Kilburne, Richard: A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. With Some Chronological, Historicall, and Other Matters Touching the Same: and the Several Parishes and Places therein. London: Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson [...], 1659. First edition. Small 4to. (177 x 135mm), pp. [viii], 422, [xii] + portrait frontispiece. Numerous errors in pagination as usual, list of Contents incorrectly bound before the dedication rather than after. Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Occasional light smudges and spots of foxing, a little toning along head of title-page, a smudge of red pigment to tail edge of final leaf perhaps indicating the original edge colour. Late 19th- or early 20th-century brown polished sheep neatly rebacked with original spine retained, gilt title and blind tooling to spine, blind-tooled borders to boards, edges marbled, grey endpapers. A little rubbed but a very good copy overall. Recent armorial bookplate of Robert Edmund Lloyd-Roberts to front paste-down. Two MS pencil notes to the ffep verso, the first concerning the placement of the list of Contents, the second recording that this book was 'acquired at the sale at Godmersham Park, the home of Mrs Robert Tritton. 8th June 1983.' Built in 1732 by Thomas May (later Knight), Godmersham Park was inherited by Edward Austen (brother of Jane Austen) in 1794. He was a cousin of the Knight family, who had adopted him in the early 1780s; when his adoptive mother died in 1812 he changed his name to Knight. Jane was a regular visitor to Godmersham Park and is said to have used the house as a model for Mansfield Park. The house passed through several more hands before being bought in 1935 by Robert Tritton and his wife Elsie, whose death in 1983 prompted the Christie's auction mentioned above. In his 'Epistle Dedicatory', Kilburne writes of his intention to present 'the Kent of his own day', and to depict 'the county as it was before the Civil War'. Hasted, in his 1797 History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, dismisses Kilburne's work as being 'little more than a Directory'. However, 'Kent was not well served by early topographers, and Kilburne's small survey was extensively quoted on sixteen occasions by Robert Furley and, over the years in Archaeologia Cantiana, as a first source of reference, and not without some praise. The Topographie devoted disproportionate attention to Hawkhurst: 10 pages out of 422, or, in the words of one writer, 'as much space to it as to twenty other average parishes' (Archaeologia Cantiana, 5, 1863, 59). Kilburne justified this, however: "In respect I finde not any description of this Parish ? it having been the place of my habitation for above twenty eight years last past (God's Providence having also there lent me an inheritance), I thought fit to enlarge my selfe upon this place. (Kilburne, 126)"'. (ODNB) Wing K434 Ref: 50494show full image..
Lake, Peter: The Boxmaker's Revenge. 'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London. Manchester University Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 422. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear with mild creasing to edges, very good. Ref: 53738
Lamont, Linda (ed.): Willie Lamont History Man Lewes, East Sussex: Linda Lamont, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. [x], 1-100, xxviii (photo section, in colour) 101-176. Paperback, minor shelf-wear, very good. With contributions by many colleagues and friends of William Lamont. Ref: 53755
Langland, William: (Skeat, Rev. Walter W., ed.:) The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman in Three Parallel Texts Together with Richard the Redeless. Vol. I: The Text; Vol. II: Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Oxford University Press (special edition for Sandpiper Books), 2001. 2 vols., pp. 628, (3); cii, 484, (3). Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Facsimile of the 1886 edition. Ref: 54942
Lawrence, Susan C.: Charitable Knowledge. Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 390. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, edges dusted. Dust-jacket, only a little superficial shelf wear. Very good. Cambridge History of Medicine. Ref: 51935
Le Neve, John: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or, an Essay towards deducing a Regular Succession of all the Principal Dignitaries in each Cathedral, College Church or Chapel (now in being) in those Parts of Great Britain called England and Wales, from the first Erection thereof, to this Present [London] in the Savoy, printed by J. Nutt: and Sold by Henry Clements [...] Charles King [...] and E 1716. First edition. Folio, pp. xii, 535, [v]. A little toned, some light foxing, a few wax spots, title-page a little grubby. Contemporary Cambridge panelled calf boards with simple modern reback in a slightly lighter shade, raised bands, burgundy and black morocco spine labels, endpapers renewed. Scuffed, a few light scrapes, corners bumped, very good. Library ink stamp to both sides of title-page, and to a few other pages seemingly at random. At head of title-page a crossed-through ownership inscription, just about legible as Thomas Beckwith of York, with a date possibly of 1768. Quite likely to be the painter, genealogist and antiquary Thomas Beckwith, born 1731 in Rothwell, West Yorkshire and died in 1786 in York. Some annotations and underlining in old hands (ink and pencil), small page of ms notes loosely inserted at p.115. First edition of this important biographical list of ecclesiastical dignitaries. The copy contains manuscript additions (including new names) in the hand of an eighteenth-century antiquarian. The next printing was in 1854. John Le Neve (1679-1741), of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, also took holy orders, and was imprisoned for insolvency (CDNB). This was his principal work. Graesse IV 160. Lowndes 1841: "According to Browne WIllis, Le Neve has the name and credit of this work, yet Bishop Kennet was the real author of it". Ref: 55057show full image..
