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[GLOVER, Phillips]. A discourse concerning Virtue and Religion: Occasion'd by some Late Writings. London. Printed for John Noon, 1732. First edition. 8vo. 35pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Disbound. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21308

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STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Little foxes, or, the little failings which mar domestic happiness. London. George Bell & Sons, 1896. Author's edition, revised. 8vo. [8], 133pp, [3]. Original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Extremities sunned and browned, some chipping to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21313

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JENNINGS, A[lfred] Vaughan. The landwasser and the landquart. London. Dulau & Co., [1899]. First offprint edition. 8vo. [1], 260-270pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Extremities a trifle dust-soiled. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of upper cover: 'With the author's compliments'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21318

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FOURMARIER, P[aul]. Experiences sur la formation de certains conglomerats origine des poudingues auriferes du transvaal. Liege. Imprimerie H. Vaillant-Carmanne, 1903. First edition. 8vo. 7pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed green wrappers. Loss, short tears, and some marking to extremities. A trifle dusty internally. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of of upper cover. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21334

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LORD BISHOP OF CHICHESTER, John. A charge delivered to the clergy of the diocese of chichester, at the primary visitation of the diocese, in the year 1798. London. Printed for J. Robson, 1799. First edition. Quarto. [4], 7-47pp, [1]. Without half-title. Disbound. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21336

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WISHART, William. The certain and unchangeable Difference betwixt Moral Good and Evil. A sermon Preach'd before the societies for Reformation of Manners, at salters-hall; on Monday the 3rd of July, 1732. London. Printed for Eman. Matthews, 1732. First edition. 8vo. 36pp. Disbound. Foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21339

BENSON, George. Two letters to a friend. The first Concerning the End and Design of Prayer, &c...The second The Doctrine of Predestination Review'd, &c... London. Printed for Richard Ford, 1737. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. [4], 90pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Disbound. Stab-stich holes to gutter, short closed tear to head of title page, else a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21343

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CHUBB, Tho[mas]. An enquiry concerning redemption. Wherein the Christian Redemption Is particularly considered... London. Printed for T. Cox, 1743. First edition. 8vo. 113pp, [3]. Without half-title. With three final pages of publisher's advertisements. Disbound, all edges red. Lightly creased and spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21397

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[SOMERSET AUCTION]. Langford, somerset. To be Sold by Auction, at langford inn, on saturday, May 30, 1840...three freehold tenements... [Bristol]. Printed at the Bristol Mirror Office by John Taylor, [1840]. Dimensions 170 x 210 mm. Single leaf handbill, edges uncut. Very slightly creased. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21424

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SMALBROKE, Richard. The Pretended Authority of the Clementine Constitutions confuted, by Their Inconsistency with the Inspired Writings of the Old and New Testament. In Answer to Mr. Whiston. London. Printed for Timothy Childe, 1714. First edition. 8vo. [2], xxx, 75pp, [5]. The last 5pp contain an advertisement and, 'a table of inconsistencies with Holy Scripture, in the Clementine constitutions.' Disbound. Lightly spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21448

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1990]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some marking to top-edge, else clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21457

DU MAURIER, George. Trilby: a novel. London. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895. First illustrated edition. 8vo. 447pp, [6]. With an illustrated frontispiece and 120 illustrations in the text by the author, and six final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Without dustwrapper. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of Mervyn Ll. Peel to verso of FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21476

ROSELER, David. Lawrence: prince of mecca. Sydney. Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1927. First edition. 8vo. [8], 227pp, [1]. With a colour portrait frontispiece and a further six black and white illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in black. Lightly rubbed, spine a trifle sunned. Label of the Book Lovers' Library, Melbourne to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21495

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DE MONFRIED, Henri. TREAT, Ida. Pearls, arms and hashish: pages from the life of a red sea navigator, henri de monfried. London. Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1930. First edition. 8vo. With a black and white frontispiece, and a further 15 black and white plates. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in black. Without dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and lightly marked. Illustrated endpapers, upper hinge exposed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21521

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ROSCOE, William. The life and pontificate of leo the tenth. [London]. George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [s.d., 1883?] 8vo. In two volumes. xxix, [1], 482; [6], 535pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary decorated paper boards, hand drawn fleur-de-lis motifs in red ink to upper boards, hand-ruled in green, gilt-tooled calf onlays, calf lettering-pieces, all edges red. Lightly dust-soiled. Brocade endpapers, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I, occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21525

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[INDIA RUBBER]. Frederick bird & co.'s india-rubber mats, for carriages, bath rooms, hall doors, closets, conservatories, &c. [London]. [s.n.], [1876]. Dimensions 220 x 280 mm. Single leaf handbill. Numerous horizontal and vertical folds, manuscript docket title to margin, lightly creased and dust-soiled. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21543

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PITT, [William]. The beauties of pitt, consisting of selections from his speeches. London. Printed by T. Davison, for Thomas Tegg et al., [s.d., between 1824 and 1846] 12mo. [4], 188pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary black half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, frontispiece foxed, offsetting to title page, occasional spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21575

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HICKES, George. The Moral Shechinah: Or a Discourse of Gods Glory. In a sermon Preached at the last yorkshire-feast in Bow-Church, London. June 11. 1682. London. Printed by J. Wallis, for Walter Kettilby, 1682. First edition. Quarto. [8], 32pp. With an initial blank leaf. Disbound. Text-block separated into three parts, recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to verso of initial blank leaf, stab-stitch holes to gutters. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21586

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DAVIDSON, John. Testaments: No. I. The testament of a vivisector. London. Grant Richards, 1901. First edition. 27pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[Bound with:] DAVIDSON, John. Testaments. No. II. The testament of a man forbid. London. Grant Richards, 1901. First edition. 29pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[And:] DAVIDSON, John. Testaments. No. III. The testament of an empire-builder. London. Grant Richards, 1902. First edition. 81pp, [1]. With a half-title and an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements.

Quarto. Contemporary black half-morocco, cloth boards, gilt. ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21591

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[ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS]. A list of contributing members to the society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce. Extended to December 31st, 1818. [London]. [Printed by order of the Society], [1819]. (xl) pp.

[Bound with:] A list of contributing members to the society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce. Extended to December 31st, 1819. [London]. [Printed by order of the Society], [1820]. (xli) pp, [1].

8vo. Recent tan cloth-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Very minor shelf-wear. Leaves lightly browned, very occasional coloured pencil highlighting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21625