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THE ROYAL MARTYR ANNUAL 1974

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Royal Martyr Church Union / Printed By the Roundwood Press: 1974

Seller ID: 67293

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Fair

Booklet; staples rusty, foxing to edge of pages, otherwise good in marked and creased card covers. ; Official organ of the Royal Martyr Church Union. 'Seeking to put forward the truth about King Charles I and so counteract years of misguided and biased teaching'. Illustrated. This issue includes articles: KING CHARLES I AND CHESTER by R. N. Dore; and THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S SERVANTS, by Margaret Toynbee. ; 40 pages
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A LIFE OF JOHN HAMPDEN THE PATRIOT (1594-1643) (SIGNED COPY)

By: Adair, John.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: MacDonald & Jane's: 1976

Seller ID: 64688

ISBN: 0354040146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; lean to spine, previous owner's name to endpaper, foxing to edge of pages otherwise good in creased and faded dustjacket. Signed by the Author. ; Illustrated. ; 261 pages
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ROUNDHEAD GENERAL : A MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLER

By: Adair, John.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Macdonald: 1969

Seller ID: 64812

ISBN: 0356026418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; blemish and yellowing to edge of pages, previous owner's names to endpapers, otherwise good in tatty, yellowed, stained, torn and creased dustjacket. First edition. ; Illustrations & maps. ; 258 pages
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JAMES II

By: Ashley, M.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: J. M. Dent: 1977

Seller ID: 26272

ISBN: 0460120212

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback, very good in creased card covers; laminate lifting on corners of covers. ; Illustrated. ; 342 pages
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THE GREATNESS OF OLIVER CROMWELL

By: Ashley, M.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Readers Union: 1959

Seller ID: 46801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; edge of pages yellowed otherwise very good. Reprint. ; Illustrations & maps. ; 382 pages
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CAVALIER GENERALS : KING CHARLES I AND HIS COMMANDERS IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR 1642-46

By: Barratt, John.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pen & Sword: 2004

Seller ID: 65463

ISBN: 184415128X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

New hardback copies at a reduced price. ; The careers and characters of twelve Royalist leaders, including Prince Maurice, Lord Hopton, Lord Goring, Lord Byron and Lord Wilmot. Illustrations & maps. ; 227 pages
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THE CAVALIERS

By: Bence-Jones, M.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: BCA Book Club: 1977

Seller ID: 40566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback, light foxing to edge of pages otherwise good in faded and chipped dustjacket. ; Brief biographies of more than a dozen prominent Royalist men and women of the English Civil Wars; including Prince Rupert; Bishop Juxon; Sir Charles Lucas; George Lord Goring; Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon; and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Illustrated. ; 206 pages
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KING JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND & I OF ENGLAND

By: Bevan, B.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Rubicon Press: 1996

Seller ID: 64657

ISBN: 0948695447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; very good in heavily faded dustjacket. ; Illustrated. ; 216 pages
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MONTROSE : COVENANTER, ROYALIST AND MAN OF PRINCIPLE

By: Blackie, R.

Price: £3.99

Publisher: Merlins / Cannongate Books Ltd: 1996

Seller ID: 64674

ISBN: 0862416574

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

New paperback copies at a reduced price. ; James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. An illustrated introduction to the man and his times. ; 48 pages
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BOSCOBEL, OR THE HISTORY OF THE MOST MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION OF KING CHARLES II AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER, SEPTEMBER THE THIRD 1651

By: Blount, T. (Thomas, C. G. edited. )

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Tylston and Edwards: 1894

Seller ID: 57383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Hardback without dustjacket; pages yellowed, otherwise good in faded, dented and chipped original brown cloth boards. Limited edition of 500 copies. ; Account of the King's escape after the Battle of Worcester 1651, together with Charles II own account. With an Introduction and bibliography by Charles Thomas. ; 167 pages
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BROTHERS AT WAR : THE STORY OF THE PIERREPONT FAMILY IN THE CIVIL WAR

By: Brackenbury, Robin.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Ashbracken: 1992

Seller ID: 64754

ISBN: 1872356079

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

Booklet; old price sticker to cover, otherwise very good. ; The Nottinghamshire family during the English Civil War. Illustrated; with fold-out genealogical table. ; 30 pages
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN BRAMSTON K.B. OF SCREENS, IN THE HUNDRED OF CHELMSFORD

By: Bramston, T. W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: AMS Press: 1968

Seller ID: 29088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Camden Society Old Series 32. Hardback; very good in blue cloth boards. Reprint of 1845 edition. ; 443 pages
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THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF SIR ORLANDO BRIDGEMAN

