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BAEDEKER, Karl. The Eastern Alps... Leipsic [i.e. Leipzig]. Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1903. Tenth edition, revised and augmented. 8vo. 571pp, [1]. With 53 maps, 10 plans, and seven panoramas. Original publisher's blind-ruled red cloth, lettered in gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed and spotted, spine sunned. Later bookplate of George Lowe, beneath earlier inked ownership inscriptions, to FFEP, small holes and tape repairs to initial map. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23432

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FELLOWES, P. F. M. et al.. First over Everest: the Houston-Mount Everest expedition 1933. London. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1933. First edition. 8vo. xix, [1], 279pp, [1]. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams, and maps. Without the 3D Glasses for viewing the Anaglyph on p.222. Rebound in later green cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, ink-stamp of J. Garfield Anderson. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23435

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MATTHEWS, Bryan, Sir et al.. [Drop-head title:] A discussion on The Physiology of man at high altitudes. [Cambridge]. [University Press], [1955]. First offprint edition. 8vo. 42pp. Stapled, as issued. Edges a trifle browned, staples rusted. Inked ownership inscription of George Lowe to first page. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23439

TASKER, Joe. Savage arena. London. Metheun, [1982]. First edition. 8vo. 270pp. With 24 photographic plates, eight maps, and six diagrams in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23443

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HANSSEN, Helmer. Gjennem isbaksen: atten år med Roald Amundsen. Oslo. Forlagt av H. Aschehoug & Co., 1941. Attende tusen [i.e. eighteenth thousand]. 8vo. 218pp, [4]. With seven photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth-backed tan buckram boards, lettered in silver. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23451

KOESTLER, Arthur. Arrival and departure. London. Jonathan Cape, [1943]. First edition. 8vo. 188pp. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in red, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped, chipping to corners, spine panel restored, paper repairs to verso. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23542

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[SCOTT, Walter]. Tales of my landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham. Edinburgh. Printed for William Blackwood, 1817. Second edition. 8vo. In four volumes. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, brown morocco lettering-pieces. Extremities heavily rubbed. Lightly spotted. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Charles Herries (1745-1819), Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, to FFEP of Vol. I. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23636

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MOLESWORTH, William. Speech of sir william molesworth, bart. m.p. in the house of commons, on tuesday, 25th july, 1848, on colonial expenditure and government. London. James Ridgway, [1848]. First edition. 40pp.

[Bound with:] Speech of sir william molesworth, bart. m.p. in the house of commons, on tuesday, 25th june, 1849, for a royal commission to inquire into the administration of the colonis. London. James Ridgway, [1849]. First edition. 32pp.

[And:] Speeches of sir william molesworth, bart. m.p. in the house of commons, during the session of 1850, on the bill for the better government of ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23867

[GILES, William]. The refuge. London. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1801. Fourth edition, with additions. 8vo. iv, 255pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscriptions to recto of front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23909

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LOWAN, Arnold N.. The Computation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards. [New York]. Scripta Mathematica, [1949]. First offprint edition. 8vo. [1], 34-63pp, [1]. Original publisher's buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Presentation copy, inked inscription to upper wrapper: 'With the compliments of the author', inked ownserhip inscription beneath. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24056

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[ACTS - GEORGE III]. [Drop-head title:] An act For altering and amending an Act of HIs present Majesty, for Inclosing Lands in the Township of Fulbourn, in the County of Cambridge. [London]. [s.n.], 1808. First edition. Folio. 6pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24070

TAYLOR, Jefferys. The farm; a new account of rural toils and produce. London. John Harris, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 175, [7]pp. With 34 engraved plates, eight on steel and twenty-six on wood, and three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red roan-backed dark-green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, loss to head of spine. Loss to one plate, all browned/damp-stained. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24075

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HART, H[enry] G[eorge] Major. The New Army List, exhibiting the rank, standing, and various services of every officer in the army on full pay... London. Published by Smith, elder and Co., 1839. 8vo. [4], 172pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, decorated green cloth boards, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate of Francis Markham to FEP, very occasional inked annotations to margins. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24119

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HOFLAND, Mrs.. The history of a merchant's widow and her young family. London. Printed for A. K. Newman & Co., [1857]. New edition. 12mo. [2], 176pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription to head of engraved title, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24314

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COOPER, J[ames] Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. A Romance of the Red-skins. (Abridged.). London. "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900] 8vo. 60pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked. Leaves browned. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24462

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[LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY]. The university of liverpool: a record of the opening of the harold cohen library by the right honourable the earl baldwin of bewdley, k. g. on saturday, may 21st, 1938. [Liverpool]. [C. Tinling & Co.], [1938]. First edition. Quarto. 19pp, [1]. With seven photographic plates and a full- page illustrated in the text. Original publisher's navy morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt to upper board, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Endpapers spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24533

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GERRARD, R. Ellis. Ballads of battle and poems of peace. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. North of England Printing Co., 1914. First edition. 8vo. [12], iii, [1], 204pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Binding cocked, heavily rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Decorated endpapers, near contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24616

JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]. A handbook to the public galleries of art in and near London... London. John Murray, 1842. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. lii, 281, [1]; [3], 283-628pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-roan, marbled boards, marbled edges. Extremities worn, loss to spines. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscriptions to head of both titles, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24741

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BARSTOW, D.. A Secular Diary for ascertaining any day of the week or month, in either the old or new style, commencing 1601, and continued up to the year 1900. [s.l.]. Printed for the author, 1836. First edition. Dimensions 360 x 265 mm (unfolded), 127 x 80 mm (folded). A single leaf broadside, folded and mounted onto original publisher's limp green cloth boards. A trifle creased. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to verso. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24816

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[SOMERSET AUCTION]. Somerset: manor, mansion, and estate. Specifications Of a Desirable and Valuable freehold estate...comprising the manor or reputed manor of Roundhill or Barrow; a mansion-house, together with above Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Acres... [London]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1831?] Folio. [4]pp. Single folded sheet. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Three early horizontal folds. A trifle creased, short tears to folds. Contemporary manuscript notes, providing further details of the estate, to verso of final leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24868