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[LUND, John, of Pontefract]. Ducks and green peas; or, the newcastle rider. A Farce in one Act founded on fact. To which is added, the newcastle rider. A tale in rhyme. Alnwick. Printed and sold by W. Davidson, 1827. 12mo. 34pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's pictorial printed grey wrappers. Slight rubbing to spine, a trifle spotted. More > £ 275.00 Antiquates Ref. 16529

JOHNSON, W. R.. The history of greece in easy verse; From the Earliest Period, to its Conquest by the romans. London. Printed for B. Tabart, Juvenile Library, 1807. First edition. 12mo. [6], 129pp, [1]. With an engraved folding frontispiece. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, loss to head of spine. Frontispiece foxed, single short tear to margin, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 20955

CZERNY, Charles [i.e. Carl]. Letters to a young lady, on the art of playing the pianoforte, from the earliest rudiments to the highest state of cultivation... London. R. Cocks and Co., 1842. Second edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 79pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's tan printed paper boards. Rubbed, marked, and a trifle bumped, considerable loss to spine. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 On Sale: £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 20124

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A TRAVELLER [HUGMAN, John]. Original poems, in the moral, heroic, pathetic, and other styles. Halesworth. Printed for the Author, by T. Tippell, 1832. Thirteenth edition. 8vo. 42pp. Original publisher's green boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Extremities rubbed and marked. Later bookplate to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20816

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FERAMUSIUS, Carolus. Epulum parasiticum, Quod eruditi conditores, instructoresque... Norimbergae [i.e. Nuremberg]. [s.n.], 1665. [56], 315pp, [1]. With an additional engraved title page and five engraved plates.

[Bound with:] PINCIER, Johann. Johan pincieri m. d. Aenigmatum libri tres, cum Solutionibus... Hagae-Comitum [i.e. The Hague]. Ex Typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1655. [20], 345pp, [19].

12mo. Bound by Ihrig (signed to the foot of spine, in gilt) in later blind-ruled red morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19245

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BARSTOW, D.. A Secular Diary for ascertaining any day of the week or month, In either the Old or New Style, commencing 1601, and continued up to the year 1900.. [London?]. Printed for the author, [1836]. Dimensions (unfolded) 280 x 365 mm. Single folding folio sheet, mounted on linen and folded within 12mo cloth boards. Slight browning, some cracking at folds. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18835

KEARD, Thomas. Thomas Keard, A. M.. Whitby. R. Kirby, [s.d., c.1839] 8vo. 15pp., [1]. With frontispiece showing engraved portrait of Thomas Keard. Original wrappers, stitched as issued within. A trifle spotted at margins, slight browning. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 17075

GROSSETESTE, Robert. The Castle of Love: A Poem...Now first printed from Inedited Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century. Brixton Hill. [Printed by C. & J. Adlard] For private circulation only, 1849. Quarto. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the publisher (ten of which printed on thick paper); this copy is number 66, on thin paper. vii, [1], 80pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, short tear to margin of p.51-52, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20792

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[ENGRAVINGS] SCHILLER, Friedrich. Acht Umrisse zu Schiller's Fridolin / Eight Outlines to Schiller's Fridolin [and] Acht Umrisse zu Schiller's Fridolin oder der Gang dem Eisenhammer von Moris Resch. [and] [a booklet with engraved scenes from the play]. London [and] Stuttgart Und Tubingen. J. H. Bohte [and] in der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1824 [and] 1823. Oblong quarto. Three volumes, within publisher's folder with paper title label. 10; [4], 11pp, [1]; 8 full-page engravings. Two text volumes sewn with small cloth strip glued to spine, the plates stitched, as issued. Occasional spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20609

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WANHOPE, Y. H. C. P.. Obiter Scripta: the excursions of an improvident philosopher. [Surface Impressions for Casual Readers]. Norwich. Agas H. Goose, [1904]. First edition in book form. 8vo. [6], ii, 115pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed pale blue wrappers. Title inked in manuscript to sunned spine, rubbed and spotted. Leaves browned. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20838

