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VENN, H[enry]. Mistakes in religion exposed: in an essay on the prophecy of zacharias. London. Printed and Sold by J. and W. Oliver, 1774. First edition. 8vo. xx, 276pp. Later calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 23895

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[ALBERONI, Giulio]. Moral Reflections on the ministry of Card. alberoni. Translated from the Spanish. Humbly inscrib'd to the Right Hon. the Lord Harrington, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, &c. &c.. London. Printed for J. Purser, 1735. First edition in English. 8vo. viii, 62pp. Modern marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Title page browned, remnants of paper label to head, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22028

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LENORMAND, Seb[astien]. Nouveau manuel complet du relieur en tous genres contenant les art de l'Assembleur, du Satineur, du Brocheur, du Rogneur, du Cartonneur, du Marbreur sur tranches et du Doreur sur tranches et sur cuir. Paris. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 1890. 12mo. viii, 428pp. With four engraved folding plates. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine.Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33027

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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

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[ROYAL NAVY]. Observations upon a memorial sent from london to scotland, To Procure Petitions against the bill For Manning the Royal Navy. London. Printed for T. Cooper, 1741. First edition. 8vo. 37pp, [1]. Uncut in modern marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Title page browned and stained at gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22029

BYRON, Lord. Ode to napoleon buonaparte. London. Printed for John Murray...by W. Bulmer and Co., 1814. Tenth edition. 8vo. [7], 10-17pp, [1]. Later straight-grain half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. Title page and verso of terminal leaf marked and dust-soiled, neat paper repairs to gutters. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32970

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

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HODGETTS, J. Frederick. Olden England, illustrated by the anglo-saxon antiquities in the british museum in a course of six lectures. London. Whitting & Co., 1884. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 188pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Richard Benyon Croft to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33053

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SHEPPARD, John. On dreams, in their mental and moral aspects, as affording auxiliary arguments for the existence of spirit, for a "separate state," and for a particular providence. In Two Essays. London. Jackson and Walford, 1847. First edition. 12mo. xxiv, 179pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed with some marking to boards. A trifle spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 19728

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MAURICE, Baron P.-E. On national defence in england. London. Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1852. First edition in English. 8vo. [2], xiv, 88pp. With a lithographed folding map. Modern light green cloth-backed marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Short tear to map at gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30224

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[DOPPET, François Amédée]. Oraison funebre de célebre mesmer, Auteur du Magnétisme Animal, & Président de la Loge de l'Harmonie. Grenoble. [s.n.], 1785. First edition. 8vo. 39pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's buff wrappers. Rubbed, marked, and creased. Very occasional spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32517

ELTON, Charles. Origins of english history. London. Bernard Quaritch, 1882. First edition. 8vo. [3], vi-xiv, [2], 458pp. Without half-title. With 10 folding plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32960

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A MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Ovid in london: A Ludicrous Poem, in six cantos. London. Printed by Dove...for William Anderson, 1814. First edition. 12mo. 11, [1], 14-120pp. With a half-title. Contemporary citron morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of William Scott Kerr of Chatto to FEP, slight loss to lower corner of leaf B1. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33084

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

[BROWNING, Robert]. Pauline; a fragment of a confession. [London]. [Smith, Elder and Co.], [1868]. 8vo. 41pp, [1]. Extracted from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (Smith, Elder and Co., 1868, Vol. I). Bound by Morrell in contemporary calf, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28143

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PLOWDEN, [Edmund]. Plowden's Quaeries: or, a Moot-Book Of Choice Cases, useful For the Young Students of the Common Law: Englished, Methodized, and Enlarged, By H. B. Esquire of Lincolns-Inne. London. Printed for Ch. Adams, J. Starkey, and Tho. Basset, 1662. 8vo. [16], 304pp. Modern gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, red calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25193

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BOURNE, Vincent. Poemata latine partim reddita, partim scripta. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]. Typis et Impensis Talboys et Wheeler, 1826. 8vo. [2], xxvii, [1], 292, 4pp. Contemporary blind-tooled half-morocco, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. Manuscript note and inked gift inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'J. T. Coleridge / Montague Place / Decr. 31st. 1842 / given him by his dear son / J. D. C.' More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26019

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WILCOX, Ella Wheeler. Poems of passion and pleasure. London. Gay & Hancock, [1912]. Quarto. xiii, [3], 267pp, [1]. With a tipped-in colour frontispiece and a further 19 tipped-in colour plates by Dudley Tennant. Original publisher's pictorial cream cloth, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, marked. Decorated endpapers, hinges exposed, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33064

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BILLINGE, Charles. Poems on christian charity, contentment, and melancholy. Wolverhampton. Printed for the Author, by J. Smart, 1784. First edition. vi, [5], 12-88pp. ESTC T9681. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Oxford), and a further four in North America (Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, and Yale).

[Bound with:] POPE, Alexander. Messias. Idyllium sacrum. Per alexandrum pope, anglice conscriptum. Latine redditum. Wolverhampton. Typis, J. Smart, 1784. [4], 4-8, 4-8pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin texts with duplicate pagination. ESTC T5691. ESTC ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19757

GAY, John. Poems on several occasions. London. Printed for S. Crowder, C. Ware, and T. Payne, 1771. 12mo. In two volumes. 213, [1]; [6], 203pp, [1]. With half-titles. Modern half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Leaves browned and foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32784