Search Results: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain from Lawrence Jones

London: Selden Society., 2021. HEAVY. 2 VOLUMES. lix, 936pp, index, appendices. Or blue cloth. Near new. Eyre rolls of Hugh Bigod, justiciar of England from June 1258 to October 1260 including actions against Henry III.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to.

London: Quercus, 2010. xxxv, 410pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw & col ills, maps. Or boards in jacket. Minor silverfishing to edges of boards, very slight edge wear to jacket. The life of Admiral Benbow from his birth under Cromwell's Commonwealth; to service under the restores Stuart monarchyu; to the Glorious Revolution of 1688; to the French Wars of Louis XIV and finally to the bitter betrayal on the Spanish main of 1702.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1940. xii, 456pp, index, appendices/tables, 2 maps (one folding). Green cloth in jacket. Ex- Queensland Temperance League with their stamp to front free endpaper only. Jacket with 1cm tear top front, fading and toning to spine otherwise a very nice copy. Mid-20th century temperance/prohibition volume.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1940. xii, 456pp, index, appendices/tables, 2 maps (one folding). Green cloth, no jacket. Corners a bit rounded, lacks front free endpaper, some fading to edges of boards. Mid-20th century temperance/prohibition volume.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: Edward J. Clode, 1916. vii, 207pp. Green cloth, no jacket. Ex-Queensland Temperance League library with their stamps to front free endpaper and title page. Early 20th century temperance/prohibition volume.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: John Murray, 1877. HEAVY. xiv, 341pp, index, 73 plates (10 col), 50= engravings in text. Or brown cloth with gilt vignette to front, titled in gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Very slight rounding to corners, occasional light foxing, page edges evenly toned. Armorial bookplate with the Winchcombe family coat-of-arms (Frederick Earle Winchcombe, Sydney, Aus.). Frederick Winchcombe (1855-1917) was a woolbroker and Member of the Legislative Assembly in NSW. An excellent local history of Winchcombe and Sudeley in Gloucester, England.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 4to.

Cupa-Fife, Scotland: A. Westwood & Son, 1888. viii, 177pp + 11pp ads at rear. Blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Flecking to spine and front, even toning to page edges. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Devon: Devon Archaeological Society, 1996. viii, 286pp, bibliography, bw ills, diagrams, maps. Pictorial card. Near new. 16 papers presented to a Conference at Exeter University in September 1994 to celebrate the centenary of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Kent, UK: Christine Swift, 2002. 82pp, num bw ills. Light edge wear to cover. History of Beltring Hop farm in Kent.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Tiverton, UK: Halsgrove, 2003. 159pp, index, bibliography, num bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, strip cut from top of front free endpaper, a couple of yellowed marks to jacket.A reflection of times past and a celebration of the continuing sense of belonging that exists in the community of the village of Sculthorpe near Fakenham in North Norfolk.. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Constable & Robinson, 2008. xxxiii, 334pp, index, bibliography, chronology, bw ills. Paperback. Light even toning to page edges.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. 286pp, index. Or red cloth in jacket. Some fading to spine. Britain and the big four dominions- Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa- from the 19th century to post-WWII era.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959. x, 416pp, index, map, bw ills, col frontis. Black cloth in jacket. Bookseller label on front pastedown, some toning/foxing to page edges, joint cracked at gutter before frontis but holding firm, spine somewhat faded. Review copy with publishers review request laid onto front pastedown. The second volume in Ellis' history of the railways in Britain concluding with nationalization in 1947.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1897. xxxvii, 528pp, index, 2 folding maps, bw ills. Or blue cloth decorated i gilt, top edge gilt. Corners bumped, gift note on front free endpaper, edges evenly toned, hinge stressed at title page, occasional pencil lines in margins. Loosely inserted clipping from 1939. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1966. 294pp, index, appendices, notes, bw ills, maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Bright and fresh. History of many London canals, the Grand Junction and WArwick line of canal to Birmingham, Oxford to Coventry, Chesterfield and many more.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. xvii, 438pp, index, notes, appendix, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new with very light rubbing to jacket. Traces the changing boundaries of Britain's pursuit of empire and its shifting attitudes toward Islam, slavery, race and American revolutionaries.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. xiv, 337 pages, 16 pages of b/w plates, five maps, table of principal events, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. As new. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Cambridge: T. Stevenson, 1845. 119pp, num bw ills. Green cloth. Pages unopened/uncut so never read. Minor foxing to endpapers and prelims, armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some related news clippings loosely inserted. Full page plates as well as numerous text illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Large 8vo.

Nottingham: Forest Town Heritage Group, 2013. viii, 148pp, index, bibliogaphy, appendix, endnotes, num bw ills. Pictorial card. Slight bump at bottom rear, otherwise excellent. Clipstone military camp and its effect on the local Nottinghamshire community in WWI. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Colchester, Essex: Essex County Newspapers, 1979. xii, 207pp, index, glossary, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Price-clipepd otherwise excellent. The story of the English cod fishermen from the first recorded voyage Iceland bound through to the last generation of Harwich and Grimsby codbangers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Dodds, James.. 8vo.