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Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.
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Firsts London 2024
16th to 19th May 2024
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’.
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Printed photograph album.
PHILIPPINES.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00An evocative series of colour photographs of the Philippines, ranging from views of Manilla harbour, to domestic scenes such as a butcher's shop, ...
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A Nursing Sister in Baluchistan.
MORRIS, Jessie Marjorie.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00A charming collection of letters written by nursing sister Jessie Marjorie Morris (d.1964) during her posting in the Quetta, the capital of Baluch...
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Travels to Tana and Persia; [with] A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
BARBARO, Josafa; CONTARINI, Ambrogio.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. From 1436 to 14...
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The Canarian, or the Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians
BETHENCOURT, Jean de; BONTIER, Pierre and VERRIER, Jean le (editors).Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Jean de Béthencourt (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanz...
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History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China,
D'ORLÉANS, Père Pierre Joseph; WITSEN, Nicolaas.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Ferdinand Verbiest, (1623-1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astrono...
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The Voyage of François Pyrard of of Laval
PYRARD, François.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00François Pyrard de Laval (c.1578-c.1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives...
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Tractatus de Globis et Eorum Usu.
HUES, Robert; GAIRDNER, James (editor).Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Robert Hues (1553-1632) was an English mathematician and geographer. During a trip to Newfoundland, he made observations which caused him to doubt...
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Set of Festival Prayers.
[PRAYER BOOK]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00A beautiful Hebrew-English machzor of Festival Prayers, published in Vienna and based on David Levi's original translation.The set was gifted as a...
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Across the River and Into the Trees.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00The true first edition, preceding the first US edition by three days, of Hemingway's poignant novel set entirely in Venice at the close of World W...
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Flush: A Biography.
WOOLF, Virginia.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Woolf's fictional 'stream of consciousness' tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning.First edition, so-called 'Lar...
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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...
