Genealogy & heraldry
ANNUAL: Almanach de Gotha. 1998.
London: Almanach de Gotha, 1998. 182nd edition, Volume 1: Part I. Reigning and formerly Reigning Royal Houses of Europe and South America. Part II Mediatized Sovereign Houses of the Holy Roman Empire. Portrait of H. M. King Carlos I. Small 8vo (6 x 4 1/2 inches), 671-pages. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Fine.
£45.00
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ANNUAL: Almanach de Gotha. 2004.
London: Almanach de Gotha, 1998. 187th edition, Volume 1: Part I. Genealogies of the Sovereign Houses of Europe. Part II Mediatized Sovereign Houses of the Holy Roman Empire. Small 8vo (6 x 4 1/2 inches), Pages 1026:xcii. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Fine. With the visiting card of the Princess Karl Viktor zu Wied loosely inserted.
£120.00
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ANNUAL: Almanach de Gotha. Annuaire Genealogique Diplomatique et Statistique 1907.
Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1907. Portraits. Small 8vo (6 x 4 inches), 1200-pages. Original red cloth. 1 portrait detached. Personal name stamp on front pastedown. Signature on front free endpaper. Lower inner joint cracked and at one time partly repaired with sellotape, chip out of edge of lower board.
£25.00
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BURKE, SIR BERNARD: A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. New Edition, Harrison, 1883. Facsimile edition.
London: Burke's Peerage, 1962. Plates of armorials. Large 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), 643-pages. Original black cloth with red gilt title lable. Private name stamp on front pastedown & signature on front free endpaper. Very good.
£300.00
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BURKE, SIR BERNARD: Royal Descents and Pedigrees of Founders' Kin.
London: Harrison (Bookseller to the Queen), 1858. First edition. Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 inches). Folding pedigrees. Original maroon cloth gilt neatly rebacked. Edges of boards and corners rubbed through, foxing to prelims. Signature on front free endpaper. Armorial bookplate. A few tears to a few folds of folding pedigrees, one repaired to the verso with sellotape.
£40.00
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BURKE, SIR BERNARD & ASHWORTH P: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Seventy-fourth edition.
London: Harrison, 1912. Illustrated with numerous armorials. Large thick 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 2714-pages plus advertisements. Original red bevelled cloth gilt, vertical crease to backstrip. Upper inner hinge cracked and front free endpaper detached. Foxing to prelims. Headbands with short splits, name on half-title.
£70.00
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D'HAUTERIVE, M. BOREL: Annuaire de la Noblesse de France et des Maisons Souveraines de L'Eorope. 94th edition.
Paris: Le Nobiliare, n.d. Portraits. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches), 799-pages. Original crimson cloth blocked in gilt.
£30.00
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DOUGLAS, SIR ROBERT (revised by John Philip Wood): The Peerage of Scotland: containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom; from their origin to the Present Generation.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1813. 17 engraved plates of armorials. Two volumes folio (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches), pages 759:xiv & 752:xiii, contemportary full calf gilt, all edges gilt. Joints crudely repaired with tape, lacks lower cover of Volume 1. Light creasing to first few leaves, some foxing and light damp-marking to the plates.
Weight 6.660 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£100.00
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FINESTONE, JEFFREY: The Royal Family of Thailand. The Descendants of King Chulalongkorn.
England: White Mouse Editions. Thailand: Phitsanulok Pub. Co. 1989. First edition. Very well illustrated from photographs, folding genealogies. 4to (11 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches), 688-pages. Original dark blue grained cloth lettered in gilt in dust jacket. Some light marginal tanning, large patch of loss of surface to upper panel of the jacket else excellent. Text in English and Thai.
Weight 2.740 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£375.00
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HESILRIGE, ARTHUR G.M. [Editor]: Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. "Library Edition". 1929
London: Dean & Son, 1929. Profusely illustrated with armorials throughout. Large thick 8vo (10 x 6 3/4 inches), 2235-pages plus 28-page list of Royal Warrant holders and 219-pages of largely illustrated advertisements. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Spine very faded and bumped at headband else very good.
£38.00
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HUTCHINSON, H.N: The Living Rulers of Mankind, with four hundred and eighty-five illustrations and three coloured plates.
London: George Allen, 1902. 4to (11 x 9 inches), 397-pages, original decorated cloth; cloth partly "bubbling" on upper cover and a little marked.
