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Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil
SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...
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The Straits Times Annual
SINGAPOREOriginal price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...
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The History of Humayun.
BEGAM, Gul-Badan.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, 1. Text in English and Farsi.First edition. 8vo, xiv, 331, 96 pp., 3 photographic plates, original blue clo...
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Tokyo.
KLEIN, William.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Tokyo is the fourth of Klein's four classic city books, following Life is Good & Good For You in New York: Trance Witness Revels (1956) and Ro...
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William Eggleston's Guide.
EGGLESTON, William.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /The adoption of colour photography, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and others was not without precedent: ...
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Tokyo Lucky Hole.
ARAKI, Nobuyoshi.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /Tokyo Lucky Hole is of one of Araki's best-known books, photographed in and around the sex clubs of the Kabuki-cho area of Tokyo's Shinjuku distri...
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Urformen der Kunst.
BLOSSFELDT, Karl.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| /With the publisher's prospectus. Urformen der Kunst is an important and influential work, a cornerstone of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) ...
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Mexico City
LEVITT, Helen.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /One of 200 signed copies. This book was published to coincide with the exhibition Mexico City 1941: Photographs by Helen Levitt, which opened at th...
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Vännerna Fran Place Blanche.
STROMHOLM, Christer.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /These photographs were taken in the late 1950s to 1960s in the Pigalle area of Paris, where Strömholm lived and worked. He got to know a community...
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Many are Called
EVANS, Walker.Original price £190.00 - Original price £190.00Original price £0.00£190.00£190.00 - £190.00Current price £190.00| /Walker Evans produced this remarkable series of clandestine portraits of passengers on the New York City subway between 1938 and 1941. He caught h...
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The Street Photographs of Roger Mayne.
MAYNE, Roger.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /This publication is based on a smaller 1986 Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, only published in wrappers. Between 1956-61 Roger M...
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The English at Home.
BRANDT, Bill.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /The English at Home is Bill Brandt's first book. He took the photographs between 1931 and 1935, beginning the project after moving to London. Bran...
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Greece.
BAEDEKER, KarlOriginal price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /This was the last and most comprehensive edition in English.Issued c.1909.Fourth edition. cxxvi, 447pp, 16 maps (including folding map in rear poc...
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Prêcis de la géographie universelle,
MALTE-BRUN.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| /An attractive atlas with a world map and five maps of the Americas.Folio (35 x 26 cm), 24 engraved maps by Lapie and Poirson, hand coloured in out...
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Bengal Directory (The) and General Register for the Year 1834,
Shapero Rare BooksOriginal price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Annotated by an officer of the bengal army. Rare. The Bengal Directory contains details of the 'British and Indian Governments', 'Supreme Court Bri...
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Fishing At Home and Abroad.
MAXWELL, The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert, Bart, etc, (editor)Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Limited edition, number 140 of only 750 copies; large 4to (325 x 275 mm); titles printed in red and black, photogravure portrait of King George V,...
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The caravan route
SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...
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A new map of the routes in India.
ALLEN, W. H.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| /Interesting map of India with tables of distances between the principal towns and military stations based on the latest surveys.First edition. eng...
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Elegy Study
MOTHERWELL, RobertOriginal price £12,000.00 - Original price £12,000.00Original price £0.00£12,000.00£12,000.00 - £12,000.00Current price £12,000.00| /Exhibited:Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Robert Motherwell: Black, 24th June - 11th September 2015. (6)Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Robert...
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Jane Eyre:
BRONTË, Charlotte.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...
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Jane Eyre:
BRONTË, Charlotte.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...
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Introduction 2: Stories by New Writers.
STOPPARD, Tom (contributor).Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Contains three stories by Tom Stoppard, his first appearance in book form.First edition, first printing; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red...
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Hopscotch.
CORTÁZAR, Julio; RABASSA, Gregory (translator).Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Originally published in 1963 in Spanish as Rayuela.First UK edition; 8vo; minor age-toning, else unmarked internally; publisher's olive green clot...
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