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POYER, John. The history of barbados, from the first discovery of the island, in the year 1605, till the accession of lord seaforth, 1801. London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1808. First edition. Quarto. xxix, [7], 8, [2], 9-668pp. With a list of subscribers. Bound by W. & G. Baird of Belfast in later half-calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Minor shelf-wear. Endpapers browned, binder's ticket and armorial bookplate of Anglo-Irish British Army officer and politician Hugh McCalmont (1845-1924) to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 30178

JOHNSON, W. R.. The history of greece in easy verse; From the Earliest Period, to its Conquest by the romans. London. Printed for B. Tabart, Juvenile Library, 1807. First edition. 12mo. [6], 129pp, [1]. With an engraved folding frontispiece. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, loss to head of spine. Frontispiece foxed, single short tear to margin, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 20955

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ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. The history of india. The hindú and mahometan periods. London. John Murray, 1857. Fourth edition. 8vo. xxiv, 698pp. Later half-calf, brown cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities rubbed. Title page and terminal leaf browned. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30318

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SHERRING, Rev. M. A. The history of protestant missions in india from their commencement in 1706 to 1881. London. The Religious Tract Society, 1884. New edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 463pp, [1]. With four engraved folding maps. Original publisher's navy cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed, lettering-piece browned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31584

LLOYD, W. Watkiss. The history of sicily to the athenian war; with elucidations of the sicilian odes of pindar. London. John Murray, 1872. First edition. 8vo. x, [2], 396, 12pp. With an engraved folding map and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed, a trifle marked, heavily sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28713

MORTON, James, Rev.. The history of the abbey of jedburgh. Published from the Monastic Annals of Teviotdale. [Through the kindness and permission of W. H. Lizars, Esq.]. Jedburgh. Printed by Walter Easton, 1836. 12mo. [2], 104pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and one further engraved plate. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper boards. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered foxing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25563

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BRUCE, J[ohn]. The history of the Ancient savoy palace, (built by the duke de savoy, A.D. 1245,) now the scite of the waterloo bridge. London. Sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones et al., 1817. First edition. 8vo. 18pp. With an engraved folding frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. A trifle marked and creased, price on upper wrapper struck through. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24541

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[LOGGON, Samuel]. The History of the Brotherhood or Guild of the Holy Ghost near Basingstoke in Hampshire; dissolved ny King Edward VI, and Re-establish'd by K. Philip and Q. Mary. Reading. Printed for the Author, by J. Newbery and C. Micklewright, 1742. 8vo. [viii], [4], 43pp., [1]. With title in red and black. In original marbled wrappers. Wrappers a bit rubbed, with two small tears, some spotting to one gathering, else fine. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20103

SWIFT, Jonathan. The history of the four last years of the queen...Published from the Last Manuscript Copy, Corrected and Enlarged by the Author's Hand. London. Printed for A. Millar, 1758. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 392pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, recently rebacked. Boards Rubbed and marked, bumping to corners with some loss of leather.. Internally clean and crisp. Later book-label of A. Eyre to FEP. With a loosely inserted contemporary manuscript receipt of sale: Antho: Eyre Esq. Barnsley 24th April 1758 / Bought of We / J Swifts 4 last years of the queen 8vo. cf. ... £0.5.0 / Hon. ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17590

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THIERS, A[dolphe]. The history of the french revolution. London. Henry G. Bohn, 1861. 8vo. [4], 972pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and marked, sunned. Marbled endpapers, inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32996

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SITARAMAYYA, B. Pattabhi. The history of the Indian National Congress (1885-1935). [Madras]. [Printed at the Law Printing House], 1935. First edition. 8vo. xxii, 1038, civ pp. With 12 photographic plates. Original publisher's yellow buckram, lettered in black. Heavily rubbed and marked, boards bowed, spine sunned. Tickets of Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha of Madras and Arthur Probsthain of London to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32182

