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VILLEDIEU, [Marie-Catherine de]. Les exilez de la cour d'auguste. Amsterdam. Chez Andre' de Hoogenhuysen, 1695. 12mo. 496pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf. Lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, early inked ownership inscription to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23060

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SCUDÉRY, [Madeleine de]. Les conversations Sur divers sujets par mademoiselle de scudery. Amsterdam. Chez Daniel du Fresne, 1682. Third edition. 12mo. [28], 175, [1]; 210pp. With an additional engraved title page. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, upper joint starting, slight loss to foot of spine. Later armorial bookplate of Beilby Thompson to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19674

SAINT PIERRE, Jacobo Bernardino Enrique de. Pablo y virginia. Madrid. Pantaleon Aznar, 1798. 8vo. [10], xxvi, 250pp, [4]. With a half-title, an engraved title page, an engraved plate, and two terminal leaves of advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Rubbed, loss to head of spine. Marbled endpapers, without FFEP, inked ownership inscription of T. Beckett to head of half-title, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25735

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[SACHEVERELL, Henry]. [Drop-head title:] A remarkable speech Of one of the Learned council against Doctor sacheverell. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1710]. Quarto. Single bifolium. 3pp, [1]. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32763

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[DICTIONARY]. BARBOSA, Agostinho. Dictionarium lusitanicolatinum juxta seriem alphabeticam optimis, probatisq. doctissimorum Auctorum testimoniis perutili quadam expositione locupletatum, cum sopiosissimo latini sermonis... Bracharae [i.e. Braga]. Typis, & expensis Fructousi Laurentii de Basto, 1611. First edition. Quarto. [40]ff, 1208 col. [i.e. 1108 col], [1]f, 15pp, [1]. Early, perhaps seventeenth century tooled limp vellum, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, yapp edges. A trifle marked, slightly rubbed; occasional marginal paper flaws, touching a single character of O4r, without loss of sense. Manuscript shelf-marks and later armorial bookplate of the Gaddesden library to FFEP (and therefore perhaps previously in the library of English courtier, diplomat, and alchemist ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 26638

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LAMY, Bernard. Traité de perspective, Où sont contenus les fondemens de la Peinture. Paris. Chez Anisson Directeur de l'Imprimerie Royale ruë de la Harpe, 1701. First edition. 8vo. xxi, [3], 227pp, [9]. With eight engraved plates (one folding) and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum. With fore-edge decoration comprised of a charming repeating floral pattern. Extremities a trifle rubbed and discoloured. Marbled endpapers, marginal loss to lower corners of leaves G1 and K2, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 32692

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TACKELS, C. J.. Armes de guerre. Etude pratique sur les armes se chargeant par la culasse les mitrailleuses et leurs munitions... Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. A. N. Lebegue et Cie., 1868. First edition. [4], 220pp. With half-title and seven engraved folding plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by author to half-title.

[Bound after:] VAN DEN KEREKHOVE, L. Le general chapelle l'expedition Belge au Mexique et l'article 92 du code penal... Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. Imprimerie de M. J. Poot et Compagnie, 1864. 36pp. With half-title.

[And:] DEDEYN, M. Raymond. Ce que vaut la garde civique... Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. Imprimerie et Lithographie de Veuve ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 12576

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[MODENA]. Notificazione Dovendo continuare le Imposte sino che siano pagati li debiti fruttiferi contratti dal Magistrato in Genova, Milano, & altrove per cagione de' passati Quartieri, e Contribuzioni... Modena. Bartolomeo Soliani Stampatore Ducale, 1718. Dimensions 0 x 0 mm. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. Single old central horizontal fold. A trifle creased, some marginal loss, sealing wax remnants to both recto and verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23193

[AUSTRIA]. Lettre a un ami en pays etranger sur les droits de la maison d'Autriche a quelques parties de la succession de Baviere, avec la refutation Du Memoire succinct sur la Succession de l'Electeur de Baviere publie dans le N:o 36 du Courier polit. & litter. de Londres. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1778. Quarto. [2], 78pp. Early paper boards. Slight rubbing and some browning to extremities. Occasional spots of light foxing and mild marginal damp-staining. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 11936

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GAUTRUCHE, [Pierre]. L'histoire poetique, Pour l'intelligence des poètes et des auteurs anciens. Amsterdam. Chez David Paul Marret, 1723. Dernière edition. 8vo. 302pp, [30]. Title page in red and black, with an additional engraved title page. Contemporary blind-stamped speckled calf, contrasting gilt-tooled brown morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, with surface wear to boards. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of John Bond to FFEP. Very occasional light scattered spotting, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33543

