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HORTON, Rev. Edward. A sermon on the horrors of war, preached on wednesday evening, april 26th, 1854, (the day set apart for prayer and humiliation,) in the wesleyan chapel, retford, (published by request.). Retford. J. Whiteside, 1854. First edition. 8vo. 24pp. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers, stapled into modern cloth-backed card cover. Wrappers marked, chipped, and torn. Short tear to head of title page, a trifle creased. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27876

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GOLDSMITH, Dr. [Oliver]. Poems for young ladies. In three parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining. The Whole being A Collection of the Best Pieces in our Language. London. Printed for William Davenhill, 1770. New edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 248pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting black calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and damp-stained, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting, ticket of printer and stationer J. Hall Smith of Cowes, Isle of Wight to RFEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27885

WILLIAMSON, Henry. The wet flanders plain. London. The Beaumont Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo. 96pp, [8]. Original publisher's decorated paper of rifles and ploughshares over quarter buckram, designed by Randolph Schwabe along with the title page. Title lettered in gilt. Bottom and fore-edge uncut, though a little foxed. Wear to all edges, minor bumping to corners, with a few marks and darkening to the spine. Internally bright and clean. Numbered '146' of 400. From the recently dispersed Williamson family ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27918

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JACKSON, Thomas [editor]. The lives of early methodist preachers. Chiefly written by themselves. London. Wesleyan Conference Office, 1871-72 Fourth edition. 8vo. In six volumes. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some chipping to spines at head and foot, a trifle cocked. Early inked ownership inscription to FFEP of Vol. I, later ownership inscriptions to first page text of all volumes, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27922

ARLEN, MICHAEL [Dikran Kouyoumdjian]. The london venture. London. William Heinemann, 1920. First edition. 8vo. 177pp, [12]. With drawings throughout by Michel Sevier. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered and decorated in white, with the monochrome dustwrapper including Mr Heinemann's advertising to rear panel. Some toning throughout, otherwise clean. P. 19 erratum remains present. With the ownership inscription of Henry Williamson dated 1920, and a few passages marked in pencil throughout. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27925

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PELHAM, M. [KILNER, Dorothy]. The rational brutes; or, talking animals§. London. Printed for J. Harris...and by and for Darton and Harvey, 1807. 12mo. 154pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green roan-backed buff paper boards. Extremities worn and marked. Near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions and pen-trials of John Nutter to front endpapers, spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27950

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A MOTHER. Food for the young, adapted to the mental capacities of children of tender years. London. Printed by and for W. Darton, Jun., 1818. First ediiton. 12mo. [4], 176pp. With an engraved frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and bumped. Upper hinge exposed, early inked ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27960

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OPIE, Amelia. Tales of the pemberton family; for the Use of Children. London. Published by Harvey & Darton, 1826. Second edition. 12mo. [4], 104pp. With a half-title, a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, and one further engraved plate (partially naively hand-coloured). Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, joints starting, loss to head-cap. Bookseller's ticket of C. Brown of Margate to FEP, naively repaired FFEP partially glued to front pastedown, offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27969

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COLERIDGE, W. H.. An address delivered at the city of Caracas, on the 26th February, 1834, at the consecration of a chapel and burial ground, for the interment of the Member of the English Church dying within that city.. Winchester. Jacob and Johnson's County Newspaper Office, [1834]. First edition. 8vo. 20pp. Sewn, as issued. General surface wear. Small manuscript corrections from pp16-18. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28021

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[BRITISH ARMY]. [CALVERT, Harry]. General regulations and orders. [London]. [C. Roworth], [1804]. 8vo. iv, vi, 133pp, [7]. With three folded leaves of blank forms for annual and other returns. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed, joints starting, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, short tear to gutter of first form, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28031

