LACROIX, PAUL AND M. FERDINAND SERÉ

Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, Histoire et Description des moeurs et Usages, du Commerce et de L'Industrie, des Sciences, des Arts, des Littératures et des Beaux-Arts en Europe. Tome Quatrième

Paris, Administration: 5 Rue du Pont-de-Lodi. 1851, Another Edition. Full Leather, 290mm Tall, 4to. Book, Volume 4. Text in French. Numerous figures engraved on wood cut and in full page, superb chromolithography. The authors are: Émile Begin, Ferdinand Denis, Émile De La Bédollière, Paul Lacroix, Ch. Nisard, Ch. Louandre. Paginated by chapters. Gilt title and decoration to spine, four bands. Gilt to top page edges. Pastedown hinges cracked. Bookplate of Peter Carrington Peirce on front pastedown. Wear to top/tail and joints of spine, and cover corners. Foxing on half-title and title page and occasional foxing in the text and on some illustrations. A hint of browning to page margins. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Good.

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Book number: 5798

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History; Middle Ages;

LAMBERT, SAMUEL W., WILLY WIEGAND & WILLIAM M. IVINS JR.

Three Vesalian Essays to Accompany the Icones Anatomicae of 1934

New York, The Macmillan Company. 1952, First Edition. Hardcover, 260mm Tall, 4to. Book, No. 11 of the History of Medicine Series issued by the New York Academy of Medicine. 128 pages. Maroon covers with silver title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket heavily creased at top front corner and edge with some small loss to top edge and base of spine. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 6940

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Andreas Vesalius; Woodblocks;

LAVER, JAMES

The Ladies of Hampton Court

London, William Collins. 1942, First Edition. Hardcover, 280mm Tall; 4to. Book, 21 paginated pages. With eleven plates in colour tipped in, and eleven illustrations in the text. Some light marks to covers, faded spine. Date and initials at top corner of front free endpaper. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000652

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Art; History; Art & Design

LAY, ED. J. S.

The English People

London, Macmillan and Co. 1925, First Edition Reprinted. Hardcover, 190mm Tall, 12mo. Book, Well read copy, now rather loose with some sections almost detached. Front free endpaper missing with some surface tears to front pastedown. Page edges darkened and some a bit frayed. Some soiling to pages and notes in pencil. on page 58, occasional pencil marks on other pages. Green cloth covers slightly worn at extremities. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004805

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Text Book; History; Textbooks

LEE, BRIAN NORTH

British Royal Bookplates and Ex-Libris of Related Families

Aldershot, Scolar Press. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0859678830) Hardcover, 280mm Tall; 4to. Book, 259 pages. Index. Each bookplate is illustrated and with comprehensive notes. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 6121

Catalogue: History

Keywords: 0859678830 Historical Bookplates, Heraldry, Graphic Arts, Ephemera, Queen Victoria, George Vi, George W. Eve, Antiques & Collectables

LEEDS, THOMAS OSBORNE, DUKE OF

Copies & Extracts of Some Letters Written to and from The Earl of Danby (now Duke of Leeds) in the Years 1676, 1677, and 1678. With particular Remarks Upon some of them

London, John Nicholson. 1710, 1st Edition. Full-Leather, 195mm Tall, 12mo. Book, Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst on front pastedown and bookplate of Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery by George Vertue on verso of title page, [2],v-xiii,[3],364,[4] pages. Water stained. Full leather, calf, spine ends with some chips, front joint of spine with slight split to top half. A few ink numbers on verso of title page below bookplate. Good.

