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[JACOB, Giles]. The Compleat Parish-Officer... [London] In the Savoy. Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling...for Bernard Lintot...and W. Mears, 1720. Second edition. 12mo. [4], 138pp, [10]. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Rubbed and marked, some scoring to boards, lower joint split. Pastedowns sprung, without fly-leaves, minute worm-track to foot of text-block, early inked ownership inscriptions of William Kinsey and Thomas Kinsey to FEP and head of title respectively. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17466

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JACOB, G[iles]. Lex constitutionis: or, the gentleman's law being... In the Savoy [i.e. London]. Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling...for B. Lintot, 1719. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 360pp, [12]. Without initial blank leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, splitting to joints, slight loss to head of spine. Loss to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. From the library of the Earls of Lovelace, formerly the Barons King of Ockham, with their armorial bookplate to FEP, and the recent ink-stamp of the Ben Damph Forest library to ... More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 14478

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JACKSON, Thomas [editor]. The lives of early methodist preachers. Chiefly written by themselves. London. Wesleyan Conference Office, 1871-72 Fourth edition. 8vo. In six volumes. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some chipping to spines at head and foot, a trifle cocked. Early inked ownership inscription to FFEP of Vol. I, later ownership inscriptions to first page text of all volumes, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27922

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JACKSON, Major R[obert] P[ostance]. Some copper coins issued by the english east india company and other european powers in southern india. London. Harrison and Son, 1909. First edition. Quarto. 6pp. With a photographic plate depicting numerous coins issued by the British, Dutch, Danes, and French in Southern India. Contemporary half-calf, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's upper wrapper bound in. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21752

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JACKSON, John. The history of the scottish stage, from its first establishment to the present time... Edinburgh. Printed for Peter Hill, and G. G. and J. Robinson, 1793. First edition. 8vo. 6, [2], 424, 41pp, [1]. With a half-title. In this issue, the text on pp.295-296, beginning on p.295, line 11, and ending at the foot of p.296 is present; the documents numbered xviii-xxii are removed from the appendix by the partial resetting of sig.2e4 and by cancelling leaves 2f1-3; signature *Mm4 appears to be a whole-sheet cancel. Recent gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33178

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JACKSON, John. A treatise on wood engraving: Historical and Practical. London. Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Second edition. Large 8vo. xvi, 664pp. With an engraved frontispiece and nearly 450 fine wood engravings in the text. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped. Naively deleted inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 22261

JACKSON, John. A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical. London. Charles Knight and Co., 1839. First edition. Large 8vo. xvi, 749pp, [3]. With seven plates (two coloured, one tinted) and 346 engraved illustrations in the text. Bound by J. Wright of London in contemporary blind-ruled brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of George Tudor to FEP, loss to upper corner of leaf 2H8, plates foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23244

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ISHIGURO, Kazuo. An Artist of the Floating World. London. Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 206pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very light damp-staining to head of dustwrapper, else clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21461

IRVING, Washington. The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. London. John Murray, 1831. 8vo. xi, [1], 354pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, one further engraved plate, and two engraved folding maps. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, brown calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27837

IRVING, Washington. Sketch of william roscoe. Liverpool. Printed by Harris and Company, [1853]. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1], iv. Stitched, without original wrappers. Slightest of dust-soiling and marking to title-page and terminal leaf, overall a near fine copy. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 14934

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IRVING, Washington. Astoria; or enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. London. Richard Bentley, 1836. First British edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 317, [3]; ix, [1], 320; vii, [1], 294pp. With half-title and terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. I., half-titles not called for in other volumes. Original publisher's plain tan paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces, housed in custom grey cloth slipcase with brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbing to joints and head and foot of spines, some wear and loss to lettering-pieces, slight surface loss ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 14326

IRVING, David. The lives of the scotish poets; with preliminary dissertations, on the literary history of scotland, and the early scotish drama. Edinburgh. Printed by and for Alex. Lawrie and Co., 1804. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [8], 447, [1]; [6], 507pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards. Rubbed, lower joints split, spine sunned. Armorial bookplates of Sir Marcus Somerville to both FEPs. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 28502

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IRVING, David. The elements of english composition. Containing practical instructions for writing the english language with perspicuity and elegance; and Designed, in the Progress of Education, to succeed to the Study of English Grammar, and of the Latin and Greek Classics. London. Printed for R. Phillips...By T. Gillet, 1801. First edition. 8vo. x, 262pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Rubbed and marked, spine worn, boards held by cords only. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31815

[IRON PRODUCTION]. A Letter from a Merchant at Whitehaven to his Friend in London. [s.i., London?]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1730] Folio. 3pp, [1]. Docket title to verso of second leaf. Disbound, with slight chipping at gutter and extremities, old folds, slightly browned to extremities. Wax crayon numeral and ink paginations at head. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27281

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[IRISH TALES]. Popular irish stories; a collection of the most interesting tales and legends of ireland compiled from the best authors. Glasgow. Printed for the booksellers, 1850. 12mo. 24pp. Disbound. A trifle creased. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30927

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[IRISH POLITICS]. Some strictures on the conduct of administration during the session of parliament, that opened under charles, marquis cornwallis, on the 22d of January and closed on the 1st of June, 1799. Dublin. Printed by J. Milliken, 1800. First edition. 8vo. [2], 54pp. Uncut and unopened, stitched into original publisher's plain blue paper wrappers, as issued. Chipping to spine, some creasing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19003

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[IRELAND, William Henry]. Stultifera navis; Qua omnium mortalium narratur Stultitia. The modern ship of fools. Aere perennius. London. Printed for William Miller, 1807. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 295, 9pp. With a half-title, a hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece, and four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19710

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IRELAND, John B.. Wall-street to cashmere. A journal of five years in asia, africsa, and europe... New York. Published by S. A. Rollo & Co., 1859. First edition. 8vo. xvi, [3], 14-531pp, [1]. With a lithograph frontispiece, and additional lithograph title page, a double-page lithograph map, and 69 engraved plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, chipping to lower joint, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27861

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[IRELAND]. CARROLL, William Henry. A copious practical index to the several statutes enacted in the 33d, 35th, 37th, part of the 40th, 43d, 45th, 51st, and 57th years of king george III for the regulation of contested elections in ireland, as far as relate to the elections of members to serve in the imperial parliament for counties and cities only. Dublin. Printed by George Grierson and John Rowe Power, 1818. Second edition. 8vo. 254pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, slight loss to lettering-piece. Very occasional slight marginal chipping, overall internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17543

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[IRELAND AND THE IRISH UNION]. [A large collection of 51 pamphlets relating to Ireland, and the Irish Union with Great Britain, from the library of the Marquesses of Lothian at Newbattle Abbey]. [Dublin, Edinburgh and London]. [vs., 1789-1801] 51 volumes. Preserved in the original states; the vast majority stitched as issued, many uncut and in the original plain paper wrappers. More > £ 12,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 17706