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[GUY FAWKES]. Guy fawkes; or, a match for a king. A pantomime... London. Not published [Nassau Steam Press - W. S Johnson], [1855]. 8vo. 24pp. Printed theatre notice, excusing errors in the text, loosely inserted. Original printed paper tan wrappers. A trifle rubbed and dusty. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21833

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DRYDEN, John. The tempest: or, the Enchanted Island. London. Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735 [i.e. 1768?] 12mo. [7], 180-262pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut, stitched, as issued, in original publisher's powder-blue wrappers, recent typed title label to upper wrapper. Wrappers creased, torn, and chipped, some loss to spine. Damp-staining to frontispiece, title page, and preface leaves, occasional creasing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21853

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BOYER, Joseph-Thomas. Dissertation sur le scorbut, Presentee et soutenue a l'Ecole de Medecine de Paris, le 11 Germinal an 13... A Paris. De l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune, 1805. First edition. Quarto. 49pp, [1]. Uncut. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's drab wrappers. Extremities a trifle marked, loss to spine. Foxed, occasional light damp-staining. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21935

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[PRICE, Richard]. Observations on reversionary payments; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and Persons in Old Age; on The Method of Calculating the Values of Assurances on Lives; and on The national debt... London. Printed for T. Cadell, 1773. Third edition. 8vo. xxxix, [1], 431pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Boards heavily worn. Later inked ownership inscription to head of title page, occasional spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21943

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LYNN, Surgeon-Major. A short history of wesleyan methodism on the armagh circuit, compiled from valuable and authentic manuscripts, never before published. Belfast. Allen, Son, & Allen, 1885. Second edition. 8vo. 68pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities worn and heavily marked. Upper hinge exposed, foxed, occasional brief inked annotations. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Colonel Stanley with the kindest regards of the Author'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21962

JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wall and water gardens. [London]. Country Life & George Newnes Ltd., [1901]. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 177pp, [1]. With 147 black and white photographic plates. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21990

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[ALBERONI, Giulio]. Moral Reflections on the ministry of Card. alberoni. Translated from the Spanish. Humbly inscrib'd to the Right Hon. the Lord Harrington, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, &c. &c.. London. Printed for J. Purser, 1735. First edition in English. 8vo. viii, 62pp. Modern marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Title page browned, remnants of paper label to head, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22028

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WARD, Robert. A treatise of the relative rights and duties of belligerent and neutral powers, in maritime affairs: in which the principles of armed neutralities, and the opinions of hubner and schlegel are fully discussed. London. Printed for J. Butterworth, 1801. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 172pp, [2]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Extremities worn and marked, later naive paper repairs to head of spine. Early ink ownership inscription to head of half-title, spotted. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22103

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BRERETON, Rev. J. L. "County education." A letter addressed to the right hon. the earl of devon. London. James Ridgway, 1861. First edition. 8vo. [2], 24pp. Modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Very minor shelf-wear. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP, manuscript shelf-marks and ink-stamp of the Carlton Club to browned title page. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22127

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CHASE, Rev. Drummond Percy. The question, should industrial schools erected at the cost of the poor-rate be made available, (on payment,) to children not chargeable to the poor-rates? Considered in a letter to the guardians of the Oxford incorporation. Oxford and London. John Henry and James Parker, 1855. First edition. 8vo. 14pp. Recent morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Very minor shelf-wear. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22128

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KNIGHTLEY, Dr. W. Porter. A plea for private schools, being the substance of A Paper read before the Sussex Educational Association, at Brighton, Nov. 6th, 1876, in reply to some remarks of the Rev. Mark Pattison, B.D., at the Social Science Congress, at Liverpool. Brighton. H. & C. Treacher, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. Recent morocco-backed tan cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to contemporary front blank fly-leaf: 'With the Author's kind regards / Dec. 12th 1876'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22129

HOYLAND, Francis. Poems and translations. London. Printed for W. Bristow, 1763. First edition. Quarto. [2], 54pp. With an advertisement leaf (misbound after title). Recent brown paper wrappers. Extremities lightly rubbed. Foxed. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22134

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LOUDON, Mrs. [Jane]. Mrs. loudon's first book of botany. Being a plain and brief introduction to that science, for Schools and Young Persons. London. Bell & Daldy, 1870. New edition. 8vo. viii, 280pp. With numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary prize binding by Seton & Mackenzie, gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering piece, gilt supralibros of Edinburgh Collegiate School to upper board, marbled edges. Rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Prize plate, awarded to Alexander F. Tytler, to FEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22243

[PHIPPS, Constantine Henry]. The english in italy. London. Printed for Saunders and Otley, 1825. First edition. 12mo. In three volumes. ii, 305, [1]; [4], 323, [1]; [4], 318, 2pp. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements to Vol. III. Without Vol. I half-title. Contemporary green cloth, brown morocco lettering-pieces.Rubbed and marked, spines dulled, lower joint of Vol. I split, with backstrip separating. Armorial bookplates of Fitzherbert of Swynnerton Park to all FEPs, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to verso of FFEP ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22285

WARREN, Samuel. Ten thousand a-year. Edinburgh and London. William Blackwood and Sons, 1848. New edition. 8vo. In three volumes. x, 421, [1]; [4], 406, [2]; [4], 451pp, [1]. With an engraved armorial plate. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Upper hinge of Vol. I exposed, armorial bookplates of Arthur Shepherd to all FEPs, recent bookplate of robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP of Vol. I. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22289

[NEW THEATRE, NEWPORT]. The last night but two of Performing. The grand new melo-drama of the miller and his men...new theatre, newport. On tuesday, June the 14th, 1814... [Newport]. Silvester, Printer, [1814]. Dimensions 190 x 320 mm. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. A trifle creased and browned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22326

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THOMSON, [James]. Les saisons, poëme de thompson... Paris. Chez Le Normant, 1806. 8vo. vii, [1], 303pp, [3]. With a half-title. Contemporary speckled calf, ruled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22335

GIFFORD, William. The baviad, and maeviad. London. Printed for Becket and Porter, 1811. Eighth edition. 8vo. [5], x-xxi, [1], 191pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, upper joint split, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. Label of the Barrett's Circulating Library, Simla, to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22377

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[LAWSON, John]. [Drop-head title:] An arithmetical problem. [Cambridge?]. [s.n.], [1770?] First edition. Quarto. 7pp, [1]. Disbound. A trifle creased. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22453

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NORRIS, John. A catalogue of the pictures, models, busts, &c. in the bodleian gallery, oxford. Oxford. Printed for, and sold by, the author, at the Picture Gallery Baxter, Printer, [1847?] 8vo. 60pp. With a half-title. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. Initial four leaves and six terminal leaves detached from text-block. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22501