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[BIBLE - English]. The holy bible containing the old and new testaments: translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, By His Majesty's Special Command.. Cambridge. Printed by J. Smith, printer to the University, 1825. 8vo. Unpaginated. Contemporary black morocco, ruled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed, with wear to extremities, and light scoring to boards. Later book-label of Lowther Castle library to FEP. Leaves lightly browned, light scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33924
KINDERSLEY, Ann. The Guiding Book: Dedicated to the girlhood of many countries and to all those with a heart still young. London. Hodder and Stoughton, [1923]. First edition. Quarto. 164pp. With a chromolithograph frontispiece, seven further chromolithograph plates, facsimile handwriting samples of Princess Mary and Maurice Maeterlinck, numerous in-text illustrations, and one in-text sheet of music. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in blind to spine and upper board, pictorial paper label pasted to upper board. With original pictorial paper dust-wrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, with heavy chipping and browning to dust-wrapper, and losses ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34763
[BIBLE - O.T., Welsh]. Yr hen destament, gyda nodau eglurhaol ar bob adnod; wedi eu detholi, a'u cyfieithu i'r gymraeg. Treffynnon. Cyhoeddwyd gan Lloyd ac Evans, 1838-43 First edition. 12mo. In four volumes. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting dark green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed. Leaves O1 and S3 of Vol. II detached, lower corner of leaf 3F5 of Vol. II torn away, with slight loss of text and sense, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29739
BURKITT, William. Expository notes, with Practical Observations, on the new testament off our lord and saviour jesus christ... Liverpool. Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, 1809. Forty-first edition. Quarto. 1249 [i.e. 1251]pp, [1]. Predominantly printed in double columns. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 11 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to lower corner of upper board. Late nineteenth-century inked ownership inscription of J. E. Strangways to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 17448
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
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
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
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
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
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
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