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[ANCIENT GREECE]. Giuoco di carte storiche contenente un compendio dell'istoria greca... Milano [i.e. Milan]. G. Pirotta, 1815. Dimensions 70 x 100 mm. 48 numbered cards, each with an engraved portrait vignette. Housed in original publisher's printed buff card slipcase. Cards lightly dust- soiled, very small holes to 20 cards - occasionally touching text with slight loss of sense. Slipcase heavily worn and marked, without head and foot panels, title partially (incorrectly) restored in manuscript, pencilled numeral '19' to foot of title. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 29666
BURTON, Isabel. AEI. Arabia Egypt India: a narrative of travel. London and Belfast. William Mullan and Son, 1879. First edition. 8vo. viii, 488pp. With twelve engraved plates, two engraved coloured maps (one folding), and two engraved illustrations in the text. Modern gilt-tooled red morocco-backed red cloth boards. Paper repairs to verso of folding map, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30124
SMITH, Rev. Thomas. The scientific library; or, repository of Useful and Polite Literature: comprising astronomy, geography, mythology, ancient history, modern history, and chronology. London. Printed for J. Wallis...and J. Harris, 1806. First edition. 24mo. In six volumes. With a half-title to Vol. I and an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Original publisher's gilt-ruled red roan. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Offsetting to titles, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28100
KENDAL, E[dward] A[ugustus]. The swallow: a fiction. Interspersed with poetry. London. Printed for E. Newbery...By T. Baylis, 1800. First edition. 12mo. xviii, [2], 157pp, [3]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-tooled red roan- backed marbled paper boards. Rubbed, upper joint split, lower joint starting, spine worn and sunned. Upper hinge exposed, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to FEP, slight loss to margins of leaf b2, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25808
CHARNAY, Désiré. The Ancient Cities of the new world. Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882... London. Chapman and Hall, 1887. First edition in English. Large 8vo. xxxii, 514pp. With a portrait frontispiece, a folding map, and numerous illustrations in the text, many full-page. Original publisher's pictorial navy cloth. Lightly rubbed, a trifle cocked. Later pencilled notes to verso of FFEP, foxed. Pencilled ownership inscription of H. Rider Haggard to half-title, small sheet of heraldic drawings, purportedly by Haggard, tipped-in. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32688
[RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY]. Do not forget to pray. London. Religious Tract Society [Reed & Pardon, Printers], [s.d., c. 1855] 8pp.

[Together with:] The plate of cherries. London. Religious Tract Society [Reed & Pardon, Printers], [s.d., c. 1855]. 8pp.

[And:] Now is the time! London. Religious Tract Society [Reed & Pardon, Printers], [s.d., c. 1855]. 8pp.

[And:] The two rich young men. London. Religious Tract Society [Reed & Pardon, Printers], [s.d., c. 1855]. 8pp.

[And:] The shepherd and his flock. London. Religious Tract Society [Reed ... More >
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32586
DRUMMOND, William. A Few Memoranda of The Life of the late Patrick Drummond Esqre. formerly A Solicitor of Croydon by His Son William. 1845. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1845]. Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [2], 138pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled navy morocco, A.E.G., Watered silk endpapers, gilt dentelles. Photographic portrait pasted to front pastedown. With a loosely inserted mourning card in memory of Elizabeth Drummond, wife of Patrick, Patrick Drummond, and two daughters Ann and Mary, and letter dated 1950 pertaining to the rescue of the book from sale. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32548
THADANI, R. V. [compiler]. The historic state trial of the ali brothers and five others. [Karachi]. [Published by R. V. Thadani], 1921. First edition. 8vo. [16], xx, 463, [3], 198pp. With a photographic frontispiece and a further eight photographic plates.Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in black. Heavily rubbed, numerous worm-tracks to boards - running throughout text-block - spine sunned. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting. Inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'With compliments from the Central Khilafat Committee of Bombay. M. Saldan. Lahore 21 1/22'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32230
BARRIE, J. M. An edinburgh eleven. Pencil Portraits from College Life. London. Office of the"British Weekly", 1889. First edition. 12mo. 115pp, [5]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Unopened in original publisher's tan cloth. Housed in modern black morocco-backed blue cloth slipcase. A trifle marked, spine slightly dulled, else a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32205
RENNELL, Major James. The journals of major james rennell first surveyor-general of india. Written for the information of the governors of bengal during his surveys of the ganges and brahmaputra rivers 1764 to 1767. Calcutta. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by The Asiatic Society, 1910. First edition. Quarto. iv, [2], 148pp. With a portrait plate, a folding facsimile of two pages of the journal, and a large folding map of Bengal. Later green cloth. Lightly rubbed. Leaves browned, coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page, some marginal insect damage to lower corner of text-block, facsimile torn at folds. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32178
WALPOLE, Hugh. Fortitude: a romance. London. Macmillan and Co., 1933. 8vo. viii, 432, 6pp. With three terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Preliminary leaves partially misbound. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. lettered in gilt to front lower turn-in: 'B. H. H. EASTER 1935. I. C.', signed 'Katharine Pountney' to rear lower turn-in. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to spine. Decorated endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32114
[POLITE ACADEMY]. The Polite Academy, or school of behaviour for Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Intended as a Foundation for good Manners and polite Address, in Masters and Misses... London. Printed for R. Baldwin...and B. Collins, 1762. 12mo. xxxvi, 108pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further eight engraved plates, of 12. Without three plates. Contemporary calf-backed vellum-tipped marbled paper boards, paper label with title in manuscript to upper board. Small hole and remnant of early ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, pen-trials to RFEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28464
[KUMAUN DIVISION]. The N.-W.P. and Oudh Land Revenue Act, No. III of 1901 as extended to the kumaun division and Rules and Orders Relating to the Kumaun Division. Allahabad. The Superintendent, Government Press, United Provinces, 1930. 8vo. 2], viii, 172pp. Original publisher's blue cloth-backed printed buff paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, worm-tracks and coloured pencil shelf-marks to upper board. Manuscript notes to front endpapers, coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page, ink-stamps of Brajmohan Lal Dave, advocate at Allahabad to title page and initial leaf of text, occasional ink/pencil underlining. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28125
SHERWOOD, Mrs. [Mary Martha]. Le fèvre. A true Narrative. London. Printed for Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1827. First edition. 12mo. [2], 152pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's printed buff paper boards, later rebacked. Rubbed, marked and dulled, corners exposed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27962