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[ACTS - GEORGE I]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for Repairing the Road from Market Harborough to Loughborough in the County of Leicester. London. Printed for John Baskett, 1726. Folio. [2], 183-196pp. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. A trifle browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31017

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[MARSHALL, Frank]. Henry irving, actor and manager: a criticism of a critic's criticism. by an irvingite.. London. George Routledge, 1883. First edition. 8vo. 80pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered back, with the publisher's device blindstamped to the lower board. A little shaken, a trifle cocked, with 'Frank Marshall' pencilled on the title page below 'An Irvingite'. Early ownership inscription to the top of the title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31093

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[WILLIAM BAIN & COMPANY]. [Drop-head title:] The "corrimony' fence, a new system of wire fencing, Designed by thomas ogilvy, Esq. of Corrimony, Inverness-shire. Manufactured by william bain & company, patentees, lochrin iron works, home street, edinburgh. Edinburgh. Banks & Co. [s.d., c. 1876] Folio. Single bifolium. Seven old horizontal folds, else clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31294

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[WILLIAM BAIN & COMPANY]. [Drop-head title:] William bain & company's improved wrought-iron continuous bar fencing, For horses, cattle, sheep, and deer. Edinburgh. Banks & Co. [s.d., c. 1876] Folio. Single bifolium. Five old horizontal folds, else clean and crisp. Manuscript docket title to blank verso of second leaf. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31295

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[CINDERELLA]. History of cinderella, or the little glass slipper. Glasgow. Printed for the Booksellers, 1852. 12mo. 23pp, [1]. Woodcut vignette to title and a further 10 woodcut vignettes in the text. Six loose bifolia, edges uncut. A trifle creased, overall clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31329

GORDON, Jan. GORDON, Cora. Two vagabonds in the balkans. London. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1925]. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 236pp, [4]. With a coloured frontispiece, a further 11 coloured plates, 24 black and white plates, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's decorated light blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31516

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KNIPE, Henry R. [editor]. Tunbridge Wells and neighbourhood. Pelton. Tunbridge Wells, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 205pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's printed buff stiff paper wrappers. Extremities rubbed and marked. Book-label pf Walter William Young to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31555

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HEPWORTH, J. [compiler]. Rochester and district. Sketch-guide to its geology, flora, & fauna. Rochester. Parrett & Neves, 1913. First edition. 8vo. 127pp, [1]. Original publisher's pictorial powder-blue wrappers. Rubbed and marked, some loss to head of sunned spine. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31556

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[BIRMINGHAM]. The duty of the respective officers appointed by the court leet, in The Manor of Birmingham. Birmingham. Printed by E. Piercy, 1789. 8vo. 8pp. Original publisher's grey wrappers, printed paper lettering-piece to upper wrapper. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To John Henry Lewis / with the printers / kind thoughts./ 27.8.43 / ie from W. T. Wiggins-Davies'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31730

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BEVERIDGE, William H. Full employment in a free society. London. George Allen & Unwin, [1944]. First edition. 8vo. 429pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31758

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HINGSTON, Major R. W. C.. A naturalist in the guiana forest. London. Edward Arnold & Co., 1932. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [2], 384pp. With 16 plates and 150 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked spine sunned and a trifle cocked. Half-title lightly foxed, otherwise bright throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31842

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MONCKTON, C. A. W. Some experiences of a new guinea resident magistrate. London. The Bodley Head, 1921. Fourth edition. 8vo. x, 337, [2]. With 37 illustrations and a fold out map. Publisher's list bound into rear. Original publisher's red cloth, blind stamped and lettered gilt. Fore- and bottom-edge untrimmed, top edge once gilt. A trifle cocked, lightly foxed, nonetheless a sturdy copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31843

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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. Royal entertainment, by command, her majesty's servants will perform, at windsor castle on thursday january 15th 1857...the school for scandal. London. Chapman & Company, 1857. Bifold. Dimensions 186 x 220 mm . Lace paper sheet, cream paper printed in black. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31848

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[SOCIETY OF ARTS]. [Drop-head title:] Mobbing of distinguished persons. [London?]. [s.n.], [1869]. Dimensions 110 x 130 mm. Single sheet, printed on one side only. Old horizontal and vertical folds, affixed with sealing wax at upper right-hand corner to later paper sheet, with title and date in manuscript to verso. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31851

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MEREDITH, Owen. Serbski pesme; or, National Songs of Serbia.. London. Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 142pp, [2]. Original publisher's blind-stamped burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A crisp copy, with the slightest of rubbing to extremities. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32026

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TURNER, Rev. Charles. Sonnets by the rev. charles turner vicar of grasby, lincoln. London. Macmillan and Co., 1864. First edition. 8vo. viii, 89pp., [2]. Original publisher's gilt-tooled green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Very slightly rubbed. Two inked ownership inscriptions to verso of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32038

WATSON, Samuel James. The legend of the roses: A Poem. Ravlan: A Drama.. Toronto. Hunter, Rose and Company, 1876. First edition. 8vo. [2], 228pp. Original publisher's Canadian ribbed cloth, decorated with blind and gilt-tooling. Some fading to spine, slight rubbing to extremities. Spotting to endpapers. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32039

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BULLEN, A. H.. Lyrics from the song-books of the elizabethan age. London. John C. Nimmo, 1887. First edition, limited edition (number 149 of 500 copies printed). 8vo. [4], xxx, [2], 200pp, [4]. Original publisher's brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed, historic water damage to lower board. Discolouration to endpapers. Inscribed to Edward Brooke from his brother Stopford Brooke, with his initials. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32051

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The works of alfred lord tennyson poet laureate. London. Macmillan and Co., 1907. 8vo. viii, 901pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32076

WINANS, Walter. Hints on revolver shooting. New York and London. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. 8vo. [4], v, [1], 130pp, [2]. With a half-title, an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements, numerous illustrations in the text, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth. Lightly rubbed, a trifle dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32077