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MOUNIER, M. [Jean Joseph]. Nouvelles observations sur les etats-generaux de france. Par M. Mounier, Secretaire des Etats de la Province de Dauphine. [s.l.]. [s.n.], 1789. First edition. 8vo. 282pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed to extremities, cracking to joints, dart-holes to foot of spine, without lettering-piece. Dugald Stewart's copy, with his characteristic signature to FEP, largely obscured by the armorial bookplate of (George) 'Cranstoun of Corehouse'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 26077

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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

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[ORLANDI, Enrico]. Notizie istoriche della miracolosa immagine di maria santma portata nella citta' di frascati da s. giuseppe calasanzio Ed ivi venerata nella Chiesa de' Padri delle scuole pie dedicate A. S. A. R. Eba il Sig. Cardinale enrico duca di york vescovo, e protettore di detta citta'. In Roma [i.e. Rome]. Presso Lino Contedini, 1825. Terza edizione [i.e. third edition]. 8vo. 48pp. Recent decorated paper boards, calf lettering-piece to upper board. Extremities lightly rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21183

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[MODENA]. Notificazione Dovendo continuare le Imposte sino che siano pagati li debiti fruttiferi contratti dal Magistrato in Genova, Milano, & altrove per cagione de' passati Quartieri, e Contribuzioni... Modena. Bartolomeo Soliani Stampatore Ducale, 1718. Dimensions 0 x 0 mm. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. Single old central horizontal fold. A trifle creased, some marginal loss, sealing wax remnants to both recto and verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23193

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EHRENSTROM, Mariaane L.K.L.d.. Notices Sur La Litterature et Les Beaux-arts En Suede. Stockholm. De I'Imprimerie d'Eckstein, 1826. First edition. 8vo. (6), vi, 157pp, (3), 79pp, (3), 111pp. Original blue paper wrap. Entirely uncut, a fine copy More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 10493

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[FRENCH COLONIES]. Notices statistiques sur les colonies françaises. Imprimées par ordre de m. le vice-amiral de rosamel, ministre secrétaire d'état de la marine et des colonies. Paris. Imprimerie Royale, 1837-40 8vo. Four separately issued parts. In four volumes. [4], iii, [1], 248; [6], 271, [1]; [4], ii, 320; [4], 216pp. Uncut and largely unopened in modern navy cloth, contrasting black calf lettering-pieces. Remnants of original publisher's printed wrappers laid down and bound in. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31181

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[MUSÉE CENTRAL DES ARTS]. Notice des statues, bustes, bas-reliefs, et autres objets composant la Galerie des Antiques de musee central des arts, ouverie pour la premiere fois le dix-huit Brumaire an 9. Paris. De l'Imprimerie des Sciences et Arts, [s.d., c. 1810] 12mo. [2], 107pp, [1]. Later green diced calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28048

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[LAMOUREUX, [Jean-Baptiste] Justin. Notice biographique sur pierre-remy willemet. Bruxelles [i.e. Brussels]. [s.n.], 1808. First edition. 8vo. 20pp. Uncut and unopened. Sewn, as issued, in original publisher's buff wrappers. Extremities a trifle creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30202

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

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DUPUY, Jacques. THOU, Jacques Auguste de. Nominum propriorum Virorum, Mulierum, Populorum, &c. quae in Viri Illustris jacobi augusti thuani Historiis leguntur index Cum vernacula singularum vocum Expositione. Genevae, [i.e. Geneva]. Apud Petrum Aubertum, 1634. Quarto. [612]pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed, with loss at head of spine and bumping to corners; but nevertheless an attractive copy. With the bookplate of Sir James Gordon Bart. of Letterfoury to FEP, and of George Lockhart of Carnwath (upon which someone has inscribed 'Scarry a looked Heart' in an early hand) to verso of title. Pen trials to margin of second leaf; occasional wormtracks, marginal ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33262

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[AUCTION CATALOGUE]. No. 109. Catalogo Di diverse Mobiglie di Casa, Robe d'uso di lana, e seta, Biancheria, Vini, Libri ecc. un Fortepiano, ed una Carrozza con Arnesi, da vendersi in Publica Subasta per mezzo del Sig. Not. Vincenzo Portelli, nella Citta Vittoriosa, Strada San Giorgio, No. 6, Martedi li 9 Dicembre 1834, e giorni susseguenti, ad 1 ora p. m. di ciaschedun giorno . [Malta]. [s.n.], [1834]. Quarto. 16pp. Uncut and opened, stitched as issued. With several horizontal folds, small mark to rear, else fine.

