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HARVARD, W. M. A narrative of the establishment and progress of The Mission to ceylon and india, founded by the late rev. thomas coke, l.l.d. under the direction of the wesleyan-methodist conference: including Notices of Bombay, And the Superstitions of various Religious Sects at that Presidency, and on the Continent of India. With an introductory sketch of the natural, civil, and religious history of the island of ceylon. London. Printed for the author, and sold by T. Blanshard et al., 1823. First edition. 12mo. vi, [6], lxxii, 404pp. With a very fine hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece view of a street scene outside the Wesleyan Mission House in Colombo and a hand-coloured engraved map of Ceylon. Uncut and partially unopened in modern gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting green calf lettering-piece. A trifle marked and sunned. Ink-stamp of the Library of Colby University to verso of frontispiece, ink-stamp of Waterville College ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32898
[SONGS]. An antidote against melancholy. Being a collection of Fourscore Merry songs, wherein Those on the same Subject and Key, are placed in an agreeable Succession, In Relation to the Different Measures of Time, After the Manner of suits of lessons. The Music of them all entirely new, and several of the Songs never before set to Music. London. Printed for Daniel Browne, 1749. First edition. 8vo. [2], 207pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed, slight splitting to joints. Later typed bookseller/auction descriptions pasted to FEP, lightly spotted. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19735
BELDEN, L[emuel] W[hittlesey]. An account of jane c. rider, the Springfield Somnambulist: the substance of which was delivered as a lecture before the springfield lyceum, jan. 22, 1834. Springfield [Massachusetts]. Published by G. and C. Merriam, 1834. First edition. 12mo. viii, [1], 10-134, [2], 4pp. With a final errata leaf and two leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's salmon cloth boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities marked, sunned, and lightly rubbed, paper shelf-labels to spine. Booklabel of the Town Library, Longmeadow, Massachusetts to FEP, spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19727
[SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE]. An abstract of the annual reports and correspondence of the Society for promoting Christian knowledge, from the commencement of it connexion with the east india missions, a. d. 1709, to the present day; together with the charges to the missionaries at different periods, on their departure for their several missions. London. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1814. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 730pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Rubbed, lightly marked, spine sunned, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting, occasional marginal chipping. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32537
MCCARTHY, Justin. A history of our own times: from the accession of queen vitoria to the general election of 1880. London. Chatto & Windus, 1882. New edition. 8vo. In four volumes With half-titles. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, tickets of London-based booksellers Gilbert & Field to all FEPs, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33047
DOUGLAS, Francis. A general description of the east coast of scotland, from edinburgh to cullen; Including a brief Account of the Universities of St. Andrew's and Aberdeen, Of the Trade and Manufactures carried on in the large Towns, and the improvements of the country. In a series of letters to a friend. Aberdeen. Re-printed by D. Chalmers & Co. for W. Gordon.., 1826. 12mo in 6s. 247pp, [1]. Neatly bound in gilt-tooled twentieth-century tan half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed to extremities, corners, some occasional browning or paper-flaws to text, else fine. From the recently dispersed remains of the Stevenson family library, with the inscription of D. Alan Stevenson to blank fly. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 31307
FELTON, Henry. A dissertation On Reading the classics, And Forming a Just Style. Written in the Year 1709, And addressed to the Right Honourable john Lord roos, The Present Marquis of granbby. London. Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1715. Second edition, with large Additions. 12mo. [2], xx, [14], 274pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf. Rubbed, marked, and dulled, without lettering-piece. Pastedowns sprung, text-block lightly dampstained. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33050
[MELANCHOLY]. A cure for melancholy: being a select collection of elegant anecdotes, bon mots, &c. of celebrated characters: including many originals. Edinburgh. Printed for Alexander Mackay and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1809. First edition. 12mo. xii, 382pp. Handsomely bound in later green half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, T.E.G. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford and later typed bookseller's description to FEP, later bookplate of William Crampton to recto of FFEP, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, lightly spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 19716