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CRUIKSHANK, George. George cruikshank's table book. London. Bell and Daldy, 1869. New edition. 8vo. viii, 277pp, [3]. With and additional engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, and 116 wood-engravings in the text. Original publisher's bevelled green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: To Thomas Barlow Esq. MD. &c. &c. / with the regards of George Cruikshank / March 23rd. 1876'. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30351
CHAPMAN, Major F[rancis] R[obert] H[enry]. How to learn hindūstānī. A guide to the lower and higher standard examinations. . London. Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1918. Third edition. 8vo. xii, 364, [2], iipp. With half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, with a touch of wear to extremities. Bookseller's ticket of Hugh Rees Ltd. of London to FEP., leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34862
BLAIR, Hugh. Lectures on rhetoric and belles letters. London. Printed for W. Strahan, 1785. Second edition. 8vo. In three volumes. viii, 456; [4], 480; [4], 384pp, [26]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23033
VERBOQUET LE GENEREUX. Les facetieuses rencontres de verboquet, Pour, réjouir les Mélancoliques. Contes plaisans pour passer le temps. A Troyes. Chez la Veuve Jacques Oudot & Jean Oudot, [s.d., 1735] 12mo. 35pp, [1].

[Bound with:] Les rencontres fantaisies et Coqs-a-l'asne facetieux du baron grateland... Troyes. Chez Pierre Garnier, [s.d., 1738]. [36]pp.

12mo. Nineteenth century gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, loss to spine caps, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Richard Chase Sidney to FEP, blind-stamp of John Fowles to front blank fly-leaf, leaves browned and spotted. More >
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28453
SCAPULA, Johannes. Lexicon Graeco-Latinum novum: in quo ex primitivorum & simplicium fontibus derivata atque composita ordine non minus naturali, quàm alphabetico, breviter & dilucidè deducuntur. Basileae [i.e. Basel]. Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, [1600]. Editio ultima, priori locupletior & correctior. Folio. [5] leaves, 1856 columns, [62, 30] leaves, 188 columns, [1] leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed and discoloured, corners bumped. Light damp-staining to upper corner of text-block, scattered foxing. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25288
RAWNSLEY, Rev. H[ardwicke] D[rummond]. Literary Associations of the English Lakes. Glasgow. James MacLehose and Sons, 1901. Second edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xi, [3], 236, [2]; vii, [3], 251pp. With half-titles and 32 plates. Extra-illustrated with 156 plates, primarily engraved landscapes views of the Lake District and portraits of the Romantics and their circle. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled navy crushed half-morocco, blue cloth boards, T.E.G.Slightest of rubbing. Bookplates of Brackenburn and morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle to front endpapers. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31072
[PERPETUAL ALMANAC]. [Manuscript perpetual almanac]. [s.l.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1842] Dimensions 60 x 90 mm. Manuscript on paper. Two cards, housed in contemporary naive marbled paper wallet, the first a manuscript 'perpetual almanack', the other printed (on one side only) providing the dates of Feast and Saint Days. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Francis Henry Heyman Shepherd to wallet and verso of manuscript card. Wallet rubbed and marked. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 24692
[GROSLEY, Pierre-Jean]. Memoires de l'academie des sciences, inscriptions, belles lettres, eaux arts, &c. Nouvellement établie à Troyes en Champagne. Troyes. Chez le Libraire de l'Académie, 1756. Second edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], iv, 140; [4], 156pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later bookplate of Mr. Beaupré to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32797
LAYCOCK, John. New dialogues, english and german. For the Use of both Nations. Preceded by a variety of initiatory lessons, and a large collection of idiomatical phrases, well calculated to accelerate the progress of the respective learners. In two parts. I. Preliminary Lessons and idomatical Phrases. II. Dialogues in the modern Style of Conversation. Hamburgh [i.e. Hamburg]. F. H. Nestler & Melle, 1851. Fifth edition newly revised and enlarged. 12mo. [16], xxiv, 394pp. Printed in double columns. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Near contemporary ownership inscription to head of title-page 'Fanny G. Houghlin / Feb. 1863', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16785
DUPUY, Jacques. THOU, Jacques Auguste de. Nominum propriorum Virorum, Mulierum, Populorum, &c. quae in Viri Illustris jacobi augusti thuani Historiis leguntur index Cum vernacula singularum vocum Expositione. Genevae, [i.e. Geneva]. Apud Petrum Aubertum, 1634. Quarto. [612]pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf. Rubbed, with loss at head of spine and bumping to corners; but nevertheless an attractive copy. With the bookplate of Sir James Gordon Bart. of Letterfoury to FEP, and of George Lockhart of Carnwath (upon which someone has inscribed 'Scarry a looked Heart' in an early hand) to verso of title. Pen trials to margin of second leaf; occasional wormtracks, marginal ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33262
SINCLAIR, John. Observations on the scottish dialect. London. Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1782. First edition. 8vo. v, [3], 232pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to boards. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26454
BARTELON, Pantaléon. Pantaleontis bartelonæi raverini de ratione Quantitatis syllabariæ Liber... Lugduni [i.e. Leiden]. Apud Joannem Lertout, 1578. 197ff, [3].

[Bound with:] BARTELON, Pantaleón. Syntaxis latina facili carmine conscripta. Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]. Apud Joannem Lertout, 1578. 159pp.

16mo. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Occasional early manuscript numerals to margins. The Macclesfield copies, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate and typical armorial blind-stamps to title page and first two leaves of text. More >
£ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31928
MARTINIUS, Petrus. Petri Martinii Morentini Navarri grammatica hebraea... [Leiden]. Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1612. 8vo. [16], 267, [5], 158, [2], 112pp. Contemporary blind-ruled calf. Rubbed, joints split, later initials 'T.L.' in correction fluid to spine, loss to upper compartment, lower compartment detached (though present), without lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of the Rugby School Library to FEP, early manuscript staves, annotations, pen-trials, and ownership inscriptions in at least two distinct English and Latin hands to blank fly-leaves, including those of ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 24401
HARRIS, James. Philological inquiries in three parts. London. Printed for C. Nourse, 1781. First edition. 8vo. Without half-title. [30], 571pp, [37]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, marked, and bumped. Early armorial bookplate and recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, inked ownership inscription of Alex. Fraser Tytler to head of title. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20320
[GREEK POETRY]. WAGSTAFFE, William. Poetae graeci: sive selecta ex homeri odys. hesiodo, theocrito, callimacho...Cum vulgata Versione emendata. ac variis, partim Scholiastarum Graecorum, partim Doctorum recentiorum, Notis. In usum Regiae Scholae Etonensis. Editio nova, recognita et aucta. Etonae, [i.e. Eton]. Excudit M. Pote, 1796. Fifth edition. 8vo. iv, [2], 1-2, 7-148pp, 96pp only [i.e. sections of Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod and Theocritus excepted from the larger collection in both Greek and Latin, the former interleaved with blanks but lacking two printed leaves of the Odyssey]. Contemporary vellum, lettered in manuscript to spine. Marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed and marked, text occasionally spotted. Bookplate of James Stewart to FEP, ink inscription to verso of FFEP, ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 12097