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NIVERNAIS, Louis Jules. Fables by the duke of nivernois. London. Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1799. First edition in English. 8vo. [20], 259pp. Contemporary black half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Rubbed and marked, with surface loss to joints and corners, joints starting. Heavier spotting to first blank fly-leaves, very occasional light spotting to text. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34050
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[BEWICK, Thomas]. BROWN, Walter. Fables. London. Published by S. Grosvenor, 1884. First edition. Quarto. [2], 68pp, [2]. WIth a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcuts in the text by Thomas Bewick. Handsomely bound in modern red half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, green cloth boards. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, frontispiece marked and creased with naive paper repair to lower corner. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13929
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LE NEVE, Ethel. Ethel le neve: her life story. London. Publishing Office 12, Norris Street, [c.1911]. 8vo. 64pp. With half-title, engraved landscape frontispiece, and seven further engraved plates. Stapled, as issued, in original printed blue wrappers. A little marked, with wrappers faded, small losses to head and foot of spine. Leaves lightly browned, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34069
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TAYLOR'S FIRST WORK FOR ADULTS. Essays in rhyme, on Morals and Manners. London. Printed by T. Miller for Taylor and Hessey, 1816. First edition. 12mo. [4], 174pp, [6]. With three terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Bound by J. Doyle of Dublin (ticket to FEP) in later dark green half-roan, tooled in gilt and blind, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed, head of upper joint split. Upper hinge exposed, book-label of Lt.-Col. Mockler to FEP, pencilled ownership inscription of Elliot Mockler and inked inscription of Elgin Mockler ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27477
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ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays in criticism. Leipzig. Bernard Tauchnitz, 1887. Copyright edition. Volume I only. [3], 6-272pp. Without half-title.

[Together with:] ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays in criticism: second series. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1892. Copyright edition. [5], 8-264pp. Without half-title.

8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary Arts and Crafts style binding, blind-tooled calf, A.E.G., gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, first mentioned volume lettered in blind to upper board: 'CRITICISM, A DISINTERESTED ENDEAVOUR TO LEARN. PROPOGATE THE BEST THAT IS KNOWN AND ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31101
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MORRELLET, [André]. Eloges de madame geoffrin... Paris. H. Nicolle, Librairie Stéréotype, 1812. 8vo. [4], xxiv, 282pp, [2]. With a half-title. Contemporary mottled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting green calf lettering-piece, carmine edges. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist, and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with his armorial bookplate to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34173
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SULLIVAN, W[illiam] F[rancis]. Early habits; or, the effects of Attention and Neglect: exemplified in the history of master thomas towardley, and laurence lacey, alias lazy. London. Published by Whittingham and Arliss, 1816. First edition. 12mo. [2], 127pp, [3]. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, one further hand-coloured engraved plate, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32886
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[TALES AND STORIES]. [Drop-head title:] The waggon load of gold. Part I. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.

[Bound with:] [Drop-head title:] The waggon load of gold. Part II. [s.i.] [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.

[And:] [Drop-head title:] The house that jack built. [s.i.] [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.

[And:] [Drop-head tile:] Jack jingle. [s.i.] [s.n.], [s.d.] 8pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32533
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[QUEEN VICTORIA]. [Drop-head title:] The patriotic declaration of her most Gracious Majesty, queen victoria, Made in Council, on the 20th of June, 1837. [London]. Hodson, [1837]. Dimensions 220 x 370 mm. Single leaf broadside. Mounted on later card sheet.

[Together with:] [Drop-head title:] Biographical sketch of his Royal Highness the duke of kent; Father of her present Majesty. [London]. Hodson, [1837?] Dimensions 220 x 370 mm. Single leaf broadside. Mounted on later card sheet.

[And:] [Drop-head title:] The answer to the address of the city of london, of her Royal Highness, the duchess of kent; on ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33194
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DICKENS, [Charles]. Dickens's dictionary of the thames, from its source to the more. 1896. An unconventional handbook. [London]. Published for the Proprietors by J. Smith, [1896]. 8vo. 122, [2], 123-308pp, [10]pp. With 20 engraved maps and plans in the text and five terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary brown. morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Original publisher's upper wrapper bound in. A trifle rubbed and dulled. Bookplate of Guild of Women-Binders member Mary Simpson Sorley to FEP, inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'To Marjorie Purdy in memory of ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33653
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MONGE, Gaspard. Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons, Faite en exécution de l'arrêté du Comité de Salut public, du 18 pluviôse de l'an 2 de la République française, une et indivisible. Paris. De L'imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, [1794]. First edition. Quarto. [4], viii, 231pp, [1]. With four folding tables and 60 engraved folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf-backed vellum-tipped marbled paper boards. Rubbed. Inked ownership inscription to title page 'Humbley 1829', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22824
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[CHURCH OF ENGLAND]. Constitutions and canons Ecclesiastical: Treated upon by the Bishop of london, President of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury, and the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of the said province. And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties license in their Synod begun at london, Anno Dom. 1603... London. Printed for A. Crook, S. Mearn, and R. Pawlett, 1673. Quarto. [6], 106pp, [8]. Interleaved throughout; the leaves block engraved with numbered lines. Later half-calf, drab paper boards, recently rebacked and recornered. Rubbed and marked, paper label to upper board with manuscript note: 'Picked up by C. P. Burnsey on the Field of Waterloo 14 days after the B'. Slight loss to lower corner of leaf G2, occasional manuscript annotations, in a single legible hand, concerning ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27690