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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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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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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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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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Compton Verney.
HUTTON, Rory.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00Giclée printed in colours, on wove paper, 2023, signed, numbered & dated in pencil, from the edition of 30, printed by King & McGaw, Susse...
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Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £40.00 - Original price £40.00Original price £0.00£40.00£40.00 - £40.00Current price £40.00Issued c.1911.Twenty-fourth edition. xl, 593pp, 75 maps, 20 plans, 12 panoramas, some maps frayed at edges, some loose ephemera (Guide to Castle o...
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Julius Caesar's Commentaries.
[HISTORY]. CAESAR, Julius.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00The Golden Cockerel Press. An excellent copy of Julius Caesar's (d.44 BC) Commentaries rendered into modern English by the author and politician So...
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A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
GOULD, John.Original price £60,000.00 - Original price £60,000.00Original price £0.00£60,000.00£60,000.00 - £60,000.00Current price £60,000.00Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...
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The Cup of Knowledge.
MACNICOL, Willis.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00A scarce popular history and guide to fortune telling. OCLC records just three copies in institutional holdings worldwide at the National Library ...
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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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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.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 handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...
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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 Art of Deer Stalking [with] Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed;
SCROPE, William.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 handsome set. A handsome set of the first editions of William Scrope's two most important books, classics in the history of British sporting.Scro...
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A History of British Butterflies.
MORRIS, F.O.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00Charming hand-coloured plates. A handsomely bound copy of this classic of British natural history, illustrated with 71 hand-coloured plates of butt...
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Cranford.
GASKELL, Elizabeth; BROCK, C. E. (illustrator).Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00A charming edition, illustrated by the well-known illustrator Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938).First edition thus, third printing; 8vo (200 x 130 ...
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Calcutta in 1940.
[Calcutta].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00A scarce wartime guide to Calcutta. Library Hub lists BL only.First edition. 8vo, xiii, 300 pp., 3 maps, 64 photographic illustrations, original g...
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Chart of the Arctic regions
WYLD, James.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00An attractive copy of Wyld's hemisphere map of the Arctic regions, dedicated to Lady Franklin, in its original binding. The map can be approximate...
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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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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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My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.
PARKE, Thomas Heazle.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Parke's important first-hand narrative of the Emin Pasha Relief expedition, one of the last major nineteenth century European expeditions into the...
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Scenes in Kafirland,
GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; ROBINSON, Lieut. Hugh.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...
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Blank on the map.
SHIPTON, Eric.Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...
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