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NEW CATALOGUE | Asia Illustrated | Illustrated Books on Asia
Illustrated Books on Asia
Available in printed and digital formats.
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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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A Journey from London to Persepolis;
USSHER, John.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00An account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia...
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A picturesque illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.
DANIELL, Samuel.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Fine pictorial record of Ceylon. Samuel Daniell's Ceylon is the finest pictorial record of the island.Samuel Daniell (1775-1811), the youngest of t...
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A series of fifteen views of Ceylon
O'BRIEN, Captain C.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00A copy of the first edition of O'Brien's Ceylon with later hand-colouring. O'Brien was employed as Assistant Surveyor in Ceylon, a position which ...
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A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta,
WOOD, William.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00Wood's early panoramic views of Calcutta. William Wood senior, the artist's father, began selling his son's lithographs in parts in 1831. By the ti...
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Allerneuester Geographisch- und Topographischer
HEYDT [aka HEIJDT], Johann Wolfgang.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Important early iconography of Jakarta. Heydt's Ost-Indien provides us with an extensive and important work with regard to the town planning and ge...
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...]
STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...
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Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.
OVERMEER FISSCHER, J.F. van.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00From the library of the last French Queen. A superb copy with royal provenance of van O. Fisscher's survey of Japan. van O. Fisscher worked in Japa...
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Character & costumes of Afghaunistan.
HART, Capt. Lockyer Willis.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan. The scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan, Character & Costumes of Afg...
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China:
ALLOM, Thomas.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Including views of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai. At a time of increased interest in China, Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted to...
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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...
