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[JACOBITE]. Copy of a letter from a French Lady at Paris. Giving a particular Account of the Manner in which Prince Edward was arrested. London. Printed for W. Webb, 1749. 8vo. 15pp, [1]. Uncut in later gilt-ruled straight-grain red morocco. Rubbed, spine sunned. Margins dust-soiled, scattered foxing. Armorial bookplate to FEP of the Earls of Orford, a title (created on three separate occasions) held by such luminaries as Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) and Horatio Walpole (1723-1809), Whig politician and godfather of Horatio Nelson. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 23718
NEPOS, Cornelius. Cornelii nepotis excellentium imperatorum vitae. Londini [i.e. London]. Typis J. Brindley, 1744. 12mo. [14], 118pp, [10]. With an engraved title-page and a terminal list of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to boards. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 19256
[DELHI DURBAR]. Coronation Durbar: Delhi 1911. Official Directory with maps. Calcutta. Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911. First edition. 8vo. vi, 388pp. With two lithographed maps in rear pocket. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Calling card of Major T. X. Britton, 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, loosely inserted. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31025
[QUEEN CAROLINE]. [Cover title:] A series of caricatures illustrating the attorney general's charges against queen caroline. Fifty-one Plates Complete on Thirty-Five. "Exceedingly Characteristic, now very scarce, having been supressed." Originally published at five guineas. [London]. [G. Humphrey, 1817-27] Oblong folio. Expertly recased in original patterned paper wrappers, title label to upper wrapper. Fifty-one etched caricatures (on 35 sheets), uncoloured. Worn, with creasing (and consequent tear to upper wrapper), and loss to extremities. Plates heavily toned and spotted. Ten plates laid-down on slightly later paper backing, the final nine sheets with a small pieced hole, affecting images. Two of the plates which have been laid down ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30267
[VILLIERS, Ernest]. [Cover title:] Recollections. [London]. [Sir Joseph Causton & Son], [1912]. First edition. Quarto. 63pp, [1]. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To my dear nephew Douglas Loch, from his affectionate uncle Ernest Villiers. April 1912'. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33575
PLINY, The Younger. C. plinii caecilii secundi epistolarum libri x. Londini [i.e. London]. Sumptibus editoris excudebant M. Ritchie & J. Sammells, 1790. 8vo. [4], 484pp, [2]. With a terminal errata leaf. Handsomely bound in contemporary navy morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later armorial bookplate of William Cavendish to FEP, inked ownership inscription of Cavendish dated 1824 and recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to verso of FFEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19050
PLINY, The Younger. C. plinii caecilii secundi epistolarum libri x.. Londini [i.e. London]. Sumptibus editoris excudebant M. Ritchie & J. Sammells [Typis Edmundi Fry], 1790. 8vo. [4], 484pp, [2]. With a terminal errata leaf. Handsomely bound, in a style reminiscent of, and perhaps executed by, Roger Payne, in contemporary gilt-tooled navy straight-grain morocco, marbled edges. Very light rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Panshanger to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP, slight loss to upper margins of leaves L3-4, very occasional spotting. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19053
BENSON, E. F.. Crescent and iron cross. London. Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. First edition. 8vo. [10] 269pp. With two bound in colour maps of the Balkan states, with a further fold out map glued to the RFEP of the Turkish Empire in 1914. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered silver. Shelf-worn with corners bumped, spine faded. Internally bright, with very minor toning and a few nicks to pages. Folding map to the rear has a tear but remains complete. More > £ 100.00 On Sale: £ 80.00 Antiquates Ref. 30134
MACPHERSON, John. Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion, of the ancient caledonians, their posterity the picts, and the british and irish scots. London. Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt...and J. Balfour, in Edinburgh, 1768. First edition. Quarto. xxiv, [2], 382pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tan half-calf, marbled boards. Marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and marked, bumping to corners. Occasional marginal browning, else fine. Presentation copy, inscribed 'To Nathanial Wraxall Esqr. from Sir John Macpherson, Brompton 10 August 1810' to head of title. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 23480
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Crusader castles. Oxford. Clarendon Press, [1990]. New edition. 8vo. xl, 154pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Some marking to top-edge, else clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21457
SALLUST. C. sallustii crispi Quae extant. In usum serenissimi galliarum delphini, diligenter recensuit, & Notulas addidit daniel crispinus. Parisiis [i.e. Paris]. Apud Fredericum Leonard Typographum Regis, Serenissimi Delphini, & Cleri Gallicani, 1674. Quarto. [30], 234pp, [126]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked, slight splitting to lower joint. Very occasional pen-trials/short tears to margins, overall internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17548
SUETONIUS. C. suetonii tranquilli XII. caesares... Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]. Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1548. 16mo. 632pp, [38]. Later gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, joints and corners neatly refurbished. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 31907
BANDURI, Anselmo. D. Anselmi Bandurii...Bibliotheca nummaria, sive auctorum qui de re nummaria scripserunt... Hamburgi [i.e. Hamburg]. Apud C. Liebezeit et T.C. Felginer, 1719. First edition. Quarto. [8], 248pp. Contemporary vellum, contrasting gilt-tooled morocco lettering-piece. Foot of spine with large (and rather unsightly) split, some marking, text significantly browned and spotted, with some old damp-staining to preliminaries, soiling to signatures K-L. Various later shelf-marks in manuscript (variously pencil and ink) to endpapers. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24060
[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