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WALLIS, Richard. The Happy Village. A Poem. Dedicated to the Honble. & Reverend the Trustees of the Late Lord Crewe... So. Shields. Printed and Sold By John Paxton, 1802. First edition. Quarto. [2], 20pp. Title page engraved, with large copper-engraved vignette from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Finely bound in antique style calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tipped corners, gilt. Thomas Davidson's copy, with his ink inscription to FEP and title, bookplate to FEP. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31767
SHAKESPEARE, William. HEATH, Charles. The heroines of shakspeare: comprising The Principal Female Characters in the plays of the great poet. London. W. Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 1858. Quarto. vi, [90]pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 44 engraved plates. Twentieth-century red morocco, small dark green morocco inlays - ivy leaf motif executed in Arts and Crafts style, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G., lettered in gilt to rear lower turn-in: '19 M. R. 04'. Lightly rubbed, sine dulled. Closed tears to frontispiece, title page, and one leaf of text, scattered spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32031
[CALCUTTA FIRE INSURANCE]. Tariffs of the Calcutta Fire Insurance Agents' Association. Corrected to 1st January 1912. Calcutta. Printed at the Criterion Printing Works, 1912. Quarto. [4], 222pp. Original publisher's red cloth-backed printed buff paper boards. Heavily rubbed, marked, and discoloured, upper joint starting. Upper hinge partially exposed, occasional marginal staining/dust-soiling, very occasional early manuscript annotations to text.

[Together with:] Rules of the fire offices' committee (foreign) for automatic sprinkler installations. [s.i.], [s.n.], 1909. Second edition. 8vo. 30, 3pp, [1]. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. A ... More >
£ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32120
PAYNE, George. DURDEN, Mr. Henry. Catalogue of the museum of local antiquities collected by mr. henry durden, Of Blandford, Dorsetshire. Lewes. South Counties Press, Limited, [s.d., c.1892] 8vo. 4, 60pp. With a portrait frontispiece (included in pagination) and seven further plates featuring numerous examples of antiquities from the museum. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half morocco, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Date of 1891 added to foot of title in manuscript; a further manuscript note to the head of the first leaf of the preface notes 'This collection was purchased by the British Museum for £900 ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32137
VERITAS. The letters of veritas, re-published from the montreal herald; containing A Succinct Narrative of the military administration of sir george prevost, During his Commnad in the canadas; Whereby it will appear Manifest, that the merit of preserving them from conquest Belongs not to Him. Glasgow. Re-printed by and for R. Chapman, 1815. 12mo. 111pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Rubbed and dust-soiled, some loss to backstrip. Very small burn mark to foot of title page. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32604
CENTLIVRE, Mrs. The works of the celebrated Mrs. centlivre. In three volumes. Containing, Perjur'd Husband. Beaux's Duel. Gamester. Basset Table. Love at a Venture. Love's Contrivance. Busy Body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic Lady...With a New Account of her life. London. Printed for J. Knapton.. 1760-1 First edition. 12mo. xii, 376; 380; 372pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author to Vol I (included in pagination). Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled sheep, red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed, with some cracking to joints (but all boards firmly attached), some old worm tracks to foot of spines of Vols. I-II. With the armorial bookplate of Vane Londonderry to each FEP, and the later bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32749
[HERALDRY]. WESTHEAD, Mary. AMDG Course of Heraldry: Schools of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus: Blackpool. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1870?] Oblong quarto. Manuscript on paper. Whatman watermark. Original watercolour, gouache, and ink illustrations of arms, crests, regalia, and orders throughout. Concludes with table of precedency. Attractively bound in contemporary navy calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32753
[POLTERGEIST]. An Authentic, Candid, and Circumstantial narrative, of the Astonishing Transactions at Stockwell, In the County of Surry, On monday and tuesday, the 6th and 7th Days of January, 1772, containing A Series of the most surprising and unaccountable Events that ever happened, which continued from first to last, upwards of Twenty Hours, and at different Places. Published with the COnsent and Approbation of the Family and other Parties concerned, to Authenticate which, the original Copy is signed by them. London. Printed for J. Marks, 1772. First edition. 12mo. 23pp, [1]. With half-title. Uncut. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. Heavily worn. Leaves browned and softened, tearing to gutters, long tear to half-title, short tears to title page and leaf A4, slight loss to fore-edge of leaf A3, affecting text but without loss of sense. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32901
[MANCHESTER IRIS]. The manchester iris: a literary and scientific Miscellany, published weekly in the years 1822 & 1823. In two volumes. Manchester. Printed and Published by Henry Smith, St. Ann's Square, 1822. Quarto. Two volumes bound in one. [2], 2, 166, [169]-384;[2], ii, 420pp (with pp389-420 from Vol II misbound at end of Vol I.). Lacking a single leaf (pp.167-8) from Vol I. With an engraved sheet of music ('O Speak not to Me', Air by S. Smith) to Vol I, another Handels 'Angels ever bright and fair' to Vol II, and two single (including 'The Rose-Bud of ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 33192
WEBSTER, Alexander. Burns and the kirk... Aberdeen. A. Martin, 1889. Second edition. [4], 145pp, [1].

