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[LONDON GAZETTE]. Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 10th of February, 1948: Published by Authority...The attack on the Tirpitz by midget submarines on 22nd September, 1943. [London]. [Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office], [1948]. First edition. Folio. 993-1008pp. With two plans (one folding). Contemporary green buckram-backed tan paper boards, typed lettering-piece, printed library shelf-label, and blind-stamp of the Foreign Office to upper board. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Bookplate of the Foreign Office Library to FFEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 12168
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[LONDON GAZETTE]. Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 4th of May, 1948: Published by Authority...Action between British and Italian forces off cape Spartivento on 27th November, 1940. [London]. [Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office], [1948]. First edition. Folio. 2799-2808pp. With two charts (one folding). Contemporary green buckram-backed tan paper boards, typed lettering-piece, printed library shelf-label, and blind-stamp of the Foreign Office to upper board. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Bookplate of the Foreign Office Library to FFEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 12167
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[LONDON GAZETTE]. Supplement to The London Gazette of Friday, the 15th of October, 1948: Published by Authority...Coastal Force actions. [London]. [Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office], [1948]. First edition. Folio. 5493-5511pp, [1]. With a folding chart. Contemporary green buckram-backed tan paper boards, manuscript lettering-piece, printed library shelf-label, and blind-stamp of the Foreign Office to upper board. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Bookplate of the Foreign Office Library to FFEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 12171
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[LONDON GAZETTE]. Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, the 3rd of February, 1948: Published by Authority...The African campaign from El Alamein to Tunis, from 10th August, 1942 to 13th May, 1943. [London]. [Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office], [1948]. First edition. Folio. 839-887pp, [1]. Contemporary green buckram-backed tan paper boards, manuscript lettering-piece, printed library shelf-label, and blind-stamp of the Foreign Office to upper board. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Bookplate of the Foreign Office Library to FFEP, very occasional ink-spotting. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 12176
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[LONDON AND EDINBURGH PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE]. The london and edinburgh philosophical magazine and journal of science...Vol. XIV...january-june, 1840. London. Richard and John E. Taylor, [1840]. 8vo. viii, 607pp, [1]. With seven engraved plates and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary marbled paper boards, recently rebacked and recornered preserving contemporary red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Armorial bookplate of John Sundius Stamp to FEP, blind-stamps of the Cardinal Hayes Library, New York to title page and leaf C6. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 34857
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[LONDON]. London: a descriptive poem. London. Printed for William Darton, 1812. Second edition, corrected. 12mo. 28pp, [4]. With eight copper-plates (dated 1813), and two terminal advertisement leaves. Stitched in original publisher's buff paper wrappers, lettered in black. Extremities dust-soiled and a trifle rubbed, some loss to spine. Substantial loss to foot of title, touching imprint with loss of price, occasional marginal chipping and small ink spots to text, tear to one plate, partial naive colouring of four plates. More > £ 275.00 Antiquates Ref. 14278
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[LONDON]. The Book of Coach-Rates; or Hackney-Coach Directory. Describing Above Four Thousand fares within the Cities of London and Westminster, and Limits of the Bills of Mortality; The Price of Each Fare being annexed; and the Exact Distance specified, according to an Accurate Measurement of the Ground. Alphabetically disposed... London. Printed for the Editior; and Sold by W. Owen et al., 1762. First edition. xii, 118pp. Without terminal blank leaf. ESTC N32380.

[Bound after:] [HENRY, David]. An Historical Description of the tower of london, and its curiosities... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1778. iv, [1], 6-71pp, [1]. ESTC T86735.

[And:] [HENRY, David]. An historical description of St. paul's cathedral... London. Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1777. iv, 56pp. ESTC T102526.

