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BAILEY, Capt. F. M. [Drop-head title:] Notes from southern tibet. [Bombay?]. [s.n.], [1915]. First offprint edition. 8vo. 72-78pp, [1]. With a photographic plate. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. A trifle marked, sunned. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34389

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HARRIS, William. [Drop-head title;] Notes on Visits to various Institutions for the Blind. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1866-7 12mo. Manuscript on paper. 169pp, [4]. Contemporary gilt-ruled red cloth. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed 'William Harris Westcotes Leicester, March 5th 1866' to verso of FFEP. More > £ 4,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28902

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[PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS]. [Drop-head title:] Observations on the Duty upon soap. [London]. [s.n.], [1730]. Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. [2]pp. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Woodcut head- piece and decorative initial. Docket-title to verso. Old central horizontal fold. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33200

[DEFOE, Daniel]. [Drop-head title:] Observations on the Fifth Article of the Treaty of union, humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament, relating to Foreign Ships. [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], [1706]. First edition. Quarto. 4pp. Recent black morocco-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27116

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[NAPIER, John]. WALLACE, William. [Drop-head title:] On the Burial Place of John Napier of Merchiston, the Inventor of Logarithms. [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], [1831]. Quarto. 4pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of p[1]: 'To the Right Hon. Lord Napier / From W. Wallace'. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 23491

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NAPIER, Mark. [Drop-head title:] On the progress and prospects of science in scotland at the close of the sixteenth and commencement of the seventeenth centuries, as compared with the same at cambridge a century later... [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], [1856]. 42pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'To the Lord Napier / from his affectionate cousin / the Author'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23492

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[PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] Paper relating to the slave trade. [London]. [s.n.], [1817]. Folio. 10pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Sewn, as issued. Three old horizontal folds. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27624

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[PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] Papers Relating to a Recruiting Depôt on the Coast of Africa, for the West India Regiments. [London?]. [s.n.], [1812]. Folio. 9pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Early alternate pagination in manuscript to upper corners. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27619

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[MORE, Hannah]. [Drop-head title:] Patient joe; Or, the Newcastle Collier.. London. Sold by J. Marshall [s.d., c. 1795] Dimensions: 270 x 440 mm. Single leaf broadside. Printed in two columns, text within ornamental border, woodcut vignette at head. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 34885

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[BABYLON]. [Drop-head title:] Plan of the ruins of the city of babylon. [London?]. Reproduced by Survey Party M.E.F., [1918]. Dimensions 320 x 410 mm. Single sheet, printed on one side only. Old horizontal and vertical folds. Spotted, two small holes. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28026

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[ACADEMY ADDRESS]. [Drop-head title:] Prologue to the public readings at Messrs. Flack's Academy, For Christmas, 1810, To be Spoken by Henry Tolhurst. [London]. J. Barfield, Printer, [1810]. Dimensions 200 x 320 mm. Single leaf broadside. Three old horizontal folds. Short central tear to head, creased, a trifle spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25502

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[ENCLOSURE]. [Drop-head title:] Reasons Humbly Offered, for Inclosing Gratwood-Heath, in the Parish of Eccleshall, in the County of Stafford. [London]. [s.n.], [1719]. Dimensions 200 x 330 mm. Single sheet, printed of both sides, edges uncut. Docket title to verso. Three old horizontal folds, stab-stitch holes and remnants of binding to gutter margin. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 24227

[ALCOHOL]. [Drop-head title:] Reasons humbly offered By the Maltsters of Surrey and Middlesex... [London]. [s.n.], [1730?] Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. Single leaf. Docket title to verso. Stab-stitch holes to gutter margin. Old horizontal folds. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23666

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[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] Reasons humbly offer’d to the Honourable House of Commons, against passing a bill for making provision for the rector of St. John Clerkenwel, in the county of Middlesex, and his successors. [London]. [s.n.], [1727]. Folio. Single bifolium. 3pp, [1]. Docket title to verso of second leaf. Shave at head, a trifle creased, leaves separating at gutter. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25475

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[PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] Report from the committee on african forts. [London?]. [s.n.], [1817]. Folio. 63pp, [1]. Disbound. Later resewn. Terminal leaf creased. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27622

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[PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] Reports from commodore sir george collier, concerning The Settlements on The Gold and Windward Coasts of Africa. [London?]. [s.n.], [1820]. Folio. 17pp, [1]. Disbound. Later resewn. Three old horizontal folds, sealing wax remnant to title, ink-stamp pf the Institute of Historical Research to verso. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27620

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[PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] Sierra leone. Return to an Address of the Honourable House of Commons dated 19th May 1829... [London?]. [s.n.], [1830]. Folio. 95pp, [1]. Disbound. Later resewn. A trifle creased. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27625

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[HULL ROCKINGHAM]. [Drop-head title:] Slavery. From the "Hull Rockingham" of January 31, 1824. [Liverpool]. [Rushton and Melling], [1824]. First offprint edition. 8vo. 8pp. Disbound, later stitched into marbled wrappers. Leaves dampstained, primarily at margins More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 13684

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STIRLING, William. [Drop-head title:] Some notices of the Seychelles, the Almirantes, and other Islands and groups of Islands, situated between the Equator and 12o South latitude; and between 45o and 75o East longitude, &c. &c By Major William Stirling, 17th Regiment, Bombay N. I. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.,1838?] 8vo. 10pp. Stitched, as issued. Remnants of original publisher's powder blue wrappers to spine. Spotted. Signed and annotated by the author.

[Together with:] A single sheet typescript letter, dated 4th May, 1837, informing Stirling both that his paper on the Seychelles has been read before the Bombay Geographical Society and that he had been elected a member. Three old horizontal folds. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 30994

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[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Drop-head title:] Substance of the Engagements between the Courts of St. Petersburgh and Stockholm, signed at St. Petersburgh the 24th of March 1812, so far as the same are referred to it the Treaty between His Majesty and the King of Sweden, signed at Stockholm on the 3d of March 1813. London. Printed by R. G. Clarke, [1813]. Dimensions 180 x 330 mm. Single leaf broadside. Old central horizontal fold. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30122