18th Century
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Plate XII. Cyprinus Gibelio. Die Giebel.
[BLOCH, Marcus Elieser].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /From "Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des poissons".Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799), a doctor of medicine and famou...
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Plate VII. Gyprinus Aspius. Der Raapfe. La Raphe.
[BLOCH, Marcus Elieser].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /From "Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des poissons".Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799), a doctor of medicine and famou...
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Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects.
BOYLE, Robert.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| /Contemporary presentation copy, from the library of oliver sacks. First edition of this collection of philosophical essays by one of the founders o...
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Travels,
SHAW, Thomas.Original price £4,850.00 - Original price £4,850.00Original price £0.00£4,850.00£4,850.00 - £4,850.00Current price £4,850.00| /'A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited Egypt, Sinai, Pa...
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Moi Skazki [My Tales].
KARAZIN, Nikolay Nikolaevich (illustrator).Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /Fine example of the first edition of this popular work, in a decorative publisher's gift binding. Issued by one of the best publishers of the time...
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Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory.
SALMON, William.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The major medical book of the 17th-century, translated for the general public. The sixth edition of William Salmon's popular English translation of...
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Memoirs of the Baron de Tott,
TOTT, Baron de.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...
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Views of the Neva.
PATERSEN, Benjamin.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| /A fine set of Patersen's iconic views of St Petersburg. A collection of some of the most celebrated 18th century views of Russia's Imperial city, i...
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A History of Fossils.
HILL, Sir John.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Underappreciated taxonomic work on fossils. First edition of this taxonomy of fossils, including both mineral specimens and organic fossils, by the...
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A Group of Six Hyacinths.
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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Sefer Tikuney HaZohar.
BAR YOCHAI, Shimon.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /First Edition of the commentary by the famous Kabbalist Rabbi Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto (also known as the Ramaz, c.1625-1697). The Ramaz was a Ra...
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Album of four works.
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.Original price £135,000.00 - Original price £135,000.00Original price £0.00£135,000.00£135,000.00 - £135,000.00Current price £135,000.00| /A fine album of four works by the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), 'the great engraver who was the interpreter and virtua...
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Epicurus's Morals.
EPICURUS.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /An early edition in English of Epicurus' (341-270 BC) moral teachings, comprising his 'Wise Man' sayings, Letter to Menoeceus, and excerpts from h...
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The Aurelian: or, natural history of British insects, namely, moths and butterflies.
HARRIS, Moses.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| /A beautiful record of English butterflies and moths, incorporating all the stages of the life cycle for each, positioned on the plants on which th...
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The Book of Common Prayer,
BASKERVILLE, John (printer).Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /An attractive example, in an unusual contemporary morocco binding of The Book of Common Prayer, the third and last octavo edition from the press o...
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Abbildung und Beschreibung der Voelkerstaemme und Voelker unter des Russischen Kaisers Alexander menschenfreundlichen Regierung.
HEMPEL, Friedrich Ferdinand; GEISSLER, C.G.H.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| /First edition of this illustrated description of peoples governed by the Russian Tsar, Alexander I. Christian Heinrich Geissler (1770-1844) was a ...
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A Voyage to Arabia Fœlix
LA ROQUE, Jean de.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| /The first part of La Roque's Voyage to Arabia Fœlix describes Yemen and Mocha. Mocha at this time was a considerable trading centre. The second pa...
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Hogarth Illustrated
HOGARTH, William (illustrator); IRELAND, John (editor).Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Superb Regency binding. An exceptionally handsome set of this stalwart of the traditional library, with finely engraved illustrations.Third edition...
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Opere di Galileo Galilei
GALILEI, Galileo.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| /Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...
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The history of Nadir Shah,
FRASER, JamesOriginal price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Blackmer copy. Fraser was Resident at Surat from 1730-40 and then returned as Factor for the East India company, 1743-9. This work is important for...
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