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Photo of "Time's telescope for 1814"
[ALMANACK]. Time's telescope for 1814. London. Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1814. First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 370pp. With a handful of in-text illustrations. Modern red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Leaves browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25895
Photo of "Time's Telescope, for 1831"
[ALMANACK]. Time's Telescope, for 1831. London. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1831. First edition. 8vo. viii, 416pp. Title page in red and black, with numerous in-text illustrations. Modern red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Leaves browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25894
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AHLWARDT, Dr. Wilhelm. Ueber poesie und poetik der araber. Gotha. Verlag von Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1856. First edition. Quarto. [4], 88pp, [6]. Contemporary black half-cloth, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked. Decorative endpapers, Later inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 11617
Photo of "The Personal History of David ..."
DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London. Chapman & Hall, [1903]. 991pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 39 full-page engraved illustrations in the text by 'Phiz'. Contemporary Harrow School prize binding, richly gilt-tooled half-calf, tan cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32515
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NIVERNAIS, Louis Jules. Fables by the duke of nivernois. London. Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1799. First edition in English. 8vo. [20], 259pp. Contemporary black half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Rubbed and marked, with surface loss to joints and corners, joints starting. Heavier spotting to first blank fly-leaves, very occasional light spotting to text. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34050
Photo of "The Artillerist's Manual, and British ..."
GRIFFITHS, Captain. The Artillerist's Manual, and British soldier's compendium, of infantry exercise. Sword exercise. Artillery exercise. Equipment &c. fireworks. Fortification. Mathematics. Gunnery. &c. &c. &c.. Woolwich. Published and sold by E. Jones, 1843. Third edition. 12mo. xxvi, 376pp. With 12 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked, surface wear to joints and corners. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to first blank fly-leaf and head of title; additional later inked ownership inscription to first blank fly-leaf. Spotting to fly-leaves and title, occasional lighter spotting to text. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34100
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[BEWICK, Thomas]. BROWN, Walter. Fables. London. Published by S. Grosvenor, 1884. First edition. Quarto. [2], 68pp, [2]. WIth a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcuts in the text by Thomas Bewick. Handsomely bound in modern red half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, green cloth boards. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, frontispiece marked and creased with naive paper repair to lower corner. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13929
Photo of "Junius. Stat nominis umbra"
JUNIUS. Junius. Stat nominis umbra. London. Printed for Henry Sampson Woodfall, 1772. First Woodfall edition, second issue. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], xxxii, vii, [1], [40]; [2], 356pp. With engraved title pages. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, loss to head and foot of sunned spines. Early ownership inscriptions of J. Seale to both titles, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33096
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BOSSUET, James Benign. The history of the variations of the protestant churches. Antwerp. [s.n.], 1742. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xxxii, 480pp, [36]; [2], 493pp, [34]. With an index and terminal leaf of errata to each volume. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red and black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked, chipping to head of spine of both vols., light surface wear to joints and edges. Endpapers stained, very light scattered spotting.
More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34116
Photo of "Steel's original and correct List ..."
[ROYAL NAVY]. Steel's original and correct List of the Royal Navy... London. Printed [by C. and W. Galabin] for P. Steel, Corrected to March, 1804 12mo. 52pp. Naively rebound in later cloth-baked buff paper boards, partially preserving original publisher's upper and lower wrappers. Rubbed and marked. Title page and terminal leaf attached to boards, the remainder (sewn, as issued) loosely inserted.

[Bound between p.26-27:] [Caption title:] Sir james saumarez' victory. Lloyd's Coffee-House, February 17, 1804. [s.i.] [s.n.], [1804]. 4pp. Bound between p2-3 are [4]pp of advertisements for publisher P. Steel. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 27803
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[ATTORNEYS OF THE UNITED STATES]. An impartial statement of the controversy, respecting the decision of the late committee of canvassers. Containing, the opinions of Edmund Randolph, esq. attorney general of the united states, and several other eminent law characters. New York. Printed by Thomas Greenleaf , 1792. First edition. 8vo. 46pp. Modern gilt-tooled brown half-sheep, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary inked inscription to head of title, additional manuscript mark above imprint. Library stamp and subsequent disposal stamp of the New York Public Library to verso of title. Leaves browned, spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34062
Photo of "The fashionable world displayed"
[OWEN, John]. The fashionable world displayed. London. Printed for J. Hatchard, 1805. Third edition. 12mo. xii, 105pp, [3]. With a half-title and three terminal pages of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's power blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Heavily rubbed and marked, loss to lettering-piece. Recent book-label of Peter Stewart Young to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to half-title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32484
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[DODSLEY, Robert]. Melpomene: or The regions of terror and pity. An ode. London. [s.n.], 1757. First edition. Quarto. 15pp, [1]. Modern tan cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Book-label of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to upper board. Loan label of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to FEP, typed booksellers description tipped-in to FFEP, ink-stamps of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to title page, p.3, and p.15, nineteenth-century inked ownership inscription and manuscript author attribution to title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29353
Photo of "Regulations for the exercise of ..."
[BRITISH ARMY]. Regulations for the exercise of regimen and light infantry; and instructions for their conduct in the field. London. Printed and sold by William Clowes, [1819]. New edition. 72pp. With six terminal engraved diagrams and two leaves of sheet music for bugle.

[Bound with:] Regulations and Instructions for the infantry sword exercise. London. Printed by William Clowes, 1807. 63pp. With half-title and large folding diagram.

8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, surface wear to boards, lower joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Francis Freemantle to FEP. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34054
Photo of "Oxberry's Edition. Macbeth, A tragedy; ..."
SHAKESPEARE, William. Oxberry's Edition. Macbeth, A tragedy; By William Shakspeare. With prefatory remarks. The only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal. By W. Oxberry, Comedian. London. Published for the proprietors, by W. Simpkin et al., 1821. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii, [3], 74pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Without terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements found in some copies. Uncut. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed buff wrappers, later inserted into limp drab cards covers, oversewn. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33784
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[HAZLITT, William]. The plain speaker: opinions on books, men and things.. London. Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], 465pp; [4], 447pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue paper boards, recently rebacked in buckram, contrasting burgundy morocco lettering-pieces. Boards rubbed, marked, and worn at edges. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription to FFEP, some surface loss to title page of Vol. I., some loss to terminal gathering of Vol. II, without loss of textscattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29116
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TWEDDELL, John. Remains of the late john tweddell fellow of trinity-college cambridge being a selection of his letters written from various parts of the continent together with a republican of his prolusiones juveniles... London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1815. First edition. Quarto. [4], 479, [1], 179pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, a further eight engraved plates, and three engraved maps. Contemporary half-calf, later neatly rebacked, marbled paper boards. Rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, offsetting, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23317