Bernard Shapero | September 2024
A selection of the most significant rare books, curated by our CEO and Founder Bernard Shapero.
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The Haggadah.
[HAGGADAH]. SZYK, Arthur (illustrator); ROTH, Cecil (editor).Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00Number 59 of 125 copies printed on vellum, signed by both Szyk & Roth; large 4to, comprising 118 french-fold leaves; original blue morocco by S...
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A fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00Exquisite illumination by a named artist. A beautifully illuminated Qur'an, signed in the colophon with the name of the 'tadhhibuh' (illuminator) R...
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Calligraphic manuscript:
PONCET DE LA GRAVE, Guillaume.Original price £27,500.00 - Original price £27,500.00Original price £27,500.00£27,500.00£27,500.00 - £27,500.00Current price £27,500.00A unique manuscript on the French navy presented from Louis XVI to Marie-Antoinette. An exceptional presentation & association manuscript, boun...
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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 £75,000.00An 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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Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00With original dust-jacket. The first and only English edition of this title and the most comprehensive volume on Russia. Poland and Finland are inc...
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Orme's Collection of British Field Sports
HOWITT, Samuel.Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00The finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries. Very rare. The first and only edition of the finest and most important sport...
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Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, from the year 1815 to the present year inclusive.
HERRING, John Frederick.Original price £57,500.00 - Original price £57,500.00Original price £0.00£57,500.00£57,500.00 - £57,500.00Current price £57,500.00With fabulous colour. A rare set of the finest early 19th-century series of racehorse portraits by John Herring, one of the greatest sporting artis...
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Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople,
DUPRE, Louis.Original price £95,000.00 - Original price £95,000.00Original price £95,000.00£95,000.00£95,000.00 - £95,000.00Current price £95,000.00The finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...
View full detailsOriginal price £95,000.00 - Original price £95,000.00Original price £95,000.00£95,000.00£95,000.00 - £95,000.00Current price £95,000.00
