Category: British

View Categories / History / European / British

Sort

Showing 1-30 of 275

Robin Hood Country: The County Guide to Nottinghamshire (Pitkin Guides)

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pitkin: 1996

Seller ID: 2265015

ISBN: 0853728275

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1996 Stapled Binding. 28 pp. CONTENTS: Robin Hood; Parks and Gardens; The Civil War; Literary Heritage; Market Towns; Religious Heritage; Roads, Canals and Railways; Mining and Making; Farming and Food; Sporting Nottinghamshire; Family Fun.
View More...

Guide Book to Fort Ticonderoga: Held In Turn by France, Great Britain and the United States

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Stinehour Press:

Seller ID: 2267200

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date. Unpaginated. Topics include the fort at Ticonderoga, the stone fortress, the south wall, the French village, the interior of the fort, the west barracks, the bastions, the view from the ramparts, the canon, the museum collection, the restoration of the fort. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
View More...

The Illustrated London News. Vol. LVI., Jan. to June 1870 [Volume 56, Nos. 1574-1600]

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: George C. Leighton: 1870

Seller ID: 2260273

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards a bit rubbed with minor leather loss, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1870 Half-Leather. iv, 668 pp. Folio. Twenty-seven issues of The Illustrated London News, bound in one half-leather volume. Green leather spine and corners, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, five raised spine bands. Numerous engravings throughout (including several with a partial fold-out), with an index of these preceding the periodicals, and an engraved title page preceding that, which states that this volume was released on July 16, 1870. The Illustrated London News was the first illu...
View More...

Silhouettes of British Aircraft (Prepared by the Air Ministry)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1940

Seller ID: 2283090

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front wrapper creased. 1940 Soft Cover. 143 pp. An identification guide to British aircraft. CONTENTS: National Marking, Royal Air Force Aircraft; Fighters; Bombers; Army Co-operation; Fleet Air Arm; Reconnaissance; Transport, Communication and Training; Experimental; Civil. Includes illustrations.
View More...

British German and Italian Aircraft: How to Spot Them

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD.:

Seller ID: 2283094

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

25th thousand. No publisher date. No jacket, a couple light stains on front board, spine lightly toned. 96 pp. Includes 320 drawings and photographs with descriptions. An identification guide to British, German and Italian aircraft.
View More...

We Speak from the Air: Broadcasts by the R.A.F.

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1942

Seller ID: 2283122

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Wrapper edges lightly rubbed, smudge on front wrapper, ink stamp on half-title page. 1942 Soft Cover. 72 pp. Men of the R.A.F. describe their own experiences in their own words. These accounts of operations over Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Norway, Italy, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic give us the human stories behind the official communiques, and show us the great range and effectiveness of our Air Power. The narratives are selected from over 280 broadcasts, given anonymously by the R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. during 1941.
View More...

V.C. [The Victoria Cross]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283084

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honou...
View More...

Major Richardson's Dogs [World War I; Dogs][Print]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: .:

Seller ID: 2296524

Binding: Print

Condition: Near Fine

Matte creased with a few smudges. No chips, no tears. Matte outside to outside dimensions: 13 3/4 x 11. Inside to inside dimensions: 10 x 7 3/4. Print reproduced from photograph of Major Richardson of the British Red Cross with two Bloodhounds and an Airedale.
View More...

The Illustrated London News, April 4, 1953, No. 5946--Volumes 222: In Memoriam Number Queen Mary

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Illustrated London News: 1953

Seller ID: 2299940

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers intact. No chips, no tears. Light general wear. 1953 Stapled Binding. Includes two-panel color photograph of Queen Mary.
View More...

Salute to the R.A.F.: A Souvenir to Commemorate 25 Years' Happy and Progressive Association with the R.A.F. [Royal Air Force]

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd.: 1943

Seller ID: 2299958

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers creased, a few small tears to wrapper edges. 1943 Stapled Binding. 28 pp. As a memento of twenty-five years' service to the R.A.F. this brochure illustrates some of the achievements in the field of aviation which stand behind this company. ...This brochure shows the succession of aircraft designed and built by the organisation.
View More...

Sport & Country: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: Holly Leaves, the Christmas Number, November 11, 1955, Vol. 200, No. 3910A

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ingram House: 1955

Seller ID: 2298819

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers intact. Quarter inch tear to top edge of front wrapper and to bottom edge of rear wrapper, ink name on first page, general wear. 1955 Stapled Binding. Color illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Articles and photographs include Beckoning Signs; Nature's Climatic Jokes, Illustrated by J. E. Tickner; The Qualities of Charm, by P. Stephens; The Royal Scots Greys, by Major P. Pereira; A Tour of Hadrian's Wall; Newcastle and the Royal Shows, by Sydney Moorhouse; A King's Travels by Gwyneth Pennethorne; Animal Innocence; Beyond the Wall, by Hamish MacAlistair; Silhouettes, Cut by H...
View More...

