Davis, J. C.: Fear, Myth and History: The Ranters and the Historians. Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 208. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket, shelf-worn with fraying to corners and creasing to edges. Ownership inscription of W(illiam) Lamont, with a few of his annotations to text and more pen-scoring to outer margins against passages of particular interest. Ref: 53730
Davis, John Paul: King John, Henry III and England's Lost Civil War. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 258 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54457
Davison, Charles: A History Of British Earthquakes. Cambridge at the University Press, 1924 First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 416. With 100 illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, a little shelf worn and dusty to edges but but contents clean. Dust-jacket, still in one piece but torn with loss in several places and heavily creased. Ref: 53957
De Gretham, Robert: (Blumreich, Kathleen Marie, ed.:) The Middle English "Mirror": An Edition Based on Bodleian Library, MS Holkham misc. 40. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2002. 8vo., pp. xlv, 558. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. A little shelf-wear to corners and edges but clean and unread: very good. With an Introduction and Glossary by the editor. Ref: 53390
De la Bedoyere, Guy: The Golden Age of Roman Britain. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 1999. First edition. 8vo., pp. 194 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: Black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket with light creasing only to top edge, otherwise very good. Ref: 54223
Dearn, T. D. W.: An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent. Cranbrook: S. Reader, 1814. First edition. 4to. pp. [4], (vii), [1], (lvi), 277, [1], (vi). With 9 steel-engraved plates. Edges untrimmed and somewhat dust-soiled, offsetting from plates, slight foxing to first few leaves, occasionally elsewhere. Modern half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label. Couple of small stains to rear cover. Bookplate of Ernest Bryan Gipps to front pastedown. Superbly-illustrated work on the history and topography of Kent. Each chapter is devoted to a locality, including Ashurst, Cranbrook, Leigh, High Halden, Tunbridge and the Ilse of Oxney. The section of Penshurst, immortalised by Ben Jonson, includes an account focusing on the 16th century, with mentions of Sir Philip Sidney. In addition to an engraved map of the Weald of Kent, 8 further steel-engraved plates - designed by the author and cut by M. Dubourg - illustrate city and country views of Cranbrook, Hemsted Benenden (its mansion and church), Bonnington Church and the remains of Trinity Chapel, Angley House, Elfords (Hawkhurst), Moor House and Fowlers (Hawkhurst). Ref: 53179show full image..
Dicuil; (Letronne, A[ntoine-Jean], ed.:) Recherches G?ographiques et Critiques sur le Livre de Mensura Orbis Terr Compos? en Irelande, au Commencement du Neuvi?me Si?cle, par Dicuil; Suivies du Texte Restitu? par A. Letronne. Paris: Chez Germain Mathiot, 1814. 8vo., pp. [ii], 249, [i], 94. Text in French and Latin. Toned, light stain radiating from top fore-edge corner through most of text-block but not obscuring text. Later olive green paper, brown cloth gilt label to spine, endpapers replaced, edges sprinkled. Spine a little darkened, end-caps slightly creased, top edge dusted. Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae was originally published by Walckenaer in 1807. This edition is based on two mss. in the Biblioth?que Nationale, Paris, with additional readings obtained from the collation of the Venice and Florence mss. Ref: 47047
Ditchfield, P. H. & Page, William (eds.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Berkshire. Volume One. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Resea 1972. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Corners lightly bumped, a little shelf-wear, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to ffep. Reprinted from the 1906 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54080
Ditchfield, P. H. & Page, William (eds.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Berkshire. Volume Two. Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Resea 1972. Reprint. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. No dust-jacket. Corners bumped, a little shelf-wear, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Robert Smith to ffep. Reprinted from the 1907 first edition published by Archibald Constable and Company. Ref: 54081
Doane, A. N. & Stoneman, William P.: Purloined Letters: The Twelfth-Century Reception of the Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Hexateuch (British Library, Cotton Claudius B. IV). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 396. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53406
