Shop antiquarian books on “English Books – 1801 onwards”

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[STOKER, Bram]. The american "tramp" question and the old english vagrancy laws [article in - The north american review]. New York. The North American Review Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. Large 8vo. [16], 576-720, [6]pp. Original publisher's blue wrappers, lettered in blue, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. A little marked and faded, some tearing, with small losses to spine. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 30777

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[STOKER, Bram]. Our new house [the theatre annual]. London. Carson & Comerford, 1895. First edition. Large 8vo. 34pp, [6]. Original publisher's decorative colour wrappers, staple bound, with contemporary cloth repair to spine. Cloth detaching, wrappers marked and stained with some losses to the edges. Internally bright, with contemporary monochrome advertising throughout, and the original perforated subscription slips intact. Colour advertising bound in at rear. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31011

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BRITTEN, Frederick James. Old clocks and watches and their makers. London. E. & F. N. Spon Limited, 1932. Sixth edition. 8vo. viii, 891pp. With a frontispiece and 934 illustrations in the text. Bound by Bumpus of Oxford in navy morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Spine a little chipped and worn, boards lightly rubbed. Upper hinge starting, otherwise internally bright and clean. From the library of Laurence Olivier, without any indication of such. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31085

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[MARSHALL, Frank]. Henry irving, actor and manager: a criticism of a critic's criticism. by an irvingite.. London. George Routledge, 1883. First edition. 8vo. 80pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered back, with the publisher's device blindstamped to the lower board. A little shaken, a trifle cocked, with 'Frank Marshall' pencilled on the title page below 'An Irvingite'. Early ownership inscription to the top of the title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31093

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[COMBE, William]. The tour of doctor syntax, In Search of the Picturesque. A poem. [London]. [Printed by J. Diggens], [1812]. Second edition. 8vo. 276, [2], 4pp. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, a hand-coloured engraved title page, 29 hand-coloured engraved plates from etchings by Thomas Rowlandson, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, horizontal tear to leaf U4 - touching text without loss - occasional short tears to plates, advertisement leaves shaved, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31003

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[DEVONSHIRE]. The Two Widecombe Tracts, 1638 giving a Contemporary Account of the great Storm, reprinted with an introduction. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1905. vi, [4], 37pp.

[Bound with:] Richard Peek of Tavistock: His three to one, The Commendatory Verses and the Play of dick of devonshire. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1905. [4], x, 100pp.

[And:] CLAYDEN, Arthur W. The history of devonshire scenery: an essay in Geographical Evolution. Exeter. James G. Commin, 1906. [6], 202pp. With a photogrpahic frontispiece and a further 42 photographic plates.

[And:] An Old ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31020

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MIKSCHE, Captain F. O. Is bombing decisive? A Study in the organisation and tactical employment of modern air fleets. London. George Allen & Unwin, [1943]. First edition. 8vo. 101pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth-backed yellow paper boards, pictorial dustwrapper. Rubbed and sunned, dustwrapper worn and marked, with substantial loss. Internally clean and crisp. Family copy, inscribed by the author to his daughter on half-title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30668

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[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS]. [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign 1801. London. Printed by A. Strahan, [1801]. 12mo. 253pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, recently rebacked, black morocco lettering-piece. Boards heavily rubbed, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31014

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LAMBERT, Joseph. Observations on the rural affairs of ireland; or a practical treatise on farming, planting and gardening... Dublin. William Curry, Jun. and Co., 1829. First edition. 8vo. [2], xxii, [2], 327pp, [1]. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisement and a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, joints starting, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30938

HAMS, Lieut.-Col. H. A. The Post Office of India in the Great War. Bombay. The Time Press, 1922. First edition. Quarto. [6], viii, 430pp. With a half-title, a photographic frontispiece, and numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Later gilt-tooled half-calf, red cloth boards. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, leaves browned, small worm-tracks running throughout - touching text in places without loss of sense, occasional ink and blind stamps of the Elphinstone College Library, Bombay. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31018

