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[BIRMINGHAM]. A concise history of Birmingham, containing an account of its ancient state, and the latest improvements: together with a statement of the arrival and departure of the mails, stage coaches, waggons, &c. &c. The whole forming a complete guide to the inhabitant and stranger. Birmingham. Printed by and for R. Jabet...and J. P. Lucas, 1808. Fourth edition. 8vo. xviii, 78pp. With an engraved folding map bound as frontispiece, and three engraved plates. Original publisher's printed paper boards, later rebacked in grey cloth. Rubbed, with some surface loss, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, ink ownership inscriptions to FEP of 'John Turner' and 'H. R. Brownwich / 1886', else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 14294
BIRDWOOD, George C. M. The industrial arts of india. [London]. Chapman and Hall, 1880. New edition. 8vo. xvi, 344pp. With 90 engraved plates and a coloured engraved folding map. Original publisher's dark brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed. Hinges exposed, ink stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of half-title. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31579
BIRD, James. Poetical memoirs. The exile, a tale. London. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823. First edition. 8vo. [4], 134pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Later bookplate of the Sondley Reference Library, North Carolina, to FEP, with their embossed stamp to title page, and ink reference stamps to verso of title and foot of p.129, recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, foxed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title: 'Mr. ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20217
BINYON, Laurence. The Art of Botticelli: an essay in pictorial criticism. London. Macmillan and Co., 1913. First edition. Folio. Limited edition of 275 copies, this being one of 250 made available for sale. xi, [1], 166, [3]. With an original etching by Muirhead Bone, and a further 23 plates. Uncut in original publisher's vellum-backed navy cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. Scattered foxing. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27066
BINGHAM, C. W., Rev.. Mediaeval life in the court and cloister: a lecture. Dorchester. Printed at the Dorset County Chronicle Office, 1866. 24pp. Inked ownership inscription to title page.

[Bound with:] PETTIGREW, T. J. The journal of the British Archaeological Association. December 1856. On the antiquities of somersetshire. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [1856]. [1], 292-396pp. With two engraved plates and an engraved folding plan.

[And:] STUBBS, William. The foundation of waltham abbey... Oxford & London. J. H. and J. Parker, 1861. xxxii, 60pp, [4].

[And:] GREEN, Emanuel. The earliest ... More >
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 12470
BILSON, Thomas. The true difference betweene christian subjection and unchristian rebellion; wherein the princes lawfull power to commaund for trueth, and indeprivable right to beare the sword are defended against the Popes censures and the Jesuites sophismes uttered in their Apologie and defence of english catholikes... At Oxford. Printed by Joseph Barnes Printer to the Universitie, 1585. First edition. 8vo. [24], 820pp, [10]. Recently neatly recased, with seventeenth-century calf boards-covering and spine laid down. Slightly rubbed with some darkening to spine. A little marginal creasing at front and end, old worm-track to blank fly-leaves and margin of title, not touching text. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 28247
BILLINGE, Charles. Poems on christian charity, contentment, and melancholy. Wolverhampton. Printed for the Author, by J. Smart, 1784. First edition. vi, [5], 12-88pp. ESTC T9681. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Oxford), and a further four in North America (Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, and Yale).

[Bound with:] POPE, Alexander. Messias. Idyllium sacrum. Per alexandrum pope, anglice conscriptum. Latine redditum. Wolverhampton. Typis, J. Smart, 1784. [4], 4-8, 4-8pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin texts with duplicate pagination. ESTC T5691. ESTC ... More >
£ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19757
BICHENO, J[ames] E[benezer]. Observations on the philosophy of criminal jurisprudence, being An Investigation of the Principles necessary to be kept in view during the revision of the penal code, with remarks on penitentiary prisons. London. Printed for R. Hunter, 1819. First edition. 8vo. x, [2], ii, 254, xxxi pp, [1]. Handsomely bound by J. Carss of Glasgow (ticket to FEP) in contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33844
[BIBLE VERSE]. Upward!. London. Castell Brothers. Printed in Bavaria, [1889]. First edition. 16mo. [32]pp. Numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, buff pictorial dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper rubbed and dulled, short tears/chipping to edges, loss to spine panel. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28199
[BIBLE - Shorthand, Authorised Version]. [ADDY, William]. [Title in shorthand: Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with singing Psalms in shorthand, written by William Addy. The Bible engraved by John Sturt] . London. Printed for the author, and Peter Story and sold by, Tho: Fabian at the Bible in Pauls Churchyard. Dorman Newman at ye King's Armes in the Poultry..., 1687. First edition. 16mo. [6], 278, [3], 279-358, [2], 359-396pp, [2]. With an engraved title (included in the pagination, displaying the figures of Moses and Aaron within an architectural design), an engraved portrait frontispiece of William Addy, two further engraved divisional titles (also included in the pagination) of the New Testament (Holy Dove and the Four Evangelists) and the Psalms (King David playing the harp), and a terminal blank. ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30934
[BIBLE - N.T., English]. The new testament Of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ... Imprinted at London by Robert Barker...and by the Assignes of John Bill. 1641. [528]pp. Title within ornamental woodcut border. ESTC R107604, Herbert 560, Wing B2645. ESTC records copies at just three locations (British and Foreign Bible Society, BL, and NLS).

[Bound with:] The whole booke of psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternehold, J. Hopkins, W. Whittingham, and others: conferred with the Hebrew... Edinburgh. Printed by Evan Tyler, 1644. [22], 230pp, [16]. ESTC R231218, Wing B2403A. ESTC ... More >
£ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25531
[BIBLE - English, Polyglot]. The english version of the polyglot bible; containing the old and new testaments... London. Samuel Bagster and Sons, [s.d., c. 1860] 8vo. Finely bound in publisher's luxurious blind-decorated, gilt- titled brown morocco, gilt-metal corner bosses to beveled boards, gauffered edges, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, morocco label to FEP lettered in gilt 'FROM INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - 1862'. Lightly rubbed, gilt-metal clasp broken away and absent. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32799
[BIBLE - English, Authorized Version]. The holy bible, containing the old and new testaments... Oxford. Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1823. Quarto. Unpaginated. With additional engraved title pages for both the O.T. and N.T., and a further 27 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary blind-stamped black straight-grain morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Manuscript records of births, deaths, marriages etc. of the Trueman family to front blank fly-leaves, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 19315
[BIBLE - English, Authorized Version]. The holy bible Containing the old testament and the new. Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently Compared and revised. Cambridge. Printed by John Field, 1657. 8vo. [1354]pp. Title printed within an ornamental border, containing the seal of Cambridge University, signed: Rob. Vaughan sculp. The New Testament and the Psalms both have separate title pages dated 1657, the register is continuous. Handsomely bound by Gilmour of Salisbury in early nineteenth-century black panelled morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G., gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to upper board. Armorial bookplate ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 33174
[BIBLE - English]. The holy bible containing the old and new testaments: translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, By His Majesty's Special Command.. Cambridge. Printed by J. Smith, printer to the University, 1825. 8vo. Unpaginated. Contemporary black morocco, ruled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed, with wear to extremities, and light scoring to boards. Later book-label of Lowther Castle library to FEP. Leaves lightly browned, light scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33924