By: Bridgeman, E. R. O. & Bridgeman, C. G. O. (edited.)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Jacobus Publications: 1995

Seller ID: 64763

ISBN: 1898621241

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

Booklet; dent to corners of pages otherwise good in marked and creased card covers. ; First published in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society in 1904. ; 64 pages
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THE ROYAL MIRACLE: A COLLECTION OF RARE TRACTS, BROADSIDES, LETTERS, PRINTS & BALLADS CONCERNING THE WANDERINGS OF CHARLES II AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER (SEPTEMBER 3 - OCTOBER 15, 1651)

By: Broadley, A. M.

Price: £70.00

Publisher: Stanley Paul & Co. London: 1912

Seller ID: 46955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; foxing to edge of pages; plates complete, but some detached; boards scuffed and dented. First edition. ; With a preface, historical introduction, appendix, bibliography, and illustrations. ; 332 pages
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WOMEN'S WRITING IN STUART ENGLAND

By: Brown, S. (edited. )

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Sutton: 1999

Seller ID: 41819

ISBN: 0750918543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in marked dustjacket. ; The Mothers' Legacies of Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin and Elizabeth Richardson. Illustrated. ; 260 pages
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OLIVER CROMWELL

By: Buchan, John.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1946

Seller ID: 53489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; boards dented, corners of pages dented, bookplate to paste-down, otherwise good in torn and creased dustjacket. Reprint. ; Biography examining the truth behind the legend. Maps. ; 554 pages
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SACHARISSA : SOME ACCOUNT OF DOROTHY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF SUNDERLAND, HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS 1617-1684

By: Cartwright, J.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Seeley and Co. Ltd.: 1893

Seller ID: 57541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Hardback; endpaper loose, edge of pages discoloured; tatty original boards loose and partially detached, heavily stained and dented. Sold as a reference copy - would beneft from rebinding. Second edition. ; 307 pages
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WILLIAM HARVEY : HIS LIFE AND TIMES, HIS DISCOVERIES, HIS METHODS

By: Chauvois, L.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Scientific Book Guild: 1961

Seller ID: 64679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Hardback without dustjacket; foxing and stain to edge of pages, otherwise good in dented and chipped pictorial boards. ; Illustrated. ; 271 pages
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LOUISE DE KEROUALLE: DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH 1649-1734: SOCIETY IN THE COURT OF CHARLES II

By: Crawford, G. M. (Preface)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.: 1888

Seller ID: 48117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; foxing to pages otherwise good in discoloured, marked and dented blue cloth boards. Third edition. ; Compiled from State Papers preserved in the archives of the French Foreign Office by H. Forneron. Illustrated. +xxxi. ; 346 pages
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THE RESTORATION OF CHARLES THE SECOND

By: Dampier, W. C. (Whetham, E. H. edited. )

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Northgate Press Ltd.: 1960

Seller ID: 48094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; good in scuffed and faded boards. ; Account of the days leading up to the Restoration of King Charles II. With a list of principle sources. ; 64 pages
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THE DIARIES AND PAPERS OF SIR EDWARD DERING, SECOND BARONET, 1644 TO 1684

By: Dering, E. (Bond, M. F. edited. )

Price: £8.00

Publisher: HMSO: 1976

Seller ID: 59252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

House of Lords Record Office Occasional Publications No.1. Hardback; very good in faded, scuffed and creased dustjacket. ; Illustrated. With genealogical table in rear pocket. ; 237 pages
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OLIVER CROMWELL AND HUNTINGDON

By: Dickinson, P. G. M.

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Cambridgeshire County Council: 1981

Seller ID: 55295

ISBN: 090243621x

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

Booklet; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in card covers. ; Second, revised edition. An introduction to Oliver Cromwell and his connections with Huntingdon during the 17th century. Illustrated. ; 22 pages
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WILLIAM PENN: QUAKER AND PIONEER

By: Dobree, B.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Constable & Company Ltd.: 1932

Seller ID: 29921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; bookplate to front paste-down, foxing to edge of pages otherwise good in foxed dustjacket. ; Illustrated. ; 428 pages
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OLIVER CROMWELL: A PLAYSCRIPT

By: Drinkwater, J.

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson: 1930

Seller ID: 33551

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback, foxing to pages otherwise good in creased card covers. Seventh impression. ; 80 pages
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OLIVER CROMWELL: A PLAYSCRIPT

By: Drinkwater, J.

