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(VARIOUS) Proceedings of the British Academy Volume LXII1976
London 1976 First Thus Cloth Very Good No Jacket Large 8vo.
Contents include: Rousseau (Starobinski); 'Upon Such Sacrifices' (Brockbank); The Significance of English Place-Names (Cameron); Social Anthropology: A Natural Science of Society? (Leach); THe Dancing Siva in Early South Indian Art (Barrett); Age and Authority in Early Modern England (Thomas); Naturalism in Book One of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (Pears); Carving Trifles: William King;s Imitation of Horace (Fuller); Jeremy Bentham and the Greek Independence (Zepos); Time and Choice (Shackle); Truth, Invention. and the Meaning of Life (Wiggins); Waste Land, Holy Land (Raine). Bw plates, 518pp. Back cover water stained.
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ARCHER, WG The Blue Grove the Poetry of the Uraons
London George Allen & Unwin 1940 First Edition Cloth Very Good Very Good Large 8vo.
Foreword by Arthur Waley.For the Uraons, an aboriginal tribe of Central India, dancing is a village amusement and poetry a vital adjunct to dancing. 210pp inc index + large bw folding map. Light browning to prelims.
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COX, ET First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the Year 1869
Indianapolis Alexander H Conner 1869 First Edition Very Good + 8vo
Green blind tooled buckram covers with gilt titles, frontis lithograph of Brazil Furnace. Garlick & Collins, Brazil, Clay Co., Indianna. 240pp inc index + errat leaf. Author's compliments slip laid on to paste down and acquisition label of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to ffep. Circular ink stamp of the society of title page - no further markings. A neat, clean copy.
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DEWAR, DOUGLAS Birds of the Plains
London John Lane 1909 First Edition Cloth Good Large 8vo.
16 illustrations from photogravures, title page in red and black, 257pp inc index. Tiny wormholes pentrating to pp 22. Light mottled staining to covers.
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FOSTER, WILLIAM England's Quest of Eastern Trade
London Adam and Charles Black 1966 Reprint Cloth Fine Nr Fine 8vo
The Pioneer Histories Series (Originally published in 1933). 'There is no other account of Elizabethan and Jacobean seamen and merchants as rich and balanced as this. It is all here, from the time when Willoughby and Chancellor sought Cathay (1553) and Jenkinson reached Persia (via Archangel and Russia), less than ten years later, to the consolidaion of the Indian trade.' (The Times). Maps, one folding, 355pp inc index. Dw (price clipped)
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HARE, AUGUSTUS J The Story of Two Noble Lives
London George Allen 1893 First Edition Very Good Large 8vo.
Letters and papers of Vicountess Canning ( wife of Governor General of India during the Mutiny) and her sister, Marchioness of Waterford. Original green cloth, TEG, tissue guarded bw and sepia engravings (tipped on), many other bw illus in the text. pp 381; 489; 495 inc index. Boards are scuffed with significant loss of colour particularly on back boards. Some browing to page edges and prelims otherwise contents bright.
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HENTY, G A With Clive in India: Or the Beginnings of an Empire
London Blackie 1884 First Edition Fair 8vo
Illustrated cloth covers, double page map, 10 duotone plates (of 12) several maps in the text, decorated head and tail pieces and initial letters, 382pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. Covers are worn and original backstrip has been professionally relaid with new endpapers, some foxing.
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ISLAM, SHAMSUL Kipling's 'law' a Study of His Philosophy of Life
London Macmillan 1975 First Edition Cloth Nr Fine Fine 8vo
"The complex of ideas which Kipling called the Law provides the key to much of his work and it can be used effectively as a critical tool of analysis in understanding the significance of the entire Kipling corpus, both prose and poetry." 174pp inc index. Ownership name (crossed out) on ffep.
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VARIOUS Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Sixth Series III
London Royal Historical Society 1993 Cloth Fine No Jacket
English Landed Society in the Twentieth Century IV Prestige without Power? (FML Thompson) 'Between the Sea Power and the Land Power': Scandinavia and the coming of the First World War. (Patrick Salmon) Confession before 1215 (Alexander Murray) 'Les Engleys Nees en Irlande': the English Political Identity in Medieval Ireland (Robin Frame) The Origins of the Gothic Revival: A Reappraisal (Giles Worsley) Providence, Protestant Union and Godly Reformation in the 1690's (Craig Rose) A Thirty Years War ? The Two world Wars in Historical Perspective (Michael Howard) Bristol West India Merchants in the the Eighteenth Century (Kenneth Morgan) The Atlantic in the Eighteenth Century..(Kenneth Maxwell) Economic Depression and the Making of 'Traditional' Society in Colonial India, 1820-1855 (David Washbrook) Against Formaility: One Aspect of the English Revolution (JC Davis) Bw plates,307pp.
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