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[THEATRE]. Etrennes de thalie, ou precis historique sur les acteurs et actrices celebres Des trois grands Theatres de la Capitale; suivi d'un Choix d'Anecdotes dramatiques, et d'un Traite de Declamation. Avex soixante portraits. A Paris. Chez Mr. Ve. Hoquart.., 1811. First edition. 24mo in 8s. [14], [v]-xi, [1], 102, [vii]-viii; [5]-128pp, [i]-iii, [1]. Two parts in one volume, with the index of each bound to follow the respective parts. With half-title, and a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece portrait, and 59 further hand-coloured portraits throughout. Finely bound in nineteenth-century elaborately gilt-tooled straight-grained green morocco, housed within a green morocco slipcase. A.E.G., marbled endpapers. From the libraries of Carlo De Poortere and Sir ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28789
MEI, Antonio. Raccolta di Memorie Istoriche […] della Terra di Belvedere. [s.i., Italy]. [s.n.], 1810. Folio. Manuscript, on paper, pp. 200, [1], last with hand-coloured plan of the Terra di Belvedere. In black-brown ink, Italian cursive. Uniform light age yellowing, oil splash to upper blank margin of three leaves. A very good copy in contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco labels, boards a bit scuffed, spine dusty. c.1900 bookplate of Thomas Ashby to front pastedown. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 22443
GAUGUIN, Robert. Cōpēdiū Roberti Gaguini sup[er] frācor[um] gestis. [Parisiis]. [Impressit Bertholdus Rembolt, īpēsis optimi bibilopoæ Iohānis Parui], [1511]. 8vo. [16], 312ff. With an engraved title page and engraved device of printed and bookseller Jehan Petit to verso of terminal leaf. Contemporary limp vellum, title in manuscript to spine, author's name in manuscript to lower edge. Extremities rubbed, marked, and discoloured, spine dulled. Small worm-track to lower margins of three terminal leaves. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30879
TASSO, Torquato. La gerusalemme liberata. Venetia [i.e. Venice]. Sarzima, 1625. Quarto. [24], 255pp, [1]. With an engraved title page and 20 full- page engraved illustrations in the text by Francesco Valesio and Giacomo Valegio. Later gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, spine dulled. Later bookplate of the Gaddesden library (and therefore likely previously in the library of English courtier, diplomat and alchemist Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700), whose books had descended there via ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31763
CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus. Q. Curtii Rufi. Historiarum libri, accuratissime editi. Lugd, Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633. 12mo. [12], 364pp, [24]. With an engraved title page, a single full-page engraved illustration in the text, and an engraved folding map. Contemporary ink-ruled vellum. Lightly rubbed, upper joint starting. Inked ownership inscription 'J. Wordswoth / Trin: Coll. Cant.' and later book-label of Walter R. Sadler to recto of FFEP, title page naively reattached with tissue paper, slight loss to lower corner of leaf D1, minute ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31622
WILLIAMS, Benjamin. Chronicque de la traïson et mort de richart deux roy dengleterre... À Londres [i.e. London]. Aux dépens de la Société, 1846. First edition. 8vo. xcvi, 324pp. Text in English, Latin, and Old French. Interleaved throughout. Bound by Lake and Mackenzie of Uxbridge in contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled papers boards, morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped and exposed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary review of the publication - extracted from The Gentleman's Magazine - tipped-in to front blank fly-leaf. Armorial bookplate of Benjamin Williams to FEP, with his ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31449
PRADT, [Dominique Georges Frederic] de. Concordat de l'amerique avec rome. Paris. Bechet aine, 1827. First edition. 8vo. [4], xvi, 310, [2], 20pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary green paper boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, paper shelf-label to upper board, manuscript shelf-mark to spine, corners bumped. Leaves lightly browned and spotted. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 31759
HOMER. Homeri ilias graece et latine. Annotationes in usum serenissimi principis guilielmi augustu, ducis de cumberland, &c regio jussu scripsit atque edidit samuel clarke, s.t.p. . Londini, [i.e. London]. Impensis Johannis & Pauli Knapton, 1754. Second edition. Quarto. [8], 344; [4], 347pp, [13]. With folding engraved frontispiece maps to each volume, and terminal errata leaf to Vol. II. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Worn, with splits to joints (boards nevertheless holding strong), bumping to corners and surface loss to boards. Three inked shelf-marks to front endpapers. James Beattie's copy, with his neat inscription to title, along with the number '221.' in ... More > £ 1,750.00 Antiquates Ref. 24874
