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TENNYSON, Alfred. Ode on the death of the duke of wellington. London. Edward Moxon, 1852. First edition. 8vo. 16pp. With a half-title. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, some chipping/tearing to spine and upper wrapper. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to half- title. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34031
ALLAWAY, Mr. A. W. The doctrine of ratio. Bristol. Printed by J. W. Newcombe, 1824. First edition. 8vo. 24pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Rubbed, marked, and discoloured, spine worn, early inked ownership inscription to upper wrapper. Foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26584
UIHLEIN, Joseph. Kurzer Unterricht in der Naturwissenschaft für die Jugend. Frankfurt am Main. Andeäischen Buchhandlung, 1806. First edition. 8vo. viii, 210pp, [6]. With four engraved plates on two folding sheets. Contemporary blind-tooled half-calf, tan paper boards, printed paper lettering- piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. FFEP shaved, very occasional early manuscript annotations, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26411
[DOWLING, Francis]. Fights for the championship; and celebrated prize battles; or accounts of all the prize battles for the championship from the days of figg and broughton to the present time... London. Published at "Bell's Life" Office, 1855. First edition. 8vo. iv, 432pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, marked, spine sunned, corners bumped. Early inked ownership inscription of Charles W. A. Oakeley to FEP, single manuscript correction to text, annotations concerning the 1858 fight between Tom Sayers and Tom Paddock to verso of terminal leaf and RFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33820
HOY, Teresa. The creation of heaven and earth. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1990s] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [26] leaves. With 13 tipped-in black and white screen-prints. Original two-tone pictorial cloth, housed in custom slipcase. Very minor shelf-wear. Decorated endpapers, internally immaculate. A fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24645
DICKENS, Charles. The story of little dombey. London. Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition, first issue. 16mo. [2], 121pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary dark green half-morocco, tooled in gilt and black, marbled paper boards, T.E.G. Original publisher's green pictorial wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30819
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
[FOREST HOTEL]. The Forest Hotel. Epping Forest, Chingford. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1880] Oblong 12mo. [2], 28pp, [2]. With four full-page engraved illustrations in the text. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial light green wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Recent book-label of Robin de Beaumont to verso of upper wrapper. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31140
CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The author. A poem. By C. Churchill.. London. Printed for W. Flexney et al., 1763. First edition. [4], 19pp, [1]. With half-title.

[Bound with:] [CHURCHILL, Charles]. The times. A poem. London. Printed for the author; and Sold by J. Coote, 1764. First edition. 33pp, [1]. Manuscript inscription of the author's name above imprint to title.

Quarto. Contemporary? half calf, marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt to spine. Heavily rubbed, with surface wear to spine and extremities, small losses to head and ... More >
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34792
[JAPAN]. WHITNEY, W. N. [compiler]. A Concise Dictionary of the principal Roads, chief towns and villages of japan... Tokyo. Z. P. Maruya & Co., 1889. First edition. 8vo. [2], v, [1], 248pp, [4]. Printed in double columns. With an engraved folding map and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's blind-stamped limp red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. One preliminary leaf detached, short tears to map at gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33349
[SWIFT, Jonathan]. Good Queen anne vindicated, and The Ingratitude, Insolence, &c. of her whig ministry and the allies Detected and Exposed, in the Beginning and Conducting of the war... London. Printed and sold by W. Owen, 1748. Second edition. 8vo. [4], 72pp. With a half-title. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Latter half of text-block separated into individual gatherings. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Hesketh Yarburgh to head of half-title. Lightly dust-soiled, some chipping to head of initial five leaves, occasional spotting/creasing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20765
LEIGHTON, John M.. Select views on the river clyde. Glasgow. Joseph Swan, engraver, 1830. First edition. Quarto. [4], iv, [8], 168, 4pp. With an engraved title page, a further 42 engraved plates, and a terminal list of subscribers. Finely bound by Ramage (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in later navy half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting, mostly to margins. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34377
LEIGHTON, John M.. Select views of glasgow and its environs.. Glasgow. Published by Joseph Swan, 1828. First edition. Quarto. [6], xvi, [2], 91, 4pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 27 engraved plates, and a terminal list of subscribers bound in. Finely bound by Ramage (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in later navy half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly rubbed. Light scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34376