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[BREWER, George]. The life of rolla: a peruvian tale... London. Printed [by S. Gosnell] for E. Newbery, 1800. First edition. 12mo. xii, 132pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled paper boards. Rubbed, corners exposed, remnants of printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Early inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'David Allen the gift of his dear Mamma.' More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 28888
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[JOHNSON, Samuel]. The life of mr. richard savage, son of the earl rivers. The fourth edition. To which are added, the lives of sir francis drake, and admiral blake. All written by the author of the rambler.. London. Printed for F. Newbery, 1769. Fourth edition. 8vo. [2], ii, 298, [2]pp. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary sheep, ruled in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked, with wear to edges and staining to boards, joints split, corners worn and bumped. Loss to lower right corner of RFEP. Leaves lightly browned, endpapers stained, with an old pencil sketch to FFEP.
More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34860
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ROSCOE, William. The life of lorenzo de' medici, called the magnificent. Liverpool. Printed by J. M'Creery, 1795. First edition. Quarto. In two volumes. [2], xxvi, [2], 320, 136; [2], 312, 48, 111, [1], 11pp, [1]. With half- titles, an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I and 14 engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-ruled straight-grained red morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing and marking to extremities. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of 'Thomas Frederick Bevan' to FEPs, internally clean and crisp, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 15150
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GUYON, [Jeanne Marie]. The life of lady guion, Written by herself in French, Now abridged And translated into english... Bristol. Printed by S. Farley, 1772. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], xxi, [1], 268; 381pp, [3]. Vol. II has a half-title but no title page, as issued. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, morocco lettering-pieces. Heavily rubbed, surface loss to spines and board edges, lightly marked. Later inked ownership inscriptions of Mary Steevens to FFEPs, FFEP of Vol. I detached, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26284
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[GILPIN, John]. [COWPER, William - Adaptations]. The life of John Gilpin, taken From divers Manuscripts in the Possession of the Family, and now published, for the first Time, by their Permission, for the Gratification of the Public Curiousity, respecting so extraordinary a Character... Dublin. Printed for Messrs. Burnet, White, Burton, H. Whitestone, Byrne, Cash, M'Donnel, and Marchbank, 1785. First Dublin edition. 12mo. viii, 144pp. Contemporary tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Rubbed and marked, later sympathetic repairs to upper joint, short split to foot of lower joint. Inscriptions of George Gore, along with other pen-trials, to blank fly-leaves and dedication leaf, some marginal worming at end. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 17573
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KNIGHT, Samuel. The life of Erasmus, more particularly that part of it which he spent in England; wherein an account is given of his learned friends, and the state of religion and learning at that time in both our universities. With an appendix containing several original papers. Cambridge. Printed By Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. 8vo. [8], xxxi, [1], 349, 348-386pp, cxliv, [8]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 19 engraved plates. Without four terminal leaves (An Index to the Life of D. Colet). Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, scoring to boards, upper joint split, loss to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, very occasional early manuscript corrections to text. Inked inscription to front blank ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 32535
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[FLEETWOOD, William]. The life and miracles of St. wenefrede, Together with her litanies; with some Historical Observations made thereon. London. Printed for Sam. Buckley, 1713. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in nineteenth- century speckled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing. Inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP: 'To The Very Rev. Henry Cotton / from his friend / and brother Dean J. T. Letour (?) / July 1839'. Inked inscription of H. Cotton to head of title. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25596
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ARBUTHNOT, Archibald. The life, adventures, And Many and Great Vicissitudes of Fortune of simon, Lord lovat, The Head of the Family of frasers. From His Birth at Beaufort, near Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, in 1668, to the Time of his being taken by Capt. Millar, after three Days Search, in a hollow Tree, on the Coasts of Knoidart and Arisaig. London. Printed and Sold (for the Author) by R. Walker, 1746. First edition. 12mo. 280pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf-backed, vellum-tipped, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to upper board, a trifle marked. Loss to upper corner of leaf H2, touching text with slight loss of sense, loss to lower margin of leaf T3, dampstained. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27484
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[MELMOTH, William, the younger]. The letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne. London. Printed for J. Dodsley, 1784. Ninth edition. 8vo. xii, 452pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. A trifle rubbed, splitting to joints, some loss to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate to FEP, an internally clean and crisp copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14479
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[BARRINGTON, John Shute]. The Layman's letter to the Bishop of Bangor: or, an examination of His Lordship's Preservative against the nonjurors...imputed to the Body of the People.. London. Printed and sold by J. Roberts, 1716. First edition. Quarto. 44pp. Disbound, all edges red. Title heavily browned and soiled, with several small stab-holes to gutter-margin. Paper manuscript label numbered '28.' pasted to upper left corner of title. Leaves browned, scattered spotting and staining. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34801
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[ACTS - SCOTLAND]. The laws and acts Made in the first parliament Of Our most High and Dread Sovereign James VII... Edinburgh. Printed by Robert Freebairn, 1731. 12mo. 875pp, [1]. Each session of Parliament has a separate title page. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints starting, foot of spine worn. Early ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, head of text-block shaved with occasional loss to running-title, initial four gatherings dampstained at foot, very small hole to leaf Mm7, touching text without loss of sense. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 35301
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PETTINGAL, John. The latin inscription, on the copper table, Discovered in the Year 1732, near heraclea, in the Bay of tarentum, in magna graecia, And published, by mazochius, at Naples, in the year 1758. More particularly Considered and Illustrated. London. [s.n.], [1760]. First edition. Quarto. 9pp, [1]. With an engraved folding plate. The plate is common to this work and Philip Carteret Webb's An account of a copper table (1760). Uncut and unopened in original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. Rubbed, backstrip perished. Loss to lower corner of FFEP and upper corner of title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25620
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[ALMANACS]. The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's almanack, For the year of our lord 1762... [London]. Printed by A. Wilde, 1762. 48pp. Title and calendar printed in red and black. ESTC T58266.

