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[SMEDLEY, Edward]. Lux renata: a protestant's epistle, with notes. London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1827. First edition. 8vo. [8], 63pp, [1]. With a half-title. Stitched into recent powder-blue wrappers. Book-label of J. O. Edwards to verso of upper wrapper, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 25128

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AWASTHI, M[ahesh] D[at] [compiler]. Lucknow Guide: a guide to places of interest with a history & a map. [Lucnow]. [Printed by - Pt. Ram Shanker Bajpai, ath the Lucknow Steam Printing Press], [1926]. Fifth edition. 12mo. [4], 41pp, [1]. With a large folding sketch map (dated 1922). Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed and creased. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25384

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LUCAN, [Marcus Annaeus]. ROWE, Nicholas. Lucan's pharsalia. Translated into english Verse. By nicholas rowe, Esq; Servant to His Majesty. Dublin. Printed by James Carson, for Joseph Leathley, 1719. 8vo. [6], x-xvii-lv, [9], 208, 281-469, [1], 72pp. Text complete despite erratic pagination. With a list of subscriber's. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, recently rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Boards rubbed and marked. Occasional spotting, early inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Peter Wybrandt / pr. 8/2 bought of Mr. / Farquer Feb. 23. 1726.', printed note to verso regarding the trial of the ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20471

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RAMSAMUJ, L[eonard] Sewak Chand. Love's intoxication (indian love lyrics). London. The Fortune Press, [1951]. First edition. 8vo. 54pp, [2]. With a lithographed frontispiece and four further lithographed plates. Original publisher's cloth-backed blue paper boards, with an impressed reptile-skin pattern, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Armorial bookplate of John Comyn to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription dated 1972 to verso of FFEP. Tipped-in contemporary review to head of FFEP. Light spotting and staining to front endpapers. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35100

CONGREVE, William.. Love for Love. A Comedy. Dublin. Printed for Peter Wilson., 1757. 12mo. 94pp, (2). Recent cloth with contrasting label and gilt titling. Browning to title, beginning and end. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 10486

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[YOUNG, Edward]. Love and fame, the universal passion in Seven Characteristical satires. London. Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. Fifth edition. 12mo. 144pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, loss to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of Edward Greathed and later typed bookseller's description pasted to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27329

[MOZLEY, Harriet]. Louisa, or the bride. London. James Burns...and Henry Mozley, 1842. First edition. 8vo. [4], 302pp, [2]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, a trifle cocked. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25760

[SHIPWRECK - RMS TEUTON]. Loss of nearly 200 lives At Sea, off the Coast of Africa, on board of Stempship 'Teuton'. Several from Porthleven and other Cornish places. [Cornwall?]. Woolcock, General & Commercial Printer Dimensions 190 x 250mm. Single leaf quarto broadside sheet. Printed within decoratie black borders, with a woodcut of a steamship at head. Dated in manuscript, 'Septem. 1881' beneath drop-head title More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29403

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[WALES]. [Lord Littleton's Description of North Wales in two Letters to his Brother The Bishop of Carlisle]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1770?] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [22]pp. Without initial leaf. Stitched into later stiff grey wrappers, with woodcut of a lion under a tree on lower wrapper and imprint 'Printed and sold by W Bailey, Calne'. Inked ownership inscription of 'Hum. Sandford' to upper wrapper. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24276

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[BROUGHAM AND VAUX, Henry Brougham, Baron]. Lord brougham’s reply to lord john russell’s letter to the electors of stroud, on the principles of the reform act. London. Ridgway, 1839. First edition. 8vo. 35, [1], 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher’s advertisements. Modern brown cloth-backed marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Very minor shelf-wear. Leaves toned, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30615

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[KAMES, Henry Home, Lord]. Loose hints upon education, chiefly concerning the culture of the heart. Edinburgh. Printed for John Bell…and John Murray, 1781. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 381pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red Morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lightly marked, joints starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Crombie of Glasgow to FFEP and head of title, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26115

