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[HOUSE OF COMMONS]. Extracts from the minutes of evidence taken before the select committee of the house of commons Appointed to Enquire into the State of Ireland. 1824-25. London. Printed by R. G. Clarke, [1825]. First edition. 8vo. 201pp, [3]. Largely unopened, stitched, as issued. Text-block separated into constituent gatherings. Horizontal tears to text of leaves A2, F7, and F8, dust-soiling to title and terminal leaf. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18956

[HOUSE OF LORDS]. Extracts from the minutes of evidence taken before the select committee of the house of lords Appointed to Enquire into the State of Ireland. 1824-25. London. Printed by R. G. Clarke, [1825]. First edition. 8vo. 95pp, [1]. Stitched, as issued. A trifle spotted, verso of terminal leaf soiled. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18959

BARTON, Bernard. Poetic vigils. London. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First edition. 8vo. 12, [2], xii, 308pp. With an initial publisher's advertisement catalogue and two final leaves of advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities worn, upper joint split. Recent bookplate of Percival F. Hinton to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19065

[CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart]. Fly leaves. Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1872. First edition. 8vo. iv, 120pp. Bound by Potter & Sons of York in contemporary half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting, later bookplate of Ronald and Jay Hamilton to REP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19068

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TEMPLE, Neville. TREVOR, Edward.. Tannhauser; or The Battle of the Bards. A Poem.. London. Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 117pp, [3]. Original publisher's gilt-tooled, green cloth. Slightly rubbed to extremities and boards, bumping to corners. Pictorial bookplate of Kenneth Neuton Colvile to FEP, above small paper label displaying monogrammed crest. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19069

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STONHOUSE, James, Sir. Friendly advice to a patient; Calculated more particularly for the Use of the Sick, belonging to Infirmaries, as well the Outpatients, as those within the House; though the greatest Part of it is suitable and of equal Service to every sick person. London. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1815. Twentieth edition. 12mo. xi, [1], 36pp. Early drab paper boards. Rubbed, marked, and sunned. Several leaves loosening. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19769

WALKER, Thomas. The original. London. Henry Renshaw, 1836. Second edition. 8vo. iv, 444pp. Contemporary half-calf tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 20027

GRANVILLE, A[ugutus] B[ozzi]. The spas of germany. London. Henry Colburn, 1839. Second edition. 8vo. [2], lviii, [2], 516pp. With a half-title, a large engraved folding map, 14 engraved plates, 21 engraved vignettes, and a folding table. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Inked initials to front endpapers, else internally immaculate. A fine copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 20449

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TRIMMER, Mrs. [Sarah]. Scripture lessons, designed to accompany a series of prints, from the new testament. London. Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, 1833. 12mo. vii, [1], 276pp. With nine final leaved of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red roan, gilt. Extremities rubbed and lightly marked, spine sunned. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of Henry Fludyer, title page and first two leaves of introduction detached from text-block, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 20708

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[LUTTRELL, Henry]. Advice to julia. A letter in rhyme. London. John Murray, 1820. New edition. 8vo. [4], 192pp. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, loss and wear to head of spine. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21028

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[SCOTTISH CHAPBOOK]. Hills o' Gallowa; To which are added, Last May a braw wooer, Green grow the rashes, O, Sweet the rose blaws. Stirling. Printed by W. Macnie, 1826. 8vo. 8pp. Woodcut illustration to title page. Single sheet, printed on both sides, folded and unopened as issued. A trifle creased and toned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21101

[SCOTTISH CHAPBOOK]. Sair sair was my heart; To which are added, The hero's orphant girls' The lass o'Ballochmyle, Allister M'Allister. Te Highland Plaid. Stirling. Printed by W. Macnie, 1826. 8vo. 8pp. Woodcut illustration to title page. Two sheets, printed on both sides, folded and unstitched as issued. A trifle creased, small hole to margin if second leaf. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21102

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[CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY]. Cambridge prize poems: being a complete collection of the english poems which have obtained the chancellor's gold medal in the university of cambridge. London. Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1819. Second edition. 12mo. [6], 205pp, [3]. Title in red and black. With three final publisher's advertisement leaves. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn and marked, joints split, lower board and spine cracked, loss to head and foot, lettering-piece chipped. Foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21246

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STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Little foxes, or, the little failings which mar domestic happiness. London. George Bell & Sons, 1896. Author's edition, revised. 8vo. [8], 133pp, [3]. Original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Extremities sunned and browned, some chipping to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21313

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JENNINGS, A[lfred] Vaughan. The landwasser and the landquart. London. Dulau & Co., [1899]. First offprint edition. 8vo. [1], 260-270pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Extremities a trifle dust-soiled. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of upper cover: 'With the author's compliments'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21318

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[SOMERSET AUCTION]. Langford, somerset. To be Sold by Auction, at langford inn, on saturday, May 30, 1840...three freehold tenements... [Bristol]. Printed at the Bristol Mirror Office by John Taylor, [1840]. Dimensions 170 x 210 mm. Single leaf handbill, edges uncut. Very slightly creased. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21424

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1990]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some marking to top-edge, else clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21457

DU MAURIER, George. Trilby: a novel. London. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895. First illustrated edition. 8vo. 447pp, [6]. With an illustrated frontispiece and 120 illustrations in the text by the author, and six final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Without dustwrapper. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of Mervyn Ll. Peel to verso of FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21476

ROSELER, David. Lawrence: prince of mecca. Sydney. Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1927. First edition. 8vo. [8], 227pp, [1]. With a colour portrait frontispiece and a further six black and white illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in black. Lightly rubbed, spine a trifle sunned. Label of the Book Lovers' Library, Melbourne to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21495

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DE MONFRIED, Henri. TREAT, Ida. Pearls, arms and hashish: pages from the life of a red sea navigator, henri de monfried. London. Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1930. First edition. 8vo. With a black and white frontispiece, and a further 15 black and white plates. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in black. Without dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and lightly marked. Illustrated endpapers, upper hinge exposed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21521