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Photo of "Memoir of sarah b. judson, ..."
FORESTER, Fanny. Memoir of sarah b. judson, of the american mission to burmah. London. Thomas Nelson, 1850. 12mo. 230pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Contemporary green morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Near contemporary school prize inscription to FFEP, ownership inscription of Rebecca L. Cooper to front blank fly-leaf, frontispiece and additional title browned. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 21057
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FOREST, Eugene FRENCH, R.. [Manuscript copy and english translation of Histoire de mr de vertpre et de sa menagere aussi]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1872. Oblong 8vo. Manuscript on tracing paper, mounted: [1], 46ff. Contemporary roan backed paper boards. Some rubbing to extremities, paper labels remains to upper board. Signed 'Del. R. French, Mar 28 1872' to foot of copied title.

[With:] Manuscript on paper. [4]ff. Original orange paper wrappers. An English translation of the captions in the manuscript copy of the French original, in two hands; the first (matching that of ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 18970
Photo of "The Forest Hotel. Epping Forest, ..."
[FOREST HOTEL]. The Forest Hotel. Epping Forest, Chingford. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1880] Oblong 12mo. [2], 28pp, [2]. With four full-page engraved illustrations in the text. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial light green wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Recent book-label of Robin de Beaumont to verso of upper wrapper. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31140
Photo of "Flora Tonbrigensis; or, a catalogue ..."
FORSTER, T[homas] F[urly]. Flora Tonbrigensis; or, a catalogue of plants growing wild in the neighbourhood of Tonbridge Wells, arranged according to the Linnaean system... London. Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1816. Second edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 216pp. With three engraved, hand-coloured plates of plant specimens. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, recently rebacked with tan paper, title in manuscript to spine and upper board. Lightly foxed, ink gift inscription to recto of FFEP 'John S. L. Gilmour / 28/9/30 / from Kingey(?)', alongside later ownership inscription 'A. J. Wilmott / 1944'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 12423
Photo of "The highlands of central india: ..."
FORSYTH, Captain J. The highlands of central india: notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports. London. Chapman & Hall, 1871. First edition. 8vo. [5], viii-xii, 472pp. Without half-title. With a chromolithographed frontispiece, a further five chromolithographed plates, a lithographed folding map, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled black half-calf, grey cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked. Inked ownership inscription of George James Ferguson to title page, manuscript note to foot of p.285, scattered spotting/staining. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32897
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FORSYTH, William. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit-trees; in which a new method of pruning and training is fully described. To which is added, a new and improved edition of "observations on the diseases, defects, and injuries, in all kinds of fruit and forest trees:" With an account of a particular method of cure, published by order of government. London. Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Third Edition, with Additions. 8vo. xxx, 523pp, [1]. With thirteen engraved plates. Finely bound in contemporary marbled calf, gilt, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Very slightest of wear to extremities, else a fine copy. Partially erased ink inscription to FEP, neat tear to gutter margin of RFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 11173
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FOSTER, Birket. MAYHEW, Henry. The Upper Rhine: the scenery of its banks and the manners of its people. Mayence to the Lake of Constance. London. George Routledge, 1858. First edition. Quarto. xv, [1], 448pp. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 18 engraved plates. Original publisher's richly gilt-stamped navy cloth, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and cocked, spine dulled. Armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28917
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FOTHERGILL, A[nthony]. A new experimental inquiry into the nature and qualities of the cheltenham water. To which are now added, observations on sundry other waters: shewing how their Properties may be ascertained, their Virtues preserved, their Impurities corrected &c. With an appendix on mephitic-alkaline water; a new and approved remedy against the stone and gravel. Bath. Printed By R. Cruttwell; and sold by W. Taylor et al., 1788. Third edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 122pp, [1]. With half-title. Uncut, stitched as issued. Lightly dust-soiled, creasing to leaves, ink annotations and spotting to half-title and title-page, occasional marginal chipping. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 16170