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[CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems supposed to have been written at bristol. Cambridge. Printed by B. Flower, for the editor, 1794. Fifth edition. 8vo. xxix, [3], 329pp, [1]. With an additional engraved title page and one engraved plate. Finely bound in later vellum-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Light browning to title page. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29122

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FAIRHOLT, Frederick William. Rambles of an artist: being Papers on Art, in relation to antiques, paintings, art-decorations and art-manufacture.. London. Virtue and Co. [s.d., c.1871] First edition. Quarto. viii, 259pp. Title page in red and black. With a wood- engraved frontispiece and 259 further in-text wood-engraved illustrations. Finely bound by Fazakerley of Liverpool (stamp- signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, with the supralibros of Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe to upper board. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Prize plate of Stonyhurst College, dated 1885 and ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25555

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WHARTON, Edith. Sanctuary. London. MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1903. First UK edition. 8vo. [4], 210pp, [10]. With terminal publisher's catalogue. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered and decorated black and gilt. With the bookplate of Roberti Marchionis de Crewe to front pastedown. Boards worn and marked, corners and spine ends bumped. Toned endpapers and light marking throughout. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33324

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DICKENS, Charles. Sketches by boz: illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people. . London. John Macrone, 1837. The third edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], iv, [2], 301pp, [1]; [4], 302pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a further 14 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Finely bound for H. Sotheran and Co. (stamp-signed to verso of FFEPs) in contemporary gilt-ruled dark green half-morocco, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Light surface wear to joints. Spotting to initial leaves. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28747

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[TRAVEL]. Round the World Eastwards In 140 Days. [Sevenoaks]. [W. Wicking, Steam Printer], [1898]. First edition. Oblong. 63pp, [1]. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board, denticulated fore- and bottom-edge. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Miss L. K. Dixon / With the Author's love / November 1898'. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31136

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[BRITISH ARMY]. Regulation relative to the cloathing and half-mounting of the Embodied Militia. London. Printed by March and Teape, 1801. 8vo. 24pp. Original publisher's marbled wrappers, printed title label to upper wrapper. Lightly rubbed, sunned. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 35625

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[STUD HORSE]. Duke of wellington, The Property of Mr. g. dyson, of Crowle, will serve mares this serves, 1856, at one guinea each mare, and one shilling the groom. [Gainsborough]. Printed at the "News" Office, by W. H. Caldicott, Epworth and Gainsbro', [1856]. Dimensions 180 x 260 mm. Single leaf handbill, edges uncut. A trifle creased. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 35090

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[TRATHAN]. [Drop-head title:] Street Conversation. Falmouth. [James Trathan?], 1823. Dimensions 180 x 230 mm. Single leaf broadside. text in two columns. A trifle creased and dust-soiled. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29419

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[SHIPWRECK]. [MAYBEE, Robert]. Lines composed by robert maybee, on the loss of the ship "cospatrick," Which was burnt off the Cape of Good Hope, on the night of November 17th, 1874; when more than 400 Lives were lost. Penzance. Saundry, Typ., [s.d., c.1874] Dimensions 220 x 285 mm. Single leaf quarto broadside. Printed within decorative black borders. Some spotting and marginal tears/loss. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29404

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[SINDIAN PRESS]. [Drop-head title:] The sindian extra. Kurrachee :- Saturday May 14, 1859. Kurrachee. Printed at the Sindian Press, [1859]. Dimensions 220 x 380 mm. Single leaf broadside. Old central and horizontal folds. Manuscript Docket-title to verso. A trifle creased. Three manuscript corrections to text. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33617

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MILMAN, R[obert]. The love of the atonement. A Devotional Exposition of the fifty-third chapter of isaiah.. London. Joseph Masters, 1853. First edition. 8vo. viii, 239pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf, contrasting gilt-tooled orange morocco lettering-piece to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.R. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to edges and spine, scoring and dust-soiling to boards. Contemporary inked gift inscription to first blank fly-leaf. Browning and spotting to initial and terminal leaves. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35946

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[HAYWARD, Abraham]. The art of dining; or, gastronomy and gastronomers.. London. John Murray, 1852. First edition. 8vo. vi, 137, [1], 4pp. Modern red cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Light staining to spine. Leaves lightly browned, light staining throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35473

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[CHRISTIANITY]. Daily food for christians. Being a promise, and another scriptural portion, for every day in the year.. London. The Religious Tract Society, [s.d., c.1845] Thirty-first edition. Quarto. [192]pp. Contemporary blind-stamped brown morocco, richly gilt-tooled, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities. Leaves browned, light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35217

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[THE FIRST AUTHORS]. The evergreen. A collection of Superior Poetry, by the first authors.. Liverpool. Henry Lacey, [s.d., c.1834] First edition. 8vo. viii, 248pp. With a steel engraved frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's green diced cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Book-label of bibliophiles Anne and Fernand Renier to FEP. Leaves lightly browned, light scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 35214

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ANDREWS, William. Famous frosts and frost fairs in great britain. Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time. . London. George Redway, 1887. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is copy 37. viii, 91pp, [1]. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's? gilt-ruled navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, light staining to lower board, and chipping to head and foot of spine. Bookplate of Peter Dennis Anthes to FEP. ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35475

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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The works of the right honourable richard brinsley sheridan, with a memoir by james p. browne, m.d.. London. London, 1873. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], li, [1], 292pp; [4], 316pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author to Vol.I. Contemporary gilt-tooled half calf, tan cloth boards, with contrasting burgundy and brown morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, with light scoring to boards. Faded inked ownership inscription to head of second blank fly-leaf, Vol.I. Light browning and spotting to initial leaves of both Vols. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35124

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DEXTER, Walter. Mr pickwick's pilgrimages. London. Chapman and Hall Ld., 1926. First edition. 8vo. [2], xvi, 224pp. With half-title, a photographic frontispiece, and 49 further plates, largely photographic. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, and decorated in blind to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. A presentation copy, with the author's inked gift inscription addressed to 'My good friend in many Pilgrimages. A. E. Brookes Cross. Walter Dexter. 15 October 1926' to FFEP. Book-label of D. ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35282

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ZIMMERMANN, M. [Johann Georg].. Solitude considered, in regard to its influence upon the mind and the heart.. London. Printed for C. Dilly, 1797. Seventh edition. [6], x, 420pp, viii. With an additional engraved title page and engraved frontispiece.

[Together with:] ZIMMERMANN, M. [Johann Georg]. Solitude considered. Part II. London. Printed by H. Baldwin & Son; for C. Dilly, [1800]. First edition. vi, 378pp, vii-xvii, [1]. With an engraved title page and engraved portrait frontispiece.

8vo. Uniformly bound in later calf-backed green paper boards, ruled in gilt and blind, and lettered ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 35385

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KEYNES, John Maynard. The economic consequences of the peace. London. Macmillan and Co., 1920. Second edition. 8vo. [8], 279pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's blue cloth, ruled in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35896

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HOWARD, Michael. The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War. London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1968]. First edition. 8vo. xii, 82pp, [2]. With half-title. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine, with original tricolour dust-wrapper. Lightly rubbed, with very light chipping to edges of dust-wrapper. Dust wrapper price-clipped. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35306