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[NEW ENGLAND]. HUNTER, Joseph. Collections concerning the early history of the founders of new plymouth, the first colonists of new england. London. John Russell Smith, 1849. First edition. [2], 70pp.

[Bound after:] HUNTER, Joseph. Agincourt. A contribution towards an authentic list of the commanders of the english host in king henry' the fifth's expedition to france, in the third year of his reign. London. John Russell Smith, 1850. First edition. [2], 56pp.

[Bound before:] HUNTER, Joseph. Milton. A sheaf of gleanings after his biographers and annotators... London. John Russell Smith, 1850. First edition. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33628

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[NEWGATE GAOL]. [Drop-head title:] The case of The County of middlesex, with respect to The gaol of newgate. [London]. [s.n.], [1765?] Folio. 3pp, [1]. Single bifolium, separated into two leaves. Docket-title to verso of second leaf. Manuscript numerals to head of p.[1], gutter partially trimmed More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28063

[NEWPORT-ON-TAY LITERARY SOCIETY]. [Manuscript minute book]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1883-90] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. [124] leaves. Manuscript register of members to rear. Contemporary gilt-stamped black half-calf, brown buckram boards, lettered in gilt to upper board. Extremities rubbed and marked, Marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced with blue cloth, label of Dundee based printer and stationer George Girdwood to FEP . More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30953

[NEW THEATRE, NEWPORT]. The last night but two of Performing. The grand new melo-drama of the miller and his men...new theatre, newport. On tuesday, June the 14th, 1814... [Newport]. Silvester, Printer, [1814]. Dimensions 190 x 320 mm. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. A trifle creased and browned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22326

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[NEW THEATRE ROYAL]. [Drop-head title:] First night of the new play. New Theatre Royal, Drury Lane This Evening, Monday, January 5. 1824 His Majesty's Servants will perform (for the 1st time) a new Tragic Play, (in 4 Acts) with an allegorical and Characteristic pageant, called Kenilworth; Or, The Days of Good Queen Bess... [London]. J. Tabby, [1824]. Single bifolium. 2pp. Separated into two leaves. Stab-stitch holes to gutter margins, lightly creased and spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25374

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[NEW THEATRE ROYAL]. New Theatre Royal, English Opera, Strand. This present Friday, August 22, 1817, Will be performed Eighth Time an entirely New Pastoral Serio-Comick Opera, called The Persian Hunters, Or, the Rose of Gurgistan... [London]. [s.n.], [1817]. Dimensions 190 x 305mm. Single leaf broadside. Some creasing and browning. Inked '65' to head of recto. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33185

NIALL, Ian. Portrait of a country artist. London. Victor Gollancz, 1980. First edition. Quarto. 160pp. Original publisher's brown cloth boards, title label in blue and gilt. With the original illustrated dustwrapper, unclipped, and shelf-worn. Some marking to wrapper. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed, without any indication of such. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29661

NICHOLSON, William. KIPLING, Rudyard. An Almanac of twelve sports. London. Published by William Heinemann, 1898. First edition. Quarto. 12 Lithographs in colour on cartridge paper Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, contemporary (original?) glassine dustwrapper. A trifle marked, short tears to dustwrapper at spine. Endpapers browned, light offsetting, else internally immaculate. A fine copy. More > £ 1,450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20407

NICOLSON, Harold. Some people. London. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition. 8vo. vi, 247pp, [1]. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in black. Without dustwrapper. Extremities marked and a trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Endpapers browned, occasional spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23732

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[NIGER EXPEDITION]. [Drop-head title:] Niger expedition. Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 6 February 1840... [London]. [s.n.], [1840]. First edition. Folio. 6pp. Docket title to verso of final leaf. A trifle creased, some very short tears to margins. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24366

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NIMROD [APPERLEY, Charles James]. Remarks on the conditions of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management... London. Printed and published by M. A. Pittman, 1831. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 503pp, [1]. Contemporary cloth-backed buff paper boards, author's name in manuscript to spine. Rubbed, surface loss to boards, spine chipped and sunned. Hinges exposed, contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, author's name added in manuscript to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27571

[NINEVEH]. Nineveh. London. John and Charles Mozley, [s.d., c.1834] 16mo. 8pp. Original publisher's pictorial salmon wrappers. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Katherine Fludyer to upper wrapper. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 23405

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NISBET, Alex[ander]. An essay on Additional Figures and Marks of Cadency. Shewing, The Ancient & Modern Practice of Differencing Descendents In This and other Nations. More Fully and Exactly, than any Thing hitherto Published upon this Part of Herauldry. Edinburgh. Printed by John Reid junior, 1702. First edition. 8vo. [8], xxi, [1], 276pp. With six engraved plates. Recent blind-ruled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Some chipping to margins of title page and first three leaves of text. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18791

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NISBET, James. The french in rheinstadt: A Romance of the Day. A friendly voice from the avon's banks to the nations of germany, and other poems.. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. 8vo. [10], 173pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and dulled, upper joint starting. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28819

NIVERNAIS, Louis Jules. Fables by the duke of nivernois. London. Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1799. First edition in English. 8vo. [20], 259pp. Contemporary black half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Rubbed and marked, with surface loss to joints and corners, joints starting. Heavier spotting to first blank fly-leaves, very occasional light spotting to text. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34050

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NIXON, Francis H. Population: or, a plea for victoria... Melbourne. W. B. Stephens, 1862. First edition. 8vo. 52pp. Original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Lightly rubbed, spine chipped and dulled. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 34390

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NOBLE, John. The Believer's Triumph over Death. In a sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Late Mr. Richard Robins... London. Printed for Samuel Drury, 1702. First edition. Quarto. [6], 29pp, [1]. Title within mourning border. With a final page of publisher's advertisements. Recent marbled paper boards. Text-block trimmed, occasionally affecting headline and mourning border, ex-library with discreet blind-stamps More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24548

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NOEL, Roden. Selected poems from the works of the hon. roden noel with a biographical and critical essay by percy addleshaw. London. Elkin Matthews, 1897. First edition. 8vo. 8vo. xliii, 198pp. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Contemporary dark green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. Leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34582

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NOORTHOUCK, John. An historical and classical dictionary: containing the lives and characters of the most eminent and learned persons, in every age and nation, from the earliest period to the present time. London. Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. Unpaginated. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces, gilt. Rubbed, lightly bumped. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21782

NOOTH, Charlotte. Poems and a play. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown First edition. 1815. [6], 156pp, [16]. With a list of subscribers. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. A little rubbed and marked, some damp-staining to endpapers, occasional light soiling to text. Short tear to head of C4, without loss. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 34017