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[LIGHTER-MAN'S ASSISTANT]. The Lighter-Man's assistant, or Coal-Dealer's guide: containing tables Exactly calculated for the ready finding out the true Value of any Quantity of Coals, from 1 to 400 Chaldrons, from 19£ per Score to 40£ per Score, reckoning 21 Chaldrons to the Score, including the Metage-Money... London. Printed for Thomas Bradley, [s.d., c.1765] First edition?. 12mo. [8], 86pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, later rebacked, preserving contemporary spine panel. Extremities rubbed, marked, and bumped. Hinges exposed, pen and pencil trials to front and rear endpapers, title page laid down, occasional spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 21859
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KINGSLEY, Rev. Charles. The limits of exact science as applied to history. An Inaugural Lectures, delivered before the university of cambridge. Cambridge. Macmillan and Co., 1860. First edition. 8vo. [6], 72pp, 23pp of advertisements, [1]. Original publisher's printed boards, spine restored. Rubbed, with loss to spine at head, bumping to corners. Presentation copy, inscribed twice: with 'From the author to Elizabeth Stisted, Eversley Augt. 12th 1861' to head of upper board, and 'Miss Stisted with the Rev. Kingsley's kind regards, Eversley aug 12/61' to head of half title. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 13060
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[ROSCOE, William - Imitations]. [DORSET, Catharine Ann Turner]. A LADY. The lion's masquerade, a sequel to the peacock at home. Written by a lady. Illustrated with elegant engravings. London. Printed for J. Harris, 1808. Second edition. 16mo. 16pp. With engraved frontispiece and five further plates. Stitched within original publisher's yellow pictorial wrappers. Extremities rubbed and discoloured, a trifle creased, short central tear at spine. Two small holes to frontispiece. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26048
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[ROSCOE, William - Imitations]. [DORSET, Catharine Ann Turner]. A LADY. The lion's masquerade. A sequel to the peacock at home. London. Printed for J. Harris, 1807. First edition. 16pp. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and a further five hand-coloured engraved plates. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's blue pictorial stiff-paper wrappers. Extremities heavily worn and creased. Early pen-trials to verso of upper wrapper, chipping to plates margins with occasional later paper repairs, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22586
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[ROSCOE, William - Imitations]. [DORSET, Catharine Ann Turner]. A LADY. The lion's masquerade. A sequel to the peacock at home. London. Printed for J. Harris, 1807. First edition. 16mo. 16pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further five engraved plates. Stitched, as issued, within original publisher's buff pictorial paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, slightly creased, with a little surface loss to lower wrapper. Small pen trial to verso of one plate, very slight offsetting to text opposite engraved plates, else internally clean. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23869
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READE, A. Arthur. The Literary Ladder. London. S. W. Partridge and Co., 1880. First edition. 8vo. [8], 88pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32992
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[LITTLE BASKET MAKERS]. The little basket makers. London. The Religious Tract Society, [1830]. 16mo. 48pp. With 13 hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial tan wrappers. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27688
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B., D. B. The little hill station and other sketches & verses. Bombay. Thacker & Co., [s.d., c. 1910] First edition. 12mo. 109pp, [1]. Original publisher's green cloth-backed green paper boards, lettered in black to upper board 'The little hill station And other sketches & verses By D. B. B. to P/ F.' Rubbed and marked. Contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30632
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BOWLES, Rev. W. L.. The little villager's verse book; consisting of short verses For Children to Learn by Heart... London. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, [s.d., c. 1830] Seventh edition. 8vo. viii, 9-38pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green roan-backed pictorial paper boards. Heavily marked and worn, without lower board, upper board held by cords only. Small hole to title page, contemporary inked ownership inscription to vers. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27684
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[GILPIN, William]. The lives of john trueman, richard atkins, &c. London. Printed for R. Blamire, 1793. Third edition. [4], 102pp. ESTC T90495.

[Bound with:] GILPIN, William. A sermon preached in the parish church of boldre in hampshire, at the funeral of william baker, May 18, 1791. To which is added a short account of his life. London. Printed for R. Blamire, 1793. Second edition. [4], 29pp, [1]. ESTC T90494.

12mo. Modern black cloth, with part of what is likely the contemporary canvas binding ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20542
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BURNETT, Bishop [Gilbert]. The lives of Sir matthew hale, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of england; wilmot, Earl of Rochester; and Queen mary.. London. Printed for T. Davies, 1774. 8vo. [14], 139, [8], 4-120, 82pp. With half-title and divisional title page to each of the 'lives'. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, recently rebacked, with contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, with wear to corners. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Rolt to FEP. Leaves browned, with staining to endpapers, light scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 35139
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FONTENELLE, Monsieur [Bernard Le Bovier de]. The lives of the French, Italian, and German Philosophers. Late members of the Royal Academy of Science in Paris. Together with abstracts Of some of the Choicest Pieces, communicated by them to that Illustrious Society. To which is added, The preface of the Ingenious Monsieur Fontenelle, Secretary and Author of the History of the said Academy. London. Printed for W. Innys, 1717. First edition. 8vo. [16], xxxv, [1], 123, 122-441, 552, 455- 464pp, [4]. With two terminal advertisement leaves. Contemporary gilt-tooled, blind-panelled polished calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, small shelf-label to head of spine. A trifle rubbed, slightly chipped at head, else a fine copy. The Macclesfield copy, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate (shelf-mark 45.C.29) and typical armorial blind- stamps to title page and first two leaves of text, ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19580
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[SHIELLS, Robert], CIBBER, [Theophilus]. The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland, To the time of Dean Swift. Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a Variety of Books, and especially from the MS. Notes of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter and others, collected for this Design. London. Printed for R. Griffiths, 1753. First edition. 12mo. In five volumes. [2], ii, 354; [4], 353, [1]; [4], 353, [3]; [2], ii, 356; [2], 354pp, [4]. Extra-illustrated with 80 engraved portraits. Finely bound in contemporary tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, spines richly gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed, some slight splitting to joints. Later booksellers catalogue description pasted to Vol. I FEP, inked annotation to recto of FFEP of same, small stain to lower ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 17449