ANACREON. Odes, traduites en vers, avec le texte grec en regard, suivies de cinq traductions aussi en vers, des mêmes odes, et par divers auteurs, dans les langues latines, italienne, espagnole, anglaise et allemande, et de notes bibliographiques et critiques, et ornées d'un fac-simile lithographié complet, en seize pages, extrait du manuscrit du Vatican, et d'un portrait lithographié, par A. Maurin. Par M. J.-F.-D. d'Attel de Luttange, de la Société Royale des Antiquaires de France.  
Paris, Eberhart, Bossange Père, Treuttel et Würtz, 1833.
Folio...  Contemporary red half-leather (worn). (ref.108701)

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[ CHARPENTIER (W. H.) ]. A Concise Account of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, 1782. Third edition.  
Published by W. H. Charpentier, Artist's Repository, 50 High Street, Portsmouth; Ackermann and Co. London. 1840.
18mo...  Printed wrappers in wood boards strung together with red cord. Red morocco label on the upper board, with the gilt initials "R. G.". (ref.96366)

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CLAUDIEN. The Rape of Prosperine: with other poems. Translated into English verse. With a prefatory discourse, and occasional notes. By Jacob George Strutt. London, Printed by A. J. Valpy, 1814.
RELIE AVEC (à la suite): 2). (du même). Epithalame d'Honorius et de Marie, Poëme traduit en vers français. Dédié à son altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc de Berry, par le Marquis de Sy. Paris, Valade, 1816.  

2 works in 1 volume, 8vo...  Full morocco, gilt spine with nerves, gilt frame around the boards, gilt edges, restored (Petit). (ref.107961)

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DARWIN (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. In two volumes with illustrations.  
London, John Murray, 1871.
2 volumes 12mo...  Full black morocco, gilt framing in the center of the boards with fleurons in the corners, all edges gilt, ornate ribbed spine with red calf title-pieces (contemporary binding, hinges rubbed and roughly re-tinted in blue). (ref.116930)

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DUCK (Stephen). Poems on Several Occasions.  
London, printed for W. Bickerton, 1736.
8vo...  Contemporary hull calf, spine with nerves, double gilt fillet framing the boards (worn). (ref.108255)

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