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[SWISS EDUCATION]. [Caption title:] Le grand-conseil de la république de berne, Considérant que la faculté d'enseigner est déclarée libre par l'art. 12 de la Constitution; Considérant que néanmoins, d'après le même article; cette faculté est soumise à des restrictions légales, afin d'apporter le soin convenable à l'éducation et à l'instruction de la jeunesse... [Berne]. [s.n.], [1832]. Dimensions 390 x 460 mm. Single leaf broadside. Numerous old horizontal and vertical folds. Apparently unrecorded.

[Bound with:] Loi sur les écoles primaires publiques. Berne. C. Fisher et Comp., 1835. [2], 46pp. OCLC records a single copy (Fribourg).

[And:] Règlement concernant les leçons d'ouvrages dans les écoles primaires des filles. [Berne]. [s.n.], [1840]. 8pp. OCLC records copies at just two locations (Cantonal Library of Jura and ZFH).

[And:] Loi sur ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 17030

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LUCAN. M. annaei lucani pharsalia, sive, de bello civili caesaris et pompeii libri x. Londini. Excudebat Richardus Field, 1618. 8vo. [12], 291pp, [1]. With an engraved folding map depicting Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa. Later blind-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Joints rubbed. Upper hinge exposed, occasional inked/pencilled underlining, gathering I-K protruding slightly from text-block, very light damp-staining to lower corner. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 14802

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[LACEMAKING]. [A Portuguese manuscript treatise on pillow-lace]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [50]ff. Illustrated with several hand-drawn diagrams. Contemporary marbled paper wrapper. Extremities chipped, rubbed and marked. Very occasional short marginal tears, else internally clean and crisp.

Incipit: 'Utesilios cabello, e modo de o preparas & Para farer obras de cabello saio precisos diverso utensilios de que vou farer descripcao.'

Explicit: 'Sendo o tecido dos arcos se lhe metlem os moldes que divem seer ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 14073

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LOTTIN, Augustin-Martin. Précis pour Le Sieur Augustin Martin Lottin, l'aîné, Imprimeur-Libraire du Roi & de la Ville, Appellant d'une Sentence rendue au Châtelet de Paris, le 21 Mars 1777. [Paris]. [de l'imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné], [1777]. Quarto. 12pp. Stitched, as issued. Title stains to outer margin, lightly browned, occasional spotting. Contemporary manuscript annotations to title. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 12581

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[CHARLES I]. Histoire entiere & veritable du procez de charles stuart, Roy D'Angleterre. Contenant, en forme de Journal, tout ce qui s'est passe sur ce sujet dans le Parlement, & en la Haute Cour de Justice; Et la facon en laquelle il a este mis a mort. Au mois de Janvier 1649/8. Le tout fidelement receuilly des pieces Authentiques, & traduit de l'Anglois. A Londres [i.e. London]. Imprimé par J[ohn] G[rismond], 1650. 12mo. [2], 155pp, [1]. Without initial blank leaf. Handsomely bound in eighteenth-century gilt-tooled red morocco, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Very slightly rubbed, spine a little marked; else a fine copy. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33907

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[SACHEVERELL, Henry]. [Drop-head title:] A remarkable speech Of one of the Learned council against Doctor sacheverell. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1710]. Quarto. Single bifolium. 3pp, [1]. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32763

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SATTLER, Albert. Verzeichniss verkäuflicher münzen und medaillen von alb. sattler in basel. [Darmstadt]. [Buchdruckerei von G. Otto], 1870. 8vo. 66pp. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Without lower wrapper. Upper wrapper rubbed and marked. Short tears to gutter running throughout text-block. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32591

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[DOPPET, François Amédée]. Oraison funebre de célebre mesmer, Auteur du Magnétisme Animal, & Président de la Loge de l'Harmonie. Grenoble. [s.n.], 1785. First edition. 8vo. 39pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's buff wrappers. Rubbed, marked, and creased. Very occasional spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32517

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KLETKE, Dr. H[ermann]. Bilder aus dem Weltall...Für Lehrer und Freunde der Naturkunde. Berlin. Verlag von E. H. Schroeder, 1854. Zweiter Abdruck [i.e. second impression]. 8vo. xii, 375pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled navy morocco, initialled in gilt 'L.d. R.' to foot of spine, A.E.G. A fine copy. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Leopold de Rothschild (1845- 1917) to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31705

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FENWICK, Made. [Eliza]. Leçons pour les enfans: ou premiers élémens de morale, de politesse, et de sensibilité. London. Printed for M. J. Godwin and Co., 1820. First edition in French. 12mo. In four parts. [2], 39, [1], 38, 40, 41pp, [1]. Numerous woodcut vignettes in the text. Contemporary sprinkled sheep. Heavily rubbed, boards held by cords only, surface loss to spine. Internally clean and crisp. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript notes to front endpapers. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31327

