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GAUTRUCHE, [Pierre]. L'histoire poetique, Pour l'intelligence des poètes et des auteurs anciens. Amsterdam. Chez David Paul Marret, 1723. Dernière edition. 8vo. 302pp, [30]. Title page in red and black, with an additional engraved title page. Contemporary blind-stamped speckled calf, contrasting gilt-tooled brown morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, with surface wear to boards. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of John Bond to FFEP. Very occasional light scattered spotting, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33543

GAY, John. Fables. London. Printed by T. C. Hansard...for C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1814. Fifth edition. 243pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary tree-calf, later expertly rebacked, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A trifle rubbed. Offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27328

GAY, John. Poems on several occasions. London. Printed for S. Crowder, C. Ware, and T. Payne, 1771. 12mo. In two volumes. 213, [1]; [6], 203pp, [1]. With half-titles. Modern half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Leaves browned and foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32784

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GAY, [John]. The beggar's opera...With the ouverture in score, The Songs, and the basses, Engrav' on copper plates. (The ouverture and basses Compos'd by Dr. pepusch). London. Printed for Jacob and Richard Tonson, 1761. Quarto. [8], 56pp. With 46 plates of engraved musical notation and six later leaves with hand-ruled staves (else blank) bound to rear. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked, contemporary red morocco lettering-piece to upper board ('BEGGARS OPERA/I. FAWCETT 1765'). Extremities worn and marked, some surface loss to edges and bumped corners. Foxed. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19332

GAY, John. Trivia; or, the art of walking the streets of london. London. Printed for T. Gay, [1795]. 8vo. 30pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece dated May 1795 and terminal index. Bound by Proudfoot of Euston in contemporary gilt-tooled green calf. Marbled endpapers, carmine edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight surface wear to joints, boards sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24931

GAY, John. The flowers of english fable. London. Edward Lacey, [s.d., c. 1835] 16mo. 7, [1], 178pp, [2]. With a wood-engraved title vignette and 33 leaves of wood engravings. Original publisher's brown embossed cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32602

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GAY, John. Fables...With the Life of the Author. London. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1808. 12mo. xvi, 228pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved title page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to blank front endpapers, slight loss to margins of leaf EE1. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29017

GAY, John. Poems on Several Occasions. London. Printed for J. Tonson, 1731. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], 260pp; [4], 260pp. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary blind-stamped, gilt-ruled calf. Rubbed and marked, with scuffing and scoring to boards, wear to extremities, upper joints of both volumes starting. Leaves lightly browned, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 85.00 Antiquates Ref. 35053

GAY, John. MOORE, Edward. Fables by John Gay, in two parts; to which are added fables by Edward Moore. Paris. At the printing office and stereotype foundery of P. Didot the elder, and of F. Didot, 1813. 12mo. [3], 6-235pp, [1]. Without half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, joints split, chipping to head of spine. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription to head of title page, scattered foxing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24994

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[GEDYE, Edith J.]. [Arts and crafts movement binding]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1913]. Quarto. [141] leaves. [12] page of pencilled notes concerning Gedye family genealogy, the remainder blank. Handsomely bound by Edith J. Gedye (stamp-signed '19 EJG 13' to rear turn-in) in green morocco, stylised gilt ruling, A.E.G., gilt ruled turn-ins with gilt foliate corners, green card endpapers. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31489

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GEE, Joshua. Considerations sur le commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne. A Geneve [i.e. Geneva]. Chez Antoine Philibert, 1750. Fourth French edition. 8vo. 24pp, 215pp, [1]. Uncut. Original publisher's cream limp paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed with remnants of paper library shelf labels. Light browning in places. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 12061

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[GEIKIE, Walter]. [A collection of 14 etchings]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1825] 14 etchings, each sheet 270 x 210 mm, bound together in early buff wrappers, manuscript title to upper wrapper. Spotted, occasional marginal short tears/small holes. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 30229

GELL, Mrs. Lyttelton. The Cloud of Witness: a daily sequence of Great Thoughts from Many Minds following the christian seasons. London. Henry Frowde, [s.d., c. 1900] 16mo. xix, [1], 552pp, [16]. With a half-title and frontispiece. Handsomely bound by Bumpus (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, lettered in gilt to upper board 'V. E. H. March 27 1906', A.E.G. Housed in custom red cloth slipcase. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf. An immaculate copy. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27312

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[GENEALOGY]. The Genealogy of James Robertson Thomson, Esquire, compiled from MSS., from the works of Alexander Nisbet, Gent.; from Douglas's Peerage and Baronage; and from other authentic sources by J. Paul Rylands. "Deus Providebit". [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1930?] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 69pp. With nine sheets of manuscript notes/letters, and related ephemera (bookplates, newspaper clippings etc.), loosely inserted. With three engraved portraits and two armorial bookplates pasted-in. Contemporary gilt-ruled red limp morocco, Marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25589

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[GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE]. Suggestions for the guidance of the clergy relative to the duties imposed upon them by the marriage and registration acts. London. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Darling & Son, Ltd., 1901. First edition. 8vo. v, [1], 33pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-tooled green cloth, lettered in gilt. Very light rubbing to extremities. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to FFEP, title-page and terminal leaf browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 18221

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[GENERAL STUD BOOK]. The supplement to the general stud-book, being the Produce of Mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: by the same author... London. Printed by H. Reynell...For J. Weatherby, 1800. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 132; [2], 30pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards. Extremities rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27393

GENIN, Auguste. Poemes azteques. Mexico. Bibliotheque de Courrier du Mexique et de l'Europe, 1907. Deuxieme edition [i.e. second edition]. 8vo. [6], iv, 255pp. Contemporary straight-grain half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, T.E.G. Minor shelf-wear, spine sunned. Decorated endpapers, armorial bookplate of Annie Cowdray to FEP, internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to half-title: 'A Lady Cowdray / Souvenir de son / sejour au pays des Azteques / Respectueusement / Aug Genin / Mexico, Janvier 1911'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24063

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GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité], Madame de. Mademoiselle de clermont. L'Apostasie, ou la dévote. Le château de kolméras. Le journaliste. Londres [i.e. London]. Chez Deboffe, 1802. 8vo. [2], 275pp, [1]. Contemporary marbled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19586

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GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité], Madame de. le comte de corke, Surnommé le Grand, ou la séduction sans artifice. Paris, réimprimé á Londres, pour H. Colburn. 1808. In two volumes. xvi, 226, [2]; [4], 242pp, [2].

[Bound with:] GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité], Madame de. Sainclair, ou la victime des sciences et des arts. Paris. Paris, réimprimé á Londres, pour H. Colburn, 1808. [4], 108pp.

12mo. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lettering-piece worn and partially detached. Very occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19587

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[GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité de]. Les veillées de château, ou cours dé morale a l'usage des enfans. Paris. De l'Imprimerie de Michel Lambert, 1786. 8vo. In three volumes. xx, 634, [2]; [2], 693, [3]; [2], 504pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, all edges red. Rubbed, loss to head of dulled spines. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29791