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Book number: 8063

Catalogue: History

Keywords: George Virtue, Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, Charles I, English Letters, Anti-Catholicism, War with France,

LEITH, WILLIAM FORBES

Memoirs of Scottish Catholics during the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1909, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 230mm Tall, 8vo. Book, In two volumes. Volume I The Reign of King Charles 1627-1649. xvi, 381 pages. Volume II From Commonwealth to Emancipation 1647-1793. xi, 414 pages. Index. Both volumes wiith illustrations. Wear to extremities and top/base of spine. Green cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Small marks and scuffs on covers. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 7437

Catalogue: History

Keywords: King Charles I, William Leslie, Robert Valens, the Covenanters, Montrose, Thomas Rob, Robert Gall, John Stuart Traquair, Bishop Nicolson, Earl of Angus,

LEVEY, MICHAEL

Durer

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1964, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 210mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Durer, his personality and his art. 135 pages, 79 plates. some in colour. Black cloth covers with red title on spine and front cover. Previous owners name in ink, plus address label on top corner of front free endpaper. Dust jacket has tear and crease to top at jount of spine; also some surface rubbing and light indentations. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 7351

Catalogue: Art History

Keywords: Renaissance; Biography and Autobiography

LEWIS, W. H. (EDITOR)

Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1964, Revised Edition. Hardcover, 210mm Tall, 8vo. Book, The memoirs of Louis, Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755). 242pp. Index. Purple cloth covers. Dust jacket has wear to corners, creases, and fading to spine and spots of soiling on the front. Book has foxing to free endpapers and lightly on title pages. Good/Fair.

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Book number: 002314

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Biography, History, Versailles, Louis Xiv, John Law, Duc de Bourgogne, Prince de Conti, Abbe Dubois, Prince Eugene, Biography and Autobiography

LIPSCOMB, F. W.

Heritage of Sea Power: The Story of Portsmouth

London, Hutchinson. 1967, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 240mm Tall; 8vo. Book, Portsmouth from Roman times to present day. Illustrated. With Index. 256 pages. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Slight foxing on page edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 7504

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Tudor Rose, Civil War, Pepys, Shipbuilders, Travel & Places

J. F. LIVELY

The Enlightenment

London, Longmans. 1967, Second Impression. Soft cover, 215mm Tall. Book, One of the Problems and Perspectives in History series. xvi, 200 pages. Creases to lower corner of back cover with slight browning to covers overall. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 8321

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Newton, Descartes, Condillac, Locke on Toleration, Hume, Voltaire, Turgot,

LLOYD, CHRISTOPHER

English Corsairs on the Barbary Coast

London, Collins. 1981, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 000216289X) Hardcover, 215mm Tall, 8vo. Book, With Bibliography, Reference and Index. 15 illustrations. Slight foxing to page edges. Bookplate of Eric George Hatfield Moody on front pastedown. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 7260

Catalogue: History

Keywords: 000216289x Barbary States; John Ward; Simon Danser; Ragusa; Venice; Algiers; Levant; Pirates of Sallee; Blake; Knights of St John; Tangier; Gibralter;

LOUIS, WM. ROGER (EDITOR)

More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain

London, I. B. Taurus & Co. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 1860642934) Soft cover, 230mm Tall, 8vo. Book, 388 pages. A collection of lectures delivered at the University of Texas. A little shelfwear to covers with light indentations and rubbing. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 5889

Catalogue: History

Keywords: 1860642934 Henry James; Queen Victoria; Kipling; D.H. Lawrence; Orwell; Virginia Woolf; Hogarth Press; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Mountbatten; Indian Independence; Churchill; British Empire;

LOWE, JACQUES (EDITOR)

The City. The Traditions and Powerful Personalities of the World's Greatest Financial Centre

London, Quartet Books Limited. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 070432346X) Hardcover, 340mm Tall, 4to. Book, The atmosphere of the City, its halls of tradition, power and high finance captured in pictures and words. The atmosphere is not quite the same at the moment we fear. In custom made slip-case. Slip case has wear to edges and marks. Dust jacket price clipped. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 001265

Catalogue: History

Keywords: 070432346x History; London; Bank of England; Lord Mayor's Show; St Paul's Cathedral; Barbican Centre; Old Bailey; Non-Fiction

LÜÖND, KARL

Inspired By Tomorrow. Zurich - 125 Years. History and Vision of a Global Corportation

Zurich, Zurich Insurance Company. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 3858237329) Hardcover, 285mm Tall, 4to. Book, Zurich Insurance Company - well illustrated corporate history. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002404

Catalogue: Finance and Corporate History

Keywords: 3858237329 Finance and Corporate History; Insurance; Credit Suisse; Alfred Escher; Turegum; Schweizer; Hüppi;