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PONT, Robert. De sabbaticorum annorum periodis chronologica a mundi exordio ad nostra usque secula et porro digesto. Per Robertum Pontanum, Caledonium Britannum. [London]. Excusum per Gulielmum Jones, 1619. First Latin edition. Quarto. [16], 203pp, [1]. With an elaborate printer's device featuring an operational printing press in a print shop. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, with the gilt armorial supralibros to both boards and monograms to spine compartments of Achille III de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont (1639-1712). Wear to spine and corners, chipping at head and foot of spine, cracking to joints (boards nevertheless firmly attached). M3-4 with old ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 33289
[BROWNE, Peter]. Of drinking in remembrance of the dead. Being The Substance of a Discourse Deliver'd to the clergy of the Diocese of cork, on the Fourth of November, 1713. by the Bishop of that Diocese. And Published at their Unanimous Request. London. Printed for J. Roberts, 1713. 40pp. ESTC T83992. First published in 1713 as Of drinking to the memory of the dead.

[Bound after:] Aminadab: or, the Quaker's vision. [London]. In the Year 1710. First edition. [4], 11pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. ESTC T8504.

[And:] Aminadab's declaration, Deliver'd at a General Meeting Holden upon the first day of the Last pentecost. [London]. In the Year 1710. First edition. 15pp, [1]. ... More >
£ 1,750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18635
[WEBSTER, Alexander]. Calculations, with the principles and data On which they are instituted: Relative to a late Act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for raising and establishing a Fund for a Provision for the Widows and Children of the Minister of the Church, and of the Heads, Principals, and Masters of the Universities of Scotland. Shewing The Rise and Progress of the fund. Published by Order of the Trustees nominated in the said Act of Parliament. Edinburgh. Printed by Thomas Lumisden and Company, and sold at their Printing-house in the Fish-market, and by the Booksellers in Town, 1748. First edition. Folio. [10], 5-45pp, [1]. With half-title. Later library buckram, lettered in gilt to spine; with the bookplate, ink- and associated withdrawal-stamps of the Institute of Actuaries to front endpapers. A little rubbed and marked. Large vertical tear to the first leaf of introduction neatly (and expertly) repaired; inked addition to title, some pagination to blanks also added in manuscript. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33191
[MOURNING CARDS]. [An album of mourning cards]. [vs.]. [vs.], [1845-1916] Oblong quarto. 117 mourning cards mounted on 28 heavyweight card leaves, the majority printed within black borders. Bound by W. & J, Milne of Edinburgh in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt initials 'I. N. S. L.' to upper board, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31578
MAINWARING, Sir Thomas. A Reply to an answer To the Defence of Amicia, Daughter of hugh cyveliok Earl of Chester. Wherein it is Proved, That the reasons Alleadged by Sir Peter Leicester, In his former Book, and also in his said Answer: concerning the Illegitimacy of the said Amicia, are invalid, and of no weight at all. London. Printed for S. Lowndes, 1673. First edition. 8vo. [2], 105pp, [1. Title in red and black. Contemporary blind-ruled calf. Heavily rubbed, without lettering-piece. Recent book-labels of John Evelyn and Steven St. Clair Smallwood to FEP, Bookplate of Dr. & Mrs. H. R. Knohl to recto of FFEP, early inked ownership inscription of 'Edw. Lutwych' to head of title page. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'Ex dono Authoris'. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31354
[TURNLEY, Joseph]. Reveries of affection in memory of that good and beloved prince His Royal Highness the late Prince Consort who departed this life on the fourteenth day of december 1861. [London]. [Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press], [1868]. Quarto. [12], 74pp. With four mounted photographic vignettes. Titles and text within ornamental borders printed in gold. Section-titles for each of the four Reveries not included in pagination. Attractively bound by Riviere (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in publisher's gilt-tooled red morocco, lettered 'In Memoriam' to upper board, supralibros (Royal arms) to centre of lower board, A.E.G., gilt dentelles. A trifle rubbed. Later armorial bookplate of Robin ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31112
[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
GAUGUIN, Robert. Copediu Roberti Gaguini sup[er] fracor[um] gestis. [Parisiis]. [Impressit Bertholdus Rembolt, īpēsis optimi bibilopoæ Iohānis Parui], [1511]. 8vo. [16], 312ff. With an engraved title page and engraved device of printed and bookseller Jehan Petit to verso of terminal leaf. Contemporary limp vellum, title in manuscript to spine, author's name in manuscript to lower edge. Extremities rubbed, marked, and discoloured, spine dulled. Small worm-track to lower margins of three terminal leaves. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30879
[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Bannatyne Club. Abstract of the treasurer's accounts [Nos. I-IX]. [Edinburgh]. [Printed by Ballantyne & Co.], [1828-39] Quarto.. Nine separately issued parts. Contemporary half-calf, brown paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Book-label to FPE of J. Blackwood Greenshields of Kerse House, Lanarkshire

