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[ALER, Paul]. Gradus ad parnassum; sive novus synonymorum, epithetorum, versuum, ac phrasium poeticarum, thesaurus... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers [by C. Baldwin], 1817. 8vo. [4], 596pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Lightly rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, wormtrack to gutter of first three gatherings, pen-trials to fore-edge. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24025

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[ALMANACS]. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An almanack For the Year of our Lord 1798... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield, and George Greenhill, 1798. [Fifty-seventh edition]. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC N30928.

[Bound with:] [HUTTON, Charles]. The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1798... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, And sold by Robert Horsfield and G. Greenhill. Ninety-fifth edition. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC N3194.

[And:] MOORE, Francis. Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack For the ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20904

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[ANECDOTES]. The anecdote-book: a choice collection of anecdotes, jests, witty sayings, bon mots, &c., &c. Selected from the best sources. Glasgow. Printed for the booksellers, 1856. 12mo. 24pp. Woodcut on title page. Title within ornamental border. Six bifolia, unopened at head, as issued. A trifle creased and dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28599

ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays in criticism. Leipzig. Bernard Tauchnitz, 1887. Copyright edition. Volume I only. [3], 6-272pp. Without half-title.

[Together with:] ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays in criticism: second series. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1892. Copyright edition. [5], 8-264pp. Without half-title.

8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary Arts and Crafts style binding, blind-tooled calf, A.E.G., gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, first mentioned volume lettered in blind to upper board: 'CRITICISM, A DISINTERESTED ENDEAVOUR TO LEARN. PROPOGATE THE BEST THAT IS KNOWN AND ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31101

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[AUCTION CATALOGUE]. A catalogue of a valuable Collection of Prints, Recently Imported from the Continent, consisting of rare british portraits, and historical subjects...which will be sold by auction, by Mr. c. dubois. [London]. [s.n.], [1823]. 12mo. 11pp, [1]. Disbound. Title-page a trifle toned, small hole to text of p.5-6 - without loss of sense, light spotting/creasing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13971

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BARSTOW, D.. A Secular Diary for ascertaining any day of the week or month, in either the old or new style, commencing 1601, and continued up to the year 1900. [s.l.]. Printed for the author, 1836. First edition. Dimensions 360 x 265 mm (unfolded), 127 x 80 mm (folded). A single leaf broadside, folded and mounted onto original publisher's limp green cloth boards. A trifle creased. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24816

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BARTELON, Pantaléon. Pantaleontis bartelonæi raverini de ratione Quantitatis syllabariæ Liber... Lugduni [i.e. Leiden]. Apud Joannem Lertout, 1578. 197ff, [3].

[Bound with:] BARTELON, Pantaleón. Syntaxis latina facili carmine conscripta. Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]. Apud Joannem Lertout, 1578. 159pp.

16mo. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Occasional early manuscript numerals to margins. The Macclesfield copies, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate and typical armorial blind-stamps to title page and first two leaves of text. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31928

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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

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BOYER, A[bel]. Dictionnaire royal, françois-anglois et anglois-françois; Tire des mbilleurs auteurs qui ont ecrit dans ces deux langues... Amsterdam. Chez Meynard Uytwerf, 1752. Nouvelle edition [i.e. new edition]. Quarto. In two volumes. 19, [1], 518pp, [2]; [8], 619pp, [5]. Title pages in red and black. The English-French dictionary has an English title page: 'The royal dictionary, English and French: and French and English...' Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards. Extremities worn, joints split. Armorial bookplates of successive members of the Oates family to front endpapers and fly-leaves of both volumes, occasional ink-spotting and pen-trials. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 14323

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BOYER, A[bel]. The compleat french-master, for ladies and gentlemen... London. Printed for Richard Sare, 1721. Eighth edition. 8vo. 412 [i.e. 416]pp. Contemporary panelled calf. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to lower board. without pastedowns/free-endpapers, head of text-block shaved with occasional loss to running-titles, loss/tearing to leaves O7-8, R1-2, and Cc4 with loss of text and sense. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33036

