Abel, E. Lawrence: Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 398. Hardback: red cloth backed blue boards, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, price-sticker removed from lower corner of front cover leaving a faint trace of adhesive only, still very good. An unused copy. Foreword by Bobby Horton. Ref: 53939
Beevor, Antony: Berlin: The Downfall 1945. London: Viking Penguin, 2002. First edition, sixth impression. 8vo., pp., xxxvii, 490 + plates. Section of maps to text. Toning, darkening to margins and edges, otherwise contents clean. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, creased at head of spine and along joints and all edges, white background now partly grubby, but still good. Ref: 53569
Beevor, Antony: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. London: Viking, 2009. First edition, sixth impression. 8vo., pp. xv, 592 + 3 sections of plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, lightly creased to edges, still very good. Ref: 54231
Blackburn, Helen: Women's Suffrage. A Record of the Women's Sufferage Movement in the British Isles with Biographical Sketches of Miss Becker. London and Oxford: Williams & Norgate, 1902. First edition. 8vo., pp.298, [ii] + 24 plates of portraits, as called for, and 3 folding charts. Page at rear regarding the Central Society for Women's Suffrage, including list of names of the Executive Committee etc. A little very faint toning to half-title, otherwise clean and bright. Green publisher's cloth, gilt title to spine. Slightly cocked, spine a little toned, head caps creased and lightly rubbed, corners bumped, very good. To ffep, ownership inscription of the journalist, editor and author Harold E. Gorst (1868-1950), dated Feb. 1909. Gorst published prolifically, including Sketches of the Future (1898), a collection of satires written from a politically and socially conservative point of view, some of which ridicule feminism. His The Curse of Education (1901) describes, amongst other things, his thoughts about the education and mental capacity of women, the tone of which makes his ownership of this book particularly interesting to ponder. He was the husband of the novelist Nina Cecilia Francesca Kennedy (1869-1926), whose work was largely preoccupied with 'the deprivations of slum and suburban life' (The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction). "Helen Blackburn's (1842-1903) greatest contribution to the women's movement was, arguably, as noted author and historian. Her 'Women's suffrage: a record of the women's suffrage movement in the British Isles, with biographical sketches of Miss Becker' (1902) is an invaluable history of the Victorian campaign, its antecedents, organizational development, and personalities. She was the author of several well-argued suffrage pamphlets, and compiled the annual Women's Suffrage Calendar (1886?99) and A Handbook for Women Engaged in Social and Political Work (1881, 1895), an encyclopaedic compendium of information. Her writings epitomised the British movement's grasp of detail and meticulous marshalling of facts, and its understanding of the need for sound rational argument to counter entrenched prejudice and opposition to the cause. Her literary talents were put to further use as editor (1880?90) and joint editor (1890?95) of the Englishwoman's Review, a feminist journal founded and financially supported by Jessie Boucherett, with whom she shared a common interest in women's employment." (Walker, ODNB.) Ref: 55011show full image..
Burke, Peter; Harrison, Brian; Slack, Paul (eds.): Civil Histories: Essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas. Oxford University Press, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 399. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, very slightly cocked spine to corners bumped. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear with creasing towards top edge. Still a very good copy overall. Ref: 53750
Carlyon, Les: Gallipoli: Sydney, Australia: Pan Macmillan: 2002. 8vo., pp. vii, 600 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Paperback. Light signs of use, very good. Neat ink gift inscription to a previous owner on half-title. Ref: 54242
Coffey, John: Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8vo., pp. xii, 304. Hardback: brown cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. endpapers discoloured along hinges (for no discernable reason), edges lightly bumped. Dust-jacket, mildly shelf-worn with creasing to edges. Still, a very good copy. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series. Ref: 53746
Collinson, Patrick: The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. 8vo, pp. 528. Maps as endpapers. Hardback: quarter green cloth with cream buckram boards, gilt-lettered to spine, a slight bow to upper board and a hint of dust to edges, still very good. Dust-jacket, rather shelf-worn and a little grubby, with creasing to top edge and tears to corners and head of spine, good only. Ref: 53753
Commerell, Abb? de: [Lettsom, John Coakley, ed., trans.:] An Account of the Culture and Use of the Mangel Wurzel, or Root of Scarcity. London: printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and J. Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1788. Fourth edition. 8vo., pp.xxxix, [i], 52 + engraved hand-coloured frontispiece. Sporadic foxing throughout, including title-page. Slightly later half brown calf, marbled boards, rebacked in a lighter shade with large vertical label.. Rubbed, edges and corners worn, endpapers foxed, good overall. Ownership inscription, Jenkins, in an old hand to title-page. One of many works by the industrious Quaker philanthropist and physician John Coakley Lettsom (1744?1815), translated by him from the original French of the Abb? de Commerell. 'Alongside botany, fossils, and natural history, another subject in which Lettsom interested himself was scientific agriculture. He was involved in the introduction of the mangel-wurzel, first brought to notice by Sir Richard Jebb in 1786. Lettsom translated a pamphlet on the subject (An Account of the Mangel-wurzel, or Root of Scarcity, from the French of the Abb? de Commerell, 1787); he grew the seed himself and imported a large quantity, which he distributed to farmers and others in Britain as well as in Europe, America, and the West Indies.' (Payne, rev. Porter, ODNB) ESTC T68301. Ref: 55070show full image..
[Cook, Captain James:] Anderson, George William, ed.: A New Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Undertaken and Perfomed by Royal Authority. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook?s First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, [...]. London: A[lexander] H[ogg], [1784]. First edition, folio, pp [iv], 654, [iv] + portrait frontispiece, folding General Chart and 153 further plates (of 155 called for). Lacks the final leaf before the unpaginated 4-page List of Subscribers, i.e. p.655, the end of the Concluding Remarks followed by a brief Contents list, with Directions to the Binder to verso First and last few leaves creased, title-page trimmed at bottom edge with loss of publisher's name and date, 8C only loosely inserted, small loss to bottom margin 2S2, South Side of Adventure Bay plate with a closed v-shaped tear to the centre (no loss), A Man of the Sandwich Islands plate with a closed tear to fore-edge (affecting image but with no loss), Winter Habitations of Kamtschatka plate coming loose, a little light sporadic foxing towards bottom edge with a very small area of light damp staining toward the rear. Many pressed dried leaves inserted between pages, but not affecting the surrounding paper. Slightly later simple brown calf, spine with raised bands gilt ruled and black gilt title label. Upper board detached but present, endcaps worn, lower joint split but cords holding firm, a little scuffed, corners frayed, without ffep. Includes the expeditions of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson, and Drake as well as those of Cook. Issued originally in 80 parts at a cost of sixpence a piece, this highly detailed and popular edition helped to spread the stories of Cook's travels among the general public. Often referred to as 'Anderson's Cook', although the name of the editor is likely a publisher's pseudonym. ESTC N5221 Ref: 54817show full image..
