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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign, 1803. [London]. [s.n.], 1803. 8vo. 109pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30690

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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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[FRENCH REVOLUTION]. [Caption title:] Proclamation du roi, sur le Décret de l'Assemblée Nationale, du 4 Septembre 1790, relatif aux sommes payées ou accordes, tant au Collége de Louis-le-Grand, qu'aux gratuite de Dessin à Paris. Du 19 Septembre 1790. Nismes. Chez C. Belle, 1790. Dimensions 350 x 450 mm. Single leaf broadside. Edges uncut. Old central horizontal fold. Spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30345

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POLYAENUS. Polyaenus's stratagems of war; translated from the original greek. London. Printed for George Nicol, 1793. First edition in English. Quarto. [3], vi-xxxv, [1], 366pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, upper joint starting, spine dulled. Early bookplate of Viscount Donne and later armorial bookplate of P. A. H. Muschamp to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22978

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[ROSS, Sir Ronald]. [Drop-head title:] Copies of letters from Sir Patrick Manson (1899 and 1900) and General Gorgas (1914) to Sir Ronald Ross regarding his discovery of the Connection Between Malaria and certain Mosquitoes in 1897 to 1899. [London]. [Harrison and Son], [1929?] First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium. 3pp, [1]. Lightly marked and sunned. Presentation copy, ink inscription to head of title: 'With Sir Ronald's compliments'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28726

[ROSS, Sir Ronald]. Two ross-manson letters. [London]. [Harrison and Son], [1929]. First edition. 8vo. 12pp. Sewn, as issued. A clean and crisp copy. Presentation copy, ink inscription to head of title: 'With Sir Ronald's Compliments'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28727

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[TRAFALGAR]. [A commemorative card headed 'Victory off Trafalgar']. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1843?] Dimensions 230 x 90 mm. Brown card with embossed ornamental border, white, gilt-edged, card onlay decorated with a depiction of Nelson’s final flag semaphore signal. Manuscript inscription to verso: 'Presented to the Naval Committee at the Trafalgar Hotel, with Mr. P. Scott's best compliments. Norwich. Oct. 21st, 1843'. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 30304

T[HOMAS], H[elen]. As it was. London. William Heinemann Ltd., 1926. First edition. 8vo. [8], 116pp, [2]. With half title and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Remnants of original publisher's printed buff wrappers loosely inserted. Pencil ownership inscription of Sir Ian MacAlister to recto of FFEP. Presentation copy, loosely inserted card print 'With the author's compliments'.

[Together with:] THOMAS, Helen, World without end. London. William Heinemann Ltd., 1931. First edition. ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29724

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[BUNBURY, Selina]. Retrospections; a soldier's story. Dublin. William Curry, Jun. and Co., 1829. First edition. 12mo. 294pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30076

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MARKHAM, Christopher A. History of the Markham's of Northamptonshire. Northampton. The Dryden Press, Taylor & Son, 1890. First edition. 8vo. iv, [4], 108pp. With a photographic frontispiece, a further three photographic plates (one folding), a folding genealogical table, and several engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled dark brown half-morocco, brown cloth boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. Armorial bookplate of Sir Clements Roberts Markham to FEP. Presentation copy, ink inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Clements R. Markham ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30018

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HARDINGE, Lt. H. R. von D.. The semaphore alphabet. With Letters and signs re-arranged so as to be more easily learnt. London. Forster Groom & Co., 1903. Revised edition. Dimensions 360 x 560mm, folded to 100 x 146 mm. Folding chart, mounted on linen and pasted into original publisher's cloth boards, paper lettering-piece. A little rubbed and marked, some splitting to joints of boards, some darkening to lettering-piece; the folding chart itself is remarkably clean but for a single pencilled correction, and slight occasional lifting from the linen backing at folds. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30272

MANNING, William. The glow-worm. London. Frank T. Sabin, 1896. Quarto. Limited edition of 112 copies, 100 of which for sale. [8], 17pp, [47]. Title in red and black. With an additional illustrated title-page and 21 engraved illustrations in the text by Westley Horton. Uncut in original publisher's pictorial buckram. Extremities rubbed, marked, and dulled. Endpapers browned, later ink ownership inscription of 'The Spitfire Library' to head of additional title. Manuscript note to limitation page: 'Subscribing ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30204

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ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. The history of india. The hindú and mahometan periods. London. John Murray, 1857. Fourth edition. 8vo. xxiv, 698pp. Later half-calf, brown cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities rubbed. Title page and terminal leaf browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30318

FITCHETT, W. H. The tale of the great mutiny. London. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1901. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 384pp, [8]. With a portrait frontispiece, a further seven plates, four maps (one folding), and four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blue cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and bumped, a trifle cocked. Inscribed to British Indian official Sir William Charles Macpherson (1855-1936) on recto of FFEP: 'W. C. Macpherson / 11th August. 1902 / From Ella', very occasional ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30319

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A COMMANDER IN THE NAVY. Sketches by a sailor; or, things of earth and things of heaven. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. First edition. 8vo. 149, [1], 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, marked, and bumped. Early ink gift inscription to FEP, early ink ownership inscription of Richard Benyon Croft to head of p.[5], very occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29511

COTTON, Charles . The wonders of the peake. London. Printed for Charles Brome, 1699. Fourth edition. 8vo. [4], 86pp. Later panelled sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked to style, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and scored. Spotting to endpapers, early ink ownership inscription to head of title. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26420

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[ROSS, Sir Ronald]. Medical life: Sir Ronald Ross Number. New York. Medical Life Press, May 1930 Quarto. [3], 228-267pp, [37]. With 12 terminal leaves of advertisements. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to upper wrapper: 'J. T. Cambridge Esq. / with Sir Ronald's compliments 20.8.30'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28729

ROSS, Sir Ronald. The mode of infection in malaria; three more ross-manson letters, 1898. [London]. [Harrison and Sons], [1929]. First edition. 8vo. 20pp. With a tipped-in errata slip. Sewn as issused, in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Extremities sunned and a trifle spotted. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to head of upper wrapper: 'With Sir Ronald's Compliments'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28728

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BOULTON, M. P. W. Remarks on some evidence recently communicated to the photographic society. London. Printed by Bradbury & Evans, 1863. First edition. 8vo. 6pp, [2]. Sewn, as issued. Very short tears at head. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25225

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[ROGERS, Alexander]. Practical information on flax, with a view to extend its cultivation in india. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1839. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. Six engraved illustrations in the text. Disbound. Slight chipping to head of title page, contemporary manuscript mathematical calculations to verso of final leaf relating to the 'consumption of foreign flax in Great Britain'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28287