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O'SHEA, John Augustus. Romantic spain: A Record of Personal Experiences. London. Ward and Downey, 1887. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xiii, [1], 311, [1]; ix, [1], 317pp, [1]. Contemporary red half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, red cloth boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title of Vol. II, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33044
HOWARD, Alfred. The beauties of byron, consisting of selections from his works. London. Printed by T. Davison, for Thomas Tegg, [s.d., c. 1835] 12mo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain red morocco. Rubbed, lightly marked. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription to head of half-title, offsetting to title page, manuscript shelf-marks to verso, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32993
JAFFRAY, Alexander. Diary of alexander jaffray, provost of aberdeen, one of the scottish commissioners to king charles II., and a member of cromwell's parliament... London. Published by Harvey & Darton, 1833. First edition. 8vo. xxx, [2], 592pp. With a plate of Jaffray's handwriting in facsimile. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, recently rebacked preserving contemporary backstrip, marbled edges. Recent book-label of B. B. Holmes to recto of FFEP, plate browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33015
BYRON, Lord. Fugitive pieces and Reminiscenes of lord byron: containing an enitre new edition of the hebrew melodies, with the addition of several never before published... London. Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1829. First edition. 8vo. [3], vi-xxxvi, 196, 11pp, [1]. Without half-title. With six terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary brown cloth. Rubbed, spine dulled, paper label of Nottingham Public Libraries to upper board. Upper hinge exposed, endpapers and advertisement leaves dampstained, occasional ink-stamps of Nottingham Public Libraries throughout, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33022
BYRON, Lord. The bride of abydos. A turkish tale. London. Printed by Thomas Davison...for John Murray, 1813. Fourth edition. [4], 72pp.

[Bound with:] [BYRON, Lord]. Ode to napoleon buonaparte. London. Printed for John Murray...by W. Bulmer and Co., 1814. Fifth edition. 17pp, [3]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements.

8vo. Contemporary gilt-ruled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper board held by cords only, paper labels of Nottingham Public Libraries to upper board. Armorial bookplate of Francis Launder to ... More >
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33021
ROWE, Elizabeth. Friendship in Death: in twenty letters from the Dead to the Living. To which are added, letters Moral and Entertaining, In Prose and Verse: In three parts. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1750. 12mo. xix, [1], 292pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, marked, some loss to head of spine. Hinges exposed, without FFEP, early inked ownership inscription of Joseph Steevens to title page, long tear to leaf I4 - naively repaired at margin, loss to foot of leaf P4, with slight loss to catchword, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32978
WALDEGRAVE, James, Earl. Memoirs from 1754 to 1758. London. John Murray, 1821. First edition. Quarto. [3], vi-xxiii, [1], 176pp. Without half-title. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lightly marked, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32968
BRAND, John. Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the whole of Mr. bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work: as also an appendix, Containing such Articles on the Subject, as have been omitted by that Author. London. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810. 8vo. xxiv, 471pp, [1]. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, brown cloth boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Rubbed, spine dulled. Book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32965
COMBE, George. Elements of phrenology. Edinburgh. John Anderson, Jun., 1828. Third edition, improved and enlarged. 12mo. [5], viii-ix, [1], 218pp. Without half-title. With an engraved folding frontispiece, and one further engraved plate. Contemporary dark green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, plates browned, latter half of text-block dampstained, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33129
BYRON, Lord. Ode to napoleon buonaparte. London. Printed for John Murray...by W. Bulmer and Co., 1814. Sixth edition. 8vo. [7], 10-17pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Recent green cloth, blind-stamp of Nottingham Public Libraries to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Typed bookseller's pasted to FEP, blind-stamp and manuscript shelf-mark of Nottingham Public Libraries to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32972
BYRON, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the third. London. Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition, second issue. 8vo. [4], 79pp, [5]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in modern brown cloth-backed brown paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's drab wrappers bound in. A trifle rubbed. Wrappers heavily marked/chipped, later typed bookseller's description tipped-in to half-title, ink-stamps of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to title page, and pages 25, 55, and ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32971
CLARE, John, Earl of. The speech of the late rt. hon. john, earl of clare, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland: delivered in the irish house of peers on the second reading of the bill for the relief of his majesty's roman catholic subjects, in ireland, March 13, 1793. (First printed in Dublin 1798.) To which is now added a preface. London. Printed for J. J. Stockdale, 1813. 8vo. 41, 3pp. With three terminal pages of publisher's advertisements. Uncut and unopened in modern cream paper boards. Rubbed and marked. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title page, occasional marginal loss, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32964
HOWARD, Alfred. The beauties of byron, consisting of selections from his works. London. Printed by T. Davison, for Thomas Tegg, [s.d., c. 1835] 12mo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Modern tan cloth-backed brown paper boards, original publisher's printed covers pasted over, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's covers marked, chipped, and discoloured. Manuscript dates to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32994
ST. PIERRE, Bernardin de. Paul et virginie. Paris. Chez Deterville, 1816. 8vo. [2], viii, 242pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Liam Sims to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33111
CHADWICK, William. The life and times of daniel de foe: with remarks digressive and discursive. London. John Russell Smith, 1859. First edition. 8vo. viii, [1], 464pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary panelled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. More > £ 85.00 Antiquates Ref. 33046