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson: 1923

Seller ID: 33556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Hardback without dustjacket (if issued) , light foxing to pages otherwise good in dented and faded boards. Fourth impression. ; 80 pages
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THE OBITUARY OF RICHARD SMYTH, SECONDARY OF THE POULTRY COMPTER, LONDON

By: Ellis, H. Sir (edited. )

Price: £8.00

Publisher: AMS Press: 1968

Seller ID: 29087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Camden Society Old Series 44. Hardback; very good in blue cloth boards. Reprint of 1849 edition. ; Being a Catalogue of all Such Persons as he Knew in their Life, Extending from AD 1627 to AD 1674.; 124 pages
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STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS OF THE STUART AGE

By: Eustace, T. (edited. )

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1985

Seller ID: 26195

ISBN: 0333318277

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in scuffed card covers. ; Essays regarding ten leading statesmen and politicians: Cranfield, Buckingham, Laud, Strafford, Pym, Vane the Younger, Clarendon, Danby, Shaftesbury and Sunderland. Illustrated. ; 270 pages
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PORTRAITS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY OFFICERS OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR

By: Facsimile

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Pryor Publications: 1990

Seller ID: 64721

ISBN: 0946014086

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback; dent to margin of pages otherwise good in creased card covers. ; Twenty portriats of Parliiamentarian officers reproduced from facsimilies of prints first published by Ricraft in 1647. Includes a brief biography of each officer taken from the limited edition published 1873.; 64 pages
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MEMOIRS OF LADY FANSHAWE, WIFE OF SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, BART. AMBASSADOR FROM CHARLES THE SECOND TO THE COURTS OF PORTUGAL AND MADRID. WRITTEN BY HERSELF

By: Fanshawe, A.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley: 1830

Seller ID: 57614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Hardback without dustjacket; library lable to paste-down; foxing to pages; boards detached, spine missing - sold as a reference copy. Would benefit from re-binding. ; Lady Anne (Harrison) Fanshawe (1625-1680). With Extracts From the Correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe. With Introductiory Memoir. Preface, +viipp+ adverts. ; 332 pages
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THE FETHERSTONS OF PACKWOOD IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

By: Farr, M. W.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Dugdale Society: 1968

Seller ID: 34764

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

Dugdale Society Occasional Papers Number 18. Booklet; very good in card covers. ; Text based on a lecture given to the Dugdale Society on the occasion of the annual meeting held at Packwood House on 22 October 1966. The Warwickshire family during the seventeenth century. ; 22 pages
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RUPERT OF THE RHINE

By: Fergusson, B.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Collins: 1952

Seller ID: 29139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Brief Lives series. Hardback; good in stained dustjacket. ; Short biography which follows Prince Ruperts military career. ; 143 pages
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REPORT ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ALLAN GEORGE FINCH, ESQ., OF BURLEY-ON-THE-HILL, RUTLAND VOL.I

By: Finch, H. , 3rd Earl Of Winchilsea.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: HMSO: 1913

Seller ID: 59260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; some creasing, marks and underlining to text, a few pages loose, but complete; blue cloth boards, marked, dented and chipped. A good reference copy. ; This first volume covers the period 1537 to 1669; the majority of the volume dealing with the years 1660 to 1669. Family letters, and correspondence of Henage, Earl of Winchilsea, during his embassy to the Porte, 1660-1668. Introduction; +lvpp, Index; + viiipp. ; 614 pages
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YORKSHIREMEN OF THE RESTORATION

By: Fletcher, J. S.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin: 1921

Seller ID: 30750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket, foxing to edge of pages, pencil notes to margins, ownership inscription to endpaper otherwise good in dented and marked boards. ; Brief biographies of twelve important Civil War figures including Nathan Drake, John Reresby, Henry Slingsby and Sir Thomas Fairfax. ; 253 pages
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THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF JOHN YONGE THE ELDER OF PIMLEY, AND OF JOHN YONGE HIS SON

By: Fletcher, W. G. D. (edited. )

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Jacobus Publications: 1995

Seller ID: 64761

ISBN: 1898621225

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

Booklet; good in marked and scuffed card covers. ; First published in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society. ; 18 pages
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THE SEQUESTRATION PAPERS OF SIR THOMAS EYTON, KNIGHT, OF EYTON-ON-THE-WEALDMOORS

By: Fletcher, W. G. D. (edited. )

