Shop antiquarian books on “All Books” – Antiquates Fine & Rare Books

Photo of "Letters to count toreno on ..."

BENTHAM, Jeremy. Letters to count toreno on The proposed Penal Code, delivered in by the legislation committee of the spanish cortes, april 25th, 1821... London. Printed by R. and A. Taylor...and sold by Effingham Wilson, 1822. First edition. 8vo. viii, 120pp. Original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering- piece. Worn, boards held by cords only, loss to spine and lettering-piece, corners exposed. FFEP detached, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33139

[LAWRENCE, T. E.]. Letters to T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, [1962]. First edition. 8vo. 216pp. Without errata slip. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear. dustwrapper a trifle marked, spine panel sunned, several brown paper repairs to verso. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26296

MORGAN, Thomas. Letters to the Rev. Dr. priestley, of Leeds, in defence of An appeal to The Common Sense of plain and common Christians, in Behalf of the Old Christianity of the Gospel, and In Defence of the Author... Leeds. Printed by G. Wright, 1772. First edition. 8vo. 28pp. Disbound. Lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21396

ALLINGHAM, H[elen]. BAUMER WILLIAMS, E. [Editors]. Letters to William Allingham. London. Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. First edition. 8vo. viii, 314pp. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece by Helen Allingham. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, with chipping to head of spine. A presentation copy, with the inscription 'To Miss Reutland, with the best wishes of H. Allingham', dated 1st September 1915 to FFEP; later gift inscription from Irish author Aodh du Blacom, ... More > £ 65.00 Antiquates Ref. 34587

MORE, Hannah. Letters to young ladies. New York. Leavitt & Co., 1850. 16mo. [5], 8-125pp. Without half title. Original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth. Rubbing to extremities. Bookseller's ticket of Marvin & Hitchcock to FEP, hinges splitting, foxed throughout, pen-trial to frontispiece with occasional further pen- and pencil-trials to margins. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13387

Photo of "Letters written by the late ..."

[PITT, William]. Letters written by the late Earl of Chatham to his nephew Thomas Pitt, Esq. (Afterwards Lord Camelford) then at Cambridge. Gottingen. Reprinted for H. Dieterich, 1805. 8vo. xxx, [2], 104pp. Contemporary marbled boards, paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, with slight surface loss. Later inscription to FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 11076

MALLET DU PAN, [Jacques]. Letter to a minister of state on the connection between the political system of the French Republic, and the system of its revolution.. London. Printed for T.N. Longman, [1797]. First edition. 8vo. 56pp. Modern brown paper boards, red morocco lettering-piece. Title page a trifle browned, otherwise internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33559

Photo of "Letter to **** ******, on ..."

BYRON, Right Hon. Lord. Letter to **** ******, on the rev. w. l. bowles' strictures on the life and writings of pope. London. John Murray, 1821. Third edition. 8vo. 61, [1], 6pp, [2]. With four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in modern brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Blind-stamp of Nottingham Public Libraries to head of title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32973

Photo of "Letter to the Magistrates of ..."

[ONE WHO HONOURS MAGISTRATES ONLY AS THEY HONOUR THE LAWS]. Letter to the Magistrates of Edinburgh, in consequence of the official statement lately published in justification of their conduct with regard to the execution of robert johnston. Edinburgh. Printed [by William Aitchison] for the booksellers, 1819. 8vo. 14pp. Stitched in modern marbled wrappers, printed paper lettering-piece to upper wrapper. Leaves browned and spotted. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 33325

Photo of "Letter to the right honourable ..."

WEMYSS, David. Letter to the right honourable the lord high chancellor of great britain, upon the present state of the scotch law of entail. Edinburgh. Printed for Bell & Bradfute, 1822. First edition. 8vo. [4], 46, 2pp. With a half-title and a terminal advertisement leaf. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Half-title and verso of terminal leaf lightly dust-soiled, vertical crease to all leaves. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title; 'Marquis of Lothian / With most respectful compliments / from the Author.' More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18960

[AUSTRIA]. Lettre a un ami en pays etranger sur les droits de la maison d'Autriche a quelques parties de la succession de Baviere, avec la refutation Du Memoire succinct sur la Succession de l'Electeur de Baviere publie dans le N:o 36 du Courier polit. & litter. de Londres. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1778. Quarto. [2], 78pp. Early paper boards. Slight rubbing and some browning to extremities. Occasional spots of light foxing and mild marginal damp-staining. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 11936

Photo of "Lettres d'edmond burke, A un ..."

