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PERRIN, Jean. Fables amusantes: avec Une Table Generale & Particuliere des mots, & de leur Signification en Anglois, Selon l'Ordre des Fables, Pour en rendre la Traduction plus facile a l'Ecolier. A Londres [i.e. London]. Chez B. Law...T. Cadell...P. Elmsly, 1781. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo. xvi, 220pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece and two terminal publisher's advertisement leaves. Contemporary sheep. Heavily rubbed, some surface loss to boards, loss to head and foot of spine. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, several gatherings protruding slightly from text-block. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17453
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BARBAZAN, [Etienne]. Fabliaux et contes des poetes francois des XI, XII, XIII, XIV et XVe siecles, tires des meilleurs auteurs. A Paris. Chez B. Waree, 1808. Nouvelle edition [i.e. new edition]. In four volumes. [4], xxi, [1], 465, [1]; [4], xiv, 467, [1]; [4], xxxii, 514; xvi, 521pp, [3]. With half-titles and a suite of three engraved plates to each volume.

[Bound uniformly with:] MEON, [Dominique Martin]. Nouveau recueil de fabliaux et contes inedits, des poetes francais des XIIe, XIIIe, XIVe, et XVe siecles... A Paris. Chez Chasseriau, 1823. First edition. In two volumes. viii, 500, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20270
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SELDEN, John [editor]. Fleta, seu commentarius Juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub edwardo rege primo, seu Circa Annos abhinc CCCXL. ab Anonymo conscriptus, atque è Codice veteri, Auctore ipso ipso aliquantulùm recentiori, nunc primùm Typis Editus... Londini [i.e. London]. Typis S. R. Prostant apud H. Twyford, T. Bassett, J. Place, & S. Keble, 1685. Editio secunda [i.e. second edition]. Quarto. [8], 64, 63-452, 453-553pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. Without blank leaf Mmm4. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, title in manuscript to fore-edge. Rubbed and marked, some loss to head of spine, small worm-hole to upper joint. Occasional marginal loss, scattered spotting. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist, and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33453
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MARCO, Gennaro de. Flora di Montecassino... Montecassino. [s.n.], 1886-87 First edition. 8vo. Two parts bound as one. [4], xxxii, 268; 47pp, [1]. With 15 engraved plates. Contemporary dark green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, original publisher's pictorial upper wrapper bound in. Very minor shelf-wear. Leaves browned, clear tape repair to verso of wrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to head of title page of first part. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27568
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MAROLOIS, Samuel. Fortification ou architecture militaire tant offensive que deffensive; Supputee et dessignee. Amsterdam. Chez Jan Janssen, 1627. First separate edition. Folio. In two parts. [4], 42, [2], 46pp. With an architectural engraved title page by Willem Outgertsz Akersloot (1600-1661), a double-page table, and 42 double-page engraved numbered plates (plates 14 and 17 duplicated in foliation), presenting some 170 examples of military fortification. Contemporary vellum. Extremities heavily worn and marked. Title page partially naively hand-coloured. Early ownership inscription of 'Jean Ernest Comte de Nassau' and later inscriptions ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28834
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ORLÉANS, Charlotte-Elisabeth duchesse d'. Fragmens de lettres originales De Madame Charlotte-Elizabeth de Baviere, Veuve de Monsieur Frere unique de Louis XIV... A Hambourg [i.e. Hamburg]. Chez Maradan, 1788. 12mo. In two volumes. [5], viii-xvi, 262; [2], 299pp, [3]. Without half-titles. Contemporary calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces, spines richly gilt. Extremities rubbed. Very occasional chipping/loss to margins, else internally clean and crisp. From the library of the Earls of Lovelace, formerly the Barons King of Ockham, with their armorial bookplates to FEPs, inked ownership inscriptions of William King, and recent ink-stamps of the ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 18534
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GODWIN, Francis. Francisci godwini Primo Landavensis dein Herefordensis episcopi de praesulibus angliae commentarius, omium Episcoporum necnon et Cardinalium ejusdem gentis nomina, tempora, seriem, atque actiones maxime memorabiles Ab ultima Antiquitate repetita complexus. Ad fidem Monumentorum in Archivis Regiis, Lamethanis, &c. &c. Recognovit, Plurimis in locis (adjectis Annotationibus) ad veritatem reduxit, Et perpetua demum Serie ad praesens usque Saeculum continuavit gul. richardson, s.t.p. Coll. Emman. Cant. Magister, et Eccles. Lincoln. Canonicus. Cantabrigiae [i.e. Cambridge]. Typis Academicis Excudebat Josephus Bentham, 1743. Folio. [18], 799pp, [43]. Without the two leaves of subscribers in the prelims. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Interleaved. Recent calf-backed tan cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Neat tape repair to leaf 3Q2, else internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of William Henry Black to recto of front blank fly-leaf, with numerous manuscript annotations in his hand (and others) throughout. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 10900
