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STAFFORD, Wendell Phillips. Dorian days. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo. vi, [1], 112pp, [4]. With 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's gilt-tooled green cloth. Slightly rubbed, bumping to corners. Author's ink inscription to Margaret Bell Merrill on FEP dated Christmas 1909. William St. Clair's copy, with his pencilled ownership inscription. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29195

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TEMPLE, Neville. TREVOR, Edward.. Tannhauser; or The Battle of the Bards. A Poem.. London. Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 117pp, [3]. Original publisher's gilt-tooled, green cloth. Slightly rubbed to extremities and boards, bumping to corners. Pictorial bookplate of Kenneth Neuton Colvile to FEP, above small paper label displaying monogrammed crest. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19069

TENNYSON, Frederick. Days and hours. London. John W. Parker and Son , 1854. First edition. 8vo. viii, 346pp, [6]. With 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's brown cloth boards tooled in gilt and blind. Boards and spine slightly marked, slight bumping to corners. Small green paper label on FEP displaying 'Gilbert Brothers, Booksellers'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29201

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DILLON, Henry Augustus Viscount. Eccelino da romano, surnamed the tyrant of padua. A poem, in twelve books.. London. E. Lloyd and son, 1828. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 420pp. With a corrigenda leaf between the preface and the beginning of the text. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering piece. Slightly scuffed on spine, slight surface loss to boards. Heavy spotting to end-papers. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29196

GAULTIER, Bon [i.e. AYTOUN, William Edmondstoune. MARTIN, Theodore].. The Book of Ballads. Edinburgh and London. William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. Eleventh edition. 8vo. [1], v, [3], 256pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Doyle, Leech and Crowquill. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco. Marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Moderate wear to spine and very slight bumping to corners. Heavy spotting to front and rear end-papers, but none to text. Contemporary ink inscription R. D. Hamilton (?) to FEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29212

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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, prose and verse. Complete in one volume.. Philadelphia. Thomas Cowperthwait & Co, 1840. 8vo. [6], xvi, 546pp, [4]. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled full calf, morocco lettering-piece. Contemporary inscription to FEP 'Samuel Jones'. Moderate wear to board edges and spine. Marbled end-papers and edges, although substantial surface wear to edges. Heavy spotting on frontispiece, does not obscure engraving. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29202

HASTINGS, Warren. A narrative of the late transactions at benares. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1782. First London edition. 8vo. [2], iv, 132pp, [1] With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Later half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Armorial bookplate of Robinson of Rokeby to FEP. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 28678

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BARKER, John. The treasury of fortification. Wherein That art is made Intelligible to the Meanest Capacity; and the several Methods of Fortifying, according to the late most Approved Engineers in Europe, Explained... London. Printed for A. Bosvile...and Jeffery Wale, 1707. First edition. 8vo. [40], 252pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece (depicting Queen Anne), a further 12 engraved plates (some folding), two folding table (included in pagination), and four leaves of publisher's advertisements bound following the tables of contents. Contemporary panelled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lightly marked. Recent armorial bookplate of sportsman and explorer Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944) to FEP More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 22732

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[NEWGATE GAOL]. [Drop-head title:] The case of The County of middlesex, with respect to The gaol of newgate. [London]. [s.n.], [1765?] Folio. 3pp, [1]. Single bifolium, separated into two leaves. Docket-title to verso of second leaf. Manuscript numerals to head of p.[1], gutter partially trimmed More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28063

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GILCHRIST, Octavius. An examination of the charges maintained by messrs. malone, chalmers, and others, of ben jonson's enmity, &c. towards shakspeare. London. Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1808. First edition. [4], 62pp. With a half-title.

[Bound with:] GILCHRIST, Octavius. A letter to william gifford, Esq. on the late edition of ford's plays; chiefly as relating to ben johnson. London. Printed for John Murray, 1811. First edition. 45pp, [3]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements.

