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BENSON, E. F.. Up and down. London. Hutchinson & Co., 1918. First edition. 8vo. 256pp, [16]. With 16 pages of publisher's advertising bound in at rear. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in black. Bottom edge untrimmed. Shelf-wear to boards, bumping to corners and spine ends, else a crisp copy. All edges foxed, with further minor foxing throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30027
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[BIBLE VERSE]. Upward!. London. Castell Brothers. Printed in Bavaria, [1889]. First edition. 16mo. [32]pp. Numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, buff pictorial dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper rubbed and dulled, short tears/chipping to edges, loss to spine panel. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28199
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ABLEMAN, Paul. Vac. London. Victor Gollancz, 1968. First edition. 8vo. 159pp. Original publisher's burgundy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped dustwrapper. Significant smoke damage to wrapper, with additional staining and tearing; the book has also held the odour of smoke. With the author's inscription 'For My good Lady Olwyn Love Paul' to half-title. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29559
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WAKEFIELD, Priscilla. Variety; consisting of anecdotes, curious facts, and Interesting Narratives. London. Harvey and Darton, [1830]. Second edition. 12mo. viii, 276pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, a further four engraved plates, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle marked, spine lightly sunned. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of Thomas Barnard to head of browned title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32136
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[BOXING]. Verbatim account from "the times" and "bell's life" newspapers. An authentic history of the prize ring and championships of england; together with a faithful record of the great international pugilistic encounter between tom sawyers and john heenan. Also, the history of the present champion's belt" likewise a most interesting and well-written letter by mr wilkes on behalf of heenan and the yankees. The hug, etc. [London]. Diprose and Bateman, Portugal Street, [s.d., 1860] 8vo. 16pp. Unopened, folded from a single sheet. A little marginal chipping and tearing. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29865
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K. L. H. [HOARE, Katherine Louisa Hart]. Verses. Bedford. The Beds. Times Publishing Co., Ltd., 1914. First edition. 8vo. 76pp, [4]. Uncut in original publisher's drab wrappers, lettered in black. Very lightly marked, spine sunned. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to verso to upper wrapper, foxed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'C. M. H. from K. L. H., Christmas 1914'. With five loosely inserted contemporary leaves of manuscript verse initialed by the author, a later (1921) printed single leaf poem, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20812
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[NEWMAN, John Henry]. Verses on various occasions. London. Burns, Oates, & Co., 1869. Third edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 368pp. Bound by Margotti in contemporary gilt-ruled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. Worn, with loss, joints split, large portion of spine missing at foot. Marbled endpapers, newspaper clipping relating to Newman pasted to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting. Inked inscription to half-title: 'To E. Ryley Esq / with the kind regards / of the author / Jany. 21. 1875', with later inked ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29709
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NANSEN, Fridtjof. Vers le pole traduit et abrege par charles rabot. 200 illustrations d'apres photographies et les dessins de l'explorateur. Paris. Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, [1897]. 8vo. viii, 424pp. With original white printed paper wrappers bound in. Finely bound in a twentieth-century designer binding; embossed and onlaid morocco designs to each board, the upper depicting a ship on frozen waters, two huskies, knotted rope and the title 'Vers le Pole', and the lower with two leaves on a stem with a sunset over the waters in the background, each board inset within ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24672
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WESTGARTH, William. Victoria and the australian gold mines in 1857; with notes on the overland route from australia, via suez. London. Smith, Elder, and Co., 1857. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 466, [2], 16pp. With three engraved maps (two folding), and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Light offsetting, else internally immaculate, a fine copy. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of FFEP; 'With the author's compliments'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17552
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SANGAR, J. T.. Victory over Sin and Death! A sermon, preached in the Churches of St. Werburgh and St. James; Bristol, On Sunday, January, 12, 1812, On occasion of the Death of Miss French, Who departed this Life on the 31st, Dec, 1811, In the 26th Year of her Age...Published for the Benefit of a Near Relation of the Deceased. London. Sold by Longman, Hurst, & Co. et al., [1812]. First edition. 104pp. With half-title.

[Bound after:] BIDDULPH, Thomas T[regenna]. Life a vapour! St. James IV. Being the substance of a sermon...on the death of Mr. John Marker. Bristol. Printed and Sold by W. Bulgin, 1802. Second edition. 33pp, [1].

[And:] BIDDULPH, Thomas T[regenna]. Hezekiah's charge to the congregation of Judah. 2 Chron. xxix. 31. A sermon preached before the Grateful Society, in All Saints'-Church, Bristol, on ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14644
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[MERCHANTS' HOUSE]. View of the history, constitution, & funds, of the guildry, and Merchants' House. Glasgow. Printed by James Henderson, 26 Bell-Street, 1817. First edition. 8vo. 112pp. Finely bound in twentieth-century gilt-tooled blue crushed half-morocco, with the original printed upper wrapper bound in at end. A fine copy, but for some spotting to text. Faint remains of an erased inscription starting 'Sent by James Ewing Esq.' to head of title. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33320
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STUART, Robert. Views & notices of glasgow in former times.. Glasgow. Robert Stuart & Co., 1848. First edition. Quarto. [2], viii, [2], 116pp, [8]. With an additional engraved title page and 27 engraved plates depicting scenes and views of the city. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, bumping to head and foot of spine. Light scattered spotting throughout. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33539
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HEAD, Sir Edmund [trans.]. Viga glum's saga. The story of viga-glum. Translated from the icelandic... London. Williams and Norgate, 1866. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 124pp. With a half-title and two folding charts. Title page in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, burgundy cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to verso of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27703