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LEIGHTON, John M.. Select views of glasgow and its environs.. Glasgow. Published by Joseph Swan, 1828. First edition. Quarto. [6], xvi, [2], 91, 4pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 27 engraved plates, and a terminal list of subscribers bound in. Finely bound by Ramage (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in later navy half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly rubbed. Light scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34376
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LEIGHTON, John M.. Select views on the river clyde. Glasgow. Joseph Swan, engraver, 1830. First edition. Quarto. [4], iv, [8], 168, 4pp. With an engraved title page, a further 42 engraved plates, and a terminal list of subscribers. Finely bound by Ramage (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in later navy half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting, mostly to margins. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34377
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HARRITY, Richard. MARTIN, Ralph G.. Eleanor roosevelt her life in pictures. New York. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1958]. First edition. Quarto. 212pp, [42]. With a half-title and numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Original publisher's grey cloth boards, title printed in blue to spine, with original publisher's pictorial dustwrapper. Some chipping to dustwrapper. Internally clean and crisp. With a loosely inserted school report of Eleanor Roosevelt dated from the spring term of 1902, signed by a young Eleanor to verso. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18848
Photo of "The Pebbled Shore"
LONGFORD, Elizabeth. The Pebbled Shore. London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. First edition. 8vo. xii, 351pp, [1]. Finely bound in recent crushed gilt-tooled black half-morocco, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers. Prize plate to FFEP. With a loosely inserted menu card from the 2006 Prize Dinner, signed by Andrew Wilson, Flora Fraser, and Peter Soros, amongst others. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34307
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WORDSWORTH, William. The white doe of rylstone; or the fate of the nortons. A poem.. London. Longman, Hurst, et al., 1815. First edition. Quarto. xi, [1], 162pp. With half-title and an engraved landscape frontispiece. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, with light surface wear to joints. Ink-stamp of Wheelwright to FEP. Light scattered spotting, browning to title. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 30336
Photo of "Letters of jane austen"
AUSTEN, Jane. Letters of jane austen. London. Richard Bentley & Son, 1884. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xv, [1], 374, [2]; [4], 366pp, [2]. With half-titles, frontispieces, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements to each volume. Early twentieth-century navy half-morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, blue cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle marked, spines lightly sunned. Bookplates of A. Bethune Morgan to FEPs. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29917
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CHALLONER, Bishop [Richard]. Memoirs of missionary priests, and other Catholics of both Sexes, that have suffered death in england on religious accounts, from The year 1577 to 1684. Manchester. Printed by Mark Wardle...for T. Haydock, 1803. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [12], 240; [6], 256pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, spine a trifle dulled. Ticket of Cork-based bookseller and stationer Haly and armorial bookplate of David Rochford to FEP, engraved allegorical illustrations (evidently extracted from near contemporary works) pasted to recto of FFEP, verso of frontispiece and title page ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 34854
Photo of "The survay of london: Containing ..."
STOW, John. The survay of london: Containing The Originall, Antiquitie, Encrease, and more Moderne Estate of the sayd Famous Citie... London. Printed by George Purslowe, 1618. Third edition. Quarto. [12], 20, [4], 21-980pp, [4]. Contemporary mottled calf, recently rebacked, black calf lettering-piece, endpapers renewed. Boards rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Frederick Arthur Hawker to FEP, small burn-marks to leaves Y8 and Z1, marginal burn-holes to leaves Ss3-5, small worm-track to head of single gathering (Pp1-8), burn-holes to leaves Mmm1-5, touching text in places with slight loss of sense, latter half of text-block dampstained. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32869
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D'OMBRAIN, Rev. H. Honywood. Roses for amateurs : a practical guide to the selection and cultivation of the best roses, for exhibition or mere pleasure, by that large section of the gardening world, the amateur lovers of roses.. London. L. Upcott Gill, [1900]. Second edition. 8vo. [8], 72pp. With half-title, a photographic frontispiece and 15 further engraved plates. Several advertisements to verso of initial leaves. Contemporary gilt-ruled olive green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked, with light staining to boards. Armorial bookplate of Lionel Bootle Wilbraham to FEP. Tipped-in manuscript note to head of plate facing p.20, with several species listed under the headline 'do not overprune'. Endpapers ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 34547
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BARNES, The Rev. William. A selection from unpublished poems. Dorchester. Published at the school, Winterborne Monkton, 1870. First edition. 8vo. 24 leaves, 48pp. With a pasted-in photographic portrait frontispiece of the author and engraved title page. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with spotting to wrappers, heavy loss to spine, Heavy spotting to initial leaves, scattered spotting to text. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34616