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Zolotoi Petushok [The Golden Cockerel].
BILIBIN, Ivan (artist); PUSHKIN, Alexander.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A very good example of richly illustrated promotional brochure for the first full staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Zolotoi Petushok' (The Golden Cock...
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An Almanac of Twelve Sports.
NICHOLSON, William (illustrator); KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00Original price £0.00£1,200.00£1,200.00 - £1,200.00Current price £1,200.00A wonderful example of this book, in an edition thought to run to two hundred & seventy-five copies.Nicholson had been working with Heinemann ...
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More Los Angeles Apartments and Twenty Three Min Photo.
O'BRIAN, John.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'For Michael / & Maria +1 / J. O'B / 7/12/98.'Ed Ruscha's 1965 book Some Los Angeles Apartment...
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Philips' New Map of Africa
[PHILIP, George]Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00Attractive large map of Africa by the firm founded by the Scottish cartographer George Philip (1800-188), coloured to show the 'Possessions & ...
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Frankreich. Paris und Umgebungen,
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00First edition in mint condition. This is the last series started by Karl Baedeker himself before he died in 1859. Plans include Versailles, Rouen, ...
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A history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,
PLAYFAIR, Captain Robert Lambert.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00The first major history of Yemen by an British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 200...
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Maps of Iraq
[IRAQ].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Maps include Baghdad and Environs, The Environs of Basrah and several road maps to Southern and Northern Iraq.Revised and enlarged edition. Folio ...
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Ich Dich lieben, Du mich auch?
PETERSEN, Anders.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00Signed. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur (18 January - 16 March, 2003) and the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterda...
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Inger har sett allt.
PETERSEN, Anders.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00Signed. Anders Petersen took this series of photographs at Enskede-Skarpnacks psykiatriska sekto, a psychiatric hospital in southern Stockholm. It ...
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Du mich auch.
PETERSEN, Anders.Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £0.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00Signed. Du mich auch comprises Anders Petersen's previously unpublished photographs from Hamburg and Stockholm in the late sixties together with mo...
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Unexplored Syria.
BURTON, Richard Francis; TYRWHITT DRAKE, Charles F.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Burton was Consul at Damascus from 1865-1871. During that period Tyrwhitt-Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fun...
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The Book of the Pearl
KUNZ, George Frederick; STEVENSON, Charles Hugh.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Kunz' monograph on the pearl has been described as 'One of the most beautiful books published in the United States' (Sinkankas). Prized for the en...
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Naked Hollywood
WEEGEE (pseud. FELLIG, Arthur (Usher)).Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Following the success of his first book, Naked City (1946), Weegee spent some time working in Hollywood as an actor and consultant. Mark Hellinger...
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Belgium and Luxemburg.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £80.00 - Original price £80.00Original price £0.00£80.00£80.00 - £80.00Current price £80.00Last English title covering Belgium.Holland is no longer included and the section on Luxemburg has been extended. Issued c.1937Sixteenth edition. ...
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France. Northern France.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00First edition. This is the first of five editions published on Northern France. This title was never published in German. Issued c.1890.First editi...
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Pomologia Britannica;
LINDLEY, John.Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £0.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.003 volumes, 8vols; 152 hand-coloured engraved plates after C.M.Curtis and Mrs. Withers, 5 double-page, many heightened with gum arabic, tissue guar...
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How I Found Livingstone.
STANLEY, Henry Morton.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'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a nineteenth-century reader with the wonder...
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Flowers
WARHOL, AndyOriginal price £58,000.00 - Original price £58,000.00Original price £0.00POA£58,000.00 - £58,000.00Current priceColour offset lithograph, 1964, on wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, from the edition of approximately 300 signed and dated prints, printed ...
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Illustration from a series of Hindu Deities,
[INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING].Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Single illuminated miniature painting on card, illustration in opaque pigments heightened in gold, contemporary ink inscription in English to uppe...
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Illustration from a series of Hindu Deities,
[INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING].Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Single illuminated miniature painting on card, illustration in opaque pigments heightened in gold, contemporary ink inscription in English to uppe...
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Illustration from a series of Hindu Deities,
[INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING].Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00Single illuminated miniature painting on card, illustration in opaque pigments heightened in gold, contemporary ink inscription in English to uppe...
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Illustration from a series of Hindu Deities,
[INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING].Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Single illuminated miniature painting on card, illustration in opaque pigments heightened in gold, contemporary ink inscription in English to uppe...
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Illustration from a series of Hindu Deities,
[INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING].Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Single illuminated miniature painting on card, illustration in opaque pigments heightened in gold, contemporary ink inscription in English to uppe...
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