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[CONVENTION OF EL PARDO]. The Convention between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain, concluded at the Pardo on the 14th of January 1739, N.S... London. Printed by Samuel Buckley, 1739. First edition. Quarto. 28pp. Modern grey paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece to spine. Leaves a trifle dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28289

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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Rules of The Bannatyne Club. Instituted February, MDCCCXXIII. [Edinburgh?]. [s.n.], [1823]. First edition. 8vo. 11pp, [1]. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes and chipping to gutters. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28590

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DAVIES, Christian. The life and adventures of mrs. christian davies, commonly called mother ross... [London]. [William Clowes and Sons], [s.d., c. 1840] 8vo. [7], 358-502pp. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, bookseller's ticket of Frank Murray of Derby to FEP, else internally clean and crisp More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29047

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[STEPHENS, Frederic George]. A history of Gibraltar and its sieges. London. Provost & Co., 1873. Second edition. Quarto. vi, [2], with a albumen frontispiece, a further three albumen plates, and an engraved map. Bound by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn, N.Y. in contemporary gilt-tooled half morocco, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate and withdrawal stamps of the Minnesota Historical Society to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front free endpaper. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29129

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ORPEN, Sir William. An onlooker in France: 1917-1919. London. Williams and Norgate, 1921. First edition. Quarto. 123pp, [1]. With a half-tone portrait frontispiece and a further 95 half-tone plates. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities marked and lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29637

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THORNTON, Thomas Henry. General sir richard meade and the feudatory states of central and southern india. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First edition. 8vo. xxv, [3], 390, [2], 32pp. With a portrait frontispiece, a further 16 plates, a folding map, and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Later endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked, remnants of printed Edinburgh reading club label to upper board. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29749

CARSTAIRS, R. The Little World of an Indian District Officer. London. Macmillan and Co., 1912. First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 381pp, [1]. With a folding sketch map. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked.. Very occasional light spotting, some edge-wear to map. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29755

MAURICE, Frederick Denison. Has the church, or the state, the power to educate the nation? A course of lectures. London. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1839. First edition. 8vo. xii, 364pp. With a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, joints starting. Bookplate of the Swansea Training College to FEP. Foot of title page shaved, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29842

GRESWELL, Edward. A letter to his grace the duke of wellington, chancellor of the university of oxford, on the proceedings in the house of convocation, On thursday, the 23d inst. Oxford. J. H. Parker, 1837. First edition. 8vo. 37pp, [3]. Unopened. Stitched, as issued. Lightly toned and spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29882

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PHILLIPS, Coleman. British colonization and british commerce. London. Edward Stanford, 1875. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29970

BUCHAN, John. Oliver cromwell. London. Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd, 1934. Fourth impression. Large 8vo. 554pp. With ten maps. Original publisher's green cloth boards lettered gilt, all edged trimmed. With the author's gift inscription on the FFEP 'Dr Thomas Martin, with kindest regards. from John Buchan. Oct: 23: 34', and additional pencil notes to front pastedown. Boards a little rubbed and marked, corners bumped, internally bright and clean with all maps listed present. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30589

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STEPHEN, Geo. A. Music and Musical Literature: an annotated and classified catalogue of music and works on music and musicians in the norwich public libraries. Norwich. Public Libraries Committee, 1924. 8vo. [6], 58pp, [2]. Original publishers red cloth-backed printed light-blue paper boards. Rubbed and sunned. Inked initial 'RCF' to FEP, very occasional pencilled notes. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30783

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[DEBOFFE, J.]. [Drop-head title:] No. I catalogue des livres françois qui se trouvent chez j. deboffe. [London]. [W. Spilsbury], [1804]. 8vo. 16pp. Four loose bifoliums. Stab-stitch holes to gutters. A trifle creased. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30857

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[NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARIES]. [Annual report of the Norwich Public Library]. [vs.]. [vs.], [1930-1974] 8vo. 18 issues bound in two volumes. Contemporary navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spines. Original publisher's printed/pictorial wrappers bound in. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp, bookplates of R. C. Fiske to front endpapers. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30858

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[PORTUGAL]. Documentos Relativos ao apresamento, julgamento entrega da barca franceza charles et georges e em geral ao engajamento de negros... Lisboa [i.e. Lisbon]. Imprensa Nacional, 1858. First edition. Folio. [4], 249, 16, xviii pp. With a terminal errata leaf. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some surface loss to boards. Recent Portuguese bookseller's ticket to FEP, occasional slight spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31156

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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Drop-head title:] Memorandum of swedish troops arrived at stralsund. [London]. Printed by R. G. Clarke, [1813]. Dimensions 190 x120 mm. Single slip sheet. Clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31847

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[SAYAJI RAO III]. Speeches & addresses of his highness sayaji rao III Maharaja of Baroda 1877-1927. London. Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 519pp, [1]. With a photogravure portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine sunned, worming to boards. Coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page, minute worm-tracks running throughout text-block. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32133

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[OWEN, John]. The fashionable world displayed. London. Printed for J. Hatchard, 1805. Third edition. 12mo. xii, 105pp, [3]. With a half-title and three terminal pages of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's power blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Heavily rubbed and marked, loss to lettering-piece. Recent book-label of Peter Stewart Young to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to half-title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32484

MARSHALL, Mrs. Julian. The life & letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. London. Richard Bentley & Son, 1889. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xv, [1], 369, [1]; viii, 325pp, [1]. With photogravure frontispieces to each volume. Contemporary red roan-backed red cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, spines heavily worn and cracked. Endpapers browned, armorial bookplates of A. G. Foster-Barham to FEPs, early inked ownership inscriptions of Mary Clarked to both FFEPs, later ownership inscription of E. Morgan Humphreys pasted to FFEP ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32490

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GIUSTI, Giuseppe. Raccolta di proverbi toscani con illustrazioni. Firenze [i.e. Florence]. Felice Le Monnier, 1853. 12mo. [4], xii, 423pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G., Rubbed and marked, spine dulled, some cockling to boards. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription of K. Speight to recto of front blank fly-leaf, single later manuscript annotation to p.322, scattered spotting, dampstained throughout. John Murray's copy, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32505