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Bilingual Coptic-Arabic Psalter,
[PSALTER].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00From the monastery of saint anthony. This volume bears witness to a very specific monastery in Egypt known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony, in th...
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Call for the Dead.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £9,750.00 - Original price £9,750.00Original price £0.00£9,750.00£9,750.00 - £9,750.00Current price £9,750.00First edition of the author's first novel. The exceedingly scarce first edition of the author's first novel, introducing the character of George Sm...
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A Humument.
PHILLIPS, Tom.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatles company Apple C...
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Eisen und Stahl.
RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert.Original price £9,750.00 - Original price £9,750.00Original price £0.00£9,750.00£9,750.00 - £9,750.00Current price £9,750.00Presentation copy. Presentation copy in the scarce dust-jacket, inscribed: '[...] / Essen den 18. Jan. 1935 / Albert Renger-Patzsch'.Eisen und Stah...
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Les Européens.
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.Original price £8,750.00 - Original price £8,750.00Original price £0.00£8,750.00£8,750.00 - £8,750.00Current price £8,750.00In a presentation dust-jacket. One of a small number of copies issued in a presentation dust-jacket with the printed name of the recipient, this ex...
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Three albums of Flowers and Views of the Holy Land, Jerusalem.
[ANON.]Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Early 20th-century souveniers from Jerusalem, containing local dried flowers and colour-lithograthed views of the Holy Land.Three small cloth back...
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Altneuland, Roman von Theodor Herzl.
HERZL, Theodor.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00First Yiddish edition of the utopian novel by Herzl, in which he describes his vision of a Jewish state founded in Palestine.The novel Altneuland ...
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Iton Rishmi.
ISRAEL, The Provisional Government of.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00The first publication of the declaration of the State of Israel. The first 25 issues of 'Iton Rishmi' containing the official publication of the Is...
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In Hyde Park.
STENBERG, I. (?)Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00An atmospheric original drawing by an unknown Soviet-Jewish artist.Graphite and watercolour on paper (42.8 x 36 cm). Signed bottom right and signe...
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The South Pole.
AMUNDSEN, Roald.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00a cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full...
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Untitled (fire)
SHRIGLEY, DavidOriginal price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00"I'm actually trying to make things that are accessible and enjoyable to others," Shrigley has said. Like a compulsive doodler with an infectiousl...
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The Tee-Square Magazine Christmas 1918 [and] Christmas 1919.
VICKERS AIRSHIP DRAWING OFFICE.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Rare in-house publication. A remarkable survival, two issues of a magazine created in-house by staff of the Vickers Airship Drawing Office at Barro...
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History of British Birds [with] A Supplement to the History of British Birds, A General History of Quadrupeds [and] The Fables of Aesop.
BEWICK, Thomas & John.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Magnificent imperial octavos. An exceptional imperial octavo set, one of only 24 copies of the Land Birds thus, finely bound in crushed morocco. Al...
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Electric Chair
WARHOL, AndyOriginal price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00Electric Chair is part of Warhol's substantial 'Death and Disaster' series, which he started in 1962, early examples of which depicted car crashes...
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Chupat Chatanim.
MELDOLA, Raphael.Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00First Edition of Rabbi Meldola's most famous work - an instruction manual for grooms discussing matchmaking, marriage, mikveh, the sacred act of c...
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A Bill to Regulate the Mode of administering the Oath of Abjuration to Persons professing the Jewish Religion.
Mr. Attorney General; RUSSELL, Lord John; GREY, Sir George.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00The bill aims to regulate the way in which Jewish members of the House of Commons would be sworn in. The bill states that the words 'Upon the true...
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Moriae Encomium;
ERASMUS, Desiderius.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Early edition in English. The first edition of John Wilson's English translation of this important work of humanist rhetoric, which satirised the c...
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Compton Verney.
HUTTON, Rory.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00Giclée printed in colours, on wove paper, 2023, signed, numbered & dated in pencil, from the edition of 30, printed by King & McGaw, Susse...
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Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £40.00 - Original price £40.00Original price £0.00£40.00£40.00 - £40.00Current price £40.00Issued c.1911.Twenty-fourth edition. xl, 593pp, 75 maps, 20 plans, 12 panoramas, some maps frayed at edges, some loose ephemera (Guide to Castle o...
