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Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
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Fairs & Events
ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair
1-2 November 2024
Shapero Rare Books | STAND 40
Friday 1 November (2pm-7pm)
Saturday 2 November (11am-5pm)
Chelsea Old Town Hall
King's Road London SW3 5EE
Shapero Rare Books is exhibiting at The ABA Chelsea Book Fair 2024. Join us at the Chelsea Old Town Hall on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd November.
Shapero Rare Books | STAND 40
Friday 1 November (2pm-7pm)
Saturday 2 November (11am-5pm)
Chelsea Old Town Hall
King's Road London SW3 5EE
Shapero Rare Books | STAND 40
Friday 1 November (2pm-7pm)
Saturday 2 November (11am-5pm)
Chelsea Old Town Hall
King's Road London SW3 5EE
About Us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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FEATURED ITEMS
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Vitruvius Britannicus,
[ARCHITECTURE]. CAMPBELL, Colen; WOOLFE, [John] & GANDON, [James].Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Finely illustrated with 390 engraved plates. the finest example of country house illustration in Great Britain, including views of Castle Howard, L...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
[DE QUINCEY, Thomas].Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00An excellent copy in the original boards of 'the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature' (Norman).First published in the Lond...
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Letters Concerning the English Nation.
[PHILOSOPHY]. VOLTAIRE (pseud. AROUET, François-Marie).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'the first bomb hurled against the Ancien Régime'. The first edition of this interesting, outsider's take on English society and its people, precip...
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Out of the Shelter.
LODGE, David.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 author's copy. The author's copy of his fourth book. Scarce thus, as it was rapidly pulped by the publishers after a litany of misprints and ot...
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Inscriptions on the Seikh Guns Captured by the Army of the Sutledge 1845-46.
[FIRST SIKH WAR].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00First Sikh War. Scarce. The title-page gives the name of C. Gomeze as the designer and lithographer - probably the Christopher Gomez, of the H.C. L...
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The Picturegoers.
LODGE, David.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 author's copy. The author's copy of his first book, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper and annotations throughout.First ed...
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Jazz.
CLAXTON, William.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Edition of 100 signed copies. William Claxton is indelibly associated with the West Coast Jazz scene. In this, his first English-language monograph...
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Exploration of Kina Balu.
WHITEHEAD, John.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina ...
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A History of British Birds [with] A History of British Fishes with Supplement [and] A History of British Quadrupeds [and] A History of British Reptiles.
YARRELL, William & BELL, Thomas.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Imperial octavo. A handsomely bound imperial octavo set, all first editions, of Yarrell's copiously illustrated British Birds and Fishes, including...
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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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GuidesA 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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LiteratureUkrainian 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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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
