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Graham York Rare Books Graham York Rare Books Catalogue 99 Civil War, Rebellion and the Seventeenth Century graham york rare books 225 High Street, Honiton, Devon, EX14 1LB, England. Tel:- 07831 138 011 e-mail:- [email protected] CATALOGUE 99 - Civil War, Rebellion and the Seventeenth Century. Available now by mail order, or at the shop at the above address, where you will find ten thousand books of quality on two floors, and a warm welcome from Tuesday to Saturday 9.30-5.00. DESCRIPTIONS. All books are first editions, 8vo, published in London, complete, and in their original bindings unless otherwise noted. ORDERING. To order from this catalogue simply write, telephone or e-mail. New customers are requested to pay on invoice before the books are dispatched. PAYMENT. I accept all major credit and debit cards, paypal, and cheques in sterling drawn on UK banks. All items remain the property of Graham York until paid for in full. CUSTOMER GUARANTEE. I offer an unbeatable customer guarantee. All attempts have been made to describe items accurately, however any book may be returned for any reason within 7 days of receipt for a full refund. All items are guaranteed complete unless otherwise mentioned. I am a member of the PBFA, ABA and ILAB, and adhere to their guarantees and codes of conduct. www.gyork.co.uk Illustrated on the cover 1. T. Cook (Engraver). ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF OLIVER CROMWELL. No date, circa 1700, copper engraving, approximately 5 inches by 7 inches, very good condition. £10.00 2. John Adair. BY THE SWORD DIVIDED. EYEWITNESSES OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. 1983, London, Century Publishing, pp240, colour and black and white illustrations, cream cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £8.00 3. David Aers, Bob Hodge and Gunther Kress. LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND 1580-1680. 1981, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, ppxi + 217, black cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 4. G. E. Aylmer and J. S. Morrill. THE CIVIL WAR AND INTERREGNUM. SOURCES FOR HISTORIANS. 1979, London, Bedford Square Press, pp58, pictorial wrappers. Good. £2.00 5. Robert Ashton. REFORMATION AND REVOLUTION 1558-1660. 1985, London, Paladin Books, ppxx + 503 + (iv), pictorial wrappers. Good. £3.00 6. Robert Ashton. THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. CONSERVATISM AND REVOLUTION 1603-1649. 1989, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, second edition, ppix + 462, red cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 7. Robert Beddard. A KINGDOM WITHOUT A KING. THE JOURNAL OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT IN THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. 1988, Oxford, Phaidon, pp209, black and white illustrations, tan cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 8. Guy de la Bedoyere (Edited by). PARTICULAR FRIENDS. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS AND JOHN EVELYN. 2005, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, new edition, pp351, pictorial wrappers. Very good. £5.00 9. George Berry. TAVERNS AND TOKENS OF PEPYS' LONDON. 1976, London, Seaby Publications Limited, small 4to, pp144, black and white illustrations, pictorial boards. Good. £10.00 10. John Bossy. UNDER THE MOLEHILL. AN ELIZABETHAN SPY STORY. 2001, New Haven, Yale University Press, ppxiii + 189, black and white illustrations, pictorial wrappers. Very good. £4.00 11. John Bowle. JOHN EVELYN AND HIS WORLD. A BIOGRAPHY. 1981, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, ppxvii + 277, black and white illustrations, green cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 12. H. N. Brailsford. THE LEVELLERS AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. EDITED AND PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY CHRISTOPHER HILL. 1983, Nottingham, Spokesman, ppxvi + 715 + (iv), printed wrappers. Very good. £6.00 13. Marvin Arthur Breslow. A MIRROR OF ENGLAND. ENGLISH PURITAN VIEWS OF FOREIGN NATIONS, 1618-1640. 1970, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, ppxii + 177 + (i), claret cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £6.00 14. John Bunyan. JOHN BUNYAN AND HIS ENGLAND, 1628-88. EDITED BY ANNE LAURENCE, W.R. OWENS AND STUART SIM. 1990, London, The Hambledon Press, ppxxiii + 181, black and white frontispiece, blue cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £15.00 15. John Carswell. THE PORCUPINE. THE LIFE OF ALGERNON SIDNEY. 1989, London, John Murray, ppxiii + 274, black and white illustrations, claret cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 16. J. C. D. Clark. REVOLUTION AND REBELLION. STATE AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. 1987, Cambridge, University Press, reprint, ppx + 182 + (i), pictorial wrappers. Very good. £5.00 17. J. T. Cliffe. PURITANS IN CONFLICT. THE PURITAN GENTRY DURING AND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. 1988, London, Routledge, ppxi + 255, grey cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 18. Conal Condren. GEORGE LAWSON'S POLITICA AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1989, Cambridge, University Press, ppxviii + 211, brown cloth in dustwrapper. Good. £8.00 19. Oliver Cromwell. OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS & SPEECHES WITH ELUCIDATIONS BY THOMAS CARLYLE. No date, circa 1900, London, J. M. Dent & Co., three volumes, Everyman Editions, ppxxxiv + 376; xvi + 386; xiv + 448, grey cloth, gilt decoration on spines. Spines faded, otherwise good. £15.00 20. F. D. Dow. RADICALISM IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION 1640-1660. 