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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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NEW CATALOGUE | Present Perfect
Available in printed and digital formats.
We are delighted to present our seasonal end-of-year catalogue, comprising rare books, manuscripts, maps and modern art. Make this season truly memorable with timeless treasures that hold stories from the past.
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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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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
[PHYSICS]. FEYNMAN, Richard.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00A beautiful copy. First edition, first printing. A lovely copy in uncommonly good condition. The orange dust jacket and binding of this book are no...
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A Boy's Will.
FROST, Robert.Original price £5,500.00 - Original price £5,500.00Original price £0.00£5,500.00£5,500.00 - £5,500.00Current price £5,500.00Frost's first published book in the earliest 'A' binding, one of around 350 copies. Frost wrote A Boy's Will whilst living with his family in Beac...
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A Christmas Carol...
DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C.E. (illustrator).Original price £5,850.00 - Original price £5,850.00Original price £0.00£5,850.00£5,850.00 - £5,850.00Current price £5,850.00Chivers - vellucent binding. Following a lecture by Cyril Davenport of the British Museum on the 18th-century painted vellum bindings of Edwards of...
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A Clockwork Orange.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Three issues exist: two in black boards - the first priced 16s, the second priced 18s; thirdly, in the late '60s the last copies were issued in pu...
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A Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible: Exodus XXXIX].
[GUTENBERG, Johann.Original price £110,000.00 - Original price £110,000.00Original price £0.00£110,000.00£110,000.00 - £110,000.00Current price £110,000.00Extraordinary survival from the dawn of the printing press. An excellent, well-margined leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book p...
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A Small Town in Germany.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Signed by the author. 'Only the Foreign Officer; a junior diplomat remarks, "could have sent a bull to catch a matador". The bull is Alan Turner, a...
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Basni I. Krylova [Krylov's Fables].
KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Wonderful Art Nouveau binding. An excellent illustrated edition of Krylov's fables in a wonderful Art Nouveau binding. Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) is R...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's.
CAPOTE, Truman.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00The first edition of Truman Capote's renowned novella, the basis for Blake Edward's film, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.First edition...
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Brideshead Revisited.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Unclipped dust-jacket. '...his most carefully written and deeply felt novel..... The brightly devastating satirist of England's twenties and thirti...
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British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,
[ORNITHOLOGY]. THORBURN, Archibald.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Bound by Sangroski & Sutflcliffe. A fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860-1935), a S...
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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...
