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QUIN, Thomas. The city of refuge: in four books. London. Printed for the Author, by J. Haddon, 1817. First edition. 12mo. 132pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, without front blank fly-leaf, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21148
LYNN, Surgeon-Major. A short history of wesleyan methodism on the armagh circuit, compiled from valuable and authentic manuscripts, never before published. Belfast. Allen, Son, & Allen, 1885. Second edition. 8vo. 68pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities worn and heavily marked. Upper hinge exposed, foxed, occasional brief inked annotations. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Colonel Stanley with the kindest regards of the Author'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21962
[JACOBITE PLOT]. A Second modest enquiry into the causes of the Present Disasters in england. And who they are that brought the French Fleet into the English Channel, Described. Being a farther discovery of the Jacobite plot. Together with a list of those Noble-men, Gentlemen, and others now in Custody. London. Printed for John Dunton...and John Harris, 1690. First edition. Quarto. 31pp, [1]. Recent marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Title page and final leaf foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22021
JACKSON, John. A treatise on wood engraving: Historical and Practical. London. Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Second edition. Large 8vo. xvi, 664pp. With an engraved frontispiece and nearly 450 fine wood engravings in the text. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped. Naively deleted inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 22261
[ANDREWS, Edward]. The vineyard of naboth; a dramatic fragment. Translated from the original hebrew. [London]. Printed for Private Circulation [by S. and R. Bentley], 1825. First edition. 36pp.

[Bound after:] ANDREWS, Edward. The way of understanding. A sermon, occasioned by the destruction of the brunswick theatre... London. Printed for Ebenezer Palmer, 1828. First edition. 30pp, [2]. With an engrave portrait frontispiece.

[And:] ANDREWS, Edward. The saint awaking with the divine likeness. A sermon... London. Printed for Ebenezer Palmer, 1828. First edition. 31pp, [1].

[And:] ANDREWS, Edward. Christ's name precious: a sermon... London. ... More >
£ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16428
KELLY, Francis M. SCHWABE, Randolph. A short history of costume & armour: chiefly in England Vol. I. 1066-1485 [Vol. II. 1485-1800]. London. B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1931. First edition. Large 8vo. In two volumes. xii, 82, [2], 30pp; x, 86, [2], 30pp. With terminal publisher's advertisement catalogues to both volumes. Profusely iIllustrated with colour and black and white photographs and sketches. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, pictorial dustwrappers. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrappers rubbed, sunned, and price-clipped. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to FFEPs, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22258
DUNALLEY, Lord. Khaki and rifle green. London. Hutchinson & Co., [1940]. First edition. 8vo. 255, [1], 24pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Rubbed and soiled, edges spotted, dustwrapper worn and marked, with significant loss. Contemporary pencilled ownership inscription of Captain R. Ford to recto of FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22255
LARCHEY, Loredan. Histoire du gentil seigneur de bayard... Paris. Hachette, 1882. Quarto. xvi, 540pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, 11 chromolithographic plates, 34 black and white plates, and 187 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary red calf, lettered in gilt, gilt supra libros of Katharine Dolores Feilden to upper board, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Katharine Dolores Feilden to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22435
DELANDINE DE ST.-ESPRIT. Histoire de bayard. Paris. Librairie de Debecourt, 1842. 8vo. 470pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Original publisher’s green printed wrappers. A trifle rubbed, some surface loss to sunned spine. Foxed. The Comte de Chambord's copy, with the Maggs Bros book label to verso of upper wrapper More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22426
ALEXANDER, William. The eight beatitudes st. matthew, Chap V.. London. Published Jan. 1st 1822, by W. Alexander, Engraver and Printer to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Clarence, [1822]. Oblong Quarto. [6]pp. With 10 engraved plates, including the engraved title-page. Subscriber's copy. Handsomely bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, lettered 'MAJOR GENERAL SIR HERBERT TAYLOR' to upper board, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed. Internally immaculate. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 16888
CRUIKSHANK, George. A re-issue of scraps and sketches, from the original plates...part one. London. Published for the artist by Arthur Arnold, [1875]. Oblong quarto. [4]pp. With 38 hand-coloured etched vignettes, on 6 plates. Original publisher's cloth-backed printed wrappers. Rubbed and marked, gutta percha perished and text block detached from boards. Some spotting to endpapers, short marginal tear to FFEP and title. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of title: 'To Mrs E.J. Morton, with the compliments, & best wishes of Geo. Cruikshank. April 30th 1875', and later inscribed in a ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 16526
[TALES]. Tales for home reading. London and Edinburgh. William and Robert Chambers, 1869. 8vo. 224pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed. FFEP torn away, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22121
[ACTS - England and Wales]. Anno Regni gulielmi et mariae, regis & reginae Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, sexto... London. Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties, 1694 [i.e. 1695] Folio. 238, [2], 243-326, [2], 331-346, [2], 351-378, [2], 383-474, [2], 479-515pp, [5]. Complete despite erratic pagination. Title from title page of first statute. Each act has its own general title page; the imprint date is given as 1694 for the first four statutes and the regnal year is given as 'sexto'; the rest of the statutes are dated 1695 and have regnal years 'sexto & ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 17775