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HAYM, Nicolai Francisci. Nicolai francisci haym romani, thesauri britannici sev museum numarium, quo continentur numi graeci et latini, omnis metalli et formae, necdum editi, ab autore ipso caelati. Interprete aloysio comite cristiani, mediolanensi. Vindobonae [i.e. Vienna]. Ex officina Krausiana, 1763. [6], 296pp, [8]. With an engraved frontispiece (seemingly extracted from the first London edition) and 30 engraved folding plates.

[Together with:] HAYM, Nicola Francesco. Thesauri britannici pars altera, seu museum numarium conplexum numos graecos, et latinos omnis metalli, et formae necdum editos... Vindobonae [i.e. Vienna]. Typis Joannis Thomae de Trattnern, 1765. [28], 398pp, [10]. With 50 of 51 engraved folding plates (without plate No. 24). ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24058
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[MUSLY, David Emanuel]. Remarques D'un Officier d'Artillerie Hollandais sur un article de la Brochure qui a pour titre: Observations & Expériences sur l'Artillerie; Imprimée à Aléthopolis, chez Isaac Neuman. Maestrict [i.e. Maastricht]. Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1776. First edition. 8vo. 22pp. With a half-title. Uncut in modern red half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Lightly dust-soiled. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22817
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DUPUY, Jacques. THOU, Jacques Auguste de. Nominum propriorum Virorum, Mulierum, Populorum, &c. quae in Viri Illustris jacobi augusti thuani Historiis leguntur index Cum vernacula singularum vocum Expositione. Genevae, [i.e. Geneva]. Apud Petrum Aubertum, 1634. Quarto. [612]pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed, with loss at head of spine and bumping to corners; but nevertheless an attractive copy. With the bookplate of Sir James Gordon Bart. of Letterfoury to FEP, and of George Lockhart of Carnwath (upon which someone has inscribed 'Scarry a looked Heart' in an early hand) to verso of title. Pen trials to margin of second leaf; occasional wormtracks, marginal ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33262
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VOLTAIRE. Candide ou l'optimisme. Paris. Éditions Jules Tallandier, [1921]. 8vo. [4], xvi, [2], 174pp, [4]. Title in red and black. With 10 plates and numerous illustrations in the text by Adrein Moreau. Bound in later purple half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, stamp-signed with gilt omega symbol and dated in blind 1969 to rear turn-in. Original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. Spine sunned.

[Together with:] LAFAYETTE, Madame de. La princesse de clèves. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33882
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MONGE, Gaspard. Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons, Faite en exécution de l'arrêté du Comité de Salut public, du 18 pluviôse de l'an 2 de la République française, une et indivisible. Paris. De L'imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, [1794]. First edition. Quarto. [4], viii, 231pp, [1]. With four folding tables and 60 engraved folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf-backed vellum-tipped marbled paper boards. Rubbed. Inked ownership inscription to title page 'Humbley 1829', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 22824
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[ROME - AGRICULTURAL STATUTES]. Statuta nobilis artis agriculturae urbis... Romae [i.e. Rome]. Apud Georgium Ferrarium, 1595. Quarto. [8], 196pp, [34]. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities worn, heavily marked and discoloured, several worm-holes to boards, spine cracked. Ink-stamp of the Lawes Agricultural library to FEP, early ink signatures to title (a couple scored through), leaves browned and stained, some worming to margins. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 19655
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[ITERNERARIO], [CAMPOMANES, Pedro Rodríguez, conde de]. Itinerario de las carreras de posta de dentro, y fuera del Reyno... Madrid. Imprenta de Antonio Perez de Soto, 1761. First edition. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and a large engraved folding map. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, all edges red. Discoloured, lightly rubbed. Text-block separating from binding. Hinges exposed. Armorial bookplate of Robert Henry Clive to FEP, later inked ownership inscription to recto of half-title. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 11439
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MOUNIER, M. [Jean Joseph]. Nouvelles observations sur les etats-generaux de france. Par M. Mounier, Secretaire des Etats de la Province de Dauphine. [s.l.]. [s.n.], 1789. First edition. 8vo. 282pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed to extremities, cracking to joints, dart-holes to foot of spine, without lettering-piece. Dugald Stewart's copy, with his characteristic signature to FEP, largely obscured by the armorial bookplate of (George) 'Cranstoun of Corehouse'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 26077
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'POLIZIANO', Angelo Ambrogini. Angeli politiani et aliorum virorum Illustrium, episolarum Libri XII... Hanoviae [i.e. Hannover. Apud Heredes Guiliemlmi Antonii, 1612. 12mo. [12], 610pp. Contemporary (?English) blind-ruled calf, initials 'F. T.' stamped to both boards. Rubbed, worm-hole to lower compartment of spine, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, front pastedown sprung, without rear example, early book-label of Simon Patrick, later book-label of the Cathedral Library, Ely (and withdrawal overstamp) to verso of upper board, no fewer than four manuscript shelf-marks, ink withdrawal stamp, and recent bookplate of R. J. ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 27524
