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[ACTS - CHARLES II]. [Caption title:] An Act for taking of Affidavits in the Country to be made use of in the Courts of Kings Bench, Common-pleas and Exchequer. [London]. [Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker], [1677]. Folio. 211-214pp. Without general title page. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, worming to margins, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24036

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[ACTS - ANNE]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for altering Whitsuntide and Lammas Terms for the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. [London]. [Printed by Charles Bill], [1709]. First edition. Folio. [2], p.247, [1]. Issued with a general title page (as here), and also as a part of ‘ Anno Regni annae reginae…Septimo. At the Parliament Summoned to be Held at Westminster, the Eighth Day of July, Anno Dom. 1708...’ Imprint taken from general title page. Disbound. Lightly toned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27193

[ACTS - ANNE]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for ascertaining and Directing the Payment of the Allowances to be made for or upon the Exportation from Scotland, of Fish, Beef, and Pork Cured with Foreign Salt... [London]. [Printed by Charles Bill], [1709]. First edition. Folio. [2], 221-227pp, [1]. Issued with a general title page (as here), and also as a part of ‘ Anno Regni annae reginae…Septimo. At the Parliament Summoned to be Held at Westminster, the Eighth Day of July, Anno Dom. 1708...’ Imprint taken from general title page. Disbound. Lightly toned and spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27194

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ACTON, Harold. Memoirs of an Aesthete 1939-1969. New York. The Viking Press, 1970. First American edition. 8vo. 318pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed purple paper boards, dustwrapper. A very good copy with only slightest of chipping to unclipped dustwrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of FFEP; 'For Mason and Florence / with all best wishes for / Christmas and the New Year / ever affectionately / Harold / 19 December 1973.' More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 14541

A COUNTRY-GENTLEMAN. A plan of a new act, relating to the statute-work in scotland. Edinburgh. Printed for Charles Elliot, 1773. First edition. 8vo. 31pp, [1]. Stitched, as issued. Old central vertical fold. Early ownership inscription to foot of title page, a trifle creased, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33307

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A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN [JONES, William]. A preservative against the publications dispersed by modern socinians. In which The impiety and absurdity of their principles are clearly shewn. London. Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, 1788. Fourth edition, with corrections and additions. 12mo. 28pp. Stitched, as issued. Lightly spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21912

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[A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN]. A country clergyman's observations upon some letters Which have been addressed to him, in reply to a pamphlet, entitled, reasons for not attending the British & Foreign Bible Society. Chelmsford. Printed and sold by R. C. Stanes and Co., [1812]. First edition. 8vo. 46pp. Uncut and unopened. Stitched, as issued. Title page and verso of terminal leaf a trifle dusty. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32621

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A CORPORAL OF RIFLEMEN. Scloppetaria: or considerations on the nature and use of rifled barrel guns, with reference to their forming the basis of a permanent system of national defence, agreeable to the genius of the country. London. Printed by C. Roworth...for T. Egerton, 1808. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, With an engraved frontispiece and a further 12 engraved plates. Uncut in modern navy-half calf, grey cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, plates browned. With a contemporary single leaf broadside of the rule and regulations of the Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen tipped-in to RFEP More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30528

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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

A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER. The godmother: A Tale. London. Saunders and Otley, 1854. First edition. 12mo. viii, 109, [1], 2pp. With list of subscribers and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32343

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A CLERGYMAN [HENSLOWE, William Henry]. The christian hebdomad, or week of human life. A souvenir of the savior! And an occasional help to family devotion. London. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1866. First edition. 8vo. 117pp, [3]. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and sunned, a trifle marked, some chipping to head and foot of spine. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to recto of FFEP, blank marriage certificate pasted to RFEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FEP: 'Ellen E. Henslowe / 29 April 1884 / from the author WHH'.

[Together with:] [HENSLOWE, William Henry]. ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20817

A CIVIL MAGISTRATE [L'ESTRANGE, Hamon]. A Legacy to the World: or, essays to promote Practical Christianity. London. Printed by J. and W. Oliver for the Author, 1762. First edition. 8vo. ix, [2], 12-72pp. Disbound. Occasional dust-soiling to margins. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21449

A CITIZEN OF LONDON [i.e. PATERSON, John]. A plan for raising Two Hundred and Eighty-two thousand pounds, For the purpose of Discharging the Debt remaining due to the Artificers of london Bridge... Londonm. Printed by H. Woodfall...For J. Rivington et al., 1767. First edition. Quarto. [2], 32pp. Modern gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32721

A CAMBRIDGE M.A [i.e KNOTT, Robert Rowe]. The new aid to memory. Part the first, containing the most remarkable events of the history of england. London. Published by Whittaker and Co., 1839. First edition. 12mo. xxxi, [1], 63pp, [3]. With 12 engraved plates, a list of subscribers, and a terminal leaf of advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, a subscriber's name (Richard Halfhead) added in manuscript. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32890

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[ACADEMY ADDRESS]. [Drop-head title:] Prologue to the public readings at Messrs. Flack's Academy, For Christmas, 1810, To be Spoken by Henry Tolhurst. [London]. J. Barfield, Printer, [1810]. Dimensions 200 x 320 mm. Single leaf broadside. Three old horizontal folds. Short central tear to head, creased, a trifle spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25502

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A BURGESS [i.e. KINGTON, John Barnett]. City and port of bristol. Letters, essays, tracts, and other documents, illustrative of the municipal history of bristol, and of the trade of its port... Bristol. W. Browne, 1836. 12mo. In 13 parts (with pp.25-33 of a related pamphlet at end), each with individual pagination, most with a separate title page, the majority with the imprint: Bristol, W. H. Somerton, 1835. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, later rebacked, preserving original printed paper lettering- piece. Rubbed and marked. Ticket of William George & Sons of Bristol to FEP, scattered spotting. Presentation copy- ink inscription to front ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29708

ABLEMAN, Paul. Vac. London. Victor Gollancz, 1968. First edition. 8vo. 159pp. Original publisher's burgundy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped dustwrapper. Significant smoke damage to wrapper, with additional staining and tearing; the book has also held the odour of smoke. With the author's inscription 'For My good Lady Olwyn Love Paul' to half-title. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29559

ABLEMAN, Paul. Bits. London. Latimer Press, 1969. First edition. Small quarto. 45pp. Original publisher's orange buckram lettered and stamped in gilt, with the corresponding decorative dustwrapper. Wrapper toned, with some smoke damage and marking, with minor tearing. Boards bright and sharp with a small snag to buckram of rear board. Whilst the book holds the odour of smoke, it is internally bright and clean, inscribed 'For The Good Lady Olwyn devotedly Paul'. From the estate of ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29561

ABINGDON, [Willoughby Bertie] Earl of. Speech of the earl of abingdon, on his lordship's motion for postponing the further consideration of the abolition of the slave trade; with some strictures on the speech of the bishop of st. david's. London. Printed for Debrett, [1793?] First edition. 8vo. 23pp, [1]. Disbound. Recent book-label and armorial bookplate of Robert Washington Oates to verso of title page, single early manuscript correction to p.21. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 12564

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ABERNETHY-DRUMMOND, William. A form of consecrating burying-ground. First used at the consecration of a burial-place for General Count Lockhart of Lee, At dryden, March 15. 1790. [Edinburgh?]. [s.n.], 1790. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by C. Murton in nineteenth-century half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, occasional early manuscript corrections to text, later ownership inscription of Christopher Wordsworth to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27730