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MORIER, James Justinian. The adventures of hajji baba, of ispahan. London. Richard Bentley, 1835. Revised edition. 8vo. [4], xxiv, 462pp. With a preliminary leaf of publisher's advertisements and additional engraved title page. Finely bound in near- contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, green cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed, spine heavily sunned. Inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge, Montague Place, July 13th 1835 to head of front blank fly-leaf, and inked 'C' to engraved title. Spotting to blank fly-leaves. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34214
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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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HILLARY, Sir Edmund. HUNT, Brigadier Sir John. The ascent of mount everest. [London]. Reprinted (by William Clowes and Sons) from The Geographical Journal, Vol. CXIX Part 4, December 1953, [1953]. First offprint edition. 8vo. [385]-399pp, [1]. With four leaves of photographic plates. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly creased and sunned, pencilled inscription to upper wrapper. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34847
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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The autocrat of the breakfast-table. Edinburgh & London. Alexander Strahan and Co., 1861. 8vo. viii, 200pp. Finely bound by Riviere (stamp-signed to FEP) in contemporary richly gilt-tooled buff morocco, contrasting black and brown morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Inked gift inscription addressed to J. T. Coleridge, 'on his seventy second birthday from his children, J. D. Coleridge and J. F. Coleridge, 9th July. 1862'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26071
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DICKENS, Charles. The battle of life. A Love Story. London. Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, first issue. 8vo. [8], 175pp, [3]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, cocked. Later bookplate of S. K. Poole to FEP, early inked ownership inscription of J. Booker to half-title. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30822
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[CHRISTIANITY], [ANGLICAN CHURCH]. The book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, According to the Use of The Church of England; together with the psalter, or psalms of david, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.. Oxford. Printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1786. 8vo. Unpaginated. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, with decorative devices to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with small losses to head and foot of spine, splitting to joints, and some staining and scuffing to boards. Light spotting and browning to title page. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35290
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[LITURGY - English]. The book of Common Prayer... Cambridge. Printed by John Baskerville, 1762. 8vo. Unpaginated. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled black morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Rubbed. Scattered spotting. Later manuscript genealogical information concerning members of the Holford family to fly-leaves. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 35420
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[RHYMERS' CLUB]. The book of the rhymers' club. London. Elkin Matthews, 1892. First edition. 8vo. One of 450 copies, 350 of which for sale. xv, [1], 94pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's buff cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and lightly marked, wear to head of dulled spine, lettering-piece chipped. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to FFEP, very occasional light spotting.

[Together with:] The second book of the rhymers' club. London. Elkin Matthews & John Land, 1894. First edition. One ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 34532
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[RADSTOCK, Admiral Lord William]. The British Flag Triumphant! Or the Wooden Walls of Old England: being copies of the London Gazettes, containing the accounts of the Great Victories and Gallant Exploits of the british fleets, during the last and present war; Together with correct Lists of the Admirals and Captains in the several Engagements... London. This Edition Sold By Messrs. Rivington...J. Hatchard...J. Asperne, 1806. 8vo. 96pp, [4]. With a list of subscriber's. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Title page and verso of terminal leaf a trifle dusty, lower margin of leaf I1 shaved. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Capt. W. R. Cumby to head of title. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 35095
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DICKENS, Charles. The chimes: A Goblin Story. London. Chapman and Hall, 1845. First edition, first issue. 8vo. [8], 175pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, cocked. Ticket of booksellers Grant, Milliken & Bolton of Dublin and later bookplate of S. K. Poole to FEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30823
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The complete poetical works of percy bysshe shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems. London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne and Bombay. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. Oxford edition. 8vo. xxiv, 912pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece of the author. Finely bound by Orford (stamp-signed to FEP) in contemporary navy calf, richly gilt-tooled, with contrasting red straight-grain morocco lettering-piece to spine. Blind-stamped turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed, with light scoring to boards. A little spotting to initial and terminal blank fly-leaves. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35279
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CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The complete works of geoffrey chaucer. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1901. 8vo. xxiv, 732, 149pp, [1]. With half-title and photographic reproduction of an early manuscript as frontispiece. Finely bound by Mudie in contemporary brown morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt initials 'B.E.C. ' to upper board, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Blanche E. Cheekley to front blank fly-leaf. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 25635
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DICKENS, Charles. The cricket on the hearth. A fairy tale of home. London. Printed and published for the author, by Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition, first issue. 8vo. [8], 174pp, [2]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, cocked. Later bookplate of S. K. Poole to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 30824
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POPE, Alexander. The dunciad, variorum. With the prolegomena of scriblerus.. London. Printed for A. Dod, 1729. First edition. Quarto. 16, [2], 6, 9-29, [3], 118pp, cxix-cxxiv, [2]. With an engraved title page and terminal index. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily worn, with lower joint cracked and upper joint split, significant loss to corners, slight losses to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of Richard Bingham to FEP. Early inked inscriptions of Robert Eddowes to FFEP, dated 1748, and ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30339
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ACTON, Eliza. The english bread-book for domestic use, adapted to families of every grade: containing the plainest and most minute instructions to the learner; practical receipts for many varieties of bread; with notices of the present system of adulteration, and its consequences; and of the improved baking processes and institutions established abroad. London. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First edition. 8vo. xii, 204, 24pp. With (illustrated) half-title and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, heavily marked. Very occasional light spotting, early manuscript recipe to blank recto of RFEP. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 32112
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PARKINS, Dr.. The english physician, enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines made of english herbs, not in any former impression of culpeper's british herbal.... London. Printed by J. & E. Hodson...For B. Crosby & Co., 1809. First edition. 8vo. xxii, [2], 389pp, [7]. With five engraved plates and a terminal table of diseases. Later red cloth boards, with gilt-tooled green morocco lettering-piece pasted to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned, foot of lower joint starting. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Thomas Hayes to first blank fly-leaf; additional manuscript inscription, partially removed, to head of title. Initial leaves heavily browned; lighter browning, staining, and ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35426
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FYSON, P. F. The flora of the nilgiri and pulney hill-tops (above 6,500 feet): being the wild and commoner introduced flowering plant round the hill-stations of ootacamund, kotagiri and kodaikanal. Madras. Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1915. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [2], xxvi, 475, [1]; [2], 286; xviii, 581pp, [1]. With 580 full page illustrations and four maps. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, joints starting, spines dulled. Several illustrations neatly hand-coloured. Near contemporary gift inscriptions to FFEPs presenting the set to Lady Margaret Evelyn Goschen (1858 -1943), wife of George Goschen (1886- 1952) Governor of Madras ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 34392