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HOBSON, John A.. Towards International Government . London. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1914. First edition. 8vo. 216pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Boards marked and bumped to edges and corners, with significant staining to the spine panel. Inner hinge cracking, first gather loosening. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FFEP: 'Gilbert Murray, with the writer's kind regards, 1916.'

With a loosely inserted manuscript note to Gilbert Murray from an Oxford contemporary. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31850
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[HOBHOUSE, John Cam, Baron Broughton De Gyfford]. The substance of some letters, written by an englishman resident at paris during the last reign of the emperor napoleon... London. Printed for Ridgways, 1816. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xv, [1], 490; [2], 253, [1], 135pp, [1]. Without half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. Armorial bookplates of Kilberry to FEPs, book-labels of Kilberry to title pages, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32458
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HOBBS, Major [Harry]. Indian dust devils. Calcutta. [H. Hobbs and Co.], 1937. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii, [5], 138pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed pictorial paper wrappers. Heavily worn, upper wrapper detached, naive tape repair to spine. Very light spotting and staining throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35105
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HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, sive De Materia, Forma, & Potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis. Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam]. Apud Joannem Blaeu, 1670. First separate Latin edition. Quarto. [4], 365pp, [15]. Later full vellum, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, all edges red. Extremities discoloured and lightly rubbed. Later paper repair to verso of front blank fly-leaf, early manuscript note to recto: 'Leviathan / Thomae Hobbesii / Malmesburiensis / Theomachi / pernicies juvenium, morum corruptela, / ingenioisima subtillissima omnis / religionis eversio diabolica. / Diaboli stercus. / Parve nec invideo, per me, liber, ibis in ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27383
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HOADLY, Benjamin. A brief defense of episcopal ordination...And a Postscript relating to the Third Part of Mr. Calamy's Defense of Moderate Non-Conformity. . London. Printed by H. Clark, 1707. First edition. 8vo. [14], 400pp. Contemporary panelled sprinkled calf, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. A crisp copy, a little rubbed and marked, with some wear to edges and scuff to lower board. Staining to endpapers and spotting throughout, title page browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33230
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H.M.M.. Two nights on the hills, October, 1863. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1863. Oblong folio. [20]ff, consisting of a title and 16 leaves (featuring 18 captioned albumen illustrations), with three further terminal blanks. Contemporary half roan, cloth boards, with red morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Worn, with loss to spine, corners. Bookplate of the Oliver Collection to FEP. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18360
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HÖLDERLIN, Friedrich. Poems and Fragments. London. Anvil Press Poetry, 1994. Third edition. 8vo. xlvi, 748pp [4]. Original publisher's yellow card wraps lettered in blue. Lightly scuffed, with some smoke damage/odour. The smoke damage is the result of an errant cigarette dropped by Olwyn down the back of her sofa, which caused a serious fire. Inscribed by translator Michael Hamburger on the half title 'For Olwyn in old friendship Michael Hamburger 19/3/94'. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28758
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HITCHCOCK, Thomas C.. Flights of Fancy: being Occasional Poems. Clonmel. [1839]. 16mo. [6], 44pp, [6]. Manuscript on paper. Contemporary marbled paper boards. Rubbed and dust-soiled, spine worn. With an additional manuscript title with adhered engraved classical motifs, facing an ink manuscript dedication 'To George Rock Hitchcock as a Token of remembrance from his loving Brother Thomas Cooke Hitchcock', all in the same neat hand, the dedication with adhered engraved border and decorations, each decoration with contemporary ink ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 26181
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[HISÁR]. Gazetteer of the hisár district, 1883-84. Lahore. Printed at the "Arya Press". by Ram Das, 1884. First edition. 8vo. [4], iii, [1], 75, [1], xxiii pp, [1]. Contemporary half-sheep, orange cloth boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, several minute worm-holes to upper board. Leaves browned, book-label of Allahabad-based advocate Pandit Sundar Lal to FEP, marginal paper repairs to terminal leaf. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31179
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HIPPISLEY, John Coxe. Substance of the speech of Sir john cox hippisley, Bart. on seconding the motion of The Right Honourable henry grattan, to refer the petition of the roman catholics of ireland to a committee of the House of Commons, On friday, the 18th of may, 1810. London. Printed for Faulder, and Booker et al., 1810. Second edition, corrected. 8 [i.e. 10], 93, [3], xxii, iii, [1], xxiii-lciv [i.e. xciv], [2],119pp, [1].

