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Photo of "The seeress of prevorst: being ..."
KERNER, Justinus. The seeress of prevorst: being revelations concerning the inner-life of man, and the inter-diffusion of a world of spirits in the one we inhabit. London. J. C. Moore, 1845. First edition in English. 8vo. xii, 338pp, [2]. With a half-title, and engraved folding plate, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, lettering-piece chipped and sunned. Scattered spotting, short tear to folding plate, naively repaired with clear tape. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25857
Photo of "The selected correspondence"
FARADAY, Michael. The selected correspondence. Cambridge. University Press, 1971. First edition. Large 8vo. In two volumes. xii, 538; viii, [2], 541-1078pp, [2]. With a photographic frontispiece to each volume. Original publisher's navy cloth, contrasting red cloth lettering-pieces, blue printed dustwrappers. Minor shelf wear, dustwrappers price-clipped and a trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27060
Photo of "The semaphore alphabet. With Letters ..."
HARDINGE, Lt. H. R. von D.. The semaphore alphabet. With Letters and signs re-arranged so as to be more easily learnt. London. Forster Groom & Co., 1903. Revised edition. Dimensions 360 x 560mm, folded to 100 x 146 mm. Folding chart, mounted on linen and pasted into original publisher's cloth boards, paper lettering-piece. A little rubbed and marked, some splitting to joints of boards, some darkening to lettering-piece; the folding chart itself is remarkably clean but for a single pencilled correction, and slight occasional lifting from the linen backing at folds. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30272
Photo of "The seven chartist and military ..."
BREWSTER, Patrick. The seven chartist and military discourses libelled by the marquis of abercorn and other heritors of the abbey parish. Paisley. Published by the author, 1843. First edition. viii, 424pp.

[Bound with]: BREWSTER, Patrick. The legal rights of the poor of scotland, vindicated against the misrepresentations and mis-statements of mr. john henderson. Paisley. Published by the author, 1843. 24pp.

8vo. Contemporary brown cloth, recently rebacked, preserving contemporary backstrip. Rubbed and lightly marked, spine sunned. Light spotting throughout. A handful of pencilled annotations to contents leaves. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33400
Photo of "The seven lamps of architecture"
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
Photo of "The sexagenarian; or, the Recollections ..."
[BELOE, William]. The sexagenarian; or, the Recollections of a literary life. London. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1818. Second edition. 8vo. In two volumes. viii, 435, [1]; [2], 388pp. Contemporary panelled calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Rubbed, surface loss to boards, spines sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial ink-stamps to versos of both FFEPs, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33071
Photo of "The shelley correspondence in the ..."
HILL, R. H. [editor]. The shelley correspondence in the bodleian library: Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, mainly unpublished, from the Collection presented to the Library by Lady Shelley in 1892... Oxford. Printed for the Bodleian Library By John Johnson, Printer to the University, 1926. First edition. Quarto. xv, [1], 48pp. Uncut in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed, marked, and creased. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32412
Photo of "The Shelley Papers: memoir of ..."
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. MEDWIN, T[homas]. The Shelley Papers: memoir of percy bysshe shelley by t. medwin, esq. and original poems and papers by percy bysshe shelley. Now first collected. London. Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1833. First edition. 16mo. viii, 180pp, [4]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisement. Handsomely bound by Maclehose of Glasgow in contemporary red crushed morocco. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. A trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27587
Photo of "The singer's companion. Or a ..."
[MATCHAM, George]. The singer's companion. Or a selection of songs. Collected from the first Authors. [Bath]. [1803]. Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [15] leaves, eight used, the remainder blank. Sewn, as issued, in original printed wrappers, upper wrapper with 'Table of Weights and Measures' and the imprint 'I. Marsden, Printer, Colchester'. Extremities rubbed, creased, and dust-soiled, with some edge-wear. Internally clean and crisp. From the recently dispersed Newhouse estate of the Eyre-Matcham family. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to upper wrapper of 'George Matcham. Esq. ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 29308
Photo of "The Slave Trade, and other ..."
BURBIDGE, John. The Slave Trade, and other poems. London. J.H. Jackson, 1847. First edition. 8vo. [2], 24pp. Original publisher's green cloth over card boards. A little rubbed and marked, some damp-staining to endpapers and preliminaries, hinges starting. Light spotting to text. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Louisa Sarah Laufear from Dear Mrs Burbidge, Thursday Sept. 2nd 1847' to head of title. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 17539
Photo of "The sleeping beauty"
RACKHAM, Arthur. Evans, C. S.. The sleeping beauty. London. William Heinemann, 1920. Large 8vo. 110pp, [2]. Original publisher's decorated boards, over pink cloth spine, with the original silhouette design dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated throughout the text as well as full page spreads of 2-3 colour silhouettes including the title page. Full colour illustrated frontis 'Briar Rose' tipped in. Boards bright, with the dustwrapper worn to all edges, sunned and with minor losses. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32712
Photo of "The small canteen: How to ..."
[EMPIRE TEA BUREAU]. The small canteen: How to plan and operate modern meal service. London. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1947. First edition. Quarto. [8], 108pp. Numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper designed by design by Diana Wilbraham. Rubbed and marked, dustwrapper chipped and lightly soiled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29008
Photo of "The "snow queen.""
SYMINGTON, Maggie. The "snow queen.". London. James Clarke and Co., [1869]. First edition. 12mo. 142pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Binding cocked, a trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of M. Louisa Symington and Robert Symington to recto of FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22209
Photo of "The song of albion, a ..."
STOKES, Henry Sewell. The song of albion, a poem commemorative of the crisis; lines on the fall of warsaw; and other poems. London. James Cochrane and Co., 1831. First edition. 8vo. xvi, [4], 171pp, [5]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary half-cloth, marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, marked, and sunned, spine heavily worn. Later bookplate of bibliophile and historian Eric S. Quayle (1921-2001) and recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32367
Photo of "The song of hiawatha"
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The song of hiawatha. London. David Bogue, 1855. First edition, first issue. 8vo. The first issue, with 'dove' for 'dived' on p.96. iv, 316, 24pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped olive green cloth, lettered in gilt. Recently expertly rebacked, preserving original spine panel. Extremities heavily worn and rubbed, spine chipped and dulled, upper joint split - board working loose. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27089