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TWAIN, Mark. The innocents abroad (Abridged.). London. The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900] 62pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves.

[Together with:] TWAIN, Mark. The New Pilgrim's Progress (Abridged.) London. The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900]. 60pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves.

8vo. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities spotted, lightly rubbed and dust-soiled, some chipping to edges. Leaves browned. More >
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21266
BIRDWOOD, George C. M. The industrial arts of india. [London]. Chapman and Hall, 1880. New edition. 8vo. xvi, 344pp. With 90 engraved plates and a coloured engraved folding map. Original publisher's dark brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed. Hinges exposed, ink stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of half-title. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31579
HARRISON, J[esse] B[urton]. The indian mutiny. [London]. Published for the Historical Association by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. First edition. 8vo. 11pp, [1]. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed salmon pink wrappers. Wrappers detached, a trifle faded, creased. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32134
BAKER, J[ames]. The imperial guide, with picturesque plans of the great post roads, containing miniature likenesses, engraved from real sketches, of the cities, towns, villages, seas, islands, mountains, public edifices, and private buildings... London. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1802. First edition. 8vo. Volume one, all published. 8vo. iv, 66pp. Without additional engraved title page. With 18 aquatint pictorial road maps and 13 aquatint topographical plates. Bound by Faulkner of London (ticket to FEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 28559
A KEMPIS, Thomas. The Imitation of Christ: being the autograph manuscript of thomas a kempis, De Imitatione Christi, reproduced in facsimile from the original preserved in the royal library at brussels. With an introduction by charles ruelens, Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts, Royal Library Brussels. London. Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C., 1879. 16mo in 4s. [2], 5-16pp, [236], including four blank leaves. Without the initial advertisement leaf (likely not included in this limited vellum issue). Contemporary gilt-tooled and panelled brown morocco, A.E.G., by Ramage. Rubbed to extremities, cracking to joints with short chip at head of upper joint. From the recently dispersed family library of the descendants of John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), inscribed 'C. Coleridge, 1 Sussex Square, 1879' to ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 28000
BUXTON, Charles. The ideas of the day on policy. London. John Murray, 1866. First edition. 8vo. vi, 111pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's blind-ruled navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, corners bumped. Upper hinge exposed, armorial bookplate of 'Henry Birkbeck' to FEP, hole to FFEP, ink ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, neat repair to lower corner of D1, lightly foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16181
CRUIKSHANK, George. [The humourist: a Complete Set of the Forty Celebrated Coloured Etchings by george cruikshank of which thirty are Choice Undivided Proofs Before the Publisher's Inscriptions and of the utmost rarity]. [London]. Published by J. Robins & Co., 1819. First edition. Oblong quarto. 40 hand-coloured etchings on 20 leaves, with a neat manuscript title leaf bound in at front. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red crushed morocco, A.E.G., green paper endpapers, gilt dentellles. Typed bookseller's description tipped-in to front blank fly-leaf. Slightest shelf-wear to extremities, else a fine copy. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 32653
BERNEN, Robert. The House on the Cove. [London]. The Acorn Press, [1987]. First edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 200 copies set in Caslon type and bound by Woolnough and Co., of which this is number 184. [36]pp. With 15 engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn and six loosely inserted off strikes. Original publisher's marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Very minor shelf wear. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33073
BENSON, E. F.. The house of defence. London. William Heinemann, 1907. First edition. 8vo. [vii] 293pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black. Boards lightly marked, with bumping to corners and spine ends. Foxing to fore edge, bottom edge untrimmed, some creasing to spine. Bright throughout, save a little toning and marks towards the rear. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 30087
KOERNER, Alfred. The hotchkiss single-barrel rapid-firing gun. A description of the system. Paris. Printed for Private Circulation, 1884. First edition. Quarto. 37pp, [3]. With 11 plates, comprising seven albumen print photographs (mounted as issued) and four folding lithographic diagrams. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Bookplate of Henk Visser to FEP, his inked ownership inscription to half-title, FFEP detached, Hotchkiss company ink-stamp to title page, folding plate 10 a touch proud and consequently nicked along fore edge, toned.

[Together with:] [Caption title:] Measurements ... More >
£ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 30521
VERY, Lieut. Edward W. The hotchkiss revolving cannon. Descriptions and illustrations of the systems as designed for Naval Service, field Artillery and flank Defence... Paris. Printed for private circulation, 1885. Quarto. [4], 76pp. With a phototype frontispiece and a further 30 phototype/lithographic plates. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, recently rebacked. Rubbed, marked, and bumped. Numerous marginal tears, many naively repaired with clear tape. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 30520
[JAMES, Thomas]. The honey bee. Reprinted from the 'Quarterly Review'. London. John Murray, 1852. 8vo. [4], 99pp, [1].

[Bound after:] JAMES, Thomas. The history and antiquities of northamptonshire. London. John Murray, 1864. iv, 103pp, [1].

[And:] [JAMES, Thomas]. The flower garden. With an essay on the poetry of gardening. London. John Murray, 1852. 108pp.

8vo. Handsomely presented in richly gilt-tooled green calf, with the titles of the works lettered in gilt to upper board. Marbled endpapers and edges. With an ... More >
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32208
VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem. The home of mankind: the story of the world we live in. London. George G. Harrap & Company, 1933. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 506pp. Numerous illustrations by the author in the text. Original publisher's decorative green clot. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, marked. Presentation copy, inked illustration and inscription to recto of FFEP: 'The will to live / Hendrik Willem van Loon / Madras (?)'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20896
LAWRENCE, T. E. The home letters of t. e. lawrence and his brothers. Oxford. Basil Blackwell, 1954. First English edition. Quarto. 731pp, 45 photographs tipped in, including frontispiece, and facsimile of Winston Churchill's typewritten permission to reproduce the original Allocution that follows. Original publisher's dark navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the pale grey unclipped dustwrapper lettered in black and red. All edges spotted with some further spotting and markings throughout. Dustwrapper is worn and toned with some tearing though intact. Some notes in Henry ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 27983