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[CHARLES I]. Histoire entiere & veritable du procez de charles stuart, Roy D'Angleterre. Contenant, en forme de Journal, tout ce qui s'est passe sur ce sujet dans le Parlement, & en la Haute Cour de Justice; Et la facon en laquelle il a este mis a mort. Au mois de Janvier 1649/8. Le tout fidelement receuilly des pieces Authentiques, & traduit de l'Anglois. A Londres [i.e. London]. Imprimé par J[ohn] G[rismond], 1650. 12mo. [2], 155pp, [1]. Without initial blank leaf. Handsomely bound in eighteenth-century gilt-tooled red morocco, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Very slightly rubbed, spine a little marked; else a fine copy. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33907
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CHATEAUBRIAND, François-Auguste. Atala, ou les amours de deux sauvages dans le désert. Paris. Chez Migneret, 1801. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo. xxiv, 207pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by T. J. Farndell of Windsor in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Binder's ticket and contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP: 'Wm. Danby / the gift of his sister / Mary Harcourt / May 1803'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 17383
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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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CHIFFLET, Jean-Jacques. Insignia gentilitia equitum ordinis velleris aurei... Antuerpiae [i.e. Antwerp]. Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1632. First edition. Quarto. [32], 232, [12], 15pp, [1]. Printed in doubles columns, parallel French and Latin text. With a full-page engraving. Later red morocco-backed, cloth-tipped, marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed. Paper repair to head of title page, small burn hole to leaf Ff4. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 27538
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CIRLOT, Juan Eduardo.. Lucio Fontana. Barcelona. Editorial Gustavo Gili, [1966]. Small 4to. 59pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in pink, with original publisher's photographic dustwrapper. Boards sharp, wrapper a little nicked and marked. Presentation inscription to FFEP: 'For Sir Laurence Olivier with my greatest admiration.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31209
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CLUVER, Phillipp. Philippi Cluverii introductionis in Universam geographiam, tam Veterem quam Novam Libri VI. Accessit P. Bertii Breviarum Orbis terrarum. Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam]. Apud Elzevirios, 1677. 16mo. 352, 70pp, [10]. With an engraved title page, and engraved folding plate, and a folding table. Handsomely bound in eighteenth- century gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers, all edges blue. Extremities rubbed, slight chipping to head of spine. Armorial bookplate of Baptist May to verso of blank fly-leaf at front, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 11693
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COCCHI, Antonio Celestino. Corticis Peruviani vindiciæ dissertatio physico-practica antonii caelestini cocchii In Romano Archilyceo Medicinae Lectoris... Romae [i.e. Rome]. Ex Typographia Komarek in via Cursus, 1746. First edition. 8vo. [12], 83pp, [1]. Contemporary stiff buff wrappers. Early paper label with title in manuscript to spine, manuscript title to upper wrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked. Later ink-stamp to verso of title page, small wormtrack reducing to single wormhole from title to leaf B4, affecting text in places without loss of sense. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24389
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[COLERIDGE, John Taylor]. Etymology, a prize essay, recited in the theatre at oxford, June 30, 1813. [Oxford]. [S. Collingwood], [1813]. First edition. 35pp, [1].

[Bound with:] COLERIDGE, John Taylor. Quam vim in moribus Populi Romani corrigendis habuerit Potestas Censoria? Oratio cancellarii præmio donata, et in theatro sheldoniano habita Die Jun. xxxmo. A.D. 1813. [Oxford]. [S. Collingwood], [1813]. First edition. 21pp, [1].

[And:] [COLERIDGE, John Taylor]. Pyramides Egyptiacæ Carmen Cancellarii Præmico Donatam et in Theatro Sheldoniano Recitation Die Jun AD 1810. Manuscript on paper. [11]ff.

[And:] [COLERIDGE, John ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26003
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CONSTANTIN-WEYER, Maurice. LONGWORTH CHAMBRUN, Clara, comtesse de Chambrun. Le grand will: drame historique en 3 actes. Paris. Les Éditions de la Nouvelle France, 1945. First edition. 8vo. 244pp [8]. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown wrappers, printed inn black with pink and burgundy detail. A little faded, with some creasing to the sunned spine. Toned evenly throughout. Inscribed to FFEP: 'à Lawrence Olivier – hommage d’admiration et de reconnaissance. Longworth Chambrun Paris Juillet 1945.' More > £ 275.00 Antiquates Ref. 31394
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CORNARIUS, Janus. Constantini caesaris selectarum praeceptionum de agricultura libri VI = ginti. Iano Cornario Medico interprete. Lugundi [i.e. Lyon]. Seb. Gryphium, 1541. 8vo. 150, 153-154, 151-349pp, [16]. Leaf K4 misbound. Later gilt-tooled diced russia, all edges red. Rubbed, joints starting, some scoring to boards; but an attractive copy. Endpapers browned, ink-stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Trust to FEP, contemporary ownership inscription to title page: 'Johannis Alardi x Armcoruf(?) / Gronopol. 1544. empts.' marginal worm- track throughout the majority of text-block, closed tear to lower corner of final leaf ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 19652
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CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus. Q. Curtii Rufi. Historiarum libri, accuratissime editi. Lugd, Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633. 12mo. [12], 364pp, [24]. With an engraved title page, a single full-page engraved illustration in the text, and an engraved folding map. Contemporary ink-ruled vellum. Lightly rubbed, upper joint starting. Inked ownership inscription 'J. Wordswoth / Trin: Coll. Cant.' and later book-label of Walter R. Sadler to recto of FFEP, title page naively reattached with tissue paper, slight loss to lower corner of leaf D1, minute ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31622
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DA COSTA, Jose Daniel Rodrigues. O espreitador do mundo novo. Obra critica, moral, e divertida. Lisboa [i.e. Lisbon]. Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1802. First edition. Quarto. In twelve parts. 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32pp. With a woodcut vignette to title, and a further 11 identical woodcut vignettes in the text. Contemporary black morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed, some surface loss. Marbled endpapers, small neat paper repair to verso of title (slight loss to imprint), very occasional chipping to margins. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20924
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[DAMOURS, Louis]. Lettres de Ninon de l'Enclos au Marquis de Sevigne. Amsterdam. Chez Francois Joly, 1750. First edition. 12mo. In two volumes. [2], xii, 186; [2], 200pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I, engraved title pages to both volumes, and a final errata leaf to Vol. II. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Extremities stained and sunned, a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, margins lightly browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19521