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  • Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil

    SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.
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    A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...

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  • The Straits Times Annual

    SINGAPORE
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    A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...

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  • The History of Humayun.

    BEGAM, Gul-Badan.
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    Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, 1. Text in English and Farsi.First edition. 8vo, xiv, 331, 96 pp., 3 photographic plates, original blue clo...

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  • Tokyo.

    KLEIN, William.
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    Tokyo is the fourth of Klein's four classic city books, following Life is Good & Good For You in New York: Trance Witness Revels (1956) and Ro...

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  • William Eggleston's Guide.

    EGGLESTON, William.
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    The adoption of colour photography, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and others was not without precedent: ...

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  • Tokyo Lucky Hole.

    ARAKI, Nobuyoshi.
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    Tokyo Lucky Hole is of one of Araki's best-known books, photographed in and around the sex clubs of the Kabuki-cho area of Tokyo's Shinjuku distri...

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  • Urformen der Kunst.

    BLOSSFELDT, Karl.
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    With the publisher's prospectus. Urformen der Kunst is an important and influential work, a cornerstone of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) ...

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  • Mexico City

    LEVITT, Helen.
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    One of 200 signed copies. This book was published to coincide with the exhibition Mexico City 1941: Photographs by Helen Levitt, which opened at th...

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  • Vännerna Fran Place Blanche.

    STROMHOLM, Christer.
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    These photographs were taken in the late 1950s to 1960s in the Pigalle area of Paris, where Strömholm lived and worked. He got to know a community...

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  • Many are Called

    EVANS, Walker.
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    Walker Evans produced this remarkable series of clandestine portraits of passengers on the New York City subway between 1938 and 1941. He caught h...

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  • The Street Photographs of Roger Mayne.

    MAYNE, Roger.
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    This publication is based on a smaller 1986 Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, only published in wrappers. Between 1956-61 Roger M...

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  • The English at Home.

    BRANDT, Bill.
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    The English at Home is Bill Brandt's first book. He took the photographs between 1931 and 1935, beginning the project after moving to London. Bran...

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  • Greece.

    BAEDEKER, Karl
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    This was the last and most comprehensive edition in English.Issued c.1909.Fourth edition. cxxvi, 447pp, 16 maps (including folding map in rear poc...

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  • Prêcis de la géographie universelle,

    MALTE-BRUN.
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    An attractive atlas with a world map and five maps of the Americas.Folio (35 x 26 cm), 24 engraved maps by Lapie and Poirson, hand coloured in out...

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  • Bengal Directory (The) and General Register for the Year 1834,

    Shapero Rare Books
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    Annotated by an officer of the bengal army. Rare. The Bengal Directory contains details of the 'British and Indian Governments', 'Supreme Court Bri...

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  • Fishing At Home and Abroad.

    MAXWELL, The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert, Bart, etc, (editor)
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    Limited edition, number 140 of only 750 copies; large 4to (325 x 275 mm); titles printed in red and black, photogravure portrait of King George V,...

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  • The caravan route

    SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.
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    The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...

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  • A new map of the routes in India.

    ALLEN, W. H.
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    Interesting map of India with tables of distances between the principal towns and military stations based on the latest surveys.First edition. eng...

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  • Elegy Study

    MOTHERWELL, Robert
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    Exhibited:Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Robert Motherwell: Black, 24th June - 11th September 2015. (6)Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Robert...

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  • Jane Eyre:

    BRONTË, Charlotte.
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    Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...

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  • Jane Eyre:

    BRONTË, Charlotte.
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    Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...

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  • Introduction 2: Stories by New Writers.

    STOPPARD, Tom (contributor).
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    Contains three stories by Tom Stoppard, his first appearance in book form.First edition, first printing; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red...

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  • Hopscotch.

    CORTÁZAR, Julio; RABASSA, Gregory (translator).
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    Originally published in 1963 in Spanish as Rayuela.First UK edition; 8vo; minor age-toning, else unmarked internally; publisher's olive green clot...

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