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The Strategy of Peace.
KENNEDY, John F.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00Inscribed by the President. The first edition, first impression of this collection of essays and speeches by John F. Kennedy on his foreign policy ...
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Picturesque Hong Kong.
[HONG KONG]. HAZELL, Denis H. (photographer).Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00A very attractive series of photographs showing Hong Kong in the colonial era.'Denis Henry Hazell (1897-1970) was a British businessman. Some of h...
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Reaching for the Moon.
ALDRIN, Buzz & MINOR, Wendell (illustrator).Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00Signed by buzz aldrin. First edition, first printing of this picture book autobiography of Buzz Aldrin, signed by both Aldrin and illustrator Wende...
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The Capital of the Tycoon.
ALCOCK, Sir John Rutherford.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 handsome set of Sir John Rutherford Alcock's (1809-1897) account of his time as the first British diplomatic representative to reside in Japan.A...
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Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920.
[CONFIDENTIAL] - General Staff Army Headquarters, India.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...
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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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Seder HaKinot LeTish'ah BeAv.
STERN, Max Emanuel (Mendel Stern, translator).Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Prayer book for Tish'ah BeAv with Yiddish translation by Max Emanuel Stern.Max Emanuel Stern (known by Hebrew name Menakhem Mendel ben Isaac Stern...
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Iton Rishmi.
ISRAEL, The Provisional Government of.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00The 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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Nicholas Machiavel's Prince.
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo; DACRES, Edward (translator).Original price £85,000.00 - Original price £85,000.00Original price £0.00£85,000.00£85,000.00 - £85,000.00Current price £85,000.00Unrestored contemporary sheepskin. The first edition in English of Machiavelli's extraordinary treatise on the art of government, widely acclaimed ...
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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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Picturesque Hong Kong.
[HONG KONG]. HAZELL, Denis H. (photographer).Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00A very attractive series of photographs showing Hong Kong in the colonial era.'Denis Henry Hazell (1897-1970) was a British businessman. Some of h...
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The Capital of the Tycoon.
ALCOCK, Sir John Rutherford.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 handsome set of Sir John Rutherford Alcock's (1809-1897) account of his time as the first British diplomatic representative to reside in Japan.A...
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Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920.
[CONFIDENTIAL] - General Staff Army Headquarters, India.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...
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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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The Diary Kept by T.E. Lawrence while travelling in Arabia during 1911. [With] The Diary of T.E. Lawrence.
LAWRENCE, T.E.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00One of 30 copies. The beautifully designed Corvinus Press edition of the diary that Lawrence kept during his first trip to the Middle East in 1911,...
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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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Reaching for the Moon.
ALDRIN, Buzz & MINOR, Wendell (illustrator).Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00Signed by buzz aldrin. First edition, first printing of this picture book autobiography of Buzz Aldrin, signed by both Aldrin and illustrator Wende...
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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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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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Keep your eyes peeled for a collectable publication for you. Shapero Rare Books, at 106 New Bond Street, is a great starting point.
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