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
MacKenzie, Charlotte: Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum. London: Routledge, 1992. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 234, inc. plates, figures and tables. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use with mild creasing to jacket edges: still very good. Brief neat pencil annotation to a rear blank. In the Wellcome Institute series in the History of Medicine. Ref: 53935
Madox, Thomas: Baronia Anglica. An History of Land-Honors and Baronies, and of Tenure in Capite. Verified by Records. (Bound before) A Compleat Index to Mr Madox's History of the Exchequer. London: Printed for Robert Gosling 1736; 1741. First editions. Folio, 2 works in 1, pp. [2], 292 [xxviii]; [216], title of second is a cancel (second issue), engraved vignette to first title, a few large engraved initials and engraved headpieces. First title and verso of last leaf a little dusty, slight toning, small clean tear at gutter of one leaf, occasional very slight marginal spotting. Modern half calf over marbled boards, modern endpapers. Modern ex-libris of Robert Smith, dated 2008 to ffep; early biographical annotation on author; occasional early marginalia. The first edition, posthumously published, of this study by the celebrated legal antiquary Thomas Madox (1666-1727), who was historiographer-royal from 1714, and who is singled out by David C. Douglas ('English Scholars 1660-1730') for special praise, with the assessment (p. 243) that "even to-day, he seems to move among the moderns as if, apart from the immensity of his productions, he were one of themselves". The 'Index' was prepared by the editor of 'Baronia Britannica', and first issued with that work in 1741. It is a detailed glossary of the uncommon words used in Madox's 'History of the Exchequer', with which it was reprinted in 1769. The 'Index' title reads at the top: 'This Day is Published, (Price Half a Guinea, Sewed,).' ESTC T97064. Lowndes 1448. Brunet III 1289. Graesse IV 332. Ref: 53550show full image..
Matthews, Helen: The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxx, 216. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54615
Maynard, D.C.: The Old Inns of Kent. London: Philip Allan & Co., 1925. First edition. pp. [vii], 250, with illustrated frontispiece and photographic plates. Slight browning, but still very good. Blue cloth, rebacked, spine gilt, edges a bit rubbed. Wye College library stamp to front free endpaper. Ref: 53508
