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D'AVAUX, Claude de Mesmes, Comte. SERVIEN, Abel. Lettres De Messieurs d'avaux et servien, ambassadeurs Pour le Roy de France en Allemagne, concernantes leurs differens & leurs responses de part & d'autre en l'Annee 1644. [s.i.]. [s.n., s.d.], 1650. 16mo in 8s. 211, [5], 62pp, with blank leaf O4. Finely bound in eighteenth-century polished calf, spine lettered in gilt and decorated with blind-stamping. A trifle rubbed to extremities, joints creased, else a crisp copy. From Lord Minto's library, with his armorial case/shelf book label (with the motto "credunt quod vident") above the modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst) to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19673
[BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas]. Oeuvres diverses Du Sieur D*** avec le traite du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, Traduit du Grec de Longin. a Amsterdam. Chez Abraham Wolfgang, 1677. Nouvelle edition, Reveue, corrigee, & augmentee de plusieurs Pieces nouvelles. 12mo. 160, [40], 101-214pp, [10]. With an extra-engraved title page, and four further engraved plates, all included in the pagination. Contemporary British (likely English) calf, blind-ruled to spine compartments and boards, with floral device to each corner of boards, with contrasting red morocco lettering-piece ('Boileaus Poetry'). Slightly rubbed, bumping to corners, joints just starting. Some marking to pastedowns, with bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19679
[GREAT BRITAIN, Sovereign]. Papers relative to the late negociation at lisle, laid before both houses of parliament, by his majesty's command. [London?]. [s.n.], [1797?] First edition. 12mo. 80pp. Without half-title. Stitched, as issued. Title page and final leaf browned and dusty, loss to head and foot of both, partial early inked ownership inscription to head of title, several wormtracks running through text block - touching text at times, without loss of sense. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19689
BELDEN, L[emuel] W[hittlesey]. An account of jane c. rider, the Springfield Somnambulist: the substance of which was delivered as a lecture before the springfield lyceum, jan. 22, 1834. Springfield [Massachusetts]. Published by G. and C. Merriam, 1834. First edition. 12mo. viii, [1], 10-134, [2], 4pp. With a final errata leaf and two leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's salmon cloth boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities marked, sunned, and lightly rubbed, paper shelf-labels to spine. Booklabel of the Town Library, Longmeadow, Massachusetts to FEP, spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19727
WIENHOLT, Arnold, Dr.. Seven lectures on somnambulism. Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black, 1845. First edition in English. 8vo. xxxv, [1], 219pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's dark green buckram, printed paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, lettering-piece dust-soiled. Half-title browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19733
[LUMSDEN, James]. Fun upon fun; or the humours of a fair. Giving a description of the curious amusements in early life: also an account of a mountebank doctor and his merry andrew. Glasgow. Sold by J. Lumsden & Son, [s.d., c. 1815] 32mo. 47pp, [1]. First and terminal leaves as pastedowns, wrappers included in pagination. With eight plates of copper engravings printed in sanguine. Original publisher's plain paper wrappers, title in manuscript to upper wrap. Very minor wear to extremities. Internally clean and crisp, a fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19803
WATTS, I[saac]. Divine songs, in easy language, for the use of children. Glasgow. Published by J. Lumsden & Son, 1814. 32mo. 30pp, [2]. First and terminal leaves pastedowns, wrappers included in pagination. With 10 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers. Rubbed and lightly dust-soiled, title in manuscript to head of upper wrapper. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19805
A NON-COMBATANT, [BUSHBY, Henry Jeffreys]. A month in the camp before sebastopol. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 125, [3], 24pp. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed and a trifle marked. Residue of excised bookplate to FEP, later inked ownership inscription pasted to recto of FFEP, lightly spotted. Presentation copy, inscribed to verso of FFEP: ' With the Authors / Compliments'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20195
[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
GROSE, Francis. A provincial glossary, with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions. London. Printed for S. Hooper, 1787. First edition. 8vo. viii, [284], 75pp, [5]. With two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, chipping to head of spine. Endpapers and title page browned, later book-label of J. Carter and recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20315
[BROOME, Ralph]. Letters from simkin the second to his dear brother in wales, For the year 1790; giving a full and circumstantial account of all the most material points...brought before the high court of justice...during the trial of warren hastings... London. Printed for John Stockdale, 1790. First edition. 8vo. [4], 124pp, [4]. With a half-title. Without two of the final advertisement leaves. Uncut in contemporary marbled boards, later rebacked in drab paper. Boards worn and marked. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, naive paper repairs to foot of leaves B3-6 - clipping text, without loss of sense, occasional light dust-soiling. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20446
MACPHERSON, Ossian. The dreamer, a poem, in three cantos, With other Poems; and an introductory epistle upon the island of madeira. London. Printed for the Author, 1848. First edition. 8vo. [6], v, [2], 152pp, [4]. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. Partially unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped red buckram, lettered in gilt. Extremities sunned and a trifle marked. Manuscript booksellers description tipped-in to FFEP, closed tears touching text of leaves C2-3, lightly spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20469