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Horsham Rare Books: History
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Dawley: The New Town Area Before Development
London: Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1963. Plastic comb binding. A bound collection of 39 superb quality black and white photographs of the Dawley area in 1963 before the redevelopment. The photographs are printed on both sides of stiff card pages with a very brief caption of the location. The image size is 25mmx 27mm and all are free from any Inscriptions or marks. The images include: Dawley High Street, New Street, Lightmoor, Railway architecture, Madeley Court and Colliery winding gear, Lincoln Hill, Lawley Bank Railway Station, Coalport, Ironbridge, Hem Mill, Coalbrookdale, Buildwas Power Station. ; Black & white photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Very Good .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 18098
GBP 65,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 74.25 US$ 85.46 | JP¥ 13179]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: Telford
Wild Animals in Freedom and Captivity
London: Ward Lock and Tyler, N.D.. Hardcover. Illustrated by Harrison Weir, T W Wood,. Beeton's Boys' Own Library. Not dated but circa 1875. Near fine and bright publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration. Pages all edge gilt. Charcoal endpapers, no inscriptions or marks. Illustrated with a colour litho frontis and one hundred and twenty illustrations by Weir, Wood and others principally from drawings made in Regents Park Zoological Gardens. ; Black & white engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi 440 pages. Near Fine .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 18033
GBP 85,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 97 US$ 111.76 | JP¥ 17234]
Catalogue: Natural History
A Parliamentary History of the Ancient Borough of Horsham, 1295-1885, with Some Account of Every Contested Election, and So Far As Can Be Ascertained, a List of Members Returned
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1927. Hardcover. Private subscribers edition, this being No 178. Of 305 copies printed. 8vo xvi and 537 pages illustrated with black & white frontis of the houses of Parlliament, a plan of the Borough, and numerous black & white portraits. Very good and sound burgandy cloth with gilt titles and Horsham lion rampant to front board. Introduction by Hilaire Belloc. Mr. Albery's remarkably able and complete account of Horsham elections and members through' six centuries is of great interest. In particular he describes very clearly the peculiar franchise by burgage tenure but dependent also on admission to the lord's court-which was customary in Horsham, and he explains the method by which Horsham in the early eighteenth century was transformed into a pocket borough of the Irwin family. ; 357 pages. Very Good .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 15706
GBP 38,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 43.5 US$ 49.96 | JP¥ 7705]
Catalogue: History
Victorian Britain - the North East
Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0715387472. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Fine red cloth hardcover with fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 256 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 3693
GBP 7,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 9.2 | JP¥ 1419]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: 0715387472
Land, Agriculture and Industry in Nort-West Essex - Spotlights on a Land Remembered
Essex: Safron Waldon Historical Society, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 187366902X. Fine laminated card covers, no inscriptions or marks. ; Black & white photographs and drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 85 pages. Fine .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 17730
GBP 12,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 13.75 US$ 15.78 | JP¥ 2433]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: 187366902x Thaxted Floor Malting
God Wills It! an Illustrated History of the Crusades
United Kingdom, Sutton Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 0750918802. Fine black boards (hard back) with gold lettering to spine, 10.00 x 7.00 inches approx, fine coloured pictorial dust jacket, not price clipped, no inscriptions, 274 pages, illustrated with maps, and colour and black & white photographs..
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10428
GBP 8,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 9.25 US$ 10.52 | JP¥ 1622]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: 0750918802 Cruscades Holy Islam Byzantium Christendom Pope Urban II Religion Wars
Allies at War
London: Harper Collins, 2001. Hardover with dustjacket. ISBN: 0007116225. First edition 8vo 345 pages illustrated with colour and black & white photographs. From the BBC2 television series. Examines the rather strained relationships between the Wartime Allied leaders. Fine black cloth hard back with fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions..
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 6442
GBP 5,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 6.57 | JP¥ 1014]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: 0007116225 Churchill Roosevelt de Gaulle
The British Empire in Colour
Carlton Books 2002. . First edition quarto160 pages profusely illustrated in colour. Fine pictorial laminated boards with matching fine unclipped dustjacket. No inscriptions or marks..
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 5956
GBP 5,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 6.57 | JP¥ 1014]
Catalogue: History
The Register of Letters, & C. Of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading Into the East Indies 1600 - 1619.
Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. 1965 reprint of the 1893 edition. Ex public library. Book plate to front pastedown and library stamp to the reverse of the title page. No other internal library markings. Very good and sound dark green cloth library binding, blind stamp to front board. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; lxxxiv + 530 pages. Very Good .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 17710
GBP 20,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 23 US$ 26.3 | JP¥ 4055]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: India
Oliver Cromwell
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1958. First Edition; First Printing. . Very good black cloth boards with very good dust jacket. Slight wear to extremities. Not price clipped. Contains numerous black and white illustrations. ; Lives to Remember; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 2819
GBP 7,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 9.2 | JP¥ 1419]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: Roundheads English CIVIL War.
The Illustrated History of Canada
Canada: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0886191475. Fine blue cloth hardcover, gold lettering to spine. Fine coloured pictorial dust jacket, not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustrated endpapers. A very heavy volume. ; Colour and black & white; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 574 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10154
GBP 14,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 16 US$ 18.41 | JP¥ 2839]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: 0886191475 Travel North America
The Maharajah's Box - an Imperial Story of Conspiracy, Love and a Guru's Prophecy.
London: Harper Collins, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. ISBN: 0002570084. Near fine brown cloth hardcover with a fine unclipped dustjacket. No inscriptions or marks. The colourful narrative history of Duleep Singh, the last Emperor of the Sikhs and protégé of Queen Victoria, and his bizarre attempts to regain his kingdom of the Punjab from the British Empire in the late 19th century. ; Black & white photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvii, 473 pages. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 8450
GBP 9,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 10.5 US$ 11.83 | JP¥ 1825]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: 0002570084 Holocaust Czarist Russia India Second Sikh War
The French Revolution, Volume II the Guillotine
London, Chapman And Hall Limited, 1885. . Volume II only: from Thomas Carlyle's Works 'The Ashburton Editon in Seventeen Volumes, Volume II, The Guillotine. Books 1-VII, Original blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, general wear but neat and tight, contents very good, some foxing, fully readable, 286 pages, 9.00 x 6.00 inches approx..
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 13253
GBP 8,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 9.25 US$ 10.52 | JP¥ 1622]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: Scottish Authors
Arundel: A Picture of the Past
Chichester: Phillimore, 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0850332613. Very good brown cloth hardcover, no inscriptions. The dust jacket is faded to spine otherwise very good. Illustrated with 138 black and white photographs. ; Black& white photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 80 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 18273
GBP 10,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 11.5 US$ 13.15 | JP¥ 2028]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: 0850332613
The Tragedy of Charles II in the Years 1630-1660
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Hardcover in dust jacket. Minor warping to boards that makes flat closure difficult. Dust jacket is very good with only minor signs of handling. Illustrated. No inscriptions ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Horsham Rare Books Professional sellerBook no.: 1736
GBP 7,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 9.2 | JP¥ 1419]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: British