A Summer Miscellany
Jointly curated by all of our specialists, the catalogue features items from across the Travel, Near East & Islamic, History, Natural History, Literature, Modern First Editions, Children’s Books, and Illustrated Books departments.
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Select views of the rock and fortress of Gibraltar.
CARTER, John Money.Original price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00Hand coloured lithographs mounted on card as issued. Carter's rare views of Gibraltar, here in the deluxe issue with hand coloured lithographs. Car...
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A succint view and analysis
PITMAN, Robert Birks.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Pitman outlines various proposals for constructing a canal through Central America in order to avoid having to sail round Cape Horn. The map shows...
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Salzburg.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00Publisher's presentation copy . Rare presentation copy from the publisher. Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910-1979), grandson of Fritz Baedeker, revived...
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Guide to Majorca.
CHAMBERLIN, Frederick.Original price £90.00 - Original price £90.00Original price £0.00£90.00£90.00 - £90.00Current price £90.00Unusual guide to Majorca.8vo (size 18 x 12 cm); 269 pp, numerous illustrations, 2 folding maps at front and rear ; publisher's red cloth, gilt let...
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In and around Poona.
FRANKS, H. George.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00A highly unusual set of guide-books to various walks in and around Poona in India. Very scarce.Poona, no known as Pune, lies in the west of India ...
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Italy. Handbook for Northern Italy.
MURRAY, John.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Maps include Milan, Genoa, Turin and Venice. This is the first handbook to be published since the unification of Northen Italy. Endpapers dated J...
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Mathnavi.
RUMI, Jalal al-Din Muhammad.Original price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00From the Timurid Courts of Persia. A fine Timurid copy of the complete Mathnavi by the revered Sufi Saint Jalal al-din Rumi.This is Rumi's most cel...
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Paintings from a Jain 'Heaven and Hell' series.
[JAINISM].Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised by great suffering. There are seven realms of this un...
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Fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00An attractive Ottoman Qur'an copied during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid I (r. 1774-1789). The concise calligraphy and elegant illumination thro...
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[Large portrait painting of a Bombay Governor,
[ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOL]. PUNIR SHABAB.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00A very attractive and large portrait of a Governor of Bombay, possibly of Parsi heritage, apparently executed by a local Indian artist. The large ...
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Album of watercolours of flowers, fruit and silkworms.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £150,000.00 - Original price £150,000.00Original price £0.00£150,000.00£150,000.00 - £150,000.00Current price £150,000.00From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...
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The Works of Francis Bacon,
BACON, Francis; MALLET, David (editor).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00[philosophy] earl of Macclesfield's copy. A beautifully bound set of The Works of Francis Bacon edited by the poet David Mallet (d.1765), with an i...
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