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MICHELL, M. Young juba: or, the history of the Young Chevalier, from His Birth, to His Escape from Scotland, after the Battle of Culloden... London. Printed for the Translator, 1748. First edition in English. 8vo. xvi, 296pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one further engraved plate depicting Flora Macdonald. Later half-calf, buff paper boards, tolled in blind, lettered in gilt, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, scorched, upper joint split. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title, partially erased, resulting in small marginal hole, closed vertical tear to leaf Gg1, plate shaved at fore-edge. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22034
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[BRITISH WEST INDIES]. The two charters of the society for advancing the christian faith in the British West India Islands, and elsewhere, within the dioceses of jamaica and of barbadoes, and the leeward islands, and in the mauritius: to which is prefixed, a short account of the charitable fund. London. Printed by Richard Clay, 1836. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. Original publisher's marbled wrappers, printed paper lettering-piece to upper wrapper. Lightly rubbed, creased. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30369
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HOLLOWAY, W[illiam]. The minor minstrel; or, poetical pieces, chiefly familiar and descriptive. London. Printed for W. Suttaby et al., 1808. First edition. 12mo. vii, [1], 182pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and a terminal leaf of advertisements. Contemporary diced calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper joint split, some chipping to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting, heavy offset mark to pp.161-175, likely the result of flower pressing. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'To Mr. Hersee, / ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28389
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[DEFOE, Daniel]. The life, remarkable adventures and pyracies, of Captain Singleton: containing An Account of his being set on Shore in the Island Madagascar, his Settlement there, with a Description of the Place and Inhabitants: Of his Passage from thence, in a Paraguay, to the main Land of Africa...As also the Captain's Return to Sea, and an account of his many Adventures and Pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others. London. Printed for F. Noble.., 1768. Third edition. 12mo. 299pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, remains of old paper lettering-piece to head of spine. Heavily rubbed, with boards exposed at corners, loss to spine at head and foot, upper joint naively strengthened, FFEP and title neatly reattached at gutter. With the eighteenth-century book label of 'James Arnot. His Book, at Perth. 1784' to FEP. Several early ownership inscriptions, including those of Patrick Craigie, to blanks ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30846
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[BIBLE, English - Authorised version]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New testaments: Newly translated out of the original tongues... Edinburgh. Printed by Alexander Kincaid, [1760]. [836]pp. Printed in double columns. ESTC T166102.

[Bound with:] The psalms of david in metre... Edinburgh. Printed by Alexander Kincaid, 1763. [72]pp. ESTC T91752.

12mo. In two volumes. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Heavily rubbed. Brocade pastedowns, some loss to front blank fly-leaves. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 31217
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POYER, John. The history of barbados, from the first discovery of the island, in the year 1605, till the accession of lord seaforth, 1801. London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1808. First edition. Quarto. xxix, [7], 8, [2], 9-668pp. With a list of subscribers. Bound by W. & G. Baird of Belfast in later half-calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Minor shelf-wear. Endpapers browned, binder's ticket and armorial bookplate of Anglo-Irish British Army officer and politician Hugh McCalmont (1845-1924) to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 30178
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[STURGEON, Samuel]. The Galloway Herds. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1828] Folio. Manuscript on paper. [3]pp. Single bifolium. Manuscript docket title to verso of second leaf: The Galloway Herds / Gatehouse. Octr. 1828'. Three old horizontal folds, lightly dust-soiled. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 30066
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[STEVENSON, Alan]. The british pharos; or a list of the lighthouses on the coasts of great britain and ireland, descriptive of the appearance of the lights at night. For the use of mariners. Leith. Published and Sold by W. Reid & Son, 1831. Second edition. 8vo. xvi, 118pp. Original publisher's glazed cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed to extremities and bumped to corners, short splits and chips at head and foot of spine. Inscribed 'From the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses' to FFEP, and with printed note regarding the mooring of a 'Floating Light Vessel...off the North End of Haisborough Sand' pasted to FEP. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31285
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BUTLER, Joseph. The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature... London. Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, 1788. New edition, corrected. 8vo. lxvii, [13], 477pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled tree- calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. Small hole to text of leaf N5 (without loss of sense), tears to text of leaf N7 (without loss of sense), loss to upper corners of leaves Z7-8, inked ownership inscription of James Ewing to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31195
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STOWE, Mrs. Harriet Beecher. Sunny memories of foreign lands. London. Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1854. First English edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xii, 326, 11, [1]; viii, 242pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous illustrations in the text, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue to Vol. I. Partially unopened in original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned, top edge dust-soiled. Later book-labels of 'Teddesley' to both FEPs, very occasional marginal chipping. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31200
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BRUCHHAUSEN, C. Rhymes of the times and other chimes. New York. [S. Angell], 1870. First edition. 8vo. 210pp, [4]. With a mounted albumen portrait frontispiece and a terminal leaf of advertisements. Original publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Extremities marked, lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, scattered spotting. Signed by the author beneath albumen portrait: 'C. Bruchhausen / 1869'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21110