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TASSIE, William. Descriptive Catalogue of a collection of devices and mottos english, french, and italian, from Engraved Seals, formed in composition paste, and sold by william tassie, leicester-square. London. Printed by William Bulmer and Co., 1816. First edition. 12mo. [8], 43pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's printed powder blue paper boards, recently rebacked in black cloth. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to front blank fly-leaf, later inked gift inscription and annotation to half-title, manuscript numerals to REP, occasional paper repairs to gutter margins, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 30905
CLELAND, James. Description of the Banquet in honor of the right honble sir robert peel, bart. m.p.. Glasgow. John Smith & Son, 1837. First edition. Quarto. [6], 144pp. With an additional engraved title page, a large terminal folding engraving depicting a view of the grand banqueting hall, and a further three engraved plates. Bound by Carss of Glasgow in contemporary straight-grain dark green half-morocco, printed buff paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Heavily rubbed and marked, corners exposed. Armorial bookplate and inked ownership inscription of Henry Wilson Cleland dated ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 33459
MAGELLEN, J[ean] H[yacinthe] de. Description of a glass-apparatus from making In a few Minutes, and at very small Expence, the best mineral waters of pyrmont, spa, seltzer, seydschtz, aix-la-chapelle, &c. together with the description of two new eudiometers... London. Printed for the Author, 1783. Third edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged by the author. 8vo. viii, 80pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut and unopened in later speckled paper wrappers. Extremities rubbed, later blank paper label to upper wrapper. Small worm-track to upper corners of first two leaves. Presentation copy, inked inscription to foot of title page: 'ex dono authoris'. More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 19239
WILDE, Oscar. De profundis. London. Methuen and Co., [1905]. Second edition. 8vo. 151pp. Bound for Hatchards in contemporary gilt-ruled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine lightly sunned. Occasional light marking to initial leaves, edges of endpapers browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34310
ALBERTI, Leonbatista. Della pittura e della statua. Milano. Dalla Società Tipograpfica de'Classici Italiani, 1804. 8vo. xxv, [1], 136pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, supralibros of George Agar-Ellis to both boards. Rubbed, without lettering-pieces. Recent bookplates of J. B. Bury and Michael Bury to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32523
SANDERSON, Robert. De Juramento. Seven lectures concerning the obligation Of Promissory oathes. Read publickly in the Divinity School at oxford. London. Printed by E. C. for Humphrey Moseley, Octavian Pulleyn, and Andrew Crook, 1655. First edition in English. 16mo. [6], 272 [i.e. 274]pp, [12]. Without initial blank leaf. Title in red and black. Later half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked preserving black calf lettering-piece. Boards rubbed. Armorial bookplate of The Law Society to FEP, with their occasional ink-stamps throughout, title page laid down, paper repair to initial leaf of text with some loss of text and sense, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25509
MEIER-GRAEFE, Julius. Degas. London. Ernest Benn Limited, 1923. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Quarto. One of 1000 numbered copies, of which this is no. 225. 87 pp. With 103 plates. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered gilt. Boards a trifle rubbed and marked, spine ends lightly bumped. Internally bright and clean, save toning to endpapers, with the original 103 tissue guards loosely inserted. With the bookplate of Anthony Eden to front pastedown. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29822
MACERONE, Francis. Defensive instructions for the people: containing the new and improved combination of arms, called foot lancers; miscellaneous instructions on the subject of small arms and ammunition, street and house fighting, and field fortification. London. Printed and published by J. Smith, [1832]. First edition. 8vo. 8, 72pp. With a folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, a further four folding lithographed colour plates, and an engraved folding plan. Original publisher's cloth-backed buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, marked, and bumped, early inked ownership inscription to upper board, corners exposed. Offsetting to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22765
JUVENAL. PERSIUS. Decii Junii Juvenalis et A. Persi Flacci Satyrae. Londini [i.e. London]. Typis J. Brindley, 1744. 12mo. 116pp. With an engraved title page. Contemporary vellum. Extremities lightly rubbed and discoloured. Later inked shelf-mark and armorial bookplate of Edward Gregory to FEP, scattered spotting, occasional pencilled annotations. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 31698
[GEORGE IV]. Death of the king. Poole. Moore and Sydenham, Printers, [1830]. Dimensions 190 x 230 mm. Single sheet handbill, text within black border. Creased, some loss to margins, evidence of removal from a mount to verso. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25473
DEANE, J[ohn]. Deanes' manual of the history and science of fire-arms. London. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858. First edition. 8vo. 291pp, [1]. With three engraved folding plates and a tipped-in errata slip. Modern green calf, tooled and lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, early ink ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, manuscript 'J." to title page, leaves browned and spotted. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 30530
[MEMORIAL DIARY]. Day unto Day. An Illuminated Diary. London. The Religious Tract Society, [s.d., c. 1875] Oblong 8vo. [32]pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and blind, illustrated colour onlay to upper board. A trifle rubbed. Hinges cracked, inked gift inscription to FFEP, occasional manuscript entires (birth, deaths etc.) More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 26265
B[oyle], E[leanor] V[eale]. Days and hours in a garden.. London. Elliot Stock, 1884. Third edition. 8vo. viii, 204pp, [2]. With half-title, numerous in-text illustrations, and a tipped-in slip advertising additional large paper copies to half-title. Uncut in original publisher's gilt-stamped buff paper boards, with a lower yapp edge. Rubbed and marked, with chipping to edges, loss to head and foot of spine, light spotting to boards. Illustrated bookplate of Ann Wilbraham to FEP. Inked gift inscription addressed to 'Aunt Mary from ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 34552
TENNYSON, Frederick. Days and hours. London. John W. Parker and Son , 1854. First edition. 8vo. viii, 346pp, [6]. With 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's brown cloth boards tooled in gilt and blind. Boards and spine slightly marked, slight bumping to corners. Small green paper label on FEP displaying 'Gilbert Brothers, Booksellers'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29201
CASE, Mrs. [Adelaide]. Day by day at Lucknow. A journal of the siege of lucknow. London. Richard Bentley, 1858. First edition. 12mo. iv, 348pp. Bound by Westleys & Co. of London in original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, marked, and cocked, spine sunned. Upper hinge exposed, remnants of later excised bookplate to FEP, binder's ticket to REP. Early inked ownership inscription of 'E. Macpherson' to head of title page; Emma Macpherson, mother of Sir William Charles Macpherson (1855-1936), civil servant in India, member ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33140
RUHNKEN, David. Davidis Ruhnkenii in Terentii Comoedias dictata. Brunsiano exemplo emendatius multisque partibus integrius ex apographo hamburgensi edita. Cura Ludovici Schopeni. Bonnae [i.e. Bonn]. Impensis Ed. Weberi, 1825. 8vo. vi, 285pp, [1]. Handsomely bound in a near contemporary Harrow school prize binding of gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed, some slight marking. Marbled endpapers, lightly foxed, prize-plate of Harrow school, dated 1841, to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 13867