Hyde, Ralph: London Parish Maps to 1900: A Catalogue of Maps of London Parishes within the Original London County Council Area. London: London Topographical Society, 2020. First edition. Large format (307mm x 230mm)., pp. x, 470. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Augmented and Completed by Simon Morris and Members of the Society. Biographical Notes and Supplementary Material by Laurence Worms. Introduction by Peter Barber. LTS Publication No. 183. Ref: 54757
[Illingworth, William and Caley, John, eds.:] Placita de quo warranto temporibus Edw. I. II. & III.: in curia recept? scaccarij Westm. Asservata. Printed by command of His Majesty King George III. In pursuance of an address of the House of Commons of Great Britain. [London]: [Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty] [1818]. Folio, pp.xvii, [v], 966 + 1 facsimile plate (opposite p.1). Latin text with English introduction and notes. With half-title and indexes. Very occasional marginal notes in an old hand. Slightly foxed, a few small marks but generally very good inside. Half tan sheep, raised bands, brown cloth boards. Sound but shabby binding, scuffed, loss to endcaps, edges and corners frayed and peeling, endpapers foxed. Useful but unlovely, perhaps a copy for the scholar rather than the collector. Printer's details from colophon. Published under the direction of the Commissioners on the Public Records. Listed in HMSO Sectional List 24, Public Record Office publications. 'Pleadings in quo warranto to try by what right parties held or claimed manors liberties, privileges, &c. These chiefly had reference to the inquisitions previously taken, called Rotuli hundredorum, which latter were delivered to the Justices in eyre for the purpose of holding pleas upon the claims stated therein. (Gt. Brit. Public record office, Hand-book of the Public Records. p.455.) Ref: 55059
Isba, Anne: Gladstone and Women: London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. 8vo., pp. xv, 257 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Paperback. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54237
Johnston, Robert: Historia rerum Britannicarum: Ut et multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum, & Germanicarum, tam Politicarum, quam Ecclesiasticarum, ab anno 1572, ad Annum 1628 [...] Adjectus est rerum ac Personarum, de quibus in hoc volumine, Index absolutissimus. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: sumptibus Joannis Ravesteynii [colophon:Goudae [Gouda], typis Guilielmi va 1655. First edition. Folio, fols. [ii] 737 [xi]. Text in Latin. Printer's vignette to title-page, woodcut initials and head- and end-pieces. Ink spot to bottom edge encoaching very slightly onto bottom margin. Very light toning to edges, 2P4 with paper flaw causing ragged fore-edge, a few other very minor paper flaws. 18th-century vellum, title inked to spine in an old hand and partially obscured by a recent brown and gilt title label, edges sprinkled dark blue, an old catalogue entry pasted to ffep. Vellum a little darkened with some marks and scuffs, fore-edges worn with boards partly exposed, still very good overall. First complete edition, of Johnston's history of England and Scotland; parts of which had already been published in English. The work covers the period 1572-1628, during all of which time King James VI and I was reigning in Scotland or also England. Johnston (1567?-1639) was a member of the first class to graduate from the University of Edinburgh (M.A., 1587), and spent his working life as a clerk in London. "'A work of great merit, whether we consider the judicious structure of the narrative, the sagacity of the reflections, the acute discernment of characters, or the classical structure of the style' - Lord Woodhouselee" (Lowndes). Lowndes 1223: Ref: 54524show full image..
Jones, E. A. Speculum Inclusorum: A Mirror for Recluses. A late-medieval guide for anchorites and its Middle English translation. Liverpool University Press, 2013. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. lxxix, 157 + plates. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. In the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series. Ref: 54612
Jones, Michael: Ducal Brittany 1364-1399. Relations with England and France during the reign on Duke John IV. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1997. Reprint. 8vo. pp. xxi, 250. Black cloth, fine. Dust-jacket, some surface shelf-wear, still very good. Ref: 54293
Justice, Steven: Adam Usk''s Secret. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. 211. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54295
Keeble, N. H. The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later Seventeenth-Century England. Leicester University Press, 1987. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, Very light shelf-wear with mild creasing towards edges, very good. Ownership signature of William Lamont to ffep. Ref: 53749
Keeble, N. H. (ed.): John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus. Tercentenary Essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 278 + plates. Hardback: navy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Spine slightly cocked, otherwise very good. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, very good. Ref: 53870
Kennedy, Gavin: Captain Bligh: The man and his mutinies. London: Duckworth, 1989. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 321 + plates. Map to endpapers. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Tiny indent to outer edge of paper, all edges a little dust-marked, but binding fine. Dust-jacket, 2.5cm tear with loss to top corner of upper cover, creasing to edges, otherwise still good. Ref: 53570