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Julius Caesar's Commentaries.
[HISTORY]. CAESAR, Julius.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00The Golden Cockerel Press. An excellent copy of Julius Caesar's (d.44 BC) Commentaries rendered into modern English by the author and politician So...
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A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
GOULD, John.Original price £60,000.00 - Original price £60,000.00Original price £0.00£60,000.00£60,000.00 - £60,000.00Current price £60,000.00Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...
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The Cup of Knowledge.
MACNICOL, Willis.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00A scarce popular history and guide to fortune telling. OCLC records just three copies in institutional holdings worldwide at the National Library ...
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[Text in Persian and French]. Sefer Nameh.
NASIR-i KHUSRAW.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...
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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...
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Records of the Persian Gulf pearl fisheries 1857-1962
[ARABIAN GULF]; Anita Burdett, editor.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...
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The South Pole.
AMUNDSEN, Roald.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00a cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full...
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[Text in Persian and French]. Sefer Nameh.
NASIR-i KHUSRAW.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...
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Records of the Persian Gulf pearl fisheries 1857-1962
[ARABIAN GULF]; Anita Burdett, editor.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...
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Records of the Emirates 1966-1971
[ARABIAN GULF]; Anita Burdett, editor.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00A Very important collection of documents covering the period in Arabian Gulf history which saw the British withdrawal from the region.6 vols, 8vo,...
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Records of the Emirates 1961-1965
[ARABIAN GULF].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00A comprehensive collection of documents covering an important period in the history of the Arabian Gulf. Includes much on oil and water disputes, ...
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Historic maps of Bahrain 1817-1970.
[BAHRAIN].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00A comprehensive collection containing 69 maps and charts of Bahrain originally produced between 1817 and 1970. The volumes are divided into naval ...
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A history of Persian navigation.
HASAN, Hadi.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...
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Boyd Alexander's Last Journey.
ALEXANDER, herbert.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00With original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to ...
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A Journey into Greece...
WHELER, George.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...
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My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.
PARKE, Thomas Heazle.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Parke's important first-hand narrative of the Emin Pasha Relief expedition, one of the last major nineteenth century European expeditions into the...
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Scenes in Kafirland,
GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; ROBINSON, Lieut. Hugh.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...
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The Chater collection
ORANGE, James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00A fine copy of James Orange's catalogue of the Chater collection. Originally formed by Wyndham Law, the collection was acquired by Sir Catchick Ch...
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Blank on the map.
SHIPTON, Eric.Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...
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History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene,
SMITH, Captain Robert Murdoch; E.A. Porcher.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Early photography. An attractive description of the excavations of the long neglected site at Cyrene in Libya between Tripoli and Benghazi, with al...
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Exploration of Kina Balu.
WHITEHEAD, John.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina ...
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Call for the Dead.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £9,750.00 - Original price £9,750.00Original price £0.00£9,750.00£9,750.00 - £9,750.00Current price £9,750.00First edition of the author's first novel. The exceedingly scarce first edition of the author's first novel, introducing the character of George Sm...
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The Pursuit of Love.
MITFORD, Nancy.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00Nancy Mitford's most successful novel dedicated to Gaston Palewski, with whom she had fallen madly in love, and for whom she moved to Paris at the...
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Moonchild.
CROWLEY, Aleister.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Moonchild was the second of Crowley's interwar novels - following Diary of a Drug Fiend in 1922. It is a wild fantastical roman-à-clef and inciden...
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Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica.
MINTON, John (illustrator); ROSS, Alan.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Signed by the illustrator. Signed and dated (1955) by the artist on the title page. Minton was a parsimonious inscriber of books; we have seen only...
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The Drowned World.
BALLARD, J.G.Original price £1,375.00 - Original price £1,375.00Original price £0.00£1,375.00£1,375.00 - £1,375.00Current price £1,375.00Key climate change novel. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World antic...
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The Go-Between.
HARTLEY, L.P.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page: 'For Leon Drucker, with all my good wishes, Leslie Har...
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The Good Citizen's Alphabet.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...
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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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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...
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