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Photo of "Wall and water gardens"
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
Photo of "Cities and men: an autobiography"
LUKE, Harry, Sir. Cities and men: an autobiography. London. Geoffrey Bles, [1953]. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrappers. Lightly rubbed, some chipping and loss to price-clipped dustwrappers. Internally clean and crisp. Bookplates and inked ownership inscriptions of John Marstan Gamley to endpapers of Vols. I and II and half-title of Vol. III. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21978
Photo of "Gallions reach: a romance"
TOMLINSON, H. M.. Gallions reach: a romance. London. William Heinemann Ltd., [1927]. First edition. 8vo. [6], 292pp, [1]. Original publisher's turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper worn, browned, and spotted, closed tear to upper panel, loss to head, with paper repairs to verso. Internally clean and crisp. Bookplate of American bibliophile Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (1910-2001), director of the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1948-1969, to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to half-title from the ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21977
Photo of "Memoirs of the naval worthies ..."
BARROW, John. Memoirs of the naval worthies of queen elizabeth's reign; of their gallant deeds, daring adventures, and services, in the infant state of the british navy... London. John Murray, 1845. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 495pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed, occasional spotting, contemporary bookplate of William Morris Reade to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'William Morris Reade, from his sincere friend, Horace Andrew Walpole; on his leaving Eton: Easter, 1847'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21952
Photo of "Contes et nouvelles en vers"
LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Contes et nouvelles en vers. Paris. Les editions G. Cres et Cie., 1922. 8vo. In two volumes. xviii, [2], 355, [1]; [4], 387pp, [3]. With numerous engraved plates after designs by Charles Eisen. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown crushed morocco, T.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, internally immaculate. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19589
Photo of "The village curate, a poem"
[HURDIS, James]. The village curate, a poem. Bishopstone, Sussex. Printed at the Author's own press, and sold by J. Johnson, 1797. A new and improved edition (being the fourth). 8vo. [4], 136pp, [2]. Without one final publisher's advertisement leaf. Recent calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Lightly toned and spotted. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20863
Photo of "Observations on reversionary payments; on ..."
[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
Photo of "Theatre-Royal, York...On Friday Evening, May ..."
[THEATRE ROYAL, YORK]. Theatre-Royal, York...On Friday Evening, May 12th, 1843, Her Majesty's Servants will perform, for the first time for several years, Reynold's celebrated Opera of the exile: or, the deserts of siberia...To conclude with, for the first time in this Theatre, Selby's new Farce, now performing in London, and at most of the Provincial theatres, entitled, boots at the swan... [York]. [s.n.], [1843]. Dimensions 180 x 310 mm. Single leaf broadside. Lightly damp-stained to head, a trifle creased. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21388
Photo of "The school candidates, a prosaic ..."
[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
Photo of "Songs of heaven"
[SONGS]. Songs of heaven. Birmingham. Printed for Thomas Groom, Islington-Row, By J. Allen, Cannon-Street, [s.d., c.1840s-50s] 16mo?. 32pp. With an engraved frontispiece of a harp. A handsome copy, sewn within the original pink and gold decorated wrappers. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21918