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STEVENSON, Alan. Report to the committee of the commissioners of northern lights, appointed to take into consideration the subject of illuminating the lighthouses by means of lenses. Edinburgh. Printed by Neill & Company, 1835. First edition. Quarto. [2], 41pp, [3]. With six engraved plates (one of which folding). Original publisher's green roan-backed brown cloth boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. Hinges exposed, else internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'To Admiral Sir David Milne with The Author's Respects'. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31602
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[STEVENSON, Alan]. The british pharos; or a list of the lighthouses on the coasts of great britain and ireland, descriptive of the appearance of the lights at night. For the use of mariners. Leith. Published and Sold by W. Reid & Son, 1831. Second edition. 8vo. xvi, 118pp. Original publisher's glazed cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed to extremities and bumped to corners, short splits and chips at head and foot of spine. Inscribed 'From the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses' to FFEP, and with printed note regarding the mooring of a 'Floating Light Vessel...off the North End of Haisborough Sand' pasted to FEP. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31285
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STEPHENS, William. Sermons on several subjects. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre, 1737. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [56], 430, [2]; [8], 455pp, [1]. With a 45 page list of subscribers to Vol. I. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to lower board to Vol. I, without lettering-pieces. Minute worm-track to foot of Vol. I text-block, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31745
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[STEPHENS, Frederic George]. A history of Gibraltar and its sieges. London. Provost & Co., 1873. Second edition. Quarto. vi, [2], with a albumen frontispiece, a further three albumen plates, and an engraved map. Bound by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn, N.Y. in contemporary gilt-tooled half morocco, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate and withdrawal stamps of the Minnesota Historical Society to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front free endpaper. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29129
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STEELE, Sir Richard. The Christian Hero: an argument Proving that no principles but those of religion Are Sufficient to make a great man. London. Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1755. 12mo. [16], 78pp. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep. Extremities worn, boards detached, substantial loss to spine. Contemporary amorial bookplate of Arthur Young to FEP, Young's inked ownership inscription and recent inscription of G. Gibb (dated 1972) to recto of FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 26306
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STEELE, Richard, Sir. An account of the fish-pool: Consisting of A Description of the Vessel so call'd, lately invented and built for the Importation of Fish alive, and in good Health, from Parts however distant...Likewise, A Description of the Carriage intended for the Conveyance of Fish by Land, in the same good Condition as in the Fish-Pool by Sea. London. Printed and sold by H. Meere, 1718. First edition. vii, [1], 60pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. ESTC T18823.

[Bound after:] CERRI, [Urbano]. STEELE, Richard, Sir [translator]. An account Of the state of the Roman-Catholick Religion Throughout the World... London. Printed for J. Roberts, 1715. First edition in English. [2], lxxviii, viii, 197, [1], x pp. Very occasional early annotations to margins. ESTC T57998.

[And:] [ERKSINE, John]. A letter from the Earl ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 23160
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STEELE, Richard. The Conscious Lovers. A comedy... London. Printed for J. Tonson, 1723. 8vo. [16], 86pp, [2]. Later mottled half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed. Manuscript initials 'A. A.' to title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31766
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STEARNE, Johanne. Tractatus de visitatione infirmorum, Seu de eis Parochorum Officiis, quae infirmos, et moribundos respiciunt. In Gratiam Juniorum, & in Visitandis Infirmis minus Exercitatorum Editus. Londini [i.e. London]. Prostant apud A Baldwin, 1704. Second edition. 12mo. [10], 120pp. A1 not present, likely duplicate title as of 1700 edition. Contemporary speckled calf, recently rebacked. Slight rubbing to extremities. Both front and rear pastedowns have worked loose, occasional marginal browning. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 12789
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STATHAM, E[dward] [Phillips]. The story of the "britannia" the training ship for naval cadets; with some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne. Cassell and Company, Limited, 1904. First edition. 8vo. xii, 274pp. With a lithograph frontispiece and numerous in-text photographic and engraved illustrations. Original publisher's gilt-decorated navy cloth boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled, with light wear to extremities. Inked ownership inscription of Cyril H. G. Benson, 'joined "Britannia" 1899', to FFEP, along with two further inscriptions relating to Captain Blake, Royal Navy 'Killed at Namsos 1939'. Endpapers browned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34800
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STARKIE, Walter. Don gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha. London. John Murray, [1836]. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 525pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece and six plates by Arthur Rackham, a large folding map. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (stamp-signed to front pastedown) in later gilt- tooled red morocco, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Original publisher's cloth bound at rear. Lightly rubbed. Very light scattered spotting to initial leaves. Overall a fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32716
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STARK, Freya. Rome on the euphrates. London. John Murray, [1966]. First edition. 8vo. xi, 481pp, [1]. With half-title; title page in red and black. Original publisher's light blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, with original pictorial printed paper dust-wrapper. Light wear to edges of dust-wrapper; otherwise, a fine copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34960
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STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn. The life and correspondence of thomas arnold, d.d. Late head-master of rugby school, and regius professor of modern history in the university of oxford.. London. John Murray, 1898. Seventh edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, 375; xii, 406pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the subject to vol. i. Contemporary gilt-tooled black calf, contrasting red and brown morocco lettering-pieces to spine, with the supralibros of South Wales Training College, Camarthen to upper board of both vols. Marbled endpapers, A.E.R. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines a touch sunned. Inked prize inscription addressed to Ernest W. B. Sykes, ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34640
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STAMP, L. Dudley [editor]. Slovene studies... London. Published by the Le Play Society, 1933. First edition. Quarto. 70pp, [2]. With 12 black and white photographic plates. Original publisher's pictorial buff wrappers. Extremities a trifle creased and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28316
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STAËL-HOLSTEIN, Madame de. Corinne ou l'italie. A Londres [i.e. London]. Chez M. Peltier, 1808. 8vo. In three volumes. [4], 383, [1]; [4], 421, [1]; [4], 442pp, [2]. With half-titles. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue wrappers, printed paper lettering-pieces. Housed in recent custom cloth case. A trifle marked, chipping/tearing to spines, cloth case sunned. Armorial bookplates of Maxwells of Kirkconnall, New Abbey, to versos of upper wrappers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22571
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STAFFORD, Wendell Phillips. Dorian days. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo. vi, [1], 112pp, [4]. With 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's gilt-tooled green cloth. Slightly rubbed, bumping to corners. Author's ink inscription to Margaret Bell Merrill on FEP dated Christmas 1909. William St. Clair's copy, with his pencilled ownership inscription. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29195