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[SWISS ALPS]. Furka und grimsel pass. Zurich. Photoglob Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. 36 leaves of photographic illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29030
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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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BUCHANAN, George. Georgii buchanani scoti poemata quae extant. Amstelaedami [i.e. Amsterdam]. Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1687. 16mo. [16], 546pp, [12]. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Heavily rubbed, joints split, loss to foot of spine, without lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, without FFEP, very occasional chipping to margins. Armorial bookplate of T. Gaisford to FEP More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 25534
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BUCHANAN, George. Georgii buchanani scoti Poetae eximii Franciscanus & fratres, Quibus accessere varia eiusdem & aliorum Poemata aquorum & titulos & nomina NVI. indicabit pagina. Eiusdem Psalmos seorsim non fine accessione excudit. Basileae Rauracorum [i.e. Basle]. Thomas Guarinus Nervius, [1568]. First edition. 8vo. [16], 319, 176, 143pp. Finely bound in eighteenth-century, gilt-tooled, blue-ruled vellum, likely English Marbled endpapers. A little marked and faded, else a handsome copy with very occasional annotations in an early hand to the first section of this work. Joseph Brereton's copy, with the later bookplate of Rev. John Stirton. In addition to adding several bibliographical details, including that 'the learned Mattaire' in 'his Annales ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29226
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VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. Gerardi joannis vossii De historicis graecis libri IV... Lugundi Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. Ex Officina Joannis Maire, 1650. Quarto. [4], 549pp, [53]. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf. Extremities worn, surface loss to boards, lower joint split, upper board held by cords only, corners bumped. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, worm-track to upper corner of latter half of text-block, short tear to margin of leaf Cccc1. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27645
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[GOETHE], ARNIM, Bettina von. Goethe et Bettina correspondance inedite de Goethe et de Mme Bettina d'Arnim. Traduit de l'allemand par Seb. Albin. Paris. Au Comptoir des Imprimeurs Unis, 1843. First French editon. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], xvi, 348, [4], 364pp. Recent navy morocco backed mottled boards. Minor wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, title-page laid-down due to tearing, loss to bottom corner of p.195-6, second half-title with repaired tear, some minor browning thought overall clean. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13989
Photo of "[Greek title: Tes Kaines Diathekes ..."
[BIBLE - N.T., Greek]. [Greek title: Tes Kaines Diathekes apanta]. Novi Testamenti Libri omnes, recens nunc editi: cum Notis & Animaduersionibus Doctissimorum, Praesertim vero, Roberti Stephani, Josephi Scaligeri, Isaaci Casauboni. Variae item Lectiones ex antiquissimis exemplaribus, & celeberrimis bibliothecis, desumptae. Londini [i.e. Leiden]. Apud [B. and A. Elzevir for] Richardum Whittakerum, 1633. 8vo. [8], 459pp, [13]. First four words of title transliterated from the Greek. Printed in double columns. Eighteenth-century gilt-tooled brick-red morocco. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early manuscript quotation, in the original greek, from Ephrem the Syrian to FFEP; in what appears to be the same hand as the ownership inscriptions 'Rob: Hawkesworth / His Book / 1709' to verso of title page and head of p.1. ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 26478
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[BIBLE, Greek - Septuagint]. [Greek Title] Vetus testamentum graecum ex versione septuaginta interpretum juxta exemplar vaticanum romae editum. Cantabrigiae, [i.e. Cambridge]. Excusum Per Joannem Field, Typographum Academicum, 1665. Third English edition. 12mo. [2], 19, [1]; 755, [1]; 516pp. Lower corner of K6 torn away with some loss. Darlow & Moule 4701. ESTC R236848. Wing B2719.

[Bound uniformly with:] [BIBLE, N.T., Greek]. [Greek title]. [Cambridge]. [John Field, 1665]. 12mo. [2], 419pp, [1]. Small thumbnail sized piece torn away from margin of A4, with a little loss. ESTC R25629.

[And:] [PSALTER - Church of Scotland]. The psalms of david ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 28955