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BURKITT, William. Expository notes, with Practical Observations, on the new testament off our lord and saviour jesus christ... Liverpool. Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, 1809. Forty-first edition. Quarto. 1249 [i.e. 1251]pp, [1]. Predominantly printed in double columns. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 11 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to lower corner of upper board. Late nineteenth-century inked ownership inscription of J. E. Strangways to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 17448
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STRADA, Famiano. Famiani stradæ prolusiones academicæ. Oxonii, [i.e. Oxford]. E Theatro Sheldoniano, Impensis Jac. Fletcher Bibliopolæ, 1745. 8vo. [12], 325pp, [21]. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, later red paper label with title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, corners exposed. Pastedowns sprung, early manuscript bibliographical note to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23315
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HACKWOOD, Frederick W.. Good cheer: the romance of food and feasting. London. T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First edition. 8vo. 424pp. With half-title, a chromolithograph frontispiece and 25 further lithographed plates. Finely bound by Asprey of London (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, brown cloth boards, with thematic devices within spine compartments. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, very slight chipping to edges. Internally clean & crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34487
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[SWIFT, Jonathan]. Good Queen anne vindicated, and The Ingratitude, Insolence, &c. of her whig ministry and the allies Detected and Exposed, in the Beginning and Conducting of the war... London. Printed and sold by W. Owen, 1748. Second edition. 8vo. [4], 72pp. With a half-title. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Latter half of text-block separated into individual gatherings. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Hesketh Yarburgh to head of half-title. Lightly dust-soiled, some chipping to head of initial five leaves, occasional spotting/creasing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20765
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[GRAND TOUR]. Guide des collections egyptienne et etrusque et des statues en marbre et en bronze qui existent au musee bourbon a naples. Naples. L'imprimerie de l'observateur de Medecine, 1827. 27, [3], 48, [2], 20pp.

[Bound with:] Galerie impériale et royale de florence huitieme édition ornée des planches de la vénus des medicis de celle de canova et de l'apollon. Florence. Albizzi, 1825. First edition. 208pp. With three engraved plates.

8vo. Contemporary half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, discoloured, lettering-piece worn. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 21081
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HERBERT, William. Helga. A poem.. London. John Murray, 1815. First edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 299pp, [1]. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-decorated straight-grain burgundy morocco. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Leaves lightly browned, very light scattered spotting, More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34643
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WITSIUS, Hermann. Hermanni witsii miscellaneorum sacrorum libri IV. quibus De Prophetis & Prophetia, de Tabernaculi Levitici mysteriis, de Collatione Sacerdotii Aaronis & Christi, de Synedriis Hebraeorum, de IV Bestis Danielis, de cultu Molochi, de Seculo hoc & futuro, de sensu Epistolarum Apocalypticarum, de Schismate Donatistarum, Diligenter & prolixe differitur... Lugdani Batavorum, [i.e. Leiden]. Apud Conradum Meyerum, 1736. Editio Nova [i.e. new edition]. Quarto. Two volumes bound as one. [72], 683, [36]; [10], 741, [46], 168pp. Title in red and black. With an additional engraved title page and a further eight engraved plates (four folding). Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed, marked, and discoloured. Recent armorial bookplate of the Law Society to FEP. From the recently dispersed library of Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist ... More > £ 400.00 Antiquates Ref. 11293
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[CHARLES I]. His Majesties answer, by way of declaration To a Printed Paper, entituled, A Declaration of both Houses of Parliament, in Answer to His Majesties last Message concerning the Militia. London. Printed by Robert Barker, 1642. Quarto. [2], 11pp, [1]. Without terminal blank leaf. Printed in black letter. Nineteenth century gilt-tooled roan-backed marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Denham Court Library to FEP, some marginal chipping. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33088
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REYNOLDS, Frederick. How to grow rich: a comedy... London. Printed for T. N. Longman, 1793. Second edition. 8vo. [4], 70pp, [2]. ESTC T112295.

[Bound with:] [BURGOYNE, John]. The heiress. A comedy in five acts... London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1786. Third edition. [2], 112pp. Without half-title. Initial two leaves shaved, without loss of text. ESTC T36081.

[And:] [GUILBERT DE PIXÉRÉCOURT, René Charles]. The wife with two husbands: a tragi-comedy, in three acts. Translated from the french by miss gunning... London. Printed [by Bye ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34856
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HACKWOOD, Frederick W.. Inns, ales, and drinking customs of old england. London. T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. First edition. 8vo. 392pp. With half-title, a chromolithograph frontispiece and 40 further illustrated engraved plates. Finely bound by Asprey of London (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, brown cloth boards, with thematic devices within spine compartments. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Light spotting to initial leaves, light browning to plates. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34485
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SHIRREFF, Emily. Intellectual education and its influence on the character and happiness of women. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. New edition. 8vo. xii, 276pp. Bound by Bickers & Son (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in later half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'Clementine Mitford from her loving mother H. Blanche Airlie. Dec. 1889'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 34749
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[CRAWFORD, John Adair]. Journal of a deputation sent to the east by the committee of the malta protestant college in 1849... London. James Nisbet and Co., 1854. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], xl, 342, [2]; vi, [2], 886pp. With a lithographed frontispiece to each volume, three engraved maps (one folding), an engraved plan of Jerusalem, and an engraved portrait of a 'Mohammedan family' reproduced from a daguerreotype. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed, spines sunned. Armorial bookplates of Merthyr Guest to FEPs, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25642
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories For Little Children. London. Macmillan and Co., 1902. First edition, second issue. Quarto. [7], 249pp, [2]. With half-title and 22 engraved plates by the author. Original publisher's decorated red cloth boards. Rubbed and marked, with spine dulled and chipped, some soiling to boards, corners bumped. Light browning and soiling to endpapers. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34790
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ROELL, Werner P.. Laurels for prinze wittgenstein. Bromley. Independent Books, 1994. First English edition. 8vo. 192pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered gilt, with the original striking black, white and yellow dustwrapper. Nine pen signatures of various airmen to FFEP, with corresponding ink notes to pastedown. Contemporary marketing slip loosely inserted. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34301
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MAUPASSANT, Guy. La vie errante. Paris. Paul Ollendorff, Editeur, 1895. Vingtieme edition. Small quarto. [4], 233pp, [3]. Beautifully extra-illustrated with 13 vignette drawings, variously in ink and wash and pencil, and two further inserted plates, each ink on paper, all by J. Ernest Boilvin. Finely bound in contemporary gilt- tooled marbled blue 'Spanish Calf', gilt-tooled inner dentelles. Slightly rubbed, corners a little bumped, unobstrusive old scuff marks to lower board neatly refurbished. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33927
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AUSTEN, Jane. Letters of jane austen. London. Richard Bentley & Son, 1884. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xv, [1], 374, [2]; [4], 366pp, [2]. With half-titles, frontispieces, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements to each volume. Early twentieth-century navy half-morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, blue cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle marked, spines lightly sunned. Bookplates of A. Bethune Morgan to FEPs. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29917