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DONALD, T. F.. The Hodge Podge Club 1752-1900. Glasgow. James MacLehose and Sons, 1900. First edition. 8vo. [8], 98pp. Presentation copy, with the loosely inserted compliments slip of the author. Original publisher's navy blue buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. A crisp copy, lightly rubbed and marked, with a few old paint spots to boards. Endpapers browned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33399
LAWRENCE, T. E. The home letters of t. e. lawrence and his brothers. Oxford. Basil Blackwell, 1954. First English edition. Quarto. 731pp, 45 photographs tipped in, including frontispiece, and facsimile of Winston Churchill's typewritten permission to reproduce the original Allocution that follows. Original publisher's dark navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the pale grey unclipped dustwrapper lettered in black and red. All edges spotted with some further spotting and markings throughout. Dustwrapper is worn and toned with some tearing though intact. Some notes in Henry ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 27983
VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem. The home of mankind: the story of the world we live in. London. George G. Harrap & Company, 1933. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 506pp. Numerous illustrations by the author in the text. Original publisher's decorative green clot. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, marked. Presentation copy, inked illustration and inscription to recto of FFEP: 'The will to live / Hendrik Willem van Loon / Madras (?)'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20896
HARRISON, J[esse] B[urton]. The indian mutiny. [London]. Published for the Historical Association by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. First edition. 8vo. 11pp, [1]. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed salmon pink wrappers. Wrappers detached, a trifle faded, creased. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32134
RENNELL, Major James. The journals of major james rennell first surveyor-general of india. Written for the information of the governors of bengal during his surveys of the ganges and brahmaputra rivers 1764 to 1767. Calcutta. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by The Asiatic Society, 1910. First edition. Quarto. iv, [2], 148pp. With a portrait plate, a folding facsimile of two pages of the journal, and a large folding map of Bengal. Later green cloth. Lightly rubbed. Leaves browned, coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page, some marginal insect damage to lower corner of text-block, facsimile torn at folds. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32178
PIKE, Rev. G[ustavus] D. The jubilee singers, and their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars. London. Hodder and Stoughton, 1872. Ninth thousand. 8vo. [2], 219pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a further eight plates. Original publisher's brick red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, discoloured, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp.

[Together with:] A contemporary Woodburytype photograph depicting 10 members of the Jubilee Singers, with a letterpress caption identifying each. Pen and ink inscription of J. Price to verso. More >
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30662
KING, E. J.. The Knights of St. John in the British Empire: Being the Official History of the British Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. London. [John Wright and Sons], 1934. Second edition. 8vo. xviii, [1], 248pp, [2]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 48 photographic plates, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Handsomely bound Frank Broomhead of Morley College for the 1971 National Book League Binding Competition in black morocco, vellum and red morocco inlays forming the Maltese Cross to upper board. Housed in custom black morocco-backed red cloth clamshell case. Case a trifle rubbed, else immaculate. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 16603
[LADIES' DIARY]. The Ladies' Diary: of Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1791... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, And sold by Robert Horsfield, [1791]. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. Not in ESTC.

[Bound with:] The Ladies' Diary: of Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1792... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, And sold by Robert Horsfield, [1792]. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC N3191.

[And:] The Ladies' Diary: of Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1793... London. Printed ... More >
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33495
[ALMANACS]. The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's almanack, For the year of our lord 1762... [London]. Printed by A. Wilde, 1762. 48pp. Title and calendar printed in red and black. ESTC T58266.

[Bound with:] The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An almanack For the Year of our lord 1762... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1762. 48pp. Title and calendar printed in red and black. ESTC T57483.

[And:] WING, Tycho. Olympia Domata; or, an almanack for the year of Our Lord God, 1762... London. ... More >
£ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27435
[ALMANACS]. The lady's and gentlemen's diary, for the year of our lord 1847, Being the third after Bissextile. Designed principally for the amusement and instruction of students of mathematics... London. Printed [by C. and J. Adlard] for the Company of Stationers, [1847]. 96pp.

[Bound with:] MOORE, Francis. Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack for the year of human redemption 1847... London Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1847]. 48, 57-60, 53-56, 49-52pp. Partially misbound. Title in red and black.

[And:] PARTRIDGE, John. Merlinus Liberatus. An almanack For the Year of our Redemption, 1847... LondonPrinted for the Company of Stationers, By Harrison & Co., [1847]. 48pp. Title and ... More >
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24657
PETTINGAL, John. The latin inscription, on the copper table, Discovered in the Year 1732, near heraclea, in the Bay of tarentum, in magna graecia, And published, by mazochius, at Naples, in the year 1758. More particularly Considered and Illustrated. London. [s.n.], [1760]. First edition. Quarto. 9pp, [1]. With an engraved folding plate. The plate is common to this work and Philip Carteret Webb's An account of a copper table (1760). Uncut and unopened in original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. Rubbed, backstrip perished. Loss to lower corner of FFEP and upper corner of title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25620
SAGAR, Keith. The laughter of foxes. Liverpool. Liverpool University Press, 2000. First edition. 8vo. [xxxiv] 196pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards, lettered in gilt, with the original dustwrapper. Lightly bumped with some further markings and minor smoke damage to the dustwrapper, and top edge of text block – with associated odour. Inscribed on the FFEP: 'To Olwyn with love and gratitude from Keith Feb 2000'. Rear pastedown has five-page references in Olwyn's hand corresponding to marked passages within the ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29642
BROWNING, Robert. The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845-1846... London. Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. Third impression. 8vo. IN two volumes. [8], 579, [5]; 579pp, [5]. With a portrait frontispiece, facsimile letter and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements to each volume. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spines dulled. Bookplates of the Robert Browning Settlement library to front endpapers of both volumes, with their ink-stamps to titles, frontispiece of Vol. I detached, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27573
LAWRENCE, T. E.. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, 1938. First edition, second impression. 8vo. 896pp. With 16 black and white plates and two folding maps. Original publisher's tan buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped, short closed tear to head of upper panel, spine chipped and soiled. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26336
ARBUTHNOT, Archibald. The life, adventures, And Many and Great Vicissitudes of Fortune of simon, Lord lovat, The Head of the Family of frasers. From His Birth at Beaufort, near Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, in 1668, to the Time of his being taken by Capt. Millar, after three Days Search, in a hollow Tree, on the Coasts of Knoidart and Arisaig. London. Printed and Sold (for the Author) by R. Walker, 1746. First edition. 12mo. 280pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf-backed, vellum-tipped, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to upper board, a trifle marked. Loss to upper corner of leaf H2, touching text with slight loss of sense, loss to lower margin of leaf T3, dampstained. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27484
STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn. The life and correspondence of thomas arnold, d.d. Late head-master of rugby school, and regius professor of modern history in the university of oxford.. London. John Murray, 1898. Seventh edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, 375; xii, 406pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the subject to vol. i. Contemporary gilt-tooled black calf, contrasting red and brown morocco lettering-pieces to spine, with the supralibros of South Wales Training College, Camarthen to upper board of both vols. Marbled endpapers, A.E.R. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines a touch sunned. Inked prize inscription addressed to Ernest W. B. Sykes, ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34640