BLAKEBOROUGH, Richard.

Yorkshire Wit: Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire. With a Glossary of over 4,000 Words and Idioms Now in Use,

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1898. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxii,485,(ii)adverts, burgundy cloth, gilt; large-writ contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, light sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, else clean and very good.

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Book number: 32829

Catalogue: TRAVEL

BLAMIRES, Harry.

The Bloomsday Book. A Guide Through Joyce&Rsquo;S Ulysses.

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1966. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,275, cloth, gilt; rubbing and light marking to cloth, light vertical crease to spine, internally clean, a good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has a couple of small nicks to extremities, else very good.

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Book number: 37622

Catalogue: LITERATURE

BLANNING, T.C.W.

Joseph II.

London/New York: Longman, 1994. 8vo., pp.x,228, black faux-leather hardcover, gilt; toning to half title and fore-edges, a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

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Book number: 38266

Catalogue: HISTORY

BLANTON, Joseph Edwin. [Signed by author]

The Organ in Church Design.

Albany, Texas: Venture Press, 1957. 4to., pp.xviii,492, quarter black cloth with title band stamped in red and lettered in gilt, beige cloth boards, numerous b/w plates; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper and ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing and toning to endpapers, else very good indeed.

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Book number: 36887

Catalogue: MUSIC

BLENCOWE, John; WILDE, George. Prepared with an Introduction by: VIENKEN, Heinz J.

Mercurius Sive Literarum Lucta (Acted 1629-1638?); Eumorphus Sive Cupido Adultus (Acted 1634/5). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series, 3.

Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1981. 8vo., pp.17(Introduction),unpaginated facsimile, paperback; ownership inscription to half title (from the library of series editor J.W. Binns), sunning to spine, else very good indeed.

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Book number: 34275

Catalogue: LITERATURE

BLENKARN, John.

British Timber Trees: Their Rearing and Subsequent Management, in Woods, Groves, and Plantations. Including Remarks on Soil and Situation, the General Improvement of Landed Estates and Mountainous Districts; with Directions for the Measurement and Valuation of Standing Timber.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859. 8vo., pp.xii,276, full green bevelled morocco, gilt, four raised bands, decorative gilt borders to boards, gilt decoration to compartments, a.e.g., b/w figures; rubbing/slight wear to extremities, else very good.

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Book number: 32213

Catalogue: MISCELLANEOUS

BLICK, Sarah.

Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Essays in Honour of Brian Spencer.

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. Large 8vo., pp.xvi,200, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy indeed.

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Book number: 38248

Catalogue: ART & ARCHITECTURE

Keywords: Medieval History; Medieval Church

BLOCJ, Herbet.

Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages. [Three Volume Set]. Volume I. Parts I-II. Volume II. Parts III-IV. Volume III. Plates - Indices.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. Three volumes, 4to., pp.xxv,628;629-1122;1123-1530 (plstes pp.1139-1332), navy cloth with stamped red title labels, gilt, b/w plates; slight marking to cloth, front upper corner of Volume III lightly bruised, a very good set indeed.

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Book number: 34712

Catalogue: HISTORY

BLUMENTHAL, Uta-Renate. Translation by the Author.

The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century.

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. xiii,191, red hardcover, white lettering to spine, b/w maps; author’s presentation copy with inscription to front free endpaper, alongside ownership autograph to front free endpaper,light foxing to upper edge, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has rubbing to extremities, two small tears to rear upper margin with creasing and a small creased tear to foot of spine, otherwise very good.

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Book number: 37005

Catalogue: HISTORY

Keywords: church history

BOBONICH, Christopher.

Plato&Rsquo;S Utopia Recast. His Later Ethics and Politics.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xi,643, navy hardcover, gilt; fore-edges lightly soiled, ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, light pencilling to early few leaves, else clean and very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly marked to rear flap.

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Book number: 33920

Catalogue: RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

BODIN, Jean. Translation with Introduction, Annotations, and Critical Readings, by Marion Leathers Daniels Kuntz.

Colloquium of the Seven About Secrets of the Sublime. Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis.

Princeton University Press, 1975. 8vo., pp.lxxxi,509, red cloth with black title band to spine, gilt; light foxing to top- and fore-edges, else very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

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Book number: 35893

Catalogue: RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

[BOETHIUS; KING ALFRED. With a literal English translation, Notes, and Glossary by: FOX, The Rev. Samuel.

King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius - de Consolatione Philosophiae.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. 8vo., pp.xix,398, brown cloth, gilt; ex libris George and Elsie M. Cadbury, with their bookplate (dated 1896 and showing their residence, the Manor House at Northfield) to front paste-down endpaper, small later ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light marking to rear board, rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.

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Book number: 36006

Catalogue: RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

BOHN, Henry G.

A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations.

London Henry G. Bohn, 1857. Special presentation copy, 8vo., pp.iv,579,(xiv)advertisements, blind stamped green cloth with gilt panels and lettering, uncut; neat ownership signature pencilled in twice to prelims, gutter occasionally lightly visible between leaves, decorative blind stamping to spine, wear to cloth at lower corners of boards and light wear to upper corners, a very good copy.

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Book number: 37450

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: Language; Linguistics

BOHRINGER, Letha.

Monumenta Germaniae Historica - Concilia Tomus IV, Supplementum I. : Hinkmar Von Reims. De Devortio Lotharii Regis Et Theutbergae Reginae.

Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1992. 4to., pp.315,(8)b/w plates, green cloth, gilt; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.

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Book number: 26258

DU BOIS, William Pene.

Otto in Africa.

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1962. First UK edition, tall 8vo., pp.(xxxvii), textured yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, lettered and stamped in red, pictorial endpapers, double-page title in colour, double-page colour plates with accompanying text throughout; a couple of tiny nicks to top edges of boards, a very good copy indeed, in very good(+) pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which has 1cm closed tear to foot of spine, slight rubbing to extremities, and slight surface soil, as well as a little partial darkening - now in a protective cover.

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Book number: 34768

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED