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Yorkshire: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1968. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The yorkshire archaeological society record series Vol CXXX. A good copy in brown cloth with gilt decoration to front board and gilt title to spine. Previous owner's engraved bookplate to fep. Internally clean, bright and sound. 146pp..

Spalding: Spalding Gentleman's Club with Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 64pp.This handsome small book tells the story of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, one of the earliest such learned societies in Britain, founded by Maurice Johnson of Ayscoughfee Hall in 1710 and still in existence today. Nowadays the Society welcomes women as well as men, though in fact women were closely involved in the Society from the outset. It has a long and proud history in the life of this fenland town in Lincolnshire, especially in educational role, and is still providing opportunities for public engagement and academic research on a wide variety of subjects with the resources of its famous library and museum. Included here is also a mission statement on the Society's plans for the future. The book is lavishly illustrated with 16 pictures, mostly in colour. A feature of the wrapper is an extinct butterfly recorded in… Read More

Rome: Chalcographia R.C.A. apud Pedem Marmoreum,, 1742. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A very good copy nicely rebound in tan half leather, tan cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers. [2pp], xxiipp, 225pp, [1p]; engraved title, numerous large engraved illustrations by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Pasted in, to the reverse of the final leaf is a bibliographical note to the previous owner. A few leaves slightly discoloured or slightly spotted, otherwise a very handsome volume..

Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine new copy. From the Latin warriors on the Palatine Hill in the age of Romulus, to the last defenders of Constantinople in 1453 AD, the weaponry of the Roman Army was constantly evolving. Through glory and defeat, the Roman warrior adapted to the changing face of warfare. Due to the immense size of the Roman Empire, which reached fromthe British Isles to the Arabian Gulf, the equipment of the Roman soldier varied greatly from region to region.Through the use of materials such as leather, linen and felt, the army was able to adjust its equipment to these varied climates. Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier sheds new light on the many different types of armour used by the Roman soldier, and combines written and artistic sources with the analysis of old and new archaeological finds. With a huge wealth of plates and illustrations, which include ancient paintings, mosaics, sculptures… Read More

East Ardsley Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in d/w. An excellent professional facsimile reprint, with a new Foreword, of this the classic work on the sword by the great Victorian polymath Sir Richard Francis Burton. With a new Foreword by J.G. Cluff. 299pp. NOT to be confused with the POD version so prevalent, this is a fine reprint. .

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. In this highly original history, Dr John Ashdown-Hill seeks to dispel the myths surrounding Cecily using previously unexamined contemporary sources. 290pp..

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1976. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in d/w. 279pp..

Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. From the time of the Bronze Age, the warriors of all tribes and nations sought to emblazon their arms and armour with items and images to impress upon the enemy the wealth and power of the wearer. Magnificently decorated shields were as much a defensive necessity as a symbol of social status. Equally, decorative symbols on shields and armour defined the collective ideals and the self-conceived important of the village or city-state its warriors represented. Such items were therefore of great significance to the wearers, and the authors of this astounding detailed and extensively research book, have brought together years of research and the latest archaeological discoveries, to produce a work of undeniable importance. Shining Under the Eagles is richly decorated throughout, and as well as battlefield armour, details the tournament and parade armour from Rome's the… Read More

Oxford: OUP, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counter-insurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, and Bedouin warriors, and the dramatic events of the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. Ten years of research in this prehistoric terrain has revealed sites lost for almost 100 years: vast campsites occupied by railway builders; Ottoman Turkish machine-gun redoubts; Rolls Royce Armoured Car raiding camps; an ephemeral Royal Air Force desert aerodrome; as well as the… Read More

London: A. Brown and Sons, 1924. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bound in original brown cloth with gilt titling, small evidence of pulls to top and base of spine and corners bumped. Photograph frontispiece and other photographic plates, 267pp. An interesting history of the early period of the county. Internally bright and sound..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Here are the fifteen scholarly essays by the medieval historian Professor Hugh Lawrence, who was well-known for his great books 'Medieval Monasticism' and 'The Friars', but his important and meticulous essays have never been collected before. The volume also contains an appreciation of his contribution to medieval studies by Dr Michael Robson (a substantial essay in its own right), a bibliography of his writings and an index, and an edition of Lawrence's war diary (he was a major in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment during the Burma campaigns of April 1945). Some essays focus on figures such as St Edmund of Abingdon, the learned friar Adam Marsh, the Cistercian scholar Stephen of Lexington and St Richard, bishop of Chichester. Other essays chart the growing significance of the University of Oxford and its relations with the friars and religious orders. The… Read More

