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In a VG phootgraphic DJ in mylar wraps (Very light shelfwear to top and bottom edges and some light rubbing at extremeties).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA copy of Koudelka's first monograph, featuring striking portraits of eastern European Roma taken in eastern Slovakia in the late 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KOUDELKA, Josef","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":25026369285,"sku":"2257","price":385.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/2257_2.jpg?v=1490552138"},{"product_id":"norfolke-furies-and-their-foyle","title":"Norfolke Furies, and their Foyle","description":"London: Printed for Edmund Casson. 1623.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition in English. 4to. 175x130mm. Unpaginated. [118pp., lacking final blank P4]. Bound with a frontispiece engraved map of Norwich taken from Hermannides's Britannia Magna. Although the second edition of Norfolke Furies, this is the first appearance of the Description of Norwich (L1-4) which is the first published history of Norwich in English. Nineteenth-century tan calf with a decorated border in blind and gilt decoration to spine. Two morocco labels to spine, lettered in gilt. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Charles Barclay, for whom the book was probably bound. A pencil note on a blank preliminary records that this copy was bought at the George Nassau sale in 1824 for £2 15s. Corners worn and and some slight fading and rubbing to spine. Some foxing and browning. The four leaves of gathering M have been cropped with the loss of a few words but otherwise this is a very nice copy of a rare book with a good Norfolk provenance. JISC Library Hub locates eight copies in the UK, with Worldcat adding a further two, plus four in the US and one in Germany. Only two copies appear in the auction records, both lacking the final blank. \u003cbr\u003eRobert Kett was a wealthy Norfolk farmer and Lord of the Manor of Wymondham but he is best known as the leader of the 1549 rebellion that bears his name. The principal cause of the revolt was the enclosure of land. Although Kett had enclosed his own land, he recognised that his cause lay more with these rebels than with the grander gentry who were the real target. Kett agreed to the destruction of his own enclosures, joined the rebels and offered to lead them in what Nevill called their \"wasting, burning, robbing\". Clearly a man of some charisma, Kett found himself at the head of a small army of nearly 20,000 protestors. They marched on Norwich and set up camp on Mousehold Heath, common land on the edge of the city. When a royal army arrived to quash the revolt, a ferocious battle ensued, Kett was captured, sent to the Tower of London, tried, convicted and brought back to Norwich where he was hanged from the walls of the Castle and his body left to rot. \u003cbr\u003eHistory being written by the winners, the early official accounts of Kett's Rebellion were uniformly hostile to poor Robert. Alexander Nevill's \u003cem\u003eNorfolke Furies\u003c\/em\u003e first appeared in Latin in 1575. It accused Kett \"of an impudent boldnesse, an unbridled violence\". But then Nevill was the establishment's man – his patron was the Archbishop of Canterbury. His was the account that would remain the accepted one until the nineteenth-century. Even so, it seems strange, given that \u003cem\u003eNorfolke Furies\u003c\/em\u003e deals with one of the most celebrated popular revolts against the ruling, landed, Latin-reading elite, that it was not published in English until 1615, when there appeared this translation first written in the 1590s by a local vicar, Richard Woods \"who beheld part of these things with his yong eyes\". \u003cbr\u003eThis copy has a nice Norfolk provenance. Charles Barclay was a noted bibliophile and a member of the East Anglian banking Quakerocracy. As well as being prominent philanthropists, the Barclays also used their wealth to do what most rich Englishmen do - buy lots of land. One hopes that Charles, on his Norfolk estate, read this book closely so that he would have learnt how to deal with a contemporary Kett keen to rattle the cages of the local landowners.","brand":"NEVILL, Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105344028863,"sku":"4153","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4153.Furies_2.jpg?v=1713193782"},{"product_id":"a-survey-of-the-cathedral-church-of-worcester","title":"A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of Worcester","description":"London: Printed for the author. 1737.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 4to. 248x195mm. pp. vi, 124; 222 (Account of the Bishops of Worcester); 8, 210 (Appendix, Chartae Originales and index). Engraved folding frontispiece and twenty five engraved plates and numerous engravings in the text and a folding plan of the cathedral. Contemporary full calf, rebacked with corners repaired. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Carolus Gandolphus Hornyold and, on the verso of the front free endpaper, the plate of John Vincent Hornyold and a handwritten note on the title page \"Charles Gandolfi Hornyold bought at Worcester 1869\". The Hornyolds are an old Catholic family with estates in Worcestershire. A nice copy of a splendid example of eighteenth century antiquarianism. William Thomas was the grandson of a Bishop of Worcester. A fine scholar and poet, Thomas worked on a book about Chaucer begun by John Urry and edited the second edition of Dugdale Antiquities of Warwickshire. This survey of Worcester Cathedral is his best and most lasting work. A copy is in the Royal Collection.","brand":"THOMAS, William","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105344422079,"sku":"4181","price":225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4181.Worcester_3.jpg?v=1713189849"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-my-own-times-parts-i-and-ii-br-the-history-of-the-seven-years-war-parts-i-and-ii-br-memoirs-from-the-peace-of-hubertsburg-to-the-partition-of-poland-and-of-the-bavarian-war","title":"The History of my own times. Parts I and II. The History of the Seven Years War. Parts I and II. Memoirs from the Peace of Hubertsburg, to the Partition of Poland, and of the Bavarian War.","description":"\u003cp\u003eDublin: Luke White. 1791.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. 210x125mm. \u003cbr\u003eVolume I. \u003cem\u003eThe History of my own times. Parts I and II\u003c\/em\u003e. pp. xxv, [2], 270, [2bl]. And \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Seven Years War. Part I.\u003c\/em\u003e pp. xii, [2], 154. Volume II. \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Seven Years War. Part II.\u003c\/em\u003e [4], 188.\u003cem\u003e Memoirs from the Peace of Hubertsburg, to the Partition of Poland, and of the Bavarian War.\u003c\/em\u003e pp. xii, [4], 198. Of the four half titles \"Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia\" only two are present. \u003cbr\u003eBound in contemporary Irish mottled calf, spine decorated in gilt, with red morocco labels lettered, decorated and numbers (with volume numbers and shelfmarks) in gilt. Front free endpapers have the ownership stamp of F. Colgan, Cappagh and T.G Odling. The Colgans of Cappagh House were a County Kildare family. Some scuffing to the boards with loss but otherwise an attractive Irish binding in nice condition and very good internally. \u003cbr\u003eUnrecorded at the BL, the only institutional copy in the UK is with the National Trust. Two copies in Dublin and five others worldwide. ESTC; T167665.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[Frederick II, King of Prussia]. Tr. Thomas Holcroft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55926532178297,"sku":"4651","price":375.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20250724_182214_inPixio.jpg?v=1767713133"},{"product_id":"murrays-buckinghamshire-guide","title":"Murray's Buckinghamshire Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon John Murray. 1948.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. Signed by the author. 263x185mm. pp (iibl) xii, 132, (iiibl). Publisher's red cloth with white and black lettering to spine and front cover, printing to front cover. Original dust jacket. Slight bumping to head and foot of spine; slight chipping to head of dust jacket. Internally very good; overall in very good condition. Inscription reads \"Kay Francis from John Betjeman 1957\", surrounded with decorative flourishes.\u003cbr\u003eThe last of Betjeman and Piper's British travel guides to be published by Betjeman's own publisher, John Murray. The friends collaborated on a series of these guides from 1934 through to the 1960s, with a hiatus during World War II. 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