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- Annales of England. Containing the Reignes of Henry the Eighth. Edward the Sixt. Queene Mary. Written in Latin by the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Hereford. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,142.45
- Publisher: Printed by A. Islip, and W. Stansby, Date Published: 1630
- Description: Thus Englished, corrected and inlarged with the Author's consent, by Morgan Godwyn.; first edition in English of Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus annales (1616), the translator was the author's son; small folio (27.5 cm. tall x 18 cm.), [14] (beginning with general title in ornamental border), [294], 293-342 pp., printer's errors in pagination including 394 for [294] in first count, the sections for Edward VI and Mary have their own pictorial titles and imprints with the decorative elements to match the general tile, but pagination continuous, portrait of Henry VIII at verso of A4, portraits of Edward VI and Mary on versos of their section titles, pages, M2 a cancel as it should be; lacks the first and last leaves (both were blanks), an early full leather binding rubbed and worn with sides detached and spine chipped, Southouse armorial book plate and signature of "Wm. Southouse" on front pastedown; general age toning with general title lightly tattered, scattered small burn marks, short biographical note about Godwin in ink on front binder's blank, very faded pen notes on sub-headings indicating corresponding pages in the Latin edition, late leaves becoming detached; STC 11947. Volumes Included: 1
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- The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted; the History of the Succession since the Conquest clear'd; and the True English Constitution vindicated ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $97.88
- Publisher: London: Printed by G. James, for Richard Smith, Date Published: 1713
- Description: from the Misrepresentations of Dr. Higooden's View and Defence. Wherein Some Mistakes also of our Common Historians are rectify'd ... By a Gentleman.; first edition (?, one of several editions the same year): narrow folio (31.5 cm. tall), [8] (beginning with title), 274, lxiii (appendix), [5] (ads) pp.; contemporary paneled calf but very worn with front cover detached, early and late leaves darkening at margins, title tattered at upper right margin and with unrelated inscription and pen notes, very occasional marginalia in pencil; at the time, a very controversial book. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 532934
- The Royal House of Windsor, A Record of its Personages, their Standards, Coats-of-Arms, Emblems, etc., since the Accession of Queen Victoria. Edited by Sr Frank Fox.
- ISBN: NA Price: $9.65
- Publisher: London: The Royal Warrant Holders Association, Date Published: 1937
- Description: first edition; quarto, 82 pp., illustrated including the arms and standards in color; endpapers darkened and small signature of a previous owner but overall very good. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 618969
- A Brief History of the Succession, Collected out of the Records, and the most Authentick historians. Written for the Satisfaction of the Earl of H. (caption title)
- ISBN: NA Price: $468.23
- Publisher: London?: no publisher or printer stated, Date Published: 1680
- Description: quarto (leaves 27.5 cm. tall), 19 pp., in this edition line 5 of caption title ends "and the"; general age toning and light margin tattering but complete and not fragile, small library hsnd stamp om verso of last leaf, near very good in modern imitation leather. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 777728
- The Chapels Royal by the Ven. Archdeacon William Sinclair, D. D. With illustrations from drawings by Louis Weirter.
- ISBN: NA Price: $44.95
- Publisher: London: Eveleigh Nash, Date Published: 1912
- Description: first edition; x, [324] pp., frontispiece, plates; original cloth stained and bowed with a large portion of spine painted white, front hinge cracked, margins damp stained, readable but working copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, kings and rulers, chapels, NVK Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 803423
- A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies observed in the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England: exemplified in that of Their late Most Sacred Majesties King George the Third, and Queen Charlotte ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $95.04
- Publisher: London: Printed for John Major, Date Published: 1820
- Description: first edition. "only one hundred copies are printed"; quarto, vi, [2], 99, [1], [1] (ad) pp., 4 plates; early boards with leather spine and tips very worn and covered with a later and worn red velvet protector (easily removed), hinges cracked, age staining and a few spots of damp staining, the frontis. has fold splits but no loss and an early blank badly creased, book label and signatures of previous owners, book plate and hand stamp of A. W. C. Phelps, designer of heraldic devices; good only; although fairly brief, packed with information including discontinued customs and privileges e.g. the Lords of Wynfred and Heydon will no longer have to contest who gets the bason and ewer the king washes his hands with, neither one is allowed to keep them although Heydon can take home the towel. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 812650
- The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil: wherein The Errors of the Monkish Writers, and others before the Reformation are Expos'd and Corrected, As are also the Deficiency and Partiality of Later Historians ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $230.34
- Publisher: London: Printed for J. Pemberton, Date Published: 1728
- Description: London: Printed for J. Pemberton, 1728, 1730; 2 volumes, mixed editions, small octavo, 1. Third Edition, Corrected and Improved, 1728, [iv] (half title, title), xi, [1], 309, [1], xxii (index), [4] (ads), [2] (title leaf for An Essay of Criticism ... with its own imprint), 94 pp. + 2. The Second Edition, 1730, [4](half title, title), xlviii, 424, [20] (index) pp.; library book plates, contemporary leather bindings rubbed and worn with both front covers detached, title of first volume darkened, title of second volume cut short at bottom margin with no loss, occasional light age staining but interiors overall very good and well sewn; the second edition was published 1726-1730 and the third edition was published 1728-1730, this explains why the first volume of the third edition has an earlier date than the second volume of the second edition. Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 514150
- Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, The Present State of Great Britain ... The Thirty-third Edition of the South Part, called England; and the Twelfth of the North Part, called Scotland.
