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CHILTON BOOKS: History: : British
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Society in the Elizabethan Age.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1887. 0. 2nd edition. Looks at Elizabethan society in the countryside, in town and at the Court. Pp.viii/ 291, coloured engraved folding map of the Thames has two 9cm tears, coloured frontispiece (arms of the Darrell Family and Allies) + 2 further colour plates and 4 black & white and facsimiles, owner's name to inner front endpaper. Blue cloth with gilt title, motif and facs. signature of Elizabeth 1st to front, gilt title to spine dulled, small hole to central spine, wear to top and tail of spine and corners. G+.
-- Boeknummer: 37676
GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.25]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Hubert Hall Society Elizabethan Age Country Town Court Darrell Family Landlord Steward Tenant Burgess Merchant Host Courtier Churchman Official Lawyer 38374 History: : British
1804 - That Was The Year...
Ipswich: Brechinset Publications, 1984. 0947681051. 1st edition. An eclectic and light-hearted selection of extracts from the Ipswich Journal for the year 1804 - the year that Napoleon Bonaparte formally proclaimed himself Emperor. 21cms x 15cms. Pp.128, occasional vignette illustrations by Anne Fletcher, signed by the author to title page, plus a handwritten letter from the author tipped-in to front free endpaper. Paperback, fading to front and faded discolouration to spine. Scarce. Good,.
Boeknummer: 49086
GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 35.5]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Sheila Hardy Signed 1804 That Was the Year Ipswich Journal Extracts News Humour History British 50566 History: : British
Arethusa, Lady Harland's Commonplace Book.
London: Moore Mackay Publishing Ltd, 1992. 0952022109. Memorandums of Various Sorts made between 1827 and 1833 by Arethusa, Lady Harland at Orwell Park and Richmond Terrace. "A glimpse of her concerns and interests, as she keeps records of their social circle, the tradespeople which her friends recommend to her, the artistic skills she learnt and used, and the excursions at home and abroad which she went on with Sir Robert." Pp.xiv/58, portrait frontispiece + 13 further black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers. Green boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.
Boeknummer: 51007
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 12]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Lady Arethusa Harland Commonplace Book Orwell Park Richmond Terrace Pedigrees Harland Vernon Social History 52448 History: : British
Vermuyden and the Fens. A Study of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and the Great Level.
London: Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd, 1953. 1st edition. When Vermuyden cmae to England (in r around 1621) he came from the Isle of tholen in the Province of Zeeland where the art of land reclamation was a tradition, and he arrived in England at a time when the accumulation of seemingly isolated incidents had led to a real interest in the posssibilities of Fen drainage.." 25cms x 19cms x 2cms. Pp.168, portrait frontispiece + 7 further plates and a map, owner's name to front free endpaper. Green cloth, gilt title to spine rubbed, gilt motif to front board, rubbing to top and tail of spine. Scarce. VG.
Boeknummer: 49817
GBP 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 82.5]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Harris Sir Cornelius Vermuyden Great Level Fens Biography Zeeland Fen Drainage Fenland Bradley Joachim Liens Dagenham Isle Tholen Hatfield Chase Cromwell CIVIL War Vernatti Burrell Westerdyke 51322 History: : British
Picture Source Book for Social History: Seventeenth Century.
London:George Allen,1953. 1st ed. Source book for children with many b/w illustrations. Pp.128,school inkstamps to verso boards. Yellow decorated cloth. G.
Boeknummer: 14094
GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Harrison Wells Picture Source Social History Seventeenth Century A8266 History: : British
Cavaliers and Roundheads. The English at War 1642-1649.
London: Harper & Collins, 1993. 1st ed. "This is a narrative history of the Civil War in England concentrating upon what happened rather than upon what brought it about, upon the minor engagements and sieges- in which most of the war's casualties were incurred-rather than upon the major battles, and upon the impact which the fighting had upon the civilian population." Pp.337, colour & b/w photo's throughout book. P/b. VG.
Boeknummer: 15891
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Hibbert Cavaliers Roundheads English War Battles Sieges A10619 History: : British
The Battlement Garden. Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare.
London: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1979. 1st ed. The Mirror of Britain Series. "Walter Hodges, in tracing the astonishing flowering of the Tudor period, lays emphasis on two events, both of which took place in 1485." Pp. 144, 8 colour plates, 57 b/w illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w (detail from a 16th century miniature by Simon Beninck). VG/VG.
