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CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus. Q. Curtii Rufi. Historiarum libri, accuratissime editi. Lugd, Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633. 12mo. [12], 364pp, [24]. With an engraved title page, a single full-page engraved illustration in the text, and an engraved folding map. Contemporary ink-ruled vellum. Lightly rubbed, upper joint starting. Inked ownership inscription 'J. Wordswoth / Trin: Coll. Cant.' and later book-label of Walter R. Sadler to recto of FFEP, title page naively reattached with tissue paper, slight loss to lower corner of leaf D1, minute ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31622
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HOFFMAN, Professor. Puzzles Old and New. [London]. [Frederick Warne and Co.], [1893]. 8vo. xx, 394pp, [2]. With half-title, engraved frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked, with damp-staining to lower board, spine dulled and bumped. Merchant's ticket of Hamley's Magical Saloons and Magical Palace pasted over imprint to title. Later inked gift inscription dated 20 Jan 1960 to FFEP. Scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33794
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VIRGIL. Publii virgilii maronis opera quae exstant omnia ex heynio-brunckiana recensione edidit j. a. amar. Parisiis [i.e. Paris]. Apud Lefevre Bibliopolam, 1826. 16mo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xx, 247, [1]; [2], 326pp, [2]. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco, A.E.G. Rubbed, some scoring to boards. Marbled endpapers, bookplates of R. J. Dickinson to verso of both FFEPs, inked ownership inscriptions of 'Rob. Wilkinson / 1839' to front blank fly-leaves, foxed. Booksellers tickets to both FEPs of Weymouth based printed and binder John Commins. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 16609
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TERENCE. Publii terentii comoediae sex, Post optimas editiones emendatae. Accedunt Aelii Donati, Commentarius integer: Cum Selectis Guieti & Variorum notis, multo auctioribus, quam antehac. Indices, tertia sere parte locupletiores. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio. Lugd. Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. Apud Francisum Hackium, 1662. 8vo. [48], 864pp, [60]. With an engraved title page. Without two blank terminal leaves. Contemporary gilt-tooled panelled calf. Without lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, boards held by cords only, corners exposed. Hinges exposed, early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, latter half of text-block dampstained, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33005
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TERENCE. Publii Terentii Afri comoediae, Phaedri fabulae Aesopiae, Publii Syri et aliorum veterum sententiae, ex recensione et cum notis Richardi Bentleii. Cantabrigiae [i.e. Canterbury]. Apud Cornelium Crownfield, 1726. Quarto. In two parts. [7], xxv, 444; [8], 87pp, [1]. With two engraved plates. The second part has a separate title page reading: 'Phaedri Augusti liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque...Cantabrigiae apud Cornelium Crownfield'. Handsomely bound in contemporary calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, gilt supralibros to both boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of J. ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26111
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TERENCE. Publii terentii afri comoediae. Birminghamiae [i.e. Birmingham]. Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772. 12mo. [2], 307pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Rubbed, upper joint split. Marbled endpapers, Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30405
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[NAPLES]. HOLMES, Daniel. Psalms hymns and canticles as appointed to be sung in the british chapel at naples. [Naples]. [s.n.], 1850. 8vo. vi, [2]pp, 72ff. The main body of the text with printed music to versos, and libretti to rectos. Contemporary (perhaps original) purple cloth, gilt, titled to spine and upper board. Marbled endpapers. Marked (with some remains of what is presumably candle wax to lower board), slightly faded and rubbed, small wormhole at the head of spine, bumping to corners. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 23584
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LYNDWOOD, Gulielmo. Provinciale, (seu constitutiones angliae,) continens Constitutiones Provinciales quatuordecim Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium... Oxoniae [i.e. Oxford]. Excudebat H. Hall, 1679. Folio. [64], 356, 155, [21], 77pp, [3]. Text printed in double columns. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine, corners bumped. Very occasional recent coloured pencil highlights, small burn hole to leaf Dd2 - touching text without loss of sense. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 14884
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OGILVIE, John. Providence. An allegorical poem. In three books. London. Printed for G. Burnet, 1764. First edition. Quarto. xiii, [3], 63, [4], 74-131, [4], 132-192pp. Title in red and black. With three engraved plates. Recent calf-backed marbled boards, paper label with title in manuscript to upper board. Very minor shelf-wear. Title browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27460
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RICCIOLI, Giovanni Battista. Prosodia reformata duobus tomis comprehensa Quorum Prior continet Prosodiae Rudimenta, Prosodiam Majorem, Poetarum versus plures quàm vigintiquatuormille, & eorundem Poetarum Tempora... Bononiæ [i.e. Bologna]. Hæredis Victorii Benatii, 1655. First edition. 12mo. In two volumes. [22], 180, 492; [610]pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering- piece, all edges red. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. The Macclesfield copy, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate and typical armorial blind-stamps to title page and initial leaves of text, pencilled shelf-marks to front endpapers. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31930
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SMET, Henrich. Prosodia in novam formam digesta. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]. Joannem Janssonium, 1658. 8vo. [16], 526pp, [6]. With an additional engraved title page. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, staining to top edge, light damp-staining to lower board. Rear pastedowns sprung. Later inked ownership inscription of Michaël à (?) Westranen and naive ink-sketch to RFEP. Endpapers slightly browned, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33464
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WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Prose works. Boston. Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [8], 473, [1]; viii, 395pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed. Near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Lewis L. Walker to front blank fly-leaves. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32243
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[MONTGOMERY, James]. Prose, by a poet. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. In two volumes. [3], vi-xvii, [3], 285, [1]; [4], 294pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27711
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[RUDDER, Samuel]. Proposals for Printing by Subscription, The Topographical, Biographical, and Natural history of Gloucestershire: comprehending the Antient and Present State of that county. [Cirencester?]. [s.n.], [1767]. 8vo. [2], 8pp. Recent blind-ruled calf, lettered in gilt to upper board. Original publisher's powder blue wrappers bound in. Label (dated 1986) to FEP of the Robert Raikes Reference Library at Gloucester, later paper repair to upper wrapper, inked annotation to REP: 'Purchased at sale of Mark Skillicone's books, march 1936. Roland Austin(?)'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 21085
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[CHRISTIANITY], [ANGLICAN CHURCH]. Proper lessons to be read at morning and evening prayer on the sundays and other holy-days throughout the year.. Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, [s.d., c. 1874] 8vo. [2], 361pp, [405]. Contemporary limp red calf, decorated in gilt and blind, with the supralibros of Emily Susan Lonsdale to upper board, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with light wear to extremities. Inked ownership inscription of Emily S. Lonsdale, dated 1874, to head of title. Light browning and spotting to blank fly-leaves, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34907
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BESANT, Annie. Proofs of the Existence of the Soul. Adyar, Madras. Theosophical Publishing House, [1914]. Second impression. 8vo. [2], 43pp, [1]. Original publisher's salmon pink wrappers. Rubbed, creased, and discoloured, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to upper wrapper: 'Muriel Harper. Nov. 1920'. Scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24290