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[LANCASTER COUNTY]. Proceedings of the court of annual general session for the County Palatine of Lancaster: holden on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1839, with the reports of committees, the physician to the county lunatic asylum, the keepers of lancaster castle, and of the several houses of correction, and the memorials, papers, and communications, presented to the court... Preston. Printed by Addisons, 1839. 8vo. 195pp, [21]. With a folding table. Original publisher's limp burgundy cloth, stamped in blind, supralibros of the County of Lancaster. Lightly rubbed, marked, dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33106
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[LANCASTER COUNTY]. Proceedings of the Court of Annual General Session For the County Palatine of Lancaster, holden on the first day of June, 1841, with the reports of committees, the physician to the county lunatic asylum, the keepers of lancaster castle, and of the several houses of correction, and the memorials, papers, and communications, presented to the court... Preston. Printed by Addisons, 1841. 8vo. 258pp, [2]. With a folding table. Original publisher's limp green cloth, stamped in blind, supralibros of the County of Lancaster. Lightly rubbed, marked, sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33107
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LANEHAM, [Robert]. Laneham's letter describing the Magnificent Pageants presented before Queen Elizabeth, at Kenilworth Castle in 1575; repeatedly referred to in the romance of Kenilworth. London. Printed for J. H. Burn, 1821. 8vo. xvi, [2], 114pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a final advertisement leaf. Later navy half-calf, brown buckram boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27555
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LANGDON, W. B. "Ten thousand chinese things." A descriptive catalogue of the chinese collection, now exhibiting at st. george's place, hyde park corner, london, with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire. London. Printed for the Proprietor, and to be obatined only at the Chinese Collection, 1842. First English edition. 8vo. 150pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further seven engraved plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23235
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LANGLAND, William [Henry W. Wells]. The vision of piers plowman. London. Sheed and Ward, 1935. First edition. 8vo. 304pp. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, lower joint split. Bookplate of John Ronald Hamilton Cartland to FEP. With a loosely inserted bookplate of Antony Eden, inscribed to FFEP 'In memory of fond friendship with my son Roland. Mary Cartland, April 12 1942'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29804
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LANYON, Helen. The hill o' dreams. Dublin. Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1909. First edition. 12mo. 32pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, some marking to boards. Endpapers browned, contemporary inked initials to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22210
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LAUDERDALE, [James Maitland], Earl of. Thoughts on finance, suggested by the measures of the present session. London. Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. [4], 55pp, [1]. With a half-title. ESTC T174622.

[Bound after:] [GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE ROYAL BURGHS OF SCOTLAND]. An illustration of the principles of the bill proposed to be submitted to the consideration of Parliament, for correcting the abuses and supplying the defects in the internal government of the royal boroughs... Edinburgh. Printed by Neill and Company, 1787. First edition. [4], 54, 31pp, [1]. Appendix ... More > £ 1,750.00 Antiquates Ref. 25165
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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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LAWRENCE, T.E.. Revolt in the desert. London. Jonathan Cape 30 Bedford Square, 1927. First English edition (Limited edition, no. 63/300). Quarto. [2], 445pp, [1]. With half-title/limitation, coloured frontispiece portrait of Lawrence, eighteen further illustrations, nine of which are coloured, and a large folding map to rear. Original publisher's brown quarter-pigskin over sand-coloured buckram boards, gilt. Dustwrapper. T.E.G., others uncut. A remarkably preserved copy, with only the slightest of shelf-wear externally, bookplate (a skull with the initials PMF) and slight marking to FEP, else fine. Dustwrapper (correctly ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22016
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LAWRENCE, T. E. . Seven pillars of wisdom a triumph. London. Jonathan Cape, 1935. Third English edition. Quarto. 672pp. Four folding maps, 48 plates, with further line illustrations throughout the text. Third English edition, the first for general circulation after two prior privately printed editions. Original publisher's brown buckram cloth boards stamped in gilt, with the functional cream dustwrapper lettered in black. Fore and bottom edges uncut, with some leaves remaining unopened towards the end of the text block. Boards somewhat faded with ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27998
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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Ha-mered ba-midbar... Tel Aviv. Mizpah Publishing Co., 1931. First edition in Hebrew. 8vo. In two volumes. 210; 212pp. With two plates. Hebrew text. Original publisher's blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Modern tickets of the Mizrahi Bookstore to pastedowns, leaves browned, lower corner of one leaf of Vol. I torn-away but present. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33508
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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Revolt in the desert. New York. George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American trade edition. 8vo. xvi, [4], 335pp, [1]. Pictorial endpapers after Kennington; with 16 plates and a folding map. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown cloth, stamped and lettered in black, pictorial dustwrapper (horse variant). Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper heavily worn and marked, with substantial loss and several tape repairs. Short tear to margin of p.9-10, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22256
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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1990]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some marking to top-edge, else clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21457
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LAWRENCE, T. E. T. E. Lawrence Correspondence With Henry Williamson Edited by Peter Wilson With a Prologue and Epilogue by Anne Williamson and a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson. Hampshire. Castle Hill Press, 2000. Limited edition, ex-editio - copyright holder's copy. Quarto. 219pp. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, with the tan dustwrapper lettered in black. Single tear to bottom rear panel, with a light crease. Internally bright and clean save annotation on page 44 in red pen, initialled AW, further corrections in red p179. With a frontispiece sketch of Williamson by Powys Evans, and 16 photographs of correspondence and drafts. From the family library of ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27991
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LAWRENCE, T.E.. The Mint. A Day Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes By 352087 A/c Ross. London. Jonathan Cape, 1955. First trade edition . Quarto. [2], 206pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Some edge wear, cloth fading and marked towards all edges. Minor loss to head of spine on the toned jacket, shelf-wear to edges, predominantly top. Spotting to endpapers, with the bookplate of Richard L. Calvert Williamson to the front inner board. With 10 newspaper clippings relating to Lawrence, 5 photocopied articles, and 2 ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28148
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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Seven pillars of wisdom: a triumph. London. Jonathan Cape, [1935]. First trade edition. Quarto. 672pp. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper chipped, torn, and stained. Internally clean and crisp.Inscribed to recto of FFEP by Eric Kennington's son: 'With every best wish to / Tom Redman / in thanks for many helpful things. / New Year, 2002 / Chris Kennington'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27426