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Photo of "Dante, petrarch, camoens: CXXIV sonnets"
GARNETT, Richard [Translator]. Dante, petrarch, camoens: CXXIV sonnets. London. John Lane, 1896. First edition. 8vo. xii, 147, [1], 15pp, [1]. With a half-title, a tipped-in errata slip, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Uncut in original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine dulled. Very occasional light spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to half-title: 'Dr. A. H. Japp, with R. Garnett's / kind regards / May 1896'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32071
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AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield park. A novel. London. Groombridge and Sons, [1875]. 8vo. 440pp. With a frontispiece, and additional title page, and a further six plates from drawings by A. F. Lydon. Original publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, a trifle cocked. Upper hinge exposed, inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26589
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HARDY, Thomas. Jude the obscure. [London]. [Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.], [1896]. First edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 516pp. With an etched frontispiece by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, and a map of Wessex. Original publisher's ribbed dark green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and bumped, loss to head of spine. Pictorial bookplate of American industrialist and bibliophile Alfred Edward Newton (1864-1940) to FEP, leaves lightly toned. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32060
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MARTIN, Theodore [Translator]. Poems; original and translated. London. Printed [by the Chiswick Press] for Private Circulation, 1863. First edition. Small quarto. vi, 350pp, [2]. With a terminal errata leaf. Unopened in original publisher's red cloth, stamped in black, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned, loss to head of spine. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, with an A.L.S in the author's hand pasted to recto of FFEP: ' My dear Sir, If you should find the accompanying volume, not printed for publication, worth a place in your ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 32069
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The poetical works of percy bysshe shelley. London. E. Moxon, Son & Co, 1870. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], clxxix, 504pp, [2]; [1], xiv, [2], 602pp, [2]. Original publisher's green cloth, blind-stamped and lettered in gilt to spine. With engraved portrait frontispiece of the author to Vol. I and a folding facsimile of his handwriting to Vol. II. Rubbed with some splitting to joints, bumping to edges and corners, weakening to hinges. More significant marking to upper board of Vol. ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32065
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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The collected works of dante gabriel rossetti. London. Ellis and Scrutton, 1886. 8vo. In two volumes. xliii, [2], 528; xl, 521pp, [1]. With half-titles. Original publisher's decorative navy cloth. Rubbed, spines dulled, corners bumped. Decorated endpapers (after designs by the author), scattered spotting. Pencilled inscription to half-title of Vo. II: 'Stopford A. Brooke. Be honest!' More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32067
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WORDSWORTH, William. Ode on the Installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. London. Printed, by permission, by Vizetelly Brothers and Co., [1847]. First edition. Quarto. [6]pp. Text printed within illuminated borders, printed in crimson, blue, and gold. With an engraved plate depicting 'H.R.H. Prince Albert, in his Robes as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge'. Sewn, as issued, in original publisher's printed white glazed wrappers. Extremities a trifle marked and dust-soiled. Bookplate of Robin de Beaumont to verso of upper wrapper, scattered spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31110
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OWEN, R[obert] D[ale]. Darby and susan. A Tale of Old England. London. Printed and published by J. Watson, [s.d., c. 1840] 8vo. 16pp. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Worn, with stitching perished (the text block is therefore loose in the wrappers), extremities rubbed and marked, several short tears. Occasional light marginal dampstaining. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31325
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[DERRIEY, Charles]. God save the queen: national anthem. [Paris]. [Ernest Meyer], [1851]. Folio. Five card leaves printed on rectos only, comprising: elaborate chromolithograph pictorial title incorporating the royal arms, printed in colours, silver, and gold on a tinted ground; text leaf of the National Anthem in letterpress within elaborate triple floral and moorish decorated border in colours, silver, and gold; two leaves of music with text within elaborate gold border; colophon/title leaf engraved with elaborate decoration. Bound in ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31123
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[BATH PUBLIC MEETING]. [Drop-head title:] The resolutions and petition of the Freeholders, Householders and Inhabitants of the City of Bath and its Vicinity, Unanimously passed at a numerous Meeting, convened by public Advertisement, and held in the Orange-Grove, on Monday, January the 6th, 1817. Bath. Printed by John Browne, [1817]. Dimensions 510 x 390 mm. Single sheet, printed on both sides in triple columns. Several old horizontal and vertical folds, later paper trip pasted to head, a trifle dust-soiled. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 32012
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MEI, Antonio. Raccolta di Memorie Istoriche […] della Terra di Belvedere. [s.i., Italy]. [s.n.], 1810. Folio. Manuscript, on paper, pp. 200, [1], last with hand-coloured plan of the Terra di Belvedere. In black-brown ink, Italian cursive. Uniform light age yellowing, oil splash to upper blank margin of three leaves. A very good copy in contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco labels, boards a bit scuffed, spine dusty. c.1900 bookplate of Thomas Ashby to front pastedown. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 22443
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[LUCIDI, Emanuele?]. [Historical notes on Rome and surroundings. Manuscript and print, on paper, Italy, late 18th century, featuring rare broadsides and pamphlets from seventeenth century Italy.]. [vs.]. [vs.] Large quarto. Manuscript, on paper, in black-brown ink, ff. 143, including 15 blank. A few leaves are original flattened letters (traces of wax to verso) from different epochs, another is a manuscript document on vellum dated 1633 (ink fading). Bound in are the printed pamphlets Pius VI, Homilia Sanctissimi Domini Nostri (Rome, 1781); Testamentum (Rome, 1694), with title repaired affecting woodcut vignette; F. Soldani, Lettera ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24479
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[BRISTOL AUCTION]. City of bristol. To be Let by Auction...The Following valuable Premises situate in the parish of brislington in the county of somerset, in the immediate vicinity of bristol, And several of the Lot's possessing an extensive Frontage against the Bath Road, and presenting advantageous Sites for Building... Bristol. Mills and Son, Printers, [1833]. Folio. Single bifolia. [4]pp. Docket title to p.[4]. Old horizontal and vertical folds. Some loss/tearing at folds and margins, touching text in places with some loss of sense, a trifle creased and dust-soiled, priced-up in manuscript. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32009
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[QUEEN VICTORIA]. [Drop-head title:] By the queen. A proclamation, For a General fast in Scotland. London. Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1847. Dimensions 310 x 390 mm. Single leaf broadside. Several old horizontal and vertical folds. Contemporary ink-stamp and manuscript memorandum to verso.

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- A printed letter issued by the Crown Office, to the Sheriff- Clerk of the County of Roxburgh, confirming the supply for local distribution of 40 copies of the above proclamation.

- Two A.L.S., in the hands of the Sheriff Clerk of Jedburgh and Sheriff Officer of ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23054