G Willis
Willis's Current Notes: a Series of Articles on Antiquities Biography Heraldry History Languages Literature Natural History Curious Customs &c. 1853 Selected from Original Letters and Documents Addressed During the Year 1853
G. Willis London 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Brown covers with blind decoration bright gilt lettering and decoration on the front dulled gilt decoration on rubbed and sunned spine light wear at spine-ends and corners. Split at front internal hinge and internal binding is broken. Darkened but otherwise clean end-papers and pages. Text in two columns with vignette black and white illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 42820011060. G. Willis hardcover
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G. BOAS
Wimbledon - has it a History.
1954. 8vo. with a frontispiece; original wrappers. Published for the John Evelyn Society for Maintaining the Amenities of Wimbledon formerly the John Evelyn Club for Wimbledon. The first edition appeared in 1947 unknown
Bookseller reference : 840
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G. BRIGGS
Jubilee History of the York Equitable Industrial Society Limited. SCARCE JUBILEE HISTORY
Privately Printed Manchester 1909. 8vo. First Edition with 2 frontispieces and very numerous portraits plates and facsimiles a number full-page in the text; original grey cloth upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back a remarkably bright clean copy. The Society was established on 16 August 1858 registered on 7 January 1859 and commenced business on 16 March 1859; the author was public auditor. The illustrations include many valuable captioned photographs of branch offices and establishments together with portraits of many of the organisation's early luminaries. Printed at the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Printing Works at Longsight. Extremely scarce especially in this condition. [Privately Printed], Manchester, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17119
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G. CALLENDER
The Queen's House Greenwich. A Short History 1617-1937.
Yelf Brothers Newport IOW 1937. 4to. with title-vignette 24 plates and a full-page photograph and 2 full-page plans in the text; original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a very good clean copy. This edition was entirely rewritten to incorporate new information that came to light during restoration of the house between 1934-1936. Yelf Brothers, Newport IOW, unknown
Bookseller reference : 7875
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G. Campbell H. Paton
Baron David Hume's Lectures 1786-1822 Volume 1
Edinburgh: Stair Society pp. xxiv 390 front hinge starting o/w vg in blue/gilt cloth 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. Larger 8vo. Stair Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 110820
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G. CHAPMAN and B. YOUNG
Box Hill.
Serendip Lyme Regis 1979. Sm. 4to. First Edition with a coloured frontispiece numerous monochrome plates and illustrations and a double-page map in the text; cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES this copy out-of-series. The best modern history detailed and well-written and covering natural history ecology and literary history. Serendip, [Lyme Regis, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 12614
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G. CHAPMAN
The Siege of Lyme Regis. Foreword by John Fowles. Illustrated by David West.
Serendip Books Lyme Regis 1982. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece several illustrations a number full-page in the text a folding map and a folding facsimile; original printed wrappers a near fine copy. Serendip Books, Lyme Regis, unknown
Bookseller reference : 16868
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G. COBB
London City Churches 1951. NEAR FINE COPY
Corporation of London 1951. 8vo. First Edition with plates and illustrations; printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a near fine copy. Splendid account by a acknowledged authority published for the Festival of Britain. VERY SCARCE Corporation of London, unknown
Bookseller reference : 26621
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G. COCKMAN
More Old Views of Steyning Bramber & Beeding.
Privately Printed Steyning 1983. 8vo. First Edition with numerous photographs in the text original photographic wrappers wire-stitched as issued a very good clean copy. Scarce [Privately Printed, Steyning, unknown
Bookseller reference : 12563
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G. E. Mingay
A Social History of the English Countryside
Routledge 1990. clean unmarked copy. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Routledge Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 361881 ISBN : 0415034086 9780415034081
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G. EVANS
The Story of the ancient Churches of Llandovery.