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[FRENCH COLONIES]. Notices statistiques sur les colonies françaises. Imprimées par ordre de m. le vice-amiral de rosamel, ministre secrétaire d'état de la marine et des colonies. Paris. Imprimerie Royale, 1837-40 8vo. Four separately issued parts. In four volumes. [4], iii, [1], 248; [6], 271, [1]; [4], ii, 320; [4], 216pp. Uncut and largely unopened in modern navy cloth, contrasting black calf lettering-pieces. Remnants of original publisher's printed wrappers laid down and bound in. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31181

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FERNEL, Jean. Joannis fernelii ambiani, doctoris medici parisiensis, Archiatri Regii, Consiliorum medicinalium liber. Exeius adversariis quadringentarum consultationum selectus. Nunc denuo fidelus & accuratius quam antea editus, & a quam plurimis mendis, quibus antea scatebat, repurgatus. Cum indice accurato. Francofurti [i.e. Frankfurt]. Apud Joannem Wechelum, 1585. 8vo. 143pp, [1]. Later blind-ruled calf, morocco lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Leaves lightly browned. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29812

[TOM THUMB]. Histoire de tom pouce. London. [s.n.], 1833. First edition. 12mo. [4], 44pp. With a frontispiece and a further three plates. Original publisher's blind-ruled navy buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, blind-stamp of Cambridge bookbinder F. Munns to FFEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28836

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[MANTE, M. De.]. Traite des prairies artificielles, des enclos, et de l'education des moutons de race angloise. A Paris. Chez Hochereau, 1778. First edition. Quarto. xvi, [2], 197pp, [3]. With a half-title and five engraved plates (depicting plows, a sheepfold and other machinery). An unpressed copy in nineteenth-century calf backed marbled boards, rebacked (richly gilt). Rubbed to extremities, a little loss of paper to fore-edges of boards, occasional light marking to text. With Arthur Young's armorial bookplate to FEP, along with a further shelf-label. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28327

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[LITURGY - Italian]. Il libro Delle Preghiere Publiche ed Amministrazione de' Sacramenti, ed Altri Riti e Cerimonie della Chiesa, Secondo l'uso della chiesa anglicana; Insieme col saltero over i salmidi david, Come hanno da esser recitati nelle chiese. Londra [i.e London]. Si vende da Gio. Wilcox, 1733. 12mo. [648], 24pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Extremities worn, loss to head- and tail-caps, upper board held by cords only. Slight loss to gutter of leaf B1, title browned, intermittent light dampstaining. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27937

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LARREY, [Felix] Hippolyte. Relation chirurgicale des événemens de juillet 1830, a l'hopital militaire du gros-caillou. Paris. Chez Béchet, 1831. Seconde édition. 8vo. 152pp. With a half-title. Later calf-backed marbled papers boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. Light shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Neurologica to FEP, ink-stamps of the Société Medico Pratique to half-title and title page, leaves browned and spotted. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27762

SHELLEY, Mrs. [Mary Wollstonecraft]. Lodore en zijne dochter. Amsterdam. Hendrik Frijlink, 1836. First edition in Dutch. 8vo. viii, 312pp. With a lithograph frontispiece by H. J. Backer. Original publisher's green moire cloth-backed cream paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, chipping to lettering-piece. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27067

MAUREL, Jules. Le duc de wellington. Bruxelles. Typographie de V. Manche, 1853. First edition. 8vo. 143pp, [1]. With half-title. Contemporary Victorian spanish calf, gilt. Slightly rubbed, with the vast majority of the original morocco lettering-piece to spine lost; the top edge/corners of both boards heavily bumped. Marbled endpapers. Richard Ford's copy, with his signed armorial bookplate to FEP, inscribed 'Rich. Ford 1853' to head of half-title, above a seven line bio-bibliographical note, which references that 'excellent pamphlet was prohibited in ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26082

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XENOPHON. Ta tou Xenophōntos Hellēnika; kai ho Agēsilaos. Xenophontis Graecorum res gestae; et Agesilaus... Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1762. 8vo. In four volumes. Parallel Greek and Latin text. First seven words of the title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, a trifle marked and discoloured, loss, cracking, and chipping to spines/lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, worm-track to front endpapers of Vol. I, else internally clean and crisp. Later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf of ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26029

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SCAPULA, Johannes. Lexicon Graeco-Latinum novum: in quo ex primitivorum & simplicium fontibus derivata atque composita ordine non minus naturali, quàm alphabetico, breviter & dilucidè deducuntur. Basileae [i.e. Basel]. Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, [1600]. Editio ultima, priori locupletior & correctior. Folio. [5] leaves, 1856 columns, [62, 30] leaves, 188 columns, [1] leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed and discoloured, corners bumped. Light damp-staining to upper corner of text-block, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25288