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Signed by Charles Chilton

Odhams Press, London, 1962

T H White's duels, mistresses, public executions, royal gossip etc

Jonathan Cape, London, 1950

With a postcard signed by the author

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997

L G Pine's wry look at British noble families...

Burke, London, 1956

Signed by John R Horner, his account of the excavation of dinosaur nesting sites in Montana

Harper & Row, New York, 1990

including facsimile reproductions of The Vatican Letters

Allan Wingate, London, 1949

Horace Marucchi's study of the underground cemeteries in Rome

Desclée, Lefebvre et Cie, Paris & Rome, 1900

Signed by Roger Nolan

Frontline Books, Barnsley, 2018

With 15 copperplate engravings, both boards and backstrip detached but present.

Published for the Proprietors, London, 1795

1731, containing acts from the Parliaments of James VII, William and Mary, and Anne from 1685 to 1707, in an attractive leather binding

Robert Freebairn, Edinburgh, 1731

1683, containing acts from the Parliaments of Charles I and Charles II from 1633 to 1678, in an attractive leather binding

David Lindsay, Edinburgh, 1683

An early edition of George Buchanan's monumental history of Scotland

Godefridi Tampachij (Gottfried Tampach), Francofurti ad Moenum (Frankfu, 1624

The first French edition of Charles James Fox's history of the late Stuart monarchy

Chez H Nicolle et al, Paris, 1809

Owned by Marian Ferguson, who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport in 1939

Duckworth & Co, London, 1975

Signed by Katie Hickman, a social history of British women in India

Virago, London, 2019

The trial and execution of the Count of Egmont in 1568

Librairie de C. Muquardt, Bruxelles, 1854

With bookplate, siganture and damning comment by Frances Pierrepont Barnard

T Fisher Unwin, London, 1890

2008, a very good copy of this important study

Azimuth / The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2008

Paul de Regla expose of the underworld of Constantinople

Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1892

Sensationalist conspiracy theories about the death of Lord Kitchener...

The Rotary Press, London, 1926

1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome

Chez Barois, Paris, 1727

Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani

Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912

1644, vellum, A Summary of German Affairs, regarding the events from the year 1617 to 1643, including the Thirty Years War

Not stated, [Lugdunum Batavorum, Leiden], 1644

A Bulgarian history of the Decembrist Revolt of 1825 in Imperial Russia

Publishing House of the Fatherland Front, Sofia, 1979

The Story of Yeoward of Liverpool, the First 100 Years

Granta Editions, Cambridge, 1994