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Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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Historia ecclesiastica.
EUSEBIUS, Caesariensis; AQUILEIENSIS, Rufinus (translator).Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00The most important historian of late antiquity. One of the earliest printed editions of Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica, translated f...
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Miscellanea Philosophico-Mathematica Societatis Privatae Taurinensis.
LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis [et al].Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00Important mathematics and physics published by a leading italian intellectual society. The 5 complete volumes of the Miscellanea Taurinensis, all f...
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Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie.
COMMELIN, Isaac (editor).Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00Dutch mercantile enterprise - the definitive edition. The definitive edition of the great early Dutch voyages of exploration. This collection of vo...
View full detailsOriginal price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00 -
Traite sur la Cavalerie.
DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector (Comte de).Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00Royal copy in fine red morocco. Scarce and impressive work on cavalry: beautiful red morocco copy of the Prince de Condé, a great grandson of King ...
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A Monograph of the Cranes.
BLAAUW, Frans Ernst.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Ornithology - one of 170 copies. This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of the Amsterdam Zoo, G.F. Westerman...
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De situ orbis habitabilis.
PERIEGETES, Dionysius; BECCARIA, Antonius (translator).Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00Influential classical geography. Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, transla...
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Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;
SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...
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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...
