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PREVOST, Abbe. Histoire du chevalier des grieux et de manon lescaut. Paris. Alphonse Lemerre, 1870. 12mo. viii, 239pp, [5]. With a half-title and an additional engraved title page. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32926

POLLARD, Captain Hugh B[ertie] C[ampbell]. Automatic pistols. London. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, [1920]. First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 110pp. With a frontispiece and a further 15 plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Contemporary inked gift inscription to half-title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33010

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PLOWDEN, [Edmund]. Plowden's Quaeries: or, a Moot-Book Of Choice Cases, useful For the Young Students of the Common Law: Englished, Methodized, and Enlarged, By H. B. Esquire of Lincolns-Inne. London. Printed for Ch. Adams, J. Starkey, and Tho. Basset, 1662. 8vo. [16], 304pp. Modern gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, red calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25193

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PIGGOTT, S[olomon], Rev.. Antidote to the follies, vices, and crimes of youth, to gambling, melancholy & suicide, in a series of anecdotes and actual narratives, calculated to warn the thoughtless and animate the desponding. London. Published by J. Robins and Co., 1831. Second edition. 12mo. xvi, [3], xviii-xxiv, 388pp, [4]. A reissue of the first edition, with an altered title and the addition of an unnumbered leaf 'Preface to the second edition' between xvi and xvii. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's moire cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, chipping to lettering-piece. Offsetting to title page, foxed. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19714

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[PHOTOGRAPHY]. POUNCY, John. Dorsetshire Photographically illustrated. By J. Pouncy. The detail and touch of nature faithfully reproduced by a new process on stone, by which views are rendered truthful, artistic, and durable. London. Dorchester. Bland & Long. John Pouncy, Photographic institution, [1857]. First edition. Oblong folio. Four parts in two volumes. [90]; [82]pp. Lithographic title to Vol I., terminal advertisements and colophon leaves to each volume (all included in preceding collation). With 79 photo-lithographic plates, one of which double-page. Original publisher's limp cloth, decorated in blind and titled in gilt; Vol II neatly recased in the original binding at an early date. Some rubbing, tearing and a little marking to binding; ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32953

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PETRAFICTA, Sebastianus. De Sensuum externorum: usu, affectionibusq[ue]; deq[ue] memoriæ cum rationis laesione vitio, medalaq[ue]...tractatus. Venetijs [i.e. Venice]. Apud Gratiosum Perchacinu[m], 1594. First edition. Quarto. 39 leaves. Without terminal blank leaf. Recent calf-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription of Sybil Cooper to front blank fly-leaf, dampstaining to latter half of text-block. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 23209

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[PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS]. [Drop-head title:] Observations on the Duty upon soap. [London]. [s.n.], [1730]. Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. [2]pp. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Woodcut head- piece and decorative initial. Docket-title to verso. Old central horizontal fold. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33200

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PALIN, Ralph. Iphotelle; or the longing-fit. A Poem. London. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. First edition. 8vo. [4], 71pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards. Without backstrip, naively rebacked with clear tape. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Charles Westrop to head of title page. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19761

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O'SHEA, John Augustus. Romantic spain: A Record of Personal Experiences. London. Ward and Downey, 1887. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xiii, [1], 311, [1]; ix, [1], 317pp, [1]. Contemporary red half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, red cloth boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title of Vol. II, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33044

[OLIVER, Peter]. The vision, a poem on the Restoration of His Majesty's Health. 1789. Birmingham. Printed and Sold by Edward Jones...and Mr. Johnson, [1789]. First edition. Quarto. 18pp. Disbound. Later naive paper repair to spine, some spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 19779

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NORTH, Lieut.-Col. R. The Literature of the North-West Frontier of India. A Select Bibliography. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1946]. First edition. Quarto. [2], 66pp. With a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed, marked, and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Book-label of the United Service Club to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32184

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NISBET, James. The french in rheinstadt: A Romance of the Day. A friendly voice from the avon's banks to the nations of germany, and other poems.. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. 8vo. [10], 173pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and dulled, upper joint starting. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28819

NEWMAN, John Henry. The office and work of universities. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. 8vo. 384pp. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Hinges exposed. Presentation copy, paper slip with letterpress statement 'From the Author' tipped-in to gutter of title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 31644

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[NELSON, Jean]. Extrait du journal de Mr. Jean Nelson, Predicateur de l'Evangile, contenant au recit des tendres soins de dieu envers lui depuis son enfance jusqu'a sa quarante-deuxieme annee. Traduit de l'anglais. Guernsey. De L'Imprimerie de N. Mauger, Imprimeur du Roi, Au Bas du Bordage, 1823. 12mo in 6s. [4], 192pp. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Heavily worn and marked; spine covering perished, boards each hanging by a cord only. Some damp-staining; pen trials to FEP; RFEP torn away. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33131

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NARES, Rear Admiral J. D. Bhavnagar state: final hydrographic report on the approaches to bhavnagar. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1932]. Folio. [4], 11pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Lightly rubbed, a trifle marked, ink-stamp of the Manager & Engineer-in-Chief's Office, Port Department, and ink shelf-mark to upper wrapper. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31571

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[MUSLY, David Emanuel]. Remarques D'un Officier d'Artillerie Hollandais sur un article de la Brochure qui a pour titre: Observations & Expériences sur l'Artillerie; Imprimée à Aléthopolis, chez Isaac Neuman. Maestrict [i.e. Maastricht]. Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1776. First edition. 8vo. 22pp. With a half-title. Uncut in modern red half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Lightly dust-soiled. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22817

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[MURDER]. Cruel murder committed by robert johnstone, on the body of miss jane henderson, Near Rosevale Village on the banks of the Humber, a few miles from Hull, On Saturday, 27th June, 1863. [Glasgow?]. Printed for the booksellers, 1863. 16mo. 8pp. Disbound. Title page shaved at foot with slight loss to imprint. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33168

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[MISSIONARY MAGAZINE]. The Harvest Field. A Missionary Magazine. Mysore. Wesleyan Mission Press Comprising:

Vol. XIV. Nos. 2-3 February-March, 1903.

Vol. XVII. Nos. 1-4, 6-12, January-April, June-December, 1906.

Vol. XXXIX. Nos. 3-12, March-December, 1919.

Vol. XL. Nos. 1-11, January-November, 1920

8vo. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed wrappers. Lightly rubbed, marked, and discoloured, staples rusted. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26396

[MILBOURNE, Luke]. The Two Wolves in lambs skins: or, old ely's Sorrowful Lamentation over his Two Sons. Being found in an old manuscript in the Bedlamite Library, which was Bequeath’d by Oliver Cromwel's Porter, from whence those Two Reverend Brethren have been, from time to time, supply’d with New Principles. London. Printed, and Sold by J. Sackfield, 1716. First edition. 8vo. 55pp, [1]. With a half-title. Recent tan paper boards, earlier red morocco lettering- piece. Numerous bookseller's description housed in pocket pasted to FEP, lightly toned. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19758

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[MELANCHOLY]. A cure for melancholy: being a select collection of elegant anecdotes, bon mots, &c. of celebrated characters: including many originals. Edinburgh. Printed for Alexander Mackay and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1809. First edition. 12mo. xii, 382pp. Handsomely bound in later green half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, T.E.G. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford and later typed bookseller's description to FEP, later bookplate of William Crampton to recto of FFEP, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, lightly spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 19716