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POWELL, Lewis. Y llwythau mewn dyfnder galar ar ol y diweddar barch. morgan jones... Llanelli. Argraffwyd gan Rees a Thomas, 1837. Second edition. 12mo. 23pp, [1]. Disbound. Leaves browned and spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28642

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CERNY, Frederick. Logrono: A Metric Drama in Two Acts. London. Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. First edition. 8vo. 119pp, [1]. With a half-title and 29 engraved illustrations in the text by T. Walter Wilson. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black, A.E.G.. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28644

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CHALMERS, Thomas. Considerations on the system of parochial schools In Scotland, and on the advantage of establishing them in large towns. Glasgow. Printed by James Hedderwick, 1819. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. Uncut. Disbound. Spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28525

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MITCHELL, Andrew. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de dysenteria... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1789. Second edition. 8vo. [6], 35pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28532

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[FINANCE]. The pleasing art of money-catching and the way to thrive, by turning a penny to advantage: with a new method of regulating daily expenses. Glasgow. Printed for the booksellers, [s.d., c. 1840] 12mo. 24pp. Disbound. Two leaves detached, occasional ink-spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28605

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[POISONING]. The great glasgow poison mystery. [London]. [Felix McGlennon], [between 1920 and 1930?] 8vo. 8pp. Original publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Leaves browned, some chipping to margins. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28594

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DAY, Thomas. The history of sandford and merton. London. Printed for J. F. Dove, 1833. 12mo. 347pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 18 engraved plates. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Recent ticket of the Museum Bookshop, Dublin to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28680

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ORR, Mrs. Sutherland. Life and letters of Robert Browning. London. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891. Second edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 451pp, [5]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Upper hinge exposed, bookplate of the Robert Browning Settlement Library to FEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27566

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The friend: a series of essays To aid in the Formation of fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements interspersed. London. William Pickering, 1850. 8vo. In three volumes. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spines. Light rubbed, spines dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28887

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VUILLIER, Gaston. A history of dancing from the earliest ages to our own times. London. William Heinemann, 1898. First edition in English. Folio. xvi, 446pp. With 20 plates and 409 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's grey cloth boards, lettered and decorated in gilt. Rubbed, spine dulled, corners bumped. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28933

HOPE, Laurence. The Garden of Kama And other Love Lyrics from India. London. William Heinemann, [1916]. New impression. 8vo. vii, [1], 173pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by Hatchards of London in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Early inked gift inscription to FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28918

RUSKIN, John. Sesame and lilies. London. George Allen, 1892. Thirteenth edition in original form. 8vo. xi, [1], 180pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, later inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28919

CROWE, William. Lewesdon hill: a poem. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press, 1788. Second edition. Quarto. [8], 28pp. With a leaf describing the off-shore fortifications off Cherbourg misbound after initial three leaves. Modern paper boards. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28912

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SHELLEY, Lady [Jane]. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Shelley memorials: from authentic sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. With, now first printed, an essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. London. Henry S. King & Co., 1875. Third edition. 8vo. x, [2], 290, [2], 35pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and bumped, spine dulled. Occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28906

SHELLEY, Lady [Jane]. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Shelley memorials: from authentic sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. With, now first printed, an essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1859. Second edition. 8vo. x, [2], 290pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28926

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COLBURN, Zerah. A memoir of zerah colburn; written by himself. Containing an account of the first discovery of his remarkable powers...with his peculiar methods of calculation. Springfield [Massachusetts]. Published by G. and C. Merriam, 1833. First edition. 12mo. vii, [2], 10-104 [i.e. 204]pp. Without frontispiece. Contemporary speckled sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt. Housed in recent custom cloth clamshell case. Rubbed, corners bumped. Recent book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28961

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GAY, John. Fables...With the Life of the Author. London. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1808. 12mo. xvi, 228pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved title page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to blank front endpapers, slight loss to margins of leaf EE1. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29017

[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco Destroyed. Milwaukee. C. N. Caspar Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. [24] leaves. Original publisher's brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24161

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HORANINOW, Paulus. Tetractys naturae seu systema quadrimembre omnium naturalium... Petropoli. Typis K. Wienhoberianis, 1843. First edition. 8vo. vi, 62pp. Original publisher's buff printed wrappers. Lightly rubbed, marked, and discoloured. Foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29044

BRAYBROOKE, Neville, et al. . Theodore Essays on T. F. Powys. . Kent. Saint Albert's Press, 1964. Limited first edition 87/450. 8vo. 74pp, [14]. Original publisher's printed cream wrappers lettered in red, with corresponding unclipped dustwrapper, a little marked and stained. Edges sharp, internally fresh and bright. With a ballpoint inscription from the Sewell 'amico dilecto Henrico Williamson d. d. compilator - f. Brocardus Sewell, O. Carm. 15.iv.1964'.' More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28297