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine new copy. Mail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted mail armour and used it successfully for centuries. Its history did not stop there and mail played a vital role in warfare during the Middle Ages up to the Early Modern Period. Given its long history, one would think mail is a well-documented material, but that is not the case. For the first time, this books lays a solid foundation for the understanding of mail armour and its context through time. It applies a long-term multi-dimensional approach to extract a wealth of as yet untapped information from archaeological, iconographic and written sources. This is complemented with technical insights on the mail maker's techniques. 520pp… Read More

Yorkshire: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1967. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The yorkshire archaeological society record series Vol CXXIX. A good copy in brown cloth with gilt decoration to front board and gilt title to spine. Internally clean, bright and sound. Previous owner's bookplate to fep. 138pp..

Yorkshire: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1942. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The yorkshire archaeological society record series Vol CV. A good copy in brown cloth with gilt decoration to front board and gilt title to spine. Previous owners' bookplates to inside front board and fep. Internally clean, bright and sound. xxxvipp.+ 193pp..

Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this new work on Anglo-Saxon gold coinage. Includes details of the few known forgeries in gold, or warnings if a unique coin is now considered 'doubtful' for various evidential reasons. This useful fully illustrated work comes with a Foreword by Professor Rory Naismith, a full bibliography and a helpful index of types. 160pp.

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collection of 27 academic essays on the life and cult of St Guthlac, the saint who was honoured at Crowland (or Croyland) Abbey in the Lincolnshire fens. Guthlac had his hermitage there from the late-seventh century until his death in 714. Many of the essays originated in a conference on Guthlac held in 2014 but there are additional studies, including an edition and translation of the twelfth-century Miracles of St Guthlac and the story of the movement of his remains into a splendid new shrine at Crowland. Historians are immensely fortunate that Guthlac's life was recorded in a very early biography by the monk Felix, writing in the mid-eighth century, which records early miracles and the story of Guthlac's extraordinary battles with fen demons, his relationship with Æthelbald, soon to become king of the Mercians, and his early life as a warrior fighting on the Welsh… Read More

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collection of 27 academic essays on the life and cult of St Guthlac, the saint who was honoured at Crowland (or Croyland) Abbey in the Lincolnshire fens. Guthlac had his hermitage there from the late-seventh century until his death in 714. Many of the essays originated in a conference on Guthlac held in 2014 but there are additional studies, including an edition and translation of the twelfth-century Miracles of St Guthlac and the story of the movement of his remains into a splendid new shrine at Crowland. Historians are immensely fortunate that Guthlac's life was recorded in a very early biography by the monk Felix, writing in the mid-eighth century, which records early miracles and the story of Guthlac's extraordinary battles with fen demons, his relationship with Æthelbald, soon to become king of the Mercians, and his early life as a warrior fighting on the Welsh… Read More

London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, the author provides a new narrative: one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart. Quinn argues that it is contact and connections, rather than solitary civilisations, that drive historical change. 562pp.

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine new copy. 448pp. plus 224 pages of colour plates, real-cloth binding, sewn in sections and colour dustwrapper. France is fabulously rich in incised effigial slabs - a two-dimensional form of funeral monument popular from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century - and this book is the first study written in English to examine on detail their unique qualities in a particular region of that country. It uncovers their various meanings, as grave markers and tools to encourage intercession for those they commemorate, and how they were commissioned by a socially diverse range of patrons, from ecclesiastical grandees to the lesser clergy, and from knights and esquires to widows and members of the professional classes. The social and artistic aspects of the art form are fully discussed in an incisive introduction of seven chapters, followed by an inventory of the 187 known slabs from the five… Read More

Leeds: The Museum of Leeds, 1987. Book. Illus. by Brears, Peter. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in white card covers. 52pp illustrated throught with drawings by Peter Brears..