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We are delighted to announce our forthcoming catalogue, 'The Pelster Collection'.
Featuring an exquisite collection of rare books by luminaries from John Gould and Edward Lear to Elizabeth Butterworth, this is one of the finest collections of parrot books we have ever seen.
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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 Fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860 -1935), a Scottish artist renowned for his accu...
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Complete set with fine Ducal provenance. First edition of one of the most ambitious scientific, historical, artistic and publishing projects - a co...
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Attractive Keulemans plates. first edition of this important monograph, one of 250 copies only. Amongst the most beautiful of bird monographs, the ...
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An exceedingly scarce book. Of the few copies in existence only a handful are known with the full complement of 114 engravings. ESTC lists only BL,...
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First bird book with lithograph plates. A handsome set of Swainson, the first bird book and one of earliest natural history works to be illustrated...
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An attractive copy of Wilson's classic work on American Ornithology.3 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, 103 colour plates after the autho...
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[ornithology] one of 250 copies. A scarce monograph published in an edition of 250 copies only.Keulemans was the last of the great bird illustrator...
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Two beautiful lithographs of guinea fowl taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot. Elliot, ...
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A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...
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Eyton's Rarer British birds was intended as an addenda to Bewick's British Birds. The engravings are based on specimens in the author's collection...
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Finely bound. A finely bound set of Yarrell's classic works on the birds and fish of Great Britain. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoolo...
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"The most remarkable bird drawings ever made". Edward Lear is one of the greatest ornithological artists of all time. His contributions to John Gou...
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Edward Booth was a wealthy bird-watcher and sportsman who stuffed his own specimens and mounted them in their natural surroundings in glass cases....
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'Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner i...
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In original parts. Rare example in original parts of John Gould's Partridges of America.Gould was inspired to undertake this study by the sight of ...
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A finely bound copy of this beautifully illustrated work on British game birds. Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famou...
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A fundamental work for systematic ornithology. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labou...
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The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...
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Dutch birds. Nozeman's work, Nederlandsche Vogelen, which he couldn't finish, became the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland and...
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Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht: the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has an illustrious history, welcoming collectors and art loves alike for more than three decades.
