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[AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA]. Report of the agricultural and horticultural society of india, for the year 1841 [sic]. Calcutta. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1841. First edition. 35pp, [1].

[Bound with:] [Drop-head title:] List of members of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India. January 1st 1841. [Calcutta]. [Bishop's College Press], [1841]. [2], 23pp, [1].

8vo. Modern brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Two early manuscript corrections to first
mentioned work (title and drop-head title). More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32634
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[SMITH, Horace]. [SMITH, James]. Rejected addresses: or, the new theatrum poetarum. London. John Murray, 1833. Eighteenth edition. 8vo. xxxi, [1], 170pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in late nineteenth- century gilt-tooled navy morocco, eight intricate metal bosses (likely added later) with green, red, and turquoise detailing to upper board, A.E.G. Housed in custom clamshell case. A trifle rubbed. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32798
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[WARNER, Compton]. [Cover title:] Sketches of Swanage and its neighbourhood. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] First edition?. Oblong quarto. [17] leaves of lithographed plates. Original publisher's lithographed pictorial cream paper boards. Extremities a lightly rubbed, marked, and discoloured. Hinges exposed, later bookseller's ticket of H. V. Day of Dorchester to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'With Compton Warner's kind regards'. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32839
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[LAING, Charles C.]. Bad ober-gegessingen, 1890. London. Jones & Evans (Late Henry Sotheran & Co.,) Booksellers, 1891. Privately printed. 8vo. x, [3], 111pp, [1]. With a lithographed frontispiece, one further lithographed plate, and numerous charming vignette line-drawings throughout text. No. 48 of an unspecified number of privately printed examples; with the caveat that 'This Extract is published for private use only. It has been "stopped" partly by a friendly hand; perhaps it would have been better if he had stopped it altogether'. An inscription (to ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33189
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DUPUY, Jacques. THOU, Jacques Auguste de. Nominum propriorum Virorum, Mulierum, Populorum, &c. quae in Viri Illustris jacobi augusti thuani Historiis leguntur index Cum vernacula singularum vocum Expositione. Genevae, [i.e. Geneva]. Apud Petrum Aubertum, 1634. Quarto. [612]pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed, with loss at head of spine and bumping to corners; but nevertheless an attractive copy. With the bookplate of Sir James Gordon Bart. of Letterfoury to FEP, and of George Lockhart of Carnwath (upon which someone has inscribed 'Scarry a looked Heart' in an early hand) to verso of title. Pen trials to margin of second leaf; occasional wormtracks, marginal ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33262
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RALEIGH, Sir Walter. The secrets of government and misteries of state, plainly laid open, in all the several forms of government in the Christian world. Published by John Milton, Esq;. London. [s.n.], 1697. First edition. 8vo. [8], 238pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed and marked, surface wear to boards, joints and edges, slight loss to head of spine, upper joint starting. Endpapers browned, marginal tear to first blank fly-leaf, small loss to lower margin of title. Light staining to initial leaves. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33390
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[VILLIERS, Ernest]. [Cover title:] Recollections. [London]. [Sir Joseph Causton & Son], [1912]. First edition. Quarto. 63pp, [1]. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To my dear nephew Douglas Loch, from his affectionate uncle Ernest Villiers. April 1912'. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33575
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[WATKINS, William]. Anomaliae. Being desultory essays on miscellaneous subjects. Whitby. Printed by T. Webster, 1798. 8vo. No. I (Tuesday, October 24th, 1797) - no. 34 (Tuesday, June 12th, 1798.); all published. [6], 272pp. With continuous pagination and signatures. Title repeated as caption on first page of each weekly issue.Contemporary gilt-ruled calf-backed, vellum-tipped, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, foot of spine worn. Remnants of book-label and early inked ownership inscription to head of general title page, typed bookseller's description ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33705
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[COOK, Captain James]. The royal kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1780... London. Printed for J. Almon et al., [1780]. 12mo. 12mo. [4], 272pp. ESTC T45315.

[Bound with:] RIDER, Cardinus. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1780... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by G. Hawkins, 1780. [60]pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC T45019.

12mo. Contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Slightly shaved at head with occasional loss to pagination ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33842
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VOLTAIRE. Candide ou l'optimisme. Paris. Éditions Jules Tallandier, [1921]. 8vo. [4], xvi, [2], 174pp, [4]. Title in red and black. With 10 plates and numerous illustrations in the text by Adrein Moreau. Bound in later purple half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, stamp-signed with gilt omega symbol and dated in blind 1969 to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Spine sunned.

[Together with:] LAFAYETTE, Madame de. La princesse de clèves. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33882
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DISRAELI, B[enjamin]. Sybil; or, the two nations. London. Henry Colburn, 1845. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. viii, 315pp; [4], 324pp; [2], 326pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting dark green morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed, with surface loss to joints and edges, spines sunned. Light scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 34019
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DRINKWATER, John. The christ child at christmas manuscript. Highgate. [s.n.], 1930. Quarto. Pencil on paper. Three (single side) leaves, with a covering note on lined paper ‘My dear ?Jeff This, the original draft of 'The Christ Child at Christmas', of which the first page appears to have been written on blotting paper, is to wish you a very happy Christmas and New Year. Yours affectionately, John Drinkwater, Highgate, Christmas 1930'. More > £ 540.00 Antiquates Ref. 29663
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[FABRIC SAMPLES]. [A selection of fabric samples issued by Ezra M. Sutton of Cairo]. [Cairo]. [Ezra M. Sutton], [c. 1900] 25 cloth samples, mounted on stiff card, loosely inserted in contemporary folder: green cloth-backed red paper boards, ornate paper label pasted to upper board, lettered in gilt:' M / E M S / 887 / 144 POS'. Extremities rubbed. Samples lightly dust-soiled, pencilled note to verso of upper board: '25 cloth samples / Ezra M. Sutton / Cairo'. More > £ 540.00 Antiquates Ref. 31096
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PEEL, W[illiam]. A ride through the nubian desert. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. First edition. 8vo. viii, 135, [1], 32pp. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece and a terminal publisher's catalogue. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbing to spine, joints, and edges, a trifle marked. Armorial bookplate of 'Mervyn Lloyd Peel' to FEP, lightly foxed. More > £ 600.00 Antiquates Ref. 14845
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[PUZZLE]. [Mid-nineteenth-century wooden block game entitled of the 'Sovereigns of England']. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1860] 36-piece set of coloured engraved illustrations mounted on wooden blocks, printed biographical text to verso. Housed in original publisher's wooden box, bevelled lid with engraved colour illustration. Later clear adhesive repairs to box, pencilled gift inscription to base. Some pieces a trifle browned due to varnish deterioration. More > £ 600.00 Antiquates Ref. 24477