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Ruins of Desert Cathay.
STEIN, Mark Aurel.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Popular account of Stein's second exploration to Central Asia between 1906 and 1909. From Khotan he surveyed eastwards to Loulan, and in 1907 he r...
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Voyage dans le Levant.
FORBIN, Le Compte L.N.P.A. deOriginal price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00The scarce first edition of Forbin's Voyage with text and plates together of which Brunet says only 325 copies were printed.Forbin's was one of th...
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Assemblage, Environments & Happenings.
KAPROW, Allan.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Assemblage, Environments & Happenings is a founding document of performance and environmental art. Initially planned as an official Fluxus pub...
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Flower Is.
FRANK, Robert.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Flower Is contains three bodies of work: photographs taken in Paris of flowers, flower sellers, and chance encounters on the street, the River Rou...
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Memorials of the Empire of Japon:
[JAPAN] - ADAMS, William.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00William Adams (1564-1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin, was an English navigator who was the first Englishman to reach Japan, and the fir...
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The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands;
MIDDLETON, Sir Henry.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00Sir Henry Middleton (d. 1613) was an English captain and adventurer for the East-India Company, like his two brothers.Henry was taken on at the Wo...
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Gerstäcker's Travels.
GERSTÄCKER, Frederick.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00An attractive copy of Friedrich Gerstäcker's account of his journey to San Fransisco in hopes of striking gold. He left Bremen in 1849, stopping a...
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History of Brazil,
GRANT, Andrew; ASHE, T.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00In 1807 the Portuguese royal family and government were forced to flee to their colony of Brazil following Napoleon's invasion of their country. I...
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Death in the Afternoon.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Hemingway's exploration of professional bullfighting, a spectacle he saw more as a heroic, tragic ceremony than as a sport.First UK edition, first...
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Statecraft.
THATCHER, Margaret.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00Signed by 'The Iron Lady'. Signed by 'The Iron Lady'. An 'account of Thatcher's views about the world, its recent histories and what should be done...
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Das Auge der Liebe [The Eye of Love].
GROEBLI, Rene.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Das Auge der Liebe by the Swiss photographer René Groebli features images he made of his wife Rita during their honeymoon in France.First edition;...
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Indien.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00First and only edition of this title. "Indien" was only published in German and covers Burma, Java and Ceylon and contains a panorama of Himalayas...
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Desert Journey.
RODGER, George.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00Signed. George Rodger gives an account, illustrated with photographs, of his journey through West Africa, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Libya, Egypt, Syria, a...
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The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617,
JOURDAIN, John.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00John Jourdain (d.1619) was a captain in the service of the English East India Company (EIC), and the first president of the EIC Council of India. ...
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Mittelmeer.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00The first of two German editions. Issued c.1914.First edition. xxxii, 635 pp, 38 maps, 49 plans, past owner's inscription to title page; publisher...
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Deutschland. München und Südbayern.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00This particular volume has the stamp "Verkaufsfähig nach Kart.Veröff.VO 6.2.40 '." This means this copy had passed the censor and was fit for sale...
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Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; [and] Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole.
PARRY, William Edward.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Handsome copies of Parry's third voyage to the North-west Passage and his fourth voyage to the North Pole.The goal of the third voyage was to reac...
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Epigrams of Martial, Englished.
MARTIAL; [KILLIGREW, Henry (translator)].Original price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £0.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00The thoughts of a Roman poet. The most complete seventeenth-century translation of Martial's Epigrams into English, bound with the first edition of...
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Printed photograph album.
PHILIPPINES.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00An evocative series of colour photographs of the Philippines, ranging from views of Manilla harbour, to domestic scenes such as a butcher's shop, ...
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A Nursing Sister in Baluchistan.
MORRIS, Jessie Marjorie.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00A charming collection of letters written by nursing sister Jessie Marjorie Morris (d.1964) during her posting in the Quetta, the capital of Baluch...
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Travels to Tana and Persia; [with] A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
BARBARO, Josafa; CONTARINI, Ambrogio.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. From 1436 to 14...
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The Canarian, or the Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians
BETHENCOURT, Jean de; BONTIER, Pierre and VERRIER, Jean le (editors).Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Jean de Béthencourt (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanz...
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History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China,
D'ORLÉANS, Père Pierre Joseph; WITSEN, Nicolaas.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Ferdinand Verbiest, (1623-1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astrono...
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The Voyage of François Pyrard of of Laval
PYRARD, François.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00François Pyrard de Laval (c.1578-c.1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives...
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Ruins of Desert Cathay.
STEIN, Mark Aurel.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Popular account of Stein's second exploration to Central Asia between 1906 and 1909. From Khotan he surveyed eastwards to Loulan, and in 1907 he r...
