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KOESTLER, Arthur. Arrival and departure. London. Jonathan Cape, [1943]. First edition. 8vo. 188pp. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in red, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped, chipping to corners, spine panel restored, paper repairs to verso. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23542
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LAWRENCE, T. E.. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, 1938. First edition, second impression. 8vo. 896pp. With 16 black and white plates and two folding maps. Original publisher's tan buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped, short closed tear to head of upper panel, spine chipped and soiled. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26336
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POUND, Ezra. Patria mia and the treatise on harmony. London. Peter Owen, [1962]. First U.K. edition. 8vo. 95pp, [1]. Original publisher's dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper a trifle sunned. Endpapers browned. From the library, though not identified as such, of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995). More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26322
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[HENDERSON, Dr.]. [Manuscript sermon preparations]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [1838] 8vo. Manuscript on paper. Contemporary half-sheep, marbled boards. Extremities heavily rubbed, surface loss to spine. Scattered foxing. Later inked inscription to FEP: 'Vol. of Dr. Henderson's MSS :- pulpit preparations from Miss Hay, Galashiels, 1865.' More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24218
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[KAMES, Henry Home, Lord]. Loose hints upon education, chiefly concerning the culture of the heart. Edinburgh. Printed for John Bell…and John Murray, 1781. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 381pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red Morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lightly marked, joints starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Crombie of Glasgow to FFEP and head of title, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26115
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GODWIN, William. Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in england. Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1817. First edition. 12mo. In three volumes. xii, 306; [4], 316; [4], 367pp, [1]. With half-titles. Recent cloth-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to FEP of Vol. I, early inked ownership inscription to head of title, loss to leaf A2 of Vol. II - touching text, without loss of sense, foxed. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 26141
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BEWICK, Thomas. A supplement to the history of British birds. The figure engraved on wood by t. bewick . Newcastle. Printed by Edward Walker…for T. Bewick, 1821. First edition. 8vo. Two parts bound as one, as issued. 50, [2];49pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Uncut in contemporary gilt-tooled black half-roan, marbled boards. Rubbed and discoloured, lower joint starting, spine dulled. Armorial bookplate of H. M. Clifford to FEP, scattered foxing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26175
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HOLMES, [William]. Plan of proceeding: octavo. First part. Holmes' tract on bodies corporate generally, those in Exeter specially, which includes the novel county-rates, Exeter, 1799. Second part. Holmes' epitome of political history ancient and modern, commented on, In hope of affording some Information to the Middle and Lower Classes of Mankind, countenancing Virtue and discouraging Vice. Third part. Holmes on the police of Exeter specially, ancient and modern, as an accompaniment to Izaacke’s Memorials of the City. Exeter. T. Brice, [1795]. First edition. Part one only, all published. [2], 4, [2], 48pp. ESTC T42425.

[Bound with:] [HOLMES, William]. [Drop-head title: To the Electors of Representatives to serve in Parliament for the City and County of Exeter]. [Exeter]. [T. Brice], [1802]. 13pp, [3]. Not in ESTC.

[And:] [HOLMES, William]. [Drop-head title: New pavements, &c. Third address. [Exeter]. [T. Brice], [1795]. [1], 22-28pp.

[And:] [HOLMES, William]. [Drop-head title: Addressed to ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 16613
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[ROYAL NAVY]. A list of His Majesty's ships and vessels of the royal navy... London. Printed and Sold by J. Watson, 1741. Third edition. [4], 40pp. With initial advertisement leaf. ESTC T41015. Pen-trials to p.26., short marginal tear to leaf B4.

[Bound after:] RIDER, Cardanus. Rider's British Merlin:For the Year of our Lord God 1741... London. Printed by R. Nutt, [1741]. [48]pp. ESTC T44985. Tear to one leaf - touching text without loss of sense.

[And:] [A defective eighteenth-century almanac].

[And:] The Court Kalendar For the year 1741... London. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17432
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BRAUNIO, Johanne. Bigdê Kohanîm id est, vestitus sacerdotum hebraeorum... Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam]. Veneunt apud Janssonio Waesbergios, Danielem Elsevirium, Viduam J. à Someren, et Henr. & Theod. Boom, 1680. First edition. Quarto. In two volumes. [58], 430, [36]; [5], 432-940pp, [48]. First two words of title transliterated from the Hebrew. With an additional engraved title page to Vol. I., 11 full-page engravings in the text, and five engraved plates (one folding). Latter vellum-backed paper boards, contrasting red and black morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Occasional worm-tracks to margins, scattered foxing/browning. From the Rugby School library, ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 24400
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HASSALL, Christopher. Edward Marsh: Patron of the Arts: A Biography. [London]. Longmans, [1959]. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 732pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 14 photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, slight chipping/marking to dustwrapper. Internally clean and crisp. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26303
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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Oriental assembly. London. Williams and Norgate, [1939]. First edition, second impression. 8vo. xii, 164pp. With a photographic frontispiece, and a further 130 photographic plates. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Inked inscription of R. W. S. Livingstone to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26298
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[LAWRENCE, T. E.]. Letters to T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, [1962]. First edition. 8vo. 216pp. Without errata slip. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear. dustwrapper a trifle marked, spine panel sunned, several brown paper repairs to verso. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26296
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CAMPBELL, Thomas. The pleasure of hope: with other poems. London. Printed for the author, by T. Bensley, 1803. Seventh edition. Quarto. xi, [1], 131pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, and one further engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary calf, tooled in black and gilt, calf lettering-piece, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscriptions of Simpkin to front blank fly-leaf and head of title, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26291