[And:] [HENRY, David]. An ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 14205
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LOGAN, William. Observations on the effects of sea water in the scurvy and scrophula: in which A new Theory of those Diseases is attempted; with some Reasons why Bathing in Fresh Water must be much superior to that of the Sea. London. Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1771. Second edition. 8vo. [4], 45pp, [1]. Recent grey paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. A clean and crisp copy. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17583
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LOGAN, James. The scottish gaël, or, Celtic Manners as preserved among the Highlanders being an historical and descriptive account of the inhabitants, antiquities and national peculiarities of scotland... Inverness. Hugh Mackenzie, [1876]. 8vo. In two volumes. xl, 393, [1]; [6], 440pp. With a lithographed colour frontispiece to each volume, five further lithographed plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Partially unopened in original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-pieces to spines. A trifle rubbed, lettering-pieces browned and chipped, upper board of Vol. I stained. Tickets of Glasgow-based bookseller Hugh Hopkins to both FEPs, endpapers browned, offsetting to ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28524
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LODGE, Sir Oliver. The romanes lecture 1903: Modern Views on Matter . Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1915. Fifth impression. 24pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements.

[Bound with:] EDDINGTON, Arthur Stanley. The romanes lecture 1922: The Theory of Relativity and its Influence on Scientific Thought. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1922. First edition. 32pp.

[And:] JEANS, J[ames] H[opwood]. The Nebular Hypothesis & Modern Cosmogony being the halley lecture Delivered on 23 May, 1922. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1923. First edition. 31pp. With two photographic plates. ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34465
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LOCKER, Frederick [editor]. Lyra elegantiarum: a collection of some of the best specimens of vers de societe and vers d'occasion in the english language by deceased authors. London. Edward Moxon & Co., 1867. First edition. 8vo. xx, 360pp. With a half-title. Attractively bound by Marius Mitchel in contemporary gilt-tooled orange levant morocco, red morocco floral onlays, A.E.G., gilt-tooled green levant morocco doublures, free end-leaves of coloured brocaded silk, housed in custom morocco-backed slipcase. Two morocco bookplates to front marbled paper fly-leaf, one unidentified, the other of Francis Kettaneh, printed booksellers description pasted to verso. A fine copy. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 20866
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LOCKER, Edward Hawke. Memoirs of celebrated naval commanders, illustrated by engravings from original pictures in the naval gallery of greenwich hospital. [London]. Harding and Lepard, 1832. First edition. Quarto. [12], 12, 13, [1], 19, [1], 13, [1], 13, [1], 11, [1], 15, [1], 11, [1], 16, 12, 8, 11, [1], 16, 13, [1], 22, 41, [1], 8, 3, [1], 15, [1], 12pp. With 20 engraved plates. Contemporary navy calf tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards, A.E.G. Some rubbing. Short marginal tear to one leaf, light foxing to plates, else internally clean and crisp. ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 15557
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[LOCKE, John - Misattributions]. A Common-place Book to the holy bible: or, the Scriptures Sufficiency Practicall Demonstrated. Wherein Whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, Respecting Doctrine, Worship, or Manners, is reduced to its Proper Head: Weighty Cases Resolved, Truths Confirmed, difficult Texts Illustrated, and Explained by others more plain. London. Printed by Edw. Jones, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1697. Third edition. Quarto. [16], 310, [10]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Contemporary blind-panelled speckled calf, neatly rebacked and recornered in brown morocco, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Binding a trifle rubbed and a little marked, new endpapers. Small rust hole to G3, without loss of sense, else a crisp and clean copy. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 12749
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[LLOYD, W. Watkiss]. Explanation of the groups in the western pediment of the parthenon (Extracted from "The Classical Museum," Part XVIII.). [London]. [s.n.], [1847]. First offprint edition. 49pp, [1]. With a folding table.

Bound with:] LLOYD, W. Watkiss. [Drop-head title:] The eastern pediment of the parthenon. [From the "Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature," Vol. VII., New Series]. [London?]. [s.n.], [1863]. First offprint edition. 49pp, [1]. With four lithographed plates (one folding).

[And:] LLOYD, W. Watkiss. [Drop-head title:] XVIII. - The central group of the panathenaic frieze. [From the 'Transactions of ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 31517