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[LADIES' DIARY]. The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1796... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, And sold by Robert Horsfield, [1796]. Ninety-third edition. 8vo. 48pp. Title page in red and black. Naively bound in later limp sheep, paper strip pasted to spine. Rubbed and marked. Title lightly browned. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23170

JUNIUS. Junius. Stat nominis umbra. London. Printed for Henry Sampson Woodfall, 1772. First Woodfall edition, second issue.. 12mo. In two volumes. [2], xxxii, vii, [1], 208; [2], 356pp, [38]. Without final blank leaf to index. Engraved title pages. A reissue of Woodfall’s first edition (ESTC T1830) with the addition of a table of contents and an index covering both volumes. Recent half-calf, brown cloth boards, gilt, A.E.G. A trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23114

JOHNSTON, Jas[on]. Jamaica: the new riviera. London. Cassell and Company, 1903. First edition. Oblong quarto. 46pp, [8]. With 92 photographic illustrations and four final leaves of advertisements.Original publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial boards. Lightly rubbed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23109

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JARVIS, Rupert C.. The Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745... [Carlisle]. [Printed by Steel Bros. Ltd.] Published by the Cumberland County Council, 1954. First edition. 8vo. xx, 427pp, [1]. With six photographic plates and a folding map. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23362

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JAMESON, Robert. An outline of the mineralogy of the shetland islands, and of the island of arran. Illustrated with copper-plates. With an appendix; containing observations on peat, kept, and coal. Edinburgh. Printed for William Creech.., 1798. First edition. Quarto. [4], xiv, 202pp. With an engraved folding map (of the Shetland Islands) and three engraved plates on two leaves (one of which a map of Arran). Early twentieth-century half-calf (with a manuscript note 'Re-bound april 1904' inscribed to RFEP), contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A generously margined copy, with fore-edges and bottom edges uncut. Very slightly marked, slightest of wear to extremities. Spotting to endpapers, and ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 23010

JAMES I. The works of james I, king of scotland... Perth. Printed by R. Morison, Junior, 1786. 12mo. [10], iii, [1], 112, [5], 116-121pp, [1]. With two engraved plates. Handsomely bound by Orrock of Edinburgh in later gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, earlier inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22372

INGELOW, Jean. Poems. Boston. Roberts Brothers, 1865. Author's edition, thirteenth thousand. 8vo. 256, 10pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Later inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'John Linnell sen. 1865 from the Author' - likely landscape and portrait painter, and rival of Constable, John Linnell (1792-1882), with whom Ingelow corresponded. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22218

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[HUGHES, Mary]. [Drop-head title]. The Apprehending and Taking of the Female Robber, mary hughes, alias King, alias Atkinson, alias Evans, in the City of Bath, for Robbing Mrs Whitcomb, at the Boar's Head, Bristol, of Two Hundred Guineas, and a Bank Note value Twenty Pounds. Newcastle. M. Angus & Son, Printers, [s.d., c1800?] Dimensions 194 x 296mm. Single leaf broadside, printed on recto only in two columns. Edges uncut, with some marking, spotting and marginal loss, slight surface loss/tear to verso. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23226

HOYLAND, Francis. Poems and translations. London. Printed for W. Bristow, 1763. First edition. Quarto. [2], 54pp. With an advertisement leaf (misbound after title). Recent brown paper wrappers. Extremities lightly rubbed. Foxed. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22134

HOOD, Thomas. The poetical works. London. E. Moxon, Son, & Co., [s.d., c.1872] 8vo. xxxi, [1], 400, 12pp. With and engraved portrait frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, a further five engraved plates, and six final leaves of publisher's advertisements dated 1872. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt, A.E.G. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Lightly spotted. Landscape pencil sketch to verso of frontispiece with pencilled note: 'Drawn by Mary in bed & very sleepy. 1875'. Pencilled ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18765

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[HMS SORLINGS]. [Drop-head title:] To the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled, The Case of the Widows, Orphans, and aged Mothers of Sons, who were their only Support, and were unfortunately lost in His Majesty's Ship the Sorlings, on the 17th of December, 1717. [s.l, London?]. [s.n., s.d., c.1718?] Folio. Single leaf broadside, with docket title to verso. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, old folds, slight browning to extremities. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22462

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HIME, Maurice C.. On the Superiority, as Moral and Spiritual Beings, of Women to Men... London. Charles J. Thynne, 1923. First edition. 8vo. 59pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Light browning to endpapers, else a fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18517

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[HEY, Rebecca]. Recollections of the lakes, and other poems. London. Tilt and Bogue, 1841. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 284pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Partially unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, splitting to upper joint. Hinges partially exposed, ink-stamp of Mimpriss & Co., Cheltenham to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22217

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HERODOTUS. Erodoto Alicarnasseo padre della greca istoria, dell'imprese de' greci e de' barbari, con la vita d'Omero, nuovamente nella nostra lingua tradotto dal signor Giulio Cesare Becelli...la vita dell'autore descritta per Tommaso Porcacchi...la cronologia di Tommaso Gale, con dieci tavole di geografia antica. E questo è il econdo anello della Collana istorica greca. Verona. Appresso Dionigi Ramanzini, 1733. Quarto. In two volumes. [16], 424; [2], 244, 100, xxxii pp, [4]. With a woodcut Giolito device on title and final pages, a full-page engraved coat-of-arms to Vol. I, and woodcut pictorial initials. Without the 10 engraved folding maps. Contemporary vellum, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Extremities a trifle rubbed and discoloured. Very occasional staining and Armorial bookplate of Lord Robert Spencer to FEP of Vol. ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 18734

HERBERT, [George]. Herbert's poems... London. Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1837. New edition. 8vo. lxxxii, [4], 212pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary black half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Early inked ownership inscriptions to FFEP and head of title page, frontispiece spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23207

HEMANS, Felicia. Moral and religious poems. Edinburgh and London. William Blackwood and Sons, 1850. First edition. 12mo. [3], vi-viii, 262pp. Attractively bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Margaret Schuster to verso of FFEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22207

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[GREAT FIRE OF LONDON]. Illustrated history of the great fire, and a biography, with lithographic illustrations, Sketches of the fire, Portrait, and funeral procession of mr. braidwood. London. Henry Lea, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 64pp. With four lithographic plates (one folding). Disbound. A trifle dusty, recent typed lettering-piece to verso of folding plate. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22340

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[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] An act for preventing Journeymen Shoemakers Selling, Exchanging, or Pawning Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Cut Leather, or other Materials for making Boots, Shoes, or Slippers; and for better Regulating the said Journeymen. [London]. [s.n.], [1723]. Folio. 3pp, [1]. Stab-stitch holes and remains of binding to gutter. Docket title printed to verso. Separated into two leaves along fold. A trifle creased. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 23050

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[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] A bill for the effectual Preventing the Importation of Foreign Thrown Silk, which shall be coarser than those known by the Names of Third Bolognia, and Second Orsoy, and all Trams into this Kingdom, from Italy, Naples, and Sicily, for the better Employing the Poor, and Preserving the Silk-Throwing Trade in this Kingdom. [London]. [s.n.], [1727]. First edition. Folio. 3pp, [1]. Docket title printed to verso. Disbound. Old folds. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22495

[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] A bill for the Relief of the Creditors and Proprietors of the Company of Mine Adventurers, by Establishing a Method for Settling the Differences between the Company and their Creditors, and for Uniting them, in order to an effectual Working of the Mines of the said Company. [London]. [s.n.], [1711]. Folio. 8pp. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Disbound, stab-stitch holes to gutter, old folds, a trifle browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22459