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[SOUTH AFRICA]. Reports, &c., on the working of the refugee camps in the transvaal, orange river colony, cape colony, and natal. London. Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Harrison and Sons, 1901. 384pp.

[Bound with:] South Africa. Further papers relating to the working of the refugee camps in south africa... London. Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Darling & Son, 1902. iv, 134pp.

Folio. Later red half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, red cloth boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28839
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HOLLOWAY, William. A general dictionary of provincialisms, written with a view to rescue from oblivion the fast fading relics of by-gone days.. Lewes. Sussex Press: printed and published by Baxter and Son, 1838. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 194pp, [2]. Original publisher's gilt-tooled vellum, with contrasting red stained faux lettering-piece to spine, A.E.R. Rubbed and marked, with some soiling to boards. Bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP. Light spotting and browning to initial and terminal leaves. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 35085
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[HEY, Rebecca]. The spirit of the woods, illustrated by coloured engravings. . London. Longman, Rees et al., 1837. First edition. 8vo. [3], xvi, 306pp. Without half-title. With a tipped-in errata slip, colour engraved frontispiece and 25 further colour engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, contrasting black calf lettering-piece and gilt-tooled red morocco onlays to spine, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, with surface wear to boards, upper joint slightly starting at foot of spine, spine dulled. Light scattered spotting, heavier to initial leaves. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29891
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DRAYTON, Michael. England's Heroical Epistles, written In Imitation of the Stile and Manner of Ovid's Epistles: with annotations of The Chronicle History. London. Printed for S. Smethwick, [c.1695]. 8vo. [8], 225pp, [1]. Without frontispiece. Recent calf-backed decorated paper boards, gilt. Very minor wear to extremities. Ink inscriptions to title, browning to all leaves, occasional spots of dust-soiling and light marginal damp-staining, loss of characters 'h' and 'i' of 'white' on p.199. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 13209
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[ROSCOE, William]. An address from the liverpool society for the Abolition of Slavery, on the safest and most efficacious means of promoting the gradual improvement of the negro slaves in the British West India Islands, preparatory to their becoming free labourers, and on the expected consequences of such change. Liverpool. [J. & G. Smith], [1824]. First edition. 8vo. 18pp. Stitched, as issued. Title laid-down due to loss at head and foot and small hole to centre, loss of publisher's name and date to imprint, very small hole to final leaf, just touching text but without loss of sense, light spots of dust-soiling. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 13613
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SMITHERS, Henry. Liverpool, its commerce, statistics, and institutions; with a history of the cotton trade. Liverpool. Printed by Thos. Kaye, 1825. First edition. Quarto. [8], viii, 461pp, [1], iii, [1]. With half-title, and two leaves of plates. Extra illustrated with 46 tipped-in engraved plates, several further plates and newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Contemporary [original?] drab paper boards, rebacked and recornered in late nineteenth-century tan calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A trifle rubbed, some surface loss to boards. Ink ownership inscription to FEP; 'R. R. Made-King / 1894', engraved ... More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15324
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[SPARVENFELD, Johan Gabriel]. Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum &c. Quo anno MDCCV Bibliothecam Publicam Academiae Upsalensis auxit & exornavit. Upsaliae, [i.e. Uppsala].. Typis Joh. Henry. Werneri S:ae R:ae M:tis & Acad. Upsal. Typographi, 1706. First edition. Quarto. [6], 74pp. With text in mixed Latin and Arabic type. Uncut and largely unopened, in later paper wrappers. Ink inscription to head of upper wrapper. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15446
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[LOCKE, John - Misattributions]. A Common-place Book to the holy bible: or, the Scriptures Sufficiency Practicall Demonstrated. Wherein Whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, Respecting Doctrine, Worship, or Manners, is reduced to its Proper Head: Weighty Cases Resolved, Truths Confirmed, difficult Texts Illustrated, and Explained by others more plain. London. Printed by Edw. Jones, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1697. Third edition. Quarto. [16], 310, [10]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Contemporary blind-panelled speckled calf, neatly rebacked and recornered in brown morocco, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Binding a trifle rubbed and a little marked, new endpapers. Small rust hole to G3, without loss of sense, else a crisp and clean copy. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 12749
