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[DU PERRAY, Brossays]. Historical remarks and anecdotes on the castle of the bastille. Translated from the french published in 1774.. London. Printed for T. Cadell, and N. Conant, 1780. First edition. 8vo. [6], 29, [1]. With a large folding engraved map as frontispiece. Modern blind-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed to extremities. Armorial bookplate of Alan Waterworth to FEP. Numerous later naive paper repairs to verso of folding map. Light browning to initial leaves, some staining to plate and title. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 35207
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SPENCE, Lewis. The problem of atlantis. London. William Rider & Son, Limited, 1924. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 233pp. With a frontispiece and a further 15 plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Joseph Appleby dated December 1924 to browned FFEP, light spotting to initial and terminal leaves. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35192
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AVEBURY, The Right Hon. Lord [John Lubbock]. The pleasures of life. London. Macmillan and Co., 1904. Two hundred and ninth thousand. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. xii, [2], 199, [1]; [3], vi-viii, 280pp. With half-title to Vol. I. Without half-title to Vol. II. Second volume, one hundred and sixty-sixth thousand, dated 1903. Handsomely bound by Bickers and Son of Leicester (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Very lightly rubbed, with light staining to ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35131
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[SILKS]. Fifty methods of producing a silk. London. Jack Hughes and Harry Stanley. [s.d., c. 1940s?] First edition. 8vo. 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, wrappers toned. Light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34506
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[ROYAL NAVY]. A list of the flag officers and other commissioned officers of His Majesty's fleet; with the dates of their respective commissions. London. Printed by Henry Teape, 1823. 8vo. 135, [1], 253pp, [1]. Contemporary calf backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavy rubbing and cracking to spine, without marbled paper to upper board and loss of majority to lower board. Light damp-staining to preliminaries, several gathering protruding from text-block, spots of dust-soiling, ink deletions to entries of first 10 pages. Ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP; 'Captain Macnamara / R.N. / ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11708
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STARK, Freya. Rome on the euphrates. London. John Murray, [1966]. First edition. 8vo. xi, 481pp, [1]. With half-title; title page in red and black. Original publisher's light blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, with original pictorial printed paper dust-wrapper. Light wear to edges of dust-wrapper; otherwise, a fine copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34960
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BROADHURST, Thomas. Advice to young ladies on the improvement of the mind, and the conduct of life.. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orne, 1810. The second edition, revised and corrected. 8vo. xiii, [1], 125pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece to spine. Worn, boards scored, upper board detached, lower joint split, surface loss to spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Sarah Mills to FFEP, leaves lightly browned, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34438
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SHIRREFF, Emily. Intellectual education and its influence on the character and happiness of women. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. New edition. 8vo. xii, 276pp. Bound by Bickers & Son (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in later half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'Clementine Mitford from her loving mother H. Blanche Airlie. Dec. 1889'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 34749
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ALLINGHAM, H[elen]. BAUMER WILLIAMS, E. [Editors]. Letters to William Allingham. London. Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. First edition. 8vo. viii, 314pp. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece by Helen Allingham. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, with chipping to head of spine. A presentation copy, with the inscription 'To Miss Reutland, with the best wishes of H. Allingham', dated 1st September 1915 to FFEP; later gift inscription from Irish author Aodh du Blacom, ... More > £ 65.00 Antiquates Ref. 34587
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STRADA, Famiano. Famiani stradæ prolusiones academicæ. Oxonii, [i.e. Oxford]. E Theatro Sheldoniano, Impensis Jac. Fletcher Bibliopolæ, 1745. 8vo. [12], 325pp, [21]. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, later red paper label with title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, corners exposed. Pastedowns sprung, early manuscript bibliographical note to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23315
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MOORE, Virginia. The life and eager death of emily brontë: A Biography. London. Rich & Cowan, [1936]. 8vo. Proof copy. [16], 374pp. Without the 12 plates issued with the first edition (list of illustrations fittingly blank). Original publisher's buff wrappers, printed paper title label to upper wrappers. Housed in modern green cloth solander. Lightly rubbed, creased, some loss to lower wrapper, head and foot of spine chipped. Occasional contemporary marginal pencilled annotations/corrections. With a loosely inserted single sheet prospectus announcing the 1939 French ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 23926
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EDGEWORTH, Maria. EDGEWORTH, Richard Lovell. Memoirs of richard lovell edgeworth, esq. begun by himself and concluded by his daughter, maria edgeworth. London. Printed for R. Hunter, 1820. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], 392; [4], vii, [1], 498pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume and a further seven engraved plates (two folding). Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed, spines sunned. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33103
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DE STAËL, Madame La Baronne. Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution françoise, ouvrage posthume de mad. la baronne de staël. Londres [i.e. London]. Baldwin, Cradock, et Joy, 1819. Second edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 436; viii, 421, [1]; vii, [1], 430pp. Finely bound by J. Kelly (small paper label to verso of FFEP, Vols. I and III) in contemporary gilt-tooled, blind- ruled half-calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, extremities a trifle worn. With a small tear Y8 of Vol. III. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26469
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PAYNE, Humfry. YOUNG, Gerard Mackworth.. Archaic marble sculpture from the acropolis. London. The Cresset Press Limited, [1936]. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xiii, [2], 75pp; [2], 140pp. With a photographic frontispiece to vol. I; vol. II comprised solely of 140 photographic plates. Original publisher's gilt-tooled red cloth, vellum lettering-pieces to upper boards. Spines lightly sunned. Light spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34151
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[COLERIDGE, John Taylor]. Etymology, a prize essay, recited in the theatre at oxford, June 30, 1813. [Oxford]. [S. Collingwood], [1813]. First edition. 35pp, [1].

[Bound with:] COLERIDGE, John Taylor. Quam vim in moribus Populi Romani corrigendis habuerit Potestas Censoria? Oratio cancellarii præmio donata, et in theatro sheldoniano habita Die Jun. xxxmo. A.D. 1813. [Oxford]. [S. Collingwood], [1813]. First edition. 21pp, [1].

[And:] [COLERIDGE, John Taylor]. Pyramides Egyptiacæ Carmen Cancellarii Præmico Donatam et in Theatro Sheldoniano Recitation Die Jun AD 1810. Manuscript on paper. [11]ff.

[And:] [COLERIDGE, John ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26003
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PETTINGAL, John. The latin inscription, on the copper table, Discovered in the Year 1732, near heraclea, in the Bay of tarentum, in magna graecia, And published, by mazochius, at Naples, in the year 1758. More particularly Considered and Illustrated. London. [s.n.], [1760]. First edition. Quarto. 9pp, [1]. With an engraved folding plate. The plate is common to this work and Philip Carteret Webb's An account of a copper table (1760). Uncut and unopened in original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. Rubbed, backstrip perished. Loss to lower corner of FFEP and upper corner of title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25620