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This year marks the 67th edition of one of the most popular and prestigious rare book fairs in the world. As Stephen Fry said ‘We are very lucky to have this kind of fair… it’s not elitist, it’s not specialist, you don’t have to be a scholar, you just have to be someone with an immense thirst for the glory of books’.
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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Scarce first edition of Geneva Hebrew bible, with the Megillot placed at the end of the Torah volume without a separate title page. This bible in ...
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The deluxe edition with the plates hand-coloured.During the Crimean War William Simpson (1823-1899), became a pioneer war artist: dispatched by th...
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The complete works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 35 volumes, including his best known novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr H...
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First edition, with contributions from Seamus Heaney ('Servant Boy'), D. J. Enright, Jon Silkin, among others.First edition, unnumbered issue; 4to...
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Thesiger's classic narrative of his years spent amongst the Bedouin of Southern Arabia, travelling on foot.First edition, first impression; 8vo, x...
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Limited edition signed by Karsavina. This book is a wonderfully sincere ode to one of the greatest dancers and indeed artists of the 20th century, ...
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A sweet copy of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, retelling twenty of the Bard's plays as short narrative stories intended for young...
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Contemporary economist's copy. The first edition of Keynes' masterwork. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, The General Theory is reg...
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The first edition of this interesting survey of Hampstead Heath, taking account of the topography, geology, plant and animal life of London's wild...
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First edition of Jones' seminal work. The finest of the great chromolithographic books of the nineteenth century, and certainly one of the most in...
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A sweet copy of Milton's collected poetry in three volumes, comprising his major blank verse works Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd, his closet...
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A heavily censored collection of poems written between 1909 and 1945 - the first of Akhmatova's works to be published after the death of Stalin.Ak...
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The scarce first edition, first impression of these two talks by C.S. Lewis on the subject of his Christian faith, which were originally broadcast...
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The first edition of this thought-provoking collection of essays on religious themes by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), author of the acclaimed Narnia ser...
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Stoic philosophy. A fine large-paper edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, an important work of Stoic philosophy by the last of Rome's Five Good...
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First Dibdin octavo edition. A finely printed example of one of the most important works of English philosophy and social commentary. The first Dib...
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Specially bound by the Wiener Werkstatte. A fine example of a scarce and early work illustrated by Gustav Klimt. The erotic illustrations were sele...
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Tennyson's favourite portrait, signed by him. John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810-1901) was an English photographer, born Jabez Meal in Lancashire, who f...
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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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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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Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht: the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has an illustrious history, welcoming collectors and art loves alike for more than three decades.
