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Browse our new arrivals consisting of rare books, manuscripts first editions and copies in fine bindings, recently acquired by Shapero Rare Books. Contact our team of rare book specialists for more information.

 

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  1. Second edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, inscribed presentation copy, xx, 380; viii, 367 pp., contemporary full green morocco gilt extra, all edges gilt, light rubbing to spines, a fine set.

    £2,500
  2. Limited edition number 138 of 160 copies; 2 vols (255 x 170 mm); Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, including Caxton's translation into English, woodcut illustrations by Anna Bramanti after Liberale da Verona, all hand-coloured after a copy of the 1479 edition in the British Museum by the Atelier Daniel Jacomet of Paris, prospectus loosely inserted,; publisher's green morocco-backed vellum, with strapwork border and title in gilt, top edge gilt, other uncut, transparent wrappers, together in slip-case. some age related mottling to vellum, as usual, otherwise, near-fine.

    £6,900
  3. Small 8vo (182 x 118mm), folding map (290 x 226mm) & 16 photograph illustrations on 8 plates, each with printed title below image; original pink cloth, with printed pictorial wrappers, these neatly affixed to pastedowns (as publishedý), wrapper lightly rubbed at extremities; iv, 112pp.

    £120
  4. 8vo (17 x 11.5 cm); 132 pp., with errata slip bound in at end; original maroon cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover; very slightly rubbed at the spine extremities and corners, a very good copy.

    £500
  5. First UK edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; small 8vo; frontispiece, some minor worming, light foxing; publisher's limp calf, pathway and gate device and titles to upper board gilt, titles to spine gilt, spine and upper board faded, extremities rubbed; very good.

    £3,250
  6. First edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to endpapers, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's dark grey boards, gilt lettering to spine, orange topstain, light spotting to fore-edge, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, a very good example.

    £275
  7. Boxed game containing instructional booklet, two decks of cards plus requisite bank notes and score cards. Collated complete and in excellent condition. An early iteration of this pseudo-Monopoly card game much championed by Angell in his book, The Money Game - How To Play It: A New Instrument of Economic Education.

    £125
  8. First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, blue topstain, page edges a little tanned but an excellent copy in the nicked and somewhat sunned dust jacket.

    £125
  9. First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's purple cloth, titles to spine gilt, boards a little marked, spotting to the edges, but an excellent copy in the little tanned dust jacket.

    £150
  10. First edition; 4to; photographic illustrations; publisher's cloth, dust-wrapper, a little chipped around edges, a very good copy.

    £140
 

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