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WALPOLE, Hugh. Fortitude: a romance. London. Macmillan and Co., 1933. 8vo. viii, 432, 6pp. With three terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Preliminary leaves partially misbound. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. lettered in gilt to front lower turn-in: 'B. H. H. EASTER 1935. I. C.', signed 'Katharine Pountney' to rear lower turn-in. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to spine. Decorated endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32114
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[GROSLEY, Pierre-Jean]. Memoires de l'academie des sciences, inscriptions, belles lettres, eaux arts, &c. Nouvellement établie à Troyes en Champagne. Troyes. Chez le Libraire de l'Académie, 1756. Second edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], iv, 140; [4], 156pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later bookplate of Mr. Beaupré to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32797
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CENTLIVRE, Mrs. The works of the celebrated Mrs. centlivre. In three volumes. Containing, Perjur'd Husband. Beaux's Duel. Gamester. Basset Table. Love at a Venture. Love's Contrivance. Busy Body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic Lady...With a New Account of her life. London. Printed for J. Knapton.. 1760-1 First edition. 12mo. xii, 376; 380; 372pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author to Vol I (included in pagination). Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled sheep, red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed, with some cracking to joints (but all boards firmly attached), some old worm tracks to foot of spines of Vols. I-II. With the armorial bookplate of Vane Londonderry to each FEP, and the later bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32749
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RICCIOLI, Giovanni Battista. Prosodia reformata duobus tomis comprehensa Quorum Prior continet Prosodiae Rudimenta, Prosodiam Majorem, Poetarum versus plures quàm vigintiquatuormille, & eorundem Poetarum Tempora... Bononiæ [i.e. Bologna]. Hæredis Victorii Benatii, 1655. First edition. 12mo. In two volumes. [22], 180, 492; [610]pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering- piece, all edges red. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. The Macclesfield copy, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate and typical armorial blind-stamps to title page and initial leaves of text, pencilled shelf-marks to front endpapers. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31930
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WESTMACOTT, C[harles] M[olloy]. British galleries of painting and sculpture, comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections... London. Published by Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824. First edition. 8vo. viii, 240pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates. Uncut in later navy crushed morocco-backed marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed, spine stained and sunned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22613
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[BAVEREL, Jean-Pierre]. Notices sur les graveurs qui nous ont laissé des estampes marquées de monogrammes, chiffres, rébus, lettres initiales, etc., avec une description de leurs plus beaux ouvrages et des planches en taille-douce, contenant toutes les marques dont ils se sont servis : suivies d'une table qui en donne l'explication. Besançon. De l'Imprimerie de Taulin-Dessirier, 1807-08 First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xv, [1], 360, lix, [1]; [3], 6-322pp. With five engraved folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black calf lettering-pieces. Rubbed, joints starting, spines dulled. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23277
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ALBERTI, Leonbatista. Della pittura e della statua. Milano. Dalla Società Tipograpfica de'Classici Italiani, 1804. 8vo. xxv, [1], 136pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, supralibros of George Agar-Ellis to both boards. Rubbed, without lettering-pieces. Recent bookplates of J. B. Bury and Michael Bury to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32523
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[WINSTANLEY, Thomas]. Observations on the arts, with tables of the principal painters of the various italian, spanish, french, flemish, dutch, and german schools, their scholars and imitators, with lists of the most celebrated painters of those schools, arranged by the subjects in which they excelled.. Liverpool. Printed by W. Wales and Co., [1828]. First edition. 12mo. [2], x, 132, xxii pp. With the title page, preface, and index of the second edition bound in. Contemporary navy half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper board sunned. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to blank leaf bound after title page: 'To Henry Norris Winstanley / from his affc. Father'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32521
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ROBINSON, J[ohn] C[harles]. Catalogue of the Soulages Collection; being a descriptive inventory of a collection of works of decorative art, formerly in the possession of m. jules soulages of toulouse, Now, by permission of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Exhibited to the Public at the Museum of Ornamental Art, marlborough house. London. Chapman and Hall, 1856. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [3], 200pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22628
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WILDE, W[illiam] R[obert]. A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities of gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. Hodges, Smith, and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. [4], 100, iv pp. With 90 engraved illustrations in the text. Later brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's printed buff wrappers and a contemporary envelope addressed to 'Mr. Pfister, Medal Room, British Museum' bound in. Rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27877
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HAYDON, B. R., HAZLITT, William. Painting, and the fine arts: being the articles under those heads contributed to the seventh edition of the encyclopaedia britannica. Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black, 1838. First edition. 8vo. [4], 227pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Upper hinge exposed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher to recto of FFEP: 'To William Lawson Esq. / From his Scotch Friend / Charles Black / Edinburgh / 9 April 1838'. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20254
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BERENSON, Bernard. The florentine painters of the renaissance: with an index of their works. New York. G. P. Putnams' Sons, 1896. First edition. 8vo. [2], 141pp, [3]. With a frontispiece. Original publisher's brick red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Booksellers ticket of Galloway & Porter of Cambridge and bookplate of Bernhard and Mary Berenson to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To / Capt Wakey Chandos-Pole / with the best / remembrances of / Bernard Berenson / I ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27198
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CAREY, William. The national obstacle to the national public style considered. Observations on the probable decline or extinction of British Historical Painting, from the effects of the church exclusion of paintings... London. Printed by Howlett & Brimmer, 1825. First edition. [4], 151pp, [1]. With a terminal page of errata. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'To the Revd. H. C. Morewood, Alfreton, Derbyshire, this tract is presented with the Author's best respects, May 6. 1825. 37 Marylabonne Street, Piccadilly, London'.

[Bound with:] C**** [i.e. CAREY, William]. Patronage of irish genius. Two letters, shewing the utter unfitness, inutility, and public discredit of erecting ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22625
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[RINK, Eucharius Gottlieb]. De veteris numismatis potentia et qualitate Lucubratio, occassione Rubrica Codicis de eodem Argumento; sive cognito totius rei numariae Ad intelligentiam iuris accomodata. Accessit dissertatio iuridica De numo unico, Cum multis aliis cognitioni Numorum conducentibus Veterum. Lipsiae & Francofurti [i.e. Leipzig and Frankfurt]. Typis & impensis Iodoci Wilhelmi Kohlesii, 1701. First edition. Quarto. [8], 197, [1], 86pp, [16]. With an engraved folding frontispiece and one further engraved plate. Later gilt- tooled sprinkled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint split, head of spine worn. Armorial bookplate of R. W. Cochran Patrick to FEP, marginal loss to leaves G3 and I4, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24044
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GREEN, William. A description of sixty Studies from Nature; etched in the soft ground, by william green, of ambleside; after drawings made by himself in cumberland, westmorland, and lancashire. Comprising, a general guide to the beauties of the north of england. London. Printed for the Author, by J. Barfield, 1810. First edition. 8vo. x, 122pp. Uncut in original publisher's green paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed, marked, and dampstained, joints starting, surface loss to spine. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30079