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[SADE, Jacques Francois Paul-Aldonce de]. The life of petrarch. Collected from memoires pour la vie de petrarch. London. Printed for the author; and sold by J. Dodsley, 1776. Second edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xxx, 544, [12]; [2], 556pp, [12]. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked. Early inked ownership inscriptions to title pages, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33051
HORACE. Q. horatii flacci epistolae ad pisones, et augustum: with an english commentary and notes: to which are added critical dissertations. By the reverend mr. hurd. London. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for T. Cadell, 1776. Fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 277, [1]; xix, [1], 247, [1]; [2], 265pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early inked ownership inscription to head of Vol. III title, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33072
THE ORIGINAL EDITOR [i.e. WADE, John]. The extraordinary Black Book: an exposition of the united church of england and ireland; civil list and crown revenues; incomes, privileges, and power, of the aristocracy... London. Published by Effingham Wilson, 1831. 8vo. xx, 576pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary blind-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Armorial bookplate of Kilberry to FEP, frontispiece foxed, offsetting to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33009
MAURICE, Baron P.-E. On national defence in england. London. Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1852. First edition in English. 8vo. [2], xiv, 88pp. With a lithographed folding map. Modern light green cloth-backed marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Short tear to map at gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30224
IZACKE, Richard. Remarkable Antiquities of the city of exeter. Giving an Account Of the Laws and Customs of the Place, the Offices, Court of Judicature, Gates, Walls, Rivers, Churches, and Immunities: The Titles and Privileges of the several Incorporations: with their distinct Coats of Arms Engrav'd on Copper Plates... London. Printed for Edward Score, John March, and Nathaniel Thorne, 1723. 8vo. [2], iii, [1], 25, [26], 50-69, [1], 213pp, [67]. With an engraved frontispiece on the city's arms, a folding engraved view of the cathedral, and a folding engraved plan of the city. Recent half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. Later inked ownership inscription to verso of title page, short tear to engraved plan at fold, naively repaired with tape to verso, ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32956
AUBERY DU MARIER, Louis. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de hollande, et des autres provinces unies. Ou l'on verra les veritables causes des Divisions qui sont depuis soixante and dans cette Republique, & qui la menacent de ruine. Paris. Chez Jean Villette, 1680. [24], 436pp, [4]. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early manuscript shelf-marks and inked ownership inscription to front endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 19380
VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem. The home of mankind: the story of the world we live in. London. George G. Harrap & Company, 1933. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 506pp. Numerous illustrations by the author in the text. Original publisher's decorative green clot. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, marked. Presentation copy, inked illustration and inscription to recto of FFEP: 'The will to live / Hendrik Willem van Loon / Madras (?)'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20896
SMISSEN, [Alfred Louis Adolphe Graves] Baron van der. Souvenirs du mexique 1864-1867. Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. J. Lebegue & Cie., [1892]. First edition. 8vo. [4], 232pp. With three folding coloured maps. Contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to FEP, later bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to recto of FFEP, short tear to one map at gutter. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31053
[PINKERTON, John]. Select scotish ballads. London. Printed by and for J. Nichols, 1783. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. lxvi [i.e. lxvii], [1], 159, [1]; xli, [1], 200pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-sheep, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to boards, joints starting. Recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, without FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32987
MERIVALE, John Herman. Poems original and translated. London. William Pickering, 1844. New and corrected edition. 8vo. xviii, [2], 347pp, [3]. Handsome Harrow School prize binding of contemporary calf richly tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Slightest of spotting to extremities. Marbled endpapers, prize bookplate of Harrow School to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 15358
FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubaiyat of omar khayyam. Portland, Maine. Thomas B. Mosher, 1900. 12mo. xxxii, [2], 146pp, [2]. Title in red and black. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled green crushed morocco, T.E.G. Heavily sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28512
BOWMAN, John. An introduction to practical chemistry, including analysis. London. John Churchill, 1858. Third edition. 8vo. xvi, 288pp. With numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Handsome contemporary prize binding, richly gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, supralibros of Queen's College, Belfast to both boards, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, occasional pencilled annotations, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21113
OATEN, Edwd. Farley. European travellers in india during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the evidence afforded by them with respect to indian social institutions, & the nature & influence of indian government. London. Kegan Paul Trench Trübner and Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 274pp, [2]. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, fore-edge a trifle stained. Scattered spotting. Armorial bookplate of Florence Mary Head to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Miss Head with the Author's homage', further inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'This book, which describes the adventures of Englishmen and other Europeans who travelled ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25702
TAGORE, Sir Rabindranath. Glimpses of bengal selected from the letters of Sir rabindranath tagore 1885 to 1895. London. Macmillan and Co., 1921. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 166pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, upper board a trifle soiled, spine dulled, corners bumped. Ink-stamp of the S.O.A.S. Dodwell Library to verso of title page. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32127