JOSEPHY JR., ALVIN M.

500 NATIONS. An Illustrated History of North American Indians.

London. Hutchinson, 1995, Hardback. First UK edition. A history of the first true Americans who lived for 15,000 years on their own continent, until 1890 when the last few Sioux were moved onto a reservation. About the battles they fought, their ancient culture, their languages, customs & ways of life. 468 pages. Beautifully illustrated in colour and b./w. with 485 paintings, drawings, woodcuts, photographs & Indian artifacts. 28.5cm. x 24.5cm. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. The cover appears near fine but sadly there are faint signs of damp on bottom of spine. Near fine d./w., priced £35.00. ISBN 0091791480. 1995

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Book number: 8866

Catalogue: History

Keywords: American Indians Apache Navajo Inuits Comanches Cherokees Mayas Ottawas Timucuas Nez Perces Chumash

KALEDIN, COLONEL VICTOR K.

HIGH TREASON. Four Major Cases of the St. Petersburg Personal Court Branch.

London. Hurst & Blackett, 1936., 287 pages including index, followed by 16 pages advertising Hurst & Blackett books. Frontispiece is a b./w. photograph of the author Col. Koledin. The four cases are " The Assassination of Premier Stolypin, 1911."; " The Theft of the Baranova Formula. 1911-1912." ; " The Brest - Litovsk Drainage Contract, 1912."; and "The Black Mass of Hannula. 1912-1913." Contents near fine, no inscription or marks, but front & back endpages slightly, fainted foxed. Black cloth cover near fine, top edge a bit slightly dusty. No d./w. 9.25" x 6". 1936

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Book number: 6502

Catalogue: History

Keywords: treason Russia St. Petersburg Albania Prince Mirbeliani Georgia

KEAR, JANET. (EDITOR)

IBIS. Journal of the British Ornithologists Union.1983. Volume 125. 4 Books.

London. Academic Press/ British Ornithologists. Union, 1983., Four books with stiff card covers. Volume 1) January 1983, pages 1-137. 6 b./w. plates and many figures. 2) April, pages 137 - 286 + adverts. 5 b./w. photographs + figures. 3) July, pages 286 -446 + 5 b./w. photographs, and figures. 4) October. Pages 447 - 596, illustrared with many figures & a painting in colour. All are near fine except January copy has slight indent front top edge from a paperclip & small tear top side of spine. 1983

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Book number: 6820

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: birds ornithology Puffin Shining Cuckoo Willow warbler Albatross Magpie Redshank Kowhai Bush Oystercatcher Weaver bird Spoonbill Swiftlet Taita Falcon Fieldfare Merlin Flycatcher

KEEN, ALAN AND LUBBOCK, ROGER.

THE ANNOTATOR. The Pursuit of an Elizabethan Reader of Halle's Chronicle Involving some Surmises....

London. Putnam, 1954..... About the Early Life of William Shakespeare." First edition. 216 pages, with 9 b./w. photographs of portraits, documents & letters. Genealogical tables by Norman Long-Brown & Frances Keen. Cloth cover is near fine, contents clean & near fine except for an inscription between half title & back of frontispiece. D./w. is near fine, priced 21/- (£1.05) 22.25cm. x 14.5cm. 1954

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Book number: 9043

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Halle's Chronicle Richard Newport William Shakespeare Theatre Stratford

KEEN, N. HINDMARCH.

FACES OF BRITAIN. A Picture of Britain 1880 -1919.

Leicester. Blitz Editions / Bookmart, 1993., Over 150 photographs of the British between 1880 and 1919. Adults and children, rich and poor, at work or at home, during the first w./w., in the towns, on the farms, having fun at the seaside and at leisure in the country. 128 pages with sepia or b. & w. photographs on most pages. 30.5cm. x 24cm. Illustrated board cover, previous owner's name & date on f.e.p., o./w. near fine. Near fine d./w. ISBN 1856051803. 1993

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Book number: 2186

Catalogue: .History

Keywords: Britain British social history people

KENDALL, ALAN.

Medieval Pilgrims.

London. Wayland Publishers, 1972., Softback. 2nd impression. From the series Wayland Documentary History Series. 128 pages, with over 50 b./w. illustrations. 22.5cm. x 16.5cm. 1972

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Book number: 9849

Catalogue: History

Keywords: pilgrims Canterbury Rome Holy Land

KENNEDY, LUDOVIC.

MENACE. The Life and Death of the TIRPITZ.

London. Sphere Books, 1981., Paperback. First published Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. 157 pages including List of Battleships in Second W./W. 16 pages of 33 b./ w. photographs. 7 maps or diagrams. 6.75" x 4.25". Paper slightly browned on edges, o./w. near fine. ISBN 0722151659. 1981

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Book number: 2119

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Tirpitz Karl Topp W./W.2 PQ17 Royal Navy German Navy Bismarck

KENYON, OLGA

800 Years of Women's Letters.

Stroud. Allan Sutton, 1995., Softback. Reprint. Foreword by P.D. James. 298 pages including select biographies, sources & index. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Card cover is near fine, priced on back £9.99. 9.25" x 6" ISBN 0750907258. 1995

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Book number: 6518

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: letters correspondence communication

KENYON, JOHN AND OHLMEYER, JANE (EDITORS).

