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Photo of "Gwalior state. Proposed railway extensions"
GIBB, Sir Alexander. Gwalior state. Proposed railway extensions. Bombay. Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, [1927]. First edition. Folio. [1], 6ff. Letterpress title page and six leaves of typescript. With a large coloured folding map. Original publisher's black cloth-backed printed buff wrappers. Rubbed and marked, coloured pencil shelf-mark to upper board. Occasional coloured pencil annotation to text. Terminal leaf signed in initials Gibb. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31569
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[GIBBS, Henry Hucks]. The game of ombre. London. Printed [at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham] for private circulation, 1878. Second edition. Quarto. viii, 120pp. With a half-title and a frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's brown cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'Thomas Gaisford / from ' Henry H. Gibbs / 1879' More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25044
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GIBBS, Frederick Waymouth. Recognition: a chapter from the history of the North American & South American States. London. Printed by W. M'Dowall, 1863. Second edition. [2], 46pp.

[Bound after:] The foreign enlistment act, London, William Ridgway, 1863. 74pp.

[And with:] Once a clergyman, always a clergyman. A letter to the Lord Bishop of London. London, William Ridgway, 1865. 78pp.

[And:] Extradition treaties. London, William Ridgway, 1868. 69pp

8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities somewhat rubbed to joints and corners. Internally clean ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 12929
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GERRARD, R. Ellis. Ballads of battle and poems of peace. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. North of England Printing Co., 1914. First edition. 8vo. [12], iii, [1], 204pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Binding cocked, heavily rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Decorated endpapers, near contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24616
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[GEORGE IV]. A Brief Account of the coronation of his majesty, george iv. July 19, 1821. London. Printed for D. Walther, 1821. First edition. 8vo. [2], 32pp. With a stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, six aquatint plates by W. Read, and a line engraved illustration of the regalia.

[Bound with:] Official Programme: coronation of Queen Victoria. Single leaf broadside. Dimensions 390 x 490 mm. [London]. Orlando Hodgson, [1838]. Letterpress text in three columns within an engraved border, including the order of the procession from St James's Palace to Westminster Abbey, and ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27788
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[GEORGE IV]. Death of the king. Poole. Moore and Sydenham, Printers, [1830]. Dimensions 190 x 230 mm. Single sheet handbill, text within black border. Creased, some loss to margins, evidence of removal from a mount to verso. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25473
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[GEORGE III]. Memoirs of his late most excellent majesty king george III. Chiefly illustrative of his private, domestic, and christian virtues; His Patronage of the Arts, Literature, &c. &c. &c. With numerous original anecdotes. London. Published by R. Miller, 1820. Second edition. 8vo. 64pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one further engraved plate (a portrait of George IV). Uncut. Later stitched into original publisher’s printed buff wrappers, with the edition of a [2]pp publisher's advertisement announcing the publication of the present work. Extremities worn, loss to spine. Plates foxed. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26129
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[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
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[GEORGE II]. [A signed document relating to the installation of Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick within the Order of the Garter]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1760]. Folio. Manuscript on paper. Recent calf-backed brown cloth boards. Two sheets, tipped-in onto two leaves; preceded by leaves bearing typed details and contemporary engraved portraits of George II and Prince Ferdinand, and followed by an engraved portrait of Thomas Holles (with a typed note below), another of Henry Bilson Legge, two of Lord North, and one of Stephen Martin Leake. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 27472
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GEORGE, Christopher [i.e. AMOROSA, John and Anthony]. Kingston abbey: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. New York. Vantage Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo. 82pp. Original publisher's red morocco, lettered in silver, with original publisher's pictorial pink textured dustwrapper. Dustrapper scuffed and marked, flaps taped to pastedowns. Inscribed on the FFEP: 'Complimentary Copy to Sir Laurence Olivier from Christopher Lynley George'. Loosely inserted is a typewritten letter in it's original addressed envelope from the brothers expressing their admiration for Olivier: 'I would deem it an honor if you would ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31310
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GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de. Memoirs of the countess de genlis, illustrative of the history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. London. Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition in English. 8vo. In two volumes. vii, [1], 324; [4], 300pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces. Rubbed, surface loss to spines, loss to lettering-pieces, some splitting to joints, a trifle marked. Spotting to endpapers, offsetting to Vol. I title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20632
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GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité], Comtesse de. Tales of the castle: or, stories of instruction and delight... London. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. Fourth edition. 12mo. In five volumes. Bound by Roberts of Helston, Cornwall, in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked. Binder's tickets and early armorial bookplates of Rev. Henry Grylls to all FEPs, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of J. W. Grylls to all FFEPs, scattered foxing. Some loss to FFEP of first volume. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24712
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[GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de]. Lessons of a governess to her pupils: or, Journal of the Method adopted by Madame de Sillery-Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) in the Education of the Children of M. d'Orleans, First Prince of the Blood-Royal. Published by herself. London. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1792. First edition in English. In three volumes. xxxvi, 364; xii, 333, [1]; [2], 308pp. Contemporary gilt- tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29066
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[GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE]. Suggestions for the guidance of the clergy relative to the duties imposed upon them by the marriage and registration acts. London. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Darling & Son, Ltd., 1901. First edition. 8vo. v, [1], 33pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-tooled green cloth, lettered in gilt. Very light rubbing to extremities. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to FFEP, title-page and terminal leaf browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 18221
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[GENEALOGY]. The Genealogy of James Robertson Thomson, Esquire, compiled from MSS., from the works of Alexander Nisbet, Gent.; from Douglas's Peerage and Baronage; and from other authentic sources by J. Paul Rylands. "Deus Providebit". [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1930?] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 69pp. With nine sheets of manuscript notes/letters, and related ephemera (bookplates, newspaper clippings etc.), loosely inserted. With three engraved portraits and two armorial bookplates pasted-in. Contemporary gilt-ruled red limp morocco, Marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25589
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GELL, Mrs. Lyttelton. The Cloud of Witness: a daily sequence of Great Thoughts from Many Minds following the christian seasons. London. Henry Frowde, [s.d., c. 1900] 16mo. xix, [1], 552pp, [16]. With a half-title and frontispiece. Handsomely bound by Bumpus (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, lettered in gilt to upper board 'V. E. H. March 27 1906', A.E.G. Housed in custom red cloth slipcase. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf. An immaculate copy. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27312