Leigh, Charles: The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. And Rom. Antiquities in those Parts. Oxford: printed for the author; and to be had at Mr. George West's, and Mr. Henry Clement's, booksel 1700. Folio, pp. [xxii], 4, [ii], 164, [xvi], 181-190, [ii], 1-97, [iii], 80, [iv], 81-112, [xxxvi] + portrait frontispiece, folding map, 2 plates of engraved arms of the subscribers and 22 further plates. Occasional very light spots and smudges, a few small marginal losses towards the rear not affecting text, final page a bit grubby. Sympathetically rebound in dark brown calf, raised bands, red morocco title label to spine, blind-tooled Cambridge boards, endpapers renewed. A little rubbed with a few scratches, endpapers a little toned and split at hinges, a very good, robust copy. Two illegible library ink stamps to title-page, and one to first leaf of dedication. Leigh (1662-1701?), a physician and naturalist, had some papers read before the Royal Society, and 'printed in Philosophical Transactions. He also published the following separate works: Phthisologia Lancastriensis, cui accessit tentamen philosophicum de mineralibus aquis in eodem comitatu observatis (1694, reprinted Geneva, 1736), Exercitationes quinque, de aquis mineralibus; thermis calidis; morbis acutis; morbis intermittentib.; hydrope (1697), and The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire; with an account of the British, Phoenic, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities found in those parts (1700). He wrote three pamphlets in 1698 in reply to R. Bolton's Heat of the Blood and one in reply to John Colebatch on curing the bite of a viper. According to T. D. Whitaker, Leigh's 'vanity and petulance' were 'at least equal to his want of literature'. His Natural History is little more than a translation of his earlier Latin treatises.[?]' Leigh was thought to have died the year after the publication of this, his final work. However, 'there is some doubt on this point, as evidenced by Thomas Hearne, writing on 30 October 1705: 'I am told Dr Leigh, who writ the Natural History of Lancashire, has divers things fit for the press, but that he will not let them see the light because his History has not taken well' (MS diary, iv. 222).' (Sutton, rev. Bevan, ODNB). ESTC R20833; Wing L975. Ref: 55081show full image..
Leitao, Ruben Andresen: Vol. I: Documentos dos Arquivos de Windsor; Vol. II: Novos Documentos dos Arquivos de Windsor. Coimbra, 1955; 1958. 2 vols. 255 x 193mm, pp. lvi, 395 + plates; lxxii, 371 + plates. Cloth, gilt-lettered, spine of vol. I slightly cocked, shelf wear, some corners bumped, otherwise very good. No dust-jackets. Author- signed limited editions, vol. I number 380/1250, vol. II number 998/1000. Ref: 50807
Lewis, Matthew: Rebellion in the Middle Ages: Fight against the Crown. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 269 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54446
Loughlin, Susan: Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. 224 + colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Ref: 53862