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian 1913. 8vo. First Edition with 14 plates on 12 a folding facsimile and a large folding map; original maroon buckram upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt gilt top uncut and largely unopened covers lightly damp-marked not affecting text else a very good bright clean copy. The definitive study published under the auspices of the Cymmrodorian Society. VERY SCARCE. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26678
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G. EVANS
The Story of Newcastle Emlyn and Atpar to 1531 with a concluding Survey. WITH THE ADDITIONAL PLATES
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian 1923. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece 9 plates and a plan in the text endpapers lightly browned; maroon buckram upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt gilt top uncut and partially unopened a near fine copy. THE FOUR ADDITIONAL PLATES ON 2 BY DR. D.L. THOMAS NOT CALLED FOR IN THE LIST OF PLATES ARE PRESENT WITH THIS COPY. VERY SCARCE. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26677
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G. FARR
Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Devon. The Story of the South Devon Lifeboats.
Bradford Barton Truro 1968. 8vo. First Edition with 37 plates on 24 and 4 full-page maps in the text; red cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Publisher's file copy with neat stamp on front free endpaper. Bradford Barton, Truro, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15017
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G. HARPER
Tangmere. A Village with Two Stories. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
Phillimore Chichester 1983. 8vo. First Edition with illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued a very good bright clean copy. SCARCE Phillimore, [Chichester, unknown
Bookseller reference : 24941
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G. HOPKINS
Greete Whitton and Hope Bagot and Tenbury Wells. The Farmers the People the Camp and the Neighbourhood over fifty Years.
D. Brown Cowbridge 1983. 8vo. First Edition with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued a fine copy. [D. Brown, Cowbridge, unknown
Bookseller reference : 20832
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G. HOPKINS
Joseph Bentley's History of Worcestershire written in 1840 and viewed in recent Times by Gordon Hopkins. Including a Section on Dudley and its Mines and Canals.
D. Brown Cowbridge 1985. 8vo. First Edition with numerous photographs a number full-page and a double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued a fine copy. D. Brown, Cowbridge, unknown
Bookseller reference : 8762
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G. J. DUKE and J. G. SHACKLOCK.
Origin and Progress of the Kirkby-in-Ashfield Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. A RARE SURVIVAL
Nottigham Printers Nottingham 1900. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece and photographs in the text free endpapers browned; maroon faux-morocco cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt patterned endpapers a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. With personal book-label on front paste-down. IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL. Nottigham Printers, Nottingham, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40309
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G. M. Trevelyan
Illustrated English Social History Two Books Four Volumes
<p>The books are in pristine condition slip case has slight shelf ware. colors vibrantnowriting no ownership label. A proud collection to owned and exibit on your library shelves.<br />Bibliographical Note:First Published in U. S. A. and Canada 1942<br />First Publish in Great Britain 1944<br />This Volume first published 1949<br />Second Impression 1949<br />Third Impression 1950<br />Fourth Impression 1951<br />Fifth Impression 1952</p> Longmans, Green And CO INC hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio 441
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G. MARTIN
The Story of Colchester from Roman Times to the Present Day.
Benham Newspapers Colchester 1959. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with a frontispiece 27 plates on 16 and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth gilt gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition Benham Newspapers, [Colchester], hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20144
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G. MAY
A Descriptive History of the Town of Evesham from the Foundation of its Saxon Monastery; with Notices respecting the ancient Deanery of its Vale Second and Best Edition. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
George May Evesham 1845. 8vo. Second and Best Edition with an engraved frontispiece mildly spotted and stained in blank margins; original tissue guard present 5 engraved plates and an engraved plan all original tissue guards present and 35 illustrations in the text; strongly rebound in twentieth century cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy. With a neat contemporary inscription possibly in the author's hand 'To the Editor of the Worcestershire Guardian' on title. This is the finest history of the town and a substantially revised and expanded version of the author's original version of 1834. In the rebinding two decorations a pattern from an oak panel in the monastery back cover and the bell tower spires and chapter arch front cover have necessarily been lost. Scarce. Anderson p.306. George May, Evesham, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11583
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G. McN. Rushforth
The Glass of the East Window of the Lady Chapel in Gloucester Cathedral
1921. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Off print rare Ex-Library copy in library binding. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe �11.55; USA �16.68; Oceania �15.13; Rest of World �14.56. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Hardback hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1124E078
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G. MILES
The Bishops of Lindisfarne Hexham Chester-le-Street and Durham: A.D. 635-1020. Being an Introduction to the Ecclesiastical History of Northumbria.
