THE ENGLISH, SCOTTISH
& IRISH NOBILITY COLLECTION
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A truly fascinating and unique
collection of 170 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time
on 2 DVD’s covering all aspects of NOBILITY IN ENGLAND,
SCOTLAND & IRELAND.
This huge collection is an
absolute treasure of valuable research material for anyone interested in the
royalty, nobility, aristocracy, peerage, baronetage, knightage and great historical families
of England, Scotland and Ireland. Discover the history of
the English royal family, from the earliest times to the reign of Queen Victoria. Study the chronological
and genealogical accounts of nobility and peerage in these ancient kingdoms.
Learn about the genealogical succession of the peerage of Ireland. Read
about the knights, distinguished families and noble men of England.
Discover the descents, marriages, issue, titles, posts, and seats of all the
nobility throughout Britain
and Ireland.
Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in British and
Irish royalty, nobility and genealogy. The full list of titles included speaks
for itself….
Containing extremely
hard-to-find books and documents that date back as far as the early 1600’s,
this wonderful collection provides a valuable genealogical library of reference
material for researchers, students and any enthusiast of British and Irish
nobility!
This outstanding compilation
of 170 vintage books on 2 DVD data discs provides literally 1,000’s of pages of
great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the
books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format -
easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone,
kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.
This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows:
British & Irish
Nobility – Disc 1:
A book of
duchesses; studies in personality by A. E. Robbins (1913)
A catalogue
and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts
of this realme of England, since the Norman conquest, to this present yeare,
1619 by R. Brooke (1619)
A catalogue
of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works
Vols. 1, 2 & 4 by H. Walpole (1758)
A collection
of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England,
princes and princesses of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal by J.
Nichols (1780)
A
dissertation on the history of hereditary dignities, particularly as to their
course of descent, and their forfeiture by attainder by W. F. Finlason (1869)
A fair and
candid address to the nobility and baronets of the United Kingdom by W. Playfair
(1809)
A
genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire by B. Burke (1869)
A general and
heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom, for M.D.CCC.XXVI by
J. Burke (1826)
A history of
the baronetage by F. W. Pixley (1900)
A manual of
dignities, privilege, and precedence - including lists of the great public
functionaries, from the revolution to the present time by C. R. Dod (1843)
A short view
of the families of the present English nobility by T. Salmon (1761)
A treatise on
the origin and nature of dignities, or titles of honor; containing all the
cases of peerage, together with the mode of proceeding in claims of this kind
by W. Cruise (1823)
A visitation
of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vols. 1 & 2 by B. Burke
(1854)
An enquiry
into the origin and manner of creating peers by R. West (1782)
An inquiry
into the origin and limitations of the feudal dignities of Scotland by W. Borthwick (1775)
Anecdotes of
the aristocracy, and episodes of ancestral story by B. Burke (1851)
Anecdotes of
the upper ten thousand - their legends and their lives Vol. 2 by G. F. Berkeley
(1867)
Anglo-Saxon
bishops, kings and nobles - the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of
the kings and nobles by W. G. Searle (1899)
Baronia
anglica. An history of land-honors and
baronies, and of tenure in capite by T. Madox (1741)
Baronia
anglica concentra, or, A concentrated account of all the baronies commonly
called baronies in fee Vols. 1 & 2 by T. C. Banks (1843)
Border
memories; or, Sketches of prominent men and women of the border by W. R. Carre
(1876)
British
aristocracy and the House of Lords by E. Carpenter (1908)
Chapters from
family chests Vols. 1 & 2 by E. Walford
(1887)
Collins's
peerage of England;
genealogical, biographical, and historical Vols. 1 - 9 by A. Collins (1812)
Complete
baronetage Vols. 1 & 2 by G. E. Cokayne (1900)
Complete
baronetage Vol. Index by G. E. Cokayne (1900)
Complete
peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland; together with an extinct
peerage of the three kingdoms, list of all their family names, titles of elder
sons, etc. Vols. 1 & 2 by G. Kearsley (1809)
Corrected
report of the speech of George Canning, in the house of commons, on the 30th
April 1822; in moving for leave to bring in a bill to restore to Roman Catholic
Peers (1822)
Debrett's
Baronetage of England
by J. Debrett (1835)
Debrett's
peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage by J. Debrett (1893)
Dod's
peerage, baronetage and knightage, of Great
Britain and Ireland by C. R. Dod (1866)
Estimate of
the Scottish nobility during the minority of James the Sixth by C. Rogers
(1873)
Estimates of
the English kings from William 'the Conqueror' to George III by J. L. Sanford
(1872)
Genealogical
tables of the sovereigns of the world, from the earliest to the present period
by W. Betham (1795)
Kelly's
handbook of distinguished people Vols. 1 & 2 (1888)
Le Neve's
pedigrees of the knights made by King Charles II., King James II., King William
III. and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne by P. Le Neve (1873)
Lives of the
queens of Scotland and
English princesses connected with the regal succession of Great Britain Vols. 1 - 8 by A.
