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BARBEYRAC, Jean. The spirit of the ecclesiasticks Of all Sects and Ages, As to the Doctrines of Morality, and more particularly the Spirit of the Ancient Fathers of the Church, examin'd By Mons. Barbeyrac... London. Printed for J. Peele, 1722. First edition. 8vo. [8], 72pp. Disbound, all edges red. Title page spotted. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 21310

BARBER, Noel. The white desert. [London]. Hodder and Stoughton, [1958]. First edition. 8vo. 205pp, [3]. With a sketch-map frontispiece and 31 photographic illustrations. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper rubbed, marked, chipped, and torn, spine panel sunned. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23429

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BARBAZAN, [Etienne]. Fabliaux et contes des poetes francois des XI, XII, XIII, XIV et XVe siecles, tires des meilleurs auteurs. A Paris. Chez B. Waree, 1808. Nouvelle edition [i.e. new edition]. In four volumes. [4], xxi, [1], 465, [1]; [4], xiv, 467, [1]; [4], xxxii, 514; xvi, 521pp, [3]. With half-titles and a suite of three engraved plates to each volume.

[Bound uniformly with:] MEON, [Dominique Martin]. Nouveau recueil de fabliaux et contes inedits, des poetes francais des XIIe, XIIIe, XIVe, et XVe siecles... A Paris. Chez Chasseriau, 1823. First edition. In two volumes. viii, 500, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20270

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BARANTE, [Baron de]. A tableau of French literature during The Eighteenth Centuury. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1834. 12mo. xxxi, [1], 215pp, [1]. Bound by Carss & Co. of Glasgow in contemporary half-calf, green cloth boards. Rubbed, without lettering-piece. Very occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27358

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[BAPTISMAL VOW]. The Baptismal Vow: a word of remembrance to be confirmed. London. F. and J. Rivington, [s.d., c.1850] Third edition. 12mo. 11pp, [1]. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Upper cover a trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20991

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[BANQUET INSTRUCTIONS]. Instructions to waiters at civic banquet in honour of laying foundation-stone of new municipal buildings. Glasgow. [s.n.], [1883]. 8vo. 8pp. With a double-sided lithographed plan at end. Sewn, as issued. Some heavy spotting, short tear to gutter-margin of title. With vertical fold. From the library of Glaswegian art collector and bibliophile B. B. MacGeorge Esq. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33372

[BANNATYNE CLUB]. [TYTLER, Patrick Fraser]. Ane New Bannatyne Garland. [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], 1829. First edition. 8vo. 7pp, [1]. Contemporary green paper wrappers. Lightly rubbed. Internally immaculate. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28587

[BANNATYNE CLUB]. [TYTLER, Patrick Fraser]. A Bannatyne Garland. Edinburgh. [s.n.], 1824. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii pp, [1]. Contemporary green paper wrappers. Rubbed and sunned. Internally immaculate. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28588

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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Bannatyne Club. Abstract of the treasurer's accounts [Nos. I-IX]. [Edinburgh]. [Printed by Ballantyne & Co.], [1828-39] Quarto.. Nine separately issued parts. Contemporary half-calf, brown paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Book-label to FPE of J. Blackwood Greenshields of Kerse House, Lanarkshire

[Together with a clutch of 27 notices, both printed and manuscript, relating to the club's transactions]. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28579

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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Catalogue of The Bannatyne Club publications. January M.DCCC.XXX. [Edinburgh?]. [s.n.], 1830. 12pp.

[Bound with:] Catalogue of The Bannatyne Club publications. Edinburgh. Printed by Ballantyne and Company, 1833. 24pp.

[And:] Rules of The Bannatyne Club. Instituted February, M.DCCC.XXIII. [Edinburgh?] [s.n], [1833]. 7pp, [1].

[And:] [Drop-head title:] At the Annual General Meeting of the Bannatyne Club, held in the Apartments of the Antiquarian Society, on Monday, December 9, 1833. [Edinburgh?] [s.n.], [1833]. 3pp, [1].

[And:] Rules of The ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28582

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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Catalogue of rare and curious books, pamphlets, &c. including a large and valuable collection of the works printed at private expense, for the Bannatyne Club... Edinburgh. [s.n.], 1830. 8vo. 37pp. Stitched, as issued. Vertical crease, very lightly marked, a little marking to extremities. Inked deletion to B2v. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20539

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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Notices relative to the bannatyne club...including critiques on some of its publications. Edinburgh. Printed for private circulation, 1836. First edition. Quarto. One of 50 copies printed. [2], xviii, 277pp, [1]. Partially interleaved. With an engraved frontispiece, a further four plates, and a list of subscribers. Later blue buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Book-label of J. L. Weir to FEP, later newspaper clippings relating to the death of David Laing to rear endpapers. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28580

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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Rules of The Bannatyne Club. Instituted February, MDCCCXXIII. [Edinburgh?]. [s.n.], [1823]. First edition. 8vo. 11pp, [1]. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes and chipping to gutters. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28590

[BANNATYNE CLUB]. Rules of The Bannatyne Club. Instituted February, MDCCCXXIII. [Edinburgh?]. [s.n.], [1823]. First edition. 8vo. 12pp. Later drab wrappers. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30752

BANKS, John. An epitome of a Course of Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy. Kendal. Printed by W. Pennington, 1775. First edition. 12mo. 126pp. Later green cloth, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, chipping to lettering-piece. Occasional spotting, loss to head of title - clipping text, inked annotation to foot: 'This Mr. John Banks / was my father's cousin / J.W.B.' More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18697

[BANK OF ENGLAND]. A copy of the charter Of the corporation of the Governor and Company of the bank of england. [London]. [s.n.], 1758. Folio. 21pp, [1]. A variant, issued without half-title or terminal 10pp of company bye-laws. Contemporary navy wrappers. Extremities worn and marked. Central vertical fold. Very occasional early manuscript annotations. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 32900

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[BANKING]. Remarks of mr. webster, on the removal of the deposites and on the subject of a national bank... Washington. Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1834. First edition. 8vo. 23pp, [1]. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dust-soiled, chipping to edges of title-page, with recent ink shelf-mark to head, vertical crease to centre of all leaves. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 16037

BANIM, [John]. Padhré na moulh, ou le mendiant des ruines, Roman Irlandaiae. Paris. Charles Gosselin, 1829. First edition in French. 12mo. In two volumes. [4], 234; [4], 216pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, gilt. A trifle rubbed. Scattered foxing, FFEP of Vol. I detached. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25112

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BANDURI, Anselmo. D. Anselmi Bandurii...Bibliotheca nummaria, sive auctorum qui de re nummaria scripserunt... Hamburgi [i.e. Hamburg]. Apud C. Liebezeit et T.C. Felginer, 1719. First edition. Quarto. [8], 248pp. Contemporary vellum, contrasting gilt-tooled morocco lettering-piece. Foot of spine with large (and rather unsightly) split, some marking, text significantly browned and spotted, with some old damp-staining to preliminaries, soiling to signatures K-L. Various later shelf-marks in manuscript (variously pencil and ink) to endpapers. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24060

BALZAC, Honoré de. The novels of honoré de balzac; now for the first time completely translated into english. Philadelphia. Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie and Son. [s.d., c. 1898] Limited edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is copy No. 509. In two volumes. [6], 353pp, [1]; [6], 355pp, [1]. Titles in red and black. With half-titles, an engraved frontispiece to each volume and eight further engraved plates by Frédéric-Emile Jeannin. Later navy half-morocco, richly gilt-tooled, with red morocco onlays in fleur-de-lis pattern to spine compartments; blue cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34761