Johnston, Robert: Historia rerum Britannicarum: Ut et multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum, & Germanicarum, tam Politicarum, quam Ecclesiasticarum, ab anno 1572, ad Annum 1628 [...] Adjectus est rerum ac Personarum, de quibus in hoc volumine, Index absolutissimus. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: sumptibus Joannis Ravesteynii [colophon:Goudae [Gouda], typis Guilielmi va 1655. First edition. Folio, fols. [ii] 737 [xi]. Text in Latin. Printer's vignette to title-page, woodcut initials and head- and end-pieces. Ink spot to bottom edge encoaching very slightly onto bottom margin. Very light toning to edges, 2P4 with paper flaw causing ragged fore-edge, a few other very minor paper flaws. 18th-century vellum, title inked to spine in an old hand and partially obscured by a recent brown and gilt title label, edges sprinkled dark blue, an old catalogue entry pasted to ffep. Vellum a little darkened with some marks and scuffs, fore-edges worn with boards partly exposed, still very good overall. First complete edition, of Johnston's history of England and Scotland; parts of which had already been published in English. The work covers the period 1572-1628, during all of which time King James VI and I was reigning in Scotland or also England. Johnston (1567?-1639) was a member of the first class to graduate from the University of Edinburgh (M.A., 1587), and spent his working life as a clerk in London. "'A work of great merit, whether we consider the judicious structure of the narrative, the sagacity of the reflections, the acute discernment of characters, or the classical structure of the style' - Lord Woodhouselee" (Lowndes). Lowndes 1223: Ref: 54524show full image..
Jones, Michael: Ducal Brittany 1364-1399. Relations with England and France during the reign on Duke John IV. Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint). 1997. Reprint. 8vo. pp. xxi, 250. Black cloth, fine. Dust-jacket, some surface shelf-wear, still very good. Ref: 54293
Justice, Steven: Adam Usk''s Secret. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. 211. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54295
Karkov, Catherine E.: Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 8vo., pp. 267. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53416
Keeble, N. H. The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later Seventeenth-Century England. Leicester University Press, 1987. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, Very light shelf-wear with mild creasing towards edges, very good. Ownership signature of William Lamont to ffep. Ref: 53749
Keeling, Susan M. & Lewis, C. P. (eds.): The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. Index to Volumes I-IV, VII, and IX: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1984. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt, a hint of dust to edges otherwise fine. Dust-jacket, a little grubby, creased with a little fraying along top edge and two 1cm tears with loss at top over spine, otherwise still intact. Bookplate of Robert Smith to ffep. Small ink-stamped "92127" to title-page verso. Ref: 54079
Kennedy, Gavin: Captain Bligh: The man and his mutinies. London: Duckworth, 1989. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 321 + plates. Map to endpapers. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Tiny indent to outer edge of paper, all edges a little dust-marked, but binding fine. Dust-jacket, 2.5cm tear with loss to top corner of upper cover, creasing to edges, otherwise still good. Ref: 53570
Kilburne, Richard: A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. With Some Chronological, Historicall, and Other Matters Touching the Same: and the Several Parishes and Places therein. London: Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson [...], 1659. First edition. Small 4to. (177 x 135mm), pp. [viii], 422, [xii] + portrait frontispiece. Numerous errors in pagination as usual, list of Contents incorrectly bound before the dedication rather than after. Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Occasional light smudges and spots of foxing, a little toning along head of title-page, a smudge of red pigment to tail edge of final leaf perhaps indicating the original edge colour. Late 19th- or early 20th-century brown polished sheep neatly rebacked with original spine retained, gilt title and blind tooling to spine, blind-tooled borders to boards, edges marbled, grey endpapers. A little rubbed but a very good copy overall. Recent armorial bookplate of Robert Edmund Lloyd-Roberts to front paste-down. Two MS pencil notes to the ffep verso, the first concerning the placement of the list of Contents, the second recording that this book was 'acquired at the sale at Godmersham Park, the home of Mrs Robert Tritton. 8th June 1983.' Built in 1732 by Thomas May (later Knight), Godmersham Park was inherited by Edward Austen (brother of Jane Austen) in 1794. He was a cousin of the Knight family, who had adopted him in the early 1780s; when his adoptive mother died in 1812 he changed his name to Knight. Jane was a regular visitor to Godmersham Park and is said to have used the house as a model for Mansfield Park. The house passed through several more hands before being bought in 1935 by Robert Tritton and his wife Elsie, whose death in 1983 prompted the Christie's auction mentioned above. In his 'Epistle Dedicatory', Kilburne writes of his intention to present 'the Kent of his own day', and to depict 'the county as it was before the Civil War'. Hasted, in his 1797 History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, dismisses Kilburne's work as being 'little more than a Directory'. However, 'Kent was not well served by early topographers, and Kilburne's small survey was extensively quoted on sixteen occasions by Robert Furley and, over the years in Archaeologia Cantiana, as a first source of reference, and not without some praise. The Topographie devoted disproportionate attention to Hawkhurst: 10 pages out of 422, or, in the words of one writer, 'as much space to it as to twenty other average parishes' (Archaeologia Cantiana, 5, 1863, 59). Kilburne justified this, however: "In respect I finde not any description of this Parish ? it having been the place of my habitation for above twenty eight years last past (God's Providence having also there lent me an inheritance), I thought fit to enlarge my selfe upon this place. (Kilburne, 126)"'. (ODNB) Wing K434 Ref: 50494show full image..
Kilpio, Matti, et al. (eds.): Anglo-Saxons and the North: Essays Reflecting the Theme of the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists in Helsinki, August 2001. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 8vo., pp. 191. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53413
Knowles, Dom David: The Religious Orders in England. Volume II: The End of the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 1961. Third impression. 8vo, pp. [xii], 407. Slightly toned, else very good. Blue cloth, spine gilt, covers a little spotted, but still very good. First published in 1955. Ref: 53529
