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A GENERAL OFFICER. The military mentor. Being a Series of Letters recently written by a general officer to his son, on his entering the army.... London. Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. Second edition. 8vo. In two volumes. x, 336pp; iv, 122pp, [40]. With a terminal index and terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements to Vol.II. Contemporary mottled calf, ruled and tooled in gilt to spine, with contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, with small losses to head and foot of spines, upper joint of Vol.I cracked, joints of Vol.II starting. Armorial bookplates of Christopher Hamilton to FEPs. Light browning ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22767
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WATTS, Alaric A.. The literary souvenir. London. Longman, Rees, Orne, Brown and Green, 1832. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 344pp. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements, colour engraved frontispiece, and 11 further plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green calf, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities. Hinges exposed; spotting and browning throughout. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35200
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KNIGHT, Samuel. The life of Erasmus, more particularly that part of it which he spent in England; wherein an account is given of his learned friends, and the state of religion and learning at that time in both our universities. With an appendix containing several original papers. Cambridge. Printed By Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. 8vo. [8], xxxi, [1], 349, 348-386pp, cxliv, [8]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 19 engraved plates. Without four terminal leaves (An Index to the Life of D. Colet). Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, scoring to boards, upper joint split, loss to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, very occasional early manuscript corrections to text. Inked inscription to front blank ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 32535
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[ACTS - SCOTLAND]. The laws and acts Made in the first parliament Of Our most High and Dread Sovereign James VII... Edinburgh. Printed by Robert Freebairn, 1731. 12mo. 875pp, [1]. Each session of Parliament has a separate title page. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints starting, foot of spine worn. Early ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, head of text-block shaved with occasional loss to running-title, initial four gatherings dampstained at foot, very small hole to leaf Mm7, touching text without loss of sense. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 35301
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[CRAIK, Dinah]. The Head of the Family...Part I.. London. Horace Marshall & Son., [s.d., c. 1900] First edition. 8vo. 60pp, iv. With a terminal catalogue of advertisements.

[Together with:] [CRAIK, Dinah]. The Head of the Family...Part II (abridged). London. Horace Marshall, [s.d., c. 1900]. First edition. 8vo. 60pp, iv. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements.

Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with toning to wrappers - heavier to Part II - loss to spines, staples rusted. ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34683
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HOBBS, Major H[arry]. The glory hole: yarns for soldiers; regular, irregular and highly irregular. Calcutta. H. Hobbs & Co., [1943]. First edition. 8vo. [2], 130pp. Stapled in original publisher's printed brown paper wrappers, printed paper lettering-piece pasted to lower wrapper. Rubbed and marked, with damp-staining to wrappers, and slight chipping to edges and corners. Inked gift inscription reading 'J.R G C from E.N.W. Calcutta, October, 1961' to FEP. Leaves lightly browned. Light spotting to title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35103
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CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The ghost. Book III. London. Printed fro the Author, and Sold by WIlliam Flexney, 1762. First edition. [5], 58-113pp, [1]. With a half-title. ESTC T40804.

[Bound with:] CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The ghost. Book IV. London. Printed for J. Coote, 1763. First edition. [5], 128-213pp, [1].

[And:] CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The prophecy of famine. A scots pastoral... London. Printed for the Author, And Sold by G. Kearsly, 1763. Fourth edition. [4], 28pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. ESTC T98760.

[And:] CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 23316
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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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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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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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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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[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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[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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[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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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
Photo of "The ascent of mount everest"
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
Photo of "Spiritualism a philosophy of life"
EVANS, W. H.. Spiritualism a philosophy of life. London. London Spiritualist Alliance, Limited, [s.d., c.1913] First edition. 8vo. [4], 76pp. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Very lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, some spotting throughout. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35195