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BEAUMARCHAIS, [Pierre-Augustin] Caron de. Memoires de m. caron de beaumarchais: ecuyer, conseiller-secretaire du roi, lieutenant-general des chasses au bailliage & capitainerie de la Varenne du Louvre, grande venerie & fauconnerie de France, accuse de corruption de juge, contre M. Goezman, conseiller de grand-chambre au Parlement de Paris, accuse de subornation & de faux, Mme. Goezman, & le sieur Bertrand, accuses, le sieur Marin, gazetier de France, & le sieur Darnaud-Baculard, conseiller d'ambassade, assignes comme temoins. Paris. [s.n.], 1775. 499pp, [1].

[Bound with:] BEAUMARCHAIS, [Pierre-Augustin] Caron de. Memoire pour Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Paris. [s.n.], 1775. xiv, [1], 16-143pp, [1].

12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece, loss and worming to head of spine, joints split, boards held by cords only. Marbled endpapers, later bookplates of Roger Senhouse and John Fowles to FEP, inked ownership inscription to title ... More >
£ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21599
[BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas]. Oeuvres diverses Du Sieur D*** avec le traite du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, Traduit du Grec de Longin. a Amsterdam. Chez Abraham Wolfgang, 1677. Nouvelle edition, Reveue, corrigee, & augmentee de plusieurs Pieces nouvelles. 12mo. 160, [40], 101-214pp, [10]. With an extra-engraved title page, and four further engraved plates, all included in the pagination. Contemporary British (likely English) calf, blind-ruled to spine compartments and boards, with floral device to each corner of boards, with contrasting red morocco lettering-piece ('Boileaus Poetry'). Slightly rubbed, bumping to corners, joints just starting. Some marking to pastedowns, with bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19679
D'AVAUX, Claude de Mesmes, Comte. SERVIEN, Abel. Lettres De Messieurs d'avaux et servien, ambassadeurs Pour le Roy de France en Allemagne, concernantes leurs differens & leurs responses de part & d'autre en l'Annee 1644. [s.i.]. [s.n., s.d.], 1650. 16mo in 8s. 211, [5], 62pp, with blank leaf O4. Finely bound in eighteenth-century polished calf, spine lettered in gilt and decorated with blind-stamping. A trifle rubbed to extremities, joints creased, else a crisp copy. From Lord Minto's library, with his armorial case/shelf book label (with the motto "credunt quod vident") above the modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst) to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19673
CLUVER, Phillipp. Philippi Cluverii introductionis in Universam geographiam, tam Veterem quam Novam Libri VI. Accessit P. Bertii Breviarum Orbis terrarum. Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam]. Apud Elzevirios, 1677. 16mo. 352, 70pp, [10]. With an engraved title page, and engraved folding plate, and a folding table. Handsomely bound in eighteenth- century gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers, all edges blue. Extremities rubbed, slight chipping to head of spine. Armorial bookplate of Baptist May to verso of blank fly-leaf at front, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 11693
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Oriental assembly. New York. E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1940. First American edition. 8vo. xii, [2], 291pp, [1]. With a half-title. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs by the author (many previously unpublished), facsimiles of pages of the author's diary, and a line-drawn map. Original publisher's red buckram, lettered in gilt, dustwrapper. Wrapper marked and chipped, two closed tears to head. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22192
JAMES, Lawrence. Imperial warrior: The Life and Times of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby 1861-1936. London. Weidenfield and Nicolson, [1993]. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 279pp, [1]. With seven plates of black and white photographs/illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally immaculate. A fine copy. With a loosely inserted bookplate inscribed: 'To Mike Reskin / with best wishes / Lawrence Jones / 29.vi.93'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22169
GOSSE, P[hilip] H[enry]. The ocean. London. Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1845. 8vo. xii, 360pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 51 engraved illustrations. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate to FEP, frontispiece a trifle creased, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22161
PEEL, Sidney. The binding of the nile and new soudan. London. Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 288, 16pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, a folding amp to rear, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Very minor rubbing and marking to extremities. Bookseller's ticket of Henry Sotheran to FEP, frontispiece and title page foxed, else internally clean and crisp. A fine copy. Mervyn Lloyd Peel's copy, with his armorial bookplate to FEP and inked ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22166
[ACTS - GEORGE III]. Anno quadragesimo quarto georgii III. regis. Cap. LIV. An Act to consolidate and amend the Provisions of the several Acts relating to Corps of Yeomanry and Volunteers in Great Britain; and to make further Regulations relating thereto. - [5th June 1804]. [Edinburgh]. [William Blackwood and Sons], [1848]. 8vo. 32pp. Stitched, as issued. Central horizontal fold, lightly dust-soiled, inked ownership inscription of Sir John Orde to head of title page. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21537
LUCAN, Marcus Annaeus. Marci annaei lucani pharsalia, sive de bello civili, libri x. Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]. In Aedibus Roberti Urie, 1751. 8vo. [4], 308pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight splitting to upper joint. Later bookplate and shelf-labels of W. E. Hope Vere, Craigie Hall, and book-label of J. L. Weir to FEP (obscuring contemporary armorial bookplate and inked ownership inscription). More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 18548
BLACKLOCK, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. Glasgow. Printed for the Author, 1746. 8vo. [8], 88pp. With an errata slip pasted to verso of title page. Recent green cloth, lettered in gilt. Very minor shelf-wear. Some loss to lower corners of leaves C4 and E4, neat repair to head of leaves G1-2 at gutter (just touching text, without loss), small burn hole to upper corner of leaf I4, occasional spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22056
PLOWDEN, Charles. Remarks on a book entitled memoirs of gregorio panzani...Preceded by an address To the Rev. Joseph Berington. Liege. Sold by J. P. Coghlan, 1794. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 383pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet to both boards, marbled edges. Short closed tear to fore-edge of leaf Bb4, some loss to lower margin of leaf Mm2, foxed, lightly toned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19072