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Photo of "Elephants and Ethnologists"
SMITH, G. Elliot. Elephants and Ethnologists. London. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1924. First edition. Quarto. viii, 135pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece, a further 52 plates, and nine illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth-backed drab paper boards. Extremities rubbed. Occasional pencilled annotations. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23385
Photo of "Elements of natural philosophy, arranged ..."
[NATURAL PHILOSOPHY]. Elements of natural philosophy, arranged under the following heads: Matter and Motion, The Universe, The Solar System, The Fixed Stars, The Earth considered as a Planet, The Atmosphere, Meteors, Springs, Rivers, and the Sea, Fossils, Plants, Animals, The Human Frame, and the human understanding. Belfast. Printed by Joseph Smyth, 1812. First edition?. 12mo. iv, 161pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary sheep, gilt. Extremities worn and marked, lower board later restored to style, splitting to spine and joints. Ownership inscription to recto of FFEP; 'James J. Adams / January 14 1845', occasional slight marginal loss, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17423
Photo of "Elements of medical statistics; containing ..."
HAWKINS, F[rancis] Bisset. Elements of medical statistics; containing the substance of The Gulstonian Lectures delivered at the royal college of physicians: with numerous additions, illustrative of the comparative salubrity, longevity, mortality, and prevelence of diseases in the principal countries and cities of the civilized world. London. Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. First edition. 8vo. 8, xii, 234pp. With four initial leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, boards scored, corners bumped, chipping to lettering-piece. internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'For Frank, Louis, and Armaud / Courtois / from their sincere friend / the author'. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 20570
Photo of "Elementary treatises on the fundamental ..."
[HORSLEY], Samuel, Lord Bishop of Rochester. Elementary treatises on the fundamental principles of practical mathematics. For the use of students. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press, 1801. First edition. 8vo. xvii, [1], 398pp. With a half-title and eleven engraved folding plates. Uncut and largely unopened in contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Sylvester Lord Glenbervie to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24902
Photo of "Elegant miscellaneous extracts selected from ..."
WATTS, [Isaac] et al. Elegant miscellaneous extracts selected from watts, hervey, newton, young, blair, sturm, &c. &c. to which are added, a few original pieces. Woodbridge. Printed and published by B. Smith, 1813. New edition. 8vo. [6], 442pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece.Extremities worn, upper joint split, loss to head-cap. Hinges exposed, early ink ownership inscription of Joyce D. Fox to recto of FFEP, worm-tracks to gutter, lower corner of leaf Y3 torn away (though present), with some loss of text and sense. William St. Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencil ownership inscription and ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30562
Photo of "Eighteen years in the khyber: ..."
WARBURTON, Sir Robert. Eighteen years in the khyber: 1879-1898. London. John Murray, 1900. First edition, second impression. 8vo. [2], 349pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a folding map. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. A trifle rubbed. Endpapers browned, ink-stamp of A. J. Henderson to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30636
Photo of "Eighteenth Century essays"
DOBSON, Austin [editor]. Eighteenth Century essays. London. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1896. 12mo. xxiii, [1], 284pp. With a half-title and a frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, rectangular tan morocco onlay to upper board, T.E.G others uncut. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32255
Photo of "Edward Marsh: Patron of the ..."
HASSALL, Christopher. Edward Marsh: Patron of the Arts: A Biography. [London]. Longmans, [1959]. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 732pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 14 photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, slight chipping/marking to dustwrapper. Internally clean and crisp. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26303
Photo of "Echoes"
MACKENZIE, Compton. Echoes. London. Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition. 8vo. 187pp, [3]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper chipped, lower joint split, a trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Bryan Matheson / with all good wishes / from / Compton Mackenzie'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24918
Photo of ""Ebenezer," or, "hitherto hath the ..."
LAZARUS, J[oshua] G[eorge]. "Ebenezer," or, "hitherto hath the lord helped us." - 1 sam. VII. 12. A Narrative of the Lord's Doings with one of his ancient people... London. Wertheim and Macintosh, 1855. Second edition. 8vo. xxxix, [1], 323pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a list of subscribers. Partially unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped brown buckram, lettered in gilt, near contemporary plain brown paper dustwrapper. Slight rubbing to extremities. Occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16656
Photo of "Eastwards"
OMAN, C.P.A.. Eastwards. London. Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1864. First edition. 8vo. [4], 297pp, [1]. Nineteenth-century blue cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed to joints, spine, else a crisp copy. Some spotting to preliminaries, slightly lighter to text itself. Evidently a family copy, inscribed C.W.C. Oman to FFEP - most likely the author's son, Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (1860-1946). More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24722