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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.
Frieze Masters
9th-13th October 2024
Visit us at stand A08.
Shapero Rare Books & Shapero Modern are honoured to be participating in the 2024 edition of FRIEZE MASTERS, located in The Regent's Park, in London.
Visit us at stand A08.
Visit us at stand A08.
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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Hommage à San Lazzaro.
MIRÓ, Joan.Original price £27,500.00 - Original price £27,500.00Original price £0.00£27,500.00£27,500.00 - £27,500.00Current price £27,500.00One of 15 copies with two extra plates. Fine example of the complete portfolio with 7 etchings (two more than the regular edition), all signed and ...
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L'Art Décoratif Théatral Moderne.
GONCHAROVA, Natalia; LARIONOV, Mikhail; PARNAKH, Valentin.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00One of 100 large paper copies with 2 additional prints. The scarce publication reproducing Goncharova and Larionov's works for the avant-garde stag...
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The Camp no. 13/14 Almanac 1940-41.
[SCHWITTERS, Kurt et. al.] CORVIN, Michael (pseud. Leo Freund) (editor).Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00Internment camp almanac inscribed by Kurt Schwitters. The Camp Almanac 1940-41 is a special end-of-year double issue of The Camp newspaper, produce...
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Stains (E.B9)
RUSCHA, Ed.Original price £67,500.00 - Original price £67,500.00Original price £0.00£67,500.00£67,500.00 - £67,500.00Current price £67,500.00The complete portfolio of 76 stains (Mixed Media), 1969, on Eagle Coupon Bond paper, including the additional stain on white silk moiré fabric box...
View full detailsOriginal price £67,500.00 - Original price £67,500.00Original price £0.00£67,500.00£67,500.00 - £67,500.00Current price £67,500.00
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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...
