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[RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY]. Heat: its sources, influence, and results. London. The Religious Tract Society, 1841. First edition. 8vo. [4], 196pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further 15 engraved plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and bumped. Ticket of E. & F. N. Spon of London to FEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, spotting to plates. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29776
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TYNDALL, John. Heat considered as a mode of motion: being a course of twelve lectures delivered at the royal institution of great britain in the season of 1862. London. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. First edition. 8vo. [7], x-xix, [1], 468pp. With a half-title, an engraved folding plate, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a terminal 32pp publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine sunned. Later bookplate of John Waern Hill to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title-page, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19336
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SWAFFER, Hannen. Hannen Swaffer's who's who. London. Hutchinson & Co., [1929]. First edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is number five. Flat signed to dedication page. With a portrait frontispiece. 255pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24916
Photo of "Hand-book to the english lakes"
[LAKE DISTRICT]. Hand-book to the english lakes. Kendal. Printed by T. Atkinson, 1847. 8vo. iv, 60pp. With a preliminary large folding map of the Lake District, engraved frontispiece, and five further engraved plates. Original publisher's forest green cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title. Endpapers browned, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34704
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LAWRENCE, T. E.. Ha-mered ba-midbar... Tel Aviv. Mizpah Publishing Co., 1931. First edition in Hebrew. 8vo. In two volumes. 210; 212pp. With two plates. Hebrew text. Original publisher's blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Modern tickets of the Mizrahi Bookstore to pastedowns, leaves browned, lower corner of one leaf of Vol. I torn-away but present. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33508
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FULANAIN. Haji rikkan: marsh arab. London. Chatto & Windus, [1927]. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 288pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, a further 11 photographic plates, and a sketch map. Original publisher's light blue cloth, ruled and lettered in black to spine. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30401
Photo of "Gwalior state. Proposed railway extensions"
GIBB, Sir Alexander. Gwalior state. Proposed railway extensions. Bombay. Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, [1927]. First edition. Folio. [1], 6ff. Letterpress title page and six leaves of typescript. With a large coloured folding map. Original publisher's black cloth-backed printed buff wrappers. Rubbed and marked, coloured pencil shelf-mark to upper board. Occasional coloured pencil annotation to text. Terminal leaf signed in initials Gibb. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31569
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GUY, Joseph. Guy's new exercises in English syntax: intended to succeed those usually found in English grammars; and to furnish the senior scholars in ladies and gentlemen's schools... London. Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, 1837. Second edition. 12mo. vi, [2], 142pp, [6]. With two terminal advertisement leaves. Contemporary navy morocco, gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Some loss to top corner of FFEP, with near contemporary ink ownership inscription to recto, occasional ink annotations to text. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 13974
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[SCOTT, Walter]. Guy mannering; or, the astrologer. Paris. Published by P. Didot, 1821. 8vo. In three volumes. [4], 226; [4], 229, [1]; [4], 235pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Paper slips pasted to all FEPs seemingly to obscure earlier bookplates, foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32449
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[FISCHER, Gottlob Eusebius]. Gustavus; or, the macaw. A story to teach children the proper value of things. London. Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1814. First edition. 12mo. 174pp, [6]. With an engraved frontispiece and three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green roan-backed buff paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities marked and worn, surface loss to spine and upper board. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting, loss and early pen-trials to RFEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27030
Photo of "Guide to Kulchur"
POUND, Ezra. Guide to Kulchur. [New York]. New Directions Books, [1952]. 8vo. 379pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed, chipping and some slight loss to dustwrapper, spine panel sunned. From the library of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995), with his inked ownership inscription to FFEP and occasional manuscript annotations to text. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23611
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[GRAND TOUR]. Guide des collections egyptienne et etrusque et des statues en marbre et en bronze qui existent au musee bourbon a naples. Naples. L'imprimerie de l'observateur de Medecine, 1827. 27, [3], 48, [2], 20pp.

[Bound with:] Galerie impériale et royale de florence huitieme édition ornée des planches de la vénus des medicis de celle de canova et de l'apollon. Florence. Albizzi, 1825. First edition. 208pp. With three engraved plates.

8vo. Contemporary half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, discoloured, lettering-piece worn. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 21081
Photo of "Great lives: T. E. Lawrence"
BRENT, Peter. Great lives: T. E. Lawrence. London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1975]. First U.K. edition. Quarto. 232pp. With 20 colour plates and 100 black and white illustrations. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle sunned. Internally clean and crisp. From the library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22257
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MOULE, Thomas. Great britain illustrated: a series of original views . London. Charles Tilt, 1830. First edition. [2], vi, [1], 118pp. With an additional engraved title page and 118 steel engraved plates.

[Bound with a sample prospectus for:] [SHEPHERD, Thomas]. Modern Athens!: Displayed in a series of views: or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century: exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs, from original drawings. London. Published by Jones and ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33868