[Together with a clutch of 27 notices, both printed and manuscript, relating to the club's transactions]. More >
£ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28579
[ORDER OF THE BATH]. Statutes of the most honourable order of the bath. London. Printed in 1725 - reprinted [by Nichols and Son] in, 1787 Quarto. viii, 67pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering- piece. A trifle rubbed, joints split. Internally clean and crisp. Book-label of Robert J, Hayhurst to FEP. Ownership inscription of Capt. A. Hood to recto of FFEP. ESTC N23698.

[Together with:] [Drop-head title:] A ceremonial for the installation of the knights companions of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath; On Monday, the 19th of ... More >
£ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27363
MACPHERSON, John. Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion, of the ancient caledonians, their posterity the picts, and the british and irish scots. London. Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt...and J. Balfour, in Edinburgh, 1768. First edition. Quarto. xxiv, [2], 382pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tan half-calf, marbled boards. Marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and marked, bumping to corners. Occasional marginal browning, else fine. Presentation copy, inscribed 'To Nathanial Wraxall Esqr. from Sir John Macpherson, Brompton 10 August 1810' to head of title. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 23480
[AUCTION CATALOGUE]. Catalogue de livres rares Dont la Vente se sera le Lundi 13 Mars 1786 & jours suivants, trois heures de relevée, en l'une des Salles de l'Hôtel de Bullion, rue Plâtriere. Par Guillaume de Bure, Fils aîné. Paris. Chez G. de Bure, 1786. First edition. xii, 259, [1], 26pp. With an index of authors. Priced in a contemporary hand throughout.

[Bound with:] Prix des livres rares, dont la vente s'est faite le lundi 20 mars 1786, en l'une des salles de l'Hôtel de Bullion... [Paris], [s.n.], [1786]. 32pp, [4].

8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, wear to head of spine and upper joint, ... More >
£ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22577
[HAITI]. An inquiry into the causes of the insurrection of the negroes in the island of St. Domingo. To which are added, observations on m. garran-coulon on the sume subject, Read in his Absence by m. gaudet, before the national assembly, 29th Feb. 1792. London. Printed: and sold by J. Johnson, 1792. First edition in English. 8vo. 32pp. Handsomely bound in recent antique half-calf, gilt, marbled boards. Occasional mark, three small paper flaws at end without loss of sense. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 13490
MAXWELL, W[illiam] H[amilton]. History of the irish rebellion in 1798; with memoirs of the union, and emmett's insurrection in 1803. London. Baily, Brothers, 1845. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 477, [3], 16, 16, 8, 8, [6], 8, 8, 7pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 26 engraved plates, chiefly by George Cruikshank, and eight terminal catalogues of advertisements. Handsomely bound by Bedford (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in contemporary richly gilt-tooled crushed morocco, T.E.G., gilt dentelles. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers bound in. Spine a trifle dulled. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33253
[BARBOUR, John]. The acts and life of the Most victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce King of Scotland. Wherein Also are contained the Martiall deeds of the valiant Princes, Edward Bruce, Sir James Dowglas, Earle Thomas Rande, Walter Stewart, and sundry others. Edinburgh. Printed by Andrew Anderson, 1670. 12mo. 348pp. Apart from the title and headlines, printed in black letter throughout. Handsomely bound in early nineteenth century richly gilt-tooled hard-grained red morocco by 'J. Mackenzie, Bookbinder to the King' - dating it to between 1833 and 1837, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, bookplate removed from FEP; title page with some blurring, laid-down. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32639