[Bound with:] The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An almanack For the Year of our lord 1762... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1762. 48pp. Title and calendar printed in red and black. ESTC T57483.

[And:] WING, Tycho. Olympia Domata; or, an almanack for the year of Our Lord God, 1762... London. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27435
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[LADIES' DIARY]. The Ladies' Diary: of Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1791... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, And sold by Robert Horsfield, [1791]. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. Not in ESTC.

[Bound with:] The Ladies' Diary: of Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1792... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, And sold by Robert Horsfield, [1792]. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC N3191.

[And:] The Ladies' Diary: of Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1793... London. Printed ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33495
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[SHENSTONE, William]. The judgment of hercules, a poem. London. Printed for R. Dodsley, 1741. Second edition. 8vo. 35pp, [1]. Without half-title or terminal advertisement leaf. Stitched in modern marbled paper wrappers, lightly rubbed. Assorted manuscript annotations throughout, with some obstruction to text on p.11; inscription to foot of terminal leaf reads 'A Contempt of Strong Allurements'. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34149
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[PIGOTT, Charles]. The jockey club, or a sketch of the manners of the age. London. Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792. Unofficial third edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [16],188p; [28], 186pp; [16], 210pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards. Heavily rubbed and marked, with surface loss to boards, splitting to joints of vols. II and III, joints on vol. I starting, losses to head and foot of spine on vol. II and III. Two modern bookseller's descriptions pasted to head of FEP. Inked ownership inscription of Cornelius Paine to FFEP. Light ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29114
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BOSSUET, James Benign. The history of the variations of the protestant churches. Antwerp. [s.n.], 1742. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xxxii, 480pp, [36]; [2], 493pp, [34]. With an index and terminal leaf of errata to each volume. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red and black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked, chipping to head of spine of both vols., light surface wear to joints and edges. Endpapers stained, very light scattered spotting.
More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34116