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GREY, Richard . A system of English ecclesiastical law...For the use of young students in the universities, who are designed for Holy Orders. . [London]. Printed by E. and R. Nutt, 1732. The Second Edition. 8vo. [16], 448pp, [84]. Contemporary blind-decorated panelled sprinkled calf, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. A crisp copy, slightly rubbed and marked. Some staining to endpapers and slight spotting to text. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33227

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[GREY, Henry George Grey, Earl]. List of Enclosures in the Correspondence of the 3rd Earl Grey in Earl Grey's papers from the muniment Room at Howick now deposited in The Prior's Kitchen, Durham. Durham. [University of Durham], 1962. First edition. Folio. [1], 218ff. Printed in typescript on rectos only. Contemporary grey cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Occasional spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21988

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GREY, Charles Grey, Earl. Speech of charles, earl grey, on the state of the nation, in the House of Lords, on friday, June 14th, 1810. London. Printed for James Ridgway, 1810. First edition. 8vo. iv, 87pp, [1]. With a terminal page of publisher’s advertisements. Recent marbled paper wrappers. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30926

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GRESWELL, W. Parr. Memoirs of angelus politianus, actius sincerus sannazarius, petrus bembus, hieronymous fracastorius, marcus antonius flaminius, and the amalthei... Manchester. Printed by R. and W. Dean; for, Cadell and Davies, 1805. Second edition. 8vo. xii, [2], 524, v pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 26220

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GRESWELL, Willian Parr. Annals of Parisian Typography, containing an account of the earliest typographical establishment's of Paris... London. Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1818. First edition. 8vo. xii, 356pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 11 engraved plates. Original publisher's green cloth, calf lettering-piece. Title page in red and black. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27569

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[GRESWELL, William Parr]. The Monastery of Saint Werburgh: a poem, with illustrative notes. [Manchester]. [Printed by Henry Smith], 1823. First edition. 8vo in 4s. 48pp. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper board. Extremities worn and marked, loss to spine panel and printed paper lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, marginal damp-staining to head of text-block. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29024

GRESWELL, William Parr. The Monastery of Saint Werburgh: a poem, with illustrative notes. [Manchester]. [Printed by Henry Smith], 1823. First edition. 8vo. [2], 48, 22pp, [2]. With 'Rodrigo, a Spanish Legend', and shorter pieces occasionally added to copies. Without half-title. Extra-illustrated with 12 engraved plates. Bound by J. Winstanley of Manchester in near contemporary green straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26221

GRESWELL, Rev. W. Parr. Memoirs of angelus politianus, actius sincerus sannazarius, petrus bembus, hieronymous fracastorius, marcus antonius flaminius, and the amalthei... Manchester. Printed by R. & W. Dean & Co. for Cadell and Davies, 1801. First edition. 8vo. [2], ii, 211pp, [1]. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's marbled paper boards. Heavily rubbed, joints split, without spine panel. Scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28061

GRESWELL, Rev. William. A popular view of the correspondency between the mosaic ritual and the facts and doctrines of the christian religion. In nine discourses. Oxford. Printed by S. Collingwood...for J. G. and F. Rivington, 1834. Second edition. 8vo. xiv, 221pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue buckram, printed paper lettering-piece to spine, Rubbed and bumped, lettering-piece worn. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28074

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GRESWELL, Rev. W[illiam]. A commentary on the order for the burial of the dead, considered as a manual of doctrine and consolation to christians. Oxford. Printed by S. Collingwood...For J. G. & F. Rivington, 1836. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xix, [1], 340; vii, [1], 353, [1], 16pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue to Vol. II. Unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spines sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28075

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[GRESWELL, Edward]. Europæ pacatores oxonium invisentes. [Manchester]. [R. and W. Dean], [1815]. First edition. Quarto. [2], 8pp, [2]. Uncut, stitched, as issued, in original publisher's powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed, creased. Later manuscript annotations to upper wrapper and title page signed William H. P. Greswell, occasional highlighting. A.L.S. on Brasenose College stationery pinned to upper wrapper: '9 Nov. 1916. Dear Mr. Greswell, I write to thank you heartily for sending me the interesting Latin verses written by your uncle on ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26218

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GRESWELL, Edward. The three witnesses, and the threefold cord; being the testimony of the natural measures of time, of the primitive civil calendar, and of antediluvian and postdiluvian tradition, on the principal questions of fact in sacred or profane antiquity. London. Rivingtons, 1862. First edition. 8vo. viii, 307pp, [1]. Original publisher's purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28073

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GRESWELL, Edward. Preliminary address of the origines kalendariae italicae lately published at the oxford university press. Oxford. John Henry Parker, 1854. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 135pp. Bound by Winstanley of Manchester in contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28212

GRESWELL, Edward. A letter to his grace the duke of wellington, chancellor of the university of oxford, on the proceedings in the house of convocation, On thursday, the 23d inst. Oxford. J. H. Parker, 1837. First edition. 8vo. 37pp, [3]. Unopened. Stitched, as issued. Lightly toned and spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29882

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[GRESHAM COLLEGE]. A Brief Representation of the Original and Subsequent State of Gresham College. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [21]pp. Disbound. Clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19223

[GRENVILLE, Lord William Wyndham]. Nugae metricae. [s.l.]. [s.n.], 1824. Sole edition; privately printed. Quarto. [4], 89pp, [1]. A well-margined copy, with fore-edge untrimmed, in nineteenth-century half morocco, gilt, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. The leather is somewhat scuffed, spotting to text. With the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire to FEP, and an A.L.S. from the author at Dropmore House, dated 4th May 1829, bound in facing the title, and manuscript corrections to the text to D2r, ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25624

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[GRENADIER GUARDS]. [A manuscript day book of the 'First Regiment'] . [s.i.]. [s.n., 1722-5] Folio. Manuscript on paper. [48] leaves. Original marbled paper wrappers. Heavily worn, detached, with loss and dog-earring. Soiled. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 19472

GREISS, C[arl] B[ernhard]. A german grammar. Francfort [i.e. Frankfurt]. Printed for Sigismund Schmerber, [1835]. First edition. 12mo. viii, 253pp, [3]. With an engraved plate (cursive alphabet) and three terminal pages of publisher's advertisements. Partially unopened in original publisher's powder blue paper boards, later rebacked in green cloth, original publisher's printed paper label to spine. Lightly rubbed. Bookseller's ticket to FEP, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33375

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GREGORY, Olinthus. Memoirs of the life, writings, and character, literary, professional, and religious, of the late john mason good, M.D. London. Henry Fisher, Son, and Co., 1828. First edition. 8vo. [8], 472pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled dark brown morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Inked ownership inscription of Sarah Wright to head of title page, lightly spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21638

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GREGORY, John. The works of The Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory... London. Printed for Richard Royston, 1671. Quarto. In two parts. [24], 166, [26], 255, [3], 257-330pp. Contemporary blind-ruled speckled calf, marbled edges. Extremities worn, lower joint split, upper board held by cords only. Hinges exposed, upper pastedown sprung, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27598