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[ASSEMBLY OF THE FRENCH CLERGY]. Actes de l'assemblee generale du clerge de france sur la religion, Extraits du Proces-Verbal de ladite Assemblee, tenue a Paris, par permission du Roi, au Couvent des Grands-Augustins, en 1765. A Paris. De l'Imprimerie de Guilleaume Desprez, 1765. 8vo. 92pp. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Edges a trifle dusty, else clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21341

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[SOUTH, Robert]. Decreti Oxoniensis vindicatio In Tribus ad Modestum ejusdem Examinatorem Modestioribus Epistolis, A Theologo Transmarino. [Oxford]. [s.n.], 1696. First edition. Quarto. [16], 92pp. Disbound. Earlier stab-stitch holes to gutter, lightly spotted. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21333

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WEGELIN, Christophorus. Dissertatio inauguralis medica duas circa vermes observationes cum earum epicrisi sistens quam consensu gratiosae facultatis medicae in alma Argentoratensium universitate [...].. Argentorati [Strassbourg]. Ex Prelo Jonae Lorenzii Typohraphi, 1779. Quarto. 32pp. 18th-century marbled wrappers, stitched as issued. A bit rubbed, slightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20111

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STADTMANN, Johann Friderick. Dissertatio medico-chirurgica de tetano quam gratiosae facultatis medicae consensu in alma argentoratensium universitate... Argentorati [Strasbourg]. Typis Joh. Henrici Heitzii, Universitatis Typographi, 1785. Quarto. 34pp. Marbled wrappers, stitched as issued. Slightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20109

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LELAND, Charles Godfrey; ERNST, A., trans.. Francia, Alsacia y Lorena. Traducido del ingles. Caracas. Imprenta de 'El Diario', 1871. Quarto. 22pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightly marked or browned, upper outer blank corner occasionally frayed. Dedication from the translator A. Ernst inscribed: 'Mr James McQueen with the translator's kind regards' to upper wrapper. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20117

SAMAIN, Albert. Symphonie heroique. Paris. Librarie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, Successeur, 1908. Quarto. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 205. 87pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and several engraved vignettes by Charles Chessa. Attractively bound by P. Affolter in contemporary gilt-tooled tan crushed morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G., original publisher's powder blue paper wrappers bound-in. Very slight shelf-wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18618

SAMAIN, Albert. Le chariot d'or. Paris. Librarie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, Successeur, 1907. Quarto. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 230. 146pp. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and several engraved vignettes by Charles Chessa. Attractively bound by P. Affolter in contemporary gilt-tooled tan crushed morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G. Very slight shelf-wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18617

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VASCONCELLOS, Manoel de Macedo Pereria. Oracao gratulatoria, que pela continuacao da vida do ill. e excel. senhor conde de oeyras... Lisboa [i.e. Lisbon]. Na Officina de Jose da Silva Nazareth, 1769. First edition. 8vo. [6], 33pp, [1]. Later marbled paper wrappers. Lightly rubbed. Inked private library shelf-mark to head of title-page, sympathetic paper repair to verso, occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 14208

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AOUST, M. L'Abbe. Analyse infinitesimale des courbes tracees sur une surface quelconque. Paris. Gauthier-Villars, 1869. First edition. 8vo. xl, 314pp. Contemporary blue half calf, marbled boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Rubbing to extremities with some surface loss, spine heavily sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 11868

CALONNE, Charles Alexandre de. Motif de M. de Calonne, pour différer, jusqu'à l'Assemblée des Etats-Généraux, la réfutation du nouvel Ecrit que m. necker vient de publier sur l'objet de leur controverse. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1788]. Quarto. 11pp, [1]. Four loose bifolia, uncut. Old central horizontal fold. A trifle creased. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34664

