British & Irish History

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles. Britain and Ireland are home to around 300 species of rare flowering plants, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the turbulent dawn of European settlement in the Pacific, one man's ambition, tenacity,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFor eighty years, the British Empire cast its unwanted across the seas to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sweeping backdrop of Cornwall and Ireland across several turbulent decades, All the Day Long chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn A Fine Anger, Neil Philip delivers a rigorous and illuminating critical study of one of Britain's most enigmatic and celebrated authors, Alan Garner, whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the English literary tradition as Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet whose vivid imagination and masterful verse transformed the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodGavin Maxwell — celebrated naturalist, adventurer, and author of the beloved Ring of Bright Water — turns his luminous prose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the annals of Australia's colonial past, few stories are as dramatic and ultimately tragic as that of Thomas Peel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the crumbling remnants of Saxon burhs to the formidable gatehouse towers of the late medieval period, Town Defences in England and Wales presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...

Edition: limited edition unnumberedCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: DJ: clipped; edges chipped and torn with some loss. Pages: foxing on prelims...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA childhood frozen in amber, shimmering with the golden haze of a vanishing England — Cider with Rosie...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly cost to be Lord Byron — in pounds, shillings, and pence, as well as in passion, scandal, and legend? Lord...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew rivers in England carry as much history, poetry, and quiet drama as the Avon, and Robert C. Lamb's From the Banks of the Avon:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn 1963, a landmark government report reshaped the future of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodStep back in time to the golden gaslit age of Melbourne, when the city was transforming from a colonial outpost into one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the warrior kings of medieval England to the monarchs who shaped the modern British state, The Lives of the Kings & Queens of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent early decades of the eighteenth century, a German prince from the House of Hanover ascended the British throne, setting in motion a...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor chipsto edge of DJ, some minor discolouration to spine. In the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn an era when painting, theatre, and literature were bound together by a shared visual language, Martin Meisel's Realizations presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the scorching deserts of northeastern Africa, a forgotten chapter of British imperial history played out in blood and sand — A Good Dusting...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding: front hinges cracked; binding slightly shaky; no loose pages; some...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded slipcase. This three-volume Oxford World's Classics set presents Samuel Richardson's final novel, "The History of Sir Charles Grandison," a landmark epistolary...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor eighty years, Britain solved its overcrowded prison crisis by shipping its convicted criminals to the ends of the earth — and The Fatal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor three centuries, the fate of empires was decided not on land, but on the churning, smoke-filled waters of the world's great oceans, where...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFour centuries of craftsmanship, elegance, and evolving taste come to life in British Furniture 1600-2000, a sweeping visual and historical survey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew objects speak as eloquently of power, lineage, and legacy as the jewels that have adorned Britain's most illustrious families for centuries, and Ancestral Jewels:...

Edition: fine-paper edition.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and flecks. Binding slightly shaky. Markings:...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: good/fair for age. Worn and sunned boards. Some bumping on spines and corners....

The extraordinary tale of Philip Augustus, one of medieval Europe's greatest monarchs, and the part he played in the downfall of four Plantagenet kings of England. Philip II ruled France...

'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history that...

Living in the second half of the twelfth century, Princess Constance of Hauteville was both witness and protagonist in what could be considered the most exciting period in medieval history....

The book titled The Laurel and the Ivy: Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish by the author Robert Kee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar; edgeworn, no major tears. Pages: foxing on prelims and book block....

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj; light foxing on book block. Amid the frozen wastes of Antarctica, a murder shatters...

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the history of Ireland. Written by a team of more than 80 distinguished historians, its 1800 entries explore every aspect...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAnthony Powell — one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and the mastermind behind the monumental twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of power and public opinion stands the British press — and few figures were better placed to examine that relationship than...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the turbulent reign of George III to the modern era of Elizabeth II, The Making...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the teeming, treacherous streets of eighteenth-century London and Westminster, a young man of singular sincerity embarks on a desperate quest —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA masterpiece of eighteenth-century satirical fiction, The Spiritual Quixote: or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFirst published in 1800, Castle Rackrent stands as a landmark in literary history — widely regarded as the first regional novel in the English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFirst published in 1791, A Simple Story stands as one of the most psychologically complex novels of the late eighteenth century, chronicling the turbulent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1792, Anna St. Ives stands as one of the most radical novels of the English Jacobin literary movement,...