Search Results: Britain, Europe from Lux Libri

Edited from the Laud Ms. 622 in the Bodleian Library. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner & Co., MDCCCLXXVIII (1878.) 1st edition. Original series, no. 69. A Fine, unopened copy in the original pale blue wraps. Minor signs of age, but crisp, clean and securely bound. 8vo. 122 pages with index of words and subjects. (Subjects: English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500; Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327; Solomon, King of Israel; Saint Alexius; Adam Davy, fl. 1308?)

Cambridge: University Press, 1901. 1st edition. A compilation of royal charters, with transcriptions, from Henry I to Charles II. Edited for the Council of the Borough of Cambridge and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. xxxvii, 209 pp. Frontispiece facsimile plate (Charter of King John, 1207 AD.) 8vo, blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Near Fine copy of this standard work. Clean and securely bound. Unread, with unopened pages throughout.

[NY: Hearst] 1930. Advance printing in book form of a June 1930 Cosmopolitan magazine article. Snowden's first-person account of how he "limped his way to power." Snowden (1864-1937), socialist politician and propagandist, was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the first two Labour Party governments of Great Britain. Crippled by spinal disease at a young age, Snowden's tenure coincided with the worst years of the Depression in the UK and other countries. 30 pages, divided between Snowden's story, and advertising/promotional material. Small hardcover, about 4.5 by 6.25 inches. Purplish paper-covered boards, silver foil endpages. Near Fine, with some very minor rubbing. A nice copy of a scarce item.

London & NY: Longmans, Green & Co., (1948.) 1st edition. A study of the life and career of British naval hero Lord Nelson (1758-1805.) Six full-page portrait plates, 3 maps, and 4 colored battle plans (Nile, Trafalgar, Copenhagen and St. Vincent.) viii, 312 pp., index. 8vo clothbound hardcover. No jacket. Some bumps, marks and wear, but Good overall. Sound binding. Bookplate of H.C. Hillary with manuscript signature. Later signature of H.H. [Henry] Shufeldt (1898-1985), a U.S. Navy captain, author of several books on navigation, and co-editor of Dutton's Navigation and Piloting (12th edition.)

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons and London: B.T. Batsford, 1943. 2nd edition, revised. (First published in 1939.) A study of the "life and work" of abbeys in the Middle Ages. Color frontispiece and b&w illustrations throughout, including two fold-out plans. xiv, 114 pp. Clothbound 8vo. VG/VG. Sound, tight binding. Lower front corner bumped. Some foxing of the color dust jacket and edges of the text block, but clean internally. Jacket designed by Brian Cook. Price-clipped with modest chipping. Now protected by a clear archival cover.

St. Martin's Press, (1971). 1st American edition. Biography and commentary on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87.) A compilation of historical writings that illustrate shifting interpretations and attitudes toward Mary Stuart and her tumultuous social and religious times. Introductory material and commentary by the author, a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of Glasgow. 225 pages. 8vo hardcover. Near Fine in dust jacket.

London: Oxford University Press, (1963.) First published in 1934. A guide for researchers to the British national archives. Includes directions (with a sketch plan) for use of catalogs, an historical summary of government publications, and practical hints on paleography, and the transcription of documents. 112 pp., appendices and index. 12mo clothbound hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket with clear protective cover.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1924. 1st American edition in the uncommon dust jacket. A history of British sea power, from its genesis more than 400 years ago through the World War I era. A superb, scholarly work by Callender, chair of Naval History at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Illustrated by 17 plates and an engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Drake. Map endpapers. ix, 305 pp., index and chronology. Clothbound 8vo. VG/VG in rubbed and lightly worn dust jacket. Small, old bookshop label to front pastedown ("Gray's / Bookstore / Milwaukee.") A book that has evidently seen little use over the years. DJ protected by a clear archival cover.

Cambridge: University Press, 1951. 1st edition. With 73 photographs of ancient utilitarian and decorative objects, weaponry, coins, etc., each with explanatory catalog text. viii, 27 pages plus [50] pages of photographic plates. Quarto hardcover in dust jacket. 10 by 7.5 inches. Good condition. Some nicks and foxing to the price-clipped DJ, which is now protected by a clear archival cover. Lower corners bumped. Boards bowed, but binding is secure. Text pages and illustrations clean and unmarked.

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. 1st separate printing. An offprint from the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume LXI. Originally delivered as the Albert Beckett Archaeological Lecture. (The author was an Oxford professor of archaeology and a prolific excavator of Romano-British sites.) Illustrated by several plans and diagrams in the text and 5 full-page plates on glossy paper. 20 pp., + the plates. Printed paper wraps. 9.95 x 6.25 inches. VG with minor signs of age, small rust marks to the cover from the stapled binding. Clean and securely bound.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited, (1954.) Second printing. An amusing account of customs and manners from their ancient origins to the present-day. Contents include: Convention; Rites; Pastimes; Clothes; Manners; Politics; and Morals. Delightfully illustrated throughout in color. By the authors of Blood Royal and Simple Heraldry. 63 pp. 4to clothbound hardcover. VG in VG dust jacket with clear archival cover.