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The Bookshop
Welcome to our online antiquarian bookshop where you can begin your rare book search. Here you will find antiquarian books, rare books, works on paper, and first edition books for sale, all selected by our book specialists who have over 200 years of experience between them.
You can buy rare books, many of them signed, on a variety of subjects, including Travel & Voyages, Literature, Rare Children’s books, Natural History, Illustrated books, Hebraica & Judaica, books of Russian interest and Guidebooks. We have books from a variety of famous authors available at our rare bookstore.
If you're in possession of a rare book to sell, please contact us for more information.
View our rare books for sale at Shapero.
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4to, later morroco-backed boards, rubbed, with gilt floral ornaments and Hebrew title to spine; red-stained edges, staining and worming to leaves, a few small tears affecting text, front endpaper missing, first title page partially detached with old repairs.
£800 -
First edition thus; small 4to (13 x 10 cm); decorative woodcut half title, headpieces, tailpieces and initials, some light age-toning; modern full black cloth, new endpapers, original printed front wrapper inserted (chipped and detached) ; 99, [16, ads] pp.
£90 -
First edition; 4to; 21 black and white plates (including frontispiece), leaves slightly toned, affecting plate margins, correction in blue ink to p.3; publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly faded; [6], 233 pp.
£120 -
First edition; 8vo; very light toning to leaves, some offsetting to endpapers; publisher's red cloth, paper title label to spine, lettering faded, edges uncut, spine ends bumped, corners a littler rubbed, otherwise a good copy. 80 pp.
£60 -
First edition; 8vo; ornamental two-tone endpapers with floral design, some light marginal toning to pages; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, upper cover embossed in blind, spine faded, some chipping to head and foot of spine, corners slightly rubbed; a good copy overall; xii, 260 pp.
£275 -
First edition; 8vo, original publishers green boards with gilt illustration and title to front, slight foxing and browning to first few and last few leaves. Title leaf detached. [5], 6-106, [7], 2-24 pp.
£90 -
Ninth thousand. 8vo (19 x 11.5 cm), modern half calf gilt; 2 folding maps (1 with tape repairs to verso), engraved plan, 2 engraved plates, illustrations in the text, a very good copy; xx, 555 pp.
£300 -
First edition. 8vo. Modern marbled boards, marbled edges, pages crisp, a few blank added at the end in rebinding. 32 pp.
£120 -
First edition. 8vo, 2 vols, edge browning to titles, contemporary calf crudely rebacked, new endpapers, rather worn and rubbed. 445; [iv], 428 pp.
£1,400 -
First Dublin edition. Folio. 2 parts in 1 volume, titles printed in red and black, folding plate of the Temple of Jerusalem, 4 maps (3 folding, 1 laid down, 1 with repairs to top edge), C1, C2 and Iiii with ragged edges, pp. 241-244 in Book VIII are misnumbered, finger soiling to first title, contemporary (ý) roan-backed boards, wear to head of spine, worn. [4], v-xvi, [6], 258, [26], vi-xii, 288, [32] and 5 maps.
£950