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Photo of "C. suetonii tranquilli XII. caesares.."

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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SENNERT, Daniel. Danielis sennerti d. et profess. publ. in academ. Vuitteberg. Epitome Institutionum medicinae. Lugundi [i.e. Leiden] [Printed at Lyon]. Sumptib. Petri Rauaud, 1645. 12mo. [24], 932pp. With a folding table. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities discoloured. Pastedowns sprung, light damp-staining throughout. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19233

OOSTENS-WITTAMER, Yolande. Das hotel Solvay erleben. [Brussels]. [Editions Lebeer Hossman], [1995]. Second edition. Folio. 32pp. Sixteen folded sheets loosely inserted into original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Extremities a trifle marked. Overall a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 25293

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COX, Robert. Das Leben des ehrwuerdigen Joh. Wilh. Fletscher, gewesenen Vicars von Madeley in Shropshire. Frankfurt am Main. Gedruckt Und Verlegt Bei H.L. Broenner, 1833. First German Edition. 12mo. iv, 140, [4]. Original publisher's wrappers, with printed label to spine. Rubbed, with slight loss to extremities, creasing to spine. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 10168

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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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BURNET, Thomas. De Fide & Officiis christianorum Liber Posthumus. Londini [i.e. London]. Typis S. A. Impensis J.Hooke, 1727. Second edition. 8vo. 32, 216pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28050

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[GENOUDE, Antoine Eugene de]. De jacques cathelineau, premier generalissime des armees catholiques et royales de la vendee. Paris. Chez le Normant, 1821. Second edition. 8vo. [2], xxiv, 138pp. Contemporary straight-grain red morocco, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked. Pastedowns sprung, scattered foxing. Contemporary inked gift inscription to head of title page. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24092

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MATTHAEUS, Antonius. De judiciis disputationes septendecim... Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.e. Utrecht]. Typis Joannis a Waesberge, 1645. Editio Secunda [i.e. second edition]. 12mo. [16], 380pp. With an additional engraved title. Contemporary vellum with title in gilt to spine. Some minor spots of soiling but overall well preserved. Armorial bookplate of Los Angeles Law Library to FEP, tear to bottom edge of FFEP, loss to head of *4, ink annotation to margin of p.39, lightly foxed throughout. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 12254

HORSIN DEON, [Simon]. De la conservation et de la restauration des tableux... Paris. Chez Hector Bossange, 1851. First edition. 8vo. viii, 234pp. Recent tan plain paper wrappers. Very minor wear to extremities. Internally immaculate, a fine copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14648

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DEGERANDO, Joseph Marie. De la génération des connoissances humaines... Berlin. Imprimé Chez George Decker, 1802. First edition. 8vo. viii, 304pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Booksellers ticket of Raymond Clavreuil of Paris to FEP, occasional marginal damp-staining to head of text-block. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29359

THIERS, Marie Adolphe. De la propriété. Paris. Paulin, Lheureux et Cie, 1848. First French edition. 8vo. [4], 439pp. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled boards. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to spine and edges. Armorial bookplate of Orwell Park to FEP. Heavy spotting to title and blank fly-leaves, lighter spotting to text. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34150

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PLANTAMOUR, E.. De la temperature a Geneve d'apres vingt annees d'observations (1836 a 1855). [Geneva]. [s.n.], 1856. First offprint edition. Quarto. [1], 290-330pp. Unopened in original publisher's plain paper wraps. Title in manuscript to upper wrap, light foxing, loss to spine, upper wrap nearly detached. Creasing to leaves, short tear to head of drop-title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13425

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HELVÉTIUS, [Claude Adrien]. De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. A Londres [i.e. The Hague]. Chez la Société Typographique, 1773. 12mo. In two volumes. [2], lxiv, 639, [1]; [2], 760pp. With a final leaf of errata to Vol. II. In this edition, there is no comma after 'intellectuelles, line six of title reads 'et de son' and the title page ornament does not have typographical elements. Contemporary calf, recently expertly rebacked, lettered in gilt. Boards rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplates of the Swansea Training College to ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23773

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DUCHENNE, [Guillame Benjamin Armand]. De l'électrisation localisée et son application a la physiologie, a la pathologie et a la thérapeutique. Paris. Chez J.-B. Baillière, 1855. First edition. 8vo. xii, 926pp. With a half-title and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper board, ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbed, upper joint starting, spine sunned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27760

CALONNE, M. [Charles Alexandre] De. De l'état de la France, présent et a venir. Londres [i.e. London]. De L'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury & Fils, 1790. First edition. 8vo. [2], viii, 318pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled boards. Rubbed and marked, joints split, small losses to head and foot of spine. Spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34137

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[PORQUET, Louis Philippe R. Fenwick de]. De porquet's first italian reading book: or, Raccolta di Storie e di Novelle, veramente morali. London. Published for the Author, by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1853. New edition. 8vo. xix, 189pp, [3]. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight marking to extremities. First gathering protruding from text-block, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title-page. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16413

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MIKSCHE, Ferdinand Otto. Der Atomkrieg findet nicht statt: Das Versagen der Atomstrategie. Stuttgart. Friedrich Vorwerk, [1958]. First edition. 8vo. 256pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in silver. Rubbed, marked, and damp- stained, spine dulled. Extensive ink and pencil annotations. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30665

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HERDER, Johann Gottfried von. Der Cid nach spanischen Romanzen. Stuttgart und Tubingen. Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1838. First illustrated edition. Quarto. [6], 238pp. With an engraved half-title, an additional engraved title-page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text by Eugen Neureuther. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Rubbed, some surface loss to upper board. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to FEP, foxed throughout. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 16891

HAYEK, Friedrich A. von. Der strom der guter und leistungen. Tubingen. J. C. B. Mohr, 1984. First edition. 8vo. 28pp. Original publisher's printed yellow wrappers. A trifle rubbed, marked, and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28974

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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