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[DENNIS, Isaac]. A narrative Of the Cruelties & Abuses Acted by isaac dennis keeper, HIs Wife and Servants, In the Prison of Newgate, In the City of bristol: Upon the People of the Lord in Scorn called Quakers, who were there Committed for the Exercise of their Consciences towards God. With an Account of the Eminent Judgments of God upon Him, and his End. Published for a Warning to others, by some of those People who were Sufferers under him. [London]. [s.n.], [1683]. First edition. Quarto. 27pp, [1]. Later gilt-ruled sprinkled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Title page shaved at foot, without loss, leaf A4 shaved at foot with loss of catchword, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 28263
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DENNIS, [John] Mr.. A poem upon the Death of Her late Sacred Majesty Queen anne, and the Most Happy and most Auspicious Accession Of his Sacred Majesty king george. To the Imperial Crowns of Great Britain, France and Ireland. With an Exhortation to all True Britons to Unity. London. Printed by H. Meere, and Sold by J. Baker, 1714. First edition. 8vo. 30pp. With a half-title. Recent half-calf, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, slight shaving to top-edge. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 15133
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[DENT, John]. [Drop-head title:] Catalogue of the second portion of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late john dent...which will be sold at auction, by mr. evans...On Wednesday, April 25, and Eight following Days, Sunday excepted. 1827. [London]. [Printed by W. Nicol], [1827]. First edition. 8vo. [2], 94pp, [2]. Stitched, as issued. Remnants of original publisher's salmon pink wrappers. Title lightly dust-soiled, dampstaining to terminal three leaves. With prices and buyers' names added in manuscript. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31920
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DE PUIS, Guillaume. Guilielmi puteani, Medici Grationopolitani, de occultis pharmacorum purgantium facultatib. Deque Veris ipsarum Causis, Libri duo. Quibis adjecta est Appendicula, de purgatrice Medicamentorum Facultate. Auctore Jacobo Cusinoto... Lugdani, [i.e. Lyon]. Sumpt. Michaelis Duhan, 1664. Second edition. 8vo. [16], 206pp, [2]. With extra-engraved title and final blank. Finely bound in contemporary English red morocco, panelled in gilt with further gilt to spine. Marbled pastedowns, A.E.G. Slightly rubbed and a little marked, bumping to corners, else a handsome copy. Robert Traver's copy, with his ink inscription 'Liber Robert Travers, M.D., e Coll. S. Trinitatis apud Dublinienses' to verso of blank fly-leaf, and a rather ... More > £ 1,750.00 Antiquates Ref. 14435
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[DERENZY, Margaret]. Parnassian geography; or, the little wanderer. Wellington, Salop. Printed by and for F. Houston and Son, [1824]. First edition. 12mo. 148pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher’s printed buff paper boards. Extremities worn and marked, later naive clear adhesive repairs to joints and spine. Hinges exposed, frontispiece and title page browned, publication dates scratched away from both, occasional chipping to margins, scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26113
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DESCLOZEAUX, Adrien. Gabrielle d'Estrees. London. Arthur Humphreys, 1907. First English edition. 8vo. vi, 330pp. With half-title. Title in red and black. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's cream cloth backed blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Some browning and dust-soiling to extremities. Internally clean and crisp but for the occasional spot of foxing. From The Royal Library Historical Series. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13384
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DE SELINCOURT, E.. English poets and the national ideal. London. Oxford university press, 1915. First edition. 8vo. [1], 119pp, [1]. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in guilt to spine. Some fading to spine, discolouration to endpapers. With inked inscription to FFEP: 'To Stopford A. Brooke, with Grateful memories of Four Winds. from the writer. Sept 1915.' More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32047
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DE SERVIEZ, Jacques Roergas. The roman empresses; or, the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve cæsars. London. The Walpole Press, 1899. Fine Library edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, 499pp, [1]; viii, 573pp, [1]. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in modern gilt-tooled blue half-morocco. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Very lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to FEP of both volumes. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30904
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DESMARAIS, Regnier. Poësies françoises de m l'abbe. A La Haye [i.e. The Hague]. Henri du Säuzet, 1716. Nouvelle ed., augmentée de plusieurs piéces qui ne se trouvent pas dans celle de Paris. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], xlv, [3], 292pp; [293]-613pp, [7]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, with slight wear to joints, lower board scuffed. Endpapers stained, occasional spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33435
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DESPARD, Edward Marcus. The trial of edward marcus despard, esquire for high treason, at the session house, newington, surry, On Monday the Seventh of February, 1803. London. Sold by M. Gurney, 1803. First edition. 8vo. 271pp, [5]. With five final pages of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in modern half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Book-label of Rev. Walter Sylvester and bookplate of Ron C. Fiske of Morningthorpe Manor to FEP, typed booksellers description pasted to recto of FFEP, leaves toned and spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24257
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DE STAAL, Madame. Mémoires de madame de staal (mademoiselle delaunay). Paris. Librairie L. Conquet, 1891. 8vo. Limited edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 98. [10], xxviii, 386pp, [4]. With and engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 34 engraved plates (duplicating engraved vignettes). Elaborately bound by Maurius Michel (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary richly gilt- tooled brown morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Modern ink-stamp to rear blank fly-leaf comprised of Asian inspired motifs and lettered 'Jean'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25912
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DE STAËL, Madame La Baronne. Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution françoise, ouvrage posthume de mad. la baronne de staël. Londres [i.e. London]. Baldwin, Cradock, et Joy, 1819. Second edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 436; viii, 421, [1]; vii, [1], 430pp. Finely bound by J. Kelly (small paper label to verso of FFEP, Vols. I and III) in contemporary gilt-tooled, blind- ruled half-calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, extremities a trifle worn. With a small tear Y8 of Vol. III. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26469
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DESTOUCHES, Nericault [Philippe]. La fausse agnes, ou le poete campagnard. Comedie En prose en trois Actes. Paris. Chez Prault Pere, 1736. [4], 137pp, [3].