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PROD'HOMME, J. G.. La jeunesse de beethoven (1770-1800). Paris. Librarie Delagrave, [1927]. Quarto. 384pp. Title page in red and black. With half-title, four photographic plates and 125 musical examples. Uncut in contemporary morocco-backed mustard cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A little rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers. Inked presentation inscription: 'A. M. Ernest Newman Critique musical au Sunday Times confraternal hommage. J. Prod'homme.' to head of half-title. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25915

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BARTHOLIN, Caspar. Caspari Bartholini Thom. F. Specimen philosophiae naturalis, Praecipua Physices Capita exponens... Oxoniae [i.e. Oxford]. Typis Leon. Lichfield, Impensis Henr. Clements, 1703. 12mo. [12], 164, [4], 23pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities marked and worn, loss to head and foot of spine and lettering-piece. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19418

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CHEVALIER, Michel. Examen système commercial connu sous le nom de système protecteur. Paris. Librairie de Guillaumin et Ce., 1852. First edition. 8vo. viii, 383pp, [1]. With a half-title and a terminal page of errata. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Lightly rubbed and creased, short tear to upper wrapper. Foxed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to half-title. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28172

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CHATELAIN, A[uguste]. Des erreurs et préjugés populaires en médecine. Neuchatel. Delachaux et Sandoz, 1865. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 206pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight loss to foot of dulled spine, early inked ownership inscription to head of upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31794

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CATULLUS. Catulls Gedichte in ihrem geschichtlichen Zusammenhange übersetzt und erläutert von Rudolf Westphal. Breslau. Verlag von F. E. C. Leuckart, 1867. 8vo. xii, 282pp, [2]. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers bound in. Scattered spotting. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25399

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[LE CAMUS, Antoine]. Abdeker, ou l'art de conserver la beauté. [Paris]. [s.n.], l'an de l'Hegyre 1168 [i.e. 1754] First edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [4], 7-155; 234 [i.e. 134]pp. Later gilt-tooled calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. From the library of Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandys (1774-1836), with her gilt monogram to head of spine. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 32696

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ESTIENNE, Charles. LLOYD, Nicholas. Dictionarium historicum geographicum, Poeticum, Authore carolo stephano; Gentium, Hominum, Deorum Gentilium, Regionum, Locorum, Civitatum, Aequorum, Fluviorum, Sinuum, Portuum, Promuntoriorum, ac Montium, antique recentioraque ad Sacras, & Profanas Historias, Poetarumque fabulas intelligendas necessaria nomina, quo decet ordine complectens. Editio novissima... Oxonii, [i.e. Oxford]. Excudebat, G.H. & G.D. sumptibus Johan. Williams, Georg. West, Amos Curteyne & Johan. Crisket, 1671. Folio. [8], 830pp, [2]. The title is a cancel. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, with an elaborate gilt armorial supra-libros of Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond to centre of each board. With alphabetical vellum index tabs to the fore-edge (some torn away). Later bookplate of the Gaddesden library to front pastedown, with both inked and pencilled shelf-marks to FFEP. A little rubbed to spine, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26540

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GLANVILLE, Ranulf de. Tractatus de Legibus & Consuetudinibus regni Angliæ, tempore Regis Henrici secundi compositus, Justiciæ gubernacula tenente illustri viro Ranulpho de Glanvilla... [London]. [Printed by A. Islip] In ædibus Thomas Wright, 1604. [10], 116, [17] leaves. Initial leaf blank except for an ornament and signature-mark 'j'. ESTC S103136, STC 11906.

[Bound with:] SAINT GERMAIN, Christopher. Dialogus de fundamentis Legum Angliæ et de conscientia... [London]. [Printed by A. Islip?] In ædibus Thomas Wright, 1604. [4], 73, [3] leaves. With a terminal blank leaf. ESTC S103137, STC21560.

8vo. Contemporary limp vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities rubbed, marked, ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 25183

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[WARD, Samuel]. Magnetis reductorium theologicum tropologicum, In quo ejus. Londini [i.e. London]. Impensis A. M., 1637. First edition, second issue. 8vo. [28], 162pp. With an engraved frontispiece depicting an anchor and two instruments (not included in collation), and without initial blank. Neatly recased (using frontispiece remounted at gutter) within contemporary limp vellum. An unpressed copy, with some marking to vellum. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 26410

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PONT, Robert. De sabbaticorum annorum periodis chronologica a mundi exordio ad nostra usque secula et porro digesto. Per Robertum Pontanum, Caledonium Britannum. [London]. Excusum per Gulielmum Jones, 1619. First Latin edition. Quarto. [16], 203pp, [1]. With an elaborate printer's device featuring an operational printing press in a print shop. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, with the gilt armorial supralibros to both boards and monograms to spine compartments of Achille III de Harlay, Comte de Beaumont (1639-1712). Wear to spine and corners, chipping at head and foot of spine, cracking to joints (boards nevertheless firmly attached). M3-4 with old ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 33289