Gittings, Clare

Brasses And Brass Rubbing.

Blandford, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover, 104pp, green illustrated laminated boards. Many b + w illustrations. Original owner's bookplate on flyleaf, otherwise clean. How to make and display brass rubbings, and the subjects on them. Comes with a couple of extra postcards of brasses... Very Good.

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Book number: 6671

Catalogue: History

Keywords: monument, church, tomb

Glaser, Elisabeth and Wellenreuther, Hermann (eds)

Bridging the Atlantic The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective.

German Historical Institute and Cambridge, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover, 310pp, complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. Essays comparing developments in European and American history - case studies on British, German and US history since the eighteenth century to form an integrated vision of Atlantic history... As New /As New.

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Book number: 10363

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, , Religion, Darwinism, Nationalism, Cinema , Banker, National History

Glass, D V and Eversley, D E C (eds)

Population in History Essays in Historical Demography.

Arnold, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover, A very heavy book of 692pp. Blue cloth covered boards with silver title. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. 27 essays in demographic history - on population, economy and society in Great Britain, Europe and the United States... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 12792

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, demography, Economic History, Social History

Gloag, John

Victorian Taste Some Social Aspects of Architeture and Industrial Design from 1820 - 1900.

David & Charles, 1972. Hard Cover, Large format. 175pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket, a little creased to the top edge. B + W illustrations. A couple of light spots of foxing to the flyleaf and foredge, otherwise internally very clean copy. The author describes, analyzes and illustrates the social aspects of architecture and industrial design between 1820 and 1900, and the emergence of new patrons and two very different forms of Gothic... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 12766

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Victorian Art, Victorian Architecture, Victorian Design,

Glover, T R

Cambridge Retrospect.

Cambridge, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover, 145pp,dustjacket with tear to edge and loss to bottom half of spine. B + w illustrations. Gift inscription, and poem, to flyleaf, a couple of passages marked to first chapter, otherwise clean. Comes with newspaper obituary of the author. The history of Cambridge University.. Very Good /Good.

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Book number: 10568

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Cambrisge University

Goetz, Thomas

The Remedy Robert Koch Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis.

Gotham Books, 2014. First Edition. First edition. 298pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Dr Koch announces a cure for tuberculosis in 1890 - but Conan Doyle is not convinced... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 3130

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Medicine, Science, Tuberculosis, Medical History

Goody, Jack and Thirsk, Joan and Thompson, E P

Family and Inheritance Rural Society in Western Europe 1200 - 1800.

Cambridge, 1978. Soft Cover, 421pp, illustrated card covers with a couple of light creases to spine. Internally clean, tight and Near Fine. 10 essays on inheritance, social structure, women etc... Very Good.

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Book number: 12535

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Sociology

Gordon, R K

Anglo Saxon Poetry.

Dent, 1964. Hard Cover, Revised Everyman edition. 334 pp, complete dustjacket, rubbed to edges. Previous owner's name and address to flyleaf, otherwise internallly very clean. Translations from Beowulf to the Battle of Maldon.. Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 14016

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Poetry, Anglo-Saxon

Gordon, Ian A

John Skelton Poet Laureate.

Melbourne University Press, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover, 223pp. Brown cloth covered boards. Frontispiece illustration. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Skelton's life, including his relations with Wolsey and the Royal Court, and his poetry. Appendices include a chronology of Skelton's life and works, editions, bibliography etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8258

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Poet, Biography, English Literature, Literary Criticism, Biography, Wolsey

Gould, Cecil

The Sixteenth Century Italian Scools Excluding the Venetian.

National Gallery, 1962. First Edition. Soft Cover, 194pp, softback covers with a few very small spots of foxing. Internally clean and tight. The catalogue of cinquecento paintings in the National Gallery, except for the Venetian School, including references and provenance... Very Good.

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Book number: 14464

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Art, Renaissance, Painting, italian Art

Graham, Frank (ed)

Northumberland And Durham One Hundred Years Ago.

Frank Graham, 1968. Hard Cover, 1st reprint. Tall book of 80 pp, dustjacket with slight wear to edges, no loss. Reproductions of old prints... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 2061

Catalogue: History

Keywords: prints, local history

Grant, Linda

Sexing The Millennium A Political History of the Sexual Revolution.

HarperCollins, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover, 289pp, complete dustjacket. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise clean. The intellectual, economic and technological movements that formed the sexual revolution 1960s - 1990s... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 7286

Catalogue: History

Keywords: feminism, women's movement, female liberation, swinging sixties, sociology, women

Greaves, R W

The Corporation of Leicester 1689 - 1836.

Leicester University Press, 1970. Hard Cover, 152pp. Complete dustjacket. Original owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. First published in 1939, this is the second edition of a pioneering work in municipal history, combining constitutional and economic analysis with political narrative and explanation... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 9627

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Local History, Leicester, Corporation, Local Government

Green, Richard

York City Art Gallery An Ilustrated Guide.

York City Art Gallery, 1991. First Edition. Soft Cover, 40pp. Colour illustrated laminated soft card covers. Colour illustrations to every page. A very clean copy. Descriptions and details of some of the most interesting or important paintings in York Art Gallery... Fine.

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Book number: 17887

Catalogue: History

Keywords: York, Art, History, Painting, Art Gallery

Greenwood, E B

Tolstoy The Comprehensive Vision.

Dent, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover, 184pp. Priceclipped dustjacket with a portrait of Tolstoy, a little rubbed to the corners, in a removeable protective sleeve. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, a couple of very light spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. Tolstoy as philosopher - the development of his 'literary psychology' used in the interior monologue of his characters, and the question of the nature of happiness, the problem of historical truth in fiction, and a detailed examination of his views on society and education, military history etc... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 5951

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Russian Literature, Philosophy, Literary Psychology, History