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[NAWORTH AND LANERCOST]. A guide to naworth and lanercost: or, historical & descriptive accounts of naworth castle & lanercost priory; and a life of the lord william howard.. Carlisle. Samuel Jefferson, 1839. First edition. 8vo. [6], 74pp. With an engraved frontispiece and several engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Heavily rubbed and marked, loss to lettering-piece, corners exposed. Bookseller's ticket of W. & J. Bell of Newcastle to FEP, evidence of armorial bookplate removal to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34567

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[NAVAL PAY]. An Appeal to His Majesty, Both Houses of Parliament, and the People of the United Kingdom, against a Late Rejection of the Petition of the Captains of the Royal Navy, for an Augmentation of Pay By Lord Mulgrave.... London. Published By C. Chapple..., 1809. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 49pp, [1]. Recent blue paper boards. Ink inscription of J.D. Thomson, presumably John Deas Thomson (1763-1838), Accountant-General to the Royal Navy, to slightly soiled title. Small hole to text caused by wax spill to D1, without loss of sense. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 9954

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[NAVAL ANNUITANT SOCIETY]. 1825. Collins's memoranda, or daily register for Appointments, Bills due, Remarkable Occurences, &c... London. Printed and published by the proprietors Chalrs Collins and Co., [1825]. Quarto. 68pp. Original publisher's green roan-backed drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, loss to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20008

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[NAVAL]. The naval and military magazine Vol I[-II]. London. T. Clerc Smith, 1827. Second Edition. 8vo. First two volumes only. viii, 672pp. [3], 722pp. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I one depicting 'The Duke of York, Commander in Chief' and an engraved plate to Vol. II showing 'His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral'. Later blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spines. Marginal tears to Vol, I at p.179-180, p.381-382, p.389-390 - in no instance touching text, browning to titles ... More > £ 225.00 Antiquates Ref. 12195

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[NAUTICAL MAGAZINE]. The nautical magazine; and naval chronicle, for august, 1837. London. John Murray, [1837]. 8vo. 8, [1], 498-568pp. With an engraved folding plate. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher’s printed blue wrappers. Rubbed and creased, some loss to spine. Scattered spotting, plate browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22356

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[NAUTICAL MAGAZINE]. Supplement to the nautical magazine…December, 1833. No 22. Vol. II. London. Printed by Fisher, Son, & Co., [1833]. 8vo. [1], 754-756pp, [32]. With two engraved plates (one folding), and an engraved general title page for the second volume of the magazine. Original publisher’s pictorial blue wrappers. A trifle creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22347

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[NATURAL PHILOSOPHY]. Elements of natural philosophy, arranged under the following heads: Matter and Motion, The Universe, The Solar System, The Fixed Stars, The Earth considered as a Planet, The Atmosphere, Meteors, Springs, Rivers, and the Sea, Fossils, Plants, Animals, The Human Frame, and the human understanding. Belfast. Printed by Joseph Smyth, 1812. First edition?. 12mo. iv, 161pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary sheep, gilt. Extremities worn and marked, lower board later restored to style, splitting to spine and joints. Ownership inscription to recto of FFEP; 'James J. Adams / January 14 1845', occasional slight marginal loss, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17423

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NARES, Rear Admiral J. D. Bhavnagar state: final hydrographic report on the approaches to bhavnagar. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1932]. Folio. [4], 11pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Lightly rubbed, a trifle marked, ink-stamp of the Manager & Engineer-in-Chief's Office, Port Department, and ink shelf-mark to upper wrapper. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31571

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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Drop-head title:] Memorandum of swedish troops arrived at stralsund. [London]. Printed by R. G. Clarke, [1813]. Dimensions 190 x120 mm. Single slip sheet. Clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31847

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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Drop-head title:] Substance of the Engagements between the Courts of St. Petersburgh and Stockholm, signed at St. Petersburgh the 24th of March 1812, so far as the same are referred to it the Treaty between His Majesty and the King of Sweden, signed at Stockholm on the 3d of March 1813. London. Printed by R. G. Clarke, [1813]. Dimensions 180 x 330 mm. Single leaf broadside. Old central horizontal fold. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30122

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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign, 1806. [London]. [Printed by T. R. Harrison], [1806]. 8vo. [2], 212pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, slight loss to head of spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30721

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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. Bulletins of the campaign, 1805. [London]. [s.n.], [1805]. 8vo. 203pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30169

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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. The Duke of Shoreditch; or, *barlow's ghost. London. Printed by T. Maiden, for J. Asperne, [1803]. Dimensions 260 x 430 mm. Single leaf broadside. Central horizontal fold, creased, chipping to edges, several paper repairs to verso. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 17456

[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign, 1804. [London]. [Printed by T. R. Harrison], [1804]. 8vo. [2], 264pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, slight loss to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30722

[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign, 1803. [London]. [s.n.], 1803. 8vo. 109pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30690

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[NAPOLEON]. [Drop-head title:] Under the patronage of her most gracious majesty, his royal highness prince albert, &c. Royal surrey zoological gardens, The summer season at this Favourite place of Fashionable Resort will commence on monday, may 13th, 1850, tuesday, 14th, wednesday, 15th, thursday, 16th and be continued on each of those days throughout the Season. First representation of an entirely new-modelled dioramic picture, representing the passage of the alps by napoleon & his army, the largest picture in the world... [London]. J. W. Peel, [1850]. Dimensions 450 x 290 mm. Single leaf broadside. Central old vertical fold, two old horizontal folds. A trifle dampstained. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30476

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[NAPLES]. HOLMES, Daniel. Psalms hymns and canticles as appointed to be sung in the british chapel at naples. [Naples]. [s.n.], 1850. 8vo. vi, [2]pp, 72ff. The main body of the text with printed music to versos, and libretti to rectos. Contemporary (perhaps original) purple cloth, gilt, titled to spine and upper board. Marbled endpapers. Marked (with some remains of what is presumably candle wax to lower board), slightly faded and rubbed, small wormhole at the head of spine, bumping to corners. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 23584

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NAPIER, Mark. [Drop-head title:] On the progress and prospects of science in scotland at the close of the sixteenth and commencement of the seventeenth centuries, as compared with the same at cambridge a century later... [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], [1856]. 42pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'To the Lord Napier / from his affectionate cousin / the Author'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23492

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NAPIER, Lieut.-Gen. Sir William. English battles and sieges in the peninsula. London. John Murray, 1879. New edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 469pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Handsome contemporary Hillbrow School, Rugby prize binding of gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros to upper board, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16490

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[NAPIER, John]. WALLACE, William. [Drop-head title:] On the Burial Place of John Napier of Merchiston, the Inventor of Logarithms. [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], [1831]. Quarto. 4pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of p[1]: 'To the Right Hon. Lord Napier / From W. Wallace'. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 23491