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Al-Juz' Al-Thani min Kitab al-Iktifa' fi Fada'il...,
AL-MATUFI, Ibrahim bin Abd'ullah Al-Wasabi.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00An authentic Emarati manuscript. A very rare manuscript described in the colophon as being copied in the 'Al-Wasl' area in the western provinces of...
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Rare Provincial Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Copied for a regional king. A very handsome and clean example of a regional Qur'an, produced for a local ruler named 'Malik Muhammad bin Muhammad'....
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Gorod. Stikhi. [The City. Poems].
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (illustrator); RUBAKIN, Alexander.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00One of 25 copies on Chine. A fine copy this masterpiece of the Russian avant-garde. Number 4 of the tirage de tête of only 25 copies on china paper...
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Mother Goose.
PERRAULT, Charles; RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator).Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00A beautifully illustrated edition of Mother Goose Old Nursery Rhymes, including many well-known ones such as, Hickory-Dickory-Dock.Early Rackham t...
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Oriental Field Sports.
WILLIAMSON, Thomas; HOWETT, Samuel.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Valuable record of the sporting activities of British officers serving in India. Williamson's Oriental Field Sports is a valuable record of the spo...
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A picturesque illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.
DANIELL, Samuel.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Fine pictorial record of Ceylon. Samuel Daniell's Ceylon is the finest pictorial record of the island.Samuel Daniell (1775-1811), the youngest of t...
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Views in the Himala Mountains.
FRASER, James Baillie.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00First edition of Fraser's Himala Mountains, the finest illustrated work on the Himalayas.James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was the eldest son of a ...
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India ancient and modern.
SIMPSON, William; KAYE, Sir John William.Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00The rarest of all the Indian view books. Simpson's views of India is one of the rarest of all the Indian view books and a fine record of the countr...
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Twenty four views taken in St. Helena,
SALT, Henry.Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00Fresh, clean copy of Salt's very fine large format views. A fresh