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Photo of "A short history of costume ..."

KELLY, Francis M. SCHWABE, Randolph. A short history of costume & armour: chiefly in England Vol. I. 1066-1485 [Vol. II. 1485-1800]. London. B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1931. First edition. Large 8vo. In two volumes. xii, 82, [2], 30pp; x, 86, [2], 30pp. With terminal publisher's advertisement catalogues to both volumes. Profusely iIllustrated with colour and black and white photographs and sketches. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, pictorial dustwrappers. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrappers rubbed, sunned, and price-clipped. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to FFEPs, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22258

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LARCHEY, Loredan. Histoire du gentil seigneur de bayard... Paris. Hachette, 1882. Quarto. xvi, 540pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, 11 chromolithographic plates, 34 black and white plates, and 187 engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher’s red morocco backed buckram, elaborately decorated in gilt and black, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22434

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LARCHEY, Loredan. Histoire du gentil seigneur de bayard... Paris. Hachette, 1882. Quarto. xvi, 540pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, 11 chromolithographic plates, 34 black and white plates, and 187 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary red calf, lettered in gilt, gilt supra libros of Katharine Dolores Feilden to upper board, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Katharine Dolores Feilden to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22435

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KOTZEBUE, August von. Bayard. Ein Schauspiel in funf Akten. Leipzig. Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1801. First edition. 8vo. 272pp. Uncut in original publisher’s powder blue wrappers, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked, some surface loss to spine. Inked ownership inscription to head of title, occasional spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22424

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CAHU, Theodore. Les Heros de France. Histoire du Chevalier Bayard: racontee a mes enfants. Paris. Ancienne Librairie Furne, Société d'Edition et de Librairie, [s.d., c.1898] Oblong quarto. 77pp. With numerous colour illustrations by Paul de Semant in the text (16 full-page). Original publisher’s red cloth, elaborate polychrome and gilt decoration, bevelled boards, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed, marked, and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22436

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DELANDINE DE ST.-ESPRIT. Histoire de bayard. Paris. Librairie de Debecourt, 1842. 8vo. 470pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher’s green printed wrappers. A trifle rubbed, some surface loss to sunned spine. Foxed. The Comte de Chambord's copy, with the Maggs Bros book label to verso of upper wrapper More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22426

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BERVILLE, Guyard de. Histoire de pierre du terrail, dit le chevalier bayard, sans peur et sans reproche. Lyon. Chez Yvernault et Cabin, 1809. Nouvelle edition. 12mo. xxiv, 406pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary red roan marbled boards, gilt. Heavily rubbed. Armorial bookplate to FEP 'Vive Revicturus', lightly toned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22414

Photo of "La tresjoyeuse, plaisante et recreative ..."

[CHEVALIER DE BAYARD]. La tresjoyeuse, plaisante et recreative hystoire, compose par le loyal serviteur, des faiz, gestes, triumphes et prouesses du bon chevalier sans paour et sans reprouche, le gentil seigneur de bayart... Paris. J. L. F. Foucault, 1820. 8vo. 410pp. Handsomely bound by Frost & Company of Bath in recent red half-morocco, red cloth boards, tooled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22421

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CHAUMEREIX, Jean-Hugues Duroy de. Narrative of m. de chaumereix, who escaped from the massacres of aurai and vannes, after the expedition of quiberon, with observations on the public opinion in brittany. To which is added a prospectus for pasigraphy, or, first elements of the art of printing and writing in a language to be understood in all language without translation. London. From the printing-office of T. Baylis, 1795. First edition. 8vo. [2], 46, 4pp. Stitched, as issued. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18211

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CARLYLE, Thomas. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great. London. Chapman and Hall, 1858-65 First editions. 8vo. In six volumes. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Terminal publisher's advertisement catalogues to Vols. II, III, and IV. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed, marked, and sunned, top-edges dusty. Very occasional light spotting, overall internally clean and crisp. Inked presentation inscriptions to FFEPs of Vols. I, III, and V. Vol. I signed and inscribed: 'To Dr Russell, ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 21096

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KOESTLER, Arthur. The Thirteenth Tribe: the Khazar empire and it's heritage. London. Hutchinson, 1976. First edition. 8vo. 255pp, [1]. With a black and white photo frontispiece. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, spine panel of wrapper sunned. Bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to FEP, one leaf creased, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22205

