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[CALLENDER, James Thomson]. The political progress of britain; or an impartial account of the Principal Abuses in the Government of this Country, from the Revolution in 1688. The whole tending to prove the ruinous Consequences of the popular System of War and Conquest. Part first.. London. Printed for T. Kay...and Robertson & Berry...Edinburgh, 1792. 8vo. First part, all published. 80pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, gilt supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet to both boards. Extremities rubbed, joints split, boards held by cords only. Paper shelf-label pasted to FEP, manuscript contents to recto of FFEP, title page and final leaf dust-soiled, occasional spotting. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 21203

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[IRELAND]. CARROLL, William Henry. A copious practical index to the several statutes enacted in the 33d, 35th, 37th, part of the 40th, 43d, 45th, 51st, and 57th years of king george III for the regulation of contested elections in ireland, as far as relate to the elections of members to serve in the imperial parliament for counties and cities only. Dublin. Printed by George Grierson and John Rowe Power, 1818. Second edition. 8vo. 254pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, slight loss to lettering-piece. Very occasional slight marginal chipping, overall internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17543

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[CHAPBOOK]. Storia del soldato calabrese Salvatore Misdea. Firenze. Tipografia Adriano Salani, 1888. 8vo. 19pp., [3]. Original wrappers with woodcut portrait of Salvatore Misdea. Small scattered spots, somewhat browned, edges uncut. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17793

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[ACTS - GEORGE II]. Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis...tricesimo primo. At the Parliament begun...the thirty first day of May, anno Dom. 1754...And from thence continued by several prorogations to the first day of December, 1757, being the fifth session of this present Parliament. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1757 [i.e. 1758] Folio. 1043pp, [15]. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, slight splitting to joints. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 12377

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[ACTS - GEORGE II]. [A sammelband of 31 public general Acts passed in the seventh session of the eleventh Parliament of Great Britain]. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1759 [i.e. 1760] Folio. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, slight splitting to joints. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 12378

JUNIUS. Junius. Stat nominis umbra. London. Printed for Henry Sampson Woodfall, 1772. First Woodfall edition, second issue.. 12mo. In two volumes. [2], xxxii, vii, [1], 208; [2], 356pp, [38]. Without final blank leaf to index. Engraved title pages. A reissue of Woodfall’s first edition (ESTC T1830) with the addition of a table of contents and an index covering both volumes. Recent half-calf, brown cloth boards, gilt, A.E.G. A trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23114

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[ALCOHOL]. [Drop-head title:] Reasons humbly offered By the Maltsters of Surrey and Middlesex... [London]. [s.n.], [1730?] Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. Single leaf. Docket title to verso. Stab-stitch holes to gutter margin. Old horizontal folds. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23666

[GOLDSMITH'S COMPANY]. A list of the wardens, assistants and livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. [London]. [s.n.], [1893]. 8vo. [2], 44pp, [14]. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Assay Office Library, Birmingham to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24985

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GILBART, James William. Lectures sur l'histoire et les principes du commerce chez les ancients. Paris. Guillaumin et Cie, 1856. First French edition. 12mo. [3], vi-xii, 168pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Without half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed to extremities, short cracks to joints. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Presented by the author to Miss Henderson Jan. 1. 1857' to blank fly-leaf. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 19186

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M'NEILE, The Rev. Hugh. Anti-slavery and anti-popery. A letter addressed to edward cropper, esquire, and thomas berry horsfall, esquire. London. Hatchard and Son, 1838. Third edition, with a preface. 8vo?. 28pp. Largely disbound within original mauve wrappers. marked, creased to extremities and slightly dog-earred. With the contemporary ink inscription of 'A.M. Whittall' to head of title. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25759

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HOLMES, [William]. Plan of proceeding: octavo. First part. Holmes' tract on bodies corporate generally, those in Exeter specially, which includes the novel county-rates, Exeter, 1799. Second part. Holmes' epitome of political history ancient and modern, commented on, In hope of affording some Information to the Middle and Lower Classes of Mankind, countenancing Virtue and discouraging Vice. Third part. Holmes on the police of Exeter specially, ancient and modern, as an accompaniment to Izaacke’s Memorials of the City. Exeter. T. Brice, [1795]. First edition. Part one only, all published. [2], 4, [2], 48pp. ESTC T42425.

