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Photo of "[Drop-head title:] Emigrant's hymn"

[EMIGRANT'S HYMN]. [Drop-head title:] Emigrant's hymn. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1860s?] Dimensions 130 x 200 mm. Single card sheet, printed on one side only. Engraved vignette to head with caption: 'An emigrant to the Far-west of Canada, or the United States, having partially cleared his land, erected his log-hut & surmounting the first toils of settlement, thinks of his early and pious home, and remembering the lessons learnt at a British mother's knee, sits down with his Bible, and is supposed ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28259

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[NEW THEATRE ROYAL]. [Drop-head title:] First night of the new play. New Theatre Royal, Drury Lane This Evening, Monday, January 5. 1824 His Majesty's Servants will perform (for the 1st time) a new Tragic Play, (in 4 Acts) with an allegorical and Characteristic pageant, called Kenilworth; Or, The Days of Good Queen Bess... [London]. J. Tabby, [1824]. Single bifolium. 2pp. Separated into two leaves. Stab-stitch holes to gutter margins, lightly creased and spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25374

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[BROADSIDE BALLADS]. [Drop-head title:] Lass of richmond hill... [London]. W. S. Fortey, [s.d., between 1858 and 1885] Dimensions 190 x 250 mm. Single leaf broadside. With a woodcut vignette. Early folds, some spotting and small holes to margins, creased. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 25476

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[BROADSIDE BALLADS]. [Drop-head title:] Liston's Drolleries.---Something new starts every day...Young Donald of Dundee. [London]. Pitts, Printer, [s.d., between 1819 and 1844] Dimensions 170 x 250 mm. Single leaf broadside. Printed in two columns. Edges uncut. Browned and a trifle creased. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25574

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[ACADEMY ADDRESS]. [Drop-head title:] Prologue to the public readings at Messrs. Flack's Academy, For Christmas, 1810, To be Spoken by Henry Tolhurst. [London]. J. Barfield, Printer, [1810]. Dimensions 200 x 320 mm. Single leaf broadside. Three old horizontal folds. Short central tear to head, creased, a trifle spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25502

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COWPER, William. [Drop-head title:] Riddle by wm. cowper, esq. Northampton. [s.n.], 1838. Dimensions 160 x 230 mm. Single leaf broadside. Printed in two columns. Single horizontal fold, two short tears to margins. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29562

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[NAPOLEON]. [Drop-head title:] The ashes of napoleon. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1850] Dimensions 110 x 260 mm. Single sheet, printed on one side only. A trifle creased. Small tear to beginning of first line of text (without loss of sense). More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24620

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[THEATRE, LEEDS]. [Drop-head title:] Theatre, Leeds. For the benefit of miss goward. On Wednesday Evening, September 1, 1824 Will be peformed the musical play of The slave... Leeds. Robinson and Heraman, [1824]. Dimensions 110 x 210 mm. Single leaf broadside. A trifle creased, margins shaved, several small holes, in one instance touching text without loss of sense. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27893

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[NAPIER, Francis, Baron Napier and Ettrick]. [Drop-head title:] The demon chain: A Legend of the Swedish Counts of Piper. [London]. [s.n.], [1853]. 170-172pp.

[Bound with: [Drop-head title:] Pinocchi. [London], [s.n.], [1856]. 438-442pp.

8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary red half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Baron Napier to FEP, nine press- cuttings, dated 1883-1891, relating to Napier's involvement in the restoration of Edinburgh castle.

With three A.L.S. loosely inserted:

- The first, on Windsor Castle stationery, dated 30th ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 31080

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[BROADSIDE BALLADS]. [Drop-head title:] Write me a letter from home... [London]. W. S. Fortey, [s.d., between 1858 and 1885] Dimensions 190 x 250 mm. Single leaf broadside. With two woodcut vignettes. Early folds, some spotting and small holes to margins, creased. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 25477

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[NAPOLEON]. [Drop-head title:] Young napoleon. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1850] Dimensions 90 x 250 mm. Single sheet, printed on one side only. Edges uncut. Woodcut illustration to head. A trifle creased. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 24619

OMAN, C.P.A.. Eastwards. London. Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1864. First edition. 8vo. [4], 297pp, [1]. Nineteenth-century blue cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed to joints, spine, else a crisp copy. Some spotting to preliminaries, slightly lighter to text itself. Evidently a family copy, inscribed C.W.C. Oman to FFEP - most likely the author's son, Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (1860-1946). More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24722

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DILLON, Henry Augustus Viscount. Eccelino da romano, surnamed the tyrant of padua. A poem, in twelve books.. London. E. Lloyd and son, 1828. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 420pp. With a corrigenda leaf between the preface and the beginning of the text. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering piece. Slightly scuffed on spine, slight surface loss to boards. Heavy spotting to end-papers. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29196

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VELEZ DE GUEVARA, Luis.. El diablo cojuelo, verdades sonadas y novelas de la otra vida, traducidas a estaa por Luis Velez de Guevara. Anadido el fin con ocho Enigmas curiosos y dos Novelas. Madrid. En la Imprenta del Consejo de Indias, 1785. 8vo. [12], 257pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled cat's paw calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, early inked ownership inscription of Josh. Pitt, Cirencester to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19677

SOPHOCLES. Electra: a tragedy. London. Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714. First edition. 12mo. [6], 85pp, [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and three final pages of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary red brocade wrappers. Rubbed and creased, loss to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19205

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WATTS, [Isaac] et al. Elegant miscellaneous extracts selected from watts, hervey, newton, young, blair, sturm, &c. &c. to which are added, a few original pieces. Woodbridge. Printed and published by B. Smith, 1813. New edition. 8vo. [6], 442pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece.Extremities worn, upper joint split, loss to head-cap. Hinges exposed, early ink ownership inscription of Joyce D. Fox to recto of FFEP, worm-tracks to gutter, lower corner of leaf Y3 torn away (though present), with some loss of text and sense. William St. Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencil ownership inscription and ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30562

WHITEHEAD, William. Elegies with an ode to the Tiber. London. Printed for R. And J. Dodsley, 1757. First edition. Quarto. 22pp, [2]. With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf. Recent buff paper boards. A trifle spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27192

[BON MOTS]. Elite des bons mots et des pensees choisies, Recueillies avec soin des plus celebres Auteurs, & principalement des Livres en ana. A Amsterdam. Chez Jaques Desbordes, 1706. 12mo. In two volumes. [6], 492, [6]; [2], 476pp. Titlepages in red and black. With three final leaves of publisher's advertisements to Vol. I. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, some marking and discolouration, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplates of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEPs, occasional spotting. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 19498

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COTTIN, [Sophie]. Elizabeth; or, the exiles of siberia. A tale founded upon facts. London. Printed for John Sharpe...by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1822. 12mo. [4], 191pp, [1]. With an additional engraved title page and four engraved plates. Contemporary black morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J Hayhurst to verso of FFEP, lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20515

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MALLET, D[avid]. Elvira: a tragedy. Acted at the theatre royal in drury-lane. London. Printed for A. Millar, 1763. First edition. 8vo. [8], 69pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Extremities worn, surface loss to head of upper board and spine, slight splitting to joints. Marbled endpapers, inked annotation to title page, lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 11393