Bryant, Arthur,

THE YEARS OF ENDURANCE 1793-1802.

Fontana, London, 1961, 1st in imprint, paperback, 446pp, 7 in text maps, [ii] ads.], lettered paper wrappers, an account of Britain's struggle with revolutionary France from the outbreak of the revolution to the 'Peace of Amiens' - 'a truce of exhaustion', in 1802, covering the social conditions of the half-starving people of Britain, the naval mutiny and the Irish rebellion, slant and roll to spine with many light vertical creases to spine, rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappewrs, edges tanned, etc., reading copy only,

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Book number: 35274

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: history britain war france revolution napoleon nelson

Buchanan, R. A.,

INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1972, 1st edn., paperback original, 446pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., [ii] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an introduction to industrial archaeology in Great Britain, the birthplace of the industrial revolution and one of the richest places in the world with over two hundred years of industrialization, lightly rubbed at tips, light diag. crease lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned and a little foxed, very good,

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Book number: 42283

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: brritish history industrail archeaology

Burwash, Dorothy,

ENGLISH MERCHANT SHIPPING 1460-1540.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1969, 1st in imprint, xii, 259pp, 5 plates (3 in line incl. map, 2 half tone), blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, a complete history of the English merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance, first published University of Toronto 1947, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., spine sunned, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 26388

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history merchant navy marine shipping trade maritime ships

Carradice, Phil,

PEMBROKE FOR KING AND PARLIAMENT.

Pembroke Town Council, Pembroke, 1992, 1st edn., 100pp, half tone ills., maps and facsimiles in text, maps at endpapers, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, #597 of limited edition of 1000, an history of the town of Pembroke and the surrounding area, from the days of the Celtic tribes to the present, to mark the 900th anniversary of its conquest by the Normans, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43011

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history pembroke

Cassin-Scott, Jack (text intro: Ruth M. Green),

COSTUME AND FASHION IN COLOUR [COLOR] 1550 - 1760.

Blandford Press, Poole, 1977, reprint, 234pp, [ii] blank, incl. 80pp col'd plates and line drawings, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, sl. sunned at spine, several light wrinkles in laminate, remains of price label front flap, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32472

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: social english history costume dress

Cawthorne, Nigel,

THE CURIOUS CURES OF OLD ENGLAND.

Portrait, London, 2006, reprint, [vi], 266pp, line drawings in text, coloured endpapers, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a collection of the strange and sometimes alarming treatments in use by the British medical profession in historical times, the majority having no scientific basis and certainly did more harm than good but a few of which had some beneficial effect which is still in use today although probably in a more refined form, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43012

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history medicine ailments cures herbs

Cawthorne, Nigel,

THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND.

Piatkus, London, 2006, reprint, [vi], 266pp, line drawings in text, coloured endpapers, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a collection of some of the old laws and bye-laws of England which, at the time, made perfect sense to those enacting them but which, having been forgotten and left on the statute book, look somewhat bizarre today, faint bump lower tip upper board, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43013

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history laws legal system

Charmley, John,

CHAMBERLAIN AND THE LOST PEACE.

John Curtis / Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1989, 1st edn., xiv, 257pp, Punch cartoon frontis, 14 in text cartoons, 3 in text maps, large format (9 x 6" approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of Chamberlain's beliefs, policies and personality which led to him attempting to obtain peace at any cost, and comparing them with Eden's and Churchill's, and argues that Britain came out on the winning side by sheer good fortune but, as Chamberlain feared, bankrupt, foxing to tanned edges, small ownership label friont free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44810

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history chamberlain war ww2

Chatterton, E. Keble,

SEAMEN ALL.

Heinemann, London, 1924, 1st edn., 254pp, frontis and 14 half tone plates, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, a history of ships and the sea for the previous 250 years, cloth rubbed at extrems, top edge dusty, eps. a little browned, very sl. (long dead) insect damage final endpapers, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 13209

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: maritime history

Clayton, Peter (ed),

A COMPANION TO ROMAN BRITAIN.

Phaidon, Oxford, 1980, 1st edn., 208pp, illustrated in half tone and line throughout, large format (about 11 x 9 inches), dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pghoto pictorial dustwrapper, six separate sections covering aspects of Roman Britain including setting the scene of the Britain that the Romans conquered, the social organizatiom the people, Christianity, the economy and the end of the Empire, with a Gazetteer of many of the Roman sites where remains have been found or are still to be seen, bumped at tail of spine and a few light bumps at extrems., dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32033

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history rome roman britain sites remains social economy

Cook, Judith,

CLOSE TO THE EARTH - Living Social History of the British Isles.

Routledge and Kegan Paul, Lonodn, 1984, 1st edn., xii, 195pp, [i] bibliography, 16pp half tone photo ills., title in line, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound pictorial montage dustwrapper, based on conversations with those involved, the personal recollections of the crafts and traditional ways of working communities of a vanishing age, including mining, fishing, working the land, brewing, quarrying, etc., fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40779

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history fishing farming mining brewing

Cooper, Tim,

HOW TO READ INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN - A Guide to the Machines, Sites and Artefacts that shaped Britain.

Ebury Press, London, 2011, 1st edn., [viii], 198pp, half tone pictorial title, 8pp half tone poto ills., line drawings in text, half tone pictorial chapter heads, coloured pictorial laminated boards with matching dustwrapper, a guide to reading the landscape of Britain to understand our industrial heritage, from the import of the raw materials to the location our manufacturing base and the distribution of products, the movement of the population and the physical remains still evident today, edges stanned, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43014

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history industrial machines sites artefacts

Couling, David,

SOLENT YACHTING SCENE - In Bygone Years 1890-1938.

Stanford Maritime, London, 1984, 1st edn., paperback original, 128pp, half tone photo pictorial doubl;e title, half tone photo pictorial ills. throughout, large format (8 x 7 inches approx.), sepia photo pictorial wrappers, a sequel to his earlier title 'Steam Yachts' this volume contains numerous photographs of sailing yachts mainly from the Kirk collection, taken by the pioneer photographer in and around the Solent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fintly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 40821

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history solent yachting sailing maritime

Dibnah, Fred and Hall, David,

FRED DIBNAH'S AGE OF STEAM.

BBC, London, 2003, reprint, 192pp, 32pp coloured and half tone photo ills., half tone ills. and line drawings in text, tv tie-in, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, drawing on his extensive knowledge the steam enthusiast descrtibed the part played by steam in the industrial revolution illustrated with many surviving examples of the machinery involved, small paper fault to fore-edge one plate otherwise fine, dustwrapper: price clipped, tiny nick head of spine, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40822

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history steam engines railways turbines

Eliot, Simon and Stern, Beverley (eds.),

THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT - An Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Texts - Volume 1.

Ward Lock Educational in assoc. with The Open University Press, London, 1990, reprint, paperback, vi, 345pp, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, specifically designed as a combined course reader and anthology for the OU course A204 but of interest to other students of the period, containing an anthology of the writings of such as Gibbon, Hume, Adam Smith, Johnson, Voltaire, Buffon, Diderot and D'Alembert, lightly rubbed at extrems., sunning to spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40825

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british social history anthology