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[HEXHAM HIGHWAY]. [Alston Road 1778]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1778. Oblong quarto. Manuscript on paper. [124] leaves. Contemporary reversed calf, red morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Extremities heavily rubbed and marked, some surface loss. Hinges exposed, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 11408
[AIX-LA-CHAPELLE TREATY]. Ministerial artifice detected, or, a full answer to a pamphlet lately published, Intitled, The Interests of the Empress Queen, the Kings of France and Spain, &c. betrayed in the Preliminary Articles at Aix-la-Chapelle.. London. Printed for A. Hill, 1749. Second edition. 8vo. 32pp. Modern grey paper boards, original gilt-tooled green morocco lettering-piece preserved and pasted to spine. Leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34549
[PINDAR, Peter, i.e. WOLCOTT, John]. A poetical, supplicating, modest, and affecting epistle to those literary colossuses, the reviewers. London. Printed for the Author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1778. First edition. [2], 8pp. ESTC T174481.

[Bound with:] PINDAR, Peter. Lyric odes to the royal academicians, for M,DCC,LXXXII. London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787. Eighth edition, enlarged. 36pp. ESTC N3345.

[And:] PINDAR, Peter. More lyric odes to the royal academicians...and to the laureat to the academy. London. Printed for J. Kearsley. 1789. Fifth edition. [2], 5-35pp, [1]. Without half-title. ESTC T41415.

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£ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 11756
HEALDE, Thomas. The new pharmacopoeia of the royal college of physicians of london. London. Printed by J. W. Galabin, for T. Longman, 1788. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 343pp. Original publisher's blue paper boards, rebacked in contemporary brown calf. Heavily rubbed and marked, with surface wear to edges, toned. Without free endpapers, initial advertisement leaf and final printed leaf used as pastedowns. Spotting throughout, particularly to endpapers. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34322
[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
[ROBERTSON, James]. Robertson's Edition. An account of the trial of thomas muir, esq. younger, of huntershill, before the high court of justiciary, at edinburgh. On the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition.. Edinburgh. Printed by J. Robertson, and sold at his office, [1793]. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. Modern cloth-backed white paper boards, with original lettering-piece preserved and pasted to spine. Lightly rubbed. Leaves browned, with spotting and light scuffing throughout. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34548
[HOLDSWORTH, Edward]. Taffi's master-piece: or, the Cambro-British invention. A mock poem. Being the Muscipula Oxoniensis translated into burlesque verse. By a Cantab.. London. Printed; And Sold by John Morphew, 1709. First edition. 8vo. [2], 26pp. Later blind-ruled brown half-morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, brown cloth boards. Lightly rubbed, with slight wear to joints. Armorial bookplate of Jabez Thompson, Abbotsford to FEP. Leaves heavily browned, with chipping to edges, heavy spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33588
SELLON, William. A sermon preached at the Assizes held at guildford for the County of Surrey, August 10. 1759. before the Honourable Sir Edward Clive, Knight, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; and the Honourable Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, Knt. One of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer. . London. Printed by J. Hughs, [1759]. First edition. Quarto. 27pp, [1]. Sewn in modern tan paper wrappers, title in manuscript to upper wrapper. Lightly rubbed. Leaves browned, light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34325
NELSON, Robert. An address to persons of Quality and Estate. London. Printed by G. James, 1715. First edition. 8vo. xxxi, [1], 267pp, [1], 55pp, [7]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary blind-panelled speckled calf. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to boards, foot of upper joint split. FEP sprung. Inked ownership inscription of J. Seale to head of title, leaves lightly browned, light scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34212
GRAY, [Thomas]. The poems of mr. gray. To which are prefixed memoirs of his life and writings by w. mason, m.a. London. Printed by H. Hughs, 1775. Second edition. Quarto. [4], 416, 111pp, [3]. In two parts. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, joints starting, small worm-track to foot of spine on upper board and loss to corner on lower board. Very occcasional light scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33866
[CORBETT, Thomas]. An Account of the expedition of the British fleet to sicily, In the Years 1718, 1719 and 1720. Under the Command of Sir george byng, Bart. (Afterwards Viscount torrington). London. Printed for J. and R. Tonson , 1739. Third edition. 8vo. [8], 216pp. Pages 210, 211, 214, 215 misnumbered 310, 311, 314, 315 respectively. With a large folding list of the Spanish fleet to rear. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, later rebacked. Rubbed and marked, with surface loss to spine, edges and corners, boards chipped. Inked ownership inscription of Robert Melvill dated 1762 to verso of first blank fly-leaf. Book-label of Charles Benson to FEP. Browning to leaves, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34453
[TOLAND, John]. The memorial of the State of England, In Vindication of the queen, the church, and the Administration: design'd To rectify the mutual Mistakes of Protestants, And to unite their Affections in Defence of our Religion and Liberty. London. Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1705. First edition. Quarto. [2], 104pp. Modern green cloth-backed combed marbled paper boards, the fore- and lower edges uncut. Labels of the General Theological Seminary Library to pastedowns, paper repair to verso of title page at lower corner. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 34162