- ISBN: NA Price: $129.12
- Publisher: London: Printed for D. Midwinter (etc.) Date Published: 1737
- Description: [xii], 443, [1], 274, 67 pp., portrait frontis.; full leather binding badly worn with one side detached, general age toning and scattered penciling, signature of a contemporary owner (Richard Beman, cost him eight shillings in 1739), general age toning and one leaf has a corner almost torn off but no loss, good- only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 700618
- Annals of Great Britain, from the Ascension of George III, to the Peace of Amiens.
- ISBN: NA Price: $103.05
- Publisher: Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson (etc.), Date Published: 1807
- Description: this is the first edition; 3 volumes xv, [1], 505 pp. + viii, 498 pp. + viii, 406, [8] (ads) pp., full brown calf with red leather spine labels; bindings rubbed and scuffed with a few short splits at joints, light age toning and spotting to text, armorial book plates of Alfred Capel Cure with the first inscribed . Volumes Included: 3
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- Item Number: 315017
- Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, The Present State of Great Britain ... The Six and Twentieth Edition of the South Part, call'd England; and the Fifth of the North Part, call;d Scotland.
- ISBN: NA Price: $194.39
- Publisher: London: Printed for B. and S. Tooke (etc.) Date Published: 1723
- Description: [4], vi, [6], 672, 48 pp., portrait frontis.; full leather binding badly worn with sides detached, general age toning, a few late leaves corner creased, book plate of genealogist Isaac John Greenwood, good. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 700619
- Journals of the House of Commons. [Volume 4] From December the 25th 1644 ... to December the 4th 1646 ... Printed by Order of the House of Commons.
- ISBN: NA Price: $213.77
- Publisher: (London: Printed by Samuel Richardson,) Date Published: 1742
- Description: folio (38 cm. tall), [iv], 739 pp.; general age toning, needs rebinding; not stated but issued as a Parliamentary Paper and ordered to be printed 31 May 1742. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, British history, Charles I, King of England, Parliament Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 603408
- The Fifth Edition of the Court and City Kalendar; or, Gentleman's Register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. Corrected to April 16, 1769 ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $241.39
- Publisher: London: Printed for G. Woodfall (etc.) Date Published: 1769
- Description: 24mo, has Rider's British Merlin and the 36 pages showing coats-of-arms; contemporary leather worn and dry with front cover detached, margins cut down with some page numbers shaved and some catch words touched but no significant loss, light general age toning to text and block still well sewn. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 690619
- The Court and City Register, For the Year 1767. ... With many Improvements, and the addition of several new Lists.
