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Photo of "A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining ..."
LAMBARDE, William. A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that shyre. Written in the yeere 1570. Imprinted at London, by Edm. Bollifant. 1596. Second edition. Quarto. [10] 588pp, [6]. With an engraved map of Britain and and engraved folding map of the Kent Beacons. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, yapp edges, without original ties. Housed in recent custom half-morocco slip-case. Extremities marked and discoloured, chipping to head of spine. Hinges exposed, early manuscript calculations, pen-trials, and a note in a French hand to FFEP, early ownership inscriptions of James ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25641
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PATRICK, Symon. A paraphrase upon the books of ecclesiastes and the song of solomon... London. Printed for Rich. Royston, 1685. First edition. 8vo. [8], xxiii, [1], 380, [2], xiv, 215pp, [5]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. 'The Song of Solomon paraphrased' has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous. Contemporary speckled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, lower joint split, loss to head and foot of spine. Later inked ownership inscriptions to FEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27513
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[CUNNINGHAM, Lady Margaret]. A Pairt of the Life of Lady Margaret Cuninghame, Daughter of the Earl of Glencairn, that she had with her first Husband, the Master of Evandale... [Edinburgh]. [Printed by James Ballantyne], [1827]. Quarto. [2], vi, 30pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, offsetting to title. Early manuscript note to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Only Fifty Printed - no for Sale, July 1827'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26460
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PIGGOTT, S[olomon], Rev.. Antidote to the follies, vices, and crimes of youth, to gambling, melancholy & suicide, in a series of anecdotes and actual narratives, calculated to warn the thoughtless and animate the desponding. London. Published by J. Robins and Co., 1831. Second edition. 12mo. xvi, [3], xviii-xxiv, 388pp, [4]. A reissue of the first edition, with an altered title and the addition of an unnumbered leaf 'Preface to the second edition' between xvi and xvii. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's moire cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, chipping to lettering-piece. Offsetting to title page, foxed. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19714
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[COMBE, William]. Anti-diabo-lady. Respectfully dedicated to all the women in her majesty's dominions, in general; and to the best of them in particular, Calculated to expose the Malevolence of the Author of diabo-lady. London. Printed for the Author, and to be had of C. Parker...Mr. Bew, 1777. First edition. Quarto. [2], iv, 17pp, [1]. Late dark green half-morocco, red paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed. Title lightly browned, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29062
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[TICKELL, Richard]. Anticipation: Containing the Substance of His M---------y's Most Gracious Speech to both H------s of P----l-----t, on the Opening of the approaching session, together With a full and authentic account of the debate which will take Place in the H----e of C------s, on the Motion for the Address, and the Amendment. With notes. London. Printed for T. Becket, 1778. Second edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 74pp. With a half-title. Recent marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Slightest of rubbed to extremities. Very small hole to margin of leaf K4, slight loss to margin of L1, lightly spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18388
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[WESTMINSTER SCHOOL]. Anthologia sive Epigrammatum Græcorum ex Anthologia editâ, MS. Bodleianâ, aliisque autoribus delectus in usum Scholæ Westmonasteriensis. Oxoniæ [i.e. Oxford]. E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1724. First edition. 8vo. [2], 99p, [3]. The first and sixth words of the title are transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary panelled sheep. Rubbed, joints starting, paper label with title in manuscript to head of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Stuart to front endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24901
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RUSSELL, Bertrand. An outline of philosophy. London. George Allen & Unwin, [1927]. First edition. 8vo. vi, 317pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear, spine a trifle sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Prize plate of the London School of Economics to FEP - awarded by then Director, British economist and liberal politician William Beveridge (1879-1963) to Robert Brown Fraser (1904-1985), the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25451
Photo of "Another life: lawrence after arabia"
SIMPSON, Andrew R. B. . Another life: lawrence after arabia. Stroud . Spellmount Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo. xviii, 366pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the photographic dust wrapper. Loosely inserted are two versions of the same newspaper review article regarding this publication, and the bifold flyer for the Dorset County Museums 2007 exhibitions, of which one was on T. E. Lawrence (The Man and the Myth: Lawrence of Arabia). From the family library of Henry Williamson. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28305
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[CROXALL, Samuel]. An Original Canto of spencer: Design'd as Part of his Fairy Queen, but never Printed. Now made publick, By Nestor Ironside... London [i.e. Edinburgh?]. Printed for James Roberts, 1714. Second edition. Quarto. 30pp. Handsomely bound by W. Pratt in later gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed, library shelf-mark etched into upper board. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of chemist, archaeologist, and numismatist Alan Morris to FEP, text-block shaved at head. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 28860
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[FAIRFAX, Sir Thomas]. An ordinance of the lords and commons Assembled in Parliament, For the Raising of Monies to be imployed towards the maintenance of Forces within this Kingdom, under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax Kt. And for the speedy transporting of and paying the Forces for the carrying on the Warre of Ireland... London. Printed for John Wright, 1647. Quarto. [2], 34pp. In this edition, line eight of title reads 'Forces within this Kingdom, under'. Bound by Mudie in nineteenth century gilt-tooled light brown calf, supralibros of Fairfax of Cameron to upper board, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron to FEP. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 28134
Photo of "An onlooker in France: 1917-1919"
ORPEN, Sir William. An onlooker in France: 1917-1919. London. Williams and Norgate, 1921. First edition. Quarto. 123pp, [1]. With a half-tone portrait frontispiece and a further 95 half-tone plates. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities marked and lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29637
Photo of "Anomaliae. Being desultory essays on ..."
[WATKINS, William]. Anomaliae. Being desultory essays on miscellaneous subjects. Whitby. Printed by T. Webster, 1798. 8vo. No. I (Tuesday, October 24th, 1797) - no. 34 (Tuesday, June 12th, 1798.); all published. [6], 272pp. With continuous pagination and signatures. Title repeated as caption on first page of each weekly issue.Contemporary gilt-ruled calf-backed, vellum-tipped, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, foot of spine worn. Remnants of book-label and early inked ownership inscription to head of general title page, typed bookseller's description ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33705