LE BEAU, [Charles]. The history of the lower empire; beginning from Constantine the Great. Translated from the French of M. Le Beau. Volume the first. London. Printed for T. Davies, 1770. First edition in English. 8vo. Volume I, all published. xxxi, [1], 390pp. With half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards. Without spine panel, rubbed and marked. Paste-downs sprung, short marginal tear to leaf T7, else internally immaculate. More > £ 850.00 Antiquates Ref. 16219

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AN IMPARTIAL HAND [i.e. HENDERSON, Andrew]. The history of the Rebellion, 1745 and 1746. Containing, A full Account of its Rise, Progress and Extinction... London. Reprinted from the Edinburgh Edition, and Sold by R. Griffiths, 1748. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 126pp. Recent marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed. Paper repair to gutter of title page, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22033

ROBERTSON, William. The history of the reign of the emperor charles V... Dublin. Printed for W. and W. Smith et al., 1769. First Dublin edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xvi, 394, [12]; [4], 479, [1]; [4], 456pp, [38]. With half-titles. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed, corners bumped, loss to lettering-piece of Vol. I. Occasional spotting. Armorial bookplates to FEPs of Thomas Grame of Duchray (d. 1773), Lieutenant-Colonel of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot or 'Black Watch', a veteran of the French and Indian War, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23789

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SPALDING, John. The history of the troubles and memorable transactions in Scotland, from the year 1624 to 1645... Aberdeen. Printed for T. Evans...Sold by A. Angus and Son, 1792. First edition. 12mo. 342, [4]; [2], 311pp, [1]. Handsomely bound in later gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33312

MONTEITH, Robert. The history of the troubles of great britain: Containing a particular Account of the Most remarkable passages in scotland, From the Year 1633 to 1650.. London. Printed for G. Strahan, 1735. First edition in English. Folio. iv, [4], 557pp. Contemporary calf. Heavily worn, without lettering-piece, splitting to joints, loss to foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of Sir James Gordon, Baronet, of Letterfoury to FEP. Scattered staining and spotting throughout, particularly to FEP and title. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33511

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BOYER, Peter. The history of the vaudois. Wherein Is shewn their Original; how God has preserved the Christian Religion among them in its Purity, from the time of the Apostles, to our days; The Wonders he has done for their preservation, with the Signal and Miraculous Victories that they have gained over their Enemies; how they were dispersed, and their Churches ruined; and how at last they were re-established, beyond the expectation and hope of all the World. London. Printed for Edward Mory, 1692. First edition in English. 12mo. [12], 250pp. Without terminal blank leaf. Nineteenth century half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, calf lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, paper shelf-label to upper board. Bookplate of Walter Wilson to FEP, armorial bookplate of Joseph Tasker to verso of title page, staining to p.96-97, short tear to leaf L2, touching text without loss of sense, slight loss to lower corner and catch-words of ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33449

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DONALD, T. F.. The Hodge Podge Club 1752-1900. Glasgow. James MacLehose and Sons, 1900. First edition. 8vo. [8], 98pp. Presentation copy, with the loosely inserted compliments slip of the author. Original publisher's navy blue buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. A crisp copy, lightly rubbed and marked, with a few old paint spots to boards. Endpapers browned. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33399

LAWRENCE, T. E. The home letters of t. e. lawrence and his brothers. Oxford. Basil Blackwell, 1954. First English edition. Quarto. 731pp, 45 photographs tipped in, including frontispiece, and facsimile of Winston Churchill's typewritten permission to reproduce the original Allocution that follows. Original publisher's dark navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the pale grey unclipped dustwrapper lettered in black and red. All edges spotted with some further spotting and markings throughout. Dustwrapper is worn and toned with some tearing though intact. Some notes in Henry ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 27983

VAN LOON, Hendrik Willem. The home of mankind: the story of the world we live in. London. George G. Harrap & Company, 1933. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 506pp. Numerous illustrations by the author in the text. Original publisher's decorative green clot. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, marked. Presentation copy, inked illustration and inscription to recto of FFEP: 'The will to live / Hendrik Willem van Loon / Madras (?)'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20896