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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
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
[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
[SOUTH AFRICA]. Bethulie. [Cape Town]. [Wood & Ortlepp], [1900]. 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 limp red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked. Hinge exposed, short tear to one fold. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29042
HOMES, Nath. The new world, or the new reformed church... London. Printed by T[homas]. P[aine]. and M[atthew]. S[immons]. for William Adderton, 1641. First edition. Quarto. [4], 79pp, [1]. Later half-calf, brown cloth boards, recently rebacked, all edges red. Boards worn and marked, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, marginal chipping to title page, damp-staining to fore-edge. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24304
FAIRFAX, N[athaniel], M.D.. A treatise of the bulk and selvedge of the world. Wherein The greatness, littleness and lastingness of bodies are feely Handled. With an Answer to Tentamine de Deo, By. S.P. D.D.. London. Printed for Robert Boulter, 1674. First edition. 8vo. [38], 201, 200-201pp, [5]. Without initial blank (A1), but with two terminal advertisement leaves. Contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked, with gilt tooling and remains of a morocco lettering-piece to spine. Worn and rubbed; with surface loss to joints and corners, chipping to head and foot of spine, and lettering-piece, upper board detached. Later endpapers, with pencilled notes regarding the text, some browning and spotting to ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28721
[EMPIRE TEA BUREAU]. The small canteen: How to plan and operate modern meal service. London. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1947. First edition. Quarto. [8], 108pp. Numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper designed by design by Diana Wilbraham. Rubbed and marked, dustwrapper chipped and lightly soiled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29008
[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco Destroyed. Milwaukee. C. N. Caspar Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. [24] leaves. Original publisher's brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24161
[SNOWDON]. Snowdon. Llanberis. Published by Francis, [s.d., c. 1900] Oblong 8vo. 16 photographic plates on eight leaves. Tied, as issued, in original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities a trifle creased. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29031
PLATH, Sylvia. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. London. Faber & Faber, 1977. First edition. 8vo. 250pp. Original publisher's orange cloth boards lettered in silver, with the unclipped bright orange dustwrapper. Spine bumped with a few other marks to both boards and dustwrapper, internally bright. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed, though no indications of such. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28762
[KENT]. A New Map of the County of Kent Divided into Lathes &c. London. Printed for C. Smith, January 6th, 1804 Second edition. Dimensions, unfolded: 520 x 490 mm. Hand-coloured engraved map. Linen backed. Housed in original publisher's blue card slipcase. Slipcase worn and marked, naive pen-trials to verso. Map lightly spotted. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 29043
KENNEDY, William. Fitful fancies. Edinburgh. Published by Oliver & Boyd...and Geo. B. Whittaker, 1827. First edition. 12mo. vii, [1], 191pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue paper boards, later rebacked in blue cloth. Boards rubbed and marked, corners exposed. Later bookplate of S. T. Whiteford and recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 29027
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
SIM, Frances M. Robert Browning (Mystic and Artist). London. The Golden Vista Press, [1931]. First edition. 8vo. [4], 105pp, [3]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FEP: 'Presented to the Browning Settlement by Lady Sim. June 1931.' More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 26210
GAY, John. Fables...With the Life of the Author. London. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1808. 12mo. xvi, 228pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved title page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to blank front endpapers, slight loss to margins of leaf EE1. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29017
A FREEHOLDER OF THE COUNTY OF ROSS. A short address to the gentlemen of the northern counties, on the prohibition of distillation from grain. Edinburgh. Printed for Bell & Bradfute, 1810. First edition. 8vo. [4], 27, [1], 13pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[Bound with:] A view of the state of parties in the united states of america; being an attempt to account for the present ascendancy of the french, or democratic party, in that country; in two letters to a friend. By a gentleman who has recently visited the united states. Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for ... More >
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28565