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[PULTENEY, William, Earl of Bath]. A short view of the State of affairs, With Relation to great britain, for Four Years past; with some remarks on The Treaty lately Published and a Pamphlet intitled, observations upon it. London. Printed for R. Francklin, 1730. First edition. 8vo. 36pp. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Title and final page dust-soiled, small worm-trail to lower margins. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21619

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[ARBUTHNOT, John]. An invitation to peace: or, toby's Preliminaries to nestor ironsides, Set forth in a dialogue Between toby and his Kinsman. London. Printed and Sold by Mr. Lawrence, [1713]. First edition. 8vo. 23pp, [1]. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, inked numeral to upper corner of title page, else clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21614

[HOADLY, Benjamin]. A letter from the Lord Bishop of Winchester, to clement chevallier, Esq. Occasioned by Fournier's new Attack, since the legal Condemnation of his Note over the Bishop's Name for 8,800l... London. Printed, and sold by J. Payne, 1757. First edition. 8vo. [2], xiii, [1], 128pp. Disbound, all edges red. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21309

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[ACTS - WILLIAM III]. Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Septimo & Octavo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Two and twentieth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1695... London. Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1695. Foilio. [2], 343-346pp. Disbound. A crisp copy. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21272

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BURKE, Edmund. Lettres d'edmond burke, A un Membre de la Chambre des Communes de Parlement d'Angleterre, sur les negociations de paix: ouvertes avec le directoire. A Paris. Pougin et al., [1796]. First edition in French. 8vo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title. Disbound. Ink-stamps of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to head of title page and p.103, very occasional slight chipping margins. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21254

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STANHOPE, Charles Stanhope, Earl. Observation on Mr. Pitt's plan, for the reduction of the national debt. London. Printed by J. Davis, for P. Elmsly, 1786. First edition. Quarto. 39pp, [25]. Disbound. Very occasional slight shipping to margins. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18248

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[BRISTOL CITY CHARTER]. Bristol: an abstract of the city charter: containing the institutions of mayors, recorders, sheriffs, town clerks, and all other officers whatsoever: as also of a common council... Bristol. Printed and sold by I. N. Pearce, 1832. 8vo. 22pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Extremities dust-soiled, loss to spine, short closed tear to foot of upper cover. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21337

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[DORSET ELECTION]. To the freeholder,s of the county of dorset... Blandford. Shipp, Printer, [1831]. Dimensions 220 x 340 mm. Single leaf broadside. Central vertical and horizontal folds, a trifle creased. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 20725

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[DORSET ELECTION]. Electors of england, You are to decide by your votes between old england...Those who are on this side will Vote against the reform bill...new england...Those who are on this side will Vote for the reform bill. Blanford. Shipp, Printer, [s.d., c.1832] Dimensions 240 x 380 mm. Single leaf broadside. Lightly creased and spotted, central horizontal fold. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20726

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[ALNWICK ELECTION]. Board of health election. To the ratepayers of alnwick... Alnwick. Printed by M. Smith, [s.d., c.1882] Dimensions 290 x 440 mm. Single leaf broadside. Lightly creased, very short tear to one edge, central horizontal fold. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21433

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[HIGHWORTH ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROSECUTION OF FELONS]. Highworth Association, For the prosecution of felons. The Undersigned Members of this Association give this public Notice of their determination to spare no pains, or expence whatever, to detect and prosecute to the utmost rigour of the Law, all Persons who shall commit any kind of Depredations on their property; and that handsome Rewards will be given for the discovery and conviction of Offenders... Devizes & Swindon. Coulton, Printer, [s.d., c.1810] Dimensions 180 x 220 mm. Single leaf handbill, printed on one side only. Clean and crisp, partially legible blind-stamp to head - incorporating the name 'BATH'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21429

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[LONDON TRADE]. The Cheapest Carpet Warehouse in london, Is Established at 161, strand, (Removed from Bedford House, Covent Garden.) E. richardson has now to offer to the public 2000 yds. of the best Brussels Carpetting Of the Newest & most Fashionable Patterns, in every Colour, at the low Price of 6s. yer yd... [London]. Wood, Printer, [s.d., c.1820] Dimensions 230 x 280 mm. Single leaf handbill, printed on one side only. Horizontal folds, lightly creased, one edge soiled. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20723

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[LONDON TRADE]. Under Royal and Distinguished Patronage. The royal polytechnic cement registered...For Repairing Glass, China, Marble, Ivory, Bone, Mother of Pearl...Manufactured and Sold only by g. davies, at the cement counter... [London]. Geo. Chalfont, Steam Printer, [s.d., 1870s?] Dimensions 230 x 280 mm. Single leaf handbill, printed on one side only. Horizontal and vertical folds, lightly creased and spotted. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21289

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[SPOTTISWOODE & CO.]. [Caption title:] Messrs. spottiswoode & co.'s Annual Dinner at the old ship hotel, brighton, On saturday, july 6, 1867. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1867]. Dimensions 180 x 230 mm. Single leaf handbill. A trifle toned, three very short tears to margins. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21278

[STAFFORDSHIRE AUCTION]. To be sold by auction, By Mr. Shorthouse, At the plough in endon, in the County of Stafford, on Thursday the 20th Day of October. Leek. Hilliard...Printer, [s.d., 1794?] Dimensions 430 x 270mm. Single leaf broadside. Folded, with old creasing, some browning, tears and slight loss at folds. A single manuscript correction in ink: 'The Turnpike Road from Newcastle to Leek passes thro' the Village of Endon, and Lot (3 corrected to) 5 adjoins such Road'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20595

[YORKSHIRE AUCTION]. To be Sold. In the following Lotts and Subject to such Conditions as will be Produced at the House of Joseph Lodge near the Church in Thornhill, on Monday the 9th of November 1778. between the Hours of four and six in the afternoon of the same day. [s.i., Dewsbury?]. [s.n., Mr Sykes?, 1778] Dimensions 165 x 160mm. Single leaf handbill. Fore- and gutter margin edges uncut. Creased, with some marginal tearing, marking and early manuscript notes to verso. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 21439

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[WARDLE, George]. [An eighteenth-century manuscript daybook]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1769]. Folio. Manuscript on paper. [40] leaves. Contemporary drab paper wrappers. Extremities rubbed and marked. First half of text-block detached from binding, occasional spotting/chipping to margins, two leaves excised, substantial loss to one (blank) leaf. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 13995

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[BRIDGEWATER]. [Borough of Bridgewater charters and oaths of public officals]. [s.i.]. [s.n., s.d., but c.1750?] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 108pp, followed by 31 blank leaves. Eighteenth-century blind-ruled vellum. Slightly marked, a trifle rubbed to extremities, else a crisp copy with some spotting. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19092

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[GREAT BRITAIN. Board of Inland Revenue]. Assessor's Warrant and instructions. [London?]. [s.n.], 1847. Quarto. 30pp. With the tax commissioners' wax seals, a couple of paragraphs in red. In the original stamped blue wrappers. Spine a bit cracked, small repair to lower margin of upper cover, trace of horizontal fold, slight age browning, little marginal spotting and offsetting from seals to a few leaves. Contemporary inscriptions 'Uggeshall' and 'L781' to wrappers, names of appointed assessors and appointing commissioners' signatures in ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20102

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RUSSELL, Bertrand. Bolshevism: practice and theory. New York. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First American edition. 8vo. 192pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in dark blue. A trifle rubbed. Later inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21242