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CAMDEN, William. Annales rerum anglicarum, et hibernicarum, regnante elizabetha ad annum saltus M.D.LXXXIX. Londini [i.e. London]. Typis Guilielmi Stansbii, Impensis Simonis Watersoni, 1615. First edition. Folio. [8], 499pp, [21]. Without two initial blank leaves and terminal errata leaf. Leaf A2 misprinted A3. Leaf B1 a cancel, as issued. Contemporary calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities worn, some loss to head and foot of spine, splitting to joints, upper board working loose, chipping to lettering-piece. Ownership inscriptions of 'C. L. Eastwick, 1924' to FEP and head of title-page, very occasional browning/spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 14586

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DOCTOR OF THE CIVIL LAWS. A Compleat History of the Cevennees... London. Printed for Nich. Cox, 1703. First edition. 8vo. [24], 168, 177-216pp. Text complete despite erratic pagination (or indeed the absence of leaves M5-N8, as noted by ESTC). Contemporary speckled sheep, recently rebacked, new morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Book-label of Wiston Old Rectory to FEP, small burn-hole to text of leaf I8 - without loss of sense, very occasional chipping to margins, browning and foxing to text. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18709

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[LAWRENCE, T. E.]. T. E. Lawrence centennial: Presentation from the T. E. Lawrence symposium... [Malibu]. [Pepperdine University], [1988]. First edition. Quarto. 176pp. Original publisher's plastic snap binding, card covers. Light shelf-wear. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22262

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[BROADLEY, Alexander Meyrick]. [Grangerized scrapbook 'The Trial and Execution of Mr William Dodd']. [Bradpole, Dorset]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1910] 8vo. 12ff. Two two tipped-in illustrations, manuscript caption titles. Original green half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed, bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley to FEP. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 18860

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COLERIDGE, Rev. Derwent. The education of the people. A Letter to the Right Hon. Sir John Coleridge. With an appendix. London. Rivingtons, 1861. First edition. 26pp, [2]. With terminal advertisement leaf.

[Bound with:] COLERIDGE, Derwent. The teachers of the people; A Tract for the Time: with an introductory address to the right hon. sir john taylor coleridge, d.c.l. London. Rivingtons, 1862. First edition. 110pp, [2]. Tear, without loss, to G6.

8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, contrasting morocco letting-piece. Rubbed, with some surface scuffing to spine, corners. With the author's ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 17724

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BEAUMARCHAIS, [Pierre-Augustin] Caron de. Memoires de m. caron de beaumarchais: ecuyer, conseiller-secretaire du roi, lieutenant-general des chasses au bailliage & capitainerie de la Varenne du Louvre, grande venerie & fauconnerie de France, accuse de corruption de juge, contre M. Goezman, conseiller de grand-chambre au Parlement de Paris, accuse de subornation & de faux, Mme. Goezman, & le sieur Bertrand, accuses, le sieur Marin, gazetier de France, & le sieur Darnaud-Baculard, conseiller d'ambassade, assignes comme temoins. Paris. [s.n.], 1775. 499pp, [1].

[Bound with:] BEAUMARCHAIS, [Pierre-Augustin] Caron de. Memoire pour Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Paris. [s.n.], 1775. xiv, [1], 16-143pp, [1].

12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece, loss and worming to head of spine, joints split, boards held by cords only. Marbled endpapers, later bookplates of Roger Senhouse and John Fowles to FEP, inked ownership inscription to title ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21599

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D'AVAUX, Claude de Mesmes, Comte. SERVIEN, Abel. Lettres De Messieurs d'avaux et servien, ambassadeurs Pour le Roy de France en Allemagne, concernantes leurs differens & leurs responses de part & d'autre en l'Annee 1644. [s.i.]. [s.n., s.d.], 1650. 16mo in 8s. 211, [5], 62pp, with blank leaf O4. Finely bound in eighteenth-century polished calf, spine lettered in gilt and decorated with blind-stamping. A trifle rubbed to extremities, joints creased, else a crisp copy. From Lord Minto's library, with his armorial case/shelf book label (with the motto "credunt quod vident") above the modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst) to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19673

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BURNET, Gilbert. The abridgment of the history of reformation of the Church of England. London. Printed for J. Walthoe et al., 1728. Sixth edition. In two volumes. xvi, [8], 312, [12]; 358pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I, a further four engraved plates, and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements to each volume. ESTC T105120.

[Uniformly bound with:] BURNET, Gilbert. An abridgment of the Third Volume of the history of the reformation of the reformation of the Church of England. London. Printed for J. Walthoe et al., ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 21196

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LIDDELL HART, [Basil]. 'T. E. Lawrence' In Arabia and After. London. Jonathan Cape, [1948]. Second edition, ninth printing. 8vo. [2], 491pp, [1]. With nine maps. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in silver, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper marked and lightly creased, short closed tear to foot of front panel, tear to fold of front flap (tape repair to verso). Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22197

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