Sissinghurst Castle Garden

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: The National Trust: 1989

Seller ID: 2300663

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Three color postcards laid in. A very nice copy. 1989 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. A brief history and visitors' guidebook to the famed site. Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is designated Grade I on Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and over the next thirty years, working with, and later succeeded by, a series of notable head gardener...
View More...

Rochester and Other Literary Rakes of the Court of Charles II. With Some Account of Their Surroundings.

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 2303180

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards and edges lightly rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper and university library stamp on title page. 1903 Three-Quarter Leather. x, 330 pp. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Top page ridge gilt. With portraits. Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685)[c] was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland an...
View More...

An Answer to John Robinson of Leyden, Now First Published from a Manuscript of A.D. 1609 (Harvard Theological Studies Series Volume IX [9])

By: A Puritan Friend; Burrage, Champlin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1920

Seller ID: 2006047

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. An exceptional copy. 1920 Trade Paperback. xiii, 94 pp. Printed wrappers. The first appearance in print of an early 17th century manuscript written in response to the religious teachings of John Robinson, part of whose congregation became the group we now know as the Pilgrims. Text from Bodleian MS. Jones 30 at Oxford. Robinson, John (1575/6? - 1625), Church of England clergyman and separatist theologian, was born at Sturton, Nottinghamshire... When Robinson moved from Cambridge into the wider world, his nonconformist ideas were soon revealed... Before the...
View More...

The Comic History of England

By: A'Beckett, G.A. [Gilbert Abbott]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Bradbury, Evans, and Co.: 1864

Seller ID: 2283682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Two books in one volume. Binding repaired, corners a bit rubbed. 1864 Hard Cover. xviii, 320, 304 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Color frontispiece (one of 20 color plates) and reproductions of 200 engravings by John Leech. The classic work by one of the original staff of Punch magazine, the weekly British humor magazine. A'Beckett also wrote the Comic History of Rome (to which John Leech also added illustrations), Comic Blackstone, etc., as well as two operas for which his wife composed the music.
View More...

Great Britain and the American Civil War

By: Adams, Ephraim Douglass

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Russell & Russell: 1958

Seller ID: 2304916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

1958 one-volume reissue of 1924 two-volume original. No jacket. Wear to cloth along front joint and cloth spine head and spine base, tape ghosting on front paste-down endpaper, ink marginalia and underlining throughout. xi, 307;vii, 340 pp. Two-volumes bound as one. Includes black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: Backgrounds; First Knowledge of Impending Conflict, 1860-61; The Development of a Policy, May, 1861; British Suspicion of Seward; The Declaration of Paris Negotiation; Bull Run, Consul Bunch, Cotton, and Mercier; The Trent; The Blockade; Enter Mr. Lindsay; King Cotton; Russell's Med...
View More...

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

By: Anderson, Fred

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 2001

Seller ID: 2305884

ISBN: 0375706364

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine creased. 2001 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 862 pp. In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' Warlong seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolutiontakes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britains empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson ...
View More...

War and Peace in South Africa, 1879-1881: The Writings of Philip Anstruther and Edward Essex

By: Anstruther, Philip; Essex, Edward; Butterfield, Paul H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Melville / Pietermaritzburg, Scripta Africana / Hans Strydom Publishers / Interpak Natal:

Seller ID: 2304032

ISBN: 0947025189

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #746 of 1000 copies, signed by publisher on limitation page. Slipcase rubbed. 246 pp. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations in text. Includes: Prelude to Disasters: The Letters of Philip Anstruther, 1879-1880; Introduction: The Ulundi Campaign, The Sekukuni Campaign, Garrison Duties at Lydenburg; The Journal of 'Lucky' Essex, January/February 1881: Introduction; Glossary, Journal of the Natal Field Force; Reference; Conclusion; Appendix: Official Evidence of the Flaunting of Regulations by Anstruther; Official Evidence of the March from Lydenburg to Bronkhorstspruit; O...
View More...

Image for Mistress Dorothy Marvin: Being Excerpta from the Memoirs of Sir Edward Armstrong, Baronet, of Copeland Hall, in the County of Somerset (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 188)

Mistress Dorothy Marvin: Being Excerpta from the Memoirs of Sir Edward Armstrong, Baronet, of Copeland Hall, in the County of Somerset (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 188)

By: Armstrong, Sir Edward; Snaith, J. C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: D. Appleton & Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2302634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Spine lightly toned. 1896 Hard Cover. viii, 419 pp. A fictitious account set in Somerset Country, England.
View More...

Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes

By: Aronson, Theo

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1972

Seller ID: 2296700

ISBN: 0672513757

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Spine very slightly cocked, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. ix, 260 pp. What do you say to the wonderful proceedings in Paris, which really seem like a story in a book or a play? wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians, in December 1851. Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, had made himself dictator of France, stealing the limelight of the European stage to open the first act of a play that would last for more than thirty years—and in which Queen Victoria was herself to play a maj...
View More...