Strickland (1851)
Love romances
of the aristocracy by T. Hall (1911)
Memoirs of
the peers of England,
during the reign of the First. Vol. 1 by E. Brydges (1802)
Notabilities
in France and England
by P. Chasles (1853)
Notables of Britain;
an album of portraits and autographs of the most eminent subjects of Her Majesty
in the 60th year of her reign (1897)
On the
nobility of the British gentry, or the political ranks and dignities of the British Empire by J. H. Lawrence (1827)
Our old
nobility by H. Evans (1879)
Peerage and
pedigree, studies in peerage law and family history Vol. 1 by J. H. Round
(1910)
Personal
nobility; or, Letters to a young nobleman by V. Knox (1793)
Pictures and
royal portraits illustrative of English and Scottish history Vols. 1 & 2 by
T. Archer (1878)
Popular
royalty by A. H. Beaven (1904)
Portraits of
illustrious personages of Great
Britain - with biographical and historical
memoirs of their lives and actions Vols. 1 - 12 by E. Lodge (1835)
Prestwich's
Respublica, or, A display of the honors, ceremonies & ensigns of the
Common-wealth under the protectorship of Oliver Cromwell by J. Prestwich (1787)
Queen Victoria by L. Strachey
(1921)
Romances of
the peerage by W. Greenwood (1914)
Some feudal
lords and their seals, MCCCJ by H. de Walden (1904)
State-worthies
or, The statesmen and favourites of England from the reformation to the
revolution by D. Lloyd (1766)
Studies in
peerage and family history Vol. 2 by J. H. Round (1901)
Synopsis of
the extinct baronetage of England
by W. J. Courthope (1835)
Tales of our
great families. 2d series Vols. 1 & 2 by E. Walford
(1877)
Tales of our
great families by E. Walford (1890)
The baronage
and the senate; or, The House of Lords in the past, the present, and the future
by W. C. MacPherson (1893)
British & Irish
Nobility – Disc 2:
The book of the court; exhibiting the
history, duties, and privileges of the several ranks of the English nobility
and gentry by W. J. Thoms (1844)
The British compendium; or, Rudiments of
honour Containing the origin of the Scots, and succession of their kings for
above 2000 years Vol. 3 by F. Nichols (1741)
The chronicle of the kings of England from William the Norman to the death of George III by R.
Dodsley (1821)
The coats of arms of the nobility and
gentry of Yorkshire by J. H. Turner (1911)
The complete peerage of England,
Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or
dormant Vols. 1 - 7 by G. E. Cokayne (1887)
The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled
and untitled aristocracy of England,
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland by E. Walford (1860)
The dormant and extinct baronage of England
Vols. 1 - 3 by T. C. Banks (1807)
The genealogy of the existing British
peerage, with sketches of the family histories of the nobility by E. Lodge
(1838)
The great governing families of England
Vols. 1 & 2 by J. L. Sanford (1865)
The great historic families of Scotland
by J. Taylor (1887)
The historic peerage of England
by N. H. Nicolas (1857)
The history of the royal family of England
Vols. 1 & 2 by F. G. Bagshawe (1912)
The household of a Tudor nobleman by P.
V. B. Jones (1918)
The Irish compendium; or, Rudiments of
honour. Containing the descents, marriages, issue, titles, posts, and seats of
all the nobility of Ireland
Vol. 4 by F. Nichols (1745)
The jubilee date-book - the regnal years
of the kings and queens of England,
from William the Conqueror to Victoria
by W. D. Selby (1887)
The Knights of England Vols. 1 & 2 by W. A.
Shaw (1906)
The life & letters of Lady Dorothy
Nevill by R. Nevill (1919)
The most gorgeous Lady Blessington by J.
F. Molloy (1897)
The new peerage, or, Ancient and present
state of the nobility of England,
Scotland, and Ireland
Vols. 1 - 3 by E. Kimber (1784)
The
nobilities of Europe by M. de Ruvigny (1909)
The noble and
gentle men of England
by E. P. Shirley (1859)
The note-book
of Tristram Risdon, 1608-1628 by T. Risdon (1897)
The official
baronage of England,
showing the succession, dignities, and offices of every peer from 1066 to 1885,
with sixteen hundred illustrations Vols. 1 - 3 by J. E. Doyle (1886)
The Patrician
Vols. 1 - 4 by J. Burke (1846)
The peerage
of England
- a complete view of the several orders of nobility by E. Kimber (1766)
The peerage
of England
by A. Collins (1741)
The peerage
of Ireland or, A genealogical history of the present
nobility of that kingdom Vols. 2 - 7 by J. Lodge (1789)
The peerage
of Scotland a complete view of the several orders of
nobility, of that ancient kingdom by E. Kimber (1767)
The peerage
of the British empire as at present existing by E. Lodge (1837)
The peerage
of the British empire for 1882, with the orders of knighthood by J. Foster
(1882)
The Peerage,
baronetage, and knightage of Great Britain
and Ireland,
for ... including all the titled classes
by C. R. Dod (1844)
The pocket
peerage of Great Britain and
Ireland
by H. R. Forster (1851)
The
principal, historical, and allusive arms, borne by families of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, with their respective
authorities by P. De la Motte (1803)
The rise of
great families, other essays, and stories by B. Burke (1873)
The royal
dukes and princesses of the family of George III. A view of court life and
manners for seventy years, 1760-1830 by P. H. Fitzgerald (1882)
The royal
families of England, Scotland, and Wales - with their descendants,
sovereigns and subjects Vols. 1 & 2 by J. Burke (1848)
The royal
marriage market of Europe by C. Radziwill
(1915)
The royal
princesses of England,
from the reign of George the First by M. Hall (1871)
The Scots
peerage; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of
that kingdom Vols. 1 - 9 by J. B. Paul (1904)
The Shilling
peerage for 1872 by E. Walford (1872)
Vicissitudes
of families (3rd series) by B. Burke (1863)
Vicissitudes
of families Vols. 1 & 2 by B. Burke (1869)
Vicissitudes
of families, and other essays by B. Burke (1860)
An absolute must
for anyone with an interest in the history of royalty and nobility in England, Scotland
& Ireland
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