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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Seven pillars of wisdom: a triumph. London. Jonathan Cape, [1935]. First trade edition. Quarto. 672pp. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper chipped, torn, and stained. Internally clean and crisp.Inscribed to recto of FFEP by Eric Kennington's son: 'With every best wish to / Tom Redman / in thanks for many helpful things. / New Year, 2002 / Chris Kennington'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27426

[LAWRENCE, T. E.]. Letters to T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, [1962]. First edition. 8vo. 216pp. Without errata slip. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear. dustwrapper a trifle marked, spine panel sunned, several brown paper repairs to verso. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26296

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Revolt in the desert. New York. George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American trade edition. 8vo. xvi, [4], 335pp, [1]. Pictorial endpapers after Kennington; with 16 plates and a folding map. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown cloth, stamped and lettered in black, pictorial dustwrapper (horse variant). Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper heavily worn and marked, with substantial loss and several tape repairs. Short tear to margin of p.9-10, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22256

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Seven pillars of wisdom a triumph. Stockholm. The Continental Book Company AB, 1946. Fifth edition, eighth impression. 8vo. 700pp. With fourteenth illustrations and four maps. Original publisher's buff cloth. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22038

LAWRENCE, T.E.. Revolt in the desert. London. Jonathan Cape 30 Bedford Square, 1927. First English edition (Limited edition, no. 63/300). Quarto. [2], 445pp, [1]. With half-title/limitation, coloured frontispiece portrait of Lawrence, eighteen further illustrations, nine of which are coloured, and a large folding map to rear. Original publisher's brown quarter-pigskin over sand-coloured buckram boards, gilt. Dustwrapper. T.E.G., others uncut. A remarkably preserved copy, with only the slightest of shelf-wear externally, bookplate (a skull with the initials PMF) and slight marking to FEP, else fine. Dustwrapper (correctly ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22016

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Oriental assembly. New York. E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1940. First American edition. 8vo. xii, [2], 291pp, [1]. With a half-title. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs by the author (many previously unpublished), facsimiles of pages of the author's diary, and a line-drawn map. Original publisher's red buckram, lettered in gilt, dustwrapper. Wrapper marked and chipped, two closed tears to head. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22192

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1990]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some marking to top-edge, else clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21457

LAWRENCE, T. E.. The Mint. A Day Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes By 352087 A/c Ross. London. Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Quarto. Number 464 of a limited edition of 2,000. [4], 206pp. Original publisher's navy quarter morocco over buckram boards, gilt, housed in original cardboard slipcase. A trifle rubbed, slipcase browned and marked. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23816

LAWRENCE, T.E.. The Mint. A Day Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes By 352087 A/c Ross. London. Jonathan Cape, 1955. First trade edition. Quarto. [2], 206pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear. dustwrapper a trifle sunned and marked, chipping to spine panel at head and foot. Spotting to endpapers. More > £ 45.00 Antiquates Ref. 21161

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Oriental assembly. London. Williams and Norgate, [1939]. First edition, second impression. 8vo. xii, 164pp. With a photographic frontispiece, and a further 130 photographic plates. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Inked inscription of R. W. S. Livingstone to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26298

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LAWRENCE. T. E. [ed. GARNETT, David.]. Selected letters of t. e. lawrence. London. World Books, 1941. Reprint Society edition. 8vo. Original publisher's pale buckram lettered in brown. Some wear to boards, and bumping to all edges. Internally bright and clean. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28303

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[LAWRENCE, T. E.] [JARRY, Alfred] [ZUKOFSKY, Louis]. Lawrence, Jarry, Zukofsky: A Triptych - Manuscript Collections at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Austin. University of Texas, [1987]. First edition. Quarto. 182pp, [2]. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28978

LAWSON, Henry. In the days when the world was wide and other verses. Sydney. Angus and Robertson, 1896. Third thousand. 8vo. 234pp, [8]. With four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32439

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LAWSON, John. Orient harping: a Desultory Poem, in two parts. London. Printed for Samuel Lawson, 1821. Second edition. 12mo. xi, [1], 227pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Without lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, Armorial bookplate of Thomas Merrett to FEP, manuscript shelf-marks to title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21863

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[LAWSON, John]. A dissertation on the geometrical analysis of the antients. With a Collection of Theorems and Problems, without solutions, for the exercise of young students. Canterbury. Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby, 1774. First edition. 8vo. [2], xxiv, 32pp. With two engraved folding plates. Disbound. Scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22452

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[LAWSON, John]. [Drop-head title:] An arithmetical problem. [Cambridge?]. [s.n.], [1770?] First edition. Quarto. 7pp, [1]. Disbound. A trifle creased. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22453

LAWSON, John. The maniac, with other poems. London. Printed for Samuel Lawson, 1821. 12mo. [4], ii, 95pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, later naively rebacked in cloth. Extremities worn and marked. Hinges exposed, later book-label of Robert Barr and partially erased ownership inscription to FEP, foxed, a trifle dusty. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21862

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LAWSON, John Parker. Scotland delineated. A series of views.. London. Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, [c.1858] Quarto. [8], 285pp. With an additional tinted lithograph title and 71 further tinted lithograph plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy calf, contrasting burgundy morocco lettering-piece. Slightly rubbed to extremities and surfaces. Marbled endpapers and edges. Occasional light scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33870

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LAW, William. Remarks upon A Late book, entituled, The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Publick Benefits in a Letter to the Author... London. Printed for Will. and John Innys, 1724. First edition. 8vo. [2], 106pp. Without half-title or final advertisement leaf. Disbound. Heavily foxed. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 15609

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LAYCOCK, John. New dialogues, english and german. For the Use of both Nations. Preceded by a variety of initiatory lessons, and a large collection of idiomatical phrases, well calculated to accelerate the progress of the respective learners. In two parts. I. Preliminary Lessons and idomatical Phrases. II. Dialogues in the modern Style of Conversation. Hamburgh [i.e. Hamburg]. F. H. Nestler & Melle, 1851. Fifth edition newly revised and enlarged. 12mo. [16], xxiv, 394pp. Printed in double columns. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Near contemporary ownership inscription to head of title-page 'Fanny G. Houghlin / Feb. 1863', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16785