Wells Gardner Darton & Co. 1898. 8vo. Sole Edition neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original cloth gilt uncut skilfully rebacked with original backstrip gilt laid down a remarkably bright clean copy of a very scarce work. With a contemporary engraved bookplate matching signature on endpaper. Includes brief notices of the Bishops and Archbishops of York the Archbishops of Canterbury and the Popes of Rome for the corresponding period. Wells Gardner Darton & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3120
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G. MORLEY
The Smuggling War. The Government's Fight against Smuggling in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Alan Sutton Stroud 1994. 8vo. First Edition with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Alan Sutton, [Stroud, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20829
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G. NORTON
Commentaries on the History Constitution and Chartered Franchises of the City of London. Third Edition revised.
Butterworth 1869. 8vo. Third Edition; original cloth gilt back covers moderately scuffed and age-soiled else a good firm working copy. An important and definitive history. Scarce. Butterworth, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10613
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G. NORTON
Commentaries on the History Constitution and Chartered Franchises of the City of London. BRIGHT CRISP COPY
Butterworth 1829. 8vo. First Edition; attractively bound in modern half calf marbled sides gilt back uncut laid endpapers a bright crisp clean copy. An important and definitive history. SCARCE. Anderson p.190 recording the third edition of 1869 Butterworth, unknown
Bookseller reference : 1135
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G. OLIVER
The History of Exeter. JACK SIMMONS' COPY IN PERIOD CALF
R Cullum Exeter 1821. 8vo. First Edition title lightly spotted; attractively bound in mid-nineteenth century half calf pebble-grain cloth boards back with five raised bands tooled in gilt second compartment with leather label ruled and lettered in gilt red sprinkled edges green endpapers a notably fresh clean copy. The errata leaf sometimes missing is present with this copy. With the fine engraved nineteenth century armorial bookplate of George Bridgewater on front paste-down. THIS COPY WAS LATELY IN THE LIBRARY OF JACK SIMMONS SOMETIME EMINENT PROFESSOR OF LOCAL HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER AND BEARS HIS NEAT SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Brockett 50560. R Cullum, Exeter, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3552
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G. OLIVER
The History of Exeter. WITH THE ERRATA LEAF
Printed by R. Cullum Exeter 1821. 8vo. First Edition; mid-nineteenth century calf neatly rebacked in modern calf with five raised bands two morocco labels gilt and new endpapers small ink-stain on fore-edge not affecting text or margins a very good clean copy. The errata leaf sometimes missing is present with this copy. Brockett 50560. Printed by R. Cullum, Exeter, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3256
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G. Phillips BEVAN
Handbook to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort both on the Coast and Inland. Sixth Edition. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY OF THE SIXTH EDITION
Stanford 1887. 8vo. Sixth Edition with 2 plans one folding and large folding map small neat contemporary signature on half-title; original brown cloth sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt gilt back backstrip a little faded but all gilt wholly legible a very good bright clean copy. With 32pp of trade advertisements many illustrated bound in at end. First published in 1876 'Bevan' is probably the best of the later nineteenth century pocket or 'portmanteau' guides to the county. These were deliberately condensed both in size and content to provide ultimately portable information for those visiting by rail and road. A seventh and final edition appeared in 1891 by which time the larger and weightier guides were beginning to dominate. Bennett p.204. Stanford, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33444
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G. Phillips BEVAN
Tourist's Guide to the West Riding of Yorkshire. Containing full Information concerning all is principal Places of Resort and Interest. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT COPY WANTING ONE MAP
Edward Stanford 1884. 8vo. Fourth Edition with full-page plan and folding map free endpapers lightly browned; original brown cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt case a little shaken but binding entirely sound a bright clean copy. With 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. We have never seen a copy with two maps as called for. If a second map was present it would probably have been a county map; the exisiting map shows roads and railways. Edward Stanford, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 29501
