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[RUIZ DE VERGARA ÁLAVA, Francisco]. Regla, y establecimientos, de la orden y cavalleria, del gloriosso apostol santiago patron de las spañas, con la historia del origen y principio deela. [Madrid]. [Domingo Garcia Morras], 1655. First edition. Folio. [13], 204, 211-216, 205-210, 217-220ff, [18]. Partially misbound. With an engraved pictorial title page and two further engraved plates by Pedro de Villafranca Malagón. Later vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities rubbed, marked, and discoloured. Chipping to head of title page, small neat paper repair to verso, very occasional manuscript annotations in an early Spanish hand. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25847
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[ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques], [STAEL-HOLSTEIN, Anne Louise Germaine de]. Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractere de j. j. rousseau. [Paris?]. [s.n.], 1789. Derniere edition [i.e. second edition]. 8vo. [4], 88pp. Uncut, stitched into later marbled paper wrappers. Extremities marked and chipped, wrapper separating from text-block. Contemporary inked annotation and later ink-stamp of crown motif with initials 'H. A.' to title, several lines of p.7 deleted in ink (bled through to p.8-9), lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 19027
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[ROSA, Frédéric-Guillaume]. Petit Almanach des Dames. Septieme Année. Paris. Chez Rosa, [1816]. 12mo. [28], 190, [12]pp. With a half-title, an engraved title page, six engraved plates, and six terminal engraved almanac leaves. Original publisher's pictorial pink paper boards, A.E.G., housed in original publisher's pictorial pink card slipcase. Lightly rubbed, dust-soiled at head, slipcase rubbed, chipped, and discoloured, short tear at head. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31512
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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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[ROMAN CATHOLIC LITURGY - Missal]. Missale romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii tridentini restitutum ss. pii v. pontificis maximi... Mechliniae [i.s. Mechelen]. H. Dessain, 1896. Large 8vo. xli, 502, 60, 24pp, [2]. With a half tile. Printed in red and black. Elaborately bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, device of seated christ proffering book with Greek letters alpha and omega within ornate border to both boards, A.E.G., with eight divisional red moire cloth tabs (one partially perished), gilt dentelles, decorated endpapers. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Internally immaculate. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28784
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RITTER VON RITTERSHAIN, Gottfried. Die pathologie und therapie der rachitis. Berlin. Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1863. First edition. 8vo. x, 316pp, [2]. With four plates. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Extremities rubbed, marked, bumped, and dulled. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31009
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[RINK, Eucharius Gottlieb]. De veteris numismatis potentia et qualitate Lucubratio, occassione Rubrica Codicis de eodem Argumento; sive cognito totius rei numariae Ad intelligentiam iuris accomodata. Accessit dissertatio iuridica De numo unico, Cum multis aliis cognitioni Numorum conducentibus Veterum. Lipsiae & Francofurti [i.e. Leipzig and Frankfurt]. Typis & impensis Iodoci Wilhelmi Kohlesii, 1701. First edition. Quarto. [8], 197, [1], 86pp, [16]. With an engraved folding frontispiece and one further engraved plate. Later gilt- tooled sprinkled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint split, head of spine worn. Armorial bookplate of R. W. Cochran Patrick to FEP, marginal loss to leaves G3 and I4, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24044
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[RICHER, Edmond]. Apologia pro joanne gersonio Pro suprema Ecclesiae & Concilii generalis Auctoritate: atque independdentia Regiae Potestatis ab alio quam a solo Deo... Lugduni Batavourm [i.e. Leiden]. Apud Paulum Moriaen, [1676] First edition. Quarto. [28], 338pp, [2]. With a single full-page copper-plate engraving, depicting Gerson as a pilgrim (p.304). Later blind-ruled sprinkled calf. Lightly rubbed. Early authorial identification in manuscript ('Edm. Richerium') to title page, which is shaved to foot with loss to imprint, scattered spotting. Early book-label of Simon Patrick, later book-label (and withdrawn stamp) of the Cathedral Library, Ely, and recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 16018
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RICCIOLI, Giovanni Battista. Prosodia reformata duobus tomis comprehensa Quorum Prior continet Prosodiae Rudimenta, Prosodiam Majorem, Poetarum versus plures quàm vigintiquatuormille, & eorundem Poetarum Tempora... Bononiæ [i.e. Bologna]. Hæredis Victorii Benatii, 1655. First edition. 12mo. In two volumes. [22], 180, 492; [610]pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering- piece, all edges red. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. The Macclesfield copy, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate and typical armorial blind-stamps to title page and initial leaves of text, pencilled shelf-marks to front endpapers. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31930
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REIS, [Johann] Philipp. [Caption title:] Ueber Telephonie durch den galvanischen Strom [In: Jahres-Bericht des physikalischen Vereins zu Frankfurt am Main für das Rechnungsjahr 1860-1861]. [Frankfurt am Main]. [G. Naumann's Druckerei], [1861]. First edition. 8vo. 57-64pp. (Whole volume, 80pp.) With six folding tables. As issued, with original publisher's pink paper backstrip. Housed in recent custom morocco-backed buff card cover, within buff card slipcase. Spine sunned, general title a trifle dusty. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24386
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RASK, Rasmus. Angelsaksisk sproglaere tilligemed en kort laesebog. Stokholm. Trykt paa Mag. Wiborgs Forlag i det Hedmanske Bogtrykkeri, 1817. First edition. 8vo. [8], 44, 168pp. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt supralibros of Francis Egerton to boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and scored, spine chipped and dulled. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20307
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RAPIN DE THOYRAS, [Paul de]. Dissertation sur les whigs et les torys. A La Haye. Chez Charles le Vier, 1717. 8vo. [8], 162pp. Title in red and black. Contemporary calf, gilt. Without lettering-piece, rubbed, joints starting, slight loss to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, light damp-staining and occasional spots of foxing throughout, loss to bottom margin of B2, not affecting text. From the library of Hugh Selbourne, with small ink-stamps to verso of title and occasionally to margins. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13388
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RAEMOND, Jean Charles Florimond de. Error popularis Seu fabula joannae quae pontificis romani sedem occupasse falso credita est... Coloniae [i.e. Cologne]. Apud Petrum Henningium, 1614. 12mo. [16], 347pp, [4]. Later vellum-backed pink paper covered wooden boards, titled in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to upper board, corners exposed, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, manuscript bibliographical notes on the subject of Pope Joan to verso of FFEP, very occasional underlining, loss to margins of N2 and T3, small paper flaw to gutter margin of S7 at head - touching ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27771