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[ACTS - GEORGE II]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for repairing and widening the Road leading from a Place called Harlow Bush Common, in the Parish of Harlow in the County of Essex, to Stump Cross, in the Parish of Great Chesterford in the said County. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1743. Folio. [2], 183-207pp, [1]. Disbound. Small marginal worm-tracks. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30921

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[NAUTICAL MAGAZINE]. Supplement to the nautical magazine…December, 1833. No 22. Vol. II. London. Printed by Fisher, Son, & Co., [1833]. 8vo. [1], 754-756pp, [32]. With two engraved plates (one folding), and an engraved general title page for the second volume of the magazine. Original publisher’s pictorial blue wrappers. A trifle creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22347

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ROBERTS, William. The Divine Institution of the Gospel Ministry, and the Necessity of Episcopal Ordination, Asserted, by Proofs from Scripture, and the Practice of the Primitive and Purest Ages of the Christian Church. In a sermon, Preach’d at the Primary Visitation Of the Right Reverend Father in god offspring blackall, Formerly Lord Bishop of exon. Held at Okehampton in the County of Devon, Aug. 19, 1709. London. Printed for Benjamin Matthews et al., [1750]. Fourth edition. 8vo. viii, 31pp, [2]. With two terminal leaves of publisher’s advertisements. Later buff wrappers. Initial and terminal leaves pasted to wrappers. Extremities heavily worn and marked, loss to spine and panel edges. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30923

[ACTS - GEORGE II]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for repairing the Roads leading from the Western Part of the Parish of Shenfield, to Harwich in the County of Essex; and the Road leading from Chelmsford in the said County, to Sudbury in the County of Suffolk; and from Margretting to Malden in the County of Essex; and from Colchester to Langham in the same County. London. Printed by John Baskett, 1726. Folio. [2], 495-508pp. Disbound. Lightly spotted. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30918

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[ACTS - GEORGE II]. [Drop-head title:] An Act to render more effectual an Act made in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King William the Third, intituled, An Act for erecting Hospitals and Workhouses within the Town of Colchester in the County of Essex, for the better employing and maintaining the Poor thereof. London. Printed by John Baskett, 1742. Folio. [2], 587-594pp. Disbound. Lightly browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30919

[ACTS - GEORGE II]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act for repairing and amending the Highways from the North Part of Harlow-bush Common, in the Parish of Harlow, to Woodford in the County of Essex. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1742. Folio. [2], 423-426pp. Disbound. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30920

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MARRYAT, Captain [Frederick]. The mission: or, scenes in africa. Written for young people. London. George Bell & Sons, 1884. New edition. 8vo. viii, 446pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further seven engraved plates. Bound by Mundie in contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30998

[ACTS - GEORGE II]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for continuing and making more effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of HIs late Majesty King Georg the First, For repairing the Roads from the Top of Stoken-church Hill to Enslow-bridge, and the Road from Wheatley-bridge, throught the City of Oxon, by Begbrook to New Woodstock in the County of Oxon (except the Mile-way on each Side of the said City) and for repairing the Road from the Crown Alehouse, to the Turnpike on Stoken-church Hill aforesaid. London. Printed by John Baskett, 1740. Folio. [2], 339-360pp. Disbound. Stab-stitich holes to gutter. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31015

[ACTS - GEORGE I]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for Repairing and Widening the Road from Sherbrook-Hill near Buxton and Chappel in the Frith, in the County of Derby, to Manchester in the County of Lancaster. London. Printed by John Baskett, 1724. Folio. [2], 263-282pp. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31016

[ACTS - GEORGE I]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for Repairing the Road from Market Harborough to Loughborough in the County of Leicester. London. Printed for John Baskett, 1726. Folio. [2], 183-196pp. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. A trifle browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31017

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[MARSHALL, Frank]. Henry irving, actor and manager: a criticism of a critic's criticism. by an irvingite.. London. George Routledge, 1883. First edition. 8vo. 80pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered back, with the publisher's device blindstamped to the lower board. A little shaken, a trifle cocked, with 'Frank Marshall' pencilled on the title page below 'An Irvingite'. Early ownership inscription to the top of the title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31093

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BRIDGES, Robert. Collected essays papers &c. vols i - v.. London. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, 1927-30 8vo. Five volumes bound as four (instalments two and three together). Partially unopened in original publisher's blue cloth-backed paper boards. Fore and bottom edges foxed and untrimmed, some pages unopened. Armorial bookplates of Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, third Viscount Esher (1881-1963) to all FEPs, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30648

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[NAUTICAL MAGAZINE]. The nautical magazine; and naval chronicle, for august, 1837. London. John Murray, [1837]. 8vo. 8, [1], 498-568pp. With an engraved folding plate. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher’s printed blue wrappers. Rubbed and creased, some loss to spine. Scattered spotting, plate browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22356

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[WILLIAM BAIN & COMPANY]. [Drop-head title:] The "corrimony' fence, a new system of wire fencing, Designed by thomas ogilvy, Esq. of Corrimony, Inverness-shire. Manufactured by william bain & company, patentees, lochrin iron works, home street, edinburgh. Edinburgh. Banks & Co. [s.d., c. 1876] Folio. Single bifolium. Seven old horizontal folds, else clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31294

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[WILLIAM BAIN & COMPANY]. [Drop-head title:] William bain & company's improved wrought-iron continuous bar fencing, For horses, cattle, sheep, and deer. Edinburgh. Banks & Co. [s.d., c. 1876] Folio. Single bifolium. Five old horizontal folds, else clean and crisp. Manuscript docket title to blank verso of second leaf. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31295

GORDON, Jan. GORDON, Cora. Two vagabonds in the balkans. London. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1925]. First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 236pp, [4]. With a coloured frontispiece, a further 11 coloured plates, 24 black and white plates, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's decorated light blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed. Foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31516

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HEPWORTH, J. [compiler]. Rochester and district. Sketch-guide to its geology, flora, & fauna. Rochester. Parrett & Neves, 1913. First edition. 8vo. 127pp, [1]. Original publisher's pictorial powder-blue wrappers. Rubbed and marked, some loss to head of sunned spine. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31556

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KNIPE, Henry R. [editor]. Tunbridge Wells and neighbourhood. Pelton. Tunbridge Wells, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 205pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's printed buff stiff paper wrappers. Extremities rubbed and marked. Book-label pf Walter William Young to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31555

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[CINDERELLA]. History of cinderella, or the little glass slipper. Glasgow. Printed for the Booksellers, 1852. 12mo. 23pp, [1]. Woodcut vignette to title and a further 10 woodcut vignettes in the text. Six loose bifolia, edges uncut. A trifle creased, overall clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31329

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[BIRMINGHAM]. The duty of the respective officers appointed by the court leet, in The Manor of Birmingham. Birmingham. Printed by E. Piercy, 1789. 8vo. 8pp. Original publisher's grey wrappers, printed paper lettering-piece to upper wrapper. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To John Henry Lewis / with the printers / kind thoughts./ 27.8.43 / ie from W. T. Wiggins-Davies'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31730