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[ROSCOE, William - Imitations]. [DORSET, Catharine Ann Turner]. A LADY. The lion's masquerade. A sequel to the peacock at home. London. Printed for J. Harris, 1807. First edition. 16pp. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and a further five hand-coloured engraved plates. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's blue pictorial stiff-paper wrappers. Extremities heavily worn and creased. Early pen-trials to verso of upper wrapper, chipping to plates margins with occasional later paper repairs, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22586
[OXFORD]. A new pocket companion for Oxford ... with a plan of the university and city, and ... other plates.. Oxford. Printed for J. Cooke, near the Clarendon Printing-House, 1809. New edition. 12mo. 164pp. With an initial large folding plan of the university and city, and eight further engraved plates. Original publisher's powder blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, wrappers toned, with losses to spine and smaller losses to wrapper corners, chipping to edges. Recent bookseller's ticket of H.V. Day of Dorchester to foot of FEP. Leaves lightly browned, very light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22648
MACERONE, Francis. Defensive instructions for the people: containing the new and improved combination of arms, called foot lancers; miscellaneous instructions on the subject of small arms and ammunition, street and house fighting, and field fortification. London. Printed and published by J. Smith, [1832]. First edition. 8vo. 8, 72pp. With a folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, a further four folding lithographed colour plates, and an engraved folding plan. Original publisher's cloth-backed buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, marked, and bumped, early inked ownership inscription to upper board, corners exposed. Offsetting to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22765
COWARD, Noël. The Noël Coward Song Book. London. Michael Joseph, 1953. First British edition. Quarto. 314pp, [2]. With a frontispiece portrait by Clemence Dane and numerous illustrations by Gladys Calthrop in the text. Original publisher's two-tone cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper a trifle marked, chipping and short tears to spine and edges. Signed by Coward to title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23085
COWARD, Noël. Present indicative. London. William Heinemann, 1937. First edition. 8vo. [8], 431pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a further 30 photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. pictorial dustwrapper. Rubbed and sunned, corners bumped, dustwrapper heavily worn and marked, upper panel and front flap detached, substantial loss to spine panel. Endpapers browned, contemporary inked ownership inscription to FEP. Signed by Coward on title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23090
COWARD, Noël. Point Valaine: A Play in Three Acts. New York. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First American edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 117pp, [1]. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, lettered in black, printed paper dustwrapper. Rubbed and sunned, dustwrapper chipped and marked. Signed by Coward to recto of FFEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23091
MOORE, Thomas. Lalla Rookh, an oriental romance. London. Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838. Nineteenth edition. 8vo. viii, 397pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, and additional engraved title page, and a further 11 engraved plates. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf in later gilt-tooled brown morocco, T.E.G. Spine lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to FEP, plates and engraved title page foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23113
BROWNING, Robert. The poetical works of Robert Browning. London. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1907. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, 748; vii, [1], 786pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume. Bound by Bumpus in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, marbled boards, A.E.G. Spines lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to both FEPs. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23115
[MACKAY, Charles]. A thousand and one gems of English poetry. London. George Routledge and Sons, 1881. 8vo. iv, 538pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further eight engraved plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to FEP, inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, lightly foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23122
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
HILLARY, Edmund, Sir. DOIG, Desmond. Expedicion al Himalaya (En busca del fabuloso Yeti, el "Abominable Hombre de las Nieves"). Buenos Aires. Editorial de Ediciones Selectas S. R. L., [1964]. 8vo. 336pp. With numerous monochrome photographic illustrations. Original publisher's grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Light rubbing/bumping to extremities, dustwrapper heavily worn, separated into component panels/flaps, with some browned naive tape repairs. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. Flat signed by Sir Edmund Hillary to title page. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23425
RUSSELL, Scott. Mountain prospect. London. Chatto & Windus, 1946. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 247pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 46 photographic illustrations, and seven sketch maps in the text. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper sunned and a trifle chipped. bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, ink-stamp of A. J. Escott bookseller, Hastings (New Zealand) and contemporary ownership inscription of W. G. Lowe to recto of FFEP. Presentation copy, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23433
MURRAY, W. H.. The story of Everest. London. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1953. Second edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 195pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 23 photographic plates, and fourteen maps and diagrams in the text by Robert Anderson. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, edges foxed, dustwrapper a trifle creased, chipped, and spotted. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, pencilled gift inscription, from Tony Astin to Lowe, to ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23437
SHACKLETON, Ernest, Sir. Mon Expedition au Sud Polaire 1914-1917. Tours. Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, [1924]. First edition in French. Quarto. 380pp, [2]. With numerous black and white illustrations from photographs in the text, and two maps (one folding). Original publisher's pictorial green cloth, A.E.G. Worn, lower hinge exposed, text-block separating from binding - held by front pastedown only, lightly rubbed and sunned. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23452
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The poetical works of dante gabriel rossetti. London. Ellis, 1907. New edition in one volume. 8vo. xxxi, 380pp. With an engraved frontispiece of the author. Handsomely bound by Cornish Brothers of Birmingham (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary red crushed-morocco, blind-ruled and lettered in gilt to spine, with further gilt-tooling to marbled endpapers. A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Inked ownership inscription of Alice Evelyn Letchford to first blank fly-leaf. Endpapers toned to edges, light spotting to initial leaves. A fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23460