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[PRISON BOARD OF SCOTLAND]. Rules as to the Safe Custody of Prisoners, made by the General Board of Directors of Prisons in Scotland, and certified by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, on 28th April 1853... [s.l.]. [s.n.], [1853]. Quarto. 2pp, [2]. Single folded sheet. Two horizontal folds, manuscript docket title to verso. Lightly creased and dust-soiled. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21538

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[FOREIGN OFFICE]. Regulations respecting Passports. [London]. [s.n.], [1851]. Dimensions 180 x 230 mm. Single leaf handbill. Three horizontal folds, manuscript docket title to verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21541

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[HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS]. The hebrew christian witness: an anglo-judaeo-christian magazine, under the entire management of editor and contributors from patriotic jewish believers. 1872. London. Elliot Stock, 1872. Quarto. iv, 204pp. Original publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Extremities sunned and lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21592

BEAUMARCHAIS, [Pierre-Augustin] Caron de. Memoires de m. caron de beaumarchais: ecuyer, conseiller-secretaire du roi, lieutenant-general des chasses au bailliage & capitainerie de la Varenne du Louvre, grande venerie & fauconnerie de France, accuse de corruption de juge, contre M. Goezman, conseiller de grand-chambre au Parlement de Paris, accuse de subornation & de faux, Mme. Goezman, & le sieur Bertrand, accuses, le sieur Marin, gazetier de France, & le sieur Darnaud-Baculard, conseiller d'ambassade, assignes comme temoins. Paris. [s.n.], 1775. 499pp, [1].

[Bound with:] BEAUMARCHAIS, [Pierre-Augustin] Caron de. Memoire pour Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Paris. [s.n.], 1775. xiv, [1], 16-143pp, [1].

12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece, loss and worming to head of spine, joints split, boards held by cords only. Marbled endpapers, later bookplates of Roger Senhouse and John Fowles to FEP, inked ownership inscription to title ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21599

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SPROULE, John Watson. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de rachitide... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1787. 8vo. [4], 21pp, [1]. Recent brown cloth. A clean and crisp copy. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21618

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[WORDSWORTH, William]. Transactions of the wordsworth society No. IV.: Five portraits of the poet. [Edinburgh University Press]. [T. and A. Constable], [s.d., c.1882] First edition. 8vo. [3], 80-91pp, [1]. With five Woodburytype portraits. Original publisher's printed stiff card boards. Extremities lightly dust-soiled, splitting to upper joint, some creasing/short tears. Lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21624

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[HOOK, Theodore Edward]. Sayings and doings; or sketches from a life. Third series. London. Henry Colburn, 1828. 12mo. In three volumes. [4], 378; [2], 326; [2], 333pp, [1]. Contemporary red half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Private ink-stamps to title pages, foxed, without terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. III. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21628

[CATECHISM - Shorter]. The A, B, C, with the shorter catechism... Glasgow. George Cameron, 1863. 16mo. 16pp. Stitched, as issued, into original publisher's printed salmon pink wrappers. Slightest of spotting to extremities. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21668

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TAYLOR, Bayard. Rhymes of travel, ballads and poems. New York. George P. Putnam, 1849. Second edition. 8vo. 152, [2], 8pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Upper hinge exposed, inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, a trifle toned, occasional spotting, two printed clippings of Taylor's verse pasted to 'Notes' leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21772

[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. The Bee, a Selection of poetry, from the best Authors. London. Printed and Sold by Darton & Harvey, 1797. New edition. 12mo. [8], 204pp. With an engraved title page. Contemporary calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurt to FEP, near contemporary ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21850

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FONTENELLE, [Bernard Le Bouvier de]. Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes, augmentes des dialogues des morts. A Lyon. De l'Imprimerie de Leroy, 1800. Nouvelle edition. 12mo. xii, 407pp, [1]. With an engraved folding plate. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled sheep, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, some splitting to joints. Lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21865

HARRISON, Harry. Poems. Clapham. Published by the author, 1887. First edition. 8vo. vii, [2], 10-152pp. Original publisher's decorated red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spine marked and sunned, red ink-stain to lower edge.Later bookplate of Thomas Brayshaw to FEP, endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21882

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[KIDDER, Daniel Parish]. King joash: or, the golden cloud. New-York. Sunday-School Union, [s.d., c.1840] 16mo. 40pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Endpapers marked, later inked/pencilled ownership inscription to FEP, without RFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21885

WESLEY, John. An extract of the Revd. Mr. John Wesley's journal, From Nov. 1, 1739. To September 3, 1741. Bristol. Printed by Felix Farley, 1749. Second edition. 12mo. 120pp. Disbound. Occasional very light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21905

WESLEY, John. An extract of the Rev. Mr. john wesley's journal, From Aug. 12, 1738, to Nov. 1., 1739. III. London. Printed and sold at the New Chapel, 1788. 12mo. 119pp, [1]. Disbound. Title page very nearly detached, lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21907

WESLEY, John. An extract of the Rev. Mr. john wesley's journal, From May 14, 1768, to Sept. 1, 1770. London. Printed and sold at the New-Chapel, 1790. 12mo. 112pp. Disbound. Lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21909

WESLEY, John. An extract Of the Rev. Mr. john wesley's journal, From Sep. 2, 1770, to Sep. 12, 1773. XVI. London. Printed by R. Hawes, 1777. 12mo. 119pp, [1]. Disbound. A trifle creased and spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21910

WESLEY, John. An extract of the Rev. Mr. john wesley's journal, From Sept. 13, 1773, to Jan. 2, 1776. XVII. London. Printed by G. Paramore, 1791. 12mo. 80pp. Disbound. Lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21911

[TOLSTOY, Leo] TOLSTOI, Lyon N., Count. Stories of Sevastopol. London. The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900] 8vo. 60pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities spotted, lightly rubbed and dust-soiled. Leaves browned. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21938

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BARROW, John. Memoirs of the naval worthies of queen elizabeth's reign; of their gallant deeds, daring adventures, and services, in the infant state of the british navy... London. John Murray, 1845. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 495pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed, occasional spotting, contemporary bookplate of William Morris Reade to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'William Morris Reade, from his sincere friend, Horace Andrew Walpole; on his leaving Eton: Easter, 1847'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21952