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[FISCHER, Gottlob Eusebius]. Gustavus; or, the macaw. A story to teach children the proper value of things. London. Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1814. First edition. 12mo. 174pp, [6]. With an engraved frontispiece and three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green roan-backed buff paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities marked and worn, surface loss to spine and upper board. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting, loss and early pen-trials to RFEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27030
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DE PUIS, Guillaume. Guilielmi puteani, Medici Grationopolitani, de occultis pharmacorum purgantium facultatib. Deque Veris ipsarum Causis, Libri duo. Quibis adjecta est Appendicula, de purgatrice Medicamentorum Facultate. Auctore Jacobo Cusinoto... Lugdani, [i.e. Lyon]. Sumpt. Michaelis Duhan, 1664. Second edition. 8vo. [16], 206pp, [2]. With extra-engraved title and final blank. Finely bound in contemporary English red morocco, panelled in gilt with further gilt to spine. Marbled pastedowns, A.E.G. Slightly rubbed and a little marked, bumping to corners, else a handsome copy. Robert Traver's copy, with his ink inscription 'Liber Robert Travers, M.D., e Coll. S. Trinitatis apud Dublinienses' to verso of blank fly-leaf, and a rather ... More > £ 1,750.00 Antiquates Ref. 14435
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POUND, Ezra. Guide to Kulchur. [New York]. New Directions Books, [1952]. 8vo. 379pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed, chipping and some slight loss to dustwrapper, spine panel sunned. From the library of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995), with his inked ownership inscription to FFEP and occasional manuscript annotations to text. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23611
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[GRAND TOUR]. Guide des collections egyptienne et etrusque et des statues en marbre et en bronze qui existent au musee bourbon a naples. Naples. L'imprimerie de l'observateur de Medecine, 1827. 27, [3], 48, [2], 20pp.

[Bound with:] Galerie impériale et royale de florence huitieme édition ornée des planches de la vénus des medicis de celle de canova et de l'apollon. Florence. Albizzi, 1825. First edition. 208pp. With three engraved plates.

8vo. Contemporary half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, discoloured, lettering-piece worn. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 21081
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GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. [PINKERTON, John?]. Guicciardini's account of the ancient flemish school of painting. Translated from his description of the netherlands, published in italian at antwerp, 1567. With a preface, by the translator. London. Printed for I. Herbert, 1795. Second English edition. Quarto. xv, [1], 36pp. With half-title. Uncut in original paper-backed marbled paper wrappers, with evidence of being disbound from a larger volume, with some loss and stitching to spine. Some browning and spotting internally. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 14794
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[BIBLE, Greek - Septuagint]. [Greek Title] Vetus testamentum graecum ex versione septuaginta interpretum juxta exemplar vaticanum romae editum. Cantabrigiae, [i.e. Cambridge]. Excusum Per Joannem Field, Typographum Academicum, 1665. Third English edition. 12mo. [2], 19, [1]; 755, [1]; 516pp. Lower corner of K6 torn away with some loss. Darlow & Moule 4701. ESTC R236848. Wing B2719.

[Bound uniformly with:] [BIBLE, N.T., Greek]. [Greek title]. [Cambridge]. [John Field, 1665]. 12mo. [2], 419pp, [1]. Small thumbnail sized piece torn away from margin of A4, with a little loss. ESTC R25629.

