Clay, C T, and Dickens, A G et al

The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Part 136 Volume XXXIV Part 4.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1939. First Edition. Soft Cover, The fourth part of XXXIV including the Index and list of illustrations. Beige softback covers with a little loss to the back corner. Handcut edges. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. Contents include C T Clay on the Chronology of the Early Deans of York, A G Dickens on Sedition and Conspiracy during the later years of Henry VIII, the Excavation of the the Holme Church of St Nicholas Beverley and Iron Age Settlements in Penigent Gill... Very Good.

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Book number: 10490

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Dean of York Minster, Henry VIII, History, Beverley, Penigent Gill, Iron Age

Clayton, Peter

Archaeological Sites Of Britain.

Weidenfeld, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover, 239 pp, red boards. Numerous b + w photographs. Previous owner's signature on flyleaf, otherwise very clean. A regional directory... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2049

Catalogue: History

Keywords: archaeology, romans

Closson, Ernest

History of the Piano.

Paul Elek, 1947. Hard Cover, Ill.: Jacques Closson. First English edition, translated by Delano Ames. 168pp, the war economy paper browning a little with age. Illustrated dustjacket with loss to the edges. B + w illustrations by Jacques Closson. Internally clean. The history of the piano from the earliest stringed instruments, through the clavichord and the harpsichord to the modern piano - showing how technical advances affected the composition of music, for example how a new method of tuning inspired Bach to write the 48 Preludes and Fugues... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 15109

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Piano, Music, History, History of Music

Coates, Dorothy and Coombs, Barbara

Longleat.

English Life Publications, Trade Paperback, 32pp souvenir brochure, probably circa 1960, of Longleat House and the Thynnes, the family of the Marquess of Bath. Illustrated softback covers with one light crease to the back. Many colour and b + w illustrations. A clean, Near Fine, copy... Very Good.

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Book number: 7619

Catalogue: History

Collier, Basil

A Short History of the Second World War.

Fontana, 1970. Mass Market Paperback, 636pp, the edges browning a little with age, softback covers with creases to spine. Maps. A clean, tight copy... Very Good.

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Book number: 8537

Catalogue: History

Keywords: WWII

Collins, Desmond and Macdonald, Jean and Barrett, John et al

The Archaeology of the London Area Current Knowledge and Problems.

London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1976. First Edition. Soft Cover, 67pp. Softback covers, a little rubbed to the edge of the spine. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. Foreword and 6 papers on archaeology in the London area from Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo Saxon and Medieval periods... Very Good.

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Book number: 10931

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Archaology, London, Roman London

Collins, Larry and Lapierre, Dominique

Freedom at Midnight.

BCA, 1975. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, A heavy book of 500pp, including Index. Grey boards with silver title. Endpaper maps. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. The story of how India gained its Independence, and the Partition in 1947... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6928

Catalogue: History

Keywords: India, Indian History, Partition, Pakistan

Collins, M E

Ireland Three Union to Present Day.

The Educational Company, 1972. First Edition. Soft Cover, 264pp, illustrated softback covers. Many b + w illustrations. A clean copy. Volume three of a history of Ireland, prepared for use in schools... Fine.

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Book number: 12568

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Irish History, History, Ireland

Connery, Donald S

The Irish.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover, 256pp, dustjacket a little rubbed to edges. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. An account of changes in Ireland in the 1960s... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 8739

Catalogue: History

Corfield, Penelope and Evans, Chris

Youth and Revolution in the 1790s Letters of William Pattisson Thomas Amyot and Henry Crabb Robinson.

Alan Sutton, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 200pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. Publication and analysis of the letters of three radical young Englishmen in Witham, Norwich and London, discussing the case for reform at home, and the Revolution in France, with a list of the contributors to The Cabinet... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 13917

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Reforn, Radical, French Revolution, Norwich, Witham, Jacobin

Cottrell, Leonard

The Great Invasion How The Romans Conquered Britain.

Readers Union Evans Brothers, 1960. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 219pp. Green boards with a few small indentations to the front. B + w photographs and maps. A little strengthening where the flyleaf has been removed, otherwise internally clean. A readable account of the Roman conquest of Britannia... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6672

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Caesar, Celt, English History, British History, History

Cottrell, Leonard

The Lion Gate A Journey in Search of The Myceneans.

Evans Brothers, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 256pp. Colour illustrated dustjacket, a little rubbed to the top edge. Maps. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. In search of the Myceneans, one of the earliest Greek civilizations, whose kings were buried in such splendour at Mycenae centuries before Homer... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 4652

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Archeology, History, Greek History, Mycenae

Cottrell, Leonard

The Lost Pharaohs.

Pan, 1961. Mass Market Paperback, 220pp, the paper browniing a little with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w photographs. Internally clean. Archaeology and the pharaohs of Egypt, including Tutankhamun... Good.

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Book number: 14327

Catalogue: History

Keywords: archaeology, Egypt, Tutankhamun

Cottrell, Leonard

The Mountains Of Pharaoh 2,000 Years Of Pyramid Exploration.

Robert Hale, 1974. Hard Cover, 272pp, dustjacket with a little edge wear. B + w photographs. Internally very clean. Pyramid explorers, from Herodotus onwards... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 2654

Catalogue: History

Keywords: pyramid, egypt, Herodotus, explorer

Creasy, Sir Edward

Some Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon to Waterloo.

Blackie and Son, Full-Leather, Edition with 'excisions to suit the taste of young readers'. 255pp, green leather binding with gilt crest of Scarborough College, faded to spine and a little rubbed to edges. Full page b + w illustrations. Prize label dated 1914, spots of foxing to margins, otherwise clean... Very Good.

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Book number: 10899

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Battle, Scarborough