8vo. Modern half-cloth, marbled boards. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, inked ownership inscription to head of title ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25731

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POWNALL, Thomas. The Right, Interest, and Duty, of the state, As concerned in the affairs of the east indies. London. Printed for S. Bladon, 1773. First edition. 8vo. 48pp. With a half-title. Modern grey paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece to spine. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 26612

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PATRICK, Symon. Jesus and the Resurrection Justified by witnesses in Heaven and in Earth... London. Printed by J. Heptinstall for the Assigns of Luke Meredith, 1703. Second edition. 8vo. In two parts. [8], 327, [1]; [32], 311pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 27514

[LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY]. Rules and orders of the public infirmary at Liverpool. Liverpool. Printed by T. Billinge, 1803. Small quarto. 24pp. Modern boards, with upper board imitating title. Occasional browning/spotting to text. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28735

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FAIRFAX, John. [GREEK TITLE]; or, The true Dignity of St. Paul's elder, Exemplified in the life Of that Reverend, Holy, Zealous, and Faithful Servant, and Minister of Jesus Christ Mr. Owen Stockton, M.A. Sometimes Fellow of Gonville and Caius Colledge in Cambridge, and afterward Preacher of Gods Word at Colchester in Essex... London. Printed by H.H. for Tho. Parkhurst.., 1681. First edition. 8vo. [14], 149, [3], 151-196pp, [4]. Later blind-tooled and panelled calf, titled in gilt to spine. Rubbed to extremities, joints, small chip at head of spine. Some some shaving of pagination/headlines and register/catchwords, browned and with some occasional ink-stains; tear without loss to B6 at head. With the bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron to FEP and an old Pickering and Chatto catalogue entry tipped in noting ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28718

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ABERNETHY-DRUMMOND, William. A form of consecrating burying-ground. First used at the consecration of a burial-place for General Count Lockhart of Lee, At dryden, March 15. 1790. [Edinburgh?]. [s.n.], 1790. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by C. Murton in nineteenth-century half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, occasional early manuscript corrections to text, later ownership inscription of Christopher Wordsworth to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27730

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[MANUSCRIPT COMMONPLACE]. [An eighteenth-century manuscript commonplace]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 145 leaves of text, the remainder blank. Contemporary blind-ruled vellum. Extremities marked and discoloured. Scattered spotting. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26074

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[ESHER, Antoinette]. [A fabulous collection of 87 autograph letters addressed to society hostess Antoinette Esher including examples from Agnes Jekyll and Violet Bonham Carter]. [s.i.]. [s.n., 1934-37] Quarto. 87 autograph letters and notes, various paginations; all manuscript on paper. Mounted and bound together in blue half-morocco, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, especially to spine, and marked, spine sunned. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28468

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BILSON, Thomas. The true difference betweene christian subjection and unchristian rebellion; wherein the princes lawfull power to commaund for trueth, and indeprivable right to beare the sword are defended against the Popes censures and the Jesuites sophismes uttered in their Apologie and defence of english catholikes... At Oxford. Printed by Joseph Barnes Printer to the Universitie, 1585. First edition. 8vo. [24], 820pp, [10]. Recently neatly recased, with seventeenth-century calf boards-covering and spine laid down. Slightly rubbed with some darkening to spine. A little marginal creasing at front and end, old worm-track to blank fly-leaves and margin of title, not touching text. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 28247

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AKENSIDE, Mark. The pleasures of imagination... London. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. New edition. 12mo. [2], 159pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper joint split. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to recto of front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title, short tear to head of final leaf. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 26015

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MUMM, A[rnold] L[ouis]. Five months in the himalaya: a record of mountain travel in garhwal and kashmir. London. Edward Arnold, publisher to the India Office, 1909. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 263pp, [1]. With a frontispiece, a further 28 plates, 36 illustrations in the text, and two folding maps. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed, corners bumped. Damp-staining to front endpapers, scattered spotting. Presented by the author to the publisher, inked inscription to half-title: 'Edwadr Arnold / Feb. 1922 From A. L. M.' More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28610