Shop antiquarian books on “English Books – 1801 onwards”

LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1990]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some marking to top-edge, else clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21457

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[SOMERSET AUCTION]. Langford, somerset. To be Sold by Auction, at langford inn, on saturday, May 30, 1840...three freehold tenements... [Bristol]. Printed at the Bristol Mirror Office by John Taylor, [1840]. Dimensions 170 x 210 mm. Single leaf handbill, edges uncut. Very slightly creased. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21424

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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

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[SPOTTISWOODE & CO.]. [Caption title:] Messrs. spottiswoode & co.'s Annual Dinner at the old ship hotel, brighton, On saturday, july 6, 1867. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1867]. Dimensions 180 x 230 mm. Single leaf handbill. A trifle toned, three very short tears to margins. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21278

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ROSCOE, William. The life and pontificate of leo the tenth. London. Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Fifth edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xxxi, [1], 502; [2], 540pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and one further engraved plate. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled turquoise morocco, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, gilt device with motto 'Sunt sua praemia laudi' to boards, marbled edges. Marbled endpapers, slight foxing to plates, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 15149

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[MANUSCRIPT COMMONPLACE]. [Mid nineteenth-century manuscript commonplace book]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [c.1840]. Quarto. [36]ff and three inserted notes, remaining leaves blank. Finely bound in full red morocco, boards gilt with triple fillet, flat-spine in five compartments with central star-burst tool to each. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Rubbed to extremities. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 10216

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[MATHEMATICS]. Joseph White's 'Simple Rules', a Mid-Ninteenth Century Manuscript. [s.n.]. 1861. Quarto. 44ff. Manuscript on paper. Victorian melange paper backed marbled boards. Inscribed to FEP 'Joseph White's Book, July 15th 1861'. Amongst a wealth of purely numerical calculations under the headings 'Simple Rules' and 'Compound Rules', some 16 pages of problems are solved. Examples include: 'A man born in the year 1750 when will be 21 years of age', 'There are two numbers the least whereof is ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 9162

ROSCOE, Henry. The life of william roscoe. London. Printed for T. Cadell, 1833. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi, 501, [1]; [3], vi-xii, 491pp, [1]. Without half-titles. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume.Contemporary black half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, very occasional slight chipping to margins, else internally clean and crisp. With three signed letters tipped-in, in the hand of Robert, Thomas, and William Stanley Roscoe respectively, all creased and worn. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 15152

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CULLEN, Alex[ander]. Adventures in socialism: New Lanark establishment and Orbiston Community. Glasgow. John Smith and Son, Ltd., 1910. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 329pp, [1]. With half -title, four photogravure plates, and a folding lithographic plan. Title in red and black. Finely bound in contemporary red half-morocco, red cloth boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Minor wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to half title; 'With the author's compliments / Xmas. 1909 / Alex. Cullen'. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 15176

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[WOODWARD, Samuel]. The Barclay Tract in Pennsylvania: Surveyed & Described by Samuel Rhoads Jr. 1835. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1835]. Folio. Manuscript on paper. [2], 25pp, [2], with eight further blank leaves. With a hand-illustrated and coloured folding plan of the Barclay Tract. Contemporary red half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Later armorial bookplate of Henry Birkbeck to FEP, short tear to centre fold of map, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 16126

PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell. Life and labour in the old south. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo. xix, [1], 375pp, [1]. With half-title, a monochrome photographic frontispiece, 15 monochrome photographic plates, five illustrations in the text, and a folding map bound to rear. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and bumped. Extensive ink annotations throughout. A very good copy. From the library, though not identified as such, of British barrister Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen (1926-2016). More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 16758

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[OXFORD FREE PRESS COMPANY LIMITED]. Memorandum and articles for oxford newspaper. [Oxford]. [s.n.], [1857]. Large folio. Manuscript on parchment. [1], 23ff. Contemporary hard- grained, blind-ruled and gilt-decorated, brown morocco, titled in gilt to upper board, rebacked to style. Slightly rubbed to extremities. Marbled endpapers. With a single-leaf broadside advertisement/application form for the release of shares in same company, with three horizontal folds, loosely inserted. The official seal removed from the first leaf of the 'Memorandums of Association', that to the 'Articles ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18803

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[ORKNEY BOTANY]. [Manuscript letter regarding the botany of Orkney, addressed to Magnus Spence, Deerness, 1916]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1916]. Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [5] leaves, four written on one side only, the fifth on both. Recent red cloth, lettered in gilt. Armorial bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson to FEP, horizontal and vertical creases to all leaves. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 18941

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[ORKNEY]. [Probable estimate of cost of repairing damage done to Holm Pier by “SS” Fidget in service of Admiralty]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1916]. Manuscript on paper. [2]ff. Folded into ‘docket’ format, housed in recent custom red cloth folder, lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson to verso of upper board. Some light dust-soiling. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 18943

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FLOWER, Robin. The western island or the great blasket. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1973. 8vo. vi, [2], 141pp, [1]. With four full-page illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very slight shelf-wear, dustwrapper sunned. Illustrated endpapers, internally immaculate. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21247

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BIRTWISTLE, George. The principles of thermodynamics. Cambridge. At the University Press, 1925. First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 163pp, [1]. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Lightly spotted in places. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21240

[BRITISH ARMY]. A list of all the officers of the army and royal marines on full and half-pay: with an index: and a succession of colonels. [London]. [Printed by C. Roworth], [1806]. Fifty-fourth edition. 8vo. [4], 337, *337-*338, 338-846pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20613

MASON, A[braham] J[ohn]. Poetical essays. London. Printed for the Author, by W. Scars...and sold by T. Boys, 1822. First edition. 8vo. [8], 111pp, [1]. With 11 engraved illustrations in the text (including title page vignette), executed by the author, after designs by John Thurston, and a list of subscribers. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, recently rebacked, marbled edges. Boards heavily rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, inked ownership inscriptions of Andrew Fletcher Salton to verso of FFEP and head ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18026

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[CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY]. Cambridge prize poems: being a complete collection of the english poems which have obtained the chancellor's gold medal in the university of cambridge. London. Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1819. Second edition. 12mo. [6], 205pp, [3]. Title in red and black. With three final publisher's advertisement leaves. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn and marked, joints split, lower board and spine cracked, loss to head and foot, lettering-piece chipped. Foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21246

BELL, John. Observations on Italy. Naples. Printed by Fibreno, 1840. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. xx, 202, [2]; [2], 260pp, [2]. With two errata leaves. Contemporary (original?) gilt-tooled vellum. Extremities discoloured and a trifle rubbed. Recent inked annotation to Vol. I title, occasional light spotting/dust-soiling. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'To Mrs. Taylor / with every sentiment / of regard and esteem / from the Editor / Naples ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 20895