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[WILKS, Samuel Charles]. Case of Miss Fancourt. The documents and correspondence in the christian observer on the alleged miraculous cure of miss fancourt. London. Printed by Ellerton and Henderson...for J. Hatchard and Son, 1831. First edition. 8vo. 77pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Later brown half- cloth, blue paper boards, paper label lettered "bibliotheca Occulta' to upper board. Rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Book-label of Captain F. G. Irwin to FEP, letterpress bookseller's description pasted to recto of FFEP, title page stained. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33632
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WILKINSON, Joshua L. Political facts, collected in a tour, in the months of August, September, and October, 1793, along the frontiers of france; with relfexions on the same. London. Printed for James Ridgway, 1793. First edition. viii, 133pp, [1].

[Bound after:] KNOX, Vicesimus. A narrative of transactions relative to a sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Brighton, August 18, 1793... London. Printed for C. Dilly, 1793. Second edition. [2], xlii, 140pp.

8vo. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Scattered spotting. From the library of successful merchant of Scottish origin and later M.P. for Lancaster, Woodstock ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30909
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WILKIE, William. Fables. London. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. First edition. 8vo. [10], 140pp. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 17 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled black half-morocco, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, offsetting, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25415
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WILDE, W[illiam] R[obert]. A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities of gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. Hodges, Smith, and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. [4], 100, iv pp. With 90 engraved illustrations in the text. Later brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's printed buff wrappers and a contemporary envelope addressed to 'Mr. Pfister, Medal Room, British Museum' bound in. Rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27877
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WILDE, Oscar. De profundis. London. Methuen and Co., [1905]. Second edition. 8vo. 151pp. Bound for Hatchards in contemporary gilt-ruled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine lightly sunned. Occasional light marking to initial leaves, edges of endpapers browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34310
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WILCOX, Ella Wheeler. Poems of passion and pleasure. London. Gay & Hancock, [1912]. Quarto. xiii, [3], 267pp, [1]. With a tipped-in colour frontispiece and a further 19 tipped-in colour plates by Dudley Tennant. Original publisher's pictorial cream cloth, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, marked. Decorated endpapers, hinges exposed, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33064
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WILBERFORCE, Edward. BLANCHARD, Edmund Forster. Poems. London. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. First edition. 8vo. iv, 149pp, [1], 24pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, sunned, and a trifle marked. Newspaper review pasted to verso of FFEP, occasional spotting. Presentation copy, signed by Edward Wilberforce to verso of FFEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 19067
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WIENHOLT, Arnold, Dr.. Seven lectures on somnambulism. Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black, 1845. First edition in English. 8vo. xxxv, [1], 219pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's dark green buckram, printed paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, lettering-piece dust-soiled. Half-title browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19733
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WIEL, Alethea. Two doges of venice. London. The Chiswick press, 1891. Limited edition. Large 8vo. 142pp. With a terminal colophon leaf. Original publisher's blue paper boards quarter bound over white paper lettered gilt. All edges roughly trimmed, some leaves unopened. Internally bright and clean save a little foxing to endpapers. One of 500 copies, this numbered 490. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30756
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WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Prose works. Boston. Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [8], 473, [1]; viii, 395pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed. Near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Lewis L. Walker to front blank fly-leaves. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32243
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WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. The tent on the beach and other poems. Boston. Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First American edition. 8vo. vi, [3], 10-172pp. Original publisher's blind-ruled green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, library shelf reference in correction fluid to spine. Later bookplate of Mary C. Young to FEP, ink-stamps of St. Joseph's Seminary Library to FEP, p.33, and REP, inked inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21769
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WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Home ballads and poems. Boston. Ticknor and Fields, 1861. Second edition. 8vo. vi, [3], 10-206pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21768
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[WHITTAKER, F. M. C.]. "A book of remembrance;" being recollections of the late colonel holden of nuttall temple, nottingham. By one who knew him well.. London. James Nisbet & Co., [1873]. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 78, [2], 16pp. With a half-title, a tipped-in photographic portrait frontispiece, and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, decorated in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, with chipping to head and foot of spine, corners a trifle bumped. Bookseller's ticket of J. & J. Vice of Nottingham to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to FFEP, ink-stamp of Nottingham Public ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34515
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WHITFIELD, Rev. E[dward]. The bereaved, kenilworth, and other poems. London. Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1830. First edition. 8vo. [4], 140pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy calf, contrasting brown calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, adhesive residue to front blank fly-leaf. With a loosely inserted photographic portrait of the author, with manuscript biographical notes to verso. Presentation copy, ink inscription to verso of FFEP: 'To Miss Masey / with the Author's Love'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29131
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WHITE, Nathaniel. Unlimited Confidence not to be placed in the best of Princes. A sermon preached...On Occasion of the Sudden and much lamented Death of his late Most Excellent Majesty King George the Second... London. Printed for James Buckland, 1760. First edition. 30pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Presentation copy, partially shaved inked inscription to head of title page: 'Ex dono auc'. two manuscript corrections to text. ESTC T67751.

[Bound after:] CHANDLER, S[amuel]. The Character of a great and good King Full of Days, Riches, and Honour. A sermon Preached on Occasion of the Death of his late Majesty King George II... London. Printed ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22104
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WHITE, John. The way to the true church: wherein the principall motives perswading to Romanisme, and questions touching the nature and authority of the Church and Scriptures, are familiarly disputed, and driuen to their issues, where, this day they sticke betweene the papists and vs contriued into an answer to a popish discourse, concerning the rule of faith, and the marks of the Church. And published to admonish such as decline to papistry, of the weake and vncertaine grounds, whereupon they haue ventured their soules... London. Printed by Richard Field for John Bull and William Barret, 1616. Fourth impression. Quarto. [64], 456pp, [12]. Final (blank) leaf pasted to REP. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities marked and discoloured. Pastedowns fashioned from contemporary printer's waste, without free-endpapers, final word of author's attribution, 'Eccles', cut away from title and reinstated in an early manuscript hand, first two gatherings lightly damp-stained at foot, minute worm-trails to gutter, very occasional spotting. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25126