30 HERITAGE BUILDINGS OF YANGON: INSIDE THE CITY THAT CAPTURED TIME
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831020
Published by Association Of Myanmar Architects. 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book focuses on a selection of 30 key buildings and examines their past, present, and future. Piecing together the often forgotten social history of each building has involved delving into out-of-print books, company records, old city directories, newspaper archives, and people's memories. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. 166 pages including index. ISBN: 9789997185211. Reprint. A very nice copy.

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THE FALMOUTH PACKETS 1689-1851
Written by Tony Pawlyn.
Stock no. 1831019
Published by Truran. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

First full length study of this unique maritime service to be published for over 100years. For 160 years Falmouth was the centre of international communications between Britain and her allies and colonies on the Atlantic run. At its peak over forty vessels were employed as mail-packets, working out of Falmouth ferrying official dispatches, mail, passengers and bullion. Built for speed and lightly armed these small vessels had not only to contend with the elements but hostile navies and privateers. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos/illustrations. 144 pages including index. ISBN: 1850221758. A very nice copy.

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THE COVENTRYS OF CROOME
Written by Catherine Gordon.
Stock no. 1831017
Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Gordon charts their rise to Baron Coventry then, by 1697, Earl of Coventry. The author describes the transformation of Croome by the 6th Earl, who employed 'Capability' Brown and Robert Adam to create a country seat of elegance and beauty, now being restored by the National Trust. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and a few colour illustrations/photos. xiii and 226 pages including index. ISBN: 1860771394. A few minor marks to boards. Base of spine lightly bumped. Some foxing to half-title page. Grey pictorial dustwrapper is foxed to verso (not visible to front) and lightly scuffed. Index pages stuck together (damp).

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EMPIRES COLLIDE: THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1754-63
Written by Ruth Sheppard.
Stock no. 1831016
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The warfare of the French-Indian War was diverse, ranging from savage warfare in the forests and plains of the North American frontier to city sieges and open battles. The British Army struggled with the terrain and the tactics of the opposing American Indians. Edited by Ruth Sheppard. Colour and b/w photos. B/w maps. 272 pages including index. ISBN: 1846030897. Horizontal board edges are a little worn with a few tiny 'nibbles' to cloth exposing board beneath. Lower corner of boards lightly bumped else boards are clean. Top edge of text block very slightly grubby. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and slightly grubby to rear panel.

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DEAD CERTAINTIES (UNWARRANTED SPECULATIONS)
Written by Simon Schama.
Stock no. 1330903
Published by Granta Books. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A history of stories. Black boards, silver title to spine. 333 pages. Some b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0140142304. Wrapper is price-cut.

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THE WAR SPEECHES OF WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER
Written by R. Coupland; Winston S. Churchill.
Stock no. 1330902
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 3rd 1940. Very good condition.

Third edition with foreword by Churchill. Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. 360 pages, lower edges untrimmed. Spine bumped and faded. Name and address in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and endpapers.

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CAMBRIDGE BETWEEN TWO WARS
Written by T.E.B. Howarth.
Stock no. 1330901
Published by Collins. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The achievements of Cambridge University between the wars. Light blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 258 pages including index. A few b/w photos. ISBN: 0002111810. Spine slightly bumped with some slight fading at spine ends. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed.

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ENGLISH HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS VOLUME X 1714-1783
Written by D.B. Horn; Mary Ransome.
Stock no. 1330897
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Limited. 1957. Good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. 972 pages. Spine is faded and bumped. Front cover is lightly stained/marked, some light scuff marks to rear cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Browning to endpapers and foxing to textblock.

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TALES OF OLD TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Written by Frank Chapman.
Stock no. 1831009
Published by Froglets Publications. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A look at the town as a place rich in singular people who crossed its stage and left their mark. Scarred by tragedy and earning a reputation as a place resistant to change. Manh f the people featured in this book would have been proud to sign themselves Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells, although they never did. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 160 pages. ISBN: 1872337252. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed and lightly faded to spine.

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MERMAID TO MERRYMAID: JOURNEY TO THE STONES
Written by Ian Cooke.
Stock no. 1831008
Published by Men-An-Tol. 2000. Very good condition.

Second Edition. Nine walks to ancient sites in the Land's End peninsula, Cornwall. Ancient sites & pagan mysteries of Celtic Cornwall. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos and a few colour. B/w illustrations. 256 pages including index. ISBN: 0951237179. Reprint. Covers lightly scuffed. Text block lightly grubby. Footpath corrections have been tipped in to half-title page. Title page is a little grubby. Else contents clean.

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LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY
Written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton; Lord Acton.
Stock no. 1330887
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. 362 pages including index. Spine bumped. Cover edges slightly dusty. Browning to endpapers. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is grubby and browned (especially to spine) with some slight chipping to top and tail of spine.

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THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS
Written by C.A. Patrides.
Stock no. 1330885
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st thus 1980. Very good condition.

The selected discourses of four seventeenth-century philosophers. Paperback edition. 343 pages including index. ISBN: 052129942X. Light vertical creases to spine where book has been held open. Light foxing and slight grubbiness to textblock. Name and date in ink inside front cover else contents clean.

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