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Photo of "The stream way"
LAMPLUGH, Lois . The stream way. London. Golden Galley Press Limited, 1948. First edition. 8vo. 137pp, with 9 original full colour lithographs. Original publisher's pale cloth boards lettered in brown, with the unclipped green decorative dust wrapper. Internally bright and clean. Corners bumped, spine a trifle cocked, wrapper slightly worn and marked. Inscribed to Henry Williamson from the author on the half-title. A.LS. from the author to Williamson loosely inserted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28337
Photo of "Proceedings of the Court of ..."
[LANCASTER COUNTY]. Proceedings of the Court of Annual General Session For the County Palatine of Lancaster, holden on the first day of June, 1841, with the reports of committees, the physician to the county lunatic asylum, the keepers of lancaster castle, and of the several houses of correction, and the memorials, papers, and communications, presented to the court... Preston. Printed by Addisons, 1841. 8vo. 258pp, [2]. With a folding table. Original publisher's limp green cloth, stamped in blind, supralibros of the County of Lancaster. Lightly rubbed, marked, sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33107
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[LANCASTER COUNTY]. Proceedings of the court of annual general session, for the County Palatine of Lancaster, Holden on the Twenty-fifth Day of June, 1829, with the reports of committees, the physician to the county lunatic asylum, the keepers of lancaster castle, and of the several houses of correction, and the papers and communications presented to the court... Preston. Printed by Addison, [1829]. 8vo. 202pp, [12]. With a folding table. Original publisher's marbled wrappers. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to spine. Short tear to centre of folding table, small worm-track to head of text-block, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33105
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[LANCASTER COUNTY]. Proceedings of the court of annual general session for the County Palatine of Lancaster: holden on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1839, with the reports of committees, the physician to the county lunatic asylum, the keepers of lancaster castle, and of the several houses of correction, and the memorials, papers, and communications, presented to the court... Preston. Printed by Addisons, 1839. 8vo. 195pp, [21]. With a folding table. Original publisher's limp burgundy cloth, stamped in blind, supralibros of the County of Lancaster. Lightly rubbed, marked, dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33106
Photo of "Laneham's letter describing the Magnificent ..."
LANEHAM, [Robert]. Laneham's letter describing the Magnificent Pageants presented before Queen Elizabeth, at Kenilworth Castle in 1575; repeatedly referred to in the romance of Kenilworth. London. Printed for J. H. Burn, 1821. 8vo. xvi, [2], 114pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a final advertisement leaf. Later navy half-calf, brown buckram boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27555
Photo of ""Ten thousand chinese things." A ..."
LANGDON, W. B. "Ten thousand chinese things." A descriptive catalogue of the chinese collection, now exhibiting at st. george's place, hyde park corner, london, with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire. London. Printed for the Proprietor, and to be obatined only at the Chinese Collection, 1842. First English edition. 8vo. 150pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further seven engraved plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23235
Photo of "The vision of piers plowman"
LANGLAND, William [Henry W. Wells]. The vision of piers plowman. London. Sheed and Ward, 1935. First edition. 8vo. 304pp. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, lower joint split. Bookplate of John Ronald Hamilton Cartland to FEP. With a loosely inserted bookplate of Antony Eden, inscribed to FFEP 'In memory of fond friendship with my son Roland. Mary Cartland, April 12 1942'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29804
Photo of "The hill o' dreams"
LANYON, Helen. The hill o' dreams. Dublin. Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1909. First edition. 12mo. 32pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, some marking to boards. Endpapers browned, contemporary inked initials to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22210
Photo of "Thoughts on finance, suggested by ..."
LAUDERDALE, [James Maitland], Earl of. Thoughts on finance, suggested by the measures of the present session. London. Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. [4], 55pp, [1]. With a half-title. ESTC T174622.

[Bound after:] [GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE ROYAL BURGHS OF SCOTLAND]. An illustration of the principles of the bill proposed to be submitted to the consideration of Parliament, for correcting the abuses and supplying the defects in the internal government of the royal boroughs... Edinburgh. Printed by Neill and Company, 1787. First edition. [4], 54, 31pp, [1]. Appendix ... More > £ 1,750.00 Antiquates Ref. 25165
Photo of "Old ship figure-heads & sterns.."
LAUGHTON, L. G. Carr. Old ship figure-heads & sterns... London. Halton & Truscott Smith, 1925. First edition. Large quarto. Limited edition of 1,500 copies of which this is number 169. xv, [1], 281pp, [1]. With a frontispiece and a further 55 plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle creased and marked, small hole to lower panel, spine panel sunned. Occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28084
Photo of "The Letters of T. E. ..."
LAWRENCE, T. E.. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, 1938. First edition, second impression. 8vo. 896pp. With 16 black and white plates and two folding maps. Original publisher's tan buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped, short closed tear to head of upper panel, spine chipped and soiled. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26336
Photo of "Revolt in the desert"
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Revolt in the desert. New York. George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American trade edition. 8vo. xvi, [4], 335pp, [1]. Pictorial endpapers after Kennington; with 16 plates and a folding map. Partially unopened in original publisher's brown cloth, stamped and lettered in black, pictorial dustwrapper (horse variant). Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper heavily worn and marked, with substantial loss and several tape repairs. Short tear to margin of p.9-10, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22256
Photo of "Crusader castles"
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1990]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some marking to top-edge, else clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21457
Photo of "The Mint. A Day Book ..."
LAWRENCE, T.E.. The Mint. A Day Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes By 352087 A/c Ross. London. Jonathan Cape, 1955. First trade edition . Quarto. [2], 206pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Some edge wear, cloth fading and marked towards all edges. Minor loss to head of spine on the toned jacket, shelf-wear to edges, predominantly top. Spotting to endpapers, with the bookplate of Richard L. Calvert Williamson to the front inner board. With 10 newspaper clippings relating to Lawrence, 5 photocopied articles, and 2 ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28148