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SIDNEY, Sir Philip. The works of The Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. In Prose and Verse. London. Printed for E. Taylor et al., 1725. Fourteenth edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [12], 32, 419, [1]; [3], 402-881, [1]; [4], 64, 184, [6]. With six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red ad green morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Armorial bookplate of John Searle to sprung front pastedown of Vol. I, early inked ownership inscriptions to endpapers, all three volumes dampstained. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 33041
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BILLINGE, Charles. Poems on christian charity, contentment, and melancholy. Wolverhampton. Printed for the Author, by J. Smart, 1784. First edition. vi, [5], 12-88pp. ESTC T9681. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Oxford), and a further four in North America (Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, and Yale).

[Bound with:] POPE, Alexander. Messias. Idyllium sacrum. Per alexandrum pope, anglice conscriptum. Latine redditum. Wolverhampton. Typis, J. Smart, 1784. [4], 4-8, 4-8pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin texts with duplicate pagination. ESTC T5691. ESTC ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19757
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PALIN, Ralph. Iphotelle; or the longing-fit. A Poem. London. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. First edition. 8vo. [4], 71pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards. Without backstrip, naively rebacked with clear tape. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Charles Westrop to head of title page. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19761
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[CROXALL, Samuel]. An Original Canto of spencer: Design'd as Part of his Fairy Queen, but never Printed. Now made publick, By Nestor Ironside... London [i.e. Edinburgh?]. Printed for James Roberts, 1714. Second edition. Quarto. 30pp. Handsomely bound by W. Pratt in later gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed, library shelf-mark etched into upper board. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of chemist, archaeologist, and numismatist Alan Morris to FEP, text-block shaved at head. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 28860
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GRIFFITHS, Captain & Adj. F. A. The Artillerist's Manual, and compendium of infantry-exercise: sword exercise: field battery exercise: service of heavy ordnance, gyns, &c. fortification: pyrotechny: mathematics" gunnery: &c. &c. &c. With the Requisite Plates and Tables. Woolwich. Printed for and sold by J. M. Boddy, 1839. 12mo. xii, 300pp. With 12 engraved plates. Contemporary black half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Rubbed, lightly marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 33149
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WOODLEY, Rev. George. A view of the present state of the scilly islands: exhibiting their Vast Importance to the British Empire.. London. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1822. First edition. 8vo. [1], xviii, [1], 344pp. With half-title and large folding map of the Scilly isles. Uncut in original boards, recently rebacked with a new spine label. Quite worn and marked, with significant bumping to edges and corners. Heavy spotting and a little staining to title and preface, then lighter spotting across remainder of text. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 33401
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PUFENDORF, Samuel von. Les devoirs de l'homme, et du citoien, Tels qu'ils lui sont prescrits par la Loi Naturelle. Amsterdam. P. de Coup & G. Kuyper, 1735. Fifth edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], xlix, [3], 523pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and a divisional title to volume two. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, small worm-hole to upper joint. Armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to FEP. Light staining to endpapers, scattered spotting throughout. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 33434
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BRODY, Michael. Dissertatio medica inauguralis de dyspepsia... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Excudebat P. Neill, 1822. First edition. 8vo. [4], 18pp. With half-title. Handsomely bound in contemporary red morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, internally clean and crisp, a fine copy. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 15168
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VINCENT OF LÉRINS. Peregrini, id est, ut vulgo vincentii lirinensis, adversus prophanas hæreses, Commonitoria duo. Editio repurgata, caeteris purior & emendatior. Huic adijcitur Augustini liber de Hæresibus. Oxoniæ [i.e. Oxford]. Excudebat G. T. Academiæ celeberrimæ Typographus, Impensis Guilielmi Webb, 1631. 12mo. [12], 274pp, [2]. The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark 'A' to recto; the second leaf is blank. With a terminal errata leaf. Title in red and black. Later blind-tooled calf, recently neatly rebacked, all edges green. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. Early inscription of Samuel Thomas to head of title page. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 28361
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SCOTT, John. The poetical works of john scott esq.. London. Printed for J. Buckland, 1782. First edition. 8vo. [2], vi, [2], 341pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, title, and 12 further engraved vignettes. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, with wear to joints, small loss to head of spine, upper joint split, lower joint starting. Marbled endpapers, bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and Seumas O' Sullivan to FEP. Occasional light spotting and browning. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 30569
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BUCHAN, John. Poems scots and english. London and Edinburgh. T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1917. First edition. 8vo. [2], 106pp. Original publisher's dark purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Slight loss to lower corners of leaves E8 and F6. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'My dear Isabel / Here are the slender / poetical works of your ancient / friend / The Colonel / Aug:1917'. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 30593
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CRAWFORD, Mrs. A. Lismore. London. Thomas Cautley Newby, 1853. First edition. 12mo. In three volumes. [2], 283; [2], 282; [2], 264, [2], 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements to Vol. III. Contemporary blind-tooled black calf-backed, green cloth-tipped marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped, remnants of bookseller's advertisement to upper board of Vol. I. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, short tear to leaf D8 of Vol. III, ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 22311
Photo of "Steel's original and correct List ..."
[ROYAL NAVY]. Steel's original and correct List of the Royal Navy... London. Printed [by C. and W. Galabin] for P. Steel, Corrected to March, 1804 12mo. 52pp. Naively rebound in later cloth-baked buff paper boards, partially preserving original publisher's upper and lower wrappers. Rubbed and marked. Title page and terminal leaf attached to boards, the remainder (sewn, as issued) loosely inserted.

[Bound between p.26-27:] [Caption title:] Sir james saumarez' victory. Lloyd's Coffee-House, February 17, 1804. [s.i.] [s.n.], [1804]. 4pp. Bound between p2-3 are [4]pp of advertisements for publisher P. Steel. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 27803
Photo of "The poems of william dunbar, ..."
DUNBAR, William. The poems of william dunbar, now first collected. With notes, and a memoir of his life. By david laing. Edinburgh. Printed for Laing and Forbes, 1834. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xiv, 71, [1], 255, [1]; [2], [v]-vi, 498pp. Without half-titles. Titles in red and black. Handsomely bound by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled olive-green morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Slightest of shelfwear, spines a little sunned, else an immaculate set. Armorial bookplates of T. M. Bruce Gardyne to FEPs. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 23496