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[ENCLOSURE AUCTION]. [Drop-head title:] Church Streeton, Wistanstow, and Edgton inclosure. We, the commissioners of this inclosure, will proceed to sell by auction...The following very Valuable Parcels of Freehold Land... Ludlow. Printed by T. Griffiths, [1819]. Folio. Single bifolium. Docket title to verso of second leaf. Three early horizontal folds. Terms of sale for three lots completed in manuscript. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 24352

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[ENCLOSURE]. [Drop-head title:] Reasons Humbly Offered, for Inclosing Gratwood-Heath, in the Parish of Eccleshall, in the County of Stafford. [London]. [s.n.], [1719]. Dimensions 200 x 330 mm. Single sheet, printed of both sides, edges uncut. Docket title to verso. Three old horizontal folds, stab-stitch holes and remnants of binding to gutter margin. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 24227

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[CASTLEMAINE, Richard Tylney, Viscount]. [Drop-head title:] The case of the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Castlemain; against Thomas Juson, rector of Wansted in Essex, William Hatton and John Brooks his servants, and Richard Spencer, labourer, touching a breach of privilege. [London?]. [s.n.], [1729]. Dimensions 200 x 310 mm. Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Old horizontal folds, stab-stitch holes and remnants of binding to one margin. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24225

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HANWAY, Jonas. The Seaman's Christian Friend; Containing Moral and Religious Advice to Seamen. London. Sold by Dodley et al., 1779. 8vo. [6], liv, [6], 292pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an engraved title page. Recent blind-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Slight loss to lower corner of leaf C4, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25151

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HANWAY, Jonas. The Commemorative Sacrifice of our lord's supper considered as a preservative against superstitions fears and immoral practices... London. Printed for Dodsley et al., 1777. First edition. 12mo. iv, *v-xiii, [1], lxvii, [1], 344pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Recent gilt-tooled brown morocco. Very minor shelf-wear. Frontispiece and title page browned, occasional spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25150

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CADOGAN, William. A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, As proceeding from the same Causes; What those Causes are; and A rational and natural Method of Cure proposed. Addressed to all Invalids. London. Printed for J. Dodsley, 1771. Eight edition. [3], vi-x, [1], 12-100pp. Without half-title. ESTC T120906.

[Bound with:] WILLIAMS, J[ohn]. Advice to People afflicted with the Gout: containing practical observations upon The Treatment of Patients in the different Stages of that Disorder; and The Means of preventing those severe Paroxysms, which are so terrible to the Human Species. London. Printed for T. Becket, 1774. First edition. [4], 86pp, [2]. With a half-title and ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 24654

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[BROADSIDE BALLAD]. Donder & Blixin. The dutch rubbers, or bite your own nose. [London]. [Printed by W. & T. Bailey], [s.d., c.1785-1799] Dimensions 200 x 290 mm. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. Shaving to foot, with loss of imprint. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25363

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[SMITH & WELLSTOOD]. Smith & Wellstood's Registered American Heating Stoves, for parlours, bedrooms, offices, shops, halls, chapels, lobbies, galleries... [Glasgow]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1860] Dimensions 290 x 450 mm. Single leaf broadside. Numerous early vertical and horizontal folds. A trifle creased and marked. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25353

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WAKEFIELD, Priscilla. A family tour through the British Empire; Containing some Account of its manufactures, natural and artificial curiosities, history and antiquities: interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of youth. London. Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1823. Eleventh edition. 8vo. iv, 454pp, [16]. With a engraved, hand-coloured folding map. Contemporary red half-roan, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine sunned. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, without FFEP, several long vertical and horizontal tears to map, foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 25164

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HALL, Mrs. S. C.. The juvenile forget me not. A Christmas and New Year's gift, of birthday present, for the year 1829. London. N. Hailes, [1829]. First edition. 8vo. x, [2], 239pp, [1]. With an engraved presentation plate, a further 14 engraved plates, and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's roan-backed cream boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Upper hinge exposed, early inked gift inscription to presentation plate, scattered foxing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24076

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[MOORE, Margaret King]. [LAMB, Charles]. The stories of old daniel, for the amusement of young persons. London. Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, 1833. Eleventh edition. 8vo. viii, 287pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary (original?) red roan-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24072

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[HUMAN MIND]. A practical survey of the faculties of the human mind; with hints for their proper exercise, regulation, and improvement... London. Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis, 1828. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 111pp, [1]. Contemporary (original?) dark green moire cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24524

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HUNTLEY, Thomas. A treatise of arithmetic and mensuration, for the use of schools. Banbury. Printed by Thomas Cheney, 1811. Fourth edition. 12mo. 71pp, [1]. Original publisher's sheep-backed blue paper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, worming and slight loss to spine and lower board. Minute wormhole to text and minor wormtrack to final two leaves. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23995

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HELME, Elizabeth. Instructive rambles in london, and the adjacent villages. Designed to amuse the mind, and improve the understanding of youth. London. Printed for T. N. Longman...and E. Newbery, 1798. First edition. 12mo. Two volumes, bound in one. [iii]-xii, 189, [2]; [iii]-viii, 169pp, [3]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. II; without half-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Rubbed, with some loss to spine and surfaces, splitting to upper joint. With a contemporary ink inscription (in two hands) 'Josiah Forster to Jane Birkbeck' to verso of ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 16078

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CHASE, Rev. Drummond Percy. The question, should industrial schools erected at the cost of the poor-rate be made available, (on payment,) to children not chargeable to the poor-rates? Considered in a letter to the guardians of the Oxford incorporation. Oxford and London. John Henry and James Parker, 1855. First edition. 8vo. 14pp. Recent morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Very minor shelf-wear. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22128

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KNIGHTLEY, Dr. W. Porter. A plea for private schools, being the substance of A Paper read before the Sussex Educational Association, at Brighton, Nov. 6th, 1876, in reply to some remarks of the Rev. Mark Pattison, B.D., at the Social Science Congress, at Liverpool. Brighton. H. & C. Treacher, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. Recent morocco-backed tan cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to contemporary front blank fly-leaf: 'With the Author's kind regards / Dec. 12th 1876'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22129

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[CHILD'S OWN BOOK]. The child's own book. For April, 1839. London. Published by Richard Davis, [1839]. 16mo. 49-64pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed yellow wrappers.

[Together with:] Another copy of the same work in variant publisher's printed blue wrappers. A trifle creased and dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25268

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PINNOCK, [William]. Pinnock's catechisms. A catechism of navigation; in which the elementary principles of that science are explained in easy language; and the technical terms used at sea rendered perfectly intelligible to youth, For whose use it is designed, preparatory to more copious Works. London. Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. Fifth edition. 12mo. 70pp, [14]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece depicting Captain Cook, and an additional engraved title page. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Stitching perished, text-block separated into constituent gatherings and detached from binding. Extremities heavily rubbed and marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to verso of frontispiece, occasional spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 25245

[QUADRUPEDS]. British quadrupeds. Derby. Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830s] 12mo. 12pp. Original publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dust-soiled. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25263

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WATTS, I[saac]. Divine songs attempted in easy language for the use of children. London. Printed for C. Dilly et al., 1800. 12mo. x, 70pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements.Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Extremities worn, marked, and bumped, surface loss to spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to FEP: 'William Steevens / Wycombe / Bucks / 1800 / 9th mo: 22nd', small holes to text of leaves A3 and F5 (without loss of sense). More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25147