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DELISLE DE SALES, Jean-Baptiste-Claude. Paradoxes par un citoyen. Premiere partie. A Amsterdam. [s.n.], 1775. First edition. 8vo. xii, 13-123, [9], 269-276pp. Uncut in original publisher's plain paper wrappers. Substantial loss to spine, text-block holding firm by cords. Internally clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14633

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[DELHI DURBAR]. Coronation Durbar: Delhi 1911. Official Directory with maps. Calcutta. Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911. First edition. 8vo. vi, 388pp. With two lithographed maps in rear pocket. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Calling card of Major T. X. Britton, 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, loosely inserted. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31025

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[DE LASNE D'AIGUEBELLES, Chevalier De]. Sentimental and practical theology From the french of Le Chevalier De *******. London. Printed for J. Wilkie, 1777. First edition. 8vo. viii, viii, 235pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to boards, joints starting. Endpapers browned and stained, light spotting to blank fly-leaves and title, text clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33544

DELANDINE DE ST.-ESPRIT. Histoire de bayard. Paris. Librairie de Debecourt, 1842. 8vo. 470pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher’s green printed wrappers. A trifle rubbed, some surface loss to sunned spine. Foxed. The Comte de Chambord's copy, with the Maggs Bros book label to verso of upper wrapper More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22426

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DE LA MARE, Walter. O Lovely England and other poems. London. Faber and Faber, [1953]. First edition. 8vo. 80pp. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper browned, chipping to spine and corners. Endpapers browned, bookplate of Dennis Silk to FEP. Presentation copy, inscribed to Jo Vere, with the author's characteristic 'W.J.' initials. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25975

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DE LA MARE, F[rederick] A[rchibald]. G. B. Lancaster 1873-1945: a tribute. [Hamilton, New Zealand]. Printed for Private Circulation [The Waikato Times], [1945]. First edition. 8vo. 17pp, [2]. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Extremities a trifle dust-soiled. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of title-page; 'E. M. Sladden / from F. A. de la Mare / 6th August 1957'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16589

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[DE GONDI, Jean Francois Paul, Cardinal de Retz]. Memoirs of the cardinal de retz: containing all the great events during the minority of louis XIV. And administration of cardinal mazarin. London. H. S. Nichols, 1896. 8vo. Limited edition of 500 copies. xv, [1], 304pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to FEP, occasional spotting/browning. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21721

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DEGERANDO, Joseph Marie. De la génération des connoissances humaines... Berlin. Imprimé Chez George Decker, 1802. First edition. 8vo. viii, 304pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Booksellers ticket of Raymond Clavreuil of Paris to FEP, occasional marginal damp-staining to head of text-block. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29359

[DEFOE, Daniel (attributed)]. The state of the Silk and Woollen Manufacture, considered: In Relation to a French Trade. Also the case of the Silk-Weavers, Humbly Offered to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament... London. Printed For J. Baker, 1713. First edition. 8vo. 23pp, [1]. Recent half-morocco, marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Text-block shaved at head. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 26618

[DEFOE, Daniel]. A True Relation of the apparition of one Mrs. veal, The next Day after her Death, to one Mrs. bargrave, at canterbury, The 8th of September, 1705. Which apparition recommends the Perusal of drelincourt's Book of Consolations against the Fears of Death. London. Printed for B. Bragg, 1707. Third edition. 8vo. [4], 12pp. Disbound. Some short marginal tears, scattered spotting. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19759

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DEFOE, Daniel. The life and adventures of robinson crusoe. . London. Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. The Novelist's Library: Vol.I. . 8vo. In two volumes. ii, [6], lxiv, 327pp, [1]; [6], 324pp, [4]. With a preliminary leaf of publisher's advertisements and engraved frontispiece to both volumes, 15 further engraved plates, and a terminal catalogue of advertisements to Vol.II. Twentieth century half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, with contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces to spine. Lettering-pieces lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplates of Edward Tyson of Wood Hall, Cumbria to FEP ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35126

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[DEFOE, Daniel]. [Drop-head title:] Observations on the Fifth Article of the Treaty of union, humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament, relating to Foreign Ships. [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], [1706]. First edition. Quarto. 4pp. Recent black morocco-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27116

[DEFOE, Daniel]. A Short View of The Present State of the Protestant Religion in britain, as It is now profest in the Episcopal Church in England, the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, and the Dissenters in Both. Edinburgh. [s.n.], 1707. First edition. 8vo. 48pp. Recent black morocco-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 27118

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[DEFOE, Daniel]. An essay upon literature: or, An Enquiry into the Antiquity and Original of letters; proving That the two Tables, written by the Finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first Writing in the World; and that all other Alphabets derive from the Hebrew. London. Printed for Tho. Bowles, 1726. First edition. 8vo. [2], 127pp, [1]. Bound by Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow in nineteenth-century brown morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, corners bumped. Very occasional light spotting or marking, title trimmed at lower-edge. Book-label of J. R. P. Forrest to FEP. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27128

[DEFOE, Daniel]. A word about a New Election, that the People of England May See the Happy Difference between english Liberty and french Slavery; and May Consider well, berfore they make the exchange. [London]. [s.n.], 1710. First edition. 8vo. 23pp, [1]. A variant has the second line of the title page reset to read 'about a' instead of 'against a'. Recent marbled papers boards. Leaves browned. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27125

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DECANVER, H. C. [i.e. CAVENDER, Curtis H.]. Catalogue of works in refutation of methodism, from its Origin in 1729, to the Present Time... New York. [s.n.], 1868. Second edition, revised. 8vo. [3], 5-55pp, [1]. Without half-title. Disbound. A trifle creased, very occasional light spotting, paginated in manuscript indicating earlier inclusion within a nonce volume. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27777

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DEBURE, Guillaume-François. Bibliographie instructive: ou traité de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers...Volume de la jurisprudence et des sciences et arts. Paris. Chez Guillaume-François de Bure le Jeune, 1764. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 772pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, all edges red. Rubbed, early paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. From the library - recently dispersed - of the Marquesses of Lothian (who also held the Earldom of Ancram) at Newbattle Abbey; with manuscript shelf-marks to front blank fly-leaf and head of title. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27785

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[DE BRITAINE, William]. Humane Prudence, or the art By which a Man may Raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur. London. Printed by J. Rawlins, for R. Sare, 1693. Sixth edition, corrected and enlarged. 12mo. [12], 284pp. Without the two terminal advertisement leaves. Later half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked with earlier contrasting red morocco lettering-piece laid down. Ink inscription to FEP reading 'George Hanaway Jolliffe 6th November, 1906', title-page remounted at gutter (somewhat naively), small hole to same with loss to text of imprint. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 12770

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[DEBRETT'S]. Royal supplement to debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage and companionage.. London. Dean & Son, Limited, 1901. First edition. 8vo. 30pp. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous in-text illustrations, and several initial and terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's red stiff card wrappers, decorated and lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Light spotting to title. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 34554

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[DEBOFFE, J.]. [Drop-head title:] No. I catalogue des livres françois qui se trouvent chez j. deboffe. [London]. [W. Spilsbury], [1804]. 8vo. 16pp. Four loose bifoliums. Stab-stitch holes to gutters. A trifle creased. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30857