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ABDULLAH, King of Jordan. Memoirs of king abdullah of transjordan. London. Jonathan Cape, 1950. First edition in English. 8vo. 278pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further two plates. Original publisher's red buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, some soiling and chipping to dustwrapper, neat paper repair to verso of spine panel at head. Internally clean and crisp. From the library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21514

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[ACTS - WILLIAM III]. Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Septimo & Octavo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Two and twentieth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1695... London. Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1695. Foilio. [2], 343-346pp. Disbound. A crisp copy. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21272

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[ALNWICK ELECTION]. Board of health election. To the ratepayers of alnwick... Alnwick. Printed by M. Smith, [s.d., c.1882] Dimensions 290 x 440 mm. Single leaf broadside. Lightly creased, very short tear to one edge, central horizontal fold. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21433

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[ARBUTHNOT, John]. Law is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplify'd in the case of The Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who spent all they had in a Law-Suit. London. Printed for John Morphew, 1712. Fourth edition. 8vo. 24pp. Disbound, all edges red. Later paper shelf-label to head of dust-soiled title page. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21399

ASTON, George, Sir. Memories of a marine: an amphibiography. London. John Murray, 1919. First edition. 8vo. x, [2], 302pp, [2]. With a photographic frontispiece and a further seven photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt and red. Extremities rubbed. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21497

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AUSTEN-LEIGH, J[ames] E[dward]. A memoir of jane austen...to which is added lady susan and fragments of two other unfinished tales by miss austen. London. Richard Bentley and Son, 1871. Second edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 364pp. With a half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine sunned. Adhesive and ruled paper remnants to gutter of front blank fly-leaf, one leaf (preface) detached, occasional light spotting/browning. From the library of a relative of Ralph Vaughan Williams, inked ownership to front blank fly-leaf: 'Vaughan Williams / North Tidworth'. This is likely Ralph's ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21530

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BACON, Francis. History Naturall And Experimentall, Of Life and Death. Or Of the Prolongation of Life. London. Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, and Humphrey Mosley, 1638. 12mo. [30], 395 [i.e. 435]pp, [3]. With an initial imprimatur leaf, an additional imprimatur on p.395 [i.e.435], and a terminal blank leaf. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, recently rebacked to style, recent contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Boards a trifle marked, some wear to corners. Recent plain endpapers, nineteenth-century ownership inscription to verso of title, light damp-staining throughout, single instance of ink underlining and marginal annotation. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 15562

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[BALGUY, John]. Divine Rectitude: or, a brief inquiry Concerning the Moral Perfections of the deity; Particularly in respect of Creation and Providence. London. Printed for John Pemberton, 1730. First edition. 8vo. 62pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Disbound. Manuscript shelf-label pasted to head of title page, very slight loss to lower corner of leaf D1. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21446

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BEADNELL, Hugh J[ohn] L[lewellyn]. Decouvertes geologiques recentes dans la vallee du nil et le desert libyen. Paris. Le Bigot Freres, 1901. First edition. 8vo. 28pp. With an engraved plate depicting to Libyan desert. Original publisher's printed olive green wrappers. A trifle sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of upper cover: 'With the Author's kind regards'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21335

BENSON, George. Two letters to a friend. The first Concerning the End and Design of Prayer, &c...The second The Doctrine of Predestination Review'd, &c... London. Printed for Richard Ford, 1737. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. [4], 90pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Disbound. Stab-stich holes to gutter, short closed tear to head of title page, else a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21343

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BENSON, Joseph. A vindication of the people called methodists, in answer to a "Report from the Clergy of a District in the "diocese of lincoln." In a letter to thomas thompson, Esq. Banker, in Hull. London. Printed by G. Story, 1800. First edition. 8vo. 42pp, Stitched, as issued. A trifle spotted, stitching partially perished. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21328

BOOTHBY, Guy. Doctor Nikola. London. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, [1896]. First edition. 8vo. viii, 322pp, [4]. With a black and white frontispiece, 21 plates, and numerous illustrations in the text by Stanley L. Wood, and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, illustrated colour inlays bordered in gilt to upper board and spine. Rubbed, and lightly marked, spine sunned. Endpapers browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16929

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[BRISTOL CITY CHARTER]. Bristol: an abstract of the city charter: containing the institutions of mayors, recorders, sheriffs, town clerks, and all other officers whatsoever: as also of a common council... Bristol. Printed and sold by I. N. Pearce, 1832. 8vo. 22pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Extremities dust-soiled, loss to spine, short closed tear to foot of upper cover. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21337

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BURKE, Edmund. Lettres d'edmond burke, A un Membre de la Chambre des Communes de Parlement d'Angleterre, sur les negociations de paix: ouvertes avec le directoire. A Paris. Pougin et al., [1796]. First edition in French. 8vo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title. Disbound. Ink-stamps of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to head of title page and p.103, very occasional slight chipping margins. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21254

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BURNS, Robert. Poems, chiefly in the scottish dialect. Kilmarnock [i.e. Toronto]. Printed by John Wilson [i.e. Printed by James McKie for J. Campbell], 1786 [i.e. 1870] 8vo. 240pp. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Extremities marked and lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Signed by James Mckie to verso of title page. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13780

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CHALMERS, Thomas. The influence of bible societies on the temporal necessities of the poor. London. [s.n.], Reprinted 1835 8vo. iv, [1], 24pp. Disbound. A trifle dusty. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21403

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[CHARLIE AND JEANIE]. Charlie and jeanie in the country. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1859]. First edition. 8vo. 45pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and three engraved vignettes. Original publisher's printed pictorial powder blue wrappers. A trifle rubbed and creased, slight chipping to spine. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP, frontispiece spotted, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20990

CHATTERTON, E. Keble. Q-ships and their story. London. Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1922. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 276pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, a further 31 black and white plates, and 16 diagrams in the text. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some soiling to upper board and spine. Upper hinge exposed, lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21506

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CHUBB, Thomas. A discourse concerning reason, With regard to Religion and Divine Revelation. Wherein is shewn, That Reason either is, or else that it ought to be, a sufficient Guide in Matters of Religion... London. Printed for T. Cox, 1731. First edition. 8vo. 83pp, [5]. With five final pages of publisher's advertisements. Disbound, all edges red. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, title page soiled, later paper shelf-label to head. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21306

CONRAD, Joseph. Last essays. London & Toronto. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1926. First edition. 8vo. xvii, [1], 253pp, [1]. With a frontispiece: 'A facsimile of the last page written by Conrad'. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Very light shelf-wear, dustwrapper sunned and spotted, some loss to foot of spine panel. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 18286