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[ROYAL WEDDINGS]. [Drop-head title:] Ceremonial. St. James's Palace, January 25, 1858. Upon this day, at half-past Twelve o'Clock, P.M., was solemnized at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, the Marriage of Her Royal Highness Victoria-Adelaide-Mary-Louisa, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, Eldest Daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria...with His Royal Highness Prince Frederic-William-Nicolas-Charles, Only Son of His Royal Highness Frederic-William-Louis, Prince of Prussia.... [London]. [Printed by Harrison and Sons], [1858]. 28pp.

[Together with:] Ceremonial. Windsor castle, 10th March, 1863. Upon this day at half-past twelve o'clock, was solemnized at Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, the Marriage of HIs Royal Highness Albert Edward...with Her Royal Highness The Princess Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, eldest daughter of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark. [London]. [Printed by Harrison and Sons], [1863]. 33pp, [1].

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£ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33207
RUHNKEN, David. Davidis Ruhnkenii in Terentii Comoedias dictata. Brunsiano exemplo emendatius multisque partibus integrius ex apographo hamburgensi edita. Cura Ludovici Schopeni. Bonnae [i.e. Bonn]. Impensis Ed. Weberi, 1825. 8vo. vi, 285pp, [1]. Handsomely bound in a near contemporary Harrow school prize binding of gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed, some slight marking. Marbled endpapers, lightly foxed, prize-plate of Harrow school, dated 1841, to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 13867
[RUSHBEARING]. The rushbearing. A tale. London. Printed for Houston and Son, 1832. Second edition. 12mo. 71pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher’s printed olive green wrappers. Extremities marked and worn, loss to spine. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of Mary Watkeys to verso of upper panel, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27077
RUSKIN, John. Notes by Mr. Ruskin on his Drawings by the late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Galleries, 148, New Bond Street, March, 1878. Also An Appendix containing a list of the Engraved Works of J. M. W. Turner exhibited at the same. [London]. [Printed by John C. Wilkins], [1878]. First edition. 8vo. 101pp, [1].

[Bound with:] RUSKIN, John. Notes by Mr. Ruskin on his Drawings by the late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Galleries, 148, New Bond Street, March, 1878... [London]. [Printed by John C. Wilkins], [1878]. Second edition. 111pp, [7].

8vo. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, vellum boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean ... More >
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 28712
RUSKIN, John. The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century. Orpington, Kent. George Allen, 1884. First edition. Quarto. [2], vi, [4], 63pp, [4], 66-152pp. With half-title, a divisional title page for each lecture, and a terminal index. Bound by J. Larkins in contemporary dark green gilt-tooled half-morocco, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers. Spotting to front blank fly-leaves, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 26565
RUSKIN, John. Giotto and his works in padua. [London]. Printed [by Levey, Robson and Franklin] for the Arundel Society, 1854. First edition. Quarto. 124pp. With two woodcut illustrated plates depicting the interior of the Arena Chapel at Padua and the Baptism of Christ respectively. Contemporary dark green gilt-tooled half-morocco, marbled paper boards. Very lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Occasional light staining to text. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 26564
RUSKIN, John. Sesame and lilies. London. George Allen, 1892. Thirteenth edition in original form. 8vo. xi, [1], 180pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, later inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28919
RUSKIN, John. Notes by mr ruskin on his collection of drawings. London. Printed at the Chiswick Press, for the Fine Art Society, 1878. Illustrated edition. 8vo. [6], 188pp, [1]. With a photogravure engraved landscape frontispiece, 34 further photogravure engraved plates, and a large map illustrating Turner's 'haunts' around the British Isles. Original morocco-backed dark green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed, with wear to spine. Inked presentation inscription 'Stopford Brooke with the Fine Art Society's compliments Feb 1879' to FFEP. Endpapers browned, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33864
RUSKIN, John. The seven lamps of architecture. London. Smith-Elder, and Co., 1849. First edition. 8vo. viii, [4], 205pp, [1]. With half-title, 14 plates, and a tipped-in errata slip. Extra-illustrated with an additional plate of unpublished Ruskin etchings. Contemporary green half-morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled paper boards, T.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed. Stopford A. Brooke's copy, with his inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 26563
RUSSELL, Bertrand. What is the Soul?. Girard, Kansas. Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1947]. 8vo. 32pp. Original publisher's printed orange paper wrappers. Light rubbing and creasing to extremities. Leaves toned and spotted, occasional pencil markings to margins. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16880
RUSSELL, Bertrand. An outline of philosophy. London. George Allen & Unwin, [1927]. First edition. 8vo. vi, 317pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear, spine a trifle sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Prize plate of the London School of Economics to FEP - awarded by then Director, British economist and liberal politician William Beveridge (1879-1963) to Robert Brown Fraser (1904-1985), the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25451
RUSSELL, Scott. Mountain prospect. London. Chatto & Windus, 1946. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 247pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 46 photographic illustrations, and seven sketch maps in the text. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper sunned and a trifle chipped. bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, ink-stamp of A. J. Escott bookseller, Hastings (New Zealand) and contemporary ownership inscription of W. G. Lowe to recto of FFEP. Presentation copy, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23433