British History Books at Dial a Book Sydney

Maud: The Diares of Maud Berkeley
Berkeley, Maud
Book Number: 27593
ISBN: 0436256770
Publisher: Secker 1985
4to hardcover 192pp colour & b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Price: $25.00

Chantrey's Peak Scenery, or Views in Derbyshire.
Croston James.
Book Number: 22872
ISBN: 0903485206
Publisher: UK. Moorland Reprints 1974. Facsimile.
Large 4to. green cloth hardcover. 29 full page illus with descriptions.very good+, dusty top edge, minor foxing to endpapers. / very good d/w with faded top edge and spine.
Price: $25.00

Hardy Country
Beningfield, Gordon
Book Number: 32707
ISBN: 0713914513
Publisher: London Allen Lane 1983
Oblong 4to hardcover 14pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Paintings and drawings of Wessex accompany a discussion of the portrayal of the region of England in the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Price: $15.00

The National Trust guide to late Georgian and Victorian Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I
Walton, John K
Book Number: 38496
ISBN: 0540011851
Publisher: London National Trust 1989
4to hardcover 269pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

KNIGHTS. The Complete Story of the Age of Chivalry, from Historical Fact to Tales of Romance and Poetry
HOPKINS, ANDREA
Book Number: 43554
ISBN: 1855850400
Publisher: COLLINS & BROWN 1990
4to hardcover 192pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w with small tear bottom of spine.
Price: $18.00

The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Boswell, John
Book Number: 1468
ISBN:
Publisher: New York: Pantheon, [1988].
1st ed. Illustrated. Library stamp on 2 pages, otherwise very good copy. Appendix, cited works, index.
Price: $15.00

ASSASSINATION OF THE PRIME MINISTER: The Shocking Death of Spencer Perceval
GILLEN, Mollie.
Book Number: 3391
ISBN: 0283978813
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson 1972 London First Edition
red boards in price-clipped d/w with faded spine. Inscribed by author on ffl and signed and dated by author on title page. 09/72.
Price: $25.00

Georgian Delights
Plumb, J. H.
Book Number: 4197
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980. First edition
8vo. 160pp. Index. B/wq illus. Colour frontispeice. Very good / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Cecils of Hatfield House
Cecil, David
Book Number: 25604
ISBN: 0351155163
Publisher: Cardinal 11 September, 1975
4to softcover 320pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $14.00

News from the English Countryside 1851-1950
Morsley, Clifford
Book Number: 23082
ISBN:
Publisher: Harrap London 1983 1st edition
8vo. hardcover. 288pp. index, b/w illus. very good. / very good+ d/w.'
Price: $18.00

The Great Rebellion 1642-1660.
Roots, Ivan.
Book Number: 23138
ISBN:
Publisher: London; Batsford; 1972.
8vo. hardcover. 326pp. index, near fine. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

People's Peace, The: British History 1945-1989.
Morgan, Kenneth O.
Book Number: 23849
ISBN:
Publisher: Oxford University Press. 1990.
8vo. hardcover. 538pp. index, + b/w plates. very good. / good, creased d/w.'
Price: $25.00

Breakfast with Beaverbrook: Memoirs of an independent woman
Moyal, Ann Mozley
Book Number: 37428
ISBN: 0868065692
Publisher: Sydney, NSW Hale & Iremonger 1995
8vo hardcover 215pp. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

The Dreadful Judgement. The true story of the Great Fire of London
Hanson, Neil
Book Number: 41520
ISBN: 0385603274
Publisher: Doubleday 2001
8vo softcover 378pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good, page edges slightly browned. Inscribed & signed by author on title page.." To Pauline best wishes Neil Hanson"
Price: $12.00

Gunpowder Plot
Haynes, Alan
Book Number: 42641
ISBN: 0750942150
Publisher: Sutton Publishing 2005
8vo softcover 184pp. index. fine. Book Description: A clear, balanced study of the "plot", the result of James I's broken promises to the Catholic world, also known as the Catholic Conspiracy of 1605 which Britain's Guy Fawkes Day celebrates with bonfires.
Price: $8.00

Chartism
Haraszti-Taylor, Eva
Book Number: 42964
ISBN: 963051477X
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado July 2002
8vo softcover 276pp very good. The rise of the Working Class in Britain in the 1830's and 1840's.
Price: $25.00

