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AWASTHI, M[ahesh] D[at] [compiler]. Lucknow Guide: a guide to places of interest with a history & a map. [Lucnow]. [Printed by - Pt. Ram Shanker Bajpai, ath the Lucknow Steam Printing Press], [1926]. Fifth edition. 12mo. [4], 41pp, [1]. With a large folding sketch map (dated 1922). Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed and creased. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25384

CIRLOT, Juan Eduardo.. Lucio Fontana. Barcelona. Editorial Gustavo Gili, [1966]. Small 4to. 59pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in pink, with original publisher's photographic dustwrapper. Boards sharp, wrapper a little nicked and marked. Presentation inscription to FFEP: 'For Sir Laurence Olivier with my greatest admiration.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31209

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LUCAN, [Marcus Annaeus]. ROWE, Nicholas. Lucan's pharsalia. Translated into english Verse. By nicholas rowe, Esq; Servant to His Majesty. Dublin. Printed by James Carson, for Joseph Leathley, 1719. 8vo. [6], x-xvii-lv, [9], 208, 281-469, [1], 72pp. Text complete despite erratic pagination. With a list of subscriber's. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, recently rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Boards rubbed and marked. Occasional spotting, early inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Peter Wybrandt / pr. 8/2 bought of Mr. / Farquer Feb. 23. 1726.', printed note to verso regarding the trial of the ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20471

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[BATACCHI, Domenico Luigi]. Lo zibaldone poemetto burlesco. Italia [i.e. Italy]. [s.n.], 1810. 12mo. 273pp, [1]. Contemporary marbled paper boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Ink annotation to title-page, occasional trimming to margins, small marginal repair to lower corner of leaf B2, leaves lightly toned. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 16828

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RAMSAMUJ, L[eonard] Sewak Chand. Love's intoxication (indian love lyrics). London. The Fortune Press, [1951]. First edition. 8vo. 54pp, [2]. With a lithographed frontispiece and four further lithographed plates. Original publisher's cloth-backed blue paper boards, with an impressed reptile-skin pattern, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Armorial bookplate of John Comyn to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription dated 1972 to verso of FFEP. Tipped-in contemporary review to head of FFEP. Light spotting and staining to front endpapers. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35100

CONGREVE, William.. Love for Love. A Comedy. Dublin. Printed for Peter Wilson., 1757. 12mo. 94pp, (2). Recent cloth with contrasting label and gilt titling. Browning to title, beginning and end. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 10486

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[YOUNG, Edward]. Love and fame, the universal passion in Seven Characteristical satires. London. Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. Fifth edition. 12mo. 144pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, loss to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of Edward Greathed and later typed bookseller's description pasted to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27329

[MOZLEY, Harriet]. Louisa, or the bride. London. James Burns...and Henry Mozley, 1842. First edition. 8vo. [4], 302pp, [2]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, a trifle cocked. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25760

[SHIPWRECK - RMS TEUTON]. Loss of nearly 200 lives At Sea, off the Coast of Africa, on board of Stempship 'Teuton'. Several from Porthleven and other Cornish places. [Cornwall?]. Woolcock, General & Commercial Printer Dimensions 190 x 250mm. Single leaf quarto broadside sheet. Printed within decoratie black borders, with a woodcut of a steamship at head. Dated in manuscript, 'Septem. 1881' beneath drop-head title More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29403

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[WALES]. [Lord Littleton's Description of North Wales in two Letters to his Brother The Bishop of Carlisle]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1770?] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [22]pp. Without initial leaf. Stitched into later stiff grey wrappers, with woodcut of a lion under a tree on lower wrapper and imprint 'Printed and sold by W Bailey, Calne'. Inked ownership inscription of 'Hum. Sandford' to upper wrapper. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24276

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[BROUGHAM AND VAUX, Henry Brougham, Baron]. Lord brougham’s reply to lord john russell’s letter to the electors of stroud, on the principles of the reform act. London. Ridgway, 1839. First edition. 8vo. 35, [1], 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher’s advertisements. Modern brown cloth-backed marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Very minor shelf-wear. Leaves toned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30615

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[EDUCATION]. L'orateur recueil de pieces choisies et de morceaux frappans tires des meilleurs auteurs Francois. Ouvrage instructif pour les personnes qui apprennent le Francois, et amusant pour ceux qui le savant. A Londres [i.e. London]. De L'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury, 1792. Third edition. 12mo. [4], 420pp. With a subscriber's list of a mere 20 persons, some representing London schools at Walthamstow, Sloane Street, Kensington, and Harley Street. Contemporary calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, with some slight surface loss, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, ink ownership inscription to verso of FFEP of 'Caroline Bettesworth / June 1799.', a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 14174

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ELLIOTT, Marie. L'Opiniátre,* ou Les jeunes têtes ne sont pas les plus sages...*Self-will; or, young heads not the wisest. Londres [i.e. London]. Chez William Darton, 1829. First edition in French. 12mo. 36pp. With a folding engraved frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's printed light blue stiff paper wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 21362

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[KAMES, Henry Home, Lord]. Loose hints upon education, chiefly concerning the culture of the heart. Edinburgh. Printed for John Bell…and John Murray, 1781. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 381pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red Morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lightly marked, joints starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Crombie of Glasgow to FFEP and head of title, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26115

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BELLAMY, Edward. Looking backward 2000 — 1887. London. William Reeves, [s.d., c.1888] Nineteenth edition. 8vo. 249, [1], 2pp. Contemporary blind-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, with contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, boards a tad faded. Ticket of James, Stroud to FEP. Contemporary inked gift inscription addressed to 'T. Egerton Lower from Walter Ruegg, March 1891' to FFEP. Spotting and browning to endpapers and blank fly-leaves. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35127

[LONDON]. London: a descriptive poem. London. Printed for William Darton, 1812. Second edition, corrected. 12mo. 28pp, [4]. With eight copper-plates (dated 1813), and two terminal advertisement leaves. Stitched in original publisher's buff paper wrappers, lettered in black. Extremities dust-soiled and a trifle rubbed, some loss to spine. Substantial loss to foot of title, touching imprint with loss of price, occasional marginal chipping and small ink spots to text, tear to one plate, partial naive colouring of four plates. More > £ 275.00 Antiquates Ref. 14278

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MASEFIELD, John. Lollingdon downs and other poems, with sonnets. London. William Heinemann, [1917]. First edition. 8vo. [8], 92pp, [2]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. Housed in later red morocco-backed red cloth slipcase. A trifle rubbed. Leaves browned. Later bookplate of Jessie Stillman Taylor to FEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27883

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[FRENCH REVOLUTION]. Loi Relative à la suppression des Ordres de Chevalerie. Donnée à Paris, le 6 Août 1791. Nismes. Chez J. Gaude, 1791. Dimensions 360 x 490 mm. Single leaf broadside. Edges uncut. A trifle creased, spotted, some loss to head. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30346

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CERNY, Frederick. Logrono: A Metric Drama in Two Acts. London. Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. First edition. 8vo. 119pp, [1]. With a half-title and 29 engraved illustrations in the text by T. Walter Wilson. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black, A.E.G.. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28644

[ROYAL NAVY]. Log of the proceeding on board H. M. ship "Forte". [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1871-73] Folio. Manuscript on paper. [326]pp. Contemporary black morocco, tooled in gilt and blind. Heavily rubbed and marked, foot of spine and lower joint worn, corners exposed. Internally clean and crisp. With an engraved map showing the 1868-69 passage of the HMS Forte from England to Bombay, with later passage added in manuscript, and a sepia photograph of an unidentified vessel. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30935