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[EDINBURGH ALMANACK]. The Edinburgh Almanack For the Year M. DCC. LXIV... Edinburgh. Printed for, and sold by R. Fleming, [1764]. 12mo. 72, 12pp. Contemporary limp sheep. Extremities worn. Text-block detached from binding. Contemporary manuscript notes and calculations to blank fly-leaves. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 23575

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[EDINBURGH ENTERTAINER]. The edinburgh entertainer: containing historical and poetical collections. For the Use of schools. Taken from the best Authors. Edinburgh. Printed for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour et al., 1750. First edition. 12mo. iv, 355pp, [1]. Contemporary sheep. Heavily worn, boards detached. Pen-trials to endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25757

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[EDINBURGH ESTATE]. [A dozen manuscript receipts and bills for the interior decoration of a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], 1800-69 Twelve loose leaves of manuscript, together with an [8]pp manuscript account book (dated 1800/01) stitched into contemporary powder blue wrappers. More > £ 600.00 Antiquates Ref. 26093

[EDINBURGH RIOTS]. A narrative of the Late riots at edinburgh; and a vindication of its magistracy, against The Charges advanced in the memorial for the papists of scotland. London. [s.n.], 1779. First edition. Quarto. 28pp. Modern marbled wrappers. Lightly rubbed. Title page and terminal leaf browned and soiled. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33304

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[EDKINS, Joshua]. A collection of poems, mostly original, By several hands. Dublin. Printed, for the editor, by M. Graisberry, 1789-90 First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xxxiii, [1], 328; xi, [1], 364pp. With half-titles, engraved vignettes to title pages, a further four engraved vignettes in the text, and a list of subscribers. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to boards, joints starting, lettering-pieces chipped, slight wear to headbands. Worming to gutter margin of initial gathering of Vol. I. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11987

EDLER, Karl Erdmann. Baldine And other Tales. London. Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. First edition in English. 8vo. In two volumes. xliv, 289, [1]; [2], 291pp, [1]. Titles printed in red and black. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32393

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[EDUCATION]. An essay upon education; shewing how latin, greek, and other languages may be Learn'd more easily, quickly and perfectly, than they commonly are. London. Printed for Tho. Baker, 1711. First edition. 23pp, [1]. ESTC T65383. ESTC records copies at five locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Hull, NLS, and Oxford), and a further five in North America (Columbia, Folger, McGill, Newberry, and Yale).

[Bound after:] [YALDEN, Thomas]. Aesop at court. Or, State Fables. Vol. I. London. Printed and Sold by J. Nut, 1702. 43pp, [1]. With a half-title. All published. ESTC T61833.

[And:] [Aesop in ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 23332

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EDWARDS, Bryan. The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the west indies. London. Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. Third edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xxiv, xxiii, [1], 576; viii, 617, [1]; [2], xxxii, 477pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 10 engraved folding plates, and 11 engraved folding maps. Bound by Vicary & Co. of Plymouth, Devon (tickets to FEPs) in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to lower board of Vol. I, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31542

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EGAN, Pierce. Recollections of john thurtell, who was executed at hertford on friday, the 9th of january, 1824; for murdering mr. w. weare...being An Appendix to his Account of the Trial. London. Knight & Lacey, 1824. First edition. 8vo. [2], 44pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Disbound. Small manuscript note to head of title. Leaves lightly browned and spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35083

[EGERTON, George Le Clerc]. [An archive of letters]. [c. 1882-1907] Including: nine ALS within stamped envelopes, eight addressed to George Le Clerc Egerton, and one to Lady Egerton; seven stamped envelopes variously addressed to Egerton and Lady Egerton; six postcards; two receipts from Curtiss & Sons, Royal Pantechicon, Portsmouth; and a copy of E. M. Tenison's The Legend of Saint Christopher (Plymouth, 1922?), inscribed by the author to Egerton. More > £ 1,800.00 Antiquates Ref. 31490

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EHRMAN, J. P. W.. [Drop-head title:] The official papers transferred by pepys to the admiralty by 12 july 1689. [London]. [s.n.], [1948]. First offprint edition. Quarto. [1], 256-270pp. Later blue cloth. Light shelf-wear. Spotting to endpapers. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of first page: 'With love - Ehrman'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21946

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EKINS, Charles. Naval battles, from 1744 to the peace in 1814, critically reviewed and illustrated. London. Published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First edition. Quarto. xxix, 425pp, [3]. With half-title, a list of subscribers, and 79 engraved plates.Later navy half-morocco, navy cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, some offsetting, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24143

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[ELIZABETH]. [Manuscript of the death of a husband]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1818?] Quarto. Speculative date from watermark. Manuscript on paper. [21]pp. excluding blanks. Unbound. A few small tears to gutter margins, slightly browned. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23019

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[ELIZABETHAN POETRY]. Zepheria: reprinted from the original edition of 1594. [Manchester]. Printed [by Charles S. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1869. Quarto. xi, [1], 44, 8, 4pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G. Rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26316

ELLIOTT, S. M.. A pilgrim's visit to the land of jesus. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1927. First edition. 8vo. x, 115pp, [1]. With numerous monochrome photographic illustration in the text. Original publisher's tan cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, pictorial dustwrapper. Dustwrapper lightly dust-soiled with very small hole to spine panel. Internally immaculate. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 18010

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ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. The history of india. The hindú and mahometan periods. London. John Murray, 1857. Fourth edition. 8vo. xxiv, 698pp. Later half-calf, brown cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities rubbed. Title page and terminal leaf browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30318

ELTON, Charles. Origins of english history. London. Bernard Quaritch, 1882. First edition. 8vo. [3], vi-xiv, [2], 458pp. Without half-title. With 10 folding plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32960

EMBRY, Basil, Sir. Mission completed. London. Methuen & Co., 1957. First edition. 8vo. 350pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Original publisher's pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Field Marshal Slim to FEP and his inked ownership inscription 'Bill / 6th August 1957' to recto of FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25835

EMERSON, George [editor]. The gem, (Re-set.). London. Edward Lacey, [s.d., 1850?] 12mo. vii, [1], iii, [1], 312pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and additional engraved title page, and a further seven engraved plates. Bound by Remnant & Edmonds of London in contemporary (original?) burgundy calf, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, some scoring to boards. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27863

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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays by ralph waldo emerson: first series. London. George G. Harrap & Co., [1926]. 8vo. [6], 277pp, [1]. With half-title and engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Title page in red and black. Bound in a contemporary blind-tooled, slightly tinted arts and crafts binding, with elaborate decoration to upper board and spine. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27229