The Peterloo Massacre
Marlow, Joyce
Book Number: 43844
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Rapp & Whiting 1969.,
8vo hardcover 238pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century
Tawney, R.H.
Book Number: 48112
ISBN:
Publisher: Harper Torchbooks 1967
8vo. softcover. 464pp. maps. Very good.
Price: $15.00

MAKING PROVISION A Centenary History of the Provision Trade.
Barty-King, Hugh
Book Number: 47920
ISBN: 0907621724
Publisher: Quiller, London, 1986.
8vo. hardcover. 171pp. indexb/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Men of Honour
Nicolson, Adam
Book Number: 50287
ISBN: 0007192657
Publisher: HARPER PERENNIAL 2006
8vo softcover 339pp index, colour illus. very good.
Price: $10.00

This Sceptred Isle. The Dynasties. Britain's Most Powerful Families
Lee, Christopher
Book Number: 53203
ISBN: 0563537485
Publisher: BBC, London 2002
8vo. hardcover. 278pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

England - The Making of the Myth from Stonghenge to Albert Square
Duffy, Maureen
Book Number: 53510
ISBN: 184115167X
Publisher: Harpercollins Pb February 4, 2002
8vo softcover 288pp very good. In the style of Longitude and Fermat's Last Theorem, acclaimed novelist Maureen Duffy has written a page-turning narrative history of the making of the myth of the English. In this fascinating study, acclaimed author Maureen Duffy surveys three thousand years of English and British history, illuminating the myths that have come to be such an important part of our national identity. Written with great erudition, perception and humour, England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square will change your view of England's past -- and England's future.
Price: $8.00

A Land Romance: The Border - Its History and Legend
Lang, Jean
Book Number: 53843
ISBN:
Publisher: T.C. & E.C. Jack, London, n.d. circa 1912
Large 8vo. hardcover.460pp. index, b/w illus. Good+, hinges cracked, inscription on fep dated 1912.
Price: $15.00

High Life, Low Morals : The Duel That Shook Stuart Society
Stater, Victor
Book Number: 53947
ISBN: 0712667067
Publisher: Pimlico, London, 2000
8vo. softcover. 332pp. index, b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $12.00

A History of Modern Britain
Marr, Andrew
Book Number: 54084
ISBN: 9781405005388
Publisher: Macmillan UK, 2008.
8vo. hardcover. 629pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, Light foxing to outer page edges. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $25.00

The Bradlaugh Case - Atheism, Sex and Politics among the Late Victorians
Arnstein, Walter L.
Book Number: 55186
ISBN: 0826204171
Publisher: Missouri Press 1983
8vo. Softcover. 377pp. Very good. PO stamps and marks along some paragraphs. Illustrated. Index.
Price: $16.00

Grand Delusion. Britain After Sixty Years of Elizabeth II
Haseler, Stephen
Book Number: 56109
ISBN: 9781780760735
Publisher: I.B.Tauris Co Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012.
8vo. hardcover. 301pp. index. Fine. / Fine d/w.
Price: $15.00

By the Sword Divided Eyewitnesses of the English Civil War
Adair, John
Book Number: 56367
ISBN: 0905778669
Publisher: Wrens Park Publishing, United Kingdom, 2001.
8vo. hardcover. 240pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

The Pinecone - The Story of Sarah Losh, forgotten Romantic, heroine - Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary
Uglow, Jenny
Book Number: 57425
ISBN: 9780571269501
Publisher: Faber and Faber 2012
8vo. Hardcover in d/w. 332pp. Fine/fine. In the village of Wreay, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way.
Price: $20.00

Life Into Story the Courtship of Elizabeth Wiseman: Women and Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1750
Chan, Mary
Book Number: 58647
ISBN: 184014212X
Publisher: Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998.
8vo. hardcover. 113pp. index. Very good, owner's inscription on fep. / Very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $15.00

The Divorce Case of Queen Caroline. An account of the reign of George IV and the king's relations with other women
Bowman, William. Dodgson.
Book Number: 4490
ISBN:
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London, 1930
or. Green cloth, no d/w. Illustrated with b&w plates. Index, bibliography. 301pp.
Price: $15.00

Albert & Victoria
Duff, David
Book Number: 5842
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1972
Large 8vo. hardcover. 320pp. index. + b/w plates. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Rat Week. An Essay on the Abdication.
Sitwell, Osbert.
Book Number: 23377
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Joseph, 1986.
8vo. hardcover. 80pp. near fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $15.00