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[BELLA FRUTTAROLA]. La bella fruttarola romana opera curiosa e bella...sull'aria del ballo di Mantova.. In Lucca. Presso Francesco Bertini, 1823. 8vo. Single half sheet, folded into four. [8]pp. Small woodcut vignette to title. Upper edges unopened, the others uncut, slight spotting, small hole (paper flaw) to lower blank margin of first and second leaf, small clean tear from edge along vertical fold. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 17794

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TRIMMER, Mrs. [Sarah]. Scripture lessons, designed to accompany a series of prints, from the new testament. London. Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, 1833. 12mo. vii, [1], 276pp. With nine final leaved of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red roan, gilt. Extremities rubbed and lightly marked, spine sunned. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of Henry Fludyer, title page and first two leaves of introduction detached from text-block, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 20708

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TRIMMER, Mrs. [Sarah]. New and comprehensive lessons; containing a general outline of the old testament; with twenty-four engravings. London. John Harris, [s.d., c. 1830] 12mo. vi, [1], 8-138pp, [6]. With 24 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and three final advertisement leaves. Original publisher's calf, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to FEP: 'Augusta Fludyer / Janry. 1. 1834', very short tear to fore-edge of leaf H2. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20659

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TRIMMER, Mrs. [Sarah]. Questions adapted to lessons extracted from the teacher's assistant. London. Francis & John Rivington, 1845. New edition. 12mo. 48pp. Original publisher's printed drab wrappers. Extremities spotted and dust-soiled. Occasional dog-earing, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20653

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[DAMOURS, Louis]. Lettres de Ninon de l'Enclos au Marquis de Sevigne. Amsterdam. Chez Francois Joly, 1750. First edition. 12mo. In two volumes. [2], xii, 186; [2], 200pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I, engraved title pages to both volumes, and a final errata leaf to Vol. II. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Extremities stained and sunned, a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, margins lightly browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19521

BESANT, Annie. Essays on socialism. London. Robert Forder, 1893. 8vo. [2], 30, 24, 51, [1], 8, 20, 24, 20pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brick-red cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Manuscript annotations to contents leaf, lightly browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17788

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ORLÉANS, Charlotte-Elisabeth duchesse d'. Fragmens de lettres originales De Madame Charlotte-Elizabeth de Baviere, Veuve de Monsieur Frere unique de Louis XIV... A Hambourg [i.e. Hamburg]. Chez Maradan, 1788. 12mo. In two volumes. [5], viii-xvi, 262; [2], 299pp, [3]. Without half-titles. Contemporary calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces, spines richly gilt. Extremities rubbed. Very occasional chipping/loss to margins, else internally clean and crisp. From the library of the Earls of Lovelace, formerly the Barons King of Ockham, with their armorial bookplates to FEPs, inked ownership inscriptions of William King, and recent ink-stamps of the ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 18534

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GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de. Memoirs of the countess de genlis, illustrative of the history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. London. Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition in English. 8vo. In two volumes. vii, [1], 324; [4], 300pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces. Rubbed, surface loss to spines, loss to lettering-pieces, some splitting to joints, a trifle marked. Spotting to endpapers, offsetting to Vol. I title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20632

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MONTAGU, Frederic. The ages of female beauty: illustrated in a series of engravings from Drawings by the most eminent Artists. London. Charles Tilt, 1838. [Second edition]. Quarto. [6], 62pp. With an additional engraved title page and nine engraved plates. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, otherwise a crisp and clean copy of a work rarely found as such. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 20412

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[MOORE, Thomas]. The poetical works of the late thomas little, esq. London. Printed for Carpenter and Son, 1814. Twelfth edition. 12mo. [3], vi-xxiv, 172pp. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Sir Mervyn Ll. Peel to FEP, his inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20794