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BROCHARD, Victor. De l'erreur. Paris. Ancienne Librairie Germer Bailliere et Cie. Felix Alcan, editeur, 1897. Deuxieme edition [i.e. second edition]. 8vo. [4], 281, [3], 32pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Later gilt-tooled green half-calf, marbled paper boards. Original publisher's printed green wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Wrappers marked, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32995

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VILLERS, Charles. Essai sur l'esprit et l'influence de la reformation de luther... Paris. De l'imprimerie de Didot Jeune, 1808. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 8vo. xxviii, 425pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled, joints starting, corners bumped. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33011

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THIERS, Marie Adolphe. De la propriété. Paris. Paulin, Lheureux et Cie, 1848. First French edition. 8vo. [4], 439pp. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled boards. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to spine and edges. Armorial bookplate of Orwell Park to FEP. Heavy spotting to title and blank fly-leaves, lighter spotting to text. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34150

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COX, Robert. Das Leben des ehrwuerdigen Joh. Wilh. Fletscher, gewesenen Vicars von Madeley in Shropshire. Frankfurt am Main. Gedruckt Und Verlegt Bei H.L. Broenner, 1833. First German Edition. 12mo. iv, 140, [4]. Original publisher's wrappers, with printed label to spine. Rubbed, with slight loss to extremities, creasing to spine. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 10168

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EHRENSTROM, Mariaane L.K.L.d.. Notices Sur La Litterature et Les Beaux-arts En Suede. Stockholm. De I'Imprimerie d'Eckstein, 1826. First edition. 8vo. (6), vi, 157pp, (3), 79pp, (3), 111pp. Original blue paper wrap. Entirely uncut, a fine copy More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 10493

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HAMBERGER, George Edward. I. N. I. dissertatio medica inauguralis de scorbuto frigido quam annuente divino numine rectore magnificentissimo serenissimo principe ac domino domino ern. avu. constantino duce saxoniae iuliaci cliviae montium angariae et westphaliae, reliqua sub praesidio georgii erh. hambergeri... Jenae [i.e. Jena]. Litteris Ritterianis, [c.1721]. First edition. Quarto. [6], 30pp. Unbound. Text block secured by marbled paper strip. Light foxing to title, marginal loss to bottom corner of C2. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 13091

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MULDER, Claas. Over eenen zoogenaamden zwavelregen in Mei 1826 in Vriesland Gevallen. Te Amsterdam. Lodewijk van Es, 1827. First edition. 8vo. [2], 38pp. Uncut in original publisher's plain green paper wraps. Author and publication date in manuscript to upper wrap, slight wear and soiling. Occasional spots of foxing, ink -stamps of the Royal Meteorological Society to upper wrap and title. Ink inscription to head of title (Presentation?) More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 13430

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HOOLE, Charles. Terminationes et exempla Declinationum et Conjugationum, itemque propria quae maribus, quae genus, et as in praesenti, englished and explained for the use of young grammarians. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. 12mo. 124pp. Contemporary calf. Extremities marked and worn. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to FFEP, leaves lightly toned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16414

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FOURMARIER, P[aul]. Experiences sur la formation de certains conglomerats origine des poudingues auriferes du transvaal. Liege. Imprimerie H. Vaillant-Carmanne, 1903. First edition. 8vo. 7pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed green wrappers. Loss, short tears, and some marking to extremities. A trifle dusty internally. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of of upper cover. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21334

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TERREBASSE, Alfred de. Histoire de bayart dit le bon chevalier sans peur et sans reproche. Tours. Mame et Cie., 1851. Nouvelle edition. 8vo. [4], 236pp. With an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22413

DELANDINE DE ST.-ESPRIT. Histoire de bayard. Paris. Librairie de Debecourt, 1842. 8vo. 470pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher’s green printed wrappers. A trifle rubbed, some surface loss to sunned spine. Foxed. The Comte de Chambord's copy, with the Maggs Bros book label to verso of upper wrapper More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22426

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LARCHEY, Loredan. Histoire du gentil seigneur de bayard... Paris. Hachette, 1882. Quarto. xvi, 540pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, 11 chromolithographic plates, 34 black and white plates, and 187 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary red calf, lettered in gilt, gilt supra libros of Katharine Dolores Feilden to upper board, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Katharine Dolores Feilden to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22435

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[ALER, Paul]. Gradus ad parnassum; sive novus synonymorum, epithetorum, versuum, ac phrasium poeticarum, thesaurus... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers [by C. Baldwin], 1817. 8vo. [4], 596pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Lightly rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, wormtrack to gutter of first three gatherings, pen-trials to fore-edge. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24025

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EUGENE DE SAVOIE, [Charles Joseph Ligne, Prince de]. Mémoires du prince Eugène de Savoie, écrits par lui-méme. A Paris...et reimprime a Londres. Pour L. Deconchy, 1810. Second edition. 8vo. xvi, 189pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Loss to head of half-title, later printed paper label of 'Kilberry' to head of title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 26200

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GROSSI, Tommaso. Marco visconti: storia del trecento cavata dalle cronache di quel secolo e racconta. Parigi [i.e. Paris]. Baudry, 1835. 12mo. In two volumes. [4], 283, [1]; [4], 260pp. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-ruled cats-paw half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27839

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[MUSÉE CENTRAL DES ARTS]. Notice des statues, bustes, bas-reliefs, et autres objets composant la Galerie des Antiques de musee central des arts, ouverie pour la premiere fois le dix-huit Brumaire an 9. Paris. De l'Imprimerie des Sciences et Arts, [s.d., c. 1810] 12mo. [2], 107pp, [1]. Later green diced calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28048

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LENOTRE, G[eorges]. Le vrai chevalier de maison-rouge a. d. j. gonzze de rougeville 1761-1814 d'apres des documents inedits. Paris. Librairie Academique Didier, Perrin et Cie., 1905. 8vo. [2], 327pp, [5]. Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's printed powder-blue wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed.Marbled endpapers, blind-stamp of John Fowles to front blank fly-leaf, leaves browned, one leaf detached and chipped at margins. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28110

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FABRE, [Francois-Xavier]. Lettres inedites du baron fabre d'alfieri et de la comtesse d'albany publiees sur les manuscrits autographes par s. leotard. Clermont-l'Herault. Saturnin Leotard, 1884. First edition. 8vo. 37pp, [3]. Later decorated paper boards, red morocco lettering-piece. Original publisher's printed salmon wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed and discoloured. Occasional pencilled annotations. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28222

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JAHN, Otto. Vasenbilder. I. Orestes in Delphi. II. Theseus und der Minotaurus. III. Dionysos und sein Thiasos. IV. Diomedes und Helena. V. Poseidon und Amymone. Hamburg. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, 1839. Quarto. 40pp. With four engraved folding plates. Later marbled paper boards, contemporary printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Leaves browned and spotted, chipping/short tears to plates at margins. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28226

WILSON, Jeremy [Keisaburo Yamaguchi]. Arabia no Rorensu. Japan. Shinshokan, 1989. First Japanese edition. Quarto. 160pp. Original publisher's white laminated boards, lettered in blue with the contrasting spine, monochrome portrait of Lawrence to the rear board. With the photographic dustwrapper and the additional British Airways orange advertising band. From the family library of Henry Williamson, now dispersed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28301