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[WESTMINSTER SCHOOL]. Anthologia sive Epigrammatum Græcorum ex Anthologia editâ, MS. Bodleianâ, aliisque autoribus delectus in usum Scholæ Westmonasteriensis. Oxoniæ [i.e. Oxford]. E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1724. First edition. 8vo. [2], 99p, [3]. The first and sixth words of the title are transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary panelled sheep. Rubbed, joints starting, paper label with title in manuscript to head of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Stuart to front endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24901
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VICTOR, Sextus Aurelius. Sexti aurelii victoris historiae romanae breviarium... Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.e. Utrecht]. Apud Franciscum Halman, Guilielmum vande Water, 1696. 8vo. In two volumes. [42], 168, [28], 176; 177-434pp, [74]. Title printed in red and black. With an additional engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Lightly rubbed and marked, joints starting, loss to head of spine of Vol. I. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscriptions and characteristic shelf-marks of the Earl of Orrery to verso of FFEPs, recent armorial bookplate of ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 19411
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SUETONIUS. C. suetonii tranquilli XII. caesares... Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]. Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1548. 16mo. 632pp, [38]. Later gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, joints and corners neatly refurbished. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 31907
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DE STAAL, Madame. Mémoires de madame de staal (mademoiselle delaunay). Paris. Librairie L. Conquet, 1891. 8vo. Limited edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 98. [10], xxviii, 386pp, [4]. With and engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 34 engraved plates (duplicating engraved vignettes). Elaborately bound by Maurius Michel (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary richly gilt- tooled brown morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Modern ink-stamp to rear blank fly-leaf comprised of Asian inspired motifs and lettered 'Jean'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25912
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[VOLTAIRE]. CAYLUS, Madame de [Marthe-Marguerite]. Les souvenirs de madame de caylus. Amsterdam. Chez Jean Robert, 1770. First edition, second state. 8vo. viii, 174pp. Terminal leaf a cancel. Interleaves between p.48-49. Handsomely bound in nineteenth-century gilt-tooled green half- morocco, gilt armorial device of Richard Seymour-Conway, fourth Marquess Hertford (1800-1870) to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. A trifle dulled. Early French language notes, in two distinct hands, to initial and terminal fly-leaves and interleaved blank. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 28672
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SANDER, Nicholas. Nicolai sanderi angli doct. theol. De origine ac progressv Schismatis Anglicani, Libri Tres: quibus historia continetur maxime ecclesiastica, Annorum circiter 60. lectu dignissima; Aucti prius per edovardum rishtonum... Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e. Cologne]. Sumptibus Petri Henningi, 1610. 8vo. [16], 456, [24], 182pp, [2]. Contemporary vellum, lacking ties, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities marked and discoloured, a trifle rubbed. Upper board and initial gathering detached from text-block, booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to FEP, ink initial to head of title-page, loss to lower corner of leaf T1, very occasional marginal chipping, foxed. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 15490
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ANGELUS A SANCTO FRANCISCO. Certamen seraphicum provinciae angliae pro sancta dei ecclesia. In quo breviter declaratur, quomodo Fratres Minores Angli calamo & sanguine pro Fide Christi Sanctaque eins Ecclesia certarunt. Duaci [i.e. Douai]. Typis Baltasaris Belleri, 1649. Quarto. [24], 356pp. Without additional engraved title-page, with five engraved plates. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Rubbed, slight loss to head of spine. Armorial bookplate of Robert James Lord Petre to FEP alongside late nineteenth-century book-label of Gulielmi O'Brien and shelf-label of Milltown Park Library, FFEP very nearly detached - with booksellers catalogue descriptions pasted to recto, ink-stamp of Milltown Park Library to title, ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 15483
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[MARGUERITE OF NAVARRE]. Les sept journees de la reine de navarre: suives de la huitieme. Paris. Librairie de Bibliophiles, 1872. 8vo. Limited edition, one of 25 copies printed on China paper. Four volumes bound as two. [4], 160, [4], 125, [1], 136; [4], 84, 91, 79, [1], [4], 95, [1], 56, li, [5]. With half-titles and nine engraved plates. Finely bound by Riviere in contemporary richly gilt-tooled green crushed morocco, T.E.G. Spines slightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplates of Florence Nelson to both FEPs, small paper ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18978