Antiquates Limited - Logo

What's New

Date Added Author A-Z Author Z-A Title A-Z Title Z-A Price Low-High Price High-Low
Photo of "[Drop-head title:] The waggon load ..."
[TALES AND STORIES]. [Drop-head title:] The waggon load of gold. Part I. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.

[Bound with:] [Drop-head title:] The waggon load of gold. Part II. [s.i.] [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.

[And:] [Drop-head title:] The house that jack built. [s.i.] [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.

[And:] [Drop-head tile:] Jack jingle. [s.i.] [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32533
Photo of "History of the irish rebellion ..."
MAXWELL, W[illiam] H[amilton]. History of the irish rebellion in 1798; with memoirs of the union, and emmett's insurrection in 1803. London. Baily, Brothers, 1845. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 477, [3], 16, 16, 8, 8, [6], 8, 8, 7pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 26 engraved plates, chiefly by George Cruikshank, and eight terminal catalogues of advertisements. Handsomely bound by Bedford (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in contemporary richly gilt-tooled crushed morocco, T.E.G., gilt dentelles. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers bound in. Spine a trifle dulled. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33253
Photo of "Principal characters, In the New ..."
[ROAD TO ROYALTY]. Principal characters, In the New Play of The Road to Royalty! "All the World's a Stage, and all the Men and Women merely plays.". [London[. Printed and Published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway, [1829]. Dimensions 380 x 520 mm. Single leaf broadside, printed on one side only. With 12 hand-coloured woodcut characters, each captioned. Old folds, some associated holes (without loss of text or image); a little chipped and marked to extremities, some creasing and a few small worm-holes. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32319
Photo of "Dickens's dictionary of the thames, ..."
DICKENS, [Charles]. Dickens's dictionary of the thames, from its source to the more. 1896. An unconventional handbook. [London]. Published for the Proprietors by J. Smith, [1896]. 8vo. 122, [2], 123-308pp, [10]pp. With 20 engraved maps and plans in the text and five terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary brown. morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Original publisher's upper wrapper bound in. A trifle rubbed and dulled. Bookplate of Guild of Women-Binders member Mary Simpson Sorley to FEP, inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'To Marjorie Purdy in memory of ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33653
Photo of "The book of baby birds"
DETMOLD, E. J. DUGDALE, Florence E. The book of baby birds. London. Henry Frowde. Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. First edition. Quarto. 120pp. With 19 mounted colour plates by E. J. Detmold. Bound by the Ashley Bindery in 1970 (stamp-signed in blind 'A. B.' and dated on rear turn-in) in later blind-tooled dark green morocco, geometric red and orange morocco inlays arranged in circular pattern to centre of both boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G., stamp-signed in blind 'A. B.' and dated in blind 1970 on rear turn-in. ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33692
Photo of "A Bibliographical description of the ..."
FRY, Francis. A Bibliographical description of the editions of The New Testament tyndale's version in english with Numerous Readings Comparisons of the Texts and Historical Notices... London. Henry Sotheran & Co., 1878. First edition. Quarto. xxiii, [1], 196, 4, [2]. With a woodburytype portrait frontispiece, a further 75 plates, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's' pictorial dark green pebbled cloth, stamped and lettered in red, black, and gilt. A trifle rubbed, short splits to joints at head. Ticket of William George's Sons, booksellers of Bristol to FEP, very occasional light spotting. With loosely inserted remnants of single ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33738
Photo of "The faerie queen: the Shepheards ..."
SPENSER, Edmund. The faerie queen: the Shepheards Calendar: Together with the other Works of England's Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. [London]. Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617. Second folio edition. [4], 363, [3]. A reissue of STC 23084, with cancel general title page and dedication. ESTC S122304, STC 23085.

[Bound with:] [SPENSER, Edmund]. [Caption title:] A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke: which for that it giueth great light to the Reader, for the better understanding is hereunto annexed. To the right noble and valorous, Sir Walter ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30333
Photo of "Flora's gala. Illustrated with elegant ..."
[FLORA'S GALA]. [FLAXMAN, Maria]. Flora's gala. Illustrated with elegant engravings. London. Printed for J. Harris, Successor to R. Newberry, at the Original Juvenile Library, 1808. First edition. 16mo. 16pp. With frontispiece and five further hand-coloured engraved plates depicting Flora (as a goddess) and her fairies, within detailed botanical scenes. Original printed wrappers, a little chipped and marked, some damp-staining to upper wrapper, contemporary previous owner's inscription to verso of frontispiece. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32832