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RIDER, Cardanus. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1775... London. Printed by R. and M. Brown, 1775. [60]pp. Initial gathering printed in red and black. ESTC T45015.

[Bound with:] The royal kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year 1775... London. Printed for J. Almon et al., [1775]. [4], 270pp, [2]. ESTC T45299.

12mo. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, metal clasps, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24254
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[HERALDRY]. The theatre of British Honours; being An Account of the present nobility, with what has happened remarkable to Them of their Ancestors... London. Printed for A. Lea, and R. Glynn, 1720. First edition. 12mo. xxiv, [2], 160pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Extremities heavily rubbed, upper joint starting. Pastedowns sprung, title page detached and bisected horizontally, light damp-staining to margins, worming to gutter of first two gatherings, initial gathering working loose. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24986
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MARSHALL, J. H. Archaeological exploration in india, 1906-7. [Hertford]. [Stephen Austin and Sons], [1907]. First offprint edition. 8vo. 993-1011pp. With eight photographic plates. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Rubbed and marked. Text-block detached from binding. Presentation copy, inked inscription to upper wrapper: 'With compliments / from J.H.M.'

[Together with:] MARSHALL, J. H. Archaeological exploration in india, 1907-8. [Hertford]. [Stephen Austin and Sons], 1908. First offprint edition. 8vo. 1085-1120pp. With eight photographic plates. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Presentation copy, ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25123
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KIDGELL, Rev. Mr. [John]. A genuine and succinct narrative of A scandalous, obscene, and exceedingly profane libel, entitled, An essay on woman, as also, of Other poetical pieces containing The most atrocious Blasphemies. Submitted to the Candor of the public. London. Printed for James Robson, [1763]. First edition. Quarto. 16pp. Modern half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Text-block damp-stained, stab-stitch holes to gutters. 'J. Kidgell' in an early hand to title page. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25439
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[GENEALOGY]. The Genealogy of James Robertson Thomson, Esquire, compiled from MSS., from the works of Alexander Nisbet, Gent.; from Douglas's Peerage and Baronage; and from other authentic sources by J. Paul Rylands. "Deus Providebit". [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1930?] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 69pp. With nine sheets of manuscript notes/letters, and related ephemera (bookplates, newspaper clippings etc.), loosely inserted. With three engraved portraits and two armorial bookplates pasted-in. Contemporary gilt-ruled red limp morocco, Marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25589
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XENOPHON. Ta tou Xenophōntos Hellēnika; kai ho Agēsilaos. Xenophontis Graecorum res gestae; et Agesilaus... Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1762. 8vo. In four volumes. Parallel Greek and Latin text. First seven words of the title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, a trifle marked and discoloured, loss, cracking, and chipping to spines/lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, worm-track to front endpapers of Vol. I, else internally clean and crisp. Later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf of ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26029
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MAUREL, Jules. Le duc de wellington. Bruxelles. Typographie de V. Manche, 1853. First edition. 8vo. 143pp, [1]. With half-title. Contemporary Victorian spanish calf, gilt. Slightly rubbed, with the vast majority of the original morocco lettering-piece to spine lost; the top edge/corners of both boards heavily bumped. Marbled endpapers. Richard Ford's copy, with his signed armorial bookplate to FEP, inscribed 'Rich. Ford 1853' to head of half-title, above a seven line bio-bibliographical note, which references that 'excellent pamphlet was prohibited in ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26082
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[KAMES, Henry Home, Lord]. Loose hints upon education, chiefly concerning the culture of the heart. Edinburgh. Printed for John Bell…and John Murray, 1781. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 381pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red Morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lightly marked, joints starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Crombie of Glasgow to FFEP and head of title, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26115
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GUYON, [Jeanne Marie]. The life of lady guion, Written by herself in French, Now abridged And translated into english... Bristol. Printed by S. Farley, 1772. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], xxi, [1], 268; 381pp, [3]. Vol. II has a half-title but no title page, as issued. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, morocco lettering-pieces. Heavily rubbed, surface loss to spines and board edges, lightly marked. Later inked ownership inscriptions of Mary Steevens to FFEPs, FFEP of Vol. I detached, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26284
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[GALLOWAY, Joseph]. A reply to the observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir william howe, on a pamphlet, entitled letters to a nobleman: in which His Misrepresentations are detected, and those Letters are supported, by a Variety of New Matter and Argument... London. Printed for G. Wilkie, 1781. Second edition. 8vo. [2], 157pp, [3]. Without half-title. Modern buff paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26622
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[STUART, House of]. HAY, Richard. An essay on the origine of the royal family of the stewarts... Edinburgh. Printed by William Adams...1722. Reprinted by Stewart, Ruthven & Co., 1793 Quarto. [4], 41pp, [1]. Without final blank leaf. Later black morocco-backed red cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Contemporary manuscript note to recto of front blank fly-leaf: Cha. Stuart / 1793 / Only thirty copies of this printed'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27379
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[JOHNSON, Richard]. A new history of the grecian states, from Their earliest Period to their Extinction by the Ottomans...Designed for the use of young ladies and gentleman. London. Printed for E. Newbery, 1786. First edition. 12mo. [8], 132pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece and a further five engraved plates. Original publisher's green vellum-backed marbled paper boards. Extremities worn, upper joint split, short tears to spine. Hinges exposed, early inked ownership inscriptions to FEP and recto of front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title, leaf C6 detached. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27480
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ARBUTHNOT, Archibald. The life, adventures, And Many and Great Vicissitudes of Fortune of simon, Lord lovat, The Head of the Family of frasers. From His Birth at Beaufort, near Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, in 1668, to the Time of his being taken by Capt. Millar, after three Days Search, in a hollow Tree, on the Coasts of Knoidart and Arisaig. London. Printed and Sold (for the Author) by R. Walker, 1746. First edition. 12mo. 280pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf-backed, vellum-tipped, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to upper board, a trifle marked. Loss to upper corner of leaf H2, touching text with slight loss of sense, loss to lower margin of leaf T3, dampstained. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27484
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CARTER, Matt[hew]. Honor rediviuus of An analysis of Honor and Armory. London. Printed by E. Coates, 1655. First edition. 8vo. [10], 88; 84, 87-89, [1], 87-171pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved title page, seven further engraved plates, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Extremities worn, worm-tracks/holes to upper board and split lower joint, loss to foot of spine, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of William Wollascott to FEP, loss to upper corners of leaves a3 and a4, later ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27543
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LAWRENCE, T. E. T. E. Lawrence Correspondence With Henry Williamson Edited by Peter Wilson With a Prologue and Epilogue by Anne Williamson and a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson. Hampshire. Castle Hill Press, 2000. Limited edition, ex-editio - copyright holder's copy. Quarto. 219pp. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, with the tan dustwrapper lettered in black. Single tear to bottom rear panel, with a light crease. Internally bright and clean save annotation on page 44 in red pen, initialled AW, further corrections in red p179. With a frontispiece sketch of Williamson by Powys Evans, and 16 photographs of correspondence and drafts. From the family library of ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27991