[Bound with:] [An untitled pamphlet beginning with the following text: '(From the Globe News-Paper.) 15 June, 1811...The following summary is chiefly confined to a correction of the statements, in some of the public prints, on the morning following the debate on Mr. Grattan's motion...'] [London]. [Printed by Keating, Brown, and Co.], [1811]. ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28224
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HINGSTON, Major R. W. C.. A naturalist in the guiana forest. London. Edward Arnold & Co., 1932. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [2], 384pp. With 16 plates and 150 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked spine sunned and a trifle cocked. Half-title lightly foxed, otherwise bright throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31842
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HINCHLIFFE, John. Sermons. London. Printed for R. Faulder, 1796. First edition. 8vo. [5], viii-xiv, 202pp. Without half-title. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain green morocco, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. Contemporary inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf of Charlotte Hinchliffe, the author's daughter. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20919
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[HILL, Thomas]. The Cause of Truth defended; being a plain statement of the facts connected with the Two Trials of the Rev. T. Hill, methodist preacher, for defamation of the character of Miss Bell, of North-Shields, containing a correct report of the trial at York, And other Matter relative thereto, illustrated by fac-similes of Three different Hand-Writings of Mr Hill.. London. Simpkin and Marshall, 1827. First edition. 8vo. viii, 155pp, [1]. With six folding plates containing facsimiles of manuscript letters. Uncut in contemporary two-tone paper boards, rebacked, contrasting modern gilt-tooled burgundy morocco lettering-piece to spine. Lightly worn, with chipping to foot of spine, and bumping to corners. Some light damp-staining to gutters, scuffing to endpapers, and occasional spotting, but largely clean. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 35067
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[HILL, Richard, Sir]. Five letters to the Reverend Mr. Fletcher, Relative to his Vindication of the minutes of the Reverend Mr. John Wesley. Intended chiefly for the comfort or mourning backsligers, and such as may have been distressed and perplexed by reading Mr. Wesley's Minutes, or the Vindication of them. London. Printed for E. and C. Dilly...and sold by J. Eddowes, 1772. Second edition, revised and much enlarged. 8vo. 52pp. Disbound. A trifle spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21344
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HILL, Richard. The blessings of polygamy displayed, in an affectionate address to the rev. martin madan; Occasioned by his late Work, entitled thelyphthora, or, a treatise on female ruin.. London. Sold by J. Mathews, 1781. First edition. 8vo. 171pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's blue paper boards, rebacked, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Worn and faded, with loss to corner of upper board. Inked initials C.C to head of FFEP, further initials to head of title. Light scattered spotting throughout. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30606
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HILL, R. H. [editor]. The shelley correspondence in the bodleian library: Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, mainly unpublished, from the Collection presented to the Library by Lady Shelley in 1892... Oxford. Printed for the Bodleian Library By John Johnson, Printer to the University, 1926. First edition. Quarto. xv, [1], 48pp. Uncut in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed, marked, and creased. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32412
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HILLARY, Edmund, Sir. DOIG, Desmond. Expedicion al Himalaya (En busca del fabuloso Yeti, el "Abominable Hombre de las Nieves"). Buenos Aires. Editorial de Ediciones Selectas S. R. L., [1964]. 8vo. 336pp. With numerous monochrome photographic illustrations. Original publisher's grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Light rubbing/bumping to extremities, dustwrapper heavily worn, separated into component panels/flaps, with some browned naive tape repairs. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. Flat signed by Sir Edmund Hillary to title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23425