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Photo of "Rough sketches of bath, and ..."
BAYLY, Thomas. Rough sketches of bath, and Other Poems. London. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. Fifth edition. 12mo. [2], 127pp, [1]. With half-title. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn, surface loss to cracked spine, chipping to lettering-piece, upper board held by single cord only, lower joint split. Recent bookplate of the Bath Public Reference Library to FEP, occasional ink-stamps, half-title very nearly detached, later ink ownership inscription to head of title-page, lightly foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16870
Photo of "The French Revolution of 1830. ..."
BAYLEY, F[rederick] W[illiam] N[aylor]. The French Revolution of 1830. A Comic Poem. London. Alfred Miller, 1830. First edition. 12mo. [2], 24pp. With half-title, an engraved portrait frontispiece and two engraved plates. Stitched in original publisher's printed paper wraps. Slight chipping to spine, spots of marking and foxing, very small worm-hole to lower cover passing through a majority of the text-block - in no instance touching text. Light offsetting, occasional foxing and creasing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 14690
Photo of "Official reports on the province ..."
BATTEN, J[ohn] H[allet]. Official reports on the province of kumaon, with a medical report on the mahamurree in general, in 1849-50. Agra. Printed at the Secundra Orphan Press, 1851. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 467pp, [1]. With a hand-coloured engraved folding map. Contemporary blue cloth. Worn and marked. Multiple worm-tracks to extremities, continuing throughout text-block, upper hinge exposed, upper board held in place by cords only, pencilled shelf-marks to title page, significant portion of the map torn-away and now missing. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28123
Photo of "The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of "illustrious ..."
BATES, William. The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of "illustrious literary characters" With memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century. London. Chatto and Windus, 1883. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 540pp. With 85 plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled papers boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, Bookplate of Alfred de Rothschild to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 31665
Photo of "The convict ships 1787-1868"
BATESON, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. Glasgow. Brown, Son & Ferguson, [1959]. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 355pp. With a photographic frontispiece and 19 further photographic plates. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with original publisher's pictorial dust-wrapper. A trifle rubbed, dust-wrapper price-clipped, chipped and worn at edges. Light spotting to edges, a touch of staining to front endpapers. With a loosely inserted autographed telegram letter from the author to Captain G. E. Parkes. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34526
Photo of "Fair stood the wind for ..."
BATES, H. E.. Fair stood the wind for france. London. Michael Joseph Limited, 1944. First edition. 8vo. 224pp. Original publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, with the A. E. Barlow dustwrapper. Spine cocked and faded with other markings, with some wear and staining to wrapper, with old repairs to verso. Pencil inscription '[heart] for Precious May' and underneath in ink '& also a word from the author: in memory of a very happy evening in July 1950,. H. E. Bates.' More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26592
Photo of "A supplement to The General ..."
BATEMAN, J[oseph]. A supplement to The General Turnpike Road Act, of 3 GEO. IV. CAP. 126... London. Printed for the Associated Law Booksellers, and sold by A. Maxwell et al., 1823. First edition. 8vo. [2], 126pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece and two final advertisement leaves. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Lightly marked, head of spine worn, slight splitting to upper joint. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20418
Photo of "The king of the snakes ..."
BASKERVILLE, Mrs George [Rosetta]. The king of the snakes and other folk-lore stories from uganda. London. The Sheldon Press, 1922. First edition. 8vo. [2] viii, 88pp, with frontispiece and three further illustrative plates inserted. Original publisher's illustrated boards with the corresponding design on the dustwrapper. Minor foxing to all edges, internally bright and clean; a fine copy in the rare dustwrapper. Pencil ownership to front flap, repeated with 'xmas 1925' to FFEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28840
Photo of "Selections from the poems and ..."
BARTON, Bernard. Selections from the poems and letters of bernard barton. Edited by his daughter. London. Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1849. First edition. 8vo. [28], xxxvi, 363pp, [1]. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece, three engraved plates, a list of subscribers, and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, early armorial bookplate to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32240
Photo of "Napoleon, and other poems"
BARTON, Bernard. Napoleon, and other poems. London. Printed for Thomas Boys, 1822. First edition. 8vo. xv, [3], 256pp. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, joints starting, loss to spine, lettering-piece chipped, corners bumped. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29256
Photo of "Poetic vigils"
BARTON, Bernard. Poetic vigils. London. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First edition. 8vo. 12, [2], xii, 308pp. With an initial publisher's advertisement catalogue and two final leaves of advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities worn, upper joint split. Recent bookplate of Percival F. Hinton to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19065
Photo of "Memoirs of the naval worthies ..."
BARROW, John. Memoirs of the naval worthies of queen elizabeth's reign; of their gallant deeds, daring adventures, and services, in the infant state of the british navy... London. John Murray, 1845. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 495pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed, occasional spotting, contemporary bookplate of William Morris Reade to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'William Morris Reade, from his sincere friend, Horace Andrew Walpole; on his leaving Eton: Easter, 1847'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21952
Photo of "An edinburgh eleven. Pencil Portraits ..."
BARRIE, J. M. An edinburgh eleven. Pencil Portraits from College Life. London. Office of the"British Weekly", 1889. First edition. 12mo. 115pp, [5]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Unopened in original publisher's tan cloth. Housed in modern black morocco-backed blue cloth slipcase. A trifle marked, spine slightly dulled, else a clean and crisp copy. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32205
Photo of "Memoirs of harriot, duchess of ..."
BARON-WILSON, Mrs. Cornwell. Memoirs of harriot, duchess of st. albans. London. Henry Colburn, 1839. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, 362; vii, 354pp. Extra-illustrated with 75 engraved plates (predominantly portraits). With a loosely inserted playbill advertising the staging of The Rivals at Drury Lane in 1803, with Harriot performing. Newspaper clippings relating to her life and an ALS and remnants of a manuscript note in the hand of Thomas Coutts pasted to rear blank fly-leaves of Vol. II. Bound by Ramage ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 31062
Photo of "The Swordbearers: Studies in Supreme ..."
BARNETT, Correlli. The Swordbearers: Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War. London. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. First edition. 8vo. 386pp, [2]. With numerous photographic illustrations. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed. Later gilt supralibros of Windsor Grammar School to upper board. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Field Marshal Slim to FEP beneath the inked calligraphic inscription: 'FIELD-MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT SLIM, K.G. / WINDSOR GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS / 22 APRIL 1964'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25840
Photo of "Notes on ancient britain and ..."
BARNES, William. Notes on ancient britain and the britons. London. John Russell Smith, 1858. First edition. 8vo. viii, 167, [1], 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped olive green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and dulled. Upper hinge exposed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title: 'Charles Hall Esq. / With the Author's kind / regards.' More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28779