Boeknummer: 27333
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Hodges Battlement Garden Britain Wars Roses Age Shakespeare Illustrated 24391 History: : British
Little Malvern Letters. I. 1482-1737.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011. 9780902832268. 1st edition. Includes : Correspondence with Thomas Cromwell and Lord Chancellor Audley; Elizabethan medical prescriptions amd business letters; correspondence about evading the penal laws aggainst Catholics; a ,ock-heroic Latin skit on James I; a personal letter from one of the Jesuits executed at tjhe time of the Oates Plot, and an official certificate that Little Malvern had been searched (unsuccessfully) for priests. The letters are accompanied by a scholarly introduction and explanatory notes." Pp.xlix/245, map, genealogies. Blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.
Boeknummer: 48286
GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.25]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Hodgson Hodgetts Little Malvern Letters Priory Catholic History John Russell Worcestershire Reformation CIVIL War Cromwell Audley Elizabethan Medical James I Jesuit Oates Plot Search for Priests 49737 History: : British
The Later Middle Ages. 1272-1485.
London: Sphere Books, 1974. "Medieval Society..Church and the Clergy..England and the Celtic Lands..Politics of England under the Three Edwards." Pp, 275. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.
Boeknummer: 11173
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 6]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Holmes Middle Ages Medieval Church Celtic British History Edwards A4056 History: : British
Religion and Party in Late Stuart England.
London: The Historical Association. 1975. 1st ed. Pp 36, protrait to verso front cover, name to fep. P/b, small crease to cover, illustrated cover. G+.
Boeknummer: 22162
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Holmes Religion Stuart Queen Anne Jaobitism William A17516 History: : British
Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480-1750.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 0198217617. Oxford Studies in Social History series. "Examines the effects of religious change on the English 'way of death' between 1480 and 1750..(Houlbrooke) discusses relatively neglected aspects of the subject, such as the death-bed, will making, and the last rites.He also examines the rich variety of commemorative media and practics and is the first to describe the development of the English funeral sermon between the late Middle Ages and the eighteenth century." Pp.xiv/435, owner's label to front free endpaper. Black cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.
Boeknummer: 48385
GBP 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 44.75]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Houlbrooke Death Religion Family England Middle Ages Hereafter Preparation Last Will Testament Last Rites Grief Mourning Funerals Sermons Burial Commemoration History Ritual Dead 49820 History: : British
The House That Thomas Built. The Story of De La Rue.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. 1st edition. "Traces the fortunes of the de la Rue family from their impecuious Guernsey beginnings to the start of their playing card business in pre-Victorian London and on through the company's dealings with Imperial Russia and the Confederated States of America to the mounting of the Great Exhibition and De La Rue's association with the birth of unified Italy..Enjoying a monopoly at the turn of the century, declining into bear bankruptcy, and recovering its prosperity in Chiang Kai-shek's China." Pp.xvi/207, 4 colour plates + 14 monochrome plates. Red cloth, dustwrapper has slight sunning to spine and minor edge wear. VG/VG.
Boeknummer: 49900
GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.75]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Lorna Houseman Thomas de la Rue Company Guernsey Stamps Banknotes Playing Cards Lamert George Sweetser Bunhill Row Imperial Russia China Family Company History 51415 History: : British
Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997. 075091128X. 1st edition. Smiles was "solving the 'Condition of England Question' and abandining many of the conventional values of middle-class Victorian Britain he is popularly thought to personify. In their place came an assault on anything he regarded as socially divisive: the remedy lay in cooperation, and the means to that lay in sythesising responses which bridged many of the great controversies of his time." Pp.xvi/176, 16 black & white plates. Black cloth, dustwrapper is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.
Boeknummer: 45240
GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.5]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Jarvis Samuel Smiles Construction Victorian Values Self Help Lives Engineers Biography British History 46722 History: : British
Elizabeth and Leicester.
London: Panther Books. 1972. "Brings the Elizabethan era and the historical figures at its centre alive..With an appreciation of the Renaissance surface of things: detailed descriptions of the clothes, portraits, scents and jewels." Pp. 447. Toned pages. P/b. Spine slightly scuffed. Illustrated cover. G.
Boeknummer: 14219
GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.75]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Jenkins British History Elizabeth Leicester Dudley Renaissance A7006 History: : British
Country and Court. England 1658-1714.
London: Edward Arnold, 1978. 1st.ed. "History of the period from the fall of the Commonwealth to the death of Queen Ann..Shows how England had emerged by 1714 as a major power in Continental affairs." 15.5cm. x 23cm. Pp, 377, name to fep. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.
Boeknummer: 11902
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.25]
Catalogus: History: : British
Trefwoorden: Jones British History Commonwealth Queen Ann Continental A5034 History: : British
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