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[ENGLISH THEOPHRASTUS]. The English Theophrastus: or the Manners of the Age. Being the Modern Characters of the Court, the Town, and the City. London. Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1708. Third edition. 8vo. [14], 384pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary panelled calf, calf lettering-piece. Extremities worn, upper joint split, lower joint starting, loss to head-cap. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting, early inked ownership inscription of George Leslie to REP. Armorial bookplate to FEP of Scottish advocate and philosopher, Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782). More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 28440
[VANDERSTEGEN, William]. An address to the public, in justification of the conduct of the author of the pamphlet entitled observations on frauds practised in the collection of the salt duties and the Misconduct of Officers fairly stated. Reading. Printed by Smart and Cowslade, [1794?] First edition. 8vo. vii, [3], 96pp. Modern grey paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title: 'From the Author' - a trifle shaved. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 26615
MARX, Karol. ENGELS, Fryderyk. Burżuazja, proletarjat i komunizm. (Manifest kominstyczny). Z przedmowa Karola Kautsky'ego z oryginału niemieckiego przetłumaczył A. Warski. Warszawa [i.e. Warsaw]. Bibljoteka Naukowa, 1905. 70pp, [2].

[Bound with:] KAUTSKY, Karol. Przeciwieństwa interesów klasowych roku 1789. Warszawa [i.e. Warsaw]. Bibljoteka Naukowa, 1905. 102pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements.

8vo. Contemporary brown cloth, original publisher's printed upper wrapper pasted to upper board. Rubbed and marked, early inked note to upper wrapper. Leaves browned, occasional early inked annotations/highlighting, paper label (marking the commencement of the manifesto ... More >
£ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 32352
SANDERSON, Robert. Logicae artis compendium. Oxoniae [i.e. Oxford]. Excudebant Johannes Lichfield & Jacobus Short, 1618. Second edition. 8vo. [8], 232, 124pp, [4]. With penultimate errata leaf; final leaf blank. Bound by Bellamy of Oxford in nineteenth century calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, joints starting. Early ownership inscription of Robert Cranmer to head of title page. Binders ticket to recto of FFEP, inked gift inscription to verso: 'From J. Kidd / To his valued friend / the Revd. J. W. Burgon'. Kidd's ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 19106
REVENTLOW, Count Ernst Zu. India Its importance for Great Britain, Germany, and the future of the world. Berlin [i.e. Simla]. Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son [i.e. Monotype Press], 1917 [i.e. 1918] First edition in English. 8vo. [6], 79pp, [1]. With a folding, linen-backed, map. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Rubbed, lightly marked, loss to head and foot of dulled spine, coloured pencil shelf-marks to upper wrapper. Scattered spotting, occasional pencilled highlights/annotations. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 23554
[JAMES II]. The Severall Debates Of the House of Commons Pro et Contra. Relating to the Establishment of the Militia, Disbanding the New-Raised Forces And Raising a Supply for his Majestie beginning the Ninth Day of November 1685. And Ending The Twentieth of the same Month, Being the Day of the Prorogac[i]on of the Parliament. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1700] Quarto. Manuscript on paper watermarked 'A. J.' under a large royal seal and 'GLC'. Paginated by hand [2], 70pp. Red ruled borders to title page, calligraphic headings throughout. Disbound, marbled paper strip to spine. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19576
MACKENZIE, George. The laws and customes of scotland, In Matters criminal. Wherein is to be seen how the Civil Law, and the Laws and Customs of other Nations do agree with, and supply ours. Edinburgh. Printed by Thomas Brown, 1678. First edition. Quarto. [16], 272, 271-581pp, [1]. With initial order-to-print leaf. Title in red and black. Recent red morocco-backed red pebbled cloth boards, tooled and lettered in gilt, all edges red. Lightly rubbed and marked. Book-label of Lord Aitchison to FEP, scattered spotting, occasional early manuscript notes. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28158
SETON, John. Dialectica Joannis setoni cantabrigiensis, annotationibus Petri Carteri, ut clarissimis ita breuissimis explicata. Huic accessit, obartium ingenuarum inter se cognationem, Guilielmi Buclaei Arithmetica. Londini [i.e. London]. Apud Thomam Marsh, 1577. 8vo. [318]pp. With a linen-backed folding table. Handsomely bound in later gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, small paper repairs to text of initial five gatherings - with some slight loss of sense, very occasional contemporary faded inked annotations and underlining, paper repair to lower corner of terminal leaf, some spotting/browning. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 17265
VERELST, Harry. A view of the rise, progress, and present state of the english government in bengal: including a reply to the misrepresentations of Mr. bolts, and other writers. London. Printed for J. Nourse et el., 1772. First edition. Quarto. [12], 148, [4], 253pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled marbled calf, later expertly recased preserving contemporary red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Very small work-track to foot of latter half of text-block, else internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'From the Author'. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28099