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Guide pratique du tourisme au Sahara.
MEYNIER, General; NABAL, CaptainOriginal price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00This interesting guide contains one large folding map covering the entire Saharan region including Morocco and Algeria.First edition. 8vo ( 16 x 1...
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Play Power.
NEVILLE, Richard.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00A statement of the 'International Underground' from one of the founders of OZ magazine. Includes the scarce Headpoly Game inserted in rear pocket ...
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The Garden.
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00One of 750 copies - signed by the author. A sequel to 'The Land', structured around the seasons - and beginning its Spring section with the familia...
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Desolation Angels.
KEROUAC, Jack.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00First edition of Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel. Written almost directly after On the Road, although published much later, Desolation Angel...
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.
FARIÑA, Richard.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00First edition of the author's first novel, based largely on his college experiences and travels.First edition, first printing; 8vo; unmarked inter...
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Sleep Has His House.
KAVAN, Anna.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00Kavan's coming of age narrative; a largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood.First edition thus, review copy; 8vo; publisher's revi...
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Who Are You?
KAVAN, Anna.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00First edition of the author's penultimate novel. Depicting the hopeless, emotional polarity of a young couple, this novel follows their doomed mar...
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A Military Catechism,
SINNOTT, John.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00Third edition, detailing the proper procedure for field exercises in the British Army, including instructions on the formation of the company, dre...
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Pharmacopoeia Bateana: or Bates's Dispensatory.
BATE, George; SALMON, William (editor).Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00The enlarged, second edition in English of William Salmon's translation of the Pharmacopoeia Bateana.The Pharmacopoeia, or Bate's Dispensatory, wa...
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Wines and Other Fermented Liquors;
SHEEN, James Richmond.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Author's presentation copy. A lovely association copy of this popular guide to wine, inscribed to 'W. J. Young, Esq. with the author's sincere rega...
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Japan; The Official Guide.
[JAPAN]Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00A comprehensive and detailed guide-book. This edition is greatly enlarged and revised from the previous one published in 1941. There is a section ...
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Peking and the Overland Route
COOK, Thomas.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00Maps include Peking and Keijyo (Seoul). A very good example of scarce guide-book.Third edition. 8vo (19 x 13 cm), 180pp., adverts, 3 folding maps,...
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Guide to Peking and its environs near and far.
FEI-SHI; [FISCHER, Emil Sigmund].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00Emil Sigmund Fischer (1865-1945), was a banker and traveller, born in Vienna. He travelled to China in 1894 and worked as a banker in Shanghai, la...
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Russland nebst Teheran, Port Arthur, Peking.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00The last and most comprehensive edition of this series. Poland, Finland and the Baltic Republics are all included in this volume. Issued c. 1922.S...
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Gréce.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00The first and only French edition of this title. It is a scarce edition and unusual to find copies with original dust-jackets.First edition. pp cc...
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Deutschland. Brandenburg provinz Sachsen, Nordlicher Teil, Anhalt.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00This title was only issued between the wars for local German tourist and is considered to be scarce. It covers Berlin and the surrounding regions ...
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Deutschland. Berlin und Potsdam.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Issued 1940. Unusual edition published on the occasion of the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. This copy does not contain the plan of the Olympic Game...
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Samum.
GONCHAROVA, Natalia; PARNAKH, Valentin.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00The first edition of Valentin Parnakh's collection of poems with striking lithographs by Goncharova inspired by her travels to Spain. Parnakh left...
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The Ham Funeral: A Tragical Farce in Two Acts.
WHITE, Patrick.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Originally written in 1947, this early typescript was once owned by actress Ruth Ford and her husband actor Zachary Scott. This draft is markedly ...
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Deutschland. Thüringen.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £170.00 - Original price £170.00Original price £0.00£170.00£170.00 - £170.00Current price £170.00This volume covers Central and Eastern Germany. Town plans include Erfurt, Weimar and Coburg. Endpapers dated February 1935.Third edition. xl, 199...
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Rom und Umgebung.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00First and only edition of this title in attractive pictorial wrappers. Issued c.1933. Very scarce.First edition. xxxviii, 170 pp, 6 maps, 22 plans...
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Germany. Southern Germany (Wurtemberg and Bavaria).
