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Concerning Parrots. Bird Exhibits at the Peabody Museum.
Emilio, S.G.Original price £50.00 - Original price £50.00Original price £0.00£50.00£50.00 - £50.00Current price £50.00Rare parrots. A rare pamphlet describing the parrot specimens at the Peabody Museum, originally published as an article in the Salem Evening News. ...
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Papillons
Seguy, E.A.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...
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Insectes.
Seguy, E.A.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...
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Seguy, E.A.SOriginal price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...
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Insectes.
Seguy, E.A.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...
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A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons.
GOULD, John.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00Although titled the second edition Gould considered the present volume a new work. The text was re-written, all the plates were redrawn, and twelv...
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Deutschlands Flora
Reichenbach, H. G. Ludwig.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00More than 3,000 colour plates. A rare complete set of the major, colour plate botanical work Deutschlands Flora by botanist and illustrator Heinric...
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Papillons
Seguy, E.A.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...
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Papillons
Seguy, E.A.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...
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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...