Tyrant or Victim?
Renton, Alice
Book Number: 41867
ISBN: 0297811681
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1991
8vo hardcover 214pp index, b/w illus. very good, pages browned / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren
Tinniswood, Adrian.
Book Number: 54559
ISBN: 0712673644
Publisher: Pimlico 2002
8vo softcover 480pp very good.
Price: $14.00

The Lisle Letters - An Abridgement
Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, ed:
Book Number: 2011
ISBN:
Publisher: Secker and Warburg London 1983
Selected & arranged by Bridget Boland. Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Illustrated, index. Illustrated end pages.
Price: $15.00

The Saturday Book No. 17
Hadfield, John (Edited by)
Book Number: 27892
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Hutchinson: 1957
8vo. hardcover. 304pp. colour & b/w illus. very good, small neat owner's name on fep. / good d/w in good box.
Price: $25.00

DISSENT AND PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS IN ENGLAND 1661-1689 - A Study in the Perpetuation and Tempering of Parliamentarianism.
Lacey, Douglas R.
Book Number: 260
ISBN:
Publisher: New Jersey 1969.
New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1969. 8to. 520pp. Very good in a good priceclipped d/w.
Price: $15.00

Set in a Silver Sea & Freedom's Own Island
Bryant, Arthur
Book Number: 593
ISBN:
Publisher: Collins 1984
Volumes one and two of Byrant's history of Britian and the British People. Volume one - Set in the Silver Sea. The Island very good / very good d/w. 'Volume Two - Freedom's Own Island. The British Oceanic Expansion. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $50.00

NO. 10 DOWNING STREET: 1660-1900
Bolitho, Hector
Book Number: 3917
ISBN:
Publisher:
Hutchinson Pub. London 1957 1st ed. Cloth. 8to. 268pp. Index. B/w plates. Good+ / fair torn d/w.
Price: $10.00

THE GREVILLE DIARY, VOLUMES I & II.
Whitwell, Wilson Philip (editor)
Book Number: 30922
ISBN:
Publisher: New York, Doubleday 1927.
Large 8vo. green cloth hardcovers. pp.568,602. index, b/w illus. very good, spines faded. owner''s naem inside front cover, volume I. ' '
Price: $30.00

County Atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850: A Bibliography
Skelton, R. A.
Book Number: 38234
ISBN: 0712908730
Publisher: Folkestone, Eng. Dawson 1978
8vo hardcover 311pp index, b/w illus, 2 fold-outs. very good+ / very good d/w. Supersedes Thomas Chubb's The printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland: a bibliography, 1579-1870. Vols. also issued in parts in the Map Collectors series of the Map Collectors Circle. Includes indexes. v.1. 1579-1703.
Price: $80.00

Pepys: A Biography
Ollard, Richard
Book Number: 43661
ISBN: 1856190668
Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd 1991
Large 8vo hardcover 411pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. The definitive biography of Samuel Pepys. nnSamuel Pepys is unique: the scope and candor of his Diary makes it one of the greatest books ever written and one of the most important historical documents in English. A man of intense curiosity about life and his surroundings, Pepys lived through some of England's most turbulent times including the Plague, the Fire of London and the Glorious Revolution. This biography provides the key to the contrasts and contradictions of Pepys' character and skillfully draws together the many threads running through his life to reveal the man behind the famous Diary.
Price: $30.00

The Cromwellian Gazetteer, An Illustrated Guide to Britain in the Civil War and Commonwealth
Gaunt, Peter
Book Number: 50400
ISBN: 0905778480
Publisher: Wrens Park Barton, UK. 2000
Large 8vo. hardcover. 241pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $28.00

King Lords & Gentlemen. The influence & power of the English Upper classes.
Abshagen, K H
Book Number: 5932
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Heinemann 1939. 1st
8vo. hardcover. 259pp. good, foxing to endpapers and outer page edges., light tape marks inside covers.
Price: $15.00

The Life of Francis Drake
Mason, A. E. W.
Book Number: 52187
ISBN:
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton 1941
8vo. hardcover ind d/w. 436pp. Index. 3 b&w Illustrations. Contents includes Early Days, Early Voyages and Disappointments, Odds and Ends, Expedition to Nombre de Dios, The First Attack ont he Mule Train, Drake in the Irish Seas, Beginning of the Voyage of Circumnavigation. The Trial of Doughty, The First Charter for the Mariner, The Straights of Magellan, Adventures along the Coast of Peru, Across the Pacific, Difficulties on his Return, The Case of the Bark Primrose, The Attack upon Cartagena, Drake's Mission to the Netherlands, The Cadiz Expedition, Attempst to anticipate the Armada, Progress of the Armada, The Issue, Slavery and Freedom, Reforms in the Fleet, Drake on Land.
Price: $18.00

