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$22.50
xxcad30495

The Queen's Orders of Chivalry


DE LA BERE, IVAN sir brigadier

Hardcover octavo (VG+) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Spring Books 1964

KEYWORDS: history chivalry brigadier sir ivan de la bere specials

$35.00
xxcad30499

Social Investigation and Rural England 1870-1914


FREEMAN, MARK

Hardcover octavo (near fine) d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Royal Historical Society 2003

KEYWORDS: history sociology mark freeman specials

$75.00
1j39/28

Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in pre-Industrial Society


PORTER, ROY (ed)

Octavo black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 356pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (protective plastic attached with blue tape to preserve d/w)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: medicine history sociology patient doctor relations pre-industrial era essays roy porter

$85.00
1j39/31

The Fall of Mary Stuart


MUMBY, FRANK A.

Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, gilt illus to front, frontis, xv + 368pp + 12pp adverts, illus; VG+ (foxing, light tanning) INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR

PUBLISHER: Constable & Co Ltd 1921

KEYWORDS: history mary stuart royalty frank a. mumby

$75.00
1j39/35

Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain


VELASCO, SHERRY

Octavo burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 209pp, illus; near fine ( small tear to cloth at bottom front cover)

PUBLISHER: Vanderbilt University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: male pregnancy spain history sociology medical anomaly sherry velasco theatre gender studies

$65.00
1j39/41

Worlds Within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London


RAPPAPORT, STEVE

Octavo red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus, xv +449pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: history sixteenth-century london england sociology lifestyle population economics steve rappaport

$70.00
1j39/42

Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion


SNELL, K. D. M. & ELL, PAUL S.

Octavo black cloth boards, silver lettering to printed label on spine, xvi + 499pp, illus; near fine (small discolouration to page fore-edges) in near fine d/w (v light rubbing to front cover)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: history religion geography sociology victorian era great britain church of england roman catholicism cultural studies k. d. m. snell paul s. ell

$45.00
1j39/43

The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520 - 1770


WOOD, ANDY

Octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 357pp, illus; fine in fine d/w

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: history sociology politics early modern british studies andy wood

$365.00
1j39/44

Northward Over the Great Ice: A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891 - 1897; With a Description of the Little Tr


PEARY, ROBERT E.

Two volume set, octavo red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontis, illus (1) lxxx + 521pp (2) xiv + 625pp; both VG (foxing to eps, light fading to spine, wear to cloth cover with slight fraying at spine edges, v light tanning (1) small chip to spine top)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co, 1898

KEYWORDS: history greenland eskimos travel adventure autobiography nineteenth-century robert e. peary

$50.00
1j39/45

Crime in England: 1550 - 1800


COCKBURN, J.S. (ed)

Octavo rust buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 364pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps, pencil markings throughout text) in VG+ d/w (fading to spine and top of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co Ltd 1977

KEYWORDS: history criminology sociology criminal law early modern england witchcraft infanticide essays j. s. cockburn

$85.00
1j39/46

Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1500 - 1800


VON GREYERZ, KASPAR (ed)

Scarce octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 281p; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (slight rubbing to clear protective covering)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1984

KEYWORDS: religion sociology history early modern europe sixteenth to nineteenth century kaspar von greyerz

$68.00
1j39/50

Village Song & Culture


PICKERING, MICHAEL

Octavo black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 187pp, illus; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in VG+ d/w (light fading and rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1982

KEYWORDS: history song cultural studies historical society communications michael pickering

$50.00
1j40/5

Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes


SPIRO, MELFORD E.

Octavo red cloth boards, xiv + 510pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in VG+ d/w (attached to boards, fading to spine and edges)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1971

KEYWORDS: buddhism religion burmese culture sociology history anthropology melford e. spiro

$60.00
1j40/7

The Allotment Movement in England, 1793 - 1873


BURCHARDT, JEREMY

Octavo grey cloth boards, red lettering to spine, frontis, xii +287pp; fine in fine d/w

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2002

KEYWORDS: history england nineteenth century sociology jeremy burchardt rural economics

$60.00
1j40/11

Personal Recollections of Notable People At Home and Abroad, with Other Papers (Two volume set)


TUCKERMAN, CHARLES K.

Two volumes, octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering and illustrations to spine and front covers, patterned eps, frontis (1) xiv + 342pp (2) xi + 349pp + 1pp advert; both vols VG (light discolouration to spines, light tanning, v light foxing, light wear to covers)

PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley and Sons 1895

KEYWORDS: personal recollections letters essays charles k. tuckerman history

$50.00
1j40/15

Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England


GITTINGS, CLARE

Black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, illus; VG+ (owner's name in pen to eps) in VG+ d/w (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1984

KEYWORDS: history culture death early modern england sociology clare gittings

$37.50
1j40/20

English Family Life 1576-1716; An Anthology from Diaries


HOULBROOKE, RALPH (ed)

octavo, black buckram boards with gold lettering to spine, xiv + 269pp, near fine (small ink owner's name to prelims) in near fine d/w (v light wear to extremities)

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1989

KEYWORDS: english history sociology family life ralph houlbrooke diaries

$215.00
1j40/24

From Courtesy to Civility: Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England


BRYSON, ANNA

first edition, octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, vii + 311pp, near fine (some pencil marks) in near fine d/w

PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press 1998

KEYWORDS: history sociology england anna bryson modern first edition

$180.00
1j40/26

Praire and Rocky Mountain Adventures or Life in the West to which will be added A View of the States and Territorial Regions of our Western Empire: embracing History Statistics and Geography, and Desc


VAN TRAMP, JOHN C

octavo, black leather boards with blind stamped pattern to front board and gilt lettering and design to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, marbled edges, 640pp, illus, VG (light wear to extremities, closed tear to spine)

PUBLISHER: H. Miller 1860

KEYWORDS: history united states rocky mountain prairie john c. van tramp

$25.00
xxcae30516

The Story of Scots


PLIMMER, L.I

Hardcover imperial octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Scots College 1966

KEYWORDS: education scots college wellington history new zealand l.i. plimmer specials

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