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Booksale
 
We now offer a selection of new and second-hand books for sale.  In addition, we also have available a few VHS videos on historical and other subjects.  Full details of ordering and payments procedures are given in the appropriate column. Please contact the individual sellers below to place your orders. 
 
if you are looking for specific titles that are not listed here, please mailto:judith@history.u-net.com as we have other items that are not yet listed here. 

BOOK SALES FROM THE DAVENANT PRESS

The following items are on offer from The Davenant Press. Books may be paid for:

(a) By cheque made payable to The Davenant Press.  Please post orders to The Davenant Press, PO Box 323, Burford, OX18 4XN.

(b) By credit card (Visa or Mastercard).  This seller does not have a secure site for payments by credit card, but if you mailto:judith@history.u-net.com, with details of your order, a form for credit card details can be sent.  Alternatively, you can Fax your card details to (01993) 824129. N.B. This is a dedicated Fax line. Books will be reserved for 5 days from the date of order.

However many books you order, postage will be fixed at £2 in the UK and Europe or £4 elsewhere. Overseas packages will go Air Mail.

HARDBACKS

Suicide in the Middle Ages: Vol. I by A Murray - Excellent condition. Unmarked £18

Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries  by Walker - Excellent condition £18

Carolingian Renewal by Bullough - Excellent condition, carefully used. £20

Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany by Wolfart - Excellent condition £18

Roman Triumphs and Early Modern English Culture by Anthony Miller - Excellent condition – carefully used £20

The Seventeenth Century by Bergin - Spare copy so scarcely used £18

Religious Life for Women 1100-1350 by Kerr - Spare copy scarcely used excellent condition £20

Kingship and Propaganda: Royal eloquence and the crown of Aragon 1200-1450 by Cawsey - Very good condition £20

Conquerors and the Conquered in Medieval Wales by Davies - Very Good condition - carefully used £20

Introduction to the New Testament by Selby - MUCH used BUT Very good condition £20

The Christian World of the Middle Ages by Bernard Hamilton - Slight damage to the cover but otherwise carefully used and in good condition £15

PAPERBACKS ALL AT £10 EACH

Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France by Bohanan - Very good condition – carefully used

The State and Social Change in Early Modern England 1550-1640 by Hindle Very good condition – carefully used

Early Modern Italy 1550-1800 by Hanlon - Very good condition carefully used

Theories of the State by Vincent - Heavily used but good condition

Medieval Theatre in Context by John Wesley Harris - Good condition –a second copy

Joachim of Fiore by Reeves - Second copy – scarcely used

BOOK AND VIDEO SALES FROM DEVON ANCESTRY
 
The following items are on offer from Devon Ancestry. This seller accepts payment in the following ways:
 
(a) By cheque made payable to "Devon Ancestry" and posted to Devon Ancestry (Booksales), 15 Waverley Avenue, Thornton Hill, Exeter, Devon EX4 4NL
 
(b) By credit card using PayPal - http://www.paypal.com - using payments@devonancestry.com as the payee address.  Please make clear which title(s) you require.
 
The Devon Ancestry website contains a direct link to Pay Pal and is at: http://www.devonancestry.com
 
You can mailto:info@devonancestry.com with any enquiries.

The prices shown are inclusive of UK postage. For Europe, please add £2 for the first volume and £1 for each subsequent volume ordered at the same time.  For International Air Mail, please add £4 for the first volume and £2 for each subsequent volume ordered. 

Books will be reserved for five days from the date of order.

Notes:

H/b = hardback; P/b = paperback

Books marked as "New – unused" may have minor scuffing due to shelf storage, but are as would be found on many bookshop shelves.

VHS Videos will generally NOT work in the USA or overseas unless you have compatible equipment. This is a UK format only, although it will work in some EU countries. Please check compatibility carefully before ordering.