1985, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, pp90, pictorial wrappers. Very good. £1.00 21. Christopher Durston. THE FAMILY IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1989, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, ppvii + 192, black cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £8.00 22. Laurence Echard. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. FROM THE FIRST ENTRANCE OF JULIUS CAESAR AND THE ROMANS, TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE REIGN OF KING JAMES THE SECOND, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY UPON THE THRONE, IN THE YEAR 1688. WITH A COMPLETE INDEX. THE THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. 1720, London, printed for Jacob Tonson, folio, third edition with additions, pp(xvi) + 1150 + (34) index, black and white engraved portrait frontispiece of Echard by G. Kneller, engraved by G. Vertue, engraved portrait of George I facing the dedication page which has a vignette heading and an ornamental initial, title page in red and black, engraved chapter headings, full contemporary calf, red label, gilt decorations, raised bands. Echard was the Arch-Deacon of Stowe, and his History of England remained the standard work for many years. Three-quarters of the book concerns the seventeenth century. Front cover detached, back hinge cracked but holding, rubbed and worn, contents good. £195.00 23. Robert Thomas Fallon. MILTON IN GOVERNMENT. 1993, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, ppxvi + 288, black and white illustrations, black cloth in dustwrapper. Good. £5.00 24. Antonia Fraser. CROMWELL OUR CHIEF OF MEN. 1973, London, Book Club Associates, ppxx + 774, black and white illustrations, red cloth in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has small tears on front covers, book very good. £4.00 25. Samuel R. Gardiner. HISTORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR 1642-1649. 1987, London, The Windrush Press, four volumes, ppxxxi + 382; xvi + 392; xviii + 394; xv + 396, black and white maps, blue cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £20.00 26. Peter Gaunt. THE CROMWELLIAN GAZETTEER. AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BRITAIN IN THE CIVIL WAR AND COMMONWEALTH. 1987, Gloucester, Alan Sutton, ppxiv + 241, black and white illustrations, black cloth in dustwrapper. Good. £6.00 27. Todd Gray. (Edited with an introduction by). DEVON AND CORNWALL RECORD SOCIETY. NEW SERIES, VOL. 33. EARLY-STUART MARINERS AND SHIPPING. THE MARITIME SURVEYS OF DEVON AND CORNWALL, 1619-35. 1990, Exeter, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, ppxxvii + 171, black and white maps, printed wrappers. Very good. £10.00 28. William Haller. THE RISE OF PURITANISM OR, THE WAY TO THE NEW JERUSALEM AS SET FORTH IN PULPIT AND PRESS FROM THOMAS CARTWRIGHT TO JOHN LILBURNE AND JOHN MILTON, 1570-1643. 1957, New York, Harper Torchbooks, pp464 + (iv), printed wrappers.~Spine slightly faded, otherwise good. £4.00 29. R. W. Harris. CLARENDON AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1983, London, Chatto & Windus, pp456, brown cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £15.00 30. H. Hensley Henson. STUDIES IN ENGLISH RELIGION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. ST. MARGARET'S LECTURES 1903. 1903, London, John Murray, xvii + 265, green cloth. Good. £5.00 31. Christopher Hill. CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN 17TH CENTURY ENGLAND. 1974, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ppxiv + 370, tan cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 32. Christopher Hill. MILTON AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1977, London, Faber and Faber, ppxviii + 541, black cloth in dustwrapper. Spine of dustwrapper slightly faded, otherwise very good. £15.00 33. Christopher Hill. SOME INTELLECTUAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1980, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, pp100, black cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £7.50 34. Christopher Hill. OLIVER CROMWELL 1658-1958. 1981, The Historical Association, reprint, general seris no. 38., pp30, printed wrappers. Pencil underlining throughout. £1.00 35. Christopher Hill. THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. RADICAL IDEAS DURING THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1982, Middlesex, Penguin Books, reprint, pp431, pictorial wrappers. Good. £3.00 36. Christopher Hill. GOD'S ENGLISHMAN. OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1983, Middlesex, Penguin Books, reprint, pp318, pictorial wrappers. Good. £3.00 37. Christopher Hill. THE CENTURY OF REVOLUTION 1603-1714. 1983, Berkshire, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Ld., reprint, pp(vi?) + 296, printed wrappers. Good. £4.00 38. Christopher Hill. THE EXPERIENCE OF DEFEAT. MILTON AND SOME CONTEMPORARIES. 1984, London, Faber and Faber, pp342, black cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 39. Christopher Hill. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1985. London, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., pp80, printed wrappers. Very good. £3.00 40. Christopher Hill. THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF CHRISTOPHER HILL. VOLUME ONE WRITING AND REVOLUTION IN 17TH CENTURY ENGLAND. 1985, Sussex, The Harvester Press, ppviii + 340, red cloth in dustwrapper. Very good. £10.00 41. Christopher Hill. PURTIANISM AND REVOLUTION. STUDIES IN INTERPRETATION OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION OF THE 17TH CENTURY 1986, Middlesex, Penguin Books, reprint, pp384, pictorial wrappers Good. £3.00 42. Christopher Hill. INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 1987, Oxford, Clarendon Press, reprint, ppix + 333, pictorial wrappers. Spine faded, otherwise very good. £4.00 43. Christopher Hill. A TINKER AND A POOR MAN.
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