[And:] [PSALTER - Church of Scotland]. The psalms of david ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 28955
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[BIBLE - N.T., Greek]. [Greek title: Tes Kaines Diathekes apanta]. Novi Testamenti Libri omnes, recens nunc editi: cum Notis & Animaduersionibus Doctissimorum, Praesertim vero, Roberti Stephani, Josephi Scaligeri, Isaaci Casauboni. Variae item Lectiones ex antiquissimis exemplaribus, & celeberrimis bibliothecis, desumptae. Londini [i.e. Leiden]. Apud [B. and A. Elzevir for] Richardum Whittakerum, 1633. 8vo. [8], 459pp, [13]. First four words of title transliterated from the Greek. Printed in double columns. Eighteenth-century gilt-tooled brick-red morocco. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early manuscript quotation, in the original greek, from Ephrem the Syrian to FFEP; in what appears to be the same hand as the ownership inscriptions 'Rob: Hawkesworth / His Book / 1709' to verso of title page and head of p.1. ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 26478
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FAIRFAX, John. [GREEK TITLE]; or, The true Dignity of St. Paul's elder, Exemplified in the life Of that Reverend, Holy, Zealous, and Faithful Servant, and Minister of Jesus Christ Mr. Owen Stockton, M.A. Sometimes Fellow of Gonville and Caius Colledge in Cambridge, and afterward Preacher of Gods Word at Colchester in Essex... London. Printed by H.H. for Tho. Parkhurst.., 1681. First edition. 8vo. [14], 149, [3], 151-196pp, [4]. Later blind-tooled and panelled calf, titled in gilt to spine. Rubbed to extremities, joints, small chip at head of spine. Some some shaving of pagination/headlines and register/catchwords, browned and with some occasional ink-stains; tear without loss to B6 at head. With the bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron to FEP and an old Pickering and Chatto catalogue entry tipped in noting ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28718
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BRENT, Peter. Great lives: T. E. Lawrence. London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1975]. First U.K. edition. Quarto. 232pp. With 20 colour plates and 100 black and white illustrations. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle sunned. Internally clean and crisp. From the library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22257
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MOULE, Thomas. Great britain illustrated: a series of original views . London. Charles Tilt, 1830. First edition. [2], vi, [1], 118pp. With an additional engraved title page and 118 steel engraved plates.

[Bound with a sample prospectus for:] [SHEPHERD, Thomas]. Modern Athens!: Displayed in a series of views: or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century: exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs, from original drawings. London. Published by Jones and ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33868
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M'DONOGH, Capt. Felix. Gratitude, A Poetical Essay; with other poems and translations. London. William Booth, 1825. First edition. 12mo. [3]-72, 81-84, 73-80, 89-96, 85-88, 97-106pp, [2] - complete despite erratic pagination. Without half-title, but with terminal advertisement leaf. Contemporary straight-grain gilt-tooled green morocco. A.E.G. Rubbed to extremities, corners slightly bumped, else a fine attractive copy. With the ink-stamp of 'Alexander Gardyne 1883' to verso of title, neat book-label of J.O. Edwards to FEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19646
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[SWITZERLAND]. Gotthard furka-grimsel. [Zurich]. [Kilchberg], [s.d., c. 1930] Oblong 8vo. [20] leaves. 38 sepia illustrations after photographs. Original publisher’s pictorial buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed and marked. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27985
Photo of "Gordon: the Sudan and Slavery"
CRABITES, Pierre. Gordon: the Sudan and Slavery. London. George Routledge and Sons, 1933. First edition. 8vo. x, 334pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, printed paper dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper lightly marked, chipped at head and foot of spine panel. Iked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27517
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[SWIFT, Jonathan]. Good Queen anne vindicated, and The Ingratitude, Insolence, &c. of her whig ministry and the allies Detected and Exposed, in the Beginning and Conducting of the war... London. Printed and sold by W. Owen, 1748. Second edition. 8vo. [4], 72pp. With a half-title. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Latter half of text-block separated into individual gatherings. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Hesketh Yarburgh to head of half-title. Lightly dust-soiled, some chipping to head of initial five leaves, occasional spotting/creasing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20765
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GOLDSMITH, John. Goldsmith. An almanack for the Year of our lord god M. DCC.XCVIII... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield, and George Greenhill, [1798]. 24mo. 48pp. Title page and initial gathering in red and black. Calendar interleaved. Elaborately bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, vellum onlays, A.E.G., housed in matching contemporary slipcase. Lightly rubbed, slipcase dulled and worn. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp, single early note to interleaved blank. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33912