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[NEWGATE GAOL]. [Drop-head title:] The case of The County of middlesex, with respect to The gaol of newgate. [London]. [s.n.], [1765?] Folio. 3pp, [1]. Single bifolium, separated into two leaves. Docket-title to verso of second leaf. Manuscript numerals to head of p.[1], gutter partially trimmed More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28063

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LAUGHTON, L. G. Carr. Old ship figure-heads & sterns... London. Halton & Truscott Smith, 1925. First edition. Large quarto. Limited edition of 1,500 copies of which this is number 169. xv, [1], 281pp, [1]. With a frontispiece and a further 55 plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle creased and marked, small hole to lower panel, spine panel sunned. Occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28084

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[BLANSHARD, Henry]. An appeal to The Inhabitants of Great Britain on behalf of the native population of india: in a letter to sir charles forbes, bart. London. Thomas Bumpus, 1836. First edition. 8vo. 24pp. With a half-title. Modern red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28097

CARON, Sue. A Screw Loose my story so far. London. B&T Publishers, 1977. First edition. 8vo. 272pp. Original publisher's mulberry cloth boards lettered in silver, with the pink dustwrapper. Minor bumping to corners and spine ends, with few other marks, wrapper slightly worn. Internally bright and clean. With a full page of manuscript notes to FFEP by Henry Williamson's son Richard Calvert Williamson, noting having met 'this woman... Susan Gibson' whom 'Henry had met 4th August 1964, and on till 1966'. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28111

THOMPSON, R. W.. Men under fire. London. Macdonald & Co. Ltd, [1945]. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. Original publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in white, with the striking unclipped dust wrapper by Redgrave. Boards slightly bumped, wrapper torn and faded without major loss. Internally bright and clean, decorative endpapers showing warfare scenes from the London Illustrated News. Annotated throughout by Henry Williamson with his reactions to the text. Some passages marked in red pencil, highlighting his true feelings about the Holocaust, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28115

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BATTEN, J[ohn] H[allet]. Official reports on the province of kumaon, with a medical report on the mahamurree in general, in 1849-50. Agra. Printed at the Secundra Orphan Press, 1851. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 467pp, [1]. With a hand-coloured engraved folding map. Contemporary blue cloth. Worn and marked. Multiple worm-tracks to extremities, continuing throughout text-block, upper hinge exposed, upper board held in place by cords only, pencilled shelf-marks to title page, significant portion of the map torn-away and now missing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28123

[BROWNING, Robert]. Pauline; a fragment of a confession. [London]. [Smith, Elder and Co.], [1868]. 8vo. 41pp, [1]. Extracted from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (Smith, Elder and Co., 1868, Vol. I). Bound by Morrell in contemporary calf, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28143

[BIBLE VERSE]. Upward!. London. Castell Brothers. Printed in Bavaria, [1889]. First edition. 16mo. [32]pp. Numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, buff pictorial dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper rubbed and dulled, short tears/chipping to edges, loss to spine panel. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28199

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[EMIGRANT'S HYMN]. [Drop-head title:] Emigrant's hymn. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1860s?] Dimensions 130 x 200 mm. Single card sheet, printed on one side only. Engraved vignette to head with caption: 'An emigrant to the Far-west of Canada, or the United States, having partially cleared his land, erected his log-hut & surmounting the first toils of settlement, thinks of his early and pious home, and remembering the lessons learnt at a British mother's knee, sits down with his Bible, and is supposed ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28259

PAXTON, Nicholas. The report of the state of the Offices of the Deficient Masters of the High Court of chancery, made to The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount townshend, One of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. London. Printed by Sam. Buckley, 1725. First edition. [2], 19, [3], 21-31, [3], 33-43, [3], 45-54pp. ESTC N13007.

[Bound with:] Additional, or Post-Accompts Of several of the Masters in Chancery: which Have been brought into the Registers-Office of the Court, since the printing of their former accompts. London. Printed by S. Buckley, [1725]. 16pp. Originally issued as a part of The accompts of the several Masters of the High Court of Chancery; of ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28288