by J. Walter, 1791. Second edition. 8vo. Two volumes: xii, lxxii, 363; (2), 332, (63, appendix) pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author (outer edge a little trimmed), 13 maps and plates, some folding. John Meares (c. 1756-1809) was a British naval officer..... More
PRACTICAL COURSE OF ARTILLERY. [manuscript title].
April 1837. Illustrated manuscript. Square 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches). (4, title page and index), 313 pp. 30 pen-and-ink illustrations, some full-page, 22 with full coloring, four with color highlighting; numerous tables. An appealing manuscript, probably completed by Menzies as a senior project or paper at military school..... More
A COMPENDIUS JOURNAL OF ALL THE MARCHES, famous battles, sieges, and Other Most Note-Worthy, and Ever Memorable Actions of the Triumphant Armies, of the Ever Glorious Confederate High Allies, in Their Late and Victorious War against the Powerful Armies of Proud and Lofty France, in and on the Confines of Holland, Germany, and Flanders, so Far as Our Successful British Troops Extended in Conjunction Therein. Digested into twelve campaigns, begun A.D. 1701, and ended in 1712; all, but the first and last, the Great Confederate Armies were under the conduct and command of our Honourable and much Honour-worthy, ever-renown'd, graceful, and excellent war-like Hero John Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Empire, &c.
London: Printed in the year, 1733. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 364, (8). Folding table, subscribers list. Somewhat later calf (front joint broken), all edges sprinkled red. Very good copy. More
Reporting on a search of family archives for correspondence between Empress Alexandra of Russia to his mother (and her sister) Princess Victoria, in a typed letter, signed ("Mountbatten of Burma")
10 July 1970, from his estate in Hampshire, to Craig Schermer in Cleveland, Ohio. Romsey, Hampshire, 1970. 8vo. Two pages, approximately 125 words, in part: "To our surprise and disappointment the only letter we can trace from the Empress Alexandra to my mother is one written in 1884, as a...... More
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NOTES ON KI-SWAHILI AS SPOKEN BY THE KING'S AFRICAN RIFLES [cover title].
(Kampala: U. P. & P. Co.), nd [between 1934 and 1944]. 8vo. 24 pp. The King's African Rifles was a British East Africa regiment recruited from native inhabitants of the various territories and commanded primarily by officers from the regular British army; it was active from 1902 through the early..... More
THE ENGLISH, SCOTCH, AND IRISH HISTORICAL LIBRARIES; Giving a Short View and Character of Most of Our Historians, Either in Print or Manuscript; with an Account of Our Records, Law-Books, Coins, &c. To which is added, a letter to the Reverend White Kennet, D.D., in defence of the English Historical Library, &c.
London: T. Evans and T. Becket, 1776. Third edition, "a new edition, corrected" (first issued as three separate works, 1696-1724). 4to. Three parts in one volume, as issued: xii, 241; (6), 114, (2, index); (4), viii, 90, (2, index) pp. Each work with a separate title page (though the last..... More
Histoire des révolutions d'Angleterre, depuis le commencement de la monarchie
Amsterdam: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1766. Nouvelle edition, corrigée & ornée de figures (first published Paris, 1693, with other new and revised editions before this one). 12mo. 4 volumes: (4), xii, 492; (4), 439; (4), xvi, 502 [i.e., 412]; (4), 338 pp. Illustrated with 36 engraved portraits of British..... More
Illustrations to the History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland.
Leeds, (England): Printed for Wm. White & Co. by Edward Baines & Son, nd [ca. 1827 and 1829]. 4to. Large hand-colored folding map of each county, plus three folding charts ("Table of the Reciprocal Distances of the Principal Towns of Great Britain and Ireland," "Table of the Reciprocal Distances of..... More
ELIZABETHANS AT HOME
Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1957. First edition. 8vo. 630pp. Red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Beige and red illustrated dustjacket some wear to edges. A very good copy. More
SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE AND THE VICTORIAN ART WORLD.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press, (1978). First edition. 4to. xvii, 468 pp. Illustrated from photographs, paintings, and other works of art, portraits, plans, some illustrations in color. Eastlake (1793-1865), an artist, scholar, collector, and public administrator, served as president of the Royal Academy and the first Director of the National..... More
THE HIGH COURT OF CHIVALRY. A STUDY OF THE CIVIL LAW IN ENGLAND.; With a forward by A.R. Wagner.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt stamped spine in gray dust jacket. Old tidelines around the edges of the just jacket, previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Very good. More