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[DUKE OF WELLINGTON]. [Drop-head title:] To be given away! The Duke of Wellington, a whole-length portrait of the great warrior and statesman, representing him in his tent on the field of waterloo will be given to all purchasers of the new cheap london weekly newspaper, the magnet... [London]. Rogers, Printer, [1837]. Dimensions 200 x 120 mm. Single leaf broadside. Mounted on later paper. A trifle creased. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31396

DU MAURIER, George. Trilby: a novel. London. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895. First illustrated edition. 8vo. 447pp, [6]. With an illustrated frontispiece and 120 illustrations in the text by the author, and six final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Without dustwrapper. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of Mervyn Ll. Peel to verso of FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21476

DUNALLEY, Lord. Khaki and rifle green. London. Hutchinson & Co., [1940]. First edition. 8vo. 255, [1], 24pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Rubbed and soiled, edges spotted, dustwrapper worn and marked, with significant loss. Contemporary pencilled ownership inscription of Captain R. Ford to recto of FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22255

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DUNBAR, William. The poems of william dunbar, now first collected. With notes, and a memoir of his life. By david laing. Edinburgh. Printed for Laing and Forbes, 1834. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xiv, 71, [1], 255, [1]; [2], [v]-vi, 498pp. Without half-titles. Titles in red and black. Handsomely bound by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled olive-green morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Slightest of shelfwear, spines a little sunned, else an immaculate set. Armorial bookplates of T. M. Bruce Gardyne to FEPs. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 23496

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DUNCAN, [William Wallace]. Duncan on Investment and Speculation in Stocks and Shares. London. Effingham Wilson, 1895. Fifth edition. 8vo. [6], 227pp, [1]. Original publisher's embossed green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, top-edge a trifle dusty. Decorated endpapers, blank fly-leaves browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23101

[DUNDAS, Henry, Viscount Melville]. A full detail of the speech of Lord Viscount Melville, in the House of Commons, on the 11th June 1805. Edinburgh. Printed for Peter Hill, 1805. First edition. 8vo. [2], 64pp. Recent blue paper boards, printed paper title labels to spine and upper board. Neat ink numeral to head of dust-soiled title, occasional light foxing, short marginal tear to B6. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 11951

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DUNGLISON, Richard J.. The Public Medical Libraries of Philadelphia. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1871. First Edition. 8vo. 46pp. Original publisher's printed wraps. Slight marking and foxing to covers, occasionally to text, vertical creasing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 10416

DUNSANY, [Edward Plunkett], Lord. Patches of sunlight. London. William Heinemann, 1938. First edition, proof copy. 8vo. viii, 299pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Rubbing and chipping to spine, with some loss to head and foot, a trifle marked. Lightly foxed, overall internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 15186

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DURANT, Thomas. Memoirs and select remains of an only son, who died november 27, 1821, in his nineteenth year, while a student in the university of glasgow. London. Printed for T. Hamilton, 1822. Second edition. 12mo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xii, 226; [2], [v]-vi, 278pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind, brown calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, paper shelf-label to foot of Vol. I spine. Armorial bookplates of Jospeh Tasker to verso of both titles, bookplate Walter Wilson to FEP of Vol. II, small hole to gutter of Vol. I title. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 26383

DURRELL, Gerald M.. The overloaded ark. London. Faber & Faber, [1953]. First edition. 8vo. 238pp. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in blue, pictorial dustwrapper. A trifle cocked, slight surface loss to head of spine and lower board, dustwrapper rubbed, spine panel chipped and sunned. Endpapers lightly browned. Presentation copy, inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: 'With all best wishes / from / Gerald Durrell / 1953'. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 26089

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DUTHIE, J. F. Flora of the upper gangetic plain. And of the adjacent siwalik and sub-himalayan tracts. Dehra Dun. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 1973. 8vo. Three volumes bound as two. [2], xvii, [1], 500, v, [1]; [2], 266, 283pp, [1]. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrappers. Light shelf-wear, dustwrappers rubbed and creased, some chipping and very short tears. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23361

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DUVAL, Elizabeth W.. T. E. Lawrence: A bibliography. New York. Arrow Editions [The Spiral Press], [1938]. First edition, limited to 500 copies. 8vo. [2], 95pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's canvas-backed blue-black paper boards, lettered in black, glassine wrapper, housed in original publisher's brown card slipcase. A very fine copy. Slipcase a trifle marked and sunned, some splitting to joints, loss to foot. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 15378

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DYE, Frederick. Hot water supply. A practical treatise upon the fitting of hot water apparatus for domestic and general purposes. London. E. & F. N. Spon, 1906. Fifth edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 80pp. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13977

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DYMOND, Henry. Instructive narratives for young persons, members of the society of friends. London. Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1825. First edition. 12mo. iv, 163pp, [1]. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine sunned. Loss to foot of leaf N6 - touching text, without loss of sense, a trifle dusty. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28567

DYMOND, Henry. Instructive narratives for young persons, members of the society of friends. London. Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1825. First edition. 12mo. iv, 163pp, [1]. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP: Henry Birkbeck / from his aunt / Lydia A. Barclay', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28394

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[DYMOND, Jonathan]. An enquiry into the accordancy of war with the principles of christianity, and an examination of the philosophical reasoning by which it is defended: with observations on some of the causes of war, and on some of its effects. London. Published by Longman, Hurst, & Co., 1823. First edition. 8vo. 161pp, [1]. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, joints split, some loss to back-strip. Contemporary inked ownership inscription and later book-label of the Friend's Meeting House, Purley', to recto of FFEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29726

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EADIE, John [editor]. A new and complete concordance to the holy scriptures, on the basis of Cruden. London. William Wesley, 1865. Forty-forth edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 567pp, [1]. Contemporary black half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23221

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[EAST INDIA CIVIL SERVICE]. East India (Civil Services in India) Report of the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India. Dated 27th March, 1924. [Simla]. [Government of India Press], [1924]. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 181pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Heavily rubbed and marked, spine worn, several small worm-tracks. Inked ownership inscription and later coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32179

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EATON, Henry Storks. Report on the temperature and the rainfall of the Croydon district, 1881-85. [From the Transactions of the Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club, 1886]. London. West, Newman and Co., 1886. First offprint edition. 8vo. 36pp. Original publisher's orange printed paper wraps. Evidently disbound from a larger volume. Minor wear to extremities, ink shelf marks to upper wrap. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13421

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EDEN, Sir Frederick Morton. Eight letters on the peace; and on the commerce and manufactures of great britain. London. Printed for J. Wright, 1802. First edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 132pp. Recent gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed. Leaves toned and spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28963