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[CHARLIE AND JEANIE]. Charlie and jeanie in the country. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1859]. First edition. 8vo. 45pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and three engraved vignettes. Original publisher's printed pictorial powder blue wrappers. A trifle rubbed and creased, slight chipping to spine. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP, frontispiece spotted, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20990

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CHASE, Rev. Drummond Percy. The question, should industrial schools erected at the cost of the poor-rate be made available, (on payment,) to children not chargeable to the poor-rates? Considered in a letter to the guardians of the Oxford incorporation. Oxford and London. John Henry and James Parker, 1855. First edition. 8vo. 14pp. Recent morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Very minor shelf-wear. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22128

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CHATEAUBRIAND, [Francois Auguste Rene], Vicomte De. The monarchy according to the charter. London. Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition in English. 8vo. xvi, 252pp. Original publisher's red cloth, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Light rubbed, sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 28060

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-Auguste. Atala, ou les amours de deux sauvages dans le désert. Paris. Chez Migneret, 1801. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo. xxiv, 207pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by T. J. Farndell of Windsor in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Binder's ticket and contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP: 'Wm. Danby / the gift of his sister / Mary Harcourt / May 1803'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 17383

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CHATELAIN, A[uguste]. Des erreurs et préjugés populaires en médecine. Neuchatel. Delachaux et Sandoz, 1865. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 206pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight loss to foot of dulled spine, early inked ownership inscription to head of upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31794

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CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized. London. Whittaker & Co., 1841. First edition. 8vo. cxlvii, [1], 331pp, [1]. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, lightly marked, corners bumped. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Goodwyn Hatchard, Bishop of Mauritius to FEP, some marginal loss to leaf R7, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33085

[CHAUCER, Geoffrey]. The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized. London. Whittaker & Co., 1841. First edition. 8vo. cxlvii, [1], 331pp, [1]. Original publisher's green morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 27709

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[CHAUCER, Geoffrey]. [MORRIS, William]. [A leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde Book IV pp523-524]. London. The Kelmscott Press, 1896. Dimensions 288 x 423 millimetres. A single leaf (pp523-524) from the larger work. Slightest of creasing to edges, else fine. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29156

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CHAUNCY, Isaac. The Divine Institution of Congregational Churches, Ministry and Ordinances, [As has bin Professed by those of that Persuasion] Asserted and Proved from the word of god. London. Printed for Nathanael Hiller.., 1697. Sole edition. 12mo. xii, 142pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Worn, with loss to spine, splitting to joints (but with boards holding firmly), some marking to boards, damp-staining, some browning and occasional marginal worming to text-block. Early ink inscription ('John Stacy his book') to FFEP, further pencilled inscription to FEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 15245

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[CHEAP REPOSITORY]. Sunday reading. The Harvest home. [London]. Sold by J. Marshall, (Printer to the Cheap Repository), [1795]. First edition. 12mo. 22pp, [2]. With a woodcut vignette to title page and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut. Sewn, as issued. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20559

CHEEM, Aliph. Lays of ind. Second series. Bombay. "Times of India" Office, 1873. First edition. 8vo. [6], 132pp. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of R. Beauchamp Downall to FFEP and head of title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 34229

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[CHELSEA HOSPITAL]. A narrative of some proceedings In the Management of chelsea hospital, As far as relates to the Appointment and Dismission of samuel lee, surgeon. London. Printed for W. Owen, 1753. First edition. 8vo. 95pp, [1]. Modern marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine, all edges red. Manuscript shelfmark to head of title page, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 30600

CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The worst journey in the world: antarctic 1910-1913. London. Constable and Company, [1922]. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. lxiv, 300, [4]; viii, 310-585pp. With colour frontispieces, 46 plates (four colour), 10 folding panoramas, and five maps (four folding). Uncut in original publisher's 'polar' binding, linen-backed powder blue paper boards, printed paper title labels. Spare title labels loosely inserted. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine labels chipped and dulled. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33363

CHESTERFIELD, [Philip Dormer Stanhope] Earl of. The life of the late Earl of Chesterfield: or, The man of the world. Including His Lordship's principal speeches in Parliament; his most admired essays in the paper called The world; his poems; and the substance of the system of education delivered in a series of letters to his son.. London. Printed for J. Bew, 1774. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], viii, 280pp; [4], 263pp, [1]. With engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I and half-title to both volumes. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked, chip to foot of spine, vol. II. Some slight marking to endpapers of vol. I., free endpapers of volume II torn away, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33097

[CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of]. [WALLER, Edmund]. The case of the hanover forces, In the pay of great-britain, Impartially and freely examined. With some Seasonable Reflexions on the Present Conjuncture of Affairs. London. Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. 8vo. 35pp, [1]. Modern marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Loss and later paper repairs to title page, with some loss to text. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22030

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[CHEVALIER DE BAYARD]. La tresjoyeuse, plaisante et recreative hystoire, compose par le loyal serviteur, des faiz, gestes, triumphes et prouesses du bon chevalier sans paour et sans reprouche, le gentil seigneur de bayart... Paris. J. L. F. Foucault, 1820. 8vo. 410pp. Handsomely bound by Frost & Company of Bath in recent red half-morocco, red cloth boards, tooled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22421

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[CHEVALIER DE BAYARD]. The very Joyous, Pleasant and Refreshing history of the Feats, Exploits, Triumphs and Atchievements of the Good Knight without Fear and without Reproach the gentle Lord de bayard. London. Imprinted for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, [1848]. First edition. 8vo. 252pp. Extra-illustrated with 17 engraved plates (one coloured), including an original drawing by A. de Neuville. Handsomely bound by Lefort in contemporary crimson crushed levant morocco, inlaid design of medieval armour to upper board, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22432

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CHEVALIER, Michel. Examen système commercial connu sous le nom de système protecteur. Paris. Librairie de Guillaumin et Ce., 1852. First edition. 8vo. viii, 383pp, [1]. With a half-title and a terminal page of errata. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Lightly rubbed and creased, short tear to upper wrapper. Foxed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to half-title. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28172

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CHEYNE, George. Philosophical principles of Natural Religion: Containing the elements of Natural Philosophy, and the proofs for Natural Religion, Arising from them.. London. Printed for George Strahan, 1705. First edition. 8vo. [34], 118, [1], 282, 68pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled blind-panelled calf,
contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight loss
to foot of spine. Some loss to rear pastedown, lightly browned throughout. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33229

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CHIFFLET, Jean-Jacques. Insignia gentilitia equitum ordinis velleris aurei... Antuerpiae [i.e. Antwerp]. Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1632. First edition. Quarto. [32], 232, [12], 15pp, [1]. Printed in doubles columns, parallel French and Latin text. With a full-page engraving. Later red morocco-backed, cloth-tipped, marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed. Paper repair to head of title page, small burn hole to leaf Ff4. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 27538