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[ELIZABETH]. [Manuscript of the death of a husband]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1818?] Quarto. Speculative date from watermark. Manuscript on paper. [21]pp. excluding blanks. Unbound. A few small tears to gutter margins, slightly browned. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23019

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WARDEN, John [editor]. A collection from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, Mr Pope, Mr Dryden, from Mr Rollin's Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, and his Universal History. For the benefit of English Schools. Newcastle Upon Tyne. Printed for John Warden, Teacher of English, 1752. 12mo. [2], 318pp. Title in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled sheep, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints starting. Slight loss and small paper repair to fore-edge of leaf P4. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28459

HOMES, Nath. The new world, or the new reformed church... London. Printed by T[homas]. P[aine]. and M[atthew]. S[immons]. for William Adderton, 1641. First edition. Quarto. [4], 79pp, [1]. Later half-calf, brown cloth boards, recently rebacked, all edges red. Boards worn and marked, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, marginal chipping to title page, damp-staining to fore-edge. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24304

[SOUTH AFRICA]. Bethulie. [Cape Town]. [Wood & Ortlepp], [1900]. Dimensions, unfolded: 620 x 490 mm, folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm. Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's limp red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked. Hinge exposed, short tear to one fold. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29042

BERESFORD. J. D. All or nothing. Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1928. First American edition. 8vo. 327pp. Original publisher's indigo cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped illustrated dustwrapper. Fore and bottom edges uncut, spine a little cocked, with some further bumping. Wrapper shows losses to all panels, and light soiling. Internally a little toned but still clear. Inscribed on the front free endpaper from the author to Henry Williamson 'To my dear old Henry from his friend J. D. ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27256

HULME, Walter Ibbotson. Road to valhalla. [London?]. [1918]. Private press. 8vo. 64pp. Original publisher's pale printed card wraps over untrimmed handmade paper. Wraps detached from text-block, sunned and marked, with the rear heavily notated in Henry Williamson's hand. Page block internally bright and clean save annotations and corrections again in Williamson's hand. With a T.L.S. from the author to Williamson. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27175

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[CHAUCER, Geoffrey]. [MORRIS, William]. [A leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde Book IV pp523-524]. London. The Kelmscott Press, 1896. Dimensions 288 x 423 millimetres. A single leaf (pp523-524) from the larger work. Slightest of creasing to edges, else fine. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29156

[BECCARIA, Cesare, marchese di]. An essay on crimes and punishments, translated from the italian; with a commentary, attributed to Mons. De voltaire, translated from the french. London. Printed for E. Newbery, 1785. Fourth edition. 8vo. viii, [4] ,179 , [1], lxxix, [1]pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29109

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[BROWNE, Moses]. Piscatory Eclogues: an essay to introduce New Rules, and New Characters, into pastoral. To which is prefix'd, a discourseIn Defence of this Undertaking, with Practical and Philosophical notes. London. Printed by C. Ackers, for John Brindley, 1729. First edition. 8vo. [14], 129pp, [1]. Later red straight-grain half-morocco, marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, title page browned. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26633

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COTES, Roger. Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures... Cambridge. Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn, 1747. Second edition. 8vo. [18], 273 [i.e. 289]pp, [11]. With five engraved folding plates and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked, black morocco lettering-piece. Boards worn and marked. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of agricultural reformer Arthur Young (1741-1820) to FEP, head of title page shaved, scattered spotting. Ink-stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to verso of title page and final page of index. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28328

[WEST INDIES]. The present state of the revenues and forces, by sea and land, of France and Spain. Compar'd with Those of great britain. Being An essay to demonstrate the Disadvantages under which france must enter into the present War; if the natural Force of britain is vigorously exerted... London. Printed for Tho. Cooper, 1740. First edition. 8vo. [2], v-viii, 9-62pp. Without half-title. Recent marbled paper wrappers. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26617

YORKE, Henry Redhead. Elements of civil knowledge. Dorchester. Printed for the author by T. Lockett, 1800. First edition. 8vo. [4], viii, [2], 336pp, [2]. Without half-title: 'Mural nights. Vol.1'. With a terminal advertisement leave: 'Ready for the press, the second volume of Mural nights, containing elements of political knowledge, and a method of studying the ancient classics.' - In fact the second volume was never published. Contemporary sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed, joints starting. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29125

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NAAKE, John Theophilus. Slavonic fairy tales. Collected and translated from the Russian, Polish, Servian and Bohemian. London. Henry S. King and Co., 1874. First edition. 8vo. viii, 272pp, with an engraved frontispiece and 3 further engraved plates. Contemporary red half-morocco, red cloth boards, gilt. Marbled end-papers. Slight bumping on corners, mildly. scuffed spine edges with slight wear on boards. Moderate spotting from FEP through preface. Contemporary ink inscription 'Coleridge 1 Sussex Square 1874' to half-title, and further pencilled initials JDC to first leaf of the preface. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25157

LINDSAY, Sir Coutts. Boadicea: A Tragedy. London. Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, 1857. First edition. 8vo. [4], 83pp, [1]. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, spotted. Presentation copy, inked inscription to title page: 'With Coutts Lindsays kindest regards'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29264

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CRESSWELL, Marshall. Local and other songs, reciations, &c. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. W. Chater, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 36pp. Original publisher's orange pictorial wrappers. Housed in recent custom calf-backed marbled paper gatefold case. Rubbed and lightly marked, chipping to spine and wrapper edges, short tear to foot of lower panel. Title page a trifle marked and dusty. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24614

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QUILLINAN, Edward. The sacrifice of Isabel: a poem. London. Bensley and Son, 1816. First Edition. 12mo. 48pp, [2], 11, [1]. With seven pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Uncut in original publisher's boards, title written in manuscript on the spine, circular shelf label at base of spine. Boards slightly rubbed with moderate surface wear, small chip to top of spine. Small hole to FFEP at gutter margin, else a fresh copy. Contemporary inscription of Joseph Tasker to FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26342

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CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Marci tullii ciceronis epistolarum ad familiares libri XVI... Cantabrigiae [i.e. Cambridge]. Impensis Gul. Thurlbourn, [1749]. 8vo. In two volumes. [10], 582, [2]; [4], 570pp, [12]. Later vellum, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting brown and green calf lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24057

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GREEN, Valentine. An account of the discovery of the body of king john, in the cathedral church of worcester, july 17th, 1797, from authentic communications; with illustrations and remarks. London. Published by V. and R. Green, 1797. First edition. Quarto. [4], 8pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. Uncut and unopened. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher’s printed powder blue wrappers. Without backstrip, lightly browned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29586

BERRY, Rev. J[oseph]. New zealand as a field for emigration. London. James Clarke and Co., 1879. First edition. 8vo. 40pp. With an engraved coloured folding map. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. A trifle creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29593

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[NURSERY ALBUM]. The favourite nursery album: 40 Coloured Pictures Mounted on Manilla: Every page a picture. London. T. Nelson and Sons, [s.d., 1890?] Quarto. [4]pp. 40 chromolithographs on 20 manilla card leaves. Original publisher's decorated red cloth. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Near contemporary gift inscription to recto of FFEP, title page and contents browned, some spotting to margins. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25092