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[LITTLE, Norman]. [An album of sketches by artist Norman Little]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [c. 1900-05] Folio. 34 sketches mounted on 19 leaves, one or two to a page (rectos only), pencil or pen & ink with traces of pencil, one with grisaille watercolour wash. Contemporary black half-morocco, green cloth boards, tooled in gilt, stencilled title in black on upper board. worn, with spine deficient. First and final album leaf laid down to form pastedowns, front pastedown with mounted signature of the ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 24147
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FERGUSON, James. Tables and tracts, relative to Several Arts and Sciences. London. Printed for A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [3], 328pp. With three engraved folding plates. Recent half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Very minor shelf-wear. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP, early inked ownership inscriptions to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22404
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ROSS, Captain Sir John. Memoirs and correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. From original papers in possession of the family. London. Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. ix, [1], 440; xi, [1], 438pp.With an engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, and a further seven plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spines sunned. Recent bookplates of Robert J. Hayhurt to both FEPs, plates browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 21954
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HERD, Richard. Scraps of poetry. An essay on free trade. Kirkby Lonsdale. Printed by Arthur Foster, 1837. First edition. 12mo. [2], ix, [1], 95pp, [1]. Original publisher's dark green cloth, recently expertly rebacked, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed and marked. Long horizontal tear, naively repaired, to leaf G1 (not touching text), Foxed. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 21049
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BYROM, John. Miscellaneous Poems. Manchester. Printed by J. Harrop, 1773. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], vi, 352; [4], vi, 353pp, [1]. With half-titles. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces, spines richly gilt, all edges red. Rubbed, some splitting to joints, slight loss to head of Vol. I spine. Marbled endpapers, contemporary armorial bookplates of Jonathan Chetwood to FEPs, with his inked ownership inscriptions to head of both titles, twentieth-century typed booksellers description pasted ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19737
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BEWICK, Thomas. A history of British birds. Newcastle. Printed by J. Blackwell and Co., 1847. 8vo. In two volumes. xxxvi, 374, [4]; xxiii, [1], xi, [1], 406pp, [4]. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, later expertly rebacked preserving original spine panels. Lightly rubbed. Early inked ownership inscriptions to both FEPs, scattered foxing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 16563
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[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. Lane, Edward William. The thousand and one nights, commonly called in England, The Arabian Night's Entertainments. London. John Murray, 1859. New edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xxx, 555; xii, 578; xii, 704pp. With additional decorative title pages to each volume and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Thompson, Landells, Green, and others after William Darbey. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Scattered foxing. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 15547
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ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis aves. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1902. [6], xv, [1]. 275pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[Together with:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis lysistrata. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1903. [4], xiv, 177pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[And:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis plutus. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1904. [4], xxvi, 182pp. With a half-title.

[And:] ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24841
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MORE, Thomas. The English works of Sir Thomas More: volume the first...Early poems; Pico Della Mirandola; Richard III; The Four Last Things... London. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931. xv, 53, [39], 100, [2], 190-511pp, [1]. Text complete despite erratic pagination. With a monochrome portrait frontispiece.

[Together with:] MORE, Thomas. The English works of Sir Thomas More: volume the second...The Dialogue concerning Tyndale... London. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931. xviii, 10, [2], 105-288, 11-108, 324, 109-120pp. Text complete despite erratic pagination. With a monochrome portrait frontispiece.

Large 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco, ruled ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 18187
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[MIRABEAU, Victor Riquetti, marquis de]. L'ami des hommes, ou traite de la population. A Avignon. [s.n.], 1756. First duodecimo edition. 12mo. First three parts of six only . 431, [1]; 578, [2]; 577pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscriptions to all titles, very occasional spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21740
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HYATT, Stanley Portal. The northward trek. London. Andrew Melrose, 1909. First edition. 8vo. xxi, 309pp, [3]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, 13 photographic plates, three folding maps, and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, upper board illustrated. A trifle rubbed. Near contemporary inked gift inscription and armorial bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst to FEP, leaves toned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23779
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BION, [Nicholas]. The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments... London. Printed for H[enry] W[oodfall] for J. Senex...and W. Taylor, 1723. First edition in English. Folio. vii, [1], 264pp. With 26 engraved folding plates. Title page in red and black. Contemporary panelled calf, later expertly rebacked to style, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Housed in recent custom buckram clamshell case. Lightly rubbed, some spotting and, as often with this work, variable browning to leaves (with the terminal quires 3S-3X especially so). With the armorial bookplate of 'The Right Hon. Charles Viscount Bruce ... More > £ 1,450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22385
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[MUIRKIRK AND CAMBUSLANG ROAD ACTS]. [Three manuscript copies of previously published abstracts of acts relating to the maintenance of highways leading to and from the city of Glasgow]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] Manuscript of paper. [14]pp.

[Bound with:] [ACTS - GEORGE III]. [Drop-head title:] An act for Amending an Act made in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, for making and repairing the Road from the City of Glasgow, in the County off Lanerk, to Muirkirk, in the County of Ayr... [s.l.]. [s.n.], [1791]. 11pp, [1]. Docket title to verso of final leaf ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24783
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LUDWIG, Christian. A dictionary English, German and French, Containing not only the English words in their Alphabetical Order, together with their several significations; but also their proper Accent, Phrases, Figurative Speeches, Idioms, & Proverbs, Taken from the best new English dictionaries. Leipzig and Francfurt [sic]. [s.n.], 1736. Second edition. Quarto. [4], 739pp, [1]. Title page in red and black. Printed in double columns. Recent brown buckram, lettered in black. Minor shelf-wear. Recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, leaves heavily browned and foxed. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20847
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BINGHAM, C. W., Rev.. Mediaeval life in the court and cloister: a lecture. Dorchester. Printed at the Dorset County Chronicle Office, 1866. 24pp. Inked ownership inscription to title page.

[Bound with:] PETTIGREW, T. J. The journal of the British Archaeological Association. December 1856. On the antiquities of somersetshire. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [1856]. [1], 292-396pp. With two engraved plates and an engraved folding plan.

[And:] STUBBS, William. The foundation of waltham abbey... Oxford & London. J. H. and J. Parker, 1861. xxxii, 60pp, [4].

[And:] GREEN, Emanuel. The earliest ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 12470