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[ETON COLLEGE]. A list of eton college, taken at election, 1829. Eton. Printed and Sold by E. Williams, [1829]. 23pp, [1].

[Bound with:] [A further 12 Eton College lists covering the years 1830-1840 (two representing 1839, taken at election and Christmas respectively), all printed by E. Williams.]

12mo. Contemporary black half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed. Very occasional loss and short tears to margins, occasional ink and pencil deletions and corrections. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 17434

[ROYAL NAVY]. A list of His Majesty's ships and vessels of the royal navy... London. Printed and Sold by J. Watson, 1741. Third edition. [4], 40pp. With initial advertisement leaf. ESTC T41015. Pen-trials to p.26., short marginal tear to leaf B4.

[Bound after:] RIDER, Cardanus. Rider's British Merlin:For the Year of our Lord God 1741... London. Printed by R. Nutt, [1741]. [48]pp. ESTC T44985. Tear to one leaf - touching text without loss of sense.

[And:] [A defective eighteenth-century almanac].

[And:] The Court Kalendar For the year 1741... London. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17432

[ANDERSON, R. C.]. A list of Printed Books on Shipbuilding, Rigging, Seamanship and Kindred Subjects for the Period of Wooden sailing Ships and Galleys. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1930?] Quarto. [74] leaves of typescript, hole punched at gutters, loosely tied with string in contemporary brown paper wrappers. Extremities worn, upper panel detached. Leaves lightly creased, some chipping to margins. Occasional manuscript correction in the author's hand. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30856

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[ROYAL NAVY]. A list of the flag officers and other commissioned officers of His Majesty's fleet; with the dates of their respective commissions. London. Printed by Henry Teape, 1823. 8vo. 135, [1], 253pp, [1]. Contemporary calf backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavy rubbing and cracking to spine, without marbled paper to upper board and loss of majority to lower board. Light damp-staining to preliminaries, several gathering protruding from text-block, spots of dust-soiling, ink deletions to entries of first 10 pages. Ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP; 'Captain Macnamara / R.N. / ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11708

[BRIDEWELL ROYAL HOSPITAL]. A list of the governors of the hospital of bridewell and bethlem, and of their benefactions. London. Printed by Thomas Parker, 1792. 8vo. 31pp, [1]. Later powder-blue wrappers. Lightly browned, scattered spotting throughout. Very occasional small holes, primarily marginal, with the exception of slight loss to text of p.10, without loss of sense. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28066

[BRITISH ARMY]. A list of the officers of the army and royal marines on full, retired, and half-pay: with an index. [London]. [s.n.], [1825]. 8vo. iv, 673pp, [145]. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, chipping to head of spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27553

[ROYAL MARINES]. A list of the officers of his majesty's royal marine forces, with the numbers of the companies stationed at each of the four head-quarters. Also, alist of the officers who have been allowed to retire upon their full pay: and a list of the reduced officers of the said forces; with an alphabetical list of the whole. London. Printed by S. Brooke, [1816]. 8vo. [2], 71pp predominantly printed on versos only, 83pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, damp-stained, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, Armorial bookplate of William Henry to FEP, ink-stamps of the Law Society of London to front blank fly-leaves, blank recto of p.6, and rear blank fly-leaf. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27801

[GOLDSMITH'S COMPANY]. A List of the Wardens, Assistants and Livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmith's. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] 8vo. Manuscript on paper. [14] leaves. Recent calf-backed brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Ink-stamp of the Assay Office Library, Birmingham to recto of FFEP. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 21756

[GOLDSMITH'S COMPANY]. A list of the wardens, assistants and livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. [London]. [s.n.], [1838]. 8vo. [2], 34pp. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Without FFEP, ink-stamp of the Assay Office Library, Birmingham to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24982

[GOLDSMITH'S COMPANY]. A list of the wardens, assistants and livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. [London]. [s.n.], [1842]. 8vo. 36pp. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Assay Office Library, Birmingham to recto of FFEP, very occasional early manuscript additions to text. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24983