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CLARKE, T. H. The domestic architecture of the reigns of queen elizabeth and james the first illustrated by a series of views of English Mansions, with brief historical and descriptive accounts of each subject. London. Priestley and Weale, 1833. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 24, [2], 2pp. With 20 lithographed plates, two wood-cut illustrations in the text, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth boards, modern calf spine, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Boards rubbed and marked. Recent bookplate of Josceline Grove to FEP, modern typed bookseller's description tipped-in to FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 30999

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[POOR RELIEF]. A plan suggested for mature consideration, for superseding the necessity of the poor rates, by means of cottage acres, and farms, turned Leaven Farms; thus denominated from the intended benefits likely to result from its pervading the whole mass. [s.n.]. [s.i.], 1817. 8vo. [2], 219-233pp. Modern cloth-backed marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Very minor shelf-wear. Leaves lightly toned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31021

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GREEN, William. Plans of economy; or, The Road to ease and independence. London. Printed for I. Hatchard, 1803. Fifth edition. 12mo. 80pp. Uncut in contemporary (original?) marbled paper boards, later rebacked and recornered. Boards rubbed and dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31012

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GILDEA, Colonel Sir James. Historical record of the work of the soldiers' and sailors' families association from 1885 to 1916. London. Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 318pp. With a photographic plate. Original publisher's blue, red, and white calf in Union Flag design, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31000

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MARRYAT, Captain [Frederick]. The mission: or, scenes in africa. Written for young people. London. George Bell & Sons, 1884. New edition. 8vo. viii, 446pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further seven engraved plates. Bound by Mundie in contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30998

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BAGGULEY, W. Hildon. Descriptive catalogue of the books in the Central Lending and Reference Libraries of the g.w.r. institution, swindon. 1908. Swindon. Morris Bros., 1907. First edition?. Quarto. x, 529pp, [1]. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine dulled, a trifle cocked. Title page creased. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 29981

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[BENT, William]. The london catalogue of books, with their sizes and prices. Corrected to august MDCCCXI. London. Printed [by G. Woodfall] for W. Bent, 1811. 8vo. 239pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-ruled half-sheep, marbled boards. Extremities heavily worn, upper board detached. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencil ownership inscription and brief bibliographical notes to FEP. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 30808

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MILLET, A. F. Report on the settlement of the land revenue of the sultánpur district. Lucknow. Printed at the Oudh Government Press, 1873. First edition. 8vo. [2], 12, ii, iv, [4], 247, [3], 18, 12, xlvi, xvii pp, [1]. Contemporary green cloth. Extremities rubbed and wormed. Book-label of Allahabad-based advocate Pandit Sundar Lal to FEP, FFEP detached, ink-stamp of the Board of Revenue, Fort William, Calcutta to initial page of text, several leaves working-loose, worm-trails throughout, primarily marginal, though touching text at times without loss of sense. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30900

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DARLING, James. Catalogue of books belonging to Sir William Heathcote, baronet, at Hursley Park, in the county of southampton. [London]. James Darling, Bookseller, 22 little Queen Stret. Lincolns Inn Fields, 1834. First edition. Quarto. viii, 154pp, [2]. With terminal blank. Original publisher's blind-tooled green textured cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Rubbed, with spine panel lacking the top half, and the remainder split from lower joint, bumping to corners and slightly, slightly marked. Ink-staining to fore- edge. Presentation copy, inscribed to 'The Honble. Mr Justice Coleridge' at Hursley in 1839, by William Heathcote to verso of FFEP. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 24960

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[LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN]. A catalogue of valuable and rare Old Books, including many superb works, illustrated by numerous prints, offered to the public at the prices affixed to each, by longman, hurst, rees, orme, and brown, paternoster-row, london. [London?]. [s.n.], [1814]. Quarto. In six parts, [2], 23; 20; 41; 28; [29-]80; [21]. Contemporary sprinkled half-calf, marbled boards, later rebacked preserving contemporary back-strip, all edges red. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting.

Comprising: [1] A catalogue of very curious and rare books, in uncommon fine condition, and the greater part in handsome bindings (May 7th, 1813; 396 lots); [2] A catalogue of rare, curious and valuable books, many of ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 21082