Archaeology from Rickaro Books Ltd

East Ardsley Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in d/w. An excellent professional facsimile reprint, with a new Foreword, of this the classic work on the sword by the great Victorian polymath Sir Richard Francis Burton. With a new Foreword by J.G. Cluff. 299pp. NOT to… Read more about this item

Leeds: The Museum of Leeds, 1987. Book. Illus. by Brears, Peter. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in white card covers. 52pp illustrated throught with drawings by Peter Brears..

Cheltenham: History Press, 2023. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of the first edition. In the summer of 1483, Edward V (aged 12) and his brother Richard Duke of York (aged 9), disappeared from the Tower of London. For over 500 years, history has judged that they were murdered on… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, the author provides a new narrative: one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart. Quinn argues that… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. In this highly original history, Dr John Ashdown-Hill seeks to dispel the myths surrounding Cecily using previously unexamined contemporary sources. 290pp..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy, sewn in sections, hundreds of illustrations mostly printed in colour, index. This festschrift honours the late Jerome Bertram of the Oxford Oratory and former Vice-President of the Monumental Brass Society, who admired, researched, lectured on and wrote about monumental brasses… Read more about this item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. The third in a series of Tower Studies, which here publishes the fourth and fifth conferences of the European Towers Studies Group, held in 2013 and 2014. Since their first delivery, the papers have undergone significant revision to bring thinking… Read more about this item

Wakefield: The West Yorkshire Printing Company (Privately Published), 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Second Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The two volume second edition, in the original dust-wrappers revised and enlarged from the first edition, of this classic of local history, with a list of subscribers, numbered and signed by the author. In vg… Read more about this item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A new copy. This book is the eighth in a series on Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, extending from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. The mysterious prehistoric and Roman periods are covered, stretching through several thousand years but suggesting remarkable continuity,… Read more about this item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collection of 27 academic essays on the life and cult of St Guthlac, the saint who was honoured at Crowland (or Croyland) Abbey in the Lincolnshire fens. Guthlac had his hermitage there from the late-seventh century until his death in 714. Many of… Read more about this item

Elland: W.H. Gledhill, 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of the first edition in original clean green cloth with title in black to front board. Photographic frontispiece and twenty line drawings on different paper. xv + 188pp and plates. With some contemporary notes about Joseph Brookbank of… Read more about this item

Donnington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. Here are 19 peer-reviewed essays by leading historians exploring medieval travel in general, not pilgrimage which is more frequently studied. Many medieval journeys were undertaken for reasons other than religion. The essays reveal the roads traversed by travellers, the maps… Read more about this item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine new copy. 448pp. plus 224 pages of colour plates, real-cloth binding, sewn in sections and colour dustwrapper. France is fabulously rich in incised effigial slabs - a two-dimensional form of funeral monument popular from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century - and… Read more about this item

Rome: Chalcographia R.C.A. apud Pedem Marmoreum,, 1742. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A very good copy nicely rebound in tan half leather, tan cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers. [2pp], xxiipp, 225pp, [1p]; engraved title, numerous large engraved illustrations by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Pasted in, to the reverse of the final leaf is… Read more about this item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 298pp + colour plates..

Spalding: Spalding Gentleman's Club with Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 64pp.This handsome small book tells the story of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, one of the earliest such learned societies in Britain, founded by Maurice Johnson of Ayscoughfee Hall in 1710 and still in existence today. Nowadays… Read more about this item

Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this new work on Anglo-Saxon gold coinage. Includes details of the few known forgeries in gold, or warnings if a unique coin is now considered 'doubtful' for various evidential reasons. This useful fully illustrated work comes with a… Read more about this item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collection of 27 academic essays on the life and cult of St Guthlac, the saint who was honoured at Crowland (or Croyland) Abbey in the Lincolnshire fens. Guthlac had his hermitage there from the late-seventh century until his death in 714. Many… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine new copy. From the Latin warriors on the Palatine Hill in the age of Romulus, to the last defenders of Constantinople in 1453 AD, the weaponry of the Roman Army was constantly evolving. Through glory and defeat, the Roman warrior adapted to… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. From the time of the Bronze Age, the warriors of all tribes and nations sought to emblazon their arms and armour with items and images to impress upon the enemy the wealth and power of the wearer. Magnificently decorated shields… Read more about this item