[BIBLE - N.T., Greek]. WESTCOTT, Brooke Foss. HORT, Fenton John Anthony.. The new testament in the original greek. Cambridge and London. Macmillan and Co., 1892. Fifth edition. 8vo. [4], 618pp, [2]. With half-title. Contents leaf bound at rear. Finely bound by Stoakley, late Hawes, for Macmillan & Bowes of Cambridge in contemporary black morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, with the supralibros of John Gott, Bishop of Truro to upper board. A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed. Prize bookplate of Joseph Harding White, with the signature of John Gott, to FEP. Manuscript notes listing ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34371

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[LARIVE DUPA, Mathilde de]. Essai sur l'éducation de l'enfance. Genève [i.e. Geneva]. Ab. Cherbuliez et Ce., 1837. First edition. 8vo. [4], 284pp, [2]. With a half-title. Later brown paper-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt Rubbed, surface loss to boards, joints starting, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Swansea Training College to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24324

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MELI, Giovanni. Poesie siciliane di giovanni meli. Palermo. Stamperia de Francesco Nocera, 1846. Sesta edizione Siciliana. 8vo. [6], 637 [i.e. 638]pp, [4]. Printed in double columns. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, green embossed cloth boards.Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, frontispiece dampstained, occasional marginal loss, lower corner of one leaf torn away but present, very occasional ink-stains. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33167

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MIRABEAU, [Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de]. Opinion de m. De mirabeau l’aine, sur les retours de l’inde. Paris. De l’imprimerie nationale, 1790. First edition. 8vo. 23pp, [1]. Later printed buff wrappers. Book-label of Peter Stewart Young to verso of upper wrapper, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27988

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[MODENA]. Notificazione Dovendo continuare le Imposte sino che siano pagati li debiti fruttiferi contratti dal Magistrato in Genova, Milano, & altrove per cagione de' passati Quartieri, e Contribuzioni... Modena. Bartolomeo Soliani Stampatore Ducale, 1718. Dimensions 0 x 0 mm. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. Single old central horizontal fold. A trifle creased, some marginal loss, sealing wax remnants to both recto and verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23193

[AUSTRIA]. Lettre a un ami en pays etranger sur les droits de la maison d'Autriche a quelques parties de la succession de Baviere, avec la refutation Du Memoire succinct sur la Succession de l'Electeur de Baviere publie dans le N:o 36 du Courier polit. & litter. de Londres. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1778. Quarto. [2], 78pp. Early paper boards. Slight rubbing and some browning to extremities. Occasional spots of light foxing and mild marginal damp-staining. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 11936

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GAUTRUCHE, [Pierre]. L'histoire poetique, Pour l'intelligence des poètes et des auteurs anciens. Amsterdam. Chez David Paul Marret, 1723. Dernière edition. 8vo. 302pp, [30]. Title page in red and black, with an additional engraved title page. Contemporary blind-stamped speckled calf, contrasting gilt-tooled brown morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, with surface wear to boards. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of John Bond to FFEP. Very occasional light scattered spotting, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33543

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CHATELAIN, A[uguste]. Des erreurs et préjugés populaires en médecine. Neuchatel. Delachaux et Sandoz, 1865. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 206pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight loss to foot of dulled spine, early inked ownership inscription to head of upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31794

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SMET, Henrich. Prosodia in novam formam digesta. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]. Joannem Janssonium, 1658. 8vo. [16], 526pp, [6]. With an additional engraved title page. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, staining to top edge, light damp-staining to lower board. Rear pastedowns sprung. Later inked ownership inscription of Michaël à (?) Westranen and naive ink-sketch to RFEP. Endpapers slightly browned, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33464

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GIUSTI, Giuseppe. Raccolta di proverbi toscani con illustrazioni. Firenze [i.e. Florence]. Felice Le Monnier, 1853. 12mo. [4], xii, 423pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G., Rubbed and marked, spine dulled, some cockling to boards. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription of K. Speight to recto of front blank fly-leaf, single later manuscript annotation to p.322, scattered spotting, dampstained throughout. John Murray's copy, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32505