Updates
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.
Updates
It's Business As Usual
We will be open for business as usual online whilst the doors to our Bookshop and Gallery at 106 New Bond Street and Shapero Modern’s Gallery at 41-43 Maddox Street are temporarily closed due to the lockdown in England which begins...
We will be open for business as usual online whilst the doors to our Bookshop and Gallery at 106 New Bond Street and Shapero Modern’s Gallery at 41-43 Maddox Street are temporarily closed due to the lockdown in England which begins on Thursday 5th November.
You can shop at shapero.com as normal, or contact a bookseller or Shapero Modern's Gallery Director.
In the meantime, our seasonal gift catalogues will be published in the very near future and we will continue to ship worldwide, with click-and-collect available by appointment.
Follow our Instagram account for uplifting illustrations, beautiful bindings, gift ideas and more in the run up to Christmas.
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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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...