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BREWER, E[benezer] Cobham. The dictionary of phrase and fable. London. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, [c.1872]. Third edition. 8vo. In 15 parts. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's orange printed paper wrappers. Some loss, chipping, and spots of marking to all extremities, parts 3 and 5 without upper wrappers, lower wrappers of parts 3, 13, and 15 detached, both wraps of part 10 detached, gatherings of parts 5 and 10 separating. Overall internally clean and crisp but for some light foxing. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 14059

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[BRITISH INSTITUTION OF RADIO ENGINEERS]. The British Institution of Radio Engineers...Catalogue of the lending library... London. Published by The British Institution of Radio Engineers, [1944] 8vo. ii, 102pp. Original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Spine a trifle dulled, else a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20907

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[CALEDONIAN JESTER]. The Caledonian Jester; being a choice selection of repartees, puns, and bon-mots, well adapted to excite mirth and afford general amusement. London. Printed by Dewick and Clarke...for T. Hughes, 1806. First edition. 12mo. [3], 6-38pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. With an engraved hand-coloured frontispiece 'Dr. Monsey's singular method of drawing of teeth'. Uncut. Modern marbled paper boards. Original publisher's printed powder-blue sugar wrappers bound in. Rubbed, spine worn. Bookplate of Charles Todd Owen and book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, wrappers marked and torn. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 17606

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CHAPMAN, Major F[rancis] R[obert] H[enry]. How to learn hindūstānī. A guide to the lower and higher standard examinations. . London. Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1918. Third edition. 8vo. xii, 364, [2], iipp. With half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, with a touch of wear to extremities. Bookseller's ticket of Hugh Rees Ltd. of London to FEP., leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34862

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CLARK, Cumberland. Charles dickens and the yorkshire schools; with his letter to mrs hall. London. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1918. First edition. 8vo. 33pp, [1]. With half-title and a tipped-in facsimile letter. Uncut in original publisher's green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed, with a touch of wear to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34841

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CLARK, Cumberland. Dickens' london. A lantern lecture. London. Wass, Pritchard & Co., Ltd., 1923. First edition. 8vo. 103pp, [1]. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's printed brown wrappers, yapp edges. Rubbed and marked, with chipping to edges, and small losses to head and foot of spine. A presentation copy, with the author's inscription 'Presentation Copy, with the author's compliments Cumberland Clark 1923' to FFEP. Leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34843

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CLINKER, Humphry. A comical dialogue between maggy and janet, or, "The folly of witless women displayed." With an oration on the virtues of the old women, and the pride of the young. With directions To Young Men what sort of Women to take, and for Women what sort of Men to marry. Dictated by Janet Clinker, and Written by Humphry Clinker, the Clashing Wives Clerk. Edinburgh. Printed by and for D. Webster and Son, 1820. 8vo. 24pp. Uncut and unstitched, as issued. Housed in recent custom brown cloth clamshell case. Lightly browned. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25666

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COLES, E[lisha]. An English Dictionary, explaining The Difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Philosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematics, and other Arts and Sciences... London. Printed for J. Walthoe et al., 1732. 8vo. [336]pp. Text printed in three columns. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep. Extremities heavily worn and marked, leather separating from boards, worming to foot of spine. Without FEP, inked numerals to verso of FFEP, damp-staining to leaf F2, worm-trail to upper corners of a majority of text-block, occasional spotting. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 21593

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COLLAS, Achille. CHORLEY, Henry F. The authors of england. A series of medallion portraits of modern literary characters, engraved from the works of british artists. London. Charles Tilt, 1838. First edition. Quarto. vi, [2], 93, [1], 12pp, [2]. With an additional engraved title page, a further 15 plates engraved by Collas's patent process, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's embossed brown cloth, later neatly rebacked, Rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Contemporary ticket of booksellers W. Pritchard of Carnarvon, armorial bookplate and inked ownership inscription of Lord Newborough to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32506

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COWPER, W[illiam]. The life and whimsical adventures of john gilpin, citizen and linen-draper. To which is added, His Journey to Edmonton. London. Printed by T. Maiden, [1805]. 12mo. 35pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to verso of frontispiece: 'Sarah Stevens / Wycombe Bucks / 1806', dust-soiled, small worm-track running through text-block - touching text at times, without loss of sense. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28641