George the Third

By: Ayling, Stanley

Price: $8.00

Publisher: History Book Club: 1972

Seller ID: 2297867

ISBN: 0002114127

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Frontispiece and a few plates foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. 510 pp. Family Tree of George III illustrated on endpapers. Bolt-eyed, addle-witted, the royal bully-boy of caricature and legend, George III, for sixty years King of Great Britain and Ireland and last king of America, has come down to us as a fumbling reactionary who only confirmed everyone's worst suspicions of his capacities (or lack of them) by finally going mad. Now, in this elegant, warmly sympathetic biography, Stanley Ayling gives us an unrefracted view of this maligned and complex man. It is a new portrait, both politica...
View More...

The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boydell Press: 2004

Seller ID: 2280244

ISBN: 1843831112

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. Front wrapper edge very lightly bumped. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark and dangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons established themselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk and within court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile - womenfolk as well as men - they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but not invariably through the medium of a clerk. These letters, a rare survival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency - and...
View More...

Queen Elizabeth's Daughter (A Novel of Elizabeth I)

By: Barnhill, Anne Clinard

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martins Griffin: 2014

Seller ID: 2304971

ISBN: 0312662122

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Remainder mark, address label on half-title page, some pages lightly dog-eared. 2014 Trade Paperback. ix, 371 pp. Mistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the position affords. The British queen loves Mary like a daughter, and, like any good mother, she wants her to make a powerful match. The most likely prospect: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. But while Oxford seems to be everything the queen admires: clever, polished and wealthy, Mary knows him to be lecherous, cruel, and full of treachery. No matter how hard the queen tries to push ...
View More...

The Zulu War: A Pictorial History

By: Barthorp, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Blandford Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2302818

ISBN: 0713710055

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edge wear. 1986 Hard Cover. ix, [1], 181, [1] pp. Of all the many colonial campaigns of the Victorian era, few have gripped the imagination more than the Zulu War of 1879. Its dramatic events and the high courage displayed by men of both sides have provided the material for books, articles and paintings, while in recent times its more remarkable incidents have featured in television programmes and films. Among military and colonial history enthusiasts its fascination has few equals. Even though a century has passed, there can be few who are not aware of the annihilation of a British column at ...
View More...

A Chronology of Printing, XVIII Century, Excerpts from the Typographic Treasures in Europe

By: Bartlett, Edward E.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Press of the Good Mountain, Rochester Institute of Technology:

Seller ID: 2303578

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. 26 pp. A chronology of print history in18th century Europe.
View More...

England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: England 1075-1225 (The New Oxford History of England)

By: Bartlett, Robert; Roberts, J.M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2303733

ISBN: 0199564493

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2000 Hard Cover. xxx, 772 pp. Chronology, bibliography, and index follow text. This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. There are colourful details of the everyday life of ordinary men and women, with their views on the past, on sexuality, on animals, on death, the undead, and the occult. The result is a fascinating and comprehensive portrayal of a period which begins with conquest a...
View More...

Reminiscences

By: Battersea, Constance

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd.: 1922

Seller ID: 2304114

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bookplate on front paste down endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. xvii, 470, 2 pp. Includes fold-out genealogical table of the Rothschild and Montefiore families. Constance Flower, Baroness Battersea (29 April 1843, Piccadilly, London – 22 November 1931, Overstrand; née de Rothschild), also known as Lady Battersea, was a society hostess and philanthropist in London who established the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children (now subsumed by Jewish Care) in 1885 and was prominent in the Temperance movement in the United Kingdom.[1][2]
View More...

Image for History of South Africa and the Boer-British War. Blood and Gold in Africa. The Matchless Drama of the Dark Continent from Pharaoh to 'Oom Paul.' The Transvaal War and the Final Struggle between Briton and Boer over the Gold of Ophir. A Story of Thrilling Romance and Adventure among Wild Beasts and Wilder Men, in Search of Sport and Gems and Gold.

History of South Africa and the Boer-British War. Blood and Gold in Africa. The Matchless Drama of the Dark Continent from Pharaoh to 'Oom Paul.' The Transvaal War and the Final Struggle between Briton and Boer over the Gold of Ophir. A Story of Thrilling Romance and Adventure among Wild Beasts and Wilder Men, in Search of Sport and Gems and Gold.

By: Beck, Henry Houghton

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Globe Bible Publishing Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 2303153

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Hinges loosening, gilt titles a bit rubbed. 1900 Hard Cover. 496 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, red, black and gold decorations, floral endpapers. Color fold-out map of South African Republic, Orange Free State, and Cape Colony opposite title page. Black-and-white plates. A history of South Africa, including accounts of the First Boer War (also called the Transvaal Rebellion), and the Second Boer War, thought it was published during the latter.
View More...

Arnold Bennett's Letters to His Nephew

By: Bennett, Arnold; Swinnerton, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1935

Seller ID: 2304458

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1935 Hard Cover. xxi, 352 pp. With a Preface by Frank Swinnerton. Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal of more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 different newspapers and periodicals, worked in, and brief...
View More...

Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

By: Bennett, Judith M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 2303225

ISBN: 0195126505

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. An excellent copy. 1996 Trade Paperback. xiv, 260 pp. Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually left the trade. She also offers a compelling account of the endurance of patriarchy...
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: British

This website uses cookies