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Photo of "La tresjoyeuse, plaisante et recreative ..."

[CHEVALIER DE BAYARD]. La tresjoyeuse, plaisante et recreative hystoire, compose par le loyal serviteur, des faiz, gestes, triumphes et prouesses du bon chevalier sans paour et sans reprouche, le gentil seigneur de bayart... Paris. J. L. F. Foucault, 1820. 8vo. 410pp. Handsomely bound by Frost & Company of Bath in recent red half-morocco, red cloth boards, tooled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22421

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[CROKER, John Wilson]. Stories selected from the history of england, from the Conquest to the Revolution. For children. London. John Murray, 1822. Eighth edition. 12no. vi, [1], 8- 180pp. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Early inked gift inscription to FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23408

[MÉCHIN, Alexandre Edme, Baron]. Précis de mon voyage et ma mission en italie, dans les années 1798 et 1799; et relation des événemens qui ont eu lieu a viterbe depuis le 27 novembre 1798, jusqu'au 28 décembre suivant. [Laon]. [Impr. de Melleville], 1808. First edition. 8vo. 92pp. Recent cloth-backed marbled paper boards, calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece. Bookplate of John Fowles to FEP, title page browned. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23825

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[FRENCH LITERATURE]. Tableau de la litterature francaise pendant le dix-huitieme siecle. Paris et London. Colburn, 1813. First edition. 8vo. 196pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription and manuscript annotations to front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24024

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[LARIVE DUPA, Mathilde de]. Essai sur l'éducation de l'enfance. Genève [i.e. Geneva]. Ab. Cherbuliez et Ce., 1837. First edition. 8vo. [4], 284pp, [2]. With a half-title. Later brown paper-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt Rubbed, surface loss to boards, joints starting, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Swansea Training College to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24324

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[LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY]. The university of liverpool: a record of the opening of the harold cohen library by the right honourable the earl baldwin of bewdley, k. g. on saturday, may 21st, 1938. [Liverpool]. [C. Tinling & Co.], [1938]. First edition. Quarto. 19pp, [1]. With seven photographic plates and a full- page illustrated in the text. Original publisher's navy morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt to upper board, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Endpapers spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24533

FULLARTON, Lady Georgina. La comtesse de bonneval... Paris. La Libraire d'Auguste Vaton, 1857. First edition in French. 8vo. xiv, [2], 319pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy morocco-backed blue cloth boards, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25075

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[SAUNDERS, Edmund]. Summus Angliae Seneschallus: or, a survey of the Lord High-Steward of England, his Office, Dignity, and Jurisdiction; Particularly the Manner of arraigning a Peer indicted of treason or felony. In a Letter to the Lords in the tower; with Resolutions to certain queries made by their Lordships, relating to Traiterous and Seditious Practices. London. Re-printed and sold by M. Cooper, 1746. Second edition. 8vo. [2], 49pp, [1]. Recent dark green calf-backed green cloth. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25131

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CORRY, John. The life of Joseph priestley... Birmingham. Printed by Wilks, Grafton, & Co., 1804. First edition. 8vo. 4, [1], 10-60pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Dust-soiled, frontispiece creased and marked, small hole to centre of final leaf - touching text with slight loss of sense - scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25224

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BEAMISH, Tufton. Battle royal: a new account of Simon de Montfort's struggle against King Henry III. London. Frederick Muller Limited, [1965]. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 285pp, [1]. With a frontispiece and eight plates. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed. Internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to title page: ''Bill' Slim / with my kindest regards / and special respect / Tufton'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25848

[ALMANACK]. Time's Telescope, for 1831. London. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1831. First edition. 8vo. viii, 416pp. Title page in red and black, with numerous in-text illustrations. Modern red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Leaves browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25894

[ALMANACK]. Time's telescope for 1814. London. Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1814. First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 370pp. With a handful of in-text illustrations. Modern red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Leaves browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25895

[GEORGE III]. Memoirs of his late most excellent majesty king george III. Chiefly illustrative of his private, domestic, and christian virtues; His Patronage of the Arts, Literature, &c. &c. &c. With numerous original anecdotes. London. Published by R. Miller, 1820. Second edition. 8vo. 64pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one further engraved plate (a portrait of George IV). Uncut. Later stitched into original publisher’s printed buff wrappers, with the edition of a [2]pp publisher's advertisement announcing the publication of the present work. Extremities worn, loss to spine. Plates foxed. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26129

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CLARK, Hugh. WORMULL, Thomas. A short and easy introduction to heraldry... London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1779. Fourth edition. 8vo. [4], 106pp. With 24 engraved plates. Without the final leaf of advertisements. Later brown cloth, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked. Occasional spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26387

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SHAILER, W. [editor]. The young man's best companion; or, the new book of knowledge; being a regular system of education, without the aid of a tutor... Edinburgh. Published by Thomas Nelson, 1837. 8vo. [4], viii, 476pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's brown cloth, later rebacked preserving original back-strip, modern paper lettering. Rubbed and lightly marked, corners exposed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26412

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CRABITES, Pierre. Gordon: the Sudan and Slavery. London. George Routledge and Sons, 1933. First edition. 8vo. x, 334pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, printed paper dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper lightly marked, chipped at head and foot of spine panel. Iked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27517

Photo of "The letters of Robert Browning ..."

BROWNING, Robert. The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845-1846... London. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. Third impression. 8vo. IN two volumes. [8], 579, [5]; 579pp, [5]. With a portrait frontispiece, facsimile letter and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements to each volume. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spines dulled. Bookplates of the Robert Browning Settlement library to front endpapers of both volumes, with their ink-stamps to titles, frontispiece of Vol. I detached, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27573

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VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. Gerardi joannis vossii De historicis graecis libri IV... Lugundi Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. Ex Officina Joannis Maire, 1650. Quarto. [4], 549pp, [53]. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf. Extremities worn, surface loss to boards, lower joint split, upper board held by cords only, corners bumped. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, worm-track to upper corner of latter half of text-block, short tear to margin of leaf Cccc1. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27645

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GRESWELL, Edward. Preliminary address of the origines kalendariae italicae lately published at the oxford university press. Oxford. John Henry Parker, 1854. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 135pp. Bound by Winstanley of Manchester in contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28212

WA-SHA-QUON-ASIN (Grey Owl). Tales of an Empty Cabin. London. Lovat Dickson, [1936]. Second impression. 8vo. xvi, 335pp, [1]. With a frontispiece and a further 27 plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, signed by the author to title page. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28272