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Jacobus Publications: 1995

Seller ID: 64762

ISBN: 1898621373

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

Booklet; good in marked and scuffed card covers. ; First published in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society in 1908. ; 24 pages
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ROYAL STUART PAPERS XX: MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN DIGBY 'PEERLEESE CHAMPION AND MIRROUR OF PERFECT CHIVALRIE'

By: Foster, Michael.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: The Royal Stuart Society: 1982

Seller ID: 64757

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Good

Booklet; dent to corner of pages otherwise good in creased and marked card covers. ; Biography of the Royalist leader who died from a wound sustained during a skirmish near Bridgewater in 1645 ; 38 pages
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WILLIAM HARVEY: ENGLISHMAN 1578-1657

By: Franklin, K. J.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: MacGibbon & Kee: 1961

Seller ID: 30744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardback, very good in torn, creased and price-clipped dustjacket. ; His life and discoveries. Illustrated. ; 151 pages
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CROMWELL OUR CHIEF OF MEN

By: Fraser, A.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1996

Seller ID: 57606

ISBN: 0749301074

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in creased card covers. ; Biography of Oliver Cromwell. Illustrated. ; 774 pages
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CROMWELL 400

By: Gaunt, P. (edited. )

Price: £4.00

Publisher: The Cromwell Association: 1999

Seller ID: 53533

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback; good in creased card covers. ; Selection of articles on Oliver Cromwell previously published in Cromwelliana. Produced for the 400 anniversary of his birth. Illustrated. ; 115 pages
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CROMWELL : PORTRAIT OF A SOLDIER

By: Gillingham, J.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1976

Seller ID: 30730

ISBN: 0297771485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; ownership stamp to endpaper otherwise good in torn dustjacket. ; A military biography of Oliver Cromwell. Illustrations & maps. ; 149 pages
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RECONSTRUCTING APHRA: A SOCIAL BIOGRAPHY OF APHRA BEHN

By: Goreau, A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 39407

ISBN: 0198226632

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, ink annotation to one page. A good reference copy. ; Illustrated. ; 339 pages
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JOHN BUNYAN AND ENGLISH NONCONFORMITY

By: Greaves, R.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: The Hambledon Press: 1992

Seller ID: 59208

ISBN: 1852850728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in scratched dustjacket. ; A collection of articles on Bunyan, as well as several broader views on the Nonconformist tradition. ; 230 pages
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LIFE OF OLIVER CROMWELL

By: Guizot, M.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Richard Bentley: 1860

Seller ID: 30741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Hardback, bookplate to paste down; light foxing to pages, otherwise good in original embossed brown cloth boards; boards scuffed and stained. ; 452 pages
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PORTRAITS OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS

By: Haldane, Angus.

Price: £19.99

Publisher: Unicorn: 2017

Seller ID: 65464

ISBN: 1910787388

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The Face of War. New paperback copies at a reduced price. ; An insight and perspective into the lives and relationships of some of those who fought in the English Civil War. 60 seventeenth century colour portraits with notes on the paintings. ; 160 pages
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HENRIETTA MARIA

By: Hamilton, E.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1976

Seller ID: 41319

ISBN: 0241893364

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in yellowed dustjacket. Signed by the Author. ; Illustrated. ; 290 pages
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CHARLES II AND THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM : THE MERRY MONARCH & THE ARISTOCRATIC ROGUE

By: Hanrahan, D. C.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Sutton: 2006

Seller ID: 64660

ISBN: 0750939168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; Illustrated. ; 248 pages
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COLONEL BLOOD : THE MAN WHO STOLE THE CROWN JEWELS

By: Hanrahan, D. C.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Sutton: 2003

Seller ID: 64662

ISBN: 0750933275

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; The story of seventeenth-century England's most wanted man - crown jewel thief, kidnapper, suspected double agent, would-be regicide and religious fanatic. Illustrated. ; 224 pages
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JOHN HAMPDEN : AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF JOHN HAMPDEN 1594-1643

By: Hansford-Miller, Frank.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd.: 1976

Seller ID: 55387

ISBN: 085263322X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Lifelines 40. Paperback; very good in faded card covers. First edition. ; Illustrated. ; 48 pages
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CLARENDON AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

By: Harris, R. W.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1983

Seller ID: 55413

ISBN: 0701126558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; edge of pages yellowed otherwise very good in creased dustjacket. ; Biography of Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon. Illustrated. ; 456 pages
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OLIVER CROMWELL

By: Harrison, F.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: MacMillan and Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 46800

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Hardback without dustjacket; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in lightly marked boards. Reprint. ; A biography in the 'Twelve English Statesmen' series. ; 228 pages
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