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SIM, Frances M. Robert Browning (Mystic and Artist). London. The Golden Vista Press, [1931]. First edition. 8vo. [4], 105pp, [3]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28101
[ORTHOEPY]. A vocabulary of such words in the english language as are of dubious or unsettled accentuation... London. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, G. and T. Wilkie, L. B. Seeley, and Goadby Lerpiniere, and Langdon, 1797. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii, [184]pp. Later half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, bookplates of Francis Pierrepont Barnard and Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, Barnard's inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, inscription of G. Selby to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20311
SEWEL, Willem. A Compendious guide to the Low-Dutch Language... Amsterdam. Janssoons van Waesberge, 1725. Second edition, . 12mo. 168, 288pp, [72]. Parallel English and Dutch text. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, a trifle marked, some loss to lettering-piece. Modern book-label of Broughton Baptist Library and later bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to sprung FEP, scattered foxing. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22096
SINCLAIR, John. Observations on the scottish dialect. London. Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1782. First edition. 8vo. v, [3], 232pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to boards. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26454
MARTINIUS, Petrus. Petri Martinii Morentini Navarri grammatica hebraea... [Leiden]. Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1612. 8vo. [16], 267, [5], 158, [2], 112pp. Contemporary blind-ruled calf. Rubbed, joints split, later initials 'T.L.' in correction fluid to spine, loss to upper compartment, lower compartment detached (though present), without lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of the Rugby School Library to FEP, early manuscript staves, annotations, pen-trials, and ownership inscriptions in at least two distinct English and Latin hands to blank fly-leaves, including those of ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 24401
O'BRIEN, Philip M.. T. E. Lawrence: A Bibliography. New Castle, Delaware. Oak Knoll Press, 2000. Second edition, revised and expanded. Quarto. [12], 894pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle creased, scoring to spine panel. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 26243
SCAPULA, Johannes. Lexicon Graeco-Latinum novum: in quo ex primitivorum & simplicium fontibus derivata atque composita ordine non minus naturali, quàm alphabetico, breviter & dilucidè deducuntur. Basileae [i.e. Basel]. Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, [1600]. Editio ultima, priori locupletior & correctior. Folio. [5] leaves, 1856 columns, [62, 30] leaves, 188 columns, [1] leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed and discoloured, corners bumped. Light damp-staining to upper corner of text-block, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25288
BLAIR, Hugh. Lectures on rhetoric and belles letters. London. Printed for W. Strahan, 1785. Second edition. 8vo. In three volumes. viii, 456; [4], 480; [4], 384pp, [26]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23033
HARRIS, James. Philological inquiries in three parts. London. Printed for C. Nourse, 1781. First edition. 8vo. Without half-title. [30], 571pp, [37]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, marked, and bumped. Early armorial bookplate and recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, inked ownership inscription of Alex. Fraser Tytler to head of title. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20320
LAYCOCK, John. New dialogues, english and german. For the Use of both Nations. Preceded by a variety of initiatory lessons, and a large collection of idiomatical phrases, well calculated to accelerate the progress of the respective learners. In two parts. I. Preliminary Lessons and idomatical Phrases. II. Dialogues in the modern Style of Conversation. Hamburgh [i.e. Hamburg]. F. H. Nestler & Melle, 1851. Fifth edition newly revised and enlarged. 12mo. [16], xxiv, 394pp. Printed in double columns. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Near contemporary ownership inscription to head of title-page 'Fanny G. Houghlin / Feb. 1863', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16785
SHAW, William. An analysis of the galic language. Edinburgh. Printed by W. and T. Ruddiman, 1778. Second edition. 8vo. xviii, [1], 20-171pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Extremities worn, joints split, loss to head and foot of spine. Very occasional chipping to margins, scattered foxing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25537
[ABERDEEN ALMANAC]. The Aberdeen Almanack, for the year 1804... Aberdeen. Printed and sold by J. Chalmers & Co., [1804]. 12mo. 252pp. With a folding table. Contemporary limp sheep. Remnants of flap to upper board. Extremities heavily rubbed and marked. Hinges exposed, loss to front blank fly-leaf, early manuscript price list to recto, occasional spotting, single short tear to table at gutter, fore-edge shaved. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24509
[ABERDEEN ALMANAC]. The Aberdeen Almanack, For the Year 1789... Aberdeen. Printed and sold by J. Chalmers & Co., [1789]. 12mo. 192pp, [4]. The first 24 pages are printed on one side only. Contemporary limp sheep wallet binding, with flap. Extremities worn, some loss to head and foot of spine, flap torn - covered in later calf. Scattered foxing, early ownership inscription to FEP, very occasional manuscript price lists, doggerel poetry to blank versos, recent armorial bookplate of Alexander Hannah to recto of FFEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24510
KER, John Bellenden. An essay on the archaeology of our popular phrases and nursery rhymes. London. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Co., 1835. Second edition. 12mo. xi, [1], 290pp. Title page a cancel. Although the signatures read 'Vol. I' throughout, and there is mention of an upcoming second volume in the introductory remarks, it would appear Vol. II was never published; however, a two volume 'new edition' did appear in 1837. Original publisher's brown cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, loss to lettering-piece. Endpapers renewed, fore-edge of title page ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25163
WATSON, Samuel. The Gentleman's and Citizen's almanack, compiled by Samuel Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1785... Dublin. Printed for Samuel Watson, [1785]. 135pp, [1]. ESTC T26616.

[Bound with:] EXSHAW, John. The English Registry, For the Year of our Lord, 1785; (By John Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists...Fitted to be bound with Watson's Almanack... Dublin. Printed by John Exshaw, [1785]. [4], 131pp, [1]. ESTC T26688.

8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, without lettering-piece. Light damp-staining to head of text-block. More >
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25241