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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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BURNET, Thomas. De Fide & Officiis christianorum Liber Posthumus. Londini [i.e. London]. Typis S. A. Impensis J.Hooke, 1727. Second edition. 8vo. 32, 216pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28050

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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

BERANGER, P[ierre]-J[ean] de. Chansons inedites. Paris. Baudouin Freres, 1828. 12mo. Via, [1], 132pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-roan, marbled boards. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, damp-stained and spotted throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 17721

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[MÉQUIGNON, Paul-Claude-Louis]. Catalogue de livres ecclésiastiques, de piété, classiques, liturgie et autres, qui se trouvent chez Méquignon junior, libraire, rue des Grands-Augustins, n.9.... Paris. de l'imprimerie de Cellot, 15 Octobre 1821 8vo. 54pp. Without final blank leaf. Disbound (evidently from a Sammelband), original publisher's wrappers preserved. Lightly damp-stained. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17467

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MICHAUD, L.G.. Catalogue de la librairie de L.G. Michaud éditeur de la biographie universelle, des oeuvres de Delille.... Paris. [s.n.], 1822. 8vo. 12pp. Disbound (evidently from a sammelband), original wrappers preserved. Margins closely trimmed, a trifle dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 17468

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[GALERON, Frédéric]. Catalogue général de la bibliothèque de la ville de falaise. [Falaise]. [Imprimerie de Brée l'ainé], [1830]. First edition?. 8vo. 6, 41pp, [1]. Uncut. Stitched, as issued in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Stitching perished, wrappers detached, text-block separated in constituent gatherings, some chipping to extremities. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27784

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DEBURE, Guillaume-François. Bibliographie instructive: ou traité de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers...Volume de la jurisprudence et des sciences et arts. Paris. Chez Guillaume-François de Bure le Jeune, 1764. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 772pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, all edges red. Rubbed, early paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. From the library - recently dispersed - of the Marquesses of Lothian (who also held the Earldom of Ancram) at Newbattle Abbey; with manuscript shelf-marks to front blank fly-leaf and head of title. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27785

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[BONAPARTE, Lucien], prince de Canino. Charlemagne, ou l'eglise delivree... Paris. Chez Firmin Didot, 1815. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. xxv, [5], 358; [4], 389pp, [1]. With half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting/staining. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27912

DIDEROT, [Denis]. La religieuse. Paris. P. Arnould, [1886]. 16mo. [2], 412pp. With an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate by P. Kauffmann. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, later bookplate of E. L. Allhusen to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP, leaves toned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27833

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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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BARTHOLIN, Thomas. Thomae bartholini de eqvestris ordinis danebrogici ab augustissimo rege Dn. christiano v... Hafniae [i.e. Copenhagen]. Sumtibus Danielis Paulli, 1676. First edition. Folio. [2], 59pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece by Coenrad Waumans of the dedicatee, Peder Greve af Griffenfeld. Title in red and black. Later vellum. Frontispiece and title page a trifle creased and spotted, ink-stamps of the Library of Breslau to both recto and verso of title page. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 25850

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DUELLIUS, Raimund. Historia ordinis equitum teutonicorum hospitalis s. mariae v. hierosolymitani... Viennae [i.e. Vienna]. Prostat apud Petrum Conradum Monath, 1727. First edition. Folio. In four parts. [12], 56, 120, [2]pp, seven engraved plates (counted as 'pag. 123'-1'29'), 26 leaves of genealogical tables, (2), 21, (1), (22)pp. With a half-title and a final leaf of errata. Title in red and black. Contemporary half-vellum, marbled boards, title in manuscript to spine, all edges red. Lightly rubbed and discoloured. Ink library tamps to foot of title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 25849

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TIEDEMANN, Friedrich. GMELIN, Leopold. Recherches expérimentales, physiologiques et chimiques, sur la digestion... Paris. Chez J.-B. Baillière, 1827. First edition in French. 8vo. In two parts. xxiv, 417, [3], 326pp, [2]. With a half-title and a final errata leaf. Contemporary roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27757

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LARREY, [Felix] Hippolyte. Relation chirurgicale des événemens de juillet 1830, a l'hopital militaire du gros-caillou. Paris. Chez Béchet, 1831. Seconde édition. 8vo. 152pp. With a half-title. Later calf-backed marbled papers boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. Light shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Neurologica to FEP, ink-stamps of the Société Medico Pratique to half-title and title page, leaves browned and spotted. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27762

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RIVAROL, [Claude-François], vicomte de. Adresse du peuple belge, à S. M. l'empereur. A Londres [i.e. London]. Chez Owen, 1793. First edition. 8vo. 8pp. Uncut and unstitched, as issued. Light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21090

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CARDUCCI, Giosue. Nuove poesie di giosue carducci (enotrio romano). In Bologna. Presso Nicola Zanichelli, 1875. Seconda edizione. 8vo. [2], xlii, 205pp, [1]. Portrait frontispiece (reproduced from a woodcut) of the author.Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Slight rubbing to extremities, corners, else a near fine copy. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper, which with the other preliminaries is slightly discoloured. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25395

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JAUBERT, Madame C.. Souvenirs de madame c. jaubert lettres et correspondances... Paris. J. Hetzel et Cle, Editeurs, [s.d., c.1880s] Troisieme edition. 12mo. [4], 323pp, [1]. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, corners, else a fine copy. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25398

SHELLEY, Mrs. [Mary Wollstonecraft]. Lodore en zijne dochter. Amsterdam. Hendrik Frijlink, 1836. First edition in Dutch. 8vo. viii, 312pp. With a lithograph frontispiece by H. J. Backer. Original publisher's green moire cloth-backed cream paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, chipping to lettering-piece. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27067

LAISNÉ, C.. A grammar of the spanish language, in which the rules are illustrated by examples, selected from the best authors. London. Printed for the Author, 1810. First edition. 12mo. vi, 150pp. Later gilt-tooled red half-roan, green paper boards. Heavily rubbed, chipping to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting, head of leaf D6 torn away - touching text with slight loss of sense. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27580