More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 21815

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SANDER, Nicholas. Nicolai sanderi angli doct. theol. De origine ac progressv Schismatis Anglicani, Libri Tres: quibus historia continetur maxime ecclesiastica, Annorum circiter 60. lectu dignissima; Aucti prius per edovardum rishtonum... Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e. Cologne]. Sumptibus Petri Henningi, 1610. 8vo. [16], 456, [24], 182pp, [2]. Contemporary vellum, lacking ties, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities marked and discoloured, a trifle rubbed. Upper board and initial gathering detached from text-block, booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to FEP, ink initial to head of title-page, loss to lower corner of leaf T1, very occasional marginal chipping, foxed. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 15490

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HAYM, Nicolai Francisci. Nicolai francisci haym romani, thesauri britannici sev museum numarium, quo continentur numi graeci et latini, omnis metalli et formae, necdum editi, ab autore ipso caelati. Interprete aloysio comite cristiani, mediolanensi. Vindobonae [i.e. Vienna]. Ex officina Krausiana, 1763. [6], 296pp, [8]. With an engraved frontispiece (seemingly extracted from the first London edition) and 30 engraved folding plates.

[Together with:] HAYM, Nicola Francesco. Thesauri britannici pars altera, seu museum numarium conplexum numos graecos, et latinos omnis metalli, et formae necdum editos... Vindobonae [i.e. Vienna]. Typis Joannis Thomae de Trattnern, 1765. [28], 398pp, [10]. With 50 of 51 engraved folding plates (without plate No. 24). ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24058

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NEMESIUS OF EMESA. Nemesii philosophi & episcopi De natura hominis liber unus, denuo recognitus, & manuscriptorum codicum collatione in integrum restitutus, annotationibusque insuper illustratus. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]. Theatro Sheldoniano, 1671. 8vo. [16], 345, [5], 42 [i.e. 50]pp. Parallel Latin and Greek text. First eight words of title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. Heavily rubbed, without lettering-piece. Printer's waste pastedowns sprung, slight marginal loss to leaf Aa3. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31921

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FRANCHETTI, Raimondo. Nella dancàlia etiopica: spedizione italiana 1928-29. [Milano]. A. Mondadori, [1930]. First edition. 8vo. 426pp, [2]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, a further 177 photographic plates. Without the geographical map. Later blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers bound-in. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Armorial bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'To Colonel Brocklehurst / who understands the charm / of Africa unsploit by white people ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23734

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[FONTON, Felix]. Necessite d'une place forte federale pour la defense de la suisse par un ami de ce pays. Lausanne. Librairie Martignier et Chavannes, 1860. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. Original publisher's drab printed paper wrappers. Extremities lightly rubbed and dust-soiled. Inked ownership inscription to title. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 19038

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GOURGAUD, General. Napoleon et la grande armee en russie, ou examen critique de l'ouvrage de M. le Comte PH. de Segur. Paris. Bossange Freres, 1825. First edition. 8vo. [4], xv, [1], 558pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24522

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CICERO. M.t. ciceronis de officiis, libri tres. Item Cato maior, seu de senectute, Laelius, sue de amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum sex ad Marc. Brutum. Quibus additum est praeter superiore aeditionem, Somnius Scipionis: Ex castigatione Joannis boulierii. Fragmenta poematum, in quibus continentus Aratea. Aliorum poematum nomina, sequens pagina indicabit. Postremo accessit Qu. Fratris, De petitione consulatus lib. Ex dionys. lambini monstroliensis emendatione. Accesserunt eiusdem annotationes, sue animadversiones. Londini, [i.e. London]. Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius Typographus. Cum privilegio Regiae Majestatis, 1578. 8vo. 331pp, [5]. [A-X8; X7-8 are blank]. Contemporary limp vellum; text-block detached from binding, which is marked and creased, with a small (contemporarily patched) hole. Tears and creasing to margins of first four leaves; and tear to head of L2, all without loss of text. Contemporary Latin ink inscription ('Ex sapienta est pieta...'???) to head of A2, contemporary manuscript notes in an English hand to verso ... More > £ 8,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33242

CALONNE, Charles Alexandre de. Motif de M. de Calonne, pour différer, jusqu'à l'Assemblée des Etats-Généraux, la réfutation du nouvel Ecrit que m. necker vient de publier sur l'objet de leur controverse. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1788]. Quarto. 11pp, [1]. Four loose bifolia, uncut. Old central horizontal fold. A trifle creased. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34664

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MIKSCHE, Ferdinand Otto. Moskaus indirekte Strategie: Erfolge und Niederlage. Stuttgart. Seewald, [1983]. First edition. 8vo. 432pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black to spine, printed paper dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper lightly creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to title page: 'To my darling daughter Olga C. Clark from her loving Daddy Paris, 15.1.1984'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 30674