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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

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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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

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1988]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Slight fading to head of wrapper. Contemporary ownership label pasted to recto of FFEP, else a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22070

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BONSAL, Stephen. Suitors and supplicants: The Little Nations at Versailles. New York. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1946. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [5], 301pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in silver, printed paper dustwrapper. Light rubbing to extremities, wrapper chipped and torn, paper repairs to verso. Internally clean and crisp. From the library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of T. E. Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22170

PEEL, Sidney. The binding of the nile and new soudan. London. Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 288, 16pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, a folding amp to rear, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Very minor rubbing and marking to extremities. Bookseller's ticket of Henry Sotheran to FEP, frontispiece and title page foxed, else internally clean and crisp. A fine copy. Mervyn Lloyd Peel's copy, with his armorial bookplate to FEP and inked ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22166

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[LOTHIAN, William Schomberg Robert Kerr, Marquess of]. Fragment of a parallel between the history, literature, and art of Italy in the middle ages. Edinburgh. [Printed by William Blackwood and Sons], 1863. First edition. 8vo. xii, 478pp, [2]. Unopened in original publisher's brown cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Ink-stamp pf Newbattle Abbey College to half-title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22190

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CHEEVER, George B.. Lectures on the pilgrim's progress, and on the life and times of john bunyan. Glasgow. Published by William Collins, 1846. First British edition. 12mo. vi, [3], 10-326pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped calf, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed, spine sunned. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting/light browning. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22191

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SALLUST. C. crispi sallustii opera quae supersunt, omnia. Cura joannis hunter, a. m.. Andreapoli [i.e. St. Andrews]. Excudebat Jacobus Morison, 1796. 12mo. [10], 236pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, spine sunned. Later inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 19156

HAYLEY, William. The life of the late william cowper, Esq.. London. Printed for M. Jones, 1803. 8vo. [4], 100p. Original publisher's powder blue boards, later naively rebacked in drab cloth. Extremities rubbed and marked. Leaf B1 detached, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22194

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MARKHAM, [Gervase]. Markhams farwell to husbandry or, The inriching of all sorts of Barren and Sterill Grounds in our Kingdome, to be as fruitfull in all manner of Graine, Pulse, and Grasse as the best Grounds whatsoever: Together with the anoyances, and preservation of all Graine and Seede, from one yeare to many yeares. As also a Husbandly Computation of Men and Cattels dayly Labours, their Expences, Charges, and uttermost Profits... London. Printed by J. B. for Roger Jackson, 1620. First edition. Quarto. [8], 160pp. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in polished marbled-calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, ink-stamp of Lawes Agricultural Trust to FEP, very occasional small worm-holes to margins. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19200

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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Catalogue of rare and curious books, pamphlets, &c. including a large and valuable collection of the works printed at private expense, for the Bannatyne Club... Edinburgh. [s.n.], 1830. 8vo. 37pp. Stitched, as issued. Vertical crease, very lightly marked, a little marking to extremities. Inked deletion to B2v. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20539

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[JACOBITE REBELLION]. The young chevalier: or, a Genuine Narrative Of all that befell that Unfortunate adventurer, from his fatal Defeat to his final Escape... London. Printed for the Author, and by his Appointment sold by R. Griffiths, [1748?]. First edition. [4], 107pp, [1]. Without half-title. ESTC T52876.

[Bound with:] [RICHTER, Christoph Gottlieb]. Dathan's Account of the political conduct of the Son of James And his men, From the raising the Siege of stirling, To the battle near inverness... London. Printed for G. Lion, [1746?]. [2], 26pp. ESTC T191607.

8vo. Later half-calf, marbled boards. Extremities worn, joints split, without lettering-piece. Partially deleted inscription and small holes ... More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 22035

CHURCHILL, Winston S.. The world crisis 1915. London. Thornton Butterworth Limited, [1923]. First edition. 8vo. 557pp, [1]. With seven maps, and one further illustrated plate. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and marked, corners bumped, wrapper heavily worn, chipped, torn, and sunned, remnant of paper label to spine panel, lower panel separated from spine. Remanant of paper label to FEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22063