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[GENERAL STUD BOOK]. The supplement to the general stud-book, being the Produce of Mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: by the same author... London. Printed by H. Reynell...For J. Weatherby, 1800. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 132; [2], 30pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards. Extremities rubbed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27393

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NIMROD [APPERLEY, Charles James]. Remarks on the conditions of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management... London. Printed and published by M. A. Pittman, 1831. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 503pp, [1]. Contemporary cloth-backed buff paper boards, author's name in manuscript to spine. Rubbed, surface loss to boards, spine chipped and sunned. Hinges exposed, contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, author's name added in manuscript to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27571

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ROBERTS, Dr. [William Hayward]. Judah restored: a poem. In six books. London. Printed for J. Wilkie, 1774. 8vo. In two volumes. xxii, [2], 113, [1]; [4], 151pp, [1]. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, slight splitting to joints. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23963

ROBERTS, Dr. [William Hayward]. Poems. London. Printed for J. Wilkie, 1774. First edition. 8vo. 7, [1], 163pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, joints starting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23961

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[RUSKIN, John]. Frondes agrestes. Readings in 'modern painters'. Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. George Allen, 1875. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 184pp. Original publisher's gilt-tooled brown limp morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Paper label to upper board with manuscript note: 'This volume contains the bookplate of Thomas Carlyle'. Bookplate of Thomas Carlyle to FEP, manuscript biographical note (on Ruskin and Carlyle) to recto of front blank fly-leaf, later bookplate and inked ownership inscription of William Wade Porteous to REP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24539

ROBERTSON, William. The history of the reign of the emperor charles V... Dublin. Printed for W. and W. Smith et al., 1769. First Dublin edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 394, [12]; [4], 479, [1]; [4], 456pp, [38]. With half-titles. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed, corners bumped, loss to lettering-piece of Vol. I. Occasional spotting. Armorial bookplates to FEPs of Thomas Grame of Duchray (d. 1773), Lieutenant-Colonel of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot or 'Black Watch', a veteran of the French and Indian War, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23789

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[ORTHOEPY]. A vocabulary of such words in the english language as are of dubious or unsettled accentuation... London. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, G. and T. Wilkie, L. B. Seeley, and Goadby Lerpiniere, and Langdon, 1797. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii, [184]pp. Later half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, bookplates of Francis Pierrepont Barnard and Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, Barnard's inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, inscription of G. Selby to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20311

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[POETICAL ABRIDGEMENT], [KING, William]. A Poetical Abridgement, Both in Latin and English, Of the Reverend Mr. Tutor Bentham's Letter to A Young Gentleman of oxford. To which are added Some Remarks on the Letter to a Fellow of a College. London. Printed for W. Owen, 1749. First edition. 8vo. 61pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin text. Without half-title. Later marbled wrappers. Extremities worn, loss to spine and corners, title in manuscript to head of upper wrapper. Later inked ownership inscription to head of title page, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 14719

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PUFENDORF, [Samuel, Freiherr von]. S. puffendorfii de officio hominis et civis juxta legem naturalem libri duo. Londini [i.e. London]. Typis M. J. Impensis Jacobi Knapton, 1708. Editio septima, [i.e. seventh edition]. 8vo. [24], 162 [i.e.164]pp, [4]. With two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary panelled calf. Extremities worn, surface loss to spine, upper board detached, lower joint starting. Later inked ownership inscription of 'P. King E. D. B. A.' to FEP, recent ink-stamp of Ben Damph Forest Library to recto of FFEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Benjamin Andrews of Magdalen, Oxford (one dated 1712) to ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27523

[EASY LESSONS]. Easy lessons for the young. Otley. Printed by the Yorkshire Joint Stock Publishing and Stationery Company, [s.d., c. 1865] 12mo. 12pp. With several engraved illustrations in the text. Stitched, as issued, into original publisher's pictorial green wrappers. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26164

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HOFLAND, Mrs. [Barbara]. The good grandmother, and her offspring; a tale. London. Printed for R. Hunter, 1817. 12mo. iv, 164pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red roan-backed marbled paper boards. Heavily rubbed, joints starting. Leaves browned, several protruding from text-block. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27581

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[MOORE, Margaret King]. [LAMB, Charles]. The stories of old daniel: or tales of wonder and delight. London. Printed for M. J. Godwin, 1810. Second edition. 12mo. vi, [1], 196pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-ruled tree-sheep. Lightly rubbed and marked, later naive cloth repair to head of spine. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of E. Montagu and recent pencilled inscription of William St. Clair to recto of FFEP, offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27682

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[CROCKER & COOPER]. The four pictures. Which is mine?. London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860] 16pp.

[Bound with:] The shipwreck; or, "he loved his own". London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860]. 15pp, [1].

[And:] [Drop-head title:] The journey. [London]. [Crocker & Cooper], [s.d., c. 1860]. 16pp.

[And:] Make haste, and come down. London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860]. 15pp, [1].

[And:] "Jump now". London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860]. 16pp.

[And:] [Drop-head title:] "Give, give". [London]. [Crocker ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27686

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[CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE]. A summary of christian doctrine, for the Instruction of Youth. Bristol. Printed for H. W. Essex, 1828. New and improved edition. 8vo. 68pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep-back marbled paper boards. Rubbed, chipping to head and foot of spine. Without fre-endpapers, later inked ownership inscription to head of title. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27680

[HIEROGLYPHIC BIBLE]. A new hieroglyphic bible... Derby. Thomas Richardson and Son, 1845. 12mo. 67pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With an engraved frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers. Rubbed and marked, loss to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26050

SCOTT, Walter. Essays by sir walter scott... Paris. Published by A. and W. Galignani, 1828. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], 237, [1]; [2], 202pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-labels of Jane Yates to both FEPs, with her inked ownership inscriptions to front blank fly-leaves, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP of Vol. I, very occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22306

SCOTT, Sir Walter. Biographical memoirs. Paris. Published by A. and W. Galignani, 1830. 8vo. In two volumes. [6], 243, [1]; [4], 224pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-labels of Jane Yates to both FEPs, with her inked ownership inscriptions to front blank fly-leaves, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP of Vol. I, very occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22305

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BEATTIE, James. The minstrel: or, the progress of genius: and Other Poems. London. Printed for John Bumpus, 1821. 8vo. viii, [4], ii, 168pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Attractively bound in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Offsetting to title page, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26372

[MONTGOMERY, James]. Prose, by a poet. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. In two volumes. [3], vi-xvii, [3], 285, [1]; [4], 294pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27711

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HOGG, James. The queen's wake: a Legendary Poem. Edinburgh. Printed by Andrew Balfour, 1813. First edition. 8vo. [8], 353pp, [1]. Contemporary dark green half-morocco, green buckram boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription of W. M. Spalding to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27719