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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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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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[SPARVENFELD, Johan Gabriel]. Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum &c. Quo anno MDCCV Bibliothecam Publicam Academiae Upsalensis auxit & exornavit. Upsaliae, [i.e. Uppsala].. Typis Joh. Henry. Werneri S:ae R:ae M:tis & Acad. Upsal. Typographi, 1706. First edition. Quarto. [6], 74pp. With text in mixed Latin and Arabic type. Uncut and largely unopened, in later paper wrappers. Ink inscription to head of upper wrapper. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15446
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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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[DR WILLIAMS' LIBRARY]. Catalogue of the library in Red Cross Street, Cripplegate; founded pursuant to the will of the Reverend Daniel Williams, D. D. who died in the year 1716. London. Printed and Sold by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1841. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. viii, 420; [2], 438pp. Recent green cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp but for light marginal damp-staining and browning to first three gatherings of Vol. II. More > £ 275.00 Antiquates Ref. 14661
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HOOLE, Elijah. Dureisâni-tamil-puttagam. The lady's tamil book. Containing the morning and evening services, and other portions of the book of common prayer, in romanized tamil: accompanied by the english version in parallel columns. Together with an anglo-tamil grammar and vocabulary. London. Longman and Co.. Madras. Higginbotham, 1859. First edition. 8vo. [4], 148pp, [2]. Parallel English and Tamil text. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting, early manuscript Tamil language annotations throughout. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32612
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[GROSLEY, Pierre-Jean]. Memoires de l'academie des sciences, inscriptions, belles lettres, eaux arts, &c. Nouvellement établie à Troyes en Champagne. Troyes. Chez le Libraire de l'Académie, 1756. Second edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], iv, 140; [4], 156pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later bookplate of Mr. Beaupré to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32797
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VERBOQUET LE GENEREUX. Les facetieuses rencontres de verboquet, Pour, réjouir les Mélancoliques. Contes plaisans pour passer le temps. A Troyes. Chez la Veuve Jacques Oudot & Jean Oudot, [s.d., 1735] 12mo. 35pp, [1].

[Bound with:] Les rencontres fantaisies et Coqs-a-l'asne facetieux du baron grateland... Troyes. Chez Pierre Garnier, [s.d., 1738]. [36]pp.

12mo. Nineteenth century gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, loss to spine caps, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Richard Chase Sidney to FEP, blind-stamp of John Fowles to front blank fly-leaf, leaves browned and spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28453
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[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
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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
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[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
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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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DOUVILLE, J. V.. The speaking french grammar, forming a collection of colloquial essays particularly adapted to render the Speaking of French easy to english persons: in sixty lessons. London. Published by the Author...by Boosey and Sons et al., 1827. 8vo. x, [2], 412pp. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and browned, loss and tearing to head of spine, joints split. Contemporary printed advertisement for 'Mr. Douville's Terms for teaching the French language' pasted to FEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23329
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PERRIN, Jean. Fables amusantes: avec Une Table Generale & Particuliere des mots, & de leur Signification en Anglois, Selon l'Ordre des Fables, Pour en rendre la Traduction plus facile a l'Ecolier. A Londres [i.e. London]. Chez B. Law...T. Cadell...P. Elmsly, 1781. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo. xvi, 220pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece and two terminal publisher's advertisement leaves. Contemporary sheep. Heavily rubbed, some surface loss to boards, loss to head and foot of spine. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, several gatherings protruding slightly from text-block. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17453