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Photo of "Glorious summer : the story ..."
JOHNSON, J.E. "Johnnie", & LUCAS, P.B. "Laddie". Glorious summer : the story of the Battle of Britain. London. Stanley Paul, 1990. First edition. 8vo. 213pp. Sixteen photographic leaves bound in. Original publisher's blue cloth boards lettered silver, with the original photographic dustwrapper. With c.30 signatures of airmen who served in the Battle, pasted over title page and the half title. A little shelfwear, and some fading to spine of wrapper, else a crisp copy. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 34297
Photo of "The greatest aces "
SIMS. Edward H. . The greatest aces . New York. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition. Lrg 8vo. 294pp. Original publisher's blue cloth boards stamped & lettered silver, with the original illustrated dustwrapper. Sixteen pages of illustrations and eight maps throughout. Extensively autographed by both Allied and Axis fighter crew. A printed list of the most successful German aces is pasted to the FFEP, and verso the title page of the Ballantine Books edition of the same title, also extensively signed. Loosely inserted ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 34298
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KAVANAGH, Julia. A summer and winter in the two sicilies. London. Hurst and Blackett, 1858. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. v, [1], 333pp, [3] ads; [2], 316pp, [2] ads. With an engraved frontispiece and title vignette to each volume. Original publisher's red cloth, gilt. Extremities rubbed with some slight surface loss and spots of soiling. Sporadic foxing throughout, armorial bookplate of 'Robert Hutton' to FEP of both volumes. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 11703
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[ROSCOE, William]. An address from the liverpool society for the Abolition of Slavery, on the safest and most efficacious means of promoting the gradual improvement of the negro slaves in the British West India Islands, preparatory to their becoming free labourers, and on the expected consequences of such change. Liverpool. [J. & G. Smith], [1824]. First edition. 8vo. 18pp. Stitched, as issued. Title laid-down due to loss at head and foot and small hole to centre, loss of publisher's name and date to imprint, very small hole to final leaf, just touching text but without loss of sense, light spots of dust-soiling. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 13613
Photo of "The Atlantic islands as resorts ..."
BENJAMIN, S[amuel] G[reene] W[heeler]. The Atlantic islands as resorts of health and pleasure. New York. Harper & Brothers, 1878. First edition. Quarto. 274pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and two terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth, gilt. Slight rubbing to spine. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed in ink to recto of FFEP; 'Eugene Cowles, Esq. / with the compliments of / the author.' With the booklabel of Eugene H. Cowles (1855-1892) to FEP, and a tipped-in A.L.S. ... More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 14070
Photo of "Memoirs of an Aesthete 1939-1969"
ACTON, Harold. Memoirs of an Aesthete 1939-1969. New York. The Viking Press, 1970. First American edition. 8vo. 318pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed purple paper boards, dustwrapper. A very good copy with only slightest of chipping to unclipped dustwrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of FFEP; 'For Mason and Florence / with all best wishes for / Christmas and the New Year / ever affectionately / Harold / 19 December 1973.' More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 14541
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WALTON, Isaak. COTTON, Charles. The complete angler of izaak walton and charles cotton...to which are added, an introductory essay; the linnaean arrangment of the various river fish delineated in the work; and illustrative notes. London. John Major, 1824. 8vo. lviii, 416pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further 13 engraved plates, and 76 engraved head- and tail-pieces. Bound by Hayday in contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Armorial bookplate of 'Sir Mervyn Ll. Peel' to FEP, occasional spotting/offsetting. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15255
Photo of "The fisher boy. A poem, ..."
H. C. [IRELAND, William Henry].. The fisher boy. A poem, Comprising his several avocations, during the four seasons of the year. London. Printed for Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, [1808]. First edition. vi, 116pp. With an engraved title page and a further four engraved plates.

[Together with:] IRELAND, W[illiam] H[enry]. The sailor-boy. A poem, in four cantos: Illustrative of the navy of great britain. London. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1822. viii, 208pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates.

12mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled ... More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15267
Photo of "Liverpool, its commerce, statistics, and ..."
SMITHERS, Henry. Liverpool, its commerce, statistics, and institutions; with a history of the cotton trade. Liverpool. Printed by Thos. Kaye, 1825. First edition. Quarto. [8], viii, 461pp, [1], iii, [1]. With half-title, and two leaves of plates. Extra illustrated with 46 tipped-in engraved plates, several further plates and newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Contemporary [original?] drab paper boards, rebacked and recornered in late nineteenth-century tan calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A trifle rubbed, some surface loss to boards. Ink ownership inscription to FEP; 'R. R. Made-King / 1894', engraved ... More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15324
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CZERNY, Charles [i.e. Carl]. Letters to a young lady, on the art of playing the pianoforte, from the earliest rudiments to the highest state of cultivation... London. R. Cocks and Co., 1842. Second edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 79pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's tan printed paper boards. Rubbed, marked, and a trifle bumped, considerable loss to spine. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 On Sale: £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 20124
Photo of "A treatise on the culture ..."
FORSYTH, William. A treatise on the culture and management of fruit-trees; in which a new method of pruning and training is fully described. To which is added, a new and improved edition of "observations on the diseases, defects, and injuries, in all kinds of fruit and forest trees:" With an account of a particular method of cure, published by order of government. London. Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Third Edition, with Additions. 8vo. xxx, 523pp, [1]. With thirteen engraved plates. Finely bound in contemporary marbled calf, gilt, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Very slightest of wear to extremities, else a fine copy. Partially erased ink inscription to FEP, neat tear to gutter margin of RFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 11173
Photo of "Mr Facey Romford's Hounds"
SURTEES, R.S.. Mr Facey Romford's Hounds. London. Bradbury and Evans, 1865. First edition. 8vo. viii, 391pp, [1]. Frontispiece and 23 hand-coloured plates by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. A choice copy. With the bookplate of Robert Stephen Benson to FEP, and some slight marking to endpapers, else fine. Preserved in a cloth folding-box. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 13828
Photo of "The dictionary of phrase and ..."
BREWER, E[benezer] Cobham. The dictionary of phrase and fable. London. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, [c.1872]. Third edition. 8vo. In 15 parts. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's orange printed paper wrappers. Some loss, chipping, and spots of marking to all extremities, parts 3 and 5 without upper wrappers, lower wrappers of parts 3, 13, and 15 detached, both wraps of part 10 detached, gatherings of parts 5 and 10 separating. Overall internally clean and crisp but for some light foxing. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 14059
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HURD, William. A new universal history of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies and Customs of the whole world; or, a complete and impartial view of all the religions...Together with the history of the reformed churches... Manchester. Printed and Published by J. Gleave, 1811. Quarto. vi, [1], 8-910pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates. Attractively bound by T. Claye of Stockport in contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, slight shaving to foot of frontispiece, occasional foxing and offsetting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 14175
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IRVING, Washington. Astoria; or enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. London. Richard Bentley, 1836. First British edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 317, [3]; ix, [1], 320; vii, [1], 294pp. With half-title and terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. I., half-titles not called for in other volumes. Original publisher's plain tan paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces, housed in custom grey cloth slipcase with brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbing to joints and head and foot of spines, some wear and loss to lettering-pieces, slight surface loss ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 14326
Photo of "Observations et réflexions sur le ..."
BALME, [Claude]. Observations et réflexions sur le scorbut, D'aprés celui qui a régné parmi les troupes français formant la garrison d'Alexandrie (en Egypte), pendant le Blocus et le Siége de cette ville, en l'an IX (1801), par les Armées combinées des Turcs et des Anglais. [Lyon]. [Impr. de Rusan], [1803]. First edition. [4], 31pp, [1]. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Parisian physician M. Hamon to title page.

[Bound with:] [An unidentified French language article, likely an offprint from a contemporary medical periodical]. [Lyon. [s.n.], [1807]. 11pp, [1].

[And:] BALME, [Claude]. Procès-verbal De la Séance publique de la Société de Médecine de Lyon, tenue le 14 juin 1810, et compte rendu De ses travaux pendant les ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17014