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G. Phillips BEVAN
Tourist's Guide to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort both on the Coast and Inland. Revised and edited by R.N. Worth. Seventh Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Edward Stanford 1891. Sm. 8vo. Seventh Edition with folding map as frontispiece and 2 plans one folding some occasional underlining towards rear of text; original terracotta cloth boards framed in blind upper board lettered in gilt gilt back a near fine copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett p.204. Edward Stanford, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18670
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G. R. Elton
The English The Peoples of Europe
Blackwell Publishers 1994-11. Paperback. Good. Text unmarked gently read. Cover has slight shelfwear. Blackwell Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 060611060 ISBN : 0631196064 9780631196068
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G. R. Elton
The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. xvii 511 1992. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 170818 ISBN : 052128757X 9780521287579
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G. RICKWORD
Social Life in Bygone Colchester from the Revolution to the Municipal Reform Act. Being a Series of Sketches contributed to 'The Essex County Telegraph'. A RARE SURVIVAL
The Essex County Telegraph Colchester 1925. 8vo. First Edition with title in red and black and 6 plates; original brown grained wrappers wire-stitched as issued upper wrapper lettered in black with small mounted photograph yapped edges staples very lightly rusted else a near fine copy. Extremely scarce. In this state a rare survival. O'Leary 1398; Powell p.180. The Essex County Telegraph, Colchester, unknown
Bookseller reference : 13544
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G. SEWELL
A Wessex Notebook. Houses and People.
G F Wilson Southampton 1956. 8vo. First Edition with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece 22 plates and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth a very good bright copy in the dustwrapper. The great houses covered are Marwell Hall Bramshill Wilton Uppark Kingston Lacy Cranbury Park Stratton Park Hackwood Park Eastbury Stourhead Trafalgar House Hale House Wardour Bowood Phillips House and others. The people include Herbert of Bemerton Capability Brown Gibbon Beckford Betty Craven Keats Cobbett Milner Wellington Palmerston and Pugin among others. Uncommon. G F Wilson, Southampton, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14270
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G. TEASDILL
Coin Finds of the Huddersfield District. Handbook XVI. Tolson Memorial Museum Edited by E.W. Aubrook.
Tolson Memorial Museum Huddersfield 1961. 8vo. First Edition 2 full-page photographs of coins in the text; original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a near fine copy. Scarce especially in this condition Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, unknown
Bookseller reference : 8985
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G. VAN LOO
A Victorian Parson. The Life and Times of Thomas Prankerd Phelps Rector of Ridley Kent 1840-1893.
The Author/Self Publishing Association Upton-upon-Severn 1989. 8vo. First Edition with illustrations and pedigrees in the text; cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in the dustwrapper. [The Author/Self Publishing Association, Upton-upon-Severn, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14710
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G. WALDIE
A History of the Town and Palace of Linlithgow with Notices historical and antiquarian of Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood. Third edition.
Linlithgow 1879. 8vo. Best Edition with a frontispiece 11 illustrations in the text and a map; ribbed cloth gilt small mark on upper cover endpapers a little marked else a sound clean copy. With the addendum slip often wanting. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on endpapers. This edition not recorded by BMC Linlithgow, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1042
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G. WEBSTER
The Cornovii. Peoples of Roman Britain series. Second revised Edition.
Sutton Stroud 1991. 8vo. Second and Best Edition with numerous photographs illustrations and plans a number full-page in the text; cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in the dustwrapper. First published by Duckworth in 1975 as part of its 'Peoples of Roman Britain' series. This edition includes the information and interpretation following the completion of the Wroxeter excavations in 1985. The author was Senior Archaeological Consultant to English Heritage. Sutton, [Stroud, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13327
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G. WEBSTER
The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD. Second Edition.