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Voyage dans le Levant.
FORBIN, Le Compte L.N.P.A. deOriginal price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00The scarce first edition of Forbin's Voyage with text and plates together of which Brunet says only 325 copies were printed.Forbin's was one of th...
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Memorials of the Empire of Japon:
[JAPAN] - ADAMS, William.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00William Adams (1564-1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin, was an English navigator who was the first Englishman to reach Japan, and the fir...
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The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands;
MIDDLETON, Sir Henry.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00Sir Henry Middleton (d. 1613) was an English captain and adventurer for the East-India Company, like his two brothers.Henry was taken on at the Wo...
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Gerstäcker's Travels.
GERSTÄCKER, Frederick.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00An attractive copy of Friedrich Gerstäcker's account of his journey to San Fransisco in hopes of striking gold. He left Bremen in 1849, stopping a...
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History of Brazil,
GRANT, Andrew; ASHE, T.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00In 1807 the Portuguese royal family and government were forced to flee to their colony of Brazil following Napoleon's invasion of their country. I...
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The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617,
JOURDAIN, John.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00John Jourdain (d.1619) was a captain in the service of the English East India Company (EIC), and the first president of the EIC Council of India. ...
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Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; [and] Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole.
PARRY, William Edward.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Handsome copies of Parry's third voyage to the North-west Passage and his fourth voyage to the North Pole.The goal of the third voyage was to reac...
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Printed photograph album.
PHILIPPINES.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00An evocative series of colour photographs of the Philippines, ranging from views of Manilla harbour, to domestic scenes such as a butcher's shop, ...
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A Nursing Sister in Baluchistan.
MORRIS, Jessie Marjorie.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00A charming collection of letters written by nursing sister Jessie Marjorie Morris (d.1964) during her posting in the Quetta, the capital of Baluch...
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Travels to Tana and Persia; [with] A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
BARBARO, Josafa; CONTARINI, Ambrogio.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. From 1436 to 14...
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The Canarian, or the Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians
BETHENCOURT, Jean de; BONTIER, Pierre and VERRIER, Jean le (editors).Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Jean de Béthencourt (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanz...
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History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China,
D'ORLÉANS, Père Pierre Joseph; WITSEN, Nicolaas.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Ferdinand Verbiest, (1623-1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astrono...
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The Voyage of François Pyrard of of Laval
PYRARD, François.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00François Pyrard de Laval (c.1578-c.1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives...
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Les Navigations, Pérégrinations et Voyages,
NICOLAY, Nicolas de.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00One of the prototypes for Levantine costume plates. a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic world. T...
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Death in the Afternoon.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Hemingway's exploration of professional bullfighting, a spectacle he saw more as a heroic, tragic ceremony than as a sport.First UK edition, first...
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Across the River and Into the Trees.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00The true first edition, preceding the first US edition by three days, of Hemingway's poignant novel set entirely in Venice at the close of World W...
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Flush: A Biography.
WOOLF, Virginia.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Woolf's fictional 'stream of consciousness' tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning.First edition, so-called 'Lar...
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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00Association copy. A lovely association copy, inscribed by Harold Pinter to the actor Jack MacGowran on the title page: 'To Jack from Harold, Enjoy ...
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An Expensive Place to Die.
DEIGHTON, Len.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00Fifth book featuring the involuntary agent known as Harry Palmer, portrayed by Michael Caine in his screen incarnations. Scarce with the docket.Fi...
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Marriage and Morals.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00First edition. An excellent copy of the first edition of Russell's controversial attack on Edwardian Marriage and Morals, which won him the Nobel P...
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A Confederacy of Dunces.
TOOLE, John Kennedy.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00First edition in first issue dustjacket. An outstanding copy of this scarce title in the first issue dustjacket, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for F...
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The Great Gatsby.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00First edition, first printing, first issue. A true masterpiece, and simply one of the best-loved and most-admired short novels in the English langu...
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A Farewell to Arms.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00First UK edition, written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I.A profile of...
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Esthétique du Mal.
STEVENS, Wallace; WILLIAMS, Wightman (illustrator).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00One of 340 copies - signed by the illustrator and type designer. Number 65 of 300 copies printed from Centaur types on Italian Pace paper, from a t...
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Updatesby Laura MasseyScience Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.
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Guides
A Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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Literature
Ukrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
One of the best rare book shops in London. They are especially good on illustrated books – from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.
Keep your eyes peeled for a collectable publication for you. Shapero Rare Books, at 106 New Bond Street, is a great starting point.
The antiquarian bookshop has a hushed atmosphere and is filled with leather-bound travel and history tomes.
Children’s books to shelve for future generations.