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TERENCE. Publii terentii comoediae sex, Post optimas editiones emendatae. Accedunt Aelii Donati, Commentarius integer: Cum Selectis Guieti & Variorum notis, multo auctioribus, quam antehac. Indices, tertia sere parte locupletiores. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio. Lugd. Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. Apud Francisum Hackium, 1662. 8vo. [48], 864pp, [60]. With an engraved title page. Without two blank terminal leaves. Contemporary gilt-tooled panelled calf. Without lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, boards held by cords only, corners exposed. Hinges exposed, early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, latter half of text-block dampstained, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33005
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[LE SAGE, Alain Rene]. The adventure of gil blas, of santillane. Translated from the french of le sage, by t. smollett. London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1819. 8vo. In three volumes. xi, [1], 388; vii, [1], 375, [1]; viii, 398pp. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I and a further 28 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, ticket of London-based booksellers Bowdery & Kerby to FEP of Vol. I, scattered spotting, offsetting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33042
Photo of "Sextii aurelii propertii carmina"
PROPERTIUS, Sextus. Sextii aurelii propertii carmina. Parisiis [i.e. Paris]. Apud Lefevre Bibliopolam, 1821. 16mo. [3], vi-viii, 283pp, [1]. Without half-title. Contemporary blind- tooled red half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf, burn-mark to head of latter half of text-block, primarily confined to margins, though touching text in places with some loss of sense. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33162
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DESMARAIS, Regnier. Poësies françoises de m l'abbe. A La Haye [i.e. The Hague]. Henri du Säuzet, 1716. Nouvelle ed., augmentée de plusieurs piéces qui ne se trouvent pas dans celle de Paris. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], xlv, [3], 292pp; [293]-613pp, [7]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, with slight wear to joints, lower board scuffed. Endpapers stained, occasional spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33435
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion. London. Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First edition. 8vo. lxvi, 31pp, [2]. With half-title. Partially unopened in original blue printed paper boards. Rubbed and marked, with loss to head of spine and bumping to foot. Endpapers heavily browned (as often). More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33829
Photo of "Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogae ..."
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MARTYN, John. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogae Decem. The bucolicks of virgil, with an english translation and notes. . London. Printed by R. Reily, for T. Osborne, 1749. Second edition. 8vo. xcix, [1], 390, 7pp, [15]. Title page in red and black. With a large folding engraved frontispiece, one further folding engraved plate, an engraved map of Gaul, and a large folding map of the Parthian empire. Nineteenth century gilt-tooled calf, later rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with scratches to boards. Browning to leaves and plates, very light ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34460
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GOLDSMID, Edmund. Bibliotheca Curiosa. Some political satires of the seventeenth century. Selected from the Writings of the earl of rochester, sir john denham, and andrew marvel.. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1885. Limited edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. 62; 73pp, [1]. Title pages in red and black. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, with some surface loss to head of spine and lower board. Book-label of G.F.J. Elliot to FEP. Spotting to blank fly-leaves. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34542
Photo of "The Angel of Pain"
BENSON, E. F.. The Angel of Pain. London. William Heinemann, 1906. First edition. 8vo. [6], 340pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards, lettered black, with the black and red design stamped to front board. Spine toned with boards otherwise marked. Shelf-wear to all edges, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Internally bright and clean save an ownership signature to the FFEP. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 30086
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SMITH, Robert. Poems of controversy betwixt Episcopacy and Presbytery: also several poems and merry songs on other subjects. With some funeral elegies on various nobleman and gentlemen. Edinburgh. [s.n.] Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1714, [1869]. 8vo. Limited to 70 copies. viii, vii, [13], 120pp, [4]. With a preliminary publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's red cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities marked, lightly rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece. Blank paper label pasted to FEP, light foxing to endpapers, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 85.00 Antiquates Ref. 16786
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[GLEIG, George Robert]. The subaltern. Edinburgh. William Blackwood, 1828. Third edition. 12mo. 372pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Heavily rubbed, without lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, bookplate of Nelson Matcham to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 11976
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LEVER, Charles. One of them. London. Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 471pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 28 engraved plates by 'Phiz' [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne].Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, marbled boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 12356
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Last poems. London. Chapman and Hall, 1862. Second edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 142pp, [2]. With a half-title. Original publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed, spine sunned, corners bumped. Upper hinge cracked with board working loose, later ink inscription to head of half-title, occasional chipping to top margins. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 13035
Photo of "Lives in a lowland parish"
[GREEN, Charles Edward]. Lives in a lowland parish. Edinburgh and Glasgow. John Menzies & Co., 1906. First edition. 8vo. 118pp. With half-title. Original publisher's green morocco-backed green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Light rubbed, spine slightly sunned. Small spot of soiling to verso of half-title, lightly foxed. Presentation copy, inscribed to blank fly-leaf; To / Mr. J. Hamilton Jameson / with kind regards / from the author's wife.' More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14500
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[BOONE, James Shergold]. The Oxford spy; in verse. Dialogue the first [-fifth]. Oxford. For Munday and Slatter, 1818. 8vo. 24, [1], 6-28, 32, 32, 55, [2], 60-74pp. Without half-title and title-page for the second dialogue, and divisional title for 'Notes to Canto V'. The first, second, and third dialogues are all third editions, the fourth a second edition, and the fifth and final dialogue a first edition. Contemporary green cloth-backed paper boards, recent printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Slight rubbing, some damp staining to ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14714