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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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[CHRISTIANITY]. [Transliterated from the Greek Lessons from the Bible: translated from the English by Marietta S. Ralli.]. Athens. S. K. Vlastou, 1874. 8vo. [6], 183pp, [1]. With eight engraved plates. Title and imprint transliterated from the Greek. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco. Lightly rubbed. Book-label of Caterina to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 18359

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[CHRISTIANITY]. Plain truth confirmed, and the Righteousness of faith opened; Being an Answer to the Objections of J. M. sent to the Author. London. [s.n.], 1764. First edition. 8vo. 14pp. Disbound. Title page very nearly detached. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21402

[CHRISTIANITY]. A letter to a friend concerning the New Distinction of high and low Church.. London. Printed by J.H. and are to be sold by John Nutt, 1704. First edition. Quarto. [4], 27pp, [1]. Disbound, all edges red. Title page browned and soiled, paper label numbered '39.' pasted to upper left corner. Leaves browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34802

[CHRISTIANITY]. Le miroir des ames, ou exposition des differens etats des ames par rapport a dieu, conformement a la realite ou aux idees allegoriques de la Foi... A Lyon. Chez Perisse Freres, 1827. Dixieme edition [i.e. tenth edition]. 12mo. [4], 164pp. Contemporary calf, lettered and tooled in gilt. Extremities worn, with loss to spine. Occasional light spotting internally. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 16179

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[CHRISTIANITY]. The christian's daily guide to prayer, and the study of the holy scriptures. Bath. Binns & Goodwin, 1845. First edition. 12mo. viii, 88pp, [4]. With two terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's blind-stamped burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned, marking to boards. Later bookplate of the Bath Public Reference Library to FEP, with their occasional embossed stamps throughout, foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16872

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[CHRISTIANITY]. [Drop-head title:] The danger of delay. London. Printed by Cave & Co., [s.d., c. 1820] 12mo. 12pp. Disbound. A trifle creased, initial and terminal leaves dust-soiled. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33020

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[CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE]. A summary of christian doctrine, for the Instruction of Youth. Bristol. Printed for H. W. Essex, 1828. New and improved edition. 8vo. 68pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep-back marbled paper boards. Rubbed, chipping to head and foot of spine. Without fre-endpapers, later inked ownership inscription to head of title. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27680

[CHRISTCHURCH, DORSET]. [Yes or no?]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1845] Dimensions 290 x 450 mm. Manuscript on paper. [8]pp. Contemporary printed buff wrappers. Rubbed and marked.

[Together with:] [Drop-head title:] Yes or no? Dimensions 290 x 450 mm. Single leaf broadside. Old horizontal folds, some marginal loss. Two copies.

[And:] Four copies of a handbill entitled An appeal from the four in chains. To the inhabitants of Christchurch; three of which with a manuscript version of the above to blank ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22327

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CHOMLEY, C[harles] H[enry]. The true story of the kelly gang of bushrangers. Melbourne. Fraser & Jenkinson, 1920. First edition. 8vo. 159pp, [1]. With a frontispiece, six further plates, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Stapled in original publisher's printed olive green paper wrappers. Rubbed and lightly marked, slight loss to head and foot of spine, toned. Leaves browned. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35079

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[CHINESE COLLECTION]. "Ten thousand chinese things." A descriptive catalogue of the chinese collection, in philadelphia. With miscellaneous remarks upon the manners. customs, trade, and government of the celestial empire. Philadelphia. Printed for the Proprietor, 1839. First edition. 12mo. [2], 120pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed, embossed burgundy limp cloth boards. Rubbed, foot of spine worn. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24272

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[CHILD'S OWN BOOK]. The child's own book. For April, 1839. London. Published by Richard Davis, [1839]. 16mo. 49-64pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed yellow wrappers.

[Together with:] Another copy of the same work in variant publisher's printed blue wrappers. A trifle creased and dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25268

[CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOKS]. Little Peepy. London. William Wesley, [s.d., c. 1855] 24pp. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Apparently unrecorded.

[Bound with:] Little Folk's Books. The story of Little Maia. Edited by the Madame de Chatelain. [London]. [Darton & Co.], [s.d. c. 1855]. [16]pp. OCLC records copies at just two locations (Princeton and Toronto). Darton H150.

[And:] The little fortune seekers. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 23pp, [1]. With ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33132

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CHIFFLET, Jules. Breviarium historicum inclyti ordinis velleris aurei. Antuerpiae [i.e. Antwerp]. Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1652. First edition. Quarto. xii, 36pp, [4]. Later gilt-ruled calf. Heavily worn and marked, upper board held by cords only. Scattered spotting, very occasional dampstaining. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27539

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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

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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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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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[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

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