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¶ CAMDEN (WILLIAM) Remaines concerning Britaine: Their Languages, Names, Surnames, Allusions, Anagrammes, Armories, Monies, Poesies, Wise Speeches, etc. The Fifth Impression, with many rare Antiquities never before imprinted. By the industry and care of John Philpot. Portrait. Sm. 4to, original calf. 1637. £2

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¶ CEYLON, An Historical Relation of the Island of, in the East-Indies: together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and divers Englishmen now living there, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape. By Robert Knox, a captive there near twenty years. Folding map and plates. Folio, calf, rebacked. 1681. £9 95.

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£3 10S. ¶ CERVANTES. The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha. Translated by Thomas Shelton, annis 1612, 1620. With Introductions by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly. 4 vols., 8vo, backs slightly faded, 1896.

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CLEVELAND. Clievlandi Vindiciæ; or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc. Purged from the Many False and Spurious Ones which had usurped his Name, and from innumerable Errours and Corruptions from the True Copies. To which are added many never Printed

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¶ CONGREVE (WILLIAM). A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer'd to the Queen; to which is prefix'd a Discourse on the Pindarique Ode. FIRST EDITION, folio, boards, leather label. London, 1706. SCARCE.

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¶ CRUIKSHANK. MAXWELL (W. H.) History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. Portrait, many full-page illustrations by George Cruikshank, 8vo, full green morocco extra, gilt edges, AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 1845. £9 9s. ¶ CUERVO (RUFINO). Vida y Noticias de su Epoca, por A. Cuervo. 2 vols., roy. 8vo, crimson half-morocco, as new. Paris, 1892.

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¶ DAVIDSON (JOHN). Holiday and other Poems. With a Note on Poetry. First Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 1906. 6s. ¶ DAVIES (WILLIAM H.). Collected Poems. With a frontispiece from a pencil sketch by William Rothenstein. Crown 8vo. Special edition bound in natural grain parchment. 1921. Reduced to 75.

¶ DEFOE (DANIEL). A System of Magick; or, A History of the Black Art. Frontispiece by Van d' Gucht, cr. 8vo, original panelled calf, FIRST EDITION. London, 1727.

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¶ DEFOE (DANIEL). Works. With an Introduction. 16 vols., 8vo, cloth, leather labels. 1908.

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DELANEY (MRS.). The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville. With interesting Reminiscences of King George III and Queen Charlotte. By the Rt. Hon. Lady Llanover. Portraits. Best Library Edition, 6 vols., 8vo, half painted vellum extra, with "Morris" sides and endpapers, a most attractive and unusual binding. 1861.

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