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SAMUEL, Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert. The Second Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture. Great Britiain and Palestine, Delivered in the Great Hall of University College. London. The Jewish Historical Society of England., [1936]. First Edition. Quarto. 29pp, [3]. Single photographic plate of the platform from which the original speech was delivered. Publisher's wraps within publisher's red cloth, gilt. A near fine copy with only the slighest of wear to extremities. Presentation copy, inscribed in ink to the FEP 'With Gustave Tuck's Kind Remembrances, to Frank G. Salisbury Esq. 27 - 1 - 36'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 10045
MARCET, Mrs. The seasons. Stories for very young children. London. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1851. Sixth edition. Vol. IV 'Autumn' is the fifth edition.. 12mo. In four volumes. [4], 176; [4], 192; [4], 173, [1]; [4], 180pp. Contemporary red roan- backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spines dulled. Contemporary inked gift/ownership inscriptions to FFEPs, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31320
MARCET, Jane. The seasons. Stories for very young children. London. Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835. Second edition. 12mo. In four volumes. [4], 175, [1]; [4], 191, [1]; [4], 173, [1]; [4], 180pp. Later red cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled, damp-staining to head of Vol. IV spine. Hinges exposed, recent inked gift inscription to front free- endpapers, near contemporary gift inscriptions to front blank fly-leaves, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27975
THOMSON, James. The seasons, hymns, ode and songs, of james thomson. London. Stereotyped and printed by A. Wilson, for Taylor and Hessey, 1809. Stereotype edition. 8vo. 323pp, [1]. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Finely bound in contemporary green calf, stamped in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine lightly dulled. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of first blank fly-leaf. Scattered spotting and browning. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34759
THOMSON, James. The seasons. London. Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, 1744. 8vo. [6], 243pp, [1]. Title in red and black. With four engraved plates. Errata slip pasted to p.243. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, all edges red. Extremities worn, joints split. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to verso of FFEP: 'From the Author'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 29967
THOMSON, [James]. The seasons. London. [s.n.], 1730. Quarto. [12], 252, 16pp. Title page in red and black. With a list of subscribers and five engraved plates by William Kent. A reissue of the 1730 edition, with the addition of ’Britannia’, second edition corrected, 1730, with separate title page, pagination and register. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints split, spine sunned. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, marginal damp-staining to ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28911
MORE, Hannah. The search after happiness; a pastoral drama: and other poems. Edinburgh. Printed and published by Oliver and Boyd, [s.d., c. 1810] 12mo. 151pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece and a further three woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary straight-grain tan morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed, loss to head and foot of dulled spine, lettering-piece chipped. Offsetting to title page. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34130
LOGAN, James. The scottish gaël, or, Celtic Manners as preserved among the Highlanders being an historical and descriptive account of the inhabitants, antiquities and national peculiarities of scotland... Inverness. Hugh Mackenzie, [1876]. 8vo. In two volumes. xl, 393, [1]; [6], 440pp. With a lithographed colour frontispiece to each volume, five further lithographed plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Partially unopened in original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-pieces to spines. A trifle rubbed, lettering-pieces browned and chipped, upper board of Vol. I stained. Tickets of Glasgow-based bookseller Hugh Hopkins to both FEPs, endpapers browned, offsetting to ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28524
SMITH, Rev. Thomas. The scientific library; or, repository of Useful and Polite Literature: comprising astronomy, geography, mythology, ancient history, modern history, and chronology. London. Printed for J. Wallis...and J. Harris, 1806. First edition. 24mo. In six volumes. With a half-title to Vol. I and an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Original publisher's gilt-ruled red roan. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Offsetting to titles, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28100
DEL MAR, Alexander. The science of money. London. Effingham Wilson, 1896. Second edition. 8vo. xxvii, [1], 205pp, [3], 2pp. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked. Endpapers browned. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 28425
ASCHAM, Roger. The schoolmaster: or, A plain and perfect Way Of teaching children To Understand, Write, and Speak the Latin Tongue... London. Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1711. 8vo. [12], xiii, [1], 212, [2], 40pp, [4]. With a half-title and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary panelled calf, recently rebacked. Boards rubbed. Later book-label of James Jackson of Lancaster to FEP - obscured by late nineteenth-century presentation plate of the Warrington Museum Library, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28438
[MCCRINDELL, Rachel]. The school girl in france. London. Published by R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1840. First edition. 8vo. vii, [2], vi-viii, 379pp, [5]. With a half-title, and additional engraved title page, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, marked, and cocked, spine sunned. Contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional marginal chipping, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32561
[CLARKE, Henry]. The school candidates, a prosaic burlesque: occasioned by the late election of a schoolmaster, at the village of boudinnoir. Utopia [i.e. Manchester]. [s.n.], 1788. First edition. 12mo. [2], 103pp, [3]. Without half-title. With an engraved folding plate: 'Bragmardo & Epistomen's aerial Voyage to Boudinnoir', and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, splitting to joints, spine cracked. Hinges exposed, loss and tearing to laid-down frontispiece, manuscript extract from a verse by Butler to verso of rear blank fly-leaf, occasional spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 19150