[Bound with:] BROOKE, Stopford A. Theology & miracle. Two sermons preached in bedford chapel, bloomsbury, On Sunday Mornings, in July, 1880. London. British & Foreign Unitarian Association, 1891. 23pp, [1].

[And:] BROOKE, Stopford A. What think ye of Christ? A sermon... London. [Woodfall & Kinder], [1884]. 16pp.

[And:] SALADIN [i.e. ROSS, William Stewart]. Concerning the Devil. London. W. Stewart & Co., [s.d., ... More >
£ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 33328
[MILL, John Stuart]. A constitutional view of the india question. London. William Penny, 1858. First edition. 10pp.

[Bound with:] [MILL, John Stuart]. Practical observations on the first two of the proposed resolutions on the government of india. London. William Penny, 1858. First edition. 10pp.

[And:] [MILL, John Stuart]. A president in council the best government for india. London. William Penny, 1858. First edition. 8pp.

[And:] [MILL, John Stuart]. Observations on the proposed council of india. London. William Penny, 1858. First edition. ... More >
£ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 33594
[ALMANACS]. The court and city register. For the Year 1764... London. Printed for John Rivington et al., [1764]. [8], 256pp. ESTC N27781.

[Bound with, presumably as issued:] RIDER, Cardinus. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of our Lord God 1764... London. Printed by H. Woodfall, 1764. [60]pp. Title page and initial gathering in red and black. Calendar interleaves with blanks. ESTC T143857.

12mo. Attractively bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco wallet style binding, fastened with metal clasp, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece lettered ... More >
£ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 33841
MOODY, Elizabeth. Poetic trifles. London. Printed by H. Baldwin and Son; For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1798. First edition. 8vo. [4], xv, [1], 186pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards. Bumping to corners, splitting to lower joint (the board nevertheless remains firmly attached) and heavy wear to boards. With the early ink inscription of '(?)Samuel Bothy, 50 Ludgate Hill' to FFEP, opposite a now defaced bookplate; small old-stains to G1v and G2v, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 34272
[MARTYN, Thomas]. The English Connoisseur: Containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. In the Palaces and Seats of the Nobility and principal Gentry of England, both in Town and Country.... London. Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers....Printers to the Royal Society, 1766. First edition. 8vo. [2], ix, [1], 192; [4], 208pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, with contrasting lettering- piece remaining to Vol II only. Lightly rubbed, headcaps a trifle chipped and endpapers variously sprung, else an attractive, crisp set. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 34830
[GEORGE III]. [Roll of foreign accounts]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1788] Dimensions 1425 x 29 cm. Manuscript on paper. Seven joined vellum membranes. A trifle creased and discoloured. Inscribed at foot: 'Examined by Thomas Lowley, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, 10 July 1811'. More > £ 1,140.00 Antiquates Ref. 30653
[BRITISH ARMY IN PORTUGAL]. [Manuscript military chest day book and ledger, recording payments made by a Cashier on behalf of the British Army in Portugal between April 13th and September 15th 1815]. [s.i., Portugal]. [s.n., 1815] Folio. In two volumes. 47pp, [3], the remainder blank; [12 blank leaves, with alphabetized tabs], 35ff, 41ff, the remainder blank, with some newspaper clippings relating to WW1 tipped in at end. A printed broadside 'Instructions to Cashiers of Military Chests' is pasted to the FEP of each volume. Contemporary reverse calf, with attractive black morocco, gilt, lettering-pieces to upper board of each volume, marbled endpapers. Rubbed ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11379
TAYLOR, Jeremy. The great exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution: Described in the History of the Life and Death of the ever Blessed jesus christ the saviour of the world. With Cnsiderations and Discourses upon the several parts of the Story; And Prayers fitted to the several Mysteries. London. Printed by R. Norton, for Richard Royston, 1657. Third edition. Folio. [54], 600pp, [12]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title-page, and 14 engraved plates by William Faithorne. With a terminal publisher's advertisement leaf. 'The history of the life and death of the Holy Jesus' in three parts, has a separate dated title-page for each part. Handsomely bound in near contemporary black panelled morocco, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt, A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 14839
ROSCOE, William. The life of lorenzo de' medici, called the magnificent. Liverpool. Printed by J. M'Creery, 1795. First edition. Quarto. In two volumes. [2], xxvi, [2], 320, 136; [2], 312, 48, 111, [1], 11pp, [1]. With half- titles, an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I and 14 engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-ruled straight-grained red morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing and marking to extremities. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of 'Thomas Frederick Bevan' to FEPs, internally clean and crisp, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 15150