THE CIVIL WARS. A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1638-1660.

Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1998., Reprint. John Morrill, consultant editor, added a postscript "Between War & Peace 1651-1622". Contributions from 9 historians on the Civil War, Bernard Capp, Charles Carlton, Peter Edwards, Edward Furgol, Ian Gentles, Ronald Hutton, John Kenyon, John Morrill, Jane Ohlmeyer, Geoffrey Parker & Wylie Reeves. 391 pages, with about 60 b.& w. illustrations, and 10 maps. 9½" x 6¼". Near fine. Near fine d./w. ISBN 019866222X. 1998

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Book number: 2031

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Civil Wars Charles II Cromwell Thomas Fairfax Parliament

KERMODE, J.I., AND PHILLIPS. C.B. (EDITORS)

TRANSACTIONS OF THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE and CHESHIRE. Vol. 133

Liverpool. Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, 1984, Volume 133, for the year 1983. 156 pages, including notes, reviews & index. 22 pages on "evidence for medieval farming in West Cheshire." with 8 b./w. aerial photographs. "Water in Manchester", "Liverpool's Office district " with 4 b./w. photographs. "Duke's Dock in Liverpool", and "John Brindley, Cheshire schoolmaster, opponent of atheism." Near fine, no inscription or marks. 1984

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Book number: 6664

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Cheshire Lancashire John Brindley atheism Manchester Liverpool docks

KERR, BARBARA.

BOUND TO THE SOIL - A Social History of Dorset 1750-1918

Wakefield. EP Publishers, 1975., Reprint, first published 1968 by John Baker. A social history of Dorset; about life in the countryside until the end of the First World War for the land owners, farmers, agricultural labourers, tradesmen, clergymen & manufacturers. Covers & contents are near fine but previous owners' address label on front end page. Dust jacket is near fine but price clipped, & spine is faded. 287 pages including indexes of subjects, places & persons. List of sources end of each chapter. 80 b./w. photgraphs,19 drawings, 3 text figures & many small sketches. 22.5cm. x 14.5cm. ISBN 0715811320 1975

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Book number: 88

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Dorset social history soil farming agricultural labourers ag lab farmer

KERTZER, DAVID I.

UNHOLY WAR. The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism.

London Pan Books, 2003, Paperback. First published 2002 by Macmillan.The author researched this book in the Vatican in the Inquizition archives and the Vatican Secret Archives, which had recently been opened & become available to researchers. 355 pages. 7.75" x 5". Near fine. ISBN 033039049X 2003

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Book number: 2755

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Religion Vatican Popes Jews Anti-Semitism Catholics Inquizition Rome Holocaust ghettos Nazis

KETTERIDGE, CHRISTOPHER AND MAYS, SPIKE.

Five Miles From Bunkum. A village and its crafts.

London. Eyre Methuen, 1972., Hardback. Ex library, but its still clean, neat & tidy, apart from 2 red & blue library stamps (Withdrawn for Sale) & faint remnant of old labels. 207 pages, 32 b./w. photographs on 12 pages. 5 drawings by Chris Ketteridge, & 15 illustrations by Spike Mays. Endpages are a map of Ashdon & district drawn by Edgar Holloway. Top edges of d./w. are nicked & bumped, small tear back top corner, otherwise very good. Priced £3.00. SBN 413 27690 2 1972

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Book number: 9966

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Saffron Walden Ashdon Bunkum Essex

KIDSON, PETER

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD.

London. Paul Hamlyn, 1967, 2nd impression. " Architecture, sculpture, painting, manuscripts, glass, metalwork ..." From the series " Landmarks of the World's Art." 176 pages includi, f& index. 102 colour & 106 b./w. illustrations. Front endpaper illustrated with map of Barbarian Europe, and b.e.p. is a map of Romanesque Europe in 1097. Contents near fine, but previous owner's bookplate opposite half-title, and name written in top corner. D./w. has 5 pieces missing from edges, o./w. very good. 11½" x 8½". 1967

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Book number: 4795

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Europe sculpture architecture manuscripts painting metalwork glass Medieval Romanesque Barbarian

KINCAID, DENNIS.

BRITISH SOCIAL LIFE IN INDIA, 1608-1937.

London. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973., Second edition, first published 1938. It is a "First edition thus" as it has a new introduction by Major-General James Lunt, with some b. & w. drawings by Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Wilson, some of them very funny. 344 pages including index, & over 30 illustrations. 8.75" x 5.5". Near fine except bottom of spine slightly bumped, & previous owner's name stamped on front endpapers. D./w. is near fine but spine is faded, its price clipped though R.K.P.'s new price label (£14.95) is stuck on. ISBN 0710072848. 1973

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Book number: 3162

Catalogue: History

Keywords: India East India Company James Lunt Frank Wilson Simla Poona Bombay Calcutta Surat Indian Mutiny Madraspatam Karachi Lahore New Delhi Mahableshwar Sind