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Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
GRIFFITHS, Julius.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| /Holland House copy. Griffiths travelled out to Constantinople with the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1785, before going on to t...
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[Manuscript pour Une Volupté Nouvelle.]
LOUŸS, Pierre.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| /Manuscript copy of Louÿs' work, first published in 1899. Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) was born in Ghent in 1870 into a Champagne family, who had taken...
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Odd Whims and Miscellanies.
REPTON, Humphry.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. xii, [11], 171; [vi], 164 pp., complete with half-titles, vignettes to title-pages and 10 hand coloured plates...
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[Esther Scroll housed in silver decorative case, untitled].
[ESTHER SCROLL].Original price £7,150.00 - Original price £7,150.00Original price £0.00£7,150.00£7,150.00 - £7,150.00Current price £7,150.00| /Megillat Esther. Esther scroll housed in an elaborately decorated silver case.Manuscript on vellum, text arranged in 19 lines, in Hebrew Sephardic ...
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Maps illustrating the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
BARNARD, Major J.G.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Part of the large body of interesting literature relating to schemes to build either a railway or a canal through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Barn...
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication.
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £1,850.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Survival of the fittest. Featuring the first occurrence of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. Originally intended as the first two chapters in a...
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The comic history of Rome.
LEECH, John, Illustrator; Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /Original parts. First editions. 8vo., 10 parts in 9 as issued, 10 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, illustrations; some light general toni...
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Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia,
WILBRAHAM, Captain Richard.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Wilbraham was a Captain in the British Army on military secondment in the service of Mohammad Shah. He gives a good description of Qilhak village,...
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Rough Notes of the Campaign in Sinde and Afghanistan,
OUTRAM, Captain James.Original price £495.00 - Original price £495.00Original price £495.00£495.00£495.00 - £495.00Current price £495.00| /Originally published in a small Bombay edition. A thrilling account of the capture of Ghazni; the pursuit over rough terrain of Dost Mohammed Khan...
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Les Noces Mogolienes.
OPIZ, Georg Emanuel.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| /Georg Emanuel Opiz, or Opitz (1775-1841) was born in Prague, but moved to Dresden where he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Casanova. His ...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons:
BATES, Henry Walter.Original price £1,400.00 - Original price £1,400.00Original price £1,400.00£1,400.00£1,400.00 - £1,400.00Current price £1,400.00| /One of the finest accounts of natural history travels. Henry Bates (1825 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific...
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The discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator,"
OSBORN, Sherard (editor).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /The first traversal of the North-west Passage. Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...
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Frankreich, Paris und Nord-Frankreich
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £300.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /Endpapers dated "Juli 1870".Seventh edition. 8vo, pp. xxxvi, 1-258, with 23 maps and plans, including a large map of Paris in three parts; slight ...
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Voyage round the World
KRUSENSTERN, Capt. A.J. von.Original price £13,500.00 - Original price £13,500.00Original price £0.00£13,500.00£13,500.00 - £13,500.00Current price £13,500.00| /The first Russian circumnavigation. An important work, being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Kru...
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Street Types of Great American Cities.
KRAUSZ, Sigmund.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £275.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /FIRST EDITION, a reprint of Krausz's Street Types of Chicago of 1892, this edition with 10 additional plates and vignettes and an updated title in...
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[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Courtiers.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £11,000.00 - Original price £11,000.00Original price £0.00£11,000.00£11,000.00 - £11,000.00Current price £11,000.00| /A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing courtiers.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpens...
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Physiologie du Gout...
BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean AnthelmeOriginal price £525.00 - Original price £525.00Original price £0.00£525.00£525.00 - £525.00Current price £525.00| /Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière...
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Narrative of an expedition across the great south-western prairies,
KENDALL, George Wilkins.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Second English edition, published a year after the Harper and Wiley editions.An account of the The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, a commercial and mil...
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Khartoum,
MELLY, GeorgeOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...
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