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[FRENCH LITERATURE]. Tableau de la litterature francaise pendant le dix-huitieme siecle. Paris et London. Colburn, 1813. First edition. 8vo. 196pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription and manuscript annotations to front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24024

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LOWAN, Arnold N.. The Computation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards. [New York]. Scripta Mathematica, [1949]. First offprint edition. 8vo. [1], 34-63pp, [1]. Original publisher's buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Presentation copy, inked inscription to upper wrapper: 'With the compliments of the author', inked ownserhip inscription beneath. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24056

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HORTA, Victor. L'Architecture dans la Peinture du XVe siecle. Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. Imprimerie E. Heyvaert, 1930. First offprint edition. 8vo. 4pp. Stapled into original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities sunned. Foxed. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24065

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HORTA, Victor. Considerations sur l'art moderne. Ledeberg-Gand. Imprimerie Jules de Vreese, 1925. First offprint edition. 8vo. 8pp. Unopened. Stapled into original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities sunned. Foxed. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24066

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[ACTS - GEORGE III]. [Drop-head title:] An act For altering and amending an Act of HIs present Majesty, for Inclosing Lands in the Township of Fulbourn, in the County of Cambridge. [London]. [s.n.], 1808. First edition. Folio. 6pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24070

TAYLOR, Jefferys. The farm; a new account of rural toils and produce. London. John Harris, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 175, [7]pp. With 34 engraved plates, eight on steel and twenty-six on wood, and three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red roan-backed dark-green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, loss to head of spine. Loss to one plate, all browned/damp-stained. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24075

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HART, H[enry] G[eorge] Major. The New Army List, exhibiting the rank, standing, and various services of every officer in the army on full pay... London. Published by Smith, elder and Co., 1839. 8vo. [4], 172pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, decorated green cloth boards, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate of Francis Markham to FEP, very occasional inked annotations to margins. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24119

ALCOCK, Frederick. South american scenery. London. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, [1909]. German-Spanish-Portuguese edition. Oblong 8vo. 8pp, [2]. Parallel German, Spanish, and Portuguese text. With 24 watercolour sketches, reproduced in lithography. Tied, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial limp cloth. A trifle rubbed, chipping to spine. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24160

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HOFLAND, Mrs.. The history of a merchant's widow and her young family. London. Printed for A. K. Newman & Co., [1857]. New edition. 12mo. [2], 176pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription to head of engraved title, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24314

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[LARIVE DUPA, Mathilde de]. Essai sur l'éducation de l'enfance. Genève [i.e. Geneva]. Ab. Cherbuliez et Ce., 1837. First edition. 8vo. [4], 284pp, [2]. With a half-title. Later brown paper-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt Rubbed, surface loss to boards, joints starting, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Swansea Training College to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24324

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COOPER, J[ames] Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. A Romance of the Red-skins. (Abridged.). London. "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900] 8vo. 60pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked. Leaves browned. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24462

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GOURGAUD, General. Napoleon et la grande armee en russie, ou examen critique de l'ouvrage de M. le Comte PH. de Segur. Paris. Bossange Freres, 1825. First edition. 8vo. [4], xv, [1], 558pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24522

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[LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY]. The university of liverpool: a record of the opening of the harold cohen library by the right honourable the earl baldwin of bewdley, k. g. on saturday, may 21st, 1938. [Liverpool]. [C. Tinling & Co.], [1938]. First edition. Quarto. 19pp, [1]. With seven photographic plates and a full- page illustrated in the text. Original publisher's navy morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt to upper board, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Endpapers spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24533

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GERRARD, R. Ellis. Ballads of battle and poems of peace. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. North of England Printing Co., 1914. First edition. 8vo. [12], iii, [1], 204pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Binding cocked, heavily rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Decorated endpapers, near contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24616

JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]. A handbook to the public galleries of art in and near London... London. John Murray, 1842. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. lii, 281, [1]; [3], 283-628pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-roan, marbled boards, marbled edges. Extremities worn, loss to spines. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscriptions to head of both titles, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24741

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BARSTOW, D.. A Secular Diary for ascertaining any day of the week or month, in either the old or new style, commencing 1601, and continued up to the year 1900. [s.l.]. Printed for the author, 1836. First edition. Dimensions 360 x 265 mm (unfolded), 127 x 80 mm (folded). A single leaf broadside, folded and mounted onto original publisher's limp green cloth boards. A trifle creased. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24816

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[SOMERSET AUCTION]. Somerset: manor, mansion, and estate. Specifications Of a Desirable and Valuable freehold estate...comprising the manor or reputed manor of Roundhill or Barrow; a mansion-house, together with above Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Acres... [London]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1831?] Folio. [4]pp. Single folded sheet. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Three early horizontal folds. A trifle creased, short tears to folds. Contemporary manuscript notes, providing further details of the estate, to verso of final leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24868

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SHERLOCK, Tho[mas]. Several discourses preached at the temple church. Edinburgh. Printed for J. Dickson, and J. Fairburn, 1789. 12mo. In three volumes. xvii, [7], 329, [1]; [8], 336; [8], 335pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Extremities rubbed, loss to head of Vol. III spine, corners bumped. Without Vol. I FFEP, More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24909

[IMPORTATION]. ECROYD, W. Farrer. The policy of self help. Suggestions towards the consolidation of the empire and the defence of its industries and commerce. London. Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1879. First edition. 8vo. v, 25pp. Stitched, as issued. Central vertical fold. A trifle dust-soiled, scattered foxing, ink-stamp of the Webster Collection to verso of final leaf. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'With the author's compliments'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24972

FULLARTON, Lady Georgina. La comtesse de bonneval... Paris. La Libraire d'Auguste Vaton, 1857. First edition in French. 8vo. xiv, [2], 319pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy morocco-backed blue cloth boards, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25075