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THE STORY OF THE LAMP
Written by F.W. Robins.
Stock no. 554436
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1939. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. ...And The Candle. The story of lamps throughout history. Spine and covers faded. Covers slightly marked.

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THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE VOLUME LXXX PARTS I AND II
No author listed.
Stock no. 567405
Published by The Royal Anthroplogical Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland. 1950. Very good condition.

Large format. Green card wraps. B/w photos. Nilotic Studies; New Bottles for New Wine : Ideology and Scientific Knowledge; Religion and Reality; Hominid Characters of the Australopithecine Dentition.; the Early Use of Metals in India and Pakistan; Norwegian Research on the Language and Folklore of the Lapps; Colonial Law and Chinese Society. Top and tail of spine chipped.

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THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE VOLUME 84 PARTS I AND II
No author listed.
Stock no. 567407
Published by The Royal Anthroplogical Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland. 1st 1954. Very good condition.

Large format. Green card wraps. B/w photos. The Meaning of Sacrifice among the Nuer; The Mzab.; Status Evaluation in the Hindu Caste System; Konkomba Sorcery; Dancing in Poreporena; Housebuilding in Fiji; Excavations at Jericho; Neandertals and Praesapiens; The Problem of the Sex of Certain Fossil Hominids with Special Reference to the Neandertal Skeletons from Spy; The Cretans. A Geographical Analysis of some Aspects of their Physical Anthropology; Further Observations on Blood Groups in East African Tribes.

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THE ENTERTAINING MEDLEY
Written by Abigail Roberts.
Stock no. 983526
Published by J. Arliss. 1st 1818. Good condition.

A Collection of True Histories and Anecdotes Calculated for the Cottager's Fire Side. First edition (Halkett & Laing list Dublin, 1823 as the first). Small format Pages: 180. Original brown paper boards, new dark green leather spine with gilt lettering. 4 full-page woodcuts. No author listed but believed to be Abigail Roberts. Pages browned. Covers rubbed.

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LECONS DE GEOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE
No author listed.
Stock no. 983918
1st 1819. Good condition.

Small format. 132 page. Text in French. Mottled brown and red paperboards. Covers worn and grubby. Contents very good. Method of binding in endpapers makes it look as though there are a couple of pages missing, but all pages are present.

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SLATER'S CENTENTIAE CHRONOLOGICAE
Written by Mrs. Slater.
Stock no. 984036
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. Circa 1876. Very good condition.

New edition. Small format Pages: v, 188 + 16 (catalogue dated 1876). Original blind-stamped brown cloth. . Book: name in ink to front endpaper. Spine browned.

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OUTLINES OF HISTORY
Written by Thomas Keightley.
Stock no. 555892
Published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. Circa 1847. Almost very good condition.

Full blue calf binding. Gilt titles, decorations and raised bands to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Contents near fine. Covers rubbed. School crest in gilt on front and rear covers.

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THE ECONOMIST YEAR BOOK 1992
No author listed.
Stock no. 652401
Published by Economist. 1st 1992. As new condition in a fine dustwrapper.

1991 in review. ISBN: 0712698671.

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A HISTORY OF TAPESTRY
Written by W.G. Thomson.
Stock no. 988308
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1930. Very good condition.

Large format. Brown decorative cloth. Pages: xviii, 550 + 132 colour and b/w plates. Entirely revised edition. Endpapers foxed. Rear joint slightly cracked. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Edges rubbed.

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PREHISTORISCHE KULTUREN IN HET ZUIDEN DER LAGE LANDEN
Written by Sigfried J. De Laet.
Stock no. 989385
Published by Universa Wetteren. 1st 1974. Very good condition.

Large format. Pages 564. B/w photos. Text in German. Book: Ex-lib. Minimal stamps. Contents fine. In brown library binding with gilt titles.

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INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY
Written by Thomas Arnold.
Stock no. 986816
Published by John Henry Parker. 1st 1842. Very good condition.

Pages: 404. Contemporary half blue leather binding with marbled endpapers; raised bands, gilt decoration and lettering on spine.

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COMPENDIUM OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY (2 VOLUMES)
Written by M. D'Anville.
Stock no. 570195
Published by J. Faulder. 1810. Almost very good condition.

Two volumes. Full brown calf binding, raised bands to spine. Gilt borders. Marbled endpapers and edges. xxxi + 446; 439 pages. 10 folding b/w maps including one of Roman Britain. Maps lightly browned. Contents very good. Front cover of Volume II is detached. Boards are a little scuffed. Titles labels are missing from spine. REDUCED FROM £400.

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