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[HARRIS'S CABINET]. The courtship and marriage of Jerry & Kitty. London. J. Harris, 1814. First edition. 16mo. [16] engraved leaves, printed on one side only, comprising engraved title page and fifteen hand-coloured engravings. Original publisher's pink wrappers, printed paper label with title in manuscript to upper wrapper. A trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional light spotting, minute hole to centre of terminal leaf. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30147
[HERALDRY]. WESTHEAD, Mary. AMDG Course of Heraldry: Schools of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus: Blackpool. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1870?] Oblong quarto. Manuscript on paper. Whatman watermark. Original watercolour, gouache, and ink illustrations of arms, crests, regalia, and orders throughout. Concludes with table of precedency. Attractively bound in contemporary navy calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32753
[HOFLAND, Barbara]. The panorama of europe; or, A New Game of Geography. London. Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co., 1819. Second edition. 12mo. v, [1], 191pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-tooled red roan-backed buff paper boards. Rubbed, joints starting, corners exposed. Contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32558
HOMER. [The Iliad, in Greek]. Glasgaue, [i.e. Glasgow]. excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1756. xi, [1], 312; [4], 336pp. ESTC T90244. marginal paper reapirs to 3K2 3T2; a2 4k1

[Bound with] HOMER. [The Odyssey, in Greek]. [8], 297, [1]; [4], 336pp. ESTC T90244.

Folio. Four volumes. Large paper copy, untrimmed, printed on writing demy folio paper, measuring 387 x 240mm, with the watermark of a fleur-de-lys within a crowned shield (Gaskell's no. 7). With half-titles to each volume, but ... More >
£ 6,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28901
HORACE. Q. horatii flacci epistolae ad pisones, et augustum: with an english commentary and notes: to which are added critical dissertations. By the reverend mr. hurd. London. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for T. Cadell, 1776. Fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 277, [1]; xix, [1], 247, [1]; [2], 265pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early inked ownership inscription to head of Vol. III title, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33072
HOUGH, J. [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... Manchester. Printed and published by J. Gleave and Son, 1825. 8vo. 612pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 10 engraved plates (one folding). Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed. Plates browned, folding plate split, marginal loss to leaf 3G, terminal leaf and rear endpapers dampstained, spotted. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 30382
HOWARD, Alfred. The beauties of byron, consisting of selections from his works. London. Printed by T. Davison, for Thomas Tegg, [s.d., c. 1835] 12mo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain red morocco. Rubbed, lightly marked. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription to head of half-title, offsetting to title page, manuscript shelf-marks to verso, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32993
HOWARD, Alfred. The beauties of byron, consisting of selections from his works. London. Printed by T. Davison, for Thomas Tegg, [s.d., c. 1835] 12mo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Modern tan cloth-backed brown paper boards, original publisher's printed covers pasted over, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's covers marked, chipped, and discoloured. Manuscript dates to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32994
HOYLE, [Edmond]. Hoyle's games improved: Being practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, viz. Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. London. Printed for T. Wood, 1779. 12mo. xi, [1], 216pp. Contemporary sheep. Heavily worn, loss to spine, lightly marked, corners exposed. Small worm-track to foot of gutter running throughout text-block, ink stains to verso of terminal leaf and rear endpapers. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33049
IRVING, David. The elements of english composition. Containing practical instructions for writing the english language with perspicuity and elegance; and Designed, in the Progress of Education, to succeed to the Study of English Grammar, and of the Latin and Greek Classics. London. Printed for R. Phillips...By T. Gillet, 1801. First edition. 8vo. x, 262pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Rubbed and marked, spine worn, boards held by cords only. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31815
IZACKE, Richard. Remarkable Antiquities of the city of exeter. Giving an Account Of the Laws and Customs of the Place, the Offices, Court of Judicature, Gates, Walls, Rivers, Churches, and Immunities: The Titles and Privileges of the several Incorporations: with their distinct Coats of Arms Engrav'd on Copper Plates... London. Printed for Edward Score, John March, and Nathaniel Thorne, 1723. 8vo. [2], iii, [1], 25, [26], 50-69, [1], 213pp, [67]. With an engraved frontispiece on the city's arms, a folding engraved view of the cathedral, and a folding engraved plan of the city. Recent half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. Later inked ownership inscription to verso of title page, short tear to engraved plan at fold, naively repaired with tape to verso, ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32956