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[RĀDHĀ SOĀMĪ]. Rádha soámi mat prakásh or a brief view of rádha soámi faith, being a message of eternal peace and joy to all nations... Benares. The Chandraprabha Press Co., 1896. First edition. 8vo. [4], 11, 96pp. Original publisher's cloth-backed printed tan limp card boards. Heavily rubbed, boards marked and creased, early faded inked ownership inscription to upper board. Upper hinge exposed. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 34113

KINCAID, J[ohn]. Random shots from a rifleman. London. T. and W. Boone, 1835. First edition. 8vo. xii, 343pp. With a preliminary leaf of publisher's advertisements. Modern blind-stamped calf, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Book-label of Lieutenant-Colonel R. B Crosse, with his gift inscription to Colonel J. P. Villiers Stewart, to verso of FFEP; additional crossed out inked ownership inscription to head of the same. Otherwise, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30529

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"NESTOR" [i.e. BARCLAY, Hugh]. Rambling recollections of old glasgow. Glasgow. John Tweed, 1880. First edition. 8vo. [4], 192pp, [4]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Partially unopened in modern red half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33284

TROLLOPE, Anthony. Ralph the Heir. London. Strahan & Co., 1871. First edition. 8vo. iv, 434pp. With 18 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities heavily rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24889

TAYLOR, Jefferys. Ralph richards, the miser. London. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy...and N. Hailes, 1821. First edition. 12mo. [2], 159pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's black roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed. Light offsetting to title, very occasional spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25408

TAYLOR, Jefferys. Ralph richards, the miser. London. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy...and N. Hailes, 1821. 12mo. [2], 159pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-ruled green roan-backed blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn, loss to lettering-piece and head of spine. Lightly foxed. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22238

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GIUSTI, Giuseppe. Raccolta di proverbi toscani con illustrazioni. Firenze [i.e. Florence]. Felice Le Monnier, 1853. First edition. 16mo. xii, 423pp, [1]. Uncut. Handsomely bound by Birdsail & Son of Northampton in recent gilt- tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers bound in. Scattered spotting. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25394

GIUSTI, Giuseppe. Raccolta di proverbi toscani con illustrazioni. Firenze [i.e. Florence]. Felice Le Monnier, 1853. 12mo. [4], xii, 423pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G., Rubbed and marked, spine dulled, some cockling to boards. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription of K. Speight to recto of front blank fly-leaf, single later manuscript annotation to p.322, scattered spotting, dampstained throughout. John Murray's copy, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32505

HORACE, Quintus Flaccus. Quinti horatii flacci opera. Londini, [i.e. London]. Aeneis Tabulis Incidit Johannes Pine, 1733-1737. First Pine edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [30], 264, [2]; [24], 94, [2], [95]-152, [2], [153]-172, [2], [173]-19pp, [15]. Engraved throughout, each volume with a large engraved frontispiece (that to Vol. I trimmed and laid down) and numerous vignette initials and head/tail pieces, several of which occupying a full page. Finely bound in eighteenth century English gilt- tooled crushed red morocco for Thomas Pearson, with a poppinjay atop a ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28894

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HORACE. Quinti horatii flacci opera, ad fidem editionis gesnero-zeunianae. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]. Impensis Bliss et Baxter, 1812. 12mo. [2], 362pp. Finely bound in contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, very occasional light spotting, overall internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19250

HORACE, Quintus Flaccus. Quinti horatii flacci opera, ad fidem editionis gesnero-zeunianae. Londini [i.e. London]. Sumptu J. Rodwell et al., 1815. 12mo. viii, 245pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, slight splitting to upper joint, chipping to head of spine. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to FEP, occasional creasing. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22268

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TRIMMER, Mrs. [Sarah]. Questions adapted to lessons extracted from the teacher's assistant. London. Francis & John Rivington, 1845. New edition. 12mo. 48pp. Original publisher's printed drab wrappers. Extremities spotted and dust-soiled. Occasional dog-earing, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20653

[SCOTT, Walter]. Quentin Durward. Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [2], lxiii, [1], 273, [1]; 331, [1]; 360pp. Without half-titles. Bound by Swinnerton of Macclesfield in contemporary blind-stamped half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Binder's tickets and armorial bookplates of Thomas Hibbert to all FEPs, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Carolina H. Hibbert to all titles. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25781

[SCOTT, Walter]. Quentin Durward. Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [2], lxiii, [1], 273, [1]; 331, [1]; 360pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary red half-roan, marbled boards. Rubbed, spines sunned. Foxed. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24757

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LOUVET DE COUVRAY, Jean-Baptiste. Quelques notices pour l'histoire, et le recit de mes perils depuis le 31 mai, 1793. A Paris...Et a Londres. Chez J.-B. Louvet...Chez J. Johnson, [1794]. 8vo. ix, [10]-296pp. Uncut in original publisher's blue paper wrappers. Extremities lightly dust-soiled/creased, loss to head and foot of spine. Neat contemporary ink correction to price, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17602

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STRUTT, Joseph. [SCOTT, Walter]. Queenhoo-hall, A Romance: and ancient times, a drama. Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for John Murray...and Archibald Constable, 1808. First edition. 12mo. In four volumes. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints starting, upper board of Vol. I held by cords only. Recent book-labels of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEPs, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Miss Charlotte Simpson to front blank fly-leaves, scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22371

CREIGHTON, Right Rev. Mandell. Queen elizabeth. London, Paris, and Edinburgh. Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1896. First edition. Quarto. Title in red and black. [2], ii, 199pp, [3], [201]-202pp, [2]. With a half-title, a frontispiece, a further 24 plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Finely bound by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers bound in. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Internally ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 34743

KHAYYÁM, Omar. Quatrains of omar khayyám. London. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Quarto. [60pp]. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Bookplate of A. A. Piggot to FEP, with inked ownership inscription of the same dated 1910 to first blank fly-leaf. Spotting to endpapers and initial leaves. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29895

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[D'ISRAELI, Isaac]. Quarrels of authors; or, some memoirs for our literary history, including Specimens of Controversy to the reign of elizabeth. London. Printed for John Murray, 1814. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xiii, [3], 308; 316; [4], 320pp. Contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Boards heavily rubbed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of Vol. I title page: 'Presented to the Library of the Royal Institution by the author'. With the ink-stamp of the institution beneath (and to verso of both other titles). More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23579

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HORACE. Q. horatii flacci epistolae ad pisones, et augustum: with an english commentary and notes: to which are added critical dissertations. By the reverend mr. hurd. London. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for T. Cadell, 1776. Fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 277, [1]; xix, [1], 247, [1]; [2], 265pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early inked ownership inscription to head of Vol. III title, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33072