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CLOWES, J.[ohn]. Letters to a member of parliament on the character and writings of baron swedenborg. [Manchester]. Printed for Messrs. Clarke, 1799. First edition. 8vo. xv , [1], 355, [1]pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards. Worn, with heavy surface wear, splitting to lower joint, small loss to head of spine. Ink-staining to FEP. Repairs to gutter margin of pp.49-56, spotting and browning to leaves. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 18076

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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Letters to count toreno on The proposed Penal Code, delivered in by the legislation committee of the spanish cortes, april 25th, 1821... London. Printed by R. and A. Taylor...and sold by Effingham Wilson, 1822. First edition. 8vo. viii, 120pp. Original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering- piece. Worn, boards held by cords only, loss to spine and lettering-piece, corners exposed. FFEP detached, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33139

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WEMYSS, David. Letter to the right honourable the lord high chancellor of great britain, upon the present state of the scotch law of entail. Edinburgh. Printed for Bell & Bradfute, 1822. First edition. 8vo. [4], 46, 2pp. With a half-title and a terminal advertisement leaf. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Half-title and verso of terminal leaf lightly dust-soiled, vertical crease to all leaves. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title; 'Marquis of Lothian / With most respectful compliments / from the Author.' More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18960

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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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[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS]. Lettres de l'armee en egypte, gouvernment francois. Interceptees par la corvette de sa majeste britannique, el vincejo, dans la mediterranee. Publiees par Autorite. A Londres [i.e. London]. De l'Imprimerie de Baylis, [1800]. 8vo. iv, 95p, [1]. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Some spotting/creasing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 19023

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HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, sive De Materia, Forma, & Potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis. Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam]. Apud Joannem Blaeu, 1670. First separate Latin edition. Quarto. [4], 365pp, [15]. Later full vellum, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, all edges red. Extremities discoloured and lightly rubbed. Later paper repair to verso of front blank fly-leaf, early manuscript note to recto: 'Leviathan / Thomae Hobbesii / Malmesburiensis / Theomachi / pernicies juvenium, morum corruptela, / ingenioisima subtillissima omnis / religionis eversio diabolica. / Diaboli stercus. / Parve nec invideo, per me, liber, ibis in ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27383

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JACOB, G[iles]. Lex constitutionis: or, the gentleman's law being... In the Savoy [i.e. London]. Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling...for B. Lintot, 1719. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 360pp, [12]. Without initial blank leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, splitting to joints, slight loss to head of spine. Loss to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. From the library of the Earls of Lovelace, formerly the Barons King of Ockham, with their armorial bookplate to FEP, and the recent ink-stamp of the Ben Damph Forest library to ... More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 14478

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[KENEALY, Edward Vaughan Hyde]. Life and Forensic Career of dr. kenealy, q.c. as advocate, author and editor, with extracts from his works, speeches in celebrated trials, &c., &c., &c. London. W. H. Elliot, [s.d., c. 1874] 8vo. 16pp. Four loose bifolia, unbound as issued. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34190

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LITTLETON, [Sir Thomas].. Littleton's tenures in English. Lately perused and amended. London. Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1627. 8vo. 142ff, [2]. Later (twentieth-century?) gilt-tooled brown calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Rubbed to extremities, joints cracking at head and foot of spine, trimmed ownership inscription to head of title, occasional marginal numeration; nevertheless, a nicely presented and firmly bound example of an often heavily used legal text. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25196

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

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[BROUGHAM AND VAUX, Henry Brougham, Baron]. Lord brougham’s reply to lord john russell’s letter to the electors of stroud, on the principles of the reform act. London. Ridgway, 1839. First edition. 8vo. 35, [1], 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher’s advertisements. Modern brown cloth-backed marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Very minor shelf-wear. Leaves toned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30615

MUDIE, Robert. Man, as a moral and accountable being. London. Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1840. First edition. 12mo. xiii, [1], 262pp. With a engraved frontispiece and an engraved title page. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, lightly marked, slight loss to head of dulled spine. Early inked ownership inscription and blind-stamp of bookseller G. Winterburn of Bolton to FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32445

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HOLMES, James. Manuscript notes on weaving: third year. [Burnley?]. [s.n.], [1914]. Quarto. [92] leaves, printed on one side only. Lithographed throughout. With 48 mounted cloth swatches, one sample detached, evidently at least one sample absent. Original publisher's dark green pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board 'Manuscript Notes on Weaving by James Holmes M.S.A. Third Year'. A trifle rubbed and marked. Decorated endpapers, Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32547

[MACKCOULL, James]. Memoir of the life and trial of james mackcoull, or moffat, who died in the coutny jail of edinburgh on the 22d december 1820; Containing a full account of his trial before the jury court, and high court of justiciary, at edinburgh, For Robbing the Branch of the Paisley Union Bank at Glasgow of Twenty Thousand Pounds. Illustrated with notes, anecdotes, and a portrait. Edinburgh. Printed for John Anderson, Jun., 1822. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 317, [5], 4pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Modern navy half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G. Marbled endpapers, contemporary gift inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, very occasional manuscript corrections to text, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33286

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[STATES OF INDIA]. Memoranda on the indian states 1939 (Corrected up to the 2nd January 1939). New Delhi. Printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, 1939. 8vo. [2], viii, 370pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed printed paper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23672

BARON, Robert. Metaphysica generalis... Londini [i.e. London]. Ex Officina J. Redmayne, [1657]. First London edition. 12mo. [12], 479pp, [1]. With two folded leaves of tables. Contemporary calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed, upper joint split. Early inked ownership inscription of James Ellis to recto of FFEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19417

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[AIX-LA-CHAPELLE TREATY]. Ministerial artifice detected, or, a full answer to a pamphlet lately published, Intitled, The Interests of the Empress Queen, the Kings of France and Spain, &c. betrayed in the Preliminary Articles at Aix-la-Chapelle.. London. Printed for A. Hill, 1749. Second edition. 8vo. 32pp. Modern grey paper boards, original gilt-tooled green morocco lettering-piece preserved and pasted to spine. Leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34549

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DEL MAR, Alexander. Money and civilization: or, a history of the monetary laws and systems of various states since the dark ages, and their influence upon civilization. London. George Bell and Sons, 1886. First edition. 8vo. xxxviii, [2], 431, [1], 3pp, [1]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's olive green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 28424

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[PARLIAMENTARY REFORM]. More reasons for a reform in parliament Contained in Letters to the Following Persons, viz. To the president of the Society for the Relief and Discharge of Persons imprisoned for Small Debts.... London. Printed for James Ridgway, 1793. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. Disbound, with title detached. Leaves browned, light spotting and staining. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34964

PRESTON, [Isaac]. Mr. Preston's reply to a libel, intitl'd a narrative of the disputes between isaac preston, Esq; of Beeston Saint Lawrence in the County of Norfolk. And john mitchell, Esq; of Boston, in the Country of Lincoln. Norwich. [s.n.], 1758. First edition. 8vo. 43pp, [1]. Modern vellum. Bookplate of R. C. Fiske to FEP. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30602