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DESCLOZEAUX, Adrien. Gabrielle d'Estrees. London. Arthur Humphreys, 1907. First English edition. 8vo. vi, 330pp. With half-title. Title in red and black. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's cream cloth backed blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Some browning and dust-soiling to extremities. Internally clean and crisp but for the occasional spot of foxing. From The Royal Library Historical Series. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13384

MORE, Hannah. Letters to young ladies. New York. Leavitt & Co., 1850. 16mo. [5], 8-125pp. Without half title. Original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth. Rubbing to extremities. Bookseller's ticket of Marvin & Hitchcock to FEP, hinges splitting, foxed throughout, pen-trial to frontispiece with occasional further pen- and pencil-trials to margins. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13387

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EHRENREICH, Paul. Die allgemeine Mythologie und ihre ethnologischen Grundlagen. Leipzig. J. C. Hinrich' sche Buchhandlung, 1910. First edition. 8vo. vi, [1], 288pp. Contemporary half green cloth, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Slight rubbing and marking to extremities. Light foxing to title, occasional pencil annotations, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 14931

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JAMES I. A counter-blaste to tobacco. (Written by king james I.). Edinburgh. E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885. 12mo. 32pp. Disbound. Lightly foxed, overall clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16003

PRENTISS, G[eorge] L[ewis]. The life and letters of elizabeth prentiss, author of "stepping heavenward". London. Hodder and Stoughton, 1884. Fourth thousand. 8vo. [2], xiv, 573pp, [1]. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's decorated brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Very slight rubbing and marking to extremities. Hinges starting, occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16255

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[WARD, Charlotte Bickersteth]. Dawn and Sunrise: brief notices of the life and early death of barbara sophia gordon. London. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1870. Second edition. 8vo. xvi, 144pp. With half-title, and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamped blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, slight splitting to lower joint. Later armorial bookplate of 'Henry Birkbeck' to FEP, occasional marginal chipping, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16418

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[HARCOURT, Paule de Saint-Aulaire, marquise d']. The duchess of orleans. (helen of mecklenburg-schwerin.) A memoir. London. W. Jeffs, 1859. First edition in English. 12mo. xlii, 192pp, [1], vi. With half-title, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Uncut in original publisher's light blue blind-stamped buckram. Extremities soiled, a trifle rubbed. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16523

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MERZ, Heinrich. Eminent women of the german reformation. [London]. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1856. First edition in English. 8vo. vi, [2], 159pp, [1]. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece depicting Catherine von Bora. Partially unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle marked, spine sunned, corners bumped. Without FFEP, very occasional marginal chipping, lightly foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16250

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CROKER, John Wilson. Correspondence between the right hon. j. w. croker and the right hon. lord john russell, on some passgaes of 'moore's diary.'... London. John Murray, 1854. First edition. 12mo. 35pp, [1]. Recent marbled paper wrappers. A near fine copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16896

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[ACTS - GEORGE II]. Anno Regni georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, vicesimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the First Day of December, Anno Dom. 1741... And from thence continued by several Prorogations, to the Eighteenth Day of November 1746, being the Sixth Session of this present Parliament. Edinburgh. Printed by Richard Watkins, [1747]. 8vo. 39pp, [1]. Disbound. Title-page detached, inked manuscript pagination to head of all leaves, a trifle dust-soiled. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 18726

[ACTS - GEORGE II]. Anno Regni georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo octavo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the First Day of December, Anno Dom. 1741...And thence continued be several Prorogations to the Twenty seventh Day of November, 1744, being the Fourth Session of this present Parliament. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1745. Folio. [2], 735-743pp, [1]. Disbound. A trifle toned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 18728

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LAIDLAW, Walter. [Drop-head title:] Interesting Archaeological Discovery at Old Jedward. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1906] 8vo. 73-78pp. With three photographic plates. Stapled, as issued, into original publisher's plain paper wrappers. Light spotting to extremities. Presentation copy, inked inscription to upper wrapper; 'To Lord Ralph D. Kerr / from the author / Jedburgh 14 Nov. 1906.' More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 19036

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HAWTREY, Stephen. Reminiscences of a French Eton. London. Printed by Mary S. Rickerby, 1867. Second edition. 12mo. [4], 79pp, [1]. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green buckram. Slight rubbing to extremities. Upper hinge exposed, occasional very light dust-soiling. Presentation copy, inscribed to title; 'R. K. Phillipps / from his sincere / friend / the writer'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13973

CROSLAND, T[homas] W[illiam] H[odgson]. Pop goes the weasel. London. Fortune & Merriman, 1924. First edition. 8vo. 239pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's purple cloth-backed purple paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and sunned. Pencilled ownership inscription to half-title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 20240

[HYDE, Donald and Mary]. Four Oaks Library. Somerville, New Jersey. [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. First edition. One of 1,250 copies printed. xxii, 135pp, [1].

[Together with:] [HYDE, Donald and Mary]. Four Oaks Farm. Somerville, New Jersey. [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. One of 1000 copies printed. [12], 113pp, [1].

8vo. Original publisher's black cloth-backed grey paper boards, housed in original publisher's marbled paper slipcase. Very slight wear to extremities. Occasional inked highlighting to first mentioned volume, inked ownership inscriptions ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 20809

GREEN, Emanuel. The march of William of Orange through Somerset: with a notice of other local events in the time of King James II. A.D. 1688. London. Printed for the Author, 1892. First edition. Quarto. [4], 78pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Upper hinge exposed, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21518

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SCHOMANN, G[eorg] F[riedrich]. Athenian constitutional history, as represented in grote's history of greece. Oxford and London. James Parker and Co., 1878. First edition in English. 8vo. viii, 105, [1], 16pp. With a tipped-in errata slip and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine sunned with short split to head. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21283

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SWIFT, Jonathan. The Drapier's Letters to the people of ireland against receiving wood's halfpence. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1965. 8vo. [2], xcvii, 400pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Dustwrapper a trifle marked. A fine copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21552

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[DE GONDI, Jean Francois Paul, Cardinal de Retz]. Memoirs of the cardinal de retz: containing all the great events during the minority of louis XIV. And administration of cardinal mazarin. London. H. S. Nichols, 1896. 8vo. Limited edition of 500 copies. xv, [1], 304pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to FEP, occasional spotting/browning. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21721

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DE VALOIS, Margaret. Memoirs of margaret de valois queen of navarre: Containing the Secret History of the Court of France for Seventeen Years, viz., from 1565 to 1582, during the Reigns of Charles IX. and Henry III. Written by herself, in a series of letters. London. H. S. Nichols & Co., 1895. 8vo. Limited edition of 500 copies. xxiv, 286pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines a trifle sunned. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to FEP, occasional spotting/browning. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21722