Weight 2.090 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£12.00
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MacNAUGHTON, ARNOLD (Compiler): The Book of Kings, a Royal Genealogy.
London: Garnstone Press, 1973. Three volumes. 4to (12 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches) original blue grained cloth blocked in gilt in slipcase; slipcase worn, the volumes themselves excellent and NOT ex-library. The three volumes are: Volume one: The Royal Houses; Volume two: The Families; Volume three: Plates & Indexes. 118-portraits. Pages: 1054:394 plus unpaginated addendum. Size overall 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches.
Weight 7.17 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£100.00
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MAIR, ROBERT H. Editor: Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Kinghtage, and Companionage. Illustrated with 1400 armorial bearings. 172nd Year of Publication. Royal Edition, Personally Revised by the Nobility.
London: Dean & Son, 1885. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches), 784-pages plus 80-pages of oartly illustrated advertisements. Original red cloth, all edges gilt, blocked in gold & colours; corners rubbed through, some fading and marking, cloth "bubbling" a little on lower cover, upper inner hinge cracked but holding. Overall good. Bookplate.
Weight 1.770 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£40.00
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MIGNOT DE BUSSY, ABBE: Origine de la Noblesse Francoise, depuis l'establissement de la Monarchie .....
Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1766. Small 8vo, pp.(4):510:(2, Privilege du Roi"). contemporary full mottled calf, spine floral gilt extra with lettering piece. Half inch square patch rubbed through exposing board on upper cover. A very good copy.
£55.00
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MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, HUGH. Editor: Burke's Royal Families of the World.
London: Burke's Peerage, 1977. Two volumes. Volume 1 Europe & Latin America. Volume 2 Africa & the Middle East. Portraits. 2 volumes 8vo (10 x 7 1/4 inches), pages: 594 & 320, original red cloth armorially blocked in gilt; fine in very good dust jackets, vol. 2 having fading to the spine.
Weight 2.310 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£120.00
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M.W. (W. MORTON ?): The Stem of Morton. A Collection of Genealogical Notes, respecting the Family of Morton chiefly seated in the Wapentake of Strafford-cum-Tickhill, South Yorkshire, and near its confines. Compiled by W.M.
London: Privately Printed by J. Tamblyn, 1895. First edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 311-pages. Original blue cloth. Binding damp-mottled, foxing to prelims. Generally sound. Rare.
£55.00
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PINE, L.G. Editor: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage. Hundredth Edition.
London: Burke's Peerage, 1953. Armorials within the text. Large 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 inches), pages: cccxxii:2624. Original red cloth. Binding faded, corners rubbed through; overall very sound.
Weight 3.36 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£55.00
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PIXLEY, FRANCIS: A History of the Baronetage.
London: Duckworth, 1900. First edition. Large 8vo (9 1/4 x 7 inches), 335-pages. Original red cloth lettered in black; very good. Private name stamp on front pastedown & signature on front free endpaper.
£15.00
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RUVIGNY and RAINEVAL, MARQUIS OF: The Blood Royal of Britain, being a Roll of the Living Descendants of Edward IV and Henry VII Kings of England, and James III, King of Scotland.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1903. First edition. Coloured frontispiece, portraits. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 inches), 621-pages. Original blue cloth gilt, top ege gilt others uncut. Headbands worn, covers badly damp-stained, corners rubbed through. Spine unaffected, internally very sound. Inscribed on front pastedown " Newcombe, Aldershot Manor, 1911".
Weight 2.57 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£100.00
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RUVIGNY, MARQUIS OF: The Titled Nobility of Europe. An International Peerage or "Who's Who" of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe.
London: Harrison & Son, 1914. 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 inches), Pages lxxi:1598. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. Rubbed, fraying to one joint and base of spine. The first 20-pages are missing and supplied in loose photo-copies. Private name stamp on front pastedown and signature on front free endpaper. Upper inner hinge split and sellotaped, sellotape to another inner margin.
Weight 3.870 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£80.00
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TOWNEND, PETER. Editor: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. One Hundred and Third Edition.
London: Burk's Peerage, 1963. Armorials within the text. 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 x 4 3/4 inches), 2987-pages. Original red cloth blocked in gilt; some rubbing and marking, endpapers marked. Bookplate and signature on front free endpaper. Overall very sound.
Weight 4.460 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£75.00
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WHITAKER: Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year 1910.
London: 1910. 8vo, pp. 812 plus advertisement leaves, original blue cloth gilt; a very good copy.
£15.00
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