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DESPARD, Edward Marcus. The trial of edward marcus despard, esquire for high treason, at the session house, newington, surry, On Monday the Seventh of February, 1803. London. Sold by M. Gurney, 1803. First edition. 8vo. 271pp, [5]. With five final pages of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in modern half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Book-label of Rev. Walter Sylvester and bookplate of Ron C. Fiske of Morningthorpe Manor to FEP, typed booksellers description pasted to recto of FFEP, leaves toned and spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24257
DE SERVIEZ, Jacques Roergas. The roman empresses; or, the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve cæsars. London. The Walpole Press, 1899. Fine Library edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, 499pp, [1]; viii, 573pp, [1]. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in modern gilt-tooled blue half-morocco. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Very lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to FEP of both volumes. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30904
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
[DENT, John]. [Drop-head title:] Catalogue of the second portion of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late john dent...which will be sold at auction, by mr. evans...On Wednesday, April 25, and Eight following Days, Sunday excepted. 1827. [London]. [Printed by W. Nicol], [1827]. First edition. 8vo. [2], 94pp, [2]. Stitched, as issued. Remnants of original publisher's salmon pink wrappers. Title lightly dust-soiled, dampstaining to terminal three leaves. With prices and buyers' names added in manuscript. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31920
[DENNIS, Isaac]. A narrative Of the Cruelties & Abuses Acted by isaac dennis keeper, HIs Wife and Servants, In the Prison of Newgate, In the City of bristol: Upon the People of the Lord in Scorn called Quakers, who were there Committed for the Exercise of their Consciences towards God. With an Account of the Eminent Judgments of God upon Him, and his End. Published for a Warning to others, by some of those People who were Sufferers under him. [London]. [s.n.], [1683]. First edition. Quarto. 27pp, [1]. Later gilt-ruled sprinkled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Title page shaved at foot, without loss, leaf A4 shaved at foot with loss of catchword, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 28263
[DEMPSTER, Henry]. [Drop-head title:] Explanation descriptive of the new rig. [Edinburgh]. [The Edinburgh Printing Company], [s.d., c.1843] Quarto. 4pp. Single sheet, printed on both sides, folded as issued. With an engraved nautical diagram and an engraved vignette. Creased, three horizontal mis-folds, very short central tear to head, some spotting, 'New Rig' in manuscript to gutter of first page. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21103
DE MARLES, J.. Les cent merveilles des sciences et des arts. Tours. Ad. Mame et Cie, 1863. Sixieme edition [i.e. sixth edition]. 12mo. [2], 236pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved titlepage. Handsomely bound in contemporary black calf, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt device of the Lycee Imperial de Lyon to upper board, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20067
[DELHI DURBAR]. Coronation Durbar: Delhi 1911. Official Directory with maps. Calcutta. Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911. First edition. 8vo. vi, 388pp. With two lithographed maps in rear pocket. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Calling card of Major T. X. Britton, 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, loosely inserted. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31025
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
[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
[DEFOE, Daniel]. An essay upon literature: or, An Enquiry into the Antiquity and Original of letters; proving That the two Tables, written by the Finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first Writing in the World; and that all other Alphabets derive from the Hebrew. London. Printed for Tho. Bowles, 1726. First edition. 8vo. [2], 127pp, [1]. Bound by Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow in nineteenth-century brown morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, corners bumped. Very occasional light spotting or marking, title trimmed at lower-edge. Book-label of J. R. P. Forrest to FEP. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27128
DEBURE, Guillaume-François. Bibliographie instructive: ou traité de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers...Volume de la jurisprudence et des sciences et arts. Paris. Chez Guillaume-François de Bure le Jeune, 1764. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 772pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, all edges red. Rubbed, early paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. From the library - recently dispersed - of the Marquesses of Lothian (who also held the Earldom of Ancram) at Newbattle Abbey; with manuscript shelf-marks to front blank fly-leaf and head of title. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27785
[DE BRITAINE, William]. Humane Prudence, or the art By which a Man may Raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur. London. Printed by J. Rawlins, for R. Sare, 1693. Sixth edition, corrected and enlarged. 12mo. [12], 284pp. Without the two terminal advertisement leaves. Later half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked with earlier contrasting red morocco lettering-piece laid down. Ink inscription to FEP reading 'George Hanaway Jolliffe 6th November, 1906', title-page remounted at gutter (somewhat naively), small hole to same with loss to text of imprint. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 12770
DAWE, G.. The Life of George Morland, with Remarks on his Works. London. Published by Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1807. First edition. 8vo. viii, 192pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, an engraved title page, and four engraved plates. Recent half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned. Scattered foxing, plates browned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27295
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