Books on 18th Century
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The Story of Handel's Messiah 1741 - 1784. A Short Popular History.
79p hardback with green dustjacket, gift inscription and postcard enclosed from the author, nice ...
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Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making 1620 - 1850. Twenty-six important stringed instruments fro the Collection at the Royal Academy of Music.
72p grey hardback, very good copy of the first edition, profusely illustrated
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Violin and Keyboard: The Duo Repertoire. Volume 1 and Volume 2. From the Seventeenth Century to Mozart and from the Seventeenth Century to the Present .
xiv 361p xii 417p two hardbacks with dustjackets, ssome wear to edges of jackets, also slight ...
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The Ludford Box and A Christmass-Box - Their Contribution to our Knowledge of Eighteenth Century Children's Literature.
47p plus 18 plates in the back, grey card cover with white title panel to front, colour ...
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Ezra Stiles and the Culture of Silk in Connecticut.
this is a 12p essay published in Yale Univeristy Library Gazette, very good, clean and tight copy, ...
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Coming to Terms with the Scientific Revolution. (Rausing Lecture 2005)
36p stapled booklet, fresh and clean copy, very good
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The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment.
xiv 310p hardback, fresh bustjacket, a seemingly very good copy, but introduction (first 20 pages) ...
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A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing.
235p large green paperback, well preserved copy, fresh and bright
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Gong ting yu di fang: shi qi zhi shi ba shi ji de ji shu jiao liu. (Court and Places: Seventeen to Eighteen Century Technology Exchange)
353p large format paperback, gilt cover, as new, shrinkwrapped copy, never used
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Les Plans en Relief des Places du Roy.
159p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket present, excellent copy tight and clean without name ...
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The Atomic Molecular Theory.
v 115p burgundy card cover, stapled booklet, very good, 1973 printing
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The Early Development of Concepts of Temperature and Heat. The Rise and Decline of the Caloric Theory.
iv 106p burgundy card cover, stapled booklet, very good, cover with crease, 1970 printing
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Technology on Trial: The Introduction of Steam Power Technology into Sweden, 1715 - 1736.
392p large format hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, hardly used, no names or stamps, ...
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Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History. Series Three: The Papers of James Watt and his Family formerly Held at Doldowlod House now at Birmingham Central Library. A Listing and Guide to the Microfilm Collection.
176p excellent copy, very good, uncommon title
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Science in France in the Revolutionary Era, Described by Thomas Bugge.
xiv 239p cloth with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, first edition, with illustrations
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Science and the Ante-Bellum American College.
xiv 227p large paperback, light blue card cover, very well preserved copy, clean and tight
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Stanford Shaw: History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. A Critical Analysis.
120p thick offprint, author inscription in Greek, very well preserved, very extensive review
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Dr Johnson on Shakespeare.
154p black paperback, light creasing to cover, otherwise very good
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Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov on the Corpuscular Theory.
vi 289p large format hardback, white dustjacket excellent, this copy never used, almost as new, ...
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The Emergence of Science in Western Europe.
vi 241p green boards, a fresh and clean copy, very good, without name or stamps
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The March of the Libertines: Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660 - 1750)
221p large format paperback, excellent copy, as new, with illustrations, never used
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Samuel Johnson: Pictures and Words. Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, Oct. 23, 1982.
xi 118p paperback with brown card cover, many illustrations throughout, excellent copy
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Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence.
vi 224p hardback, fresh dustjacket, no name or stamp, tight copy, many illustrations, small dent to ...
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Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings.
xii 374p hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent clean copy, first edition, never used, without ...
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Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations.
vi 209p hardback, fresh dustjacket, unused copy, no name or stamp, tight and clean copy, many ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France.
xii 375p small hardback, blue cloth without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, pages clean ...
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The Handbook of Political Fallacies. Revised Edition.
xviii 268p paperback with illustrated cover, good condition, light wear to cover edges, covers ...
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The Scheldt Question to 1839.
ix 238p hardback in orange cloth, first edition, very good condition, minimal wear to covers, spine ...
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Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624 - 1642.
xxiv 599p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket, this copy as new, never used, without name or ...
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Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661 - 1790.
xiv 460p hardback with very fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, never used, without name or ...
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Russkii Diplomat vo Frantsii. Zapiski Andreia Matveeva.
296p paperback, a clean copy, spine a little tired and soft, inserted is a batch of handwritten ...
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Pobresa i Marginació a la Catalunya il·lustrada: Dides, Expòsits i Hospicians.
591p thick paperback, excellent condition, as new, with colour plates
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Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards.
viii 297p hardback, fresh dustjacket, this copy as new, never used, no names or stamps
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Montesquieu and the Philosophy of Natural Law.
x 215p hardback, fresh dustjacket browned, cloth a little dull under jacket, well preserved copy, ...
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Berkeley's Philosophy of Science.
210p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, first edition
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La Vie Rurale dans l'Ancienne France.
382p original paperback volume with broken binding, spine poor, sewing broken, remains of glassine ...
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La Ville sous l'Ancien Régime.
376p 374p two original paperback volumes with old glassine jacket, one spine poor but still a well ...
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An Inventory of the Contents of the Governor's Palace Taken after the Death of Lord Botetourt: An Inventory of the Personal Estate of His Excellency, Lord Botetourt, Royal Governor of Virginia, 1768 - 1770.
19p pamphlet, stapled, transcribed from the original, intriguing document
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Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century England.
64p wrapper with blue lettering, illustrations, very good, excellent copy: "Reason and ...
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English and Continental Views of the Ottoman Empire 1500 - 1800: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar January 24, 1970.
67p white wrapper with red lettering, illustrations, very good, excellent copy
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The Uses of Irony: Papers on Defoe and Swift read at a Clark Library Seminar, April 2, 1966.
65p faint blue wrapper with black lettering, very good copy
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Homage to Yeats 1865 - 1965.
77p green wrapper, very good, excellent copy, clean and tight
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Some Aspects of Seventeenth Century English Printing with Special Reference to Joseph Moxon.
32p wrapper with green lettering, illustrations, very good, excellent copy
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Scientific Literature in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England: Papers delivered by C. Donald O'Malley and A. Rupert Hall at the Sixth Clark Library Seminar, 6 May 1961.
iv 45p stapled booklet, mustard cover, illustrations, very good
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The Beginnings of Autobiography in England: A Paper Delivered by James M. Osborn at the Fifth Clark Library Seminar, 8 August 1959.
iv 25p stapled booklet, brown cover, illustrations, very good
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The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers.
viii 168p tan hardback with somewhat worn white jacket, hardly used at all, a very good copy
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The Limits of Reform in the Enlightenment: Attitudes toward the Education of the Lower Classes in Eighteenth-Century France.
xvi 324p hardback with somewhat aged dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, barely used, no name or ...
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The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe.
xxiii 273p large paperback with pinlk illustrated cover, clean and tight copy, fresh and hardly ...
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Prophecy and Reason: The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment.
xii 277p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent fresh copy, very good indeed, first edition, without ...
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La Vie Culturelle dans nos Provinces au XVIII Siècle (Pays-Bas Autrichiens, Principauté se Liège et Duché de Bouillon)
175p oversized large format paperback, map design to cover, many illustrations, uncommon title
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