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TESAURO, Emanuele. Reverendi patris emanuelis thesauri e societate jesu caesares; Et ejusdem varia carmina: Quibus accesserunt Nobilissimorum Orientis & Occidentis Pontificum elogia, & varia opera Poetica. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]. Excudebat L. Lichfield, Impensis Gulielmi Webb, 1637. Editio secunda [i.e. second edition]. 12mo. [6], 151pp, [1]. Recent calf-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle marked. Very small worm-trail to first two gatherings - just clipping text at times, without loss of sense, leaves trimmed with very occasional slight loss to catchwords. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 17307
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ACTON, Harold. Memoirs of an Aesthete 1939-1969. New York. The Viking Press, 1970. First American edition. 8vo. 318pp. Original publisher's black cloth-backed purple paper boards, dustwrapper. A very good copy with only slightest of chipping to unclipped dustwrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of FFEP; 'For Mason and Florence / with all best wishes for / Christmas and the New Year / ever affectionately / Harold / 19 December 1973.' More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 14541
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KNOX, Vicesimus. Essays moral and literary. Basil. Printed and sold by James Decker, 1800. 8vo. In three volumes. [12], 366; [6], 364; [6], 365pp, [1]. Original publisher's vellum-backed cream paper boards, contrasting blue calf lettering-pieces. Extremities lightly marked. Small hole to p.189-190, Vol. I - touching text with slight loss of sense, very occasional light spotting, browning, and marginal chipping. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 17039
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[MONK OF THE ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC]. An epitaph Upon His Grace john, Duke of Marlborough. Who departed this Life July the 19th 1714, and lies now interr'd in the City of Antwerp. Written by a Monk of the Order of St. Dominic. And Translated into English by a Member of the Marlborough-Club. London. Printed, and Sold by J. Roberts, 1714. First edition. 8vo. 21pp, [1]. Without half-title. Recent red half-morocco, red cloth boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15134
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GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. [PINKERTON, John?]. Guicciardini's account of the ancient flemish school of painting. Translated from his description of the netherlands, published in italian at antwerp, 1567. With a preface, by the translator. London. Printed for I. Herbert, 1795. Second English edition. Quarto. xv, [1], 36pp. With half-title. Uncut in original paper-backed marbled paper wrappers, with evidence of being disbound from a larger volume, with some loss and stitching to spine. Some browning and spotting internally. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 14794
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FLEURY, [Claude]. An Historical Catechism, Containing a Summary of the sacred history and Christian Doctrine. [London?]. [s.n.], 1726. First edition in English. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [4], lxiii, [1], 120, [4], 297, [11]. Contemporary gilt-tooled panelled black morocco, A.E.G. Rubbed, slight chipping to head and foot of spine, short crack to lower compartment, corners bumped, edges dusty. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label to FEP, front blank fly-leaf pasted to FFEP, later inked ownership inscriptions to verso of front blank fly-leaf and head of title, occasional light spotting. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 17537
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CZERNY, Charles [i.e. Carl]. Letters to a young lady, on the art of playing the pianoforte, from the earliest rudiments to the highest state of cultivation... London. R. Cocks and Co., 1842. Second edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 79pp, [1]. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's tan printed paper boards. Rubbed, marked, and a trifle bumped, considerable loss to spine. Inked ownership inscription to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 On Sale: £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 20124
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[CALLENDER, James Thomson]. The political progress of britain; or an impartial account of the Principal Abuses in the Government of this Country, from the Revolution in 1688. The whole tending to prove the ruinous Consequences of the popular System of War and Conquest. Part first.. London. Printed for T. Kay...and Robertson & Berry...Edinburgh, 1792. 8vo. First part, all published. 80pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, gilt supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet to both boards. Extremities rubbed, joints split, boards held by cords only. Paper shelf-label pasted to FEP, manuscript contents to recto of FFEP, title page and final leaf dust-soiled, occasional spotting. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 21203
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CAYLEY, Cornelius. A letter to the Rev. Mr. potter. In Answer to his sermon preach'd at Reymerston in Norfolk, against the People call'd methodists. Norwich. Printed and sold by R. Davy, and at Mr. Gleed's, Bookseller, 1758. First edition. 8vo. 31pp, [1]. With proposals for printing (by subscription) a new edition of the same author's autobiography The Riches of God's Free Grace, dated Feb. 4, 1758, to verso of final leaf. Uncut, stitched as issued. Slightly dusty, else a fine copy. With ink inscriptions of both Ben and Thomas Spalding to margins of the verso of title, and recto of the second leaf. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 19572