Men of Dunwich: The Story of a Vanished Town
Parker, Rowland
Book Number: 55886
ISBN:
Publisher: Devon, Readers Union of Book Clubs 1979
8vo. hardcover. 270pp. index. very good+. / very good+ d/w.
Price: $10.00

Camelot and the vision of Albion
Geoffrey Ashe
Book Number: 3572
ISBN:
Publisher: BCA 1975
8vo. hardcover. very good copy in d/w
Price: $10.00

The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century - Its progress and expansion at home and abroad, comprising a description and history of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Sanderson, Edgar
Book Number: 21537
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Blackie and Sons, 1898
Six volumes. 4tos, brown decorated cloth, hardcovers. all good condition, some foxing, some spines slanted, some wear to corners. Heavy set extra post may apply.
Price: $75.00

Medieval England : An Aerial Survey
Beresford, M. W.
Book Number: 31278
ISBN: 0521219612
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1979
4to hardcover 286pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $30.00

The Book of Skipton
Rowley, R. Geoffrey
Book Number: 62084
ISBN: 0860231771
Publisher: Barracuda Books, Buckingham, 1983.
Small 4to. hardcover. 136pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w. Signed by author.
Price: $25.00

Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy and Its Predecessors
Shepperd, Alan
Book Number: 5013
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Country Life Books, 1980
Small 4to. 223pp. B/w illus. Very good / very good, clipped d/w.
Price: $30.00

London Under
Ackroyd, Peter
Book Number: 61950
ISBN: 9780701169916
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, UK 2011.
8vo. softcover. 202pp. index. Fine. / Fine d/w.
Price: $14.00

This Sceptred Isle: 55 BC - 1901
Lee, Christopher
Book Number: 61876
ISBN: 0563383844
Publisher: BBC Books 1997
8vo. hardcover. 616pp. index. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $22.00

Blair Unbound
Seldon, Anthony
Book Number: 61861
ISBN: 9781847370785
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, London, 2007.
8vo. hardcover. 669pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
Fraser, Antonia
Book Number: 61744
ISBN: 029781348X
Publisher: London Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1996
8vo hardcover 347pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Britain's most popular historian uncovers the truth about Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. This text delves into archives from all over Europe to uncover the truth behind the Catholic plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and James I. The book shows how the plot's discovery deepened national hatred of Catholics and increased the severity of the penal laws against them.
Price: $18.00

Blenheim: Landscape for a Palace
Bond, James and Kate Tiller (editors)
Book Number: 61527
ISBN: 1840151544
Publisher: Budding Books, 2000.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 170pp. index, b/w illus. Fine. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $15.00

Drinking Games - 50 of the finest lagoon games of London
Jenny Lynch, Hoare, Nick
Book Number: 2937
ISBN: 1899712178
Publisher: UK: Lagoon Trading Company, Ltd
Illustrated boards, Illustrated with moch beer lables.
Price: $8.00

LOWER WHARFEDALE
BOGG Edmund,
Book Number: 3022
ISBN:
Publisher: John Sampson, York, 1904
Original printed publisher's boards with rebacked cloth spine with printed title label. Many illustrations throughout and adverts to front and rear. A good copy, spine rebound. pp. xx, 411. A Companion volume to The Old Kingdom of Elmet and Higher Wharfeland.
Price: $25.00

King Henry VIII's Mary Rose
McKee, Alexander
Book Number: 3585
ISBN:
Publisher: New York: Stein and Day Publishers 1974, 1st
cloth spine on papered boards, good copy in poor worn d/w - clipped.
Price: $15.00

The Constitutional History Of Modern Britain 1485-1951.
Keir, Sir David Lindsay.
Book Number: 20513
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Adam and Charles Black, 1953 Fifth Edition revised and extended.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 579pp. index. very good / fair d/w missing piece bottom corner.'
Price: $15.00

BEAU BRUMMELL.
Cole, Hubert
Book Number: 42601
ISBN:
Publisher: Reader's Union Great Britain 1978
8vo. hardcover. 240pp b/w illustrations. Very good, outer page edges browned. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

The English Gentlewoman
Fraser, Flora
Book Number: 43244
ISBN: 071261768X
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins 1987
4to hardcover 224pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00