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £60.00 - Original price £60.00Original price £0.00£60.00£60.00 - £60.00Current price £60.00Last pre-First World War edition giving an excellent view of the Kaiser's Germany with two semi-independent kingdoms in the South. Baden and the B...
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The Quiver of Love.
[Various]Original price £480.00 - Original price £480.00Original price £0.00£480.00£480.00 - £480.00Current price £480.00A charming collection of love poems by numerous poets, such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Herrick, Burns, Dryden, Shelley and the now little known Juli...
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The Persian Gulf and South Sea Isles.
BOEHM, Sir Edgar Collins.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Description of Boehm's journey along the Arabian Gulf with a civil servant from the embassy at Constantinople to try a British subject in Baghdad....
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Ulysses.
JOYCE, James.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00After the Bodley Head had successfully published their limited edition of 1936 without attracting any judicial actions, this first trade edition w...
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The Persian Gulf and South Sea Isles.
BOEHM, Sir Edgar Collins.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Description of Boehm's journey along the Arabian Gulf with a civil servant from the embassy at Constantinople to try a British subject in Baghdad....
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Kuwait and her neighbours
DICKSON, H.R.P.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Dickson's Kuwait includes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dic...
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Arabian Gulf Intelligence:
THOMAS, R. Hughes (editor).Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00An indispensable guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....
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Arabian Gulf oil concessions 1911-1953.
[ARABIAN GULF].Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Documents from the India Office, London, recording the negotiations and agreements for the first land-based oil concessions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qa...
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom, page proofs for chapter 115 of the Oxford printing.
LAWRENCE, T.E.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00The rare first printed version. Page proofs of the complete chapter 115 of the celebrated Lawrence rarity, the Oxford printing of Seven Pillars of ...
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Facade of St Paul's Church, Macao.
[MACAO -Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition.
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Catalogue of the Exhibition of Photographs from the Mount Everest Expedition 1921.
ALPINE CLUB.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Very scarce catalogue with images by Howard-Bury, Wollaston, Heron and Mallory. The introduction is by A.E.W Mason, a well known novelist and expe...
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Observations made during a Voyage round the World,
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold.Original price £5,750.00 - Original price £5,750.00Original price £0.00£5,750.00£5,750.00 - £5,750.00Current price £5,750.00Forster's scarce account of Cook's second voyage.Forster sailed as naturalist on board HMS Resolution and his Observations were originally intende...
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The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow.
LYALL, Robert.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00A nice example of an important work, finely coloured by hand and illustrated after drawings by Lavrov, showing Russian peasants and many atmospher...
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Travels through the Canadas,
HERIOT, George.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 this important aquatint book on Canada and the Great Lakes, often issued with the plates uncoloured. The plates depict the landma...
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Letters Written During a Tour Through Normandy, Britanny, and other Parts of France, in 1818:
STOTHARD, Anna Eliza Mrs Charles.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00An attractive work depicting the costumes and architectural interests of northern France. The plates, engraved by D. Havell after drawings by Char...
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L'Affrica Francese, L'Impero del Marocco e i Deserti di Sahara;
CHRISTIAN, Pierre.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00An account of French involvement in Africa and Morocco, with the plates showing scenes and both civilian and military costumes.2 vols, large 8vo (...
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Voyage Pittoresque de Stockholm à Gothembourg.
Billmark, Carl Johan; Cardon, Carl Oscar (illustrators).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00An album of views that depicts the journey along the Göta Canal which had only been opened eleven years prior. The twenty four views show the loca...
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The Theatric Tourist;
[WINSTON, James].Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Abbey copy with inscription. Abbey's copy of this rare work on the theatres of the United Kingdom in quintessential Georgian style. His inscription...
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Sketches in the Crimea.
WARRE, Lt. Col. Henry James.Original price £2,850.00 - Original price £2,850.00Original price £0.00£2,850.00£2,850.00 - £2,850.00Current price £2,850.00Scarce views of the Crimean War. Sixteen lively images of Crimea during the Crimean War including Sevastapol, the Baidar Valley, and Balaklava.Sir ...
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Play Power.
NEVILLE, Richard.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00A statement of the 'International Underground' from one of the founders of OZ magazine. Includes the scarce Headpoly Game inserted in rear pocket ...
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