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Photo of "Gasometrische methoden"
BUNSEN, Robert. Gasometrische methoden. Braunschweig [i.e. Brunswick]. Druck und verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1857. First edition. 8vo. x, 305pp, [3]. With a half-title, a terminal errata leaf, and numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemporary half-cloth, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities worn and marked, joints split, spine sunned. Hinges exposed, ink library stamps and shelf-marks to half-title and title page, scattered foxing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25082
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TICOZZI, Stefano. Dizionario dei pittori dal rinnovamento delle belle arti fino al 1800. Milano [i.e. Milan]. Dalla Tipograafia di Vincenzo Ferrario, 1818. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. xv, [1], 328; 363pp, [1]. With two engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, marked, discoloured, spine dulled. Armorial bookplate of Charles Feilding to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25077
Photo of "Aristophanis aves. Cum prolegomenis et ..."
ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis aves. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1902. [6], xv, [1]. 275pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[Together with:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis lysistrata. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1903. [4], xiv, 177pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[And:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis plutus. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1904. [4], xxvi, 182pp. With a half-title.

[And:] ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24841
Photo of "Nos quatre 9 libres d'Amour"
WIST, Ki. ADIE. Nos quatre 9 libres d'Amour. Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. Editions Henriquez, 1964. First edition. 8vo. 1 of 45 copies printed. [22]pp. Leaves loosely inserted into original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Lightly damp-stained. Presentation copy, inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'Un joyeux Noel 1969 / A Monsieur & Madame / Charles - / Tres cordialements / Ki Wist / Adie'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24168
Photo of "Poemes azteques"
GENIN, Auguste. Poemes azteques. Mexico. Bibliotheque de Courrier du Mexique et de l'Europe, 1907. Deuxieme edition [i.e. second edition]. 8vo. [6], iv, 255pp. Contemporary straight-grain half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, T.E.G. Minor shelf-wear, spine sunned. Decorated endpapers, armorial bookplate of Annie Cowdray to FEP, internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to half-title: 'A Lady Cowdray / Souvenir de son / sejour au pays des Azteques / Respectueusement / Aug Genin / Mexico, Janvier 1911'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24063
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[MOULIN, Lewis du]. Jugulum causae, seu nova, unica, compendiaria, & una propemodum periodo comprehensa, ratio: per quam totus doctrinarum Romanensium complexus, de quibus lis est inter Protestantes & pontificios, & unà papa, ejusque imperium, funditus evertuntur. [s.i.]. Juxta exemplar Londinense, 1671. First edition. 8vo. 317, [39], 396pp, [2]. In two parts, 'Jugulum cauae, seu nova & expeditissima ratio', has a separate dated title page and separate pagination. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Extremities worn, joints split. Very small hole to title page, later armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell to verso. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23978
Photo of "Le Pôle Meutrier: journal du ..."
SCOTT, [Robert Falcon], Capitaine. Le Pôle Meutrier: journal du Capitaine Scott. Paris. Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1914. First edition in French. Quarto. x, 380pp, [2]. With 91 illustrations and a folding map. Original publisher's decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Closed tear to margin of p.141-2. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23454
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ELLIOTT, Marie. La petite entremetteuse;* ou, une faute conduit a plusieurs...*the little meddler. Londres [i.e. London]. Chez William Darton, 1829. First edition in French. 12mo. 36pp. With a folding, partially hand-coloured, engraved frontispiece and two further plain engraved plates. Original publisher's printed light blue stiff paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, faint pen-trials, ticket of bookseller T. Connolly of Dublin to upper wrapper. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, ink-stamp of W. T. Matier of Belfast to title, very short tear to margin of final leaf, occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21705
Photo of "La petite rapporteuse.*...*The telltale"
ELLIOTT, Marie. La petite rapporteuse.*...*The telltale. Londres [i.e. London]. Chez William Darton, [s.d., c.1825] First edition in French. 12mo. 36pp. With a folding engraved frontispiece, and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's printed stiff buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed, marked, and dusty. Frontispiece a little creased, very occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21704
Photo of "La secchia rapita poema eroicomico ..."
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