[Bound with:] DESTOUCHES, Nericault [Philippe]. Le tambour nocturne, ou le mari devin, comedie angloise. Paris. Chez Prault Pere, 1736. [10], 116pp, [4].

[And:] DESTOUCHES, Nericault [Philippe]. Le dissipateur ou l'honneste-friponne, comedie. Paris. Chez Prault Pere, 1736. [2], xii, 127pp, [3].

8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Extremities worn, joints split. Typed booksellers description pasted to FEP. Armorial bookplate of ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21594
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[DESTROYERS]. The "town" class destroyers: the story of the "four-stackers"... [Bath]. [H. Sharp & Sons], [1949]. First edition. Quarto. 107pp, [1]. With fifty mounted photographs. Bound for presentation in contemporary navy half-morocco, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and nautical motifs to spine, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Presentation plate to FEP: 'Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the citizens of Castleton in grateful recollection of the services to the allied cause in the Second World ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26602
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DETMOLD, E. J. DUGDALE, Florence E. The book of baby birds. London. Henry Frowde. Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. First edition. Quarto. 120pp. With 19 mounted colour plates by E. J. Detmold. Bound by the Ashley Bindery in 1970 (stamp-signed in blind 'A. B.' and dated on rear turn-in) in later blind-tooled dark green morocco, geometric red and orange morocco inlays arranged in circular pattern to centre of both boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G., stamp-signed in blind 'A. B.' and dated in blind 1970 on rear turn-in. ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33692
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[DEVON ELECTION]. The spirit of election wit, at the city of exeter, and the county of devon: together with the burlesque election At Ide, in the year 1812; containing the whole of the addresses, speeches, songs, and squibs. Including the origin of the titular borough of ide. Exeter. Printed by R. Cullum, [1812]. First edition. 12mo. 152pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31536
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[DEVONSHIRE]. The Two Widecombe Tracts, 1638 giving a Contemporary Account of the great Storm, reprinted with an introduction. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1905. vi, [4], 37pp.

[Bound with:] Richard Peek of Tavistock: His three to one, The Commendatory Verses and the Play of dick of devonshire. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1905. [4], x, 100pp.

[And:] CLAYDEN, Arthur W. The history of devonshire scenery: an essay in Geographical Evolution. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1906. [6], 202pp. With a photogrpahic frontispiece and a further 42 photographic plates.

[And:] An Old ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31020
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DEXTER, Walter. The London of Dickens. London. Cecil Palmer, [1923]. First edition. 8vo. 269pp, [3]. With half-title. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. Very lightly rubbed and marked. Book-label of D Farringdon to FEP. Inked gift inscription signed 'With Walt Dexter's kindest remembrances, 19th June 1923' to FFEP. With a loosely inserted contemporary business card of the author. Leaves lightly browned. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 34836