A&C Black 1979. 8vo. Second and Best Edition with numerous photographs illustrations and plans a number full-page in the text; brown cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in the dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged version of this standard reference first published in 1969. A&C Black, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 16903
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G. WEBSTER
The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD. Second Edition.
A&C Black 1979. 8vo. Second and Best Edition with numerous photographs illustrations and plans a number full-page in the text; brown cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged version of this standard reference first published in 1969. A&C Black, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14809
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G. WORLEY
Essex. A Dictionary of the County mainly ecclesiological in two Parts.
1915. 8vo. cloth gilt back uncut. A handy and valuable work of reference providing a wealth of information in gazetteer form. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 607
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GA. Household G. A.
To Catch a Sunbeam Victorian Reality Through the Magic Lantern
London: Michael Joseph 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 144 color and b/w illustrations. Michael Joseph hardcover
Bookseller reference : 237601 ISBN : 0718118618 9780718118617
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GA. Knox G. A.
The Natural History of Canterbury
Wellington: A.H.& A.W.Reed pp. 620 b/w illustrations 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/sl/worn. 4to. A.H.& A.W.Reed hardcover
Bookseller reference : 132756
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GA. WARD G. A.
Essex Local History. A Short Guide to Books and Manuscripts.
Essex Committee of the National Register of Archives 1950. 8vo. First Edition with 4 plates; original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a very good clean copy. O'Leary 498; not recorded surprisingly by Powell. Essex Committee of the National Register of Archives, unknown
Bookseller reference : 6985
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Gabaldon Diana
Lord John and the Private Matter
New York NY U.S.A.: Delacorte 2003. 1st Edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. In her NY Times bestselling Outlander novels Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and aventure--a world of vibrant settings and unforgettable characters. Now one of these characters Major Lord John Gray opens the door to his own part of this world - London in 1757 a seething anthill of nobility and rabble peopled by soldiers and spies whores and dukes. Great Britain is battling France for supermancy on three continents-and life is good for a soldier. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Delacorte Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013893 ISBN : 0385337477 9780385337472
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GABORY (Emile)
L' Angleterre et la Vendée. d'après des documents inédits. Granville. Quiberon. L'île d'Yeu
Paris, Perrin, 1930-1931 2 vol. in-8, 316 pp. et 313 pp., index, demi-chagrin caramel à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, couv. cons. (reliure de l'époque). Supra libris J. S.
Bookseller reference : 206545
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GABORY (Emile)
L' Angleterre et la Vendée. d'après des documents inédits. Granville. Quiberon. L'île d'Yeu
Paris, Perrin, 1930-1931 2 vol. pet. in-8, 316 pp. et 313 pp., index, demi-basane fauve marbrée, dos lisse orné en long, bonnet phrygien mosaîqué, tête dorée, couvertures conservées (reliure de l'époque). Ex-libris Roger Magadoux.
Bookseller reference : 220042
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GABORY (Emile)
L' Angleterre et la Vendée. d'après des documents inédits. Granville. Quiberon. L'île d'Yeu
Paris, Perrin, 1930-1931 2 vol. in-8, 316 pp. et 313 pp., index, 4 cartes dépliantes ajoutées, demi-basane rouge, dos à nerfs (reliure de l'époque). Dos passés et frottés. Supralibris J. Favre.
Bookseller reference : 665308
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GABRIEL MOUREY
LA PEINTURE ANGLAISE DU XVIII SIECLE.GRAND FORMAT.
VAN OEST 1928 In-4 relié. Bon état d’occasion.
Bookseller reference : 59553
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Gadd David
Georgian Summer
Countryside Books 1987. Trade Paperback. Fine. Countryside Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 345191 ISBN : 0905392604 9780905392608
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