 

R van Allstyne, The United States and East Asia (Thames and Hudson, 1973, h/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. Nice clean dust-jacket. £13

Beryl Hedges, Around Windsor in Old Photographs (Alan Sutton, 1992, p/b). Unused – new. £9

F Kaplan and J Sobin, Encyclopaedia of China Today (3rd edition, Macmillan, 1982, h/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. Nice clean dust-jacket. Over 400 pages with still very useful sections on political history, international relations, economic development, etc. since 1949. £15

P Allan et al, Focus on Britain 1994 – Review of 1993 (Perennial Publications, 1994, h/b). Excellent snapshots of politics, economics, and society as we were almost 15 years ago! ). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page. £13

David Williamson, Debrett’s Presidents of the United States of America (Webb and Bower 1989). Sections on all presidents and their family history. ). Used – very good, but some sunning on dust-jacket and spine. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page. £15

Oxford Encyclopaedia of World History (OUP, 1998, h/b). Unused – new. Over 4000 entries on 775 pages in this heavy blockbuster research tool! £20

Colin Baxter, France (Colin Baxter Photography, 2000 reprint, h/b). Unused – very good/almost new. 112 pages of superlative photographs capturing the spirit of France on pages on pages measuring 310 x 220 mm. £13

Paul Langford, Walpole and The Robinocracy (Chadwyk Healey, Cambridge, 1986, h/b). Part of the acclaimed series on The Satirical Print 1600-1832. Unused – New (still in publisher’s original cardboard wrapper). Fantastic reproductions and analysis. Currently out of stock at Amazon, which quotes a price of £56.99 for a microfiche copy! £47

Tim Smit, Heligan. The Complete Works – Secrets Locked in Silence (Channel 4 Books, 1999, h/b) Unused – new. Story of a lovely Cornish garden. £12

Elizabeth Hallam (ed.), Chronicles of the Crusades (Guild Publishing 1989, h/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. Nice clean dust-jacket. 400 large pages with lovely illustrations and good maps, covering the period from 1096 to 1453. £15

R Mettam (ed), Government and Society in Louis XIV’s France (Macmillan, 1984 reprint, p/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. An important collection of documents and analysis. £10

N J Crowson (ed), Fleet Street, Press Barons and Politics – The Journals of Colin Brooks, 1932-1940 (Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series vol. 11, 1998, h/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. £15

M C Questier (ed.), Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead (Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series vol. 12, 1998, h/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. Jacobean newsletters written by one of the most important Catholic clerical factions of the period. £15

S J O’Connor (ed), A Calendar of the Cartularies of John Pyel and Adam Frauncys (Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series vol. 2, 1993, h/b). Used – good. This has seen very little use, but there are some knocks on the hardcover when originally posted by RHS. £12

Camden Miscellany XXXIII: Seventeenth Century Political and Financial Papers (Royal Historical Society, Camden Fifth Series, vol. 7, 1996, h/b). Almost new, as originally received from RHS. £15

Camden Miscellany XXXII (Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series vol. 3, 1994, h/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. Includes Private Indentures for Life Service in Peace and War 1278-1476; William Atkins, A Relation of the Journey from St. Omer to Seville, 1622; Horace Walpole and British Relations with Spain, 1738; and The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny 1868-73. £15

A Hawkins and J Powell (eds), The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley for 1862 to 1902 (Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series vol. 9, 1997, h/b). Used – very good. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside page, but has seen very little use. £15

Austin Gee et al, Royal Historical Society Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History – eight hardback volumes all in Used – very good condition. Previous owner’s signature and small label on inside pages, but very little used. 8 volumes covering the publications of 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Excellent reference set. £120

Britain at War in Colour – Double VHS Video narrated by John Thaw, containing exclusive coverage not seen on TV. Unused – new (the two videos inside the slipcase are still shrink-wrapped). £12

Marks and Spencer Double Video – Battlefield: A definitive History of the Most decisive Battles of World War II – The Battle of Berlin and the Battle of Midway. Unused – new (this gift box is still shrink-wrapped). £12

Finest Hour – The Complete BBC TV Series (DD Video – double video pack). Unused - very good (not shrink-wrapped, but unwatched). £12

British Pathé News – A Year to Remember – single video, covering events of 1932. Used -very good (watched once only). £7

British Pathé News – A Year to Remember – single video, covering events of 1947. Used -very good (watched once only). £7

British Pathé News – A Year to Remember – single video, covering events of 1956. Unused – new (still shrink-wrapped). £10

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