BURKE, Edmund. Lettres d'edmond burke, A un Membre de la Chambre des Communes de Parlement d'Angleterre, sur les negociations de paix: ouvertes avec le directoire. A Paris. Pougin et al., [1796]. First edition in French. 8vo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title. Disbound. Ink-stamps of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to head of title page and p.103, very occasional slight chipping margins. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21254

Photo of "Lettres de l'armee en egypte, ..."

[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS]. Lettres de l'armee en egypte, gouvernment francois. Interceptees par la corvette de sa majeste britannique, el vincejo, dans la mediterranee. Publiees par Autorite. A Londres [i.e. London]. De l'Imprimerie de Baylis, [1800]. 8vo. iv, 95p, [1]. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Some spotting/creasing. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 19023

Photo of "Lettres De Messieurs d'avaux et ..."

D'AVAUX, Claude de Mesmes, Comte. SERVIEN, Abel. Lettres De Messieurs d'avaux et servien, ambassadeurs Pour le Roy de France en Allemagne, concernantes leurs differens & leurs responses de part & d'autre en l'Annee 1644. [s.i.]. [s.n., s.d.], 1650. 16mo in 8s. 211, [5], 62pp, with blank leaf O4. Finely bound in eighteenth-century polished calf, spine lettered in gilt and decorated with blind-stamping. A trifle rubbed to extremities, joints creased, else a crisp copy. From Lord Minto's library, with his armorial case/shelf book label (with the motto "credunt quod vident") above the modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst) to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19673

Photo of "Lettres de Ninon de l'Enclos ..."

[DAMOURS, Louis]. Lettres de Ninon de l'Enclos au Marquis de Sevigne. Amsterdam. Chez Francois Joly, 1750. First edition. 12mo. In two volumes. [2], xii, 186; [2], 200pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I, engraved title pages to both volumes, and a final errata leaf to Vol. II. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Extremities stained and sunned, a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, margins lightly browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19521

Photo of "Lettres ecrites d'italie en 1812 ..."

LULLIN DE CHATEAUVIEUX, [Frederic]. Lettres ecrites d'italie en 1812 et 13, a m. charles pictet, l'un des reedacteurs de la Bibliotheeque britannique. Paris. Chez J. J. Paschoud, 1816. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], 6-238; [3], 6-238pp, [2]. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Extremities rubbed. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28103

Photo of "Lettres inedites du baron fabre ..."

FABRE, [Francois-Xavier]. Lettres inedites du baron fabre d'alfieri et de la comtesse d'albany publiees sur les manuscrits autographes par s. leotard. Clermont-l'Herault. Saturnin Leotard, 1884. First edition. 8vo. 37pp, [3]. Later decorated paper boards, red morocco lettering-piece. Original publisher's printed salmon wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed and discoloured. Occasional pencilled annotations. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28222

STAEL-HOLSTEIN, [Auguste Louis]. Lettres sur l'angleterre. Paris. Chez Treuttel et Wurtz, 1825. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 428pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24523

Photo of "Lettres sur les ouvrages et ..."

[ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques], [STAEL-HOLSTEIN, Anne Louise Germaine de]. Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractere de j. j. rousseau. [Paris?]. [s.n.], 1789. Derniere edition [i.e. second edition]. 8vo. [4], 88pp. Uncut, stitched into later marbled paper wrappers. Extremities marked and chipped, wrapper separating from text-block. Contemporary inked annotation and later ink-stamp of crown motif with initials 'H. A.' to title, several lines of p.7 deleted in ink (bled through to p.8-9), lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 19027

Photo of "Leviathan, sive De Materia, Forma, ..."

HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, sive De Materia, Forma, & Potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis. Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam]. Apud Joannem Blaeu, 1670. First separate Latin edition. Quarto. [4], 365pp, [15]. Later full vellum, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, all edges red. Extremities discoloured and lightly rubbed. Later paper repair to verso of front blank fly-leaf, early manuscript note to recto: 'Leviathan / Thomae Hobbesii / Malmesburiensis / Theomachi / pernicies juvenium, morum corruptela, / ingenioisima subtillissima omnis / religionis eversio diabolica. / Diaboli stercus. / Parve nec invideo, per me, liber, ibis in ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27383