[GOLDSMITH'S COMPANY]. A list of the wardens, assistants and livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. [London]. [s.n.], [1850]. 8vo. [2], 34pp. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Assay Office Library, Birmingham to recto of FFEP, very occasional early manuscript additions to text. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24984

[GOLDSMITH'S COMPANY]. A list of the wardens, assistants and livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. [London]. [s.n.], [1893]. 8vo. [2], 44pp, [14]. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Assay Office Library, Birmingham to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24985

[FOXHOUNDS]. A list of the york and ainsty hounds, from 1841. York. John Sotheran, [1886]. 8vo. 137 leaves, printed on rectos only. Handsomely bound by Sotheran's of York in contemporary black straight-grain morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A. E.G. A trifle rubbed. Very occasional manuscript corrections to text. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31735

RIMBAULT, E[dward] F[rancis]. A Little Book of Songs and Ballads, gathered from Ancient Musick Books, MS. and Printed. London. Printed [by Arliss and Tucker] for John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 227, [1], 12pp. Title printed in red and black. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary green sheep-backed marbled paper boards. Rubbed, loss to dulled spine. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, contemporary newspaper clipping tipped-in to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32408

BERESFORD. J. D. All or nothing. Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1928. First American edition. 8vo. 327pp. Original publisher's indigo cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped illustrated dustwrapper. Fore and bottom edges uncut, spine a little cocked, with some further bumping. Wrapper shows losses to all panels, and light soiling. Internally a little toned but still clear. Inscribed on the front free endpaper from the author to Henry Williamson 'To my dear old Henry from his friend J. D. ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27256

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[SNOWDON]. BIDEN, H. B.. All round snowdon: a panorama taken from the summit with names & altitudes of all the principal mountains. London. W. J. Adams, [s.d., 1877?] Dimensions 190 x 380 mm. Cloth-mounted lithograph concertina bound in original publisher's green cloth, pictorial paper label to upper board. Extremities sunned and lightly rubbed, label spotted. Upper hinge exposed, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27027

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ROWSE, A. L. All souls and appeasement: A Contribution to Contemporary History. London. Macmillan a& Co., 1961. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 121pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece and a further seven photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and cocked. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden loosely inserted. Presentation copy, ink inscription to recto of FFEP: 'With kindest wished from A L Rowse'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29796

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BEHN, Mrs [Aphra]. All the histories and novels Written by the Late Ingeious Mrs. behn, Intire in Two Volumes. Published by Mr. Charles Gildon.. London. Printed by J.D. for M.P. and sold by A. Bettesworth...and F. Clay, 1722. Seventh edition, Corrected. 12mo. xii, 324; 336pp. With the half-title ('Mrs. Behn's Novels, In Two Volumes') and portrait frontispiece (with modern interleaf) engraving of the author (by Robert White, after John Riley) to Vol I, but without the six engraved 'Cuts' referred to on the title. Early twentieth-century gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G., by Stikeman. A little rubbed to extremities, especially upper joint of Vol. I., some browning to endpapers ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 32495

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[WRIGHT, John Martin Frederick]. Alma mater; or, seven years at the university of cambridge. London. Black, Young, and Young, 1827. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. vii, [1], 323, [3], 272pp. Contemporary navy half-morocco, marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Extremities rubbed. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP; 'Mervyn Ld. Peel / 1882', very occasional light dust-soiling. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 15253

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LEVY, Amy. A London Plane-Tree and other Verse. London. T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. First edition. 8vo. 94pp, [2]. With an engraved half-title and engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's printed two-tone paper boards, title printed to spine, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, with toning to boards, chipping to edges, spine heavily dulled. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Harold Addleshaw, Xmas 1889, to head of FFEP. Endpapers browned, spotting to initial leaves. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34546