18th Century
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Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America;
COXE, William.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Coxe, an English priest and historian, at one time based in St. Petersburg, endeavoured to collect the journals of the several voyages relating to...
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Group of 14 copper engraved plates.
RAPHAEL SANZIO da Urbino and others.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /With contemporary hand colour. Beautiful plates, scarce with vibrant original hand-colour: a complete set of pilasters from the first part of the L...
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Haggadah shel Pesach... Service for the Two First Nights of Passover.
[HAGGADAH]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Combined Ashkenazic and Sephardic Haggadah published by David Levi, one of the pioneers of Jewish printing in London. Starting from 1770s, several...
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[A Group of Four Tulips].
BUCHOZ, Pierre Joseph.Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £0.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00| /A fine group of these rare flower plates, the complete volume of 40 being part of Le Jardin d'Eden, which was intended as the supplement to the Co...
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[A Group of Six Tulips].
BUCHOZ, Pierre Joseph.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /A fine group of these rare flower plates, the complete volume of 40 being part of Le Jardin d'Eden, which was intended as the supplement to the Co...
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Relation d'un Voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du Roy.
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /'The botanist Pitton de Tournefort was sent on a mission to the Levant by Louis XIV in 1700. He was accompanied by the artist Claude Aubriet and t...
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An account of the new Northern Archipelago
STAEHLIN, J[akob] v[on].Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| /Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...
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An Entrance Into The Sacred Language;
BAYLEY, C. Rev.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /A Hebrew Grammar manual containing additional select pieces of Hebrew poetry. Contains a list of subscribers at the end of the volume.Rev. Corneli...
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A market scene with fruit and vegetable sellers in front of a walled town.
NEBOT, Balthasar.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /Apart from his marriage in London 1729 or 1730, very little is known of Nebot's life, although he is generally thought to have been of Spanish bir...
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Travels in Asia Minor: or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti
CHANDLER, Richard.
Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Richard Chandler, classical scholar and traveller, was introduced to the Society of Dilettanti by Robert Wood, editor of The Ruins of Palmyra, and...
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Seder Haggadah shel Pesach.
[HAGGADAH].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Extremely scarce Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah,. Extremely scarce Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah, printed in London the same year of Alexander's first...
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A view of the rise, progress, and present state of the English government in Bengal:
VERELST, Harry.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /A defence by Harry Verelst (1734-1785) of the British administration in Bengal during his governorship. 'Verelst became a loyal supporter of Clive...
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Recueil de cent estampes
LE HAY, Jacques; FERRIOL, Charles de.Original price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00£75,000.00£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price £75,000.00| /An outstanding example. An exceptional example. Most copies were issued uncoloured. A few were sold with hand-colouring and a smaller number were i...
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Group of four mezzotint hunting plates.
RIDINGER, Johann Elias.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /A fine group showing 2 male and 2 female hunters along with the spoils of the chase. Each plate titled beneath image with lines of appropriate ver...
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Torah, Neviim u'Ktuvim.
[HEBREW BIBLE]. MAIUS, Johann Heinrich & BURCKLIN, Georgius Christianus (editors).Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A scholarly edition of the complete Hebrew Bible, edited by Maius and Burcklin, the third and last of a series of the Frankfurt editions called by...
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Remarks on Mr. Forster's Account of Captain Cook's Last Voyage round the World,
WALES, William.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /Wales' attack on Forster. One of the rarest items concerning the Second Voyage. 'Wales, who was the astronomer in the Resolution, challenges the a...
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Histoire des navigations aux terres Australes,
BROSSES, Charles de.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Important collection with fine maps. Valuable collection of voyages to the South Pacific which aimed to stimulate French discovery and colonisation...
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A Second Voyage round the world, in the Years MDCCLXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXV.
[COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE].Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /An officer's account - a legendary Cook rarity. The rarest of all the surreptitious accounts of Cook's voyages, issued with a title phrased to misl...
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Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos
HERRERA TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /The second Spanish edition of a highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer e...
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Vie du Capitaine Cook ...
[KIPPIS, Andrew;] J.H. CASTERA (translator).Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Both volumes with a different collation to that given in Forbes. First edition in French. 2 volumes, 8vo, lvi, 458; [iv], 497, [i] pp., light wa...
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Otaheite: a Poem.
[COATES, Rev. Charles?]Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /Tahiti depicted as an earthly paradise. Rare. ESTC lists 12 copies only. Author attribution from old note to title. One of the less common poetic o...
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A Discourse upon some late Improvements of the Means for Preserving the Health of Mariners.
PRINGLE, Sir John.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /Includes Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy. A work of huge importance for the inclusion of Captain Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy....
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Historia de la Vida y Viages del Capitan Jaime Cook.
[KIPPIS, Andrew]; NAVA PALACIO, Don Cesareo de (translator).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /First edition in Spanish. 2 volumes, small 4to, [ii], x, 262, [i]; [ii], 288, [i] pp., contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, a little light...
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