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SCHMID, Christopher von. The basket of flowers; or, piety and truth triumphant. A tale for the young. Halifax. Milner and Sowerby, 1859. 12mo. viii, [1], 10-100pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Rubbed, lightly marked. Contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP, frontispiece and engraved title foxed, pressed flower pinned to RFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23952

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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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[ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA]. A treatise of the construction of logarithms: to which are added, tables of logarithms, sines and tangents. From the encyclopaedia. Philadelphia. Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1802. First edition. Quarto. 71pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's powder-blue paper boards, later rebacked with cream paper. Boards rubbed. Hinges exposed, book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP, early inked ownership/gift inscriptions to FFEP, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22506

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[ACTS - GEORGE IV]. An act for Inclosing Lands in the Parishes of Duxford Saint John and Duxford Saint Peter, in the County of Cambridge. [Royal Assent, 15 May, 1822]. [London]. [s.n.], [1822]. First edition. Folio. 36pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dusty. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24032

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WHITMARSH, H. Phelps. The world's rough hand: toil and adventure at the Antipodes. New York. The Century Co., 1899. 8vo. [8], 233pp, [1]. Original publisher's pictorial cloth, lettered in black and gilt. Lightly rubbed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24011

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VOELCKER, [John C. A.]. [A collection of 44 works on agricultural chemistry]. London. [Various publishers], 1855-65 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, green buckram boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. With a manuscript list of contents bound in. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate of G. Stephenson to FEP, scattered foxing. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 24023

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[WALMESLEY, Charles]. The general history of the christian church, from her birth, to her final triumphant state in heaven, chiefly deduced from the apocalypse of st. john the apostle. Dublin. Printed by J. Mehain, 1790. First Irish edition. 8vo. xv [i.e.xvii], [7], 504pp. With a list of subscribers. Recent paper boards, lettered in black. Leaves browned and foxed. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 11992

LEVER, Charles. Jack Hinton, the guardsman. Dublin. William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1845. 8vo. x, [2], 396pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, 26 engraved plates, and nine wood engravings in the text by H. K. Browne. Contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain brown morocco, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, plates foxed, offsetting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 12355

LEVER, Charles. One of them. London. Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 471pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 28 engraved plates by 'Phiz' [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne].Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, marbled boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 12356

LOWAN, Arnold Noah. Table of arc tan x. New York. Works Projects Administration, 1942. First edition. Quarto. [2], xxvi, 169pp, [5]. Original publisher's tan cloth boards, lettered in black. A trifle rubbed, corner's bumped. Internally immaculate. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24004

[ACTS - GEORGE IV]. An act For inclosing Lands in the Parish of Doddington, and Hamlet of Wimblington, in the said Parish of Doddington, and in the Hamlet of Manea, in the Parish of Coveney, in the Isle of Ely, and County of Cambridge. [London]. [Printed by J. Moyes], [1825]. First edition. Folio. 28pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dusty. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24035

[ACTS - GEORGE IV]. An act for Inclosing and exonerating from Tythes, Lands in the Parish of Hinxton, in the County of Cambridge. [Royal Assent, 28 February, 1820]. [London]. [s.n.], [1820]. First edition. Folio. 24pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dusty. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24034

[ACTS - WILLIAM IV]. An act for Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Hardwick, in the County of Cambridge. [Royal Assent, March 18th, 1836]. [London]. [s.n.], [1836]. First edition. Folio. 42pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dusty, foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24033

[ACTS - GEORGE III]. An act for Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Toft in the County of Cambridge. [London]. [s.n.], [1812]. First edition. Folio. 27pp, [1]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle browned and dusty. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24031

[ACTS - VICTORIA]. An act For inclosing Lands in the Parish of Thriplow in the County of Cambridge [Royal assent, May 19th, 1840]. [London]. [s.n.], [1840]. First edition. Folio. 53pp, [1]. Docket title to verso of final leaf. Stitched, as issued. A trifle dusty. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24030

[ACTS - WILLIAM IV]. An Act to render valid certain Marriages solemnized in the Church of Saint Clement, Oxford. [17th August 1836]. [London]. [Printed by George Eyre], [1836]. [985]-986pp. Single leaf, printed on both sides. Disbound, a trifle creased. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24037

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[ACTS - CHARLES II]. [Caption title:] An Act for taking of Affidavits in the Country to be made use of in the Courts of Kings Bench, Common-pleas and Exchequer. [London]. [Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker], [1677]. Folio. 211-214pp. Without general title page. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, worming to margins, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 24036

LAWRENCE, T. E.. The Mint. A Day Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes By 352087 A/c Ross. London. Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Quarto. Number 464 of a limited edition of 2,000. [4], 206pp. Original publisher's navy quarter morocco over buckram boards, gilt, housed in original cardboard slipcase. A trifle rubbed, slipcase browned and marked. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23816

ADAM, Colin Forbes. Life of Lord Lloyd. London. Macmillan & Co., 1948. First edition. 8vo. x, 317pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further seven photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Endpapers foxed. From the library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of T. E. Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23983

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[SYKES, Arthur Ashley]. The reasonableness of mending and executing the laws against papists. Humbly offered to The Consideration of all that have a Regard for the Dignity of our sovereign, and the Liberty of great britain. London. Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1746. First edition. 8vo. 40pp. Recent calf-backed brown cloth boards. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp, stab-stitch holes to gutters. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23714