[Bound with:] [HOLMES, William]. [Drop-head title: To the Electors of Representatives to serve in Parliament for the City and County of Exeter]. [Exeter]. [T. Brice], [1802]. 13pp, [3]. Not in ESTC.

[And:] [HOLMES, William]. [Drop-head title: New pavements, &c. Third address. [Exeter]. [T. Brice], [1795]. [1], 22-28pp.

[And:] [HOLMES, William]. [Drop-head title: Addressed to ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 16613

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SELKIRK, [Thomas Douglas], Earl of. Observations on the present state of the highlands of scotland, with a view of the causes and probable consequences of emigration. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 223, [1], lvi pp. With a half-title and a tipped-in errata slip. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, chipping to lettering-piece. Shelf-label of Newbattle Abbey Library to FEP, scattered foxing. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Earl of Ancram / with the author's compliments'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22057

[YARMOUTH]. The poll book for Member of Parliament, for the borough of great yarmouth, in the county of norfolk, taken on The 6th Day of October, 1812... Yarmouth. Printed and sold by J. Keymer, [1812]. First edition. 8vo. [2], 24pp. Interleaved throughout, as issued. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Light rubbing to spine. Internally immaculate. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24151

[BECCARIA, Cesare, marchese di]. An essay on crimes and punishments, translated from the italian; with a commentary, attributed to Mons. De voltaire, translated from the french. London. Printed for E. Newbery, 1785. Fourth edition. 8vo. viii, [4] ,179 , [1], lxxix, [1]pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29109

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[PITT, William]. [Drop-head title:] A Letter from a Right Hon. Person to ------ in the City. [London]. [s.n.], [1761]. Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. Single leaf broadside. Mounted on later paper sheet. Engraved name and portrait of William Pitt the Elder at the head of the title. Two old horizontal folds, single small marginal stain. A later pencilled note to the mount curiously quotes an entry in Church of England clergyman James Woodforde's (1740-1803) The Diary of a Country Parson (1924-31): 'Gave the Bath Newsman for Mr. Pitt's speech ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29200

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SANDERSON, Robert. De Juramento. Seven lectures concerning the obligation Of Promissory oathes. Read publickly in the Divinity School at oxford. London. Printed by E. C. for Humphrey Moseley, Octavian Pulleyn, and Andrew Crook, 1655. First edition in English. 16mo. [6], 272 [i.e. 274]pp, [12]. Without initial blank leaf. Title in red and black. Later half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked preserving black calf lettering-piece. Boards rubbed. Armorial bookplate of The Law Society to FEP, with their occasional ink-stamps throughout, title page laid down, paper repair to initial leaf of text with some loss of text and sense, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25509

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[LONDON BAKERS]. [Drop-head title:] The case of the Master, Wardens and Commonalty of the Company of Bakers in and about the City of London, in Relation to the Penalties and Several Clauses in the late Act of Parliament, for Regulating the Price and Assize of Bread. [London?]. [s.n.], [1711]. Dimensions 210 x 320 mm. 2pp. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Docket title to verso. Three old horizontal folds, chipping to margins. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27285

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FAIRMAN, William. The stocks examined and compared: or, a guide to purchasers in the public funds... London. Printed by H. L. Galabin, 1796. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 120pp. Modern marbled wrappers. Slight marginal loss to leaf B1, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30726

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[LONDON]. An Account of the Endowments by a Pound-Rate, of Churches in London, and of such New-Churches within the Bills of Mortality, the Parishes whereof have been taken out of the larger Parishes. [London]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1725?] Dimensions 0 x 0 mm. Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Three old horizontal folds. Some spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20586

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[LYME REGIS]. [Drop-head title:] The petition of Henry Holt Henley Esq; complaining of an Undue Election and Return for the Borough of Lyme-Regis. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1728]. Dimensions 200 x 320 mm. Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Lightly browned and spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30974