- ISBN: NA Price: $232.08
- Publisher: London: Printed for John Rivington (etc.) Date Published: 1767
- Description: 24mo, [12], 276 pp.; library and private ownership markings, general age toning, margins cut down hitting some running titles and page numbers, contemporary leather very worn and dry, mostly disbound and a working copy only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 690622
- The Third Edition of the Court and City Register for the Year 1759. ... The Twenty-Seventh Edition ... (at head of title: Corrected to the 23d of February.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $575.64
- Publisher: London: Printed for John Rivington (etc.), Date Published: 1759
- Description: 24mo, has the Almanack; contemporary leather dry and badly worn with spine covering gone, margins cut down but no loss but block still well sewn. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 690625
- The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer. (Volumes 1 and 2)
- ISBN: NA Price: $173.41
- Publisher: London: William Reeves/T. Fisher Unwin, Date Published: 1882
- Description: Volume I. January-June, 1882. [vi], 340 pp., frontis., a few illustrations in text + Volume II. [iv], 332 pp., frontis., a few illustrations in text; both ex library, original publisher's cloth rubbed with later cloth tape near joints, light general age toning to interiors, good+ only. Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 431748
- An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion In the Year MDCXXXIX. To the Murther of King Charles I. ... (Volume 1)
- ISBN: NA Price: $518.05
- Publisher: London: Printed for S. Meane etc., Date Published: 1682
- Description: Volume 1 only, covering the period 1639-1641 (the concluding volume was published the following year and is not present here); folio (32.5 cm. tall), [1 leaf] ("The Mind of the Frontispiece."), [engraved frontis.], [3 leaves] (title and dedication), lxxix, [1] pp., [8 leaves] (table), 817 pp.; old calf very worn with sides detached, explanation of frontis. detached and tattered at margins, library hand stamp and pen note on title, expected age toning to text: Wing N106,. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 585020
- The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart. ... (with) The History of England, During the Reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George I. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,033.40
- Publisher: London: (see below), Date Published: 1730
- Description: 2 items, first editions, large paper copies, 41 cm. tall and 26 cm. wide; two volumes from Oxmixon's series on the History of Britain but each complete for its time period and can be read independently; The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart. Wherein The Errors of Late Histories are Discover'd and Corrected; with Proper Reflections ... The whole Collected from the most Authentick Memoirs, Manuscript and Printed. By the author of the Critical History of England. London: Printed for John Pemberton (etc.), 1730; xxi (beginning with the title in red and black), [1] (errata), 781 (actually slightly longer, pages 209-216 starred and unstarred, double column), [1], [22] (index, double column) pp. + The History of England, During the Reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George I. Being the Sequel of the Reigns of the Stuarts. The Matter has been Collected from many Curious Manuscripts, and the most rare Printed Tracts. ... By Mr. Oldmixon. London: Printed for Thomas Cox (etc.), 1735; viii (beginning with title in red and black), [4] (Subscribers Names) 808 (double column), [26] (twelve leaves of index and a Content of Chapters/errata leaf signed c) pp.; bound in full dark blue morocco by J. Mackenzie as if it were a two volume set, lacy decorative roll borders and an armorial device (incorporating the coronet of an Earl and the motto nil admirari) on each side, spines decorated in compartments with red leather titles, decorative roll on turn ins, all edges gilt; bindings rubbed at edges and more so at joints with front cover of second volume almost detached, second volume also has abrasions and a few peel marks on back cover along with a corner chip at label with loss of one letter; very light age toning to text with occasional light age staining, the last text leaf in second volume has a corner missing but distant from text, one interior leaf has a hand stamp "pray for donor, W. T. Russell" but no library markings and overall an exceptionally clean and bright interior; the author is frequently criticized for his uncompromising Whig viewpoint and the amount of space he devotes to spiteful quarrels with contemporaries in which he was often on the wrong side, crossing Alexander Pope assured him a spot as a literary footnote. Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 644712
- The Court and City Register. For the Year 1755. ... The Nineteenth Edition. Carefully corrected at the Proper Offices to the present Time.
- ISBN: NA Price: $544.20
- Publisher: London: J. Barnes (etc.) Date Published: 1755
- Description: the cheaper issue, without the almanack; 24mo, [8], 220 pp., 3 folding tables; contemporary full leather rubbed and dry, especially at spine, only light general age toning to text and block well sewn. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 690617
- The Court and City Kalendar, or Gentleman's Register, For the Year 1755. Containing, I. Rider's Almanack. II. New and Exact Lists of Both Houses of Parliament. III. The Court Register. IV. Lists of the Army and Navy.
- ISBN: NA Price: $767.90
- Publisher: London: Printed for J. Fuller (etc.), Date Published: 1755
- Description: 24mo, viii, [48] (Rider's British Merlin in red and black), [2]. 155, [1] pp.; pen notes in an old hand on blanks and verso of title (includes the address of a good chimney sweep), margins cut down but no letters hit, contemporary full leather rubbed and dry, especially at spine, and the covering of the front board detached, only light general age toning to text and block well sewn. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 690618
- A New Edition of the Court and City Register for the Year 1763. Corrected to the 14th Day of February. ... Containing more Lists than any Book of this Sort, some of which were never before printed.
- ISBN: NA Price: $608.70
- Publisher: London: Printed for John Rivington (etc.), Date Published: 1763
- Description: the cheaper issue without the almanack; 24mo, [8], 249, [3] pp.; contemporary leather worn with only fragments of spine covering remaining but block still well sewn, margins cut down with some running titles hit but no significant loss, light general age toning . Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 690620
