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[COMBE, William]. Letters of an Italian Nun and an english gentleman. Translated from the French of j. j. rousseau. London. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817. Sixth edition. 12mo. [3], vi-xii, 132pp. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting dark green morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Offsetting to title page. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34126

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PERCY, Thomas. Letters from thomas percy, d.d. afterwards bishop of dromore, john callander of craigforth, Esq. david herd, and others, to george paton. Edinburgh. Printed for John Stevenson, 1830. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 210pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's red cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and marked. Endpapers foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21659

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[BROOME, Ralph]. Letters from simkin the second to his brother simon, in wales; dedicated without permission, to the ancient and respectable family of the grunters. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1796. First edition. 8vo. iv, 28pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, slight splitting to joints. Title-page a trifle marked, very occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18608

[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

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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Letters from percy bysshe shelley to elizabeth hitchener. Now first published. With an Introduction and Notes. London. Bertram Dobell, 1908. First trade edition. 8vo. li, [1], 351pp, [1]. Original publisher's navy cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed, lettering-piece chipped. Internally clean and crisp. William St. Clair's copy, with his pencilled ownership inscription to recto of FFEP and inked and pencilled notes to rear endpapers. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28089

MARTINEAU, John. Letters from australia. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. First edition. 8vo. xvi, [2], 206pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, marked, and cocked, spine dulled. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32440

[TESSIN, Carl Gustaf]. Letters from an old man to a young prince; with the answers. Translated from the Swedish. To which are prefixed Those of Her Present Majesty to her Son. London. Printed for R. Griffiths, 1759. Second edition. 12mo. In three volumes. xliv, [1], 46-237, [1]; 228; 223pp, [5]. With two final leaves of publisher's advertisements to Vol. III. Handsomely bound in contemporary vellum, spines richly gilt, contrasting black roan lettering-pieces. Extremities a trifle rubbed and discoloured. Marbled endpapers, recent book-labels of Peter Stewart Young and John Sparrow to front pastedowns, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of J. Gill and later inscriptions of C. Parker ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28187

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[WARBURTON, William]. Letters from a late eminent prelate to one of his friends. Kidderminster. Printed by George Gower, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, [s.d., 1793?] First edition. Quarto. [8], 380pp. With two engraved portrait plates. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 26103

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[BURT, Edward]. Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in London;...interspers'd with Facts and Circumstances intirely New to the Generality of People in England, and little known in the Southern Parts of Scotland. . London. Printed for S. Birt, 1754. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [1], x, 344pp; [2], 368pp, [1]. With an engraved map to Vol. I and a further eight engraved plates across both volumes. Contemporary calf, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-pieces. Heavily worn, with significant splitting to joints of both volumes. Armorial bookplate of the Earls of Hopetoun to FEP and ink-stamps of Alex. D. Denny, Dumbarton to FFEPs, of each volume. Some staining ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33422

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[FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE]. Letters, &c. from friends of the people: or, the last words, and dying advice, of a weaver to his children. [Edinburgh?]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1792] First edition. 8vo. 16pp. Modern grey paper boards, contemporary backstrip partially preserved and pasted to spine. Occasional chipping to edges, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34064

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HOEY, [Abraham] van. Letters and negociations of m. van hoey, Ambassador from the States-General to his Most Christian Majesty. Containing An exact Representation of the present State of the Court of France... London. Printed for J. Nourse, 1743. First English edition. 8vo. viii, 155pp, [1]. Recent navy half-morocco, blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Very minor wear to extremities. Recent marbled endpapers, marginal repair to penultimate leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 15123

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THOMSON, William. Letter addressed to sir j. p. orde of kilmory, bart. on the means of improving and extending the steam-packet communication between the clyde & the west highlands... Glasgow. Printed for Malcolm Kerr, 1838. First edition. 8vo. 16pp. Stitched, as issued. Central vertical fold, inked annotation to head of title, lightly spotted. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25575

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MAUGER, Claude. Le tableau du jugement universel. Avec d'autres Discours spirituels. Imprimé á Londres [i.e. London] par T. D. A se vendent chez Mathieu Turner. 1675. La premiere edition [i.e. first edition]. 8vo. [8], 71pp, [1].Twentieth-century blind-tooled calf, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Fore-edge slightly shaved. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 19204

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[GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité de]. Les veillées de château, ou cours dé morale a l'usage des enfans. Paris. De l'Imprimerie de Michel Lambert, 1786. 8vo. In three volumes. xx, 634, [2]; [2], 693, [3]; [2], 504pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, all edges red. Rubbed, loss to head of dulled spines. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29791

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[L'ESTRANGE, Roger]. L'estrange his appeal Humbly Submitted to the kings most Excellent majesty and the three estates Assembled in parliament. London. Printed for Henry Brome, 1681. First edition. Quarto. [2], 37pp, [1]. Modern green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly marked. Manuscript '32' to head of title. Leaves browned, spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30603

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[VOLTAIRE]. CAYLUS, Madame de [Marthe-Marguerite]. Les souvenirs de madame de caylus. Amsterdam. Chez Jean Robert, 1770. First edition, second state. 8vo. viii, 174pp. Terminal leaf a cancel. Interleaves between p.48-49. Handsomely bound in nineteenth-century gilt-tooled green half- morocco, gilt armorial device of Richard Seymour-Conway, fourth Marquess Hertford (1800-1870) to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. A trifle dulled. Early French language notes, in two distinct hands, to initial and terminal fly-leaves and interleaved blank. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 28672

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[GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de]. Lessons of a governess to her pupils: or, Journal of the Method adopted by Madame de Sillery-Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) in the Education of the Children of M. d'Orleans, First Prince of the Blood-Royal. Published by herself. London. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1792. First edition in English. In three volumes. xxxvi, 364; xii, 333, [1]; [2], 308pp. Contemporary gilt- tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29066

[MARGUERITE OF NAVARRE]. Les sept journees de la reine de navarre: suives de la huitieme. Paris. Librairie de Bibliophiles, 1872. 8vo. Limited edition, one of 25 copies printed on China paper. Four volumes bound as two. [4], 160, [4], 125, [1], 136; [4], 84, 91, 79, [1], [4], 95, [1], 56, li, [5]. With half-titles and nine engraved plates. Finely bound by Riviere in contemporary richly gilt-tooled green crushed morocco, T.E.G. Spines slightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplates of Florence Nelson to both FEPs, small paper ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18978

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THOMSON, [James]. Les saisons, poëme de thompson... Paris. Chez Le Normant, 1806. 8vo. vii, [1], 303pp, [3]. With a half-title. Contemporary speckled calf, ruled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22335

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[PSALMS]. Les pseaumes traduits sur l'hebreu... Paris. Chez Charles Osmont, 1739. Nouvelle edition. 12mo. lxxii, 502pp. Near contemporary blind-tooled light brown morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed.Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 30407