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[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. JONES, Edward. The bardic museum, of primitive british literature; and other admirable rarities. Forming the second volume of the Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of The Welsh Bards and Druids: drawn from authentic documents of remote antiquity.... London. Printed by A. Strahan...for the Author, 1802. First edition. Folio. xx, 60pp, 61-112pp engraved music. With hand-coloured etched frontispiece by Thomas Rowlandson. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, with alternating harp and Prince of Wales' feathers devices to spine. A trifle rubbed to extremities, surfaces, occasional pencilled annotation and underlining, else a crisp copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27483
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L'ESTRANGE, Hamon. The alliance of Divine Offices, Exhibiting all the liturgies of the Church of England Since the reformation... London. Printed for Ch. Brome, 1699. Fourth edition. Folio. [16], 264, 275-313, [1], 325-348, 337-339, [1], 44pp. Text is continuous, despite pagination. Partially misbound. Contemporary panelled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, joints split, loss to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, remnants of excised bookplate to FEP, later inked shelf-marks and ownership inscription to front endpapers, FFEP working loose, very small burn-holes to text leaves S3-T1 (without loss of sense), ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27521
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NIMROD [APPERLEY, Charles James]. Remarks on the conditions of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management... London. Printed and published by M. A. Pittman, 1831. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 503pp, [1]. Contemporary cloth-backed buff paper boards, author's name in manuscript to spine. Rubbed, surface loss to boards, spine chipped and sunned. Hinges exposed, contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, author's name added in manuscript to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27571
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. MEDWIN, T[homas]. The Shelley Papers: memoir of percy bysshe shelley by t. medwin, esq. and original poems and papers by percy bysshe shelley. Now first collected. London. Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1833. First edition. 16mo. viii, 180pp, [4]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisement. Handsomely bound by Maclehose of Glasgow in contemporary red crushed morocco. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. A trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27587
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GOODHUGH, William. The english gentleman's library manual; or a guide to the formation of a library of select literature; accompanied with original notes, biographical and critical, of authors and books. London. Printed for William Goodhugh...and Goodhugh and Co., 1827. First edition. 8vo. [2], x, 392pp. Contemporary green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Very occasional damp-staining to head of text-block, small marginal holes to leaves O1 and 3B3. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27640
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AN AMERICAN INDIAN. The citizen of nature, in a series of letters from an american indian, in london, to his friend at home. London. Published by W. Benbow, 1824. [2], iv, 238pp.

[Bound after:] Every night book; or, life after dark. London. Published by T. Richardson, 1827. [3], xvi, [17]-192pp. Without half-title.

12mo. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed, without lettering-piece. Recent book-label of Peter Stewart Young (antiquarian bookseller of Tillingham) to FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27665
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[MOORE, Margaret King]. [LAMB, Charles]. The stories of old daniel: or tales of wonder and delight. London. Printed for M. J. Godwin, 1810. Second edition. 12mo. vi, [1], 196pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-ruled tree-sheep. Lightly rubbed and marked, later naive cloth repair to head of spine. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of E. Montagu and recent pencilled inscription of William St. Clair to recto of FFEP, offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27682
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[CROCKER & COOPER]. The four pictures. Which is mine?. London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860] 16pp.

[Bound with:] The shipwreck; or, "he loved his own". London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860]. 15pp, [1].

[And:] [Drop-head title:] The journey. [London]. [Crocker & Cooper], [s.d., c. 1860]. 16pp.

[And:] Make haste, and come down. London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860]. 15pp, [1].

[And:] "Jump now". London. Crocker & Cooper, [s.d., c. 1860]. 16pp.

[And:] [Drop-head title:] "Give, give". [London]. [Crocker ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27686
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[MONTGOMERY, James]. Prose, by a poet. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. In two volumes. [3], vi-xvii, [3], 285, [1]; [4], 294pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27711
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HOGG, James. The queen's wake: a Legendary Poem. Edinburgh. Printed by Andrew Balfour, 1813. First edition. 8vo. [8], 353pp, [1]. Contemporary dark green half-morocco, green buckram boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription of W. M. Spalding to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27719
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GOLDSMITH, Dr. [Oliver]. Poems for young ladies. In three parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining. The Whole being A Collection of the Best Pieces in our Language. London. Printed for William Davenhill, 1770. New edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 248pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting black calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and damp-stained, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting, ticket of printer and stationer J. Hall Smith of Cowes, Isle of Wight to RFEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27885