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JACKSON, Major R[obert] P[ostance]. Some copper coins issued by the english east india company and other european powers in southern india. London. Harrison and Son, 1909. First edition. Quarto. 6pp. With a photographic plate depicting numerous coins issued by the British, Dutch, Danes, and French in Southern India. Contemporary half-calf, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's upper wrapper bound in. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21752
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OATEN, Edwd. Farley. European travellers in india during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the evidence afforded by them with respect to indian social institutions, & the nature & influence of indian government. London. Kegan Paul Trench Trübner and Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 274pp, [2]. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, fore-edge a trifle stained. Scattered spotting. Armorial bookplate of Florence Mary Head to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Miss Head with the Author's homage', further inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'This book, which describes the adventures of Englishmen and other Europeans who travelled ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25702
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TAGORE, Sir Rabindranath. Glimpses of bengal selected from the letters of Sir rabindranath tagore 1885 to 1895. London. Macmillan and Co., 1921. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 166pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, upper board a trifle soiled, spine dulled, corners bumped. Ink-stamp of the S.O.A.S. Dodwell Library to verso of title page. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32127
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RENNELL, Major James. The journals of major james rennell first surveyor-general of india. Written for the information of the governors of bengal during his surveys of the ganges and brahmaputra rivers 1764 to 1767. Calcutta. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by The Asiatic Society, 1910. First edition. Quarto. iv, [2], 148pp. With a portrait plate, a folding facsimile of two pages of the journal, and a large folding map of Bengal. Later green cloth. Lightly rubbed. Leaves browned, coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page, some marginal insect damage to lower corner of text-block, facsimile torn at folds. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32178
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MITRA, Subal Chandra. Isvar chandra vidyasagar: a story of his life and work. Calcutta. Printed and Published by Sarat Chandra, 1902. First edition. 12mo. [4], ii, xii, xiv, 675pp, [1]. With six photographic plates. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and marked, paper shelf-label to foot of spine, corners bumped. Book-label of Allahabad- based advocate Pandit Sundar Lal to FEP, text-block split in two, occasional long tears. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32183
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SMITH, Rev. Thomas. The scientific library; or, repository of Useful and Polite Literature: comprising astronomy, geography, mythology, ancient history, modern history, and chronology. London. Printed for J. Wallis...and J. Harris, 1806. First edition. 24mo. In six volumes. With a half-title to Vol. I and an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Original publisher's gilt-ruled red roan. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Offsetting to titles, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28100
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HOUGH, J. [editor]. The Young Man's best companion; or, the New Book of Knowledge; being a regular system of education, without the aid of a tutor... Manchester. Printed and published by J. Gleave and Son, 1825. 8vo. 612pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 10 engraved plates (one folding). Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed. Plates browned, folding plate split, marginal loss to leaf 3G, terminal leaf and rear endpapers dampstained, spotted. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 30382
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IRVING, David. The elements of english composition. Containing practical instructions for writing the english language with perspicuity and elegance; and Designed, in the Progress of Education, to succeed to the Study of English Grammar, and of the Latin and Greek Classics. London. Printed for R. Phillips...By T. Gillet, 1801. First edition. 8vo. x, 262pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Rubbed and marked, spine worn, boards held by cords only. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31815
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[TUSMORE ESTATE]. Tusmore. The Particulars & Conditions of Sale of the most important and desirable freehold estates, comprising the whole of the parishes of tusmore and hardwick...Which will be Sold by Auction by messrs. jonas & thos. paxton at the auction mart, london, On Wednesday, the 15th of July, 1857, at 12 0'clock... Bicester. E. Smith and Son, [1857]. Folio. 27pp, [1]. With four large engraved plates (of six), linen-backed, folding plates. Interleaved throughout, with 82 photographs of Tusmore and environs and related articles pasted to blanks/loosely inserted. Later gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled paper boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, closed tears to title page and initial leaf of text, scattered spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31632
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CHARNAY, Désiré. The Ancient Cities of the new world. Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882... London. Chapman and Hall, 1887. First edition in English. Large 8vo. xxxii, 514pp. With a portrait frontispiece, a folding map, and numerous illustrations in the text, many full-page. Original publisher's pictorial navy cloth. Lightly rubbed, a trifle cocked. Later pencilled notes to verso of FFEP, foxed. Pencilled ownership inscription of H. Rider Haggard to half-title, small sheet of heraldic drawings, purportedly by Haggard, tipped-in. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32688
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[HERALDRY]. WESTHEAD, Mary. AMDG Course of Heraldry: Schools of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus: Blackpool. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1870?] Oblong quarto. Manuscript on paper. Whatman watermark. Original watercolour, gouache, and ink illustrations of arms, crests, regalia, and orders throughout. Concludes with table of precedency. Attractively bound in contemporary navy calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32753
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DRUMMOND, William. A Few Memoranda of The Life of the late Patrick Drummond Esqre. formerly A Solicitor of Croydon by His Son William. 1845. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1845]. Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [2], 138pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled navy morocco, A.E.G., Watered silk endpapers, gilt dentelles. Photographic portrait pasted to front pastedown. With a loosely inserted mourning card in memory of Elizabeth Drummond, wife of Patrick, Patrick Drummond, and two daughters Ann and Mary, and letter dated 1950 pertaining to the rescue of the book from sale. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32548