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TCHIHATCHEV, [Pyotr Aleksandrovich]. Nouvelle phase de la question d'orient. Paris. E. Dentu, 1860. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrapper. Lightly marked/spotted, some chipping to margins More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19040

TASSO, Torquato. La gerusalemme liberata. Venetia [i.e. Venice]. Sarzima, 1625. Quarto. [24], 255pp, [1]. With an engraved title page and 20 full- page engraved illustrations in the text by Francesco Valesio and Giacomo Valegio. Later gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, spine dulled. Later bookplate of the Gaddesden library (and therefore likely previously in the library of English courtier, diplomat and alchemist Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700), whose books had descended there via ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31763

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TASSONI, Alessandro. La secchia rapita poema eroicomico di alessandro tassoni. Edizine Formata sopra quella di Soliani del 1744. Venezia [i.e. Venice]. Vitarelli, 1813. 16mo. [6], lxxix, [1], 389pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark green calf, tooled in gilt and blind supralibros of George Granville Leveson-Gower, first Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833) to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21143

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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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TACITUS. Tacite, nouvelle traduction, par M. Dureau de Lamalle... Paris. Theophile Barrois, 1790. 8vo. In three volumes. lxxix, [1], 550, [2]; [4], 485, [1]; [4], 477pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, speckled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, early pen trials to verso of Vol. I errata leaf. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18034

[SWISS ALPS]. Furka und grimsel pass. Zurich. Photoglob Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. 36 leaves of photographic illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29030

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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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SUETONIUS. Caius suetonius tranquillus Cum Annotationibus diversorum. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]. Typis G. Hall pro R. Blagrave, 1661. 12mo. 369pp, [13]. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Heavily worn, loss and worming to spine, upper board detached. Inked ownership inscription (dated 1793) of Church of Scotland minister and historian William Robertson (1721-1793) to recto of FEP, early ownership inscription to head of title, occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22132

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STRUVE, Burkhard Gotthelf. Burcard. Gotthelffi[i] Struvi[i] Bibliotheca numismatum antiquiorum... Jenae [i.e. Jena]. Sumtibus Jo. Bielkii, 1693. First edition. 12mo. 238pp, [36]. Title in red and black. Later panelled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Title in manuscript to bottom edge. Worn, upper board held by cords only. Recent bookplate with initials 'A. M. H. P.' to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 24050

[STRICKLAND, Agnes]. Le jour de naissance de rosette:* composé pour l'amusement et l'instruction des jeunes demoiselles...*Rosetta's birth-day. Londres [i.e. London]. Chez William Darton, [s.d., c.1824] First edition in French. 12mo. 36pp. With an engraved frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's printed stiff yellow wrappers. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, frontispiece foxed, else clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 21364

ST. PIERRE, Bernardin de. Paul et virginie. Paris. Chez Deterville, 1816. 8vo. [2], viii, 242pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Liam Sims to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33111

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STOBAEUS. Dicta poetarum quæ apud io. stobæum extant emendata et Latino carmine reddita ab Hugone Grotio. Accesserunt Plutarchi et Basilii Magri de usu Græcorum poetarum libelli. Parisiis [i.e. Paris]. Apud Nicolaum Buon, 1623. First edition. Quarto. [40], 200, 564pp. Parallel Latin and Greek text. Later speckled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint starting, corners bumped. Worm-track to lower margin, running throughout text-block, occasionally touching text. Later armorial bookplate of the Gaddesden library (and therefore likely previously in the library of English courtier, diplomat, and alchemist Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700), whose books had descended there via ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32740

STAËL-HOLSTEIN, Madame de. Corinne ou l'italie. A Londres [i.e. London]. Chez M. Peltier, 1808. 8vo. In three volumes. [4], 383, [1]; [4], 421, [1]; [4], 442pp, [2]. With half-titles. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue wrappers, printed paper lettering-pieces. Housed in recent custom cloth case. A trifle marked, chipping/tearing to spines, cloth case sunned. Armorial bookplates of Maxwells of Kirkconnall, New Abbey, to versos of upper wrappers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22571

STAEL-HOLSTEIN, [Auguste Louis]. Lettres sur l'angleterre. Paris. Chez Treuttel et Wurtz, 1825. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 428pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24523

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STADTMANN, Johann Friderick. Dissertatio medico-chirurgica de tetano quam gratiosae facultatis medicae consensu in alma argentoratensium universitate... Argentorati [Strasbourg]. Typis Joh. Henrici Heitzii, Universitatis Typographi, 1785. Quarto. 34pp. Marbled wrappers, stitched as issued. Slightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20109

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SPROULE, John Watson. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de rachitide... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1787. 8vo. [4], 21pp, [1]. Recent brown cloth. A clean and crisp copy. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21618

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[SPARVENFELD, Johan Gabriel]. Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum &c. Quo anno MDCCV Bibliothecam Publicam Academiae Upsalensis auxit & exornavit. Upsaliae, [i.e. Uppsala].. Typis Joh. Henry. Werneri S:ae R:ae M:tis & Acad. Upsal. Typographi, 1706. First edition. Quarto. [6], 74pp. With text in mixed Latin and Arabic type. Uncut and largely unopened, in later paper wrappers. Ink inscription to head of upper wrapper. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15446

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[SPANISH LITERATURE]. PEREZ DE HITA, Gines. Historia de las guerras civiles de granada. En Amberes [i.e. Antwerp]. Por Henrico y Cornelio Verdussen, 1714. 8vo. [8], 336, 331-680pp, [2]. Text complete despite erratic pagination. Handsomely bound in nineteenth century russia, tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate in sanguine (superimposed on an earlier bookplate) of Thomas Merthyr Guest to FEP More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23536

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[SOUTH, Robert]. Decreti Oxoniensis vindicatio In Tribus ad Modestum ejusdem Examinatorem Modestioribus Epistolis, A Theologo Transmarino. [Oxford]. [s.n.], 1696. First edition. Quarto. [16], 92pp. Disbound. Earlier stab-stitch holes to gutter, lightly spotted. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21333

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SMISSEN, [Alfred Louis Adolphe Graves] Baron van der. Souvenirs du mexique 1864-1867. Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. J. Lebegue & Cie., [1892]. First edition. 8vo. [4], 232pp. With three folding coloured maps. Contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to FEP, later bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to recto of FFEP, short tear to one map at gutter. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31053