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A Grammar of the Cingalese language.
CHATER, James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /First English grammar of Sinhala. Chater's book is the first English grammar of Sinhala, the major language of Sri Lanka, and the first major book ...
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Greece
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /Variant binding. This rare first edition was based on the second German edition (1888). This copy has been bound in the "experimental" pink cloth u...
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Autobiography of Godfrey Zimmerman,
ZIMMERMAN, Godfrey.Original price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £800.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00| /Scarce autobiography, with the list of subscribers. From the library of Alfred Rubens. Godfrey Zimmerman (1788-1866) born into a poor family of a ...
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Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England.
WALSH, Robert.Original 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| /Walsh served in Constantinople from 1820 to 1824 as chaplain to the British Embassy. This work describes his return to England, dealing almost exc...
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Narrative of a journey through Greece,
TRANT, Thomas Abercromby.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Scarce. Trant began his journey in October 1829, travelling extensively through Greece, before arriving in Constantinople. The work contains 'a li...
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Des Cosaques,
[UKRAINE]. KARR, L. J.Original 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| /A fine example of a very scarce early 19th-century account of the origin and history of Ukrainian Cossacks. Karr's work covers the building of for...
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An Act to remove Doubts as to Quakers and Jews Marriages solemnized before certain Periods. [2d July 1847.]
[ACT OF PARLIAMENT].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £500.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /An act of Parliament confirming the validity of 'Marriages amongst the People called Quakers and amongst Persons professing the Jewish Religion'.T...
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A Bill to provide a general Form of Affirmation for all Persons who believe the taking of any Oath to be forbidden by their Duty towards God.
[PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL].Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /A private member's bill presented to the House of Commons by Benjamin Hawes, Joseph Brotherton, and William Ewart on 28th May 1840 relating to the...
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The Great Rift Valley,
GREGORY, J[ohn] W[alter].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Highland regions of Mount Kenya. Important exploration expedition in the hitherto unknown highland regions of Mt. Kenya.In 1892 Gregory was seconde...
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The shores and islands of the Mediterranean.
WRIGHT, George Newenham.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Includes views of the Ionian Islands, Malta, Gibraltar and Sicily after drawings by Lieut. Henry Allen, Bartlett and Allom.4to, engraved additiona...
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The ruin of the Soudan
RUSSELL, Henry.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Scarce. The author was special correspondent to the Daily News and Daily Telegraph whilst resident in first Jeddah and then Suakin. An Arabic spe...
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Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.
BOOTH, Edward Thomas.Original price £7,000.00 - Original price £7,000.00Original price £0.00£7,000.00£7,000.00 - £7,000.00Current price £7,000.00| /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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The British Warblers.
SWEET, Robert.Original 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| /'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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History of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Army.
BROOME, Captain Arthur.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /A detailed narrative of the Bengal Army from the earliest establishment of the British influence in India, to the close of Lord Clive's second adm...
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An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh,
GUBBINS, Martin Richard.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Second edition. The author was Financial Commissioner for Oudh and describes himself as 'the intimate adviser and confidant of' Sir Henry Lawrence...
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The Memoirs of J. Decastro, Comedian.
DECASTRO, J[acob]; HUMPHRYS, R. (editor).Original price £900.00 - Original price £900.00Original price £900.00£900.00£900.00 - £900.00Current price £900.00| /This first edition from 1824 offers the memoirs of an early nineteenth-century circus comedian, with an overview of the life of Philip Astley, the...
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The Adventure of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected With It,
DANIELL, William (engraver).Original 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| /Large paper copy of The Adventure of Hunch-Back, illustrated with 17 engraved plates by William Daniell after paintings by Robert Smirke.The plate...
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Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians.
JESSE, J. Heneage.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /Eton College interest. A beautifully bound copy of Heneage Jesse's (d.1874) two-volume collection of biographies on noted Eton alumni including Wil...
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A History of The Cries of London, Ancient and Modern.
HINDLEY, Charles.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £200.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /Charles Hindley (d.1893) who wrote many books on British popular literature and culture, in this work analyses the distinctive cries, characters a...
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