LYNDWOOD, Gulielmo. Provinciale, (seu constitutiones angliae,) continens Constitutiones Provinciales quatuordecim Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium... Oxoniae [i.e. Oxford]. Excudebat H. Hall, 1679. Folio. [64], 356, 155, [21], 77pp, [3]. Text printed in double columns. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine, corners bumped. Very occasional recent coloured pencil highlights, small burn hole to leaf Dd2 - touching text without loss of sense. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 14884
[VAIRASSE, Denis]. Histoire des sevarambes peuples qui habitent une Partie du troisieme Continent, communement appelle la terre australe... Amsterdam. Aux depens d'Estienne Roger, 1702. 12mo. In two volumes. 333, [1]; 303pp, [25]. Titles printed in red and black. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements to Vol. II. Uncut. Handsomely bound in later red morocco, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Early armorial bookplates of Lord Bracco tipped-in to FFEP of Vol. I and verso of frontispiece of Vol. II respectively, frontispieces heavily ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31618
DAVANZATI, Bernado. Scisma d'inghilterra Con altre Operette. In Florenza [i.e. Florence]. Nella nuoua Stamperia del Massi, e Landi, 1638. Quarto. [12], 3-204pp. Without divisional title (leaf A1), as often. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, marked, and discoloured. Recent booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to FEP, manuscript bibliographical note to recto of FFEP, ink-stamp of Milltown Park Library to title page, occasional early manuscript annotation, very occasional marginal loss, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 15491
[ROSA, Frédéric-Guillaume]. Petit Almanach des Dames. Septieme Année. Paris. Chez Rosa, [1816]. 12mo. [28], 190, [12]pp. With a half-title, an engraved title page, six engraved plates, and six terminal engraved almanac leaves. Original publisher's pictorial pink paper boards, A.E.G., housed in original publisher's pictorial pink card slipcase. Lightly rubbed, dust-soiled at head, slipcase rubbed, chipped, and discoloured, short tear at head. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31512
FENWICK, Made. [Eliza]. Leçons pour les enfans: ou premiers élémens de morale, de politesse, et de sensibilité. London. Printed for M. J. Godwin and Co., 1820. First edition in French. 12mo. In four parts. [2], 39, [1], 38, 40, 41pp, [1]. Numerous woodcut vignettes in the text. Contemporary sprinkled sheep. Heavily rubbed, boards held by cords only, surface loss to spine. Internally clean and crisp. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript notes to front endpapers. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31327
[BIBLE, Greek - Septuagint]. He Palaia Diatheke kata tous Hebdomekonta. Vetus Testamentum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum, secundum exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, denuo recognitum. Praefationem una cum variis lectionibus, e praestantissimis Mss. codicibus Bibliothecae Leidensis descriptis, praemisit David Millius. Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.s. Utrecht]. Apud Guilielmum vande Water et Jacobum van Poolsum, 1725. First Millius edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [138], 24, 903, [1]; [2], 928pp. Titles in red and black. Text printed in double columns. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, wear to head and foot of both spines, Vol. I without lettering-piece, lettering-piece of Vol. II chipped. Ink library stamps and recent bookplates of R. A. Levisson to both FFEPs, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30436
[BIBLE - French]. La Sainte Bible, qui contient L'Ancien et le Nouveau Testament. A Amsterdam. Chez Pierre Mortier, [1699]. Nouvelle edition reveu sur les textes Hebreux & Grecs par les Pasteurs et Professeurs de Geneve. 12mo. Signatures: A-3O6, 3P2. Without the New Testament (A-S6, T10), clearly never bound into this volume. With an engraved general title page. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled black calf, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, margins closely trimmed - occasional shaving to chapter titles at head, horizontal tear and partial naive paper repair to leaf T4 - touching text without loss of sense. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30415
[FONTAINE, Nicolas]. [LE MAISTRE DE SACY, Isaac-Louis]. L'histoire du vieux et du nouveau testament, Representée avec des figures et explications edifiantes, tirées des SS. Peres. Dédiée à Monseigneur le Dauphin. Par le Sieur de Royaumont, Prieur de Sombreval. Paris. Chez Pierre le Petit, 1712. Nouvelle edition [i.e. new edition]. Quarto. [16], 552pp. Title in red and black. With 267 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed. Pastedowns sprung, short tear to lower corner of leaf Ii1, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 31647