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MACKENZIE, Compton. Echoes. London. Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 187pp, [3]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper chipped, lower joint split, a trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Bryan Matheson / with all good wishes / from / Compton Mackenzie'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24918

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SHERLOCK, Tho[mas]. Several discourses preached at the temple church. Edinburgh. Printed for J. Dickson, and J. Fairburn, 1789. 12mo. In three volumes. xvii, [7], 329, [1]; [8], 336; [8], 335pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Extremities rubbed, loss to head of Vol. III spine, corners bumped. Without Vol. I FFEP, More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24909

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FOSTER, Sir Michael. A report of some proceedings on the commission for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746, in the county of Surry; and of other crown cases: to which are added discourses upon a few branches of the crown law. Dublin. James Moore, 1791. Second edition, corrected. 8vo. xxxi, [1], 412pp, [20]. Recent half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Very minor shelf-wear. Leaves foxed and browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23719

TROLLOPE, Anthony. Ralph the Heir. London. Strahan & Co., 1871. First edition. 8vo. iv, 434pp. With 18 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities heavily rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24889

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NAPIER, Lieut.-Gen. Sir William. English battles and sieges in the peninsula. London. John Murray, 1879. New edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 469pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Handsome contemporary Hillbrow School, Rugby prize binding of gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros to upper board, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16490

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[SOMERSET AUCTION]. Somerset: manor, mansion, and estate. Specifications Of a Desirable and Valuable freehold estate...comprising the manor or reputed manor of Roundhill or Barrow; a mansion-house, together with above Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Acres... [London]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1831?] Folio. [4]pp. Single folded sheet. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Three early horizontal folds. A trifle creased, short tears to folds. Contemporary manuscript notes, providing further details of the estate, to verso of final leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24868

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[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] A bill for Confirming and Establishing a Division and Inclosure of the Common or Open Fields and Waste Grounds within the Parish of Mildenhall, in the Country of Wilts, and certain Exchanges of Lands and Estates within the said Parish. [London]. [s.n.], [1799]. Folio. 12pp. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. Three early horizontal folds. A trifle creased and browned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24867

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[KENDALL, Edward Augustus]. Burford Cottage, and it's robin-red-breast. London. Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son et al., 1835. First edition. 8vo. [4], 476pp. With an engraved frontispiece and title vignette by George Cruikshank. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Allston A. Kisby to FEP, inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24887

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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The poetical works, lyrical and dramatic... London. Whittaker and Co. et al., 1853. Fourth edition. 12mo. xxvi, 471pp, [1]. Title in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title page, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24886

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KINGSLEY, Charles. Charles Kingsley: his letters and memoirs of his life. Leipzig. Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. 287, [1]; 278pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, green cloth boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24885

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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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[GEORGIAN BOOKS]. [A handsome collection of works of English literature in 21 volumes, all bound in silk, with gilt edges, contained within a (later?) morocco box with a lid]. London. Jones & Company, 1823-30 24mo in 8s. 21 volumes. Occasional light wear/splitting, the odd quire protrudes from text block, slightly marked. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 23955

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PONTIS, [Louis], sieur de. Memoirs of Sieur De Pontis; Who served in the Army Six and fifty Years, under King Henry IV. Lewis the XIII. and Lewis the XIV. Containing Many remarkable passages relating to the war, the court, and the government of those Princes. London. Printed by F. Leach, for James Knapton, 1694. First edition in English. Folio. [8], 287pp, [1]/ Title page in red and black. Contemporary panelled speckled calf. Rubbed, joints starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24800

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LA FONTAINE, [Jean de]. La Fontaine's Tales: imitated in English verse. London. Printed for C. Chapple, 1814. First edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. xxii, [2], 286; [2], 360pp. Uncut in contemporary cloth-backed buff paper boards, original publisher's printed paper lettering piece pasted to spine. Rubbed and marked. Short closed tear to Vol. I title, scattered foxing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18475

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BARSTOW, D.. A Secular Diary for ascertaining any day of the week or month, in either the old or new style, commencing 1601, and continued up to the year 1900. [s.l.]. Printed for the author, 1836. First edition. Dimensions 360 x 265 mm (unfolded), 127 x 80 mm (folded). A single leaf broadside, folded and mounted onto original publisher's limp green cloth boards. A trifle creased. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24816

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[MUSIC]. BISHOP, Henry R.. [Fifty-three glees by Henry R. Bishop]. [vs.]. [vs.], [c. 1830s] Folio. In two volumes. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled edges, morocco onlays of Thomas Gladstone to upper boards. Lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Book-labels of Thomas Gladstone to both FEPs, manuscript lists of contents to front free-endpapers. Inked gift inscription to FEP of Vol. I: 'T. Gladstone / from Robertson G. / 27 Augst. 1835'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11353

MONRO, Harold. Strange meetings. London. The Poetry Bookshop, 1917. First trade edition. Quarto. 63pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Extremities a trifle creased and marked, chipping to wrapper edges. Bookplate of Arthur Lloyd-Taylor to verso of upper wrapper, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24819

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[IRISH POLITICS]. Some strictures on the conduct of administration during the session of parliament, that opened under charles, marquis cornwallis, on the 22d of January and closed on the 1st of June, 1799. Dublin. Printed by J. Milliken, 1800. First edition. 8vo. [2], 54pp. Uncut and unopened, stitched into original publisher's plain blue paper wrappers, as issued. Chipping to spine, some creasing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19003

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[SONGS]. [A clutch of five Durham-printed song sheets]. Durham. Walker, Printer, [s.d., c. 1850s] Dimensions 180 x 260 mm. Five single leaf broadsides. Two woodcut illustrations to head of each. A trifle creased and dust-soiled. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24828

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[THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN]. Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden This present Monday, Feb. 2, 1829...a New Comic Pantomime, (Founded on a Fairy Tale) called Harlequin and Little Red Riding Hood; or the Wizard and the Wolf...and Roberts' moving panorama Of the Grand Russian Army's March to Turkey... [London]. Printed by W. Reynolds, [1829]. Dimensions 220 x 350 mm. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. A trifle creased and browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22323