David, Saul: Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 484 + plates. Hardback: dark blue cloth, gilt-titled to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear: a very good copy. Ref: 53566
Davis, J. C.: Fear, Myth and History: The Ranters and the Historians. Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 208. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket, shelf-worn with fraying to corners and creasing to edges. Ownership inscription of W(illiam) Lamont, with a few of his annotations to text and more pen-scoring to outer margins against passages of particular interest. Ref: 53730
De Voiture, Vincent: Les lettres de Mr de Voiture. Cologne: Jacques le Jeune, 1685. 12mo. pp. [12], 565, [11], including engraved title from 1687 Brussels edition. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Slight browning or marginal foxing, engraved title and verso of last leaf little dust-soiled. Contemporary vellum over boards. Little rubbed, few ancient stains, traces of red wax to pastedown. Scarce pirated edition -- with the false imprint 'Cologne, Jacques le Jeune, 1685', but produced in The Hague probably a few years later (see Weller, 'Die falschen und fingierten Druckarte'). It is an exact reprint of L. Marchant's Brussels edition of 1687, of which it includes the engraved title. Vincent Voiture (1597-1648) was in the service of Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII, and one of the earliest members of the Acad?mie fran?aise. Whilst he never published anything in his lifetime, a collection of his letters and verse published posthumously made him fashionable among the intellectual elites. Among his correspondents were Cardinal Mazarin and the Duchess of Savoy. Ref: 53273show full image..
Dugas, Ren?: (Maddox, J. R., trans.:) A History of Mechanics. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. First English edition. 8vo., pp. 671. Illustrations to text. Hardback: red rexine over boards, gilt-lettered to spine and upper board. Edges dusty, contents clean, still very good. Booksellers' ticket of H. K. Lewis & Co. to front pastedown. Frst published in French in 1955. Foreword by Louis De Broglie. Ref: 53955
Esdaile, Charles: The Peninsular War: A New History. London: Allen Lane, 2002. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxvi, 587 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, slight creasing on top edge of jacket, still very good. Ref: 54256
Foreman, Amanda: A World on Fire An Epic History of Two Nations Divided. London: Allen Lane, 2010. First edition. 8vo., pp. xliv, 988 + plates. Maps, some double-page, and illustrations. Hardback: red cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little dust-marked to edges, a hint only of shelf-wear to jacket: a very good copy. Ref: 53925
Gardiner, Juliet. The Thirties. An intimate history. London: HarperPress, 2010. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xv], 957, with illustrations. Slight toning, else very good. Hardback, blue cloth, spine lettered in light blue, dust-jacket, upper edge a little creased, but still very good. Ref: 53543
Gibbs-Smith, Charles H.: Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics 1796-1855. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 269. Frontis., and numerous illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine and with outline of early aeroplane gilt -stamped to upper board. No dust-jacket. A touch only of shelf-wear. Bookplate of Acton Public Libraries Reference Library to front paste-down, shelf numbering to spine in white, library stamp to title-page verso (showing through to recto) and to several pages of text. Ref: 53969
Gough, Richard: The History of Myddle. Firle, Sussex: Caliban Books, 1980. First edition thus, second impression. 8vo., pp. xxxii, 184, [vi (publisher's ads.)]. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, bottom corners lightly bumped, top edge dusted, still very good. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, creased along edges with small closed tears along top, still good. This edition, with an introduction by Peter Razzell and text abridged and modernised, first published 1979. Ref: 53577
Greaves, Richard: John Bunyan and English Nonconformity. London: The Hambledon Press. 1992 8vo., pp. xii, 230. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Very light shelf-wear with a little creasing to jacket, a touch of dusting to edges: a near-fine copy. Ref: 53747