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BELLAMY, Edward. Looking backward 2000 — 1887. London. William Reeves, [s.d., c.1888] Nineteenth edition. 8vo. 249, [1], 2pp. Contemporary blind-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, with contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, boards a tad faded. Ticket of James, Stroud to FEP. Contemporary inked gift inscription addressed to 'T. Egerton Lower from Walter Ruegg, March 1891' to FFEP. Spotting and browning to endpapers and blank fly-leaves. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35127

[LONDON]. London: a descriptive poem. London. Printed for William Darton, 1812. Second edition, corrected. 12mo. 28pp, [4]. With eight copper-plates (dated 1813), and two terminal advertisement leaves. Stitched in original publisher's buff paper wrappers, lettered in black. Extremities dust-soiled and a trifle rubbed, some loss to spine. Substantial loss to foot of title, touching imprint with loss of price, occasional marginal chipping and small ink spots to text, tear to one plate, partial naive colouring of four plates. More > £ 275.00 Antiquates Ref. 14278

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MASEFIELD, John. Lollingdon downs and other poems, with sonnets. London. William Heinemann, [1917]. First edition. 8vo. [8], 92pp, [2]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. Housed in later red morocco-backed red cloth slipcase. A trifle rubbed. Leaves browned. Later bookplate of Jessie Stillman Taylor to FEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27883

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CERNY, Frederick. Logrono: A Metric Drama in Two Acts. London. Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. First edition. 8vo. 119pp, [1]. With a half-title and 29 engraved illustrations in the text by T. Walter Wilson. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black, A.E.G.. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28644

[ROYAL NAVY]. Log of the proceeding on board H. M. ship "Forte". [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1871-73] Folio. Manuscript on paper. [326]pp. Contemporary black morocco, tooled in gilt and blind. Heavily rubbed and marked, foot of spine and lower joint worn, corners exposed. Internally clean and crisp. With an engraved map showing the 1868-69 passage of the HMS Forte from England to Bombay, with later passage added in manuscript, and a sepia photograph of an unidentified vessel. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30935

[SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft]. Lodore. Brussels. Ad. Wahlen, Printer to the Court, 1835. 8vo. 396pp. With a half-title. Contemporary burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, cocked, lower joint split, chipping to head and foot of sunned spine. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Glenbarr to FEP, partially clipped contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of half-title. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript notes to FEP: 'Contemporary pirate not recorded in Lyle. ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 26146

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CRESSWELL, Marshall. Local and other songs, reciations, &c. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. W. Chater, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 36pp. Original publisher's orange pictorial wrappers. Housed in recent custom calf-backed marbled paper gatefold case. Rubbed and lightly marked, chipping to spine and wrapper edges, short tear to foot of lower panel. Title page a trifle marked and dusty. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24614

GODWIN, William. Lives of edward and john philips, nephews and pupils of milton. Including various particulars of the literary and political history of their times. London. Printed for Longman, Hurts, Rees, Orme, and Brown...by S. Hamilton, 1815. [2], v-xv, [1], 410pp, [2]. With and engraved portrait frontispiece (of John Bradshaw) and two further engraved portraits (of William Lilly and Titus Oates), and a terminal blank; without half-title. Handomely bound in nineteenth-century red gilt-lettered half-morocco, marbled boards. Very slightly rubbed to extremities; some marking, base of spine neatly and expertly furbished. With the armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to FEP. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19613

[GREEN, Charles Edward]. Lives in a lowland parish. Edinburgh and Glasgow. John Menzies & Co., 1906. First edition. 8vo. 118pp. With half-title. Original publisher's green morocco-backed green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Light rubbed, spine slightly sunned. Small spot of soiling to verso of half-title, lightly foxed. Presentation copy, inscribed to blank fly-leaf; To / Mr. J. Hamilton Jameson / with kind regards / from the author's wife.' More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14500