An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform [vol 1]

This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-580-46098-9

Price:  £90.00

An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform [vol 2]

This is a catalog of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early America. Though written primarily by people with professional competence, the books described within are directed to a non-medical audience. They teach humananatomy, physiology, hygiene, sanitation, temperance, and diet; how to maintain or regain health, or how to cope with illness, especially when no professional help was available.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-580-46115-3

Price:  £70.00

An Englishman's Journey along America's Eastern Waterways

Herbert Holtham, a Unitarian minister from Brighton, England, came to the US in the spring of 1831, and spent several months traveling in the northeast. He recorded his impressions of urban and rural scenes, people and their opinions, family and church life and activities, and reports of many conversations he had while traveling. His journal provides a superior set of impressions of America at the time.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-580-46079-8

Price:  £19.99

Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland & America 1798

An almanack. Contains thousands of names, including consuls, politicians, peers, and officers of the army and navy, etc. Excellent source material for genealogists and historians.    

Price:  £9.79

British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783

America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83011-5

Price:  £45.00

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne, Preserved in the Public Record Office

This volume brings the Domestic Calendar to the end of the secretaryship of Sir Charles Hedges, and the appointment of Lord Sutherland in his place. Drawn from several categories of State Papers, the records contain the usual mixture of high politics and local concerns, though they are far from insular: Marlborough's second great victory, at Ramillies, is reported and celebrated, for example, and communications are improved with the forces in northern Europe.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83251-5

Price:  £150.00

David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America

This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little influence in early America. Eighteenth-century Americans are often supposed to have ignored Hume's philosophical writings and to have rejected entirely Hume's "Tory" History of England.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-580-46118-4

Price:  £50.00

English Public Opinion and the American Civil War

At the end of the American Civil War, both North and South condemned Britain for allegedly sympathising with the other side. Yet after the conflict, a traditional interpretation of the subject arose which divided English sentimentbetween progressivism siding with the Union and conservatism supporting the Confederacy.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93263-4

Price:  £40.00

Maritime Empires

Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London) conference, provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83076-4

Price:  £50.00

Mr Tuke's Fund for Assisted Emigration 1882-5

This extraordinary book, was a private collection of 20 separately published pieces relating to work of the Fund established in 1882 to assist emigration from the west of Ireland to America. 9,482 people were assisted by this fund up to 1885, and this book contains a vast amount of detail about ...     ISBN 1-84630-056-8

Price:  £16.90

Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858-1870

This CD-ROM is a must for all those studying migration from North America to Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe, as well as the passenger ships that carried them. The CD contains extensive details on over 42,000 passengers who travelled to Britain and Ireland ...     ISBN 1-905118-00-7

Price:  £26.50

The American Atlas

The American Atlas was first published in 1776 in London, and consisted of twenty-nine maps made by one of the most renowned cartographers of the day, Thomas Jefferys. To celebrate the American Bicentennial in 1976, Nottingham Court Press produced a facsimile of the American Atlas, limited to 200 copies. The company ceased trading, and a forgotten stock of copies recently came to light at the binders.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83032-0

Price:  £995.00

The Battle of Yorktown, 1781: A Reassessment

Yorktown [1781], where a British Army, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to the American forces under George Washington and their French allies, has generally been considered one of the decisive battles of the American War of Independence.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83137-2

Price:  £50.00

The Conquest of the North Atlantic

The early voyages into the deep waters of the Atlantic rank among the greatest feats of exploration. In tiny, fragile vessels the Irish monks searched for desolate places in the ocean in which to pursue their vocation; their successors, the Vikings, with their superb ship-building skills, created fast, sea-worthy craft which took them far out into the unknown, until they finally reached Greenland and America.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83316-1

Price:  £10.99

The History of Freemasonry

Three large volumes describe the history of Freemasonry across the world. Mediaeval origins in trades unions, decline during the Reformation and return in 1717 until 1887. Chronicles antiquities, symbols, customs and constitutions of every Grand Lodge, in England, Europe, Asia and North America.    

Price:  £25.49

The Irish Emigrant's Guide for the United States, 1890

This was the first edition published in Ireland. Much of the contents of this book focus on practical issues facing those emigrating to the United States and looks to ...     ISBN 1-84630-054-1

Price:  £13.50

The Scotch-Irish

Researchers with an interest in human migration and in the history of Scotland, Ireland or North America will find this an extremely useful resource and thought provoking source, which will stimulate future study. Two volumes (over 1,200 pages) packed with details on the origin and migration of Scottish people over the course of twelve centuries.     ISBN 1-84630-080-0

Price:  £23.70