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[GLAZIER, Richard]. The Architectural Treatment of the fire-place and its accessories. [Manchester?]. [s.n.], [s.d.] Folio. Manuscript on paper. [35]ff. With numerous pen and ink illustrations in the text and four contemporary photographs, depicting Tattershall Castle and its fireplaces, pasted in. Contemporary dark green cloth. Rubbed and marked. Later ownership inscription and manuscript note - attributing the manuscript to Richard Glazier - to FFEP, two leaves detached, occasional spotting. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20249
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VERTUE, George. Medals, Coins, Great-Seals, Impressions, From the Elaborate Works of Thomas Simon... [London]. Invented and Published by Geo: Vertue, 1753. First edition. Quarto. [4], 3, [1], iv, 68pp. With 38 engraved plates. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, later rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed. Hinges exposed, adhesive residue to FEP, scattered spotting. Inscribed 'James Vertue' to head of title page, later manuscript inscription to RFEP: 'Presentation copy, first impress'. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27537
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[MARQUIS OF WATERFORD]. Life and and extraordinary exploits of the marquis of waterford, with curious anecdotes, comprising Night Rambles in the vicinity of Covent Garden, his flare up among the nymphs at mother h's The Brandy and Water Wager; or, Sharks at the Kean's Head, pocketing the affront, looking out for fresh game, shirting the shirtless, a spree at the toll-gate at melton, coming in for the brush! Taking the fire barred gate in the drawing room, &c. &c. &c.. [London]. Published by J. Thompson, 51, Gloucester Street, Oakley Street, Lambeth, [1840]. 8vo. 8pp, including the woodcut portrait frontispiece of the Marquis of Waterford. Handsomely bound in later brown half-morocco, lettered and ruled in gilt, over brown buckram. Lightly rubbed to joints, extremities; internally immaculate. The Ricky Jay copy, with the 'Ricky Jay Collection' book plate loosely inserted. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33420
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WILSON, Sir Charles [editor]. Picturesque palestine, sinai and egypt. London. J. S. Virtue and Co., [1881-84] First edition. Folio. In 10 parts, as issued. With 42 engraved plates (including additional engraved title pages), two large colour maps (Palestine and Sinai and Egypt respectively) and hundreds of in-text woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, some bindings shaken, with leaves/plates detached. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29826
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PUGIN, Augustus Welby N. AYLING, Stephen. Photographs from Sketches by Augustus Welby N Pugin By Stephen Ayling. London. Published by S. Ayling, 1865. First edition. Folio. In two volumes. With half-titles, a mounted albumen frontispiece to Vol. I., chromolithographic title pages, chromolithographic dedication leaf, 4pp indexes, and 500 albumen prints mounted two per leaf, numbered in manuscript. Original publisher's dark brown morocco-backed brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spines, gilt monograms to upper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked. Later inked ownership inscription of P. A. Robson and later bookseller's typed ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30180
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[TRAVEL]. Round the World Eastwards In 140 Days. [Sevenoaks]. [W. Wicking, Steam Printer], [1898]. First edition. Oblong. 63pp, [1]. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board, denticulated fore- and bottom-edge. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Miss L. K. Dixon / With the Author's love / November 1898'. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31136
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LASKEY, Captain J[ohn] [Coombe]. A general account of the hunterian museum, glasgow: including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, &c. in that celebrated collection. Glasgow. Published by John Smith & Son, 1813. First edition. 8vo. v, [4], 6-133pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-ruled black roan, navy cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed to extremities, title page with some old dust-marking, terminal leaf stained at top fore-edge corner, otherwise internally clean and crisp More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33583
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CICERO. M.t. ciceronis de officiis, libri tres. Item Cato maior, seu de senectute, Laelius, sue de amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum sex ad Marc. Brutum. Quibus additum est praeter superiore aeditionem, Somnius Scipionis: Ex castigatione Joannis boulierii. Fragmenta poematum, in quibus continentus Aratea. Aliorum poematum nomina, sequens pagina indicabit. Postremo accessit Qu. Fratris, De petitione consulatus lib. Ex dionys. lambini monstroliensis emendatione. Accesserunt eiusdem annotationes, sue animadversiones. Londini, [i.e. London]. Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius Typographus. Cum privilegio Regiae Majestatis, 1578. 8vo. 331pp, [5]. [A-X8; X7-8 are blank]. Contemporary limp vellum; text-block detached from binding, which is marked and creased, with a small (contemporarily patched) hole. Tears and creasing to margins of first four leaves; and tear to head of L2, all without loss of text. Contemporary Latin ink inscription ('Ex sapienta est pieta...'???) to head of A2, contemporary manuscript notes in an English hand to verso ... More > £ 8,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33242