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[HUDDESFORD, George]. Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. First edition. Quarto. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf.Recent brown paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Lightly foxed, very occasional contemporary inked manuscript corrections to text. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19191
[HUDDESFORD, George]. Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. First edition. Quarto. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut in modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28910
[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco Destroyed. Milwaukee. C. N. Caspar Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. [24] leaves. Original publisher's brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24161
[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco in ruins. Denver. Smith-Brooks Company, [s.d., c. 1906] First edition. Oblong octavo. iv, 112pp. Original publisher’s pictorial limp black cloth boards. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24157
SAPPHO. WHARTON, Henry Thornton. Sappho: memoir, text, selected renderings and A Literal Translation by henry thornton wharton m.a. oxon. London. David Stott, 1887. Second edition. Quarto. [2], xvi, 213pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate. Original publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, lettered in red and black. A trifle rubbed, lightly discoloured, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. Limited edition, inked inscription to verso of title page: 'Twenty-five copies of this book have been printed on Large Paper. Each one is numbered and signed by me, this Copy being No. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 26570
TASKER, Joe. Savage arena. London. Metheun, [1982]. First edition. 8vo. 270pp. With 24 photographic plates, eight maps, and six diagrams in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23443
BENSON, E. F. Scarlet and Hyssop. London. William Heinemann, 1902. First edition. 8vo. 316pp, [32]. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black, with the red, blue and black flower pot design stamped to front board. Boards a little marked, spine toned, bumping to spine ends and corners; else a crisp copy. Top and fore edge untrimmed, internally bright and clean. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30030
COTTON, Charles. Scarronides, or virgil travestie, a mock poem, on the first and fourth books of virgil's aeneis, in english burlesque. London. Printed by John Galton, 1804. Thirteenth edition. 8vo. [2], 122pp. With an engraved frontispiece, one further engraved plate, and a single engraved illustration in the text. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, loss to spine, joints starting. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting/staining. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27339
BOWLES, W[illiam] Lisle. Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative... London. William Pickering, 1837. First edition. 8vo. [18], xlv, [1], 118pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, an initial publisher's advertisement a catalogue, and a final advertisement leaf. Original publisher's green buckram, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, lettering-piece chipped. Book-label of J. O. Edwards and pencilled ownership inscription of professor of American literature at the University of Leeds Douglas Grant (1921-1969) to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, frontispiece ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23690
BOWLES, W[illiam] Lisle. Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative accompanied with poems of youth and some other poems of melancholy and fancy in the journey of life from youth to age. London. William Pickering, 1837. First edition. [3], vi-xlv, [1], 118pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece.

[Bound with:] BOWLES, Caroline. The birth-day; a poem, in three parts: to which are added, occasional verses. Edinburgh. William Blackwood and Sons, 1836. First edition. [4], ii, 288pp.

12mo. Contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked, A.E.G. Boards rubbed. Recent book-label of James Stevens Cox to FEP, offsetting to first title, else internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21562
[TRELAWNY, Anne]. Scenes and sketches in Cornwall. Tavistock. W. Brendon, 1844. First ediiton. 8vo. 54pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers, later naively rebacked in calf. Some staining to extremities. Title lightly dust-soiled, closed tear to gutter, occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21094
FISHER, M. Scenes from scripture and other poems. Carlisle. Printed and published by John Irving Lonsdale, 1859. First edition. 8vo. iv, [5]-104pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Very minor shelf-wear, spine a trifle dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27716
UREN, J.G.. Scilly and the scillonians . Plymouth. The "Western Morning News" Co., Ltd., Printers, 1907. First edition. 8vo. [6], [5]-149pp, [3]. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, lettered in blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, some bumping to spine. With very light spotting and inked ownership inscription of 'Samuel Arthur' to title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33393
A CORPORAL OF RIFLEMEN. Scloppetaria: or considerations on the nature and use of rifled barrel guns, with reference to their forming the basis of a permanent system of national defence, agreeable to the genius of the country. London. Printed by C. Roworth...for T. Egerton, 1808. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, With an engraved frontispiece and a further 12 engraved plates. Uncut in modern navy-half calf, grey cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, plates browned. With a contemporary single leaf broadside of the rule and regulations of the Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen tipped-in to RFEP More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30528
LAWSON, John Parker. Scotland delineated. A series of views.. London. Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, [c.1858] Quarto. [8], 285pp. With an additional tinted lithograph title and 71 further tinted lithograph plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy calf, contrasting burgundy morocco lettering-piece. Slightly rubbed to extremities and surfaces. Marbled endpapers and edges. Occasional light scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33870
[WILL AND JEAN]. Scotland's Skaith; or, the history o' Will and Jean: owre true a tale! Together with some additional poems, by the author of The Harp. Edinburgh. Printed by Mundell and Son, 1795. Second edition. Three works bound together. [64]pp. With three engraved plates.

[Bound with]; The waes o'war: or, the upshot o'the history o' Will and Jean, Edinburgh, Printed for A. Guthrie, 1796. iv, [1], 6- 32pp.

[And]; A town eclogue, Edinburgh, Printed for the Author by Oliver and Co., 1804. [5], 8-33pp; [1].

8vo. Later blue-green calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. ... More >
£ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 12161