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[ANECDOTES]. The anecdote-book: a choice collection of anecdotes, jests, witty sayings, bon mots, &c., &c. Selected from the best sources. Glasgow. Printed for the booksellers, 1856. 12mo. 24pp. Woodcut on title page. Title within ornamental border. Six bifolia, unopened at head, as issued. A trifle creased and dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28599

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OVID. Ovid's epistles: with his amours. Translated into English Verse, By the Most Eminent Hands. London. Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1736. 12mo. [24], 348pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 10 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. Rubbed, marked, and bumped, upper joint starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Later inked ownership inscription to FEP, loss to FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28638

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CAMERON, Mrs. [Lucy Lyttelton]. The two lambs. An allegorical history. London. Printed for Houlston and Co., [s.d., c. 1840] Thirty-third edition. 32mo. 42pp, [6]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's printed blue wrappers. A trifle rubbed, marked, and creased. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28682

[THE RESCUE]. The rescue. A true story. London and Birmingham. J. Groom, [1846]. 16mo. 16pp. With two wood-graved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's buff pictorial wrappers. Lower wrapper and final four leaves damp-stained. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28702

DRINKWATER, John. Abraham Lincoln. London. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. First edition. 8vo. 74pp. Original publisher's red card wraps, lettered in black, with title label to the rubbed and marked spine. Internally bright and clean with the author's ink inscription on the half title 'To Alfred Hayes, from John Drinkwater, October, 1918'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28730

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SMYTH, C. Piazzi. Madeira meteorologic: being a paper on the above subject read before the royal society, Edinburgh, on the 1st of May 1882. Edinburgh. David Douglas, 1882. First edition. Quarto. viii, 83pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Bookplate and shelf-label to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28812

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[HUDDESFORD, George]. Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. First edition. Quarto. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut in modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28910

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LIDDELL HART, Capt. B. H. The tanks: The History of the royal tank regiment and its predecessors... London. Cassell, [1959]. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xix, [1], 462; xiv, 555pp, [1]. With numerous plates and folding maps. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver to spines, printed paper dustwrappers. Lightly rubbed, dustwrappers worn and price-clipped. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28923

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KERR, Sir Robert. Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, First Earl of Ancram and his son William, Third Earl of Lothian. Edinburgh. [Bannatyne Club], 1875. First edition. Quarto. In two volumes. [10], cxxx, [2], 248; [3], 250-563pp, [1]. Unopened in original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28924

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EDEN, Sir Frederick Morton. Eight letters on the peace; and on the commerce and manufactures of great britain. London. Printed for J. Wright, 1802. First edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 132pp. Recent gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed. Leaves toned and spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28963

[CHURCH OF ENGLAND]. The form of morning prayer... London. Printed by His Majesty's Printers. for J. Hatchard and Son, 1832. Third edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], 586pp, [1]; [4], 419pp, [3]. Handsomely bound in contemporary blind-stamped brown morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of Glencairn Carter to FFEPs, later ownership inscriptions to front blank fly-leaves. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28965

SETON, Walter. William Howard Lister. London. Printed for Private Circulation by Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society, 1919. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 505 copies on handmade paper, of which this is number 165. 93pp, [3]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and five further photographic plates. Uncut in original publisher's cream buckram-backed light blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Endpapers browned, near contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29014

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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

SHEPPERLEY, William. Chatterton. London. Published by the Bowyer Press...and sold by the author on his city stand in Lothbury, [1914]. First edition. Quarto. 32pp. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Extremities rubbed, creased, and marked. Foxed. Presentation copy, inked ownership inscription to verso of title page: 'Very Sincerely, / William Shepperley / Jan. V. MCMXIV.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29029

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[SOUTH AFRICA]. Imperial Map of South Africa: Rouxville. Cape Town & Johannesburg. Wood & Ortlepp, 1900. First edition. Dimensions, unfolded: 620 x 490 mm, folded in cover: 110 x 179 mm. Colour lithograph map. Scale 1:250 000. Linen backed. Original publisher's buff printed cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, faded ownership inscriptions to covers. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29039

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DAVIES, Christian. The life and adventures of mrs. christian davies, commonly called mother ross... [London]. [William Clowes and Sons], [s.d., c. 1840] 8vo. [7], 358-502pp. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, bookseller's ticket of Frank Murray of Derby to FEP, else internally clean and crisp More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29047

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate. London. Macmillan and Co., 1902. 8vo. viii, 900pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound by Truelove & Hanson of London in contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, green cloth boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of T. Trevor Spencer to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP: 'Laticia Spencer / from her affectionate Father / T. Trevor Spencer / December 1st 1904.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29059

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[STEPHENS, Frederic George]. A history of Gibraltar and its sieges. London. Provost & Co., 1873. Second edition. Quarto. vi, [2], with a albumen frontispiece, a further three albumen plates, and an engraved map. Bound by George J. Swayne of Brooklyn, N.Y. in contemporary gilt-tooled half morocco, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate and withdrawal stamps of the Minnesota Historical Society to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front free endpaper. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29129

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A PROVINCIAL SCOTSMAN [i.e. DUNLOP, John]. A glance at London, Brussels, and Paris. Edinburgh. Published by Oliver & Boyd, 1829. First edition. 8vo. [2], 283pp. Later cloth-backed buff paper boards, contrasting black morocco lettering. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early manuscript notes to title page and first page of text, blank bottom half of final leaf of text torn away, spotted throughout. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29243

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HAZLITT, William. Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of elizabeth... London. Stodart and Steuart, 1820. First edition. 8vo. viii, 356pp, [4]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Very occasional marginal manuscript annotations, recent typed booksellers descriptions pasted to rear blank endpapers. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29244