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Photo of "Path of the king"
BUCHAN, John. Path of the king. New York. George H. Doran Company, 1921. First American edition. 8vo. vii, [1] 11-290pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered red. Inscribed by Buchan on the FFEP 'Isabel Portman from John Buchan. This specimen of his later and worse manner', dated 1921. Boards a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly sunned. Internally bright and clean save light foxing to pastedowns. Loosely inserted in an invoice for both this and several other Buchan titles from Charles Rare ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 30592
Photo of "Poems scots and english"
BUCHAN, John. Poems scots and english. London and Edinburgh. T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1917. First edition. 8vo. [2], 106pp. Original publisher's dark purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Slight loss to lower corners of leaves E8 and F6. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'My dear Isabel / Here are the slender / poetical works of your ancient / friend / The Colonel / Aug:1917'. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 30593
Photo of "Sick heart river"
BUCHAN, John. Sick heart river. London. Hodder and Stoughton, 1941. First edition. 8vo. 317pp. Original publisher's gilt-tooled green cloth boards, blind-stamped to front, with the original pictorial unclipped dustwrapper. Spine a trifle cocked, boards a little rubbed with some wear to the front hinge. Internally bright save light toning, with the ownership plate of Alfred Pounder to the front pastedown, penned red. Dustwrapper is bright with some light losses, a nick to the spine, top and bottom edge ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30641
Photo of "Poems scots and english"
BUCHAN, John. Poems scots and english. London. T. C. & E. C. Jack, Limited, 1917. First edition. 8vo. 106pp. Original publisher's gilt-tooled dark purple cloth boards, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Boards rubbed and marked, corners bumped, spine sunned. Contemporary penciled gift inscription to FFEP, and under an inked ownership signature. Internally bright and clean throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30644
Photo of "Oliver cromwell"
BUCHAN, John. Oliver cromwell. London. Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. First edition. 8vo. 554pp. With a half-title and 10 maps. Extra-illustrated with 12 engraved/photographic portrait plates. Bound by Bayntun of Bath in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, red cloth boards, T.E.G. A clean and crisp copy. W. A. Foyle's copy, with his morocco bookplate to FEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33780
Photo of "In the line"
BUCHER, Georg. In the line. London. Jonathan Cape, 1932. First English edition. 8vo. 325pp. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered in black, with the unclipped printed dustwrapper. A few stains and marks to boards, wrapper a little toned with minor water marks. Unusually for Williamson's war memoirs, the book is neither annotated or otherwise marked, save a crude pencil sketch of a male face on the FFEP. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27165
Photo of "Catalogue of the library of ..."
[BUCKMINSTER, Rev. J. S.]. Catalogue of the library of the late rev. j. s. buckminster. Boston. Printed by John Eliot, Jun., 1812. First edition. 8vo. 66pp, [4]. Disbound, calf remnants to spine. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. Initial gathering working-loose, early gift inscription to head of title, page numerals altered in manuscript, intermittent manuscript prices, manuscript list of books to verso of terminal blank leaf, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22499
Photo of "Lyrics from the song-books of ..."
BULLEN, A. H.. Lyrics from the song-books of the elizabethan age. London. John C. Nimmo, 1887. First edition, limited edition (number 149 of 500 copies printed). 8vo. [4], xxx, [2], 200pp, [4]. Original publisher's brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed, historic water damage to lower board. Discolouration to endpapers. Inscribed to Edward Brooke from his brother Stopford Brooke, with his initials. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32051
Photo of "Miscellaneous poems"
B[ULLOCK], J[ames] T[rower]. Miscellaneous poems. London. Edward West, 1852. First edition. 8vo. viii, 128pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32290
Photo of "Retrospections; a soldier's story"
[BUNBURY, Selina]. Retrospections; a soldier's story. Dublin. William Curry, Jun. and Co., 1829. First edition. 12mo. 294pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30076
Photo of "The Slave Trade, and other ..."
BURBIDGE, John. The Slave Trade, and other poems. London. J.H. Jackson, 1847. First edition. 8vo. [2], 24pp. Original publisher's green cloth over card boards. A little rubbed and marked, some damp-staining to endpapers and preliminaries, hinges starting. Light spotting to text. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Louisa Sarah Laufear from Dear Mrs Burbidge, Thursday Sept. 2nd 1847' to head of title. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 17539
Photo of "Poems"
BURGESS, Henry. Poems. London. Benjamin L. Green, 1850. First edition. 8vo. viii, 114pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly marked, spine a trifle dulled. Scattered spotting. Inked ownership inscription to head of title: 'M. L. Burgess, Hollowell Vicarage', presumably Mary Burgess (d. 1896), the author's granddaughter. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27718
Photo of "The navy league annual: 1908-1909. ..."
BURGOYNE, Alan H. [editor]. The navy league annual: 1908-1909. (Corrected to October 10th, 1908). London. The Navy League, 1908. First edition. Quarto. 277pp, [1]. With a frontispiece, a further 19 plates, and eight ship plans in the text. Original publisher's presentation binding of gilt-stamped red roan, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'With the Editor's compliments and thanks'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29644
Photo of "A philosophical enquiry into the ..."
BURKE, Edmund. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful with an introductory discourse concerning taste; and several other additions.. London. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812. New edition. 8vo. xi, [5], 342pp. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-decorated straight-grain burgundy morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Armorial ink-stamp of the Seale family to recto of RFEP. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34642
Photo of "Expository notes, with Practical Observations, ..."
BURKITT, William. Expository notes, with Practical Observations, on the new testament off our lord and saviour jesus christ... Liverpool. Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, 1809. Forty-first edition. Quarto. 1249 [i.e. 1251]pp, [1]. Predominantly printed in double columns. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 11 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to lower corner of upper board. Late nineteenth-century inked ownership inscription of J. E. Strangways to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 17448
Photo of "History of the water supply ..."
BURNET, John. History of the water supply to glasgow, from the Commencement of the Present Century... Glasgow. Printed by Bell & Bain, 1869. First edition. 8vo. viii, 184pp. With three folding lithographed maps and a folding lithographed diagram. Unopened. Bound by R. Nelson of Glasgow in original publisher's blind-stamped brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Ticket of Glaswegian bookseller Hugh Hopkins to FEP. Scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33271
Photo of "Poems on Various Subjects"
BURNET, Thomas. Poems on Various Subjects. Edinburgh. Printed by Oliver & Co, 1802. First edition. 12mo in 6s. [iii]-xx, 115pp, [1]. With extra-engraved title page, without half-title. Contemporary half-sheep-backed marbled paper boards. Rubbed, with some loss to foot of spine. Foxing and occasional soiling throughout, tears to gutter margin of preliminaries, FFEP and frontispiece detached. William St Clair's copy, with his pencilled inscription to FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31801