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THOMAS, Lowell. The boy's life of colonel lawrence. London. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., [1927]. First edition. 8vo. 285pp, [1]. With 31 illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black, decorated endpapers (maps of Mecca). Without dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed, chipping to head and foot of sunned spine, lower joint split. Hinges exposed, free-endpapers working loose, book-label of the Cotton House Library to verso of FFEP, inked inscriptions and manuscript shelf-marks to recto of front blank fly leaf. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22069

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[JACOBITE REBELLION]. The young chevalier: or, a Genuine Narrative Of all that befell that Unfortunate adventurer, from his fatal Defeat to his final Escape... London. Printed for the Author, and by his Appointment sold by R. Griffiths, [1748?]. First edition. [4], 107pp, [1]. Without half-title. ESTC T52876.

[Bound with:] [RICHTER, Christoph Gottlieb]. Dathan's Account of the political conduct of the Son of James And his men, From the raising the Siege of stirling, To the battle near inverness... London. Printed for G. Lion, [1746?]. [2], 26pp. ESTC T191607.

8vo. Later half-calf, marbled boards. Extremities worn, joints split, without lettering-piece. Partially deleted inscription and small holes ... More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 22035

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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. The poetical works. London. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1898. 8vo. xxi, [1], 667pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound by Truslove & Hanson in contemporary gilt-tooled half-morocco, brown cloth boards, T.E.G. Extremities rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22148

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THOM, John Hamilton. Laws of life after the mind of christ. London. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 402pp. Contemporary crushed red morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt supralibros to upper board, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Decorated endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 17722

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CHURCHILL, Winston S.. The world crisis 1911-1914. London. Thornton Butterworth Limited, [1923]. First edition. 8vo. [4], 536pp. With six maps, a further two illustrated plates, and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and marked, wrapper worn, chipped, torn, and sunned. Inked ownership inscription of E. R. Riley to recto of FFEP, remnants of paper labels to REP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22062

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CHURCHILL, Winston S.. The world crisis 1915. London. Thornton Butterworth Limited, [1923]. First edition. 8vo. 557pp, [1]. With seven maps, and one further illustrated plate. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and marked, corners bumped, wrapper heavily worn, chipped, torn, and sunned, remnant of paper label to spine panel, lower panel separated from spine. Remanant of paper label to FEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22063

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FAY, C[harles] R[yle]. Great britain from adam smith to the present day: an economic and social survey. London. Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1928. First edition. 8vo. xii, 458pp. With three maps (one folding). Original publisher's blind-ruled red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22152

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SEARCY, Alfred. By flood and field: Adventures Ashore and Afloat in North Australia. London. G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1912. First U.K. edition. 8vo. 327pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 17 photographic plates, and a folding map. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed, remnant of small paper label to upper board. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22151

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HAWTREY, R[alph] G[eorge]. Currency and credit. London. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1928. Third edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 477pp, [1]. Original publisher's olive green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22150

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KNIGHTLY, Phillip. SIMPSON, Colin. The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia. [London]. Nelson, [1969]. First edition. 8vo.. ix, [1], 293pp, [1]. With five plates of black and white photograph. Original publisher's wrappers. Extremities sunned and a trifle creased and rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22141

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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Seven pillars of wisdom: A Triumph. New York. International Collectors Library, [1938]. 8vo. xvi, [2], 622pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped black buckram. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22139

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[SCOTT, Walter]. The waverley album: containing fifty-one line engravings to illustrate The Novels and Tales of sir walter scott... London. Published for Charles Heath, [1854]. 12mo. [2], ii, iii, [1], 50 leaves. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, and a further 50 engraved plates. Each plate is accompanied by single leaf bearing upon the recto side a quotation from the novel illustrated. Original publisher's dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title, occasional spotting to plates. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22085

LAMBE, Charles. A volume of sermons on Several Occasions. Many of them preach'd in the Height of the late Rebellion; In the Parish-Churches of St. Katherine Cree-Chruch, and All-Hallows Barkin. London. Printed by J. Humfreys, for William Hinchliffe, 1717. First edition. 8vo. [45], 10-396pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled panelled black morocco, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, slight splitting to joints, spine sunned with loss to head, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, leaves browned and foxed, very small burn-hole to text of leaf T5 - without loss of sense. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18710

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KNIGHT, Samuel. The present, and future Rewards of Charity. A sermon Preach'd before the Right Honourable the lord mayor, the aldermen, and Governors of the several Hospitals of the City of London; At St. Bridget's Church, On Wednesday in Easter-Week, April 9. 1720. Cambridge. Printed at the University-Press, for John Crownfield, [1729]. First edition. Quarto. [4], 24pp. Original publisher's marbled paper wrappers, title in manuscript to upper panel. Extremities rubbed and marked. Internally immaculate. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18912

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BARNESTAPOLIO, Obertus [TURNER, Robert]. Maria stuarta, regina scotiae, dotaria franciae, haeres angliae et Hyberniae; Martyr Ecclesiae, Innocens a caede Darleana... Coloniae [i.e. Cologne]. Sumptibus Petri Henningii, 1627. 8vo. [6], 68pp, [2]. Nineteenth-century half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, light damp-staining to margins, occasional spotting, final (approval to print) leaf laid-down due to significant loss (not touching text). More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19382

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[HARLEY, Robert, first earl of Oxford]. A breviate for the Scaffold in Westminster-Hall: or, some Necessary notes for the Tryal of the E. of Oxford... London. Printed for J. Roberts et al., 1717. First edition. 8vo. [4], 36pp. Recent red cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle marked. Leaves lightly browned. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 15129

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[FLIGHT OF THE PRETENDER]. The flight of the Pretender, with Advice to the poets. A Poem, in the Arthurical, -- Jobical, -- Elizabethecal Style and Phrase of the sublime poet maurus. London. Printed and Sold by H. Hills, 1708. 8vo. [4], 8pp. Recent marbled wrappers. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22053

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AN IMPARTIAL HAND [i.e. HENDERSON, Andrew]. The history of the Rebellion, 1745 and 1746. Containing, A full Account of its Rise, Progress and Extinction... London. Reprinted from the Edinburgh Edition, and Sold by R. Griffiths, 1748. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 126pp. Recent marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed. Paper repair to gutter of title page, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22033

FULLER, William. A Brief discovery of the true mother Of the pretended Prince of Wales Known by the name of Mary Grey... London. Printed for the Author, 1696. First edition. 8vo. [4], 48pp. With a half-title. Recent marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed and sunned. Browned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22024

[PRESBYTERIANISM]. A new edition of Some scarce Papers, fit to be bound up with several Sermons and Pamphlets lately preached and published; shewing The Harmony of the present Presbyterians in Scotland, with the Principles and Practices of their Ancestors in former Times. [Edinburgh]. [s.l.], 1746. 8vo. 32pp. Variant omitting 'stitch'd in blue paper' following price in brackets. Recent marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Gutter of title browned, lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22074