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by Laura Massey
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Firsts London 2024
16th to 19th May 2024
This year marks the 67th edition of one of the most popular and prestigious rare book fairs in the world. As Stephen Fry said ‘We are very lucky to have this kind of fair… it’s not elitist, it’s not specialist, you don’t have to be a scholar, you just have to be someone with an immense thirst for the glory of books’.
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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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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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GuidesA 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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LiteratureUkrainian 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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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
