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GWATKIN, Mrs.. A devonshire dialogue, in four parts. London. G. B. Whittaker & Co., 1839. First edition. 8vo. [2], vi, 85pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's green cloth, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title page, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18353

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[HANBURY WILLIAMS, Charles, Sir]. A dialogue between G--s E---e and B--b D---n. London. Sold by T. Taylor, 1741. Folio. 8pp. Disbound. A trifle creased. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21292

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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

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HUNT, Thomas. A dissertation on proverbs VII. 22, 23. Being a specimen of critical dissertations on the proverbs of solomon... Oxford. Printed at the Theater, for Richard Clements, 1743. First edition. Quarto. viii, 16pp. Disbound. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21276

[HOADLY, Benjamin]. A letter from the Lord Bishop of Winchester, to clement chevallier, Esq. Occasioned by Fournier's new Attack, since the legal Condemnation of his Note over the Bishop's Name for 8,800l... London. Printed, and sold by J. Payne, 1757. First edition. 8vo. [2], xiii, [1], 128pp. Disbound, all edges red. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21309

NAUGHTON, Bill. Alfie. [London]. Macgibbon & Kee, [1966]. First edition. 8vo. 208pp. Original publisher's purple cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear to dustwrapper, a trifle dusty. A near fine copy. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20965

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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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ISHIGURO, Kazuo. An Artist of the Floating World. London. Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 206pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very light damp-staining to head of dustwrapper, else clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21461

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SYKES, Arthur Ashley. An enquiry when The Resurrection of the Body, or Flesh, was first inserted into the public creeds. London. Printed for A. Millar, 1757. First edition. 8vo. [12], 52pp. With a half-title. Disbound, all edges red. Ink-spotting to title page, inked shelf-mark to head, occasional light spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21307

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HAY, George Jackson, Colonel. An epitomized History of The Militia (The "Constitutional Force") together with the origin, periods of embodied service, and special services (including south africa, 1899-1902), of militia units existing october 31, 1905. London. United Service Gazette, [s.d., 1906?] First edition. 8vo. [4], 444pp, [2]. Original publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Later armorial bookplate of the Baron's Raglan, bearing the name 'Cefntilla', to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FEP: 'From the Author'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21498

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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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[LAWRENCE, T. E.] G.. Annotations on some minor writings of "T. E. Lawrence". London. Eric Partridge, Ltd. At the Scholartis Press, 1935. First edition. 8vo. Limited edition, number 478 of 500 copies. 28pp. With a previously unpublished portrait frontispiece by Frederick Carter entitled 'T.E.Shaw - Cecil Court, March 1934'. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in navy, pictorial dustwrapper. Dustwrapper lightly soiled. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21520

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JEBB, John. A short account of theological lectures, now reading at cambridge. To which is added, a new harmony of the gospels. Cambridge. Printed by J. Archdeacon...For T. & J. Merrill, 1770. First edition. Quarto. [2], 40pp, [2]. The final leaf contains a specimen of the Harmony with references, without the errata slip pasted at the foot of the verso found in some copies. Disbound. A trifle creased and dust-soiled. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21275

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IRVING, Washington. Astoria; or enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. London. Richard Bentley, 1836. First British edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 317, [3]; ix, [1], 320; vii, [1], 294pp. With half-title and terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. I., half-titles not called for in other volumes. Original publisher's plain tan paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces, housed in custom grey cloth slipcase with brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbing to joints and head and foot of spines, some wear and loss to lettering-pieces, slight surface loss ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 14326

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SCHOMANN, G[eorg] F[riedrich]. Athenian constitutional history, as represented in grote's history of greece. Oxford and London. James Parker and Co., 1878. First edition in English. 8vo. viii, 105, [1], 16pp. With a tipped-in errata slip and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine sunned with short split to head. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21283

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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

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[SONGS]. Ben Block...The irish emigrant. Durham. Walker, printer, [s.d., c.1846] Dimensions 190 x 250 mm. Single leaf broadside. With a woodcut illustration. Some creasing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21432

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FERMOR, Patrick Leigh. Between the woods and the water: On Foot to Constantinople from The Hooks of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates. [London]. John Murray, [1986]. First edition. 8vo. 248pp. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some staining and surface loss to lower panel of dustwrapper, spine a trifle sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Elizabeth / We all hail! / Paddy' More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 17194

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[SOUTHEY, Robert]. Bishop hatto: a legend of the mouse-tower on the rhine. London. Hamilton & Adams, [1861]. First edition. Quarto. [10] leaves. Illustrated throughout. Original publisher's limp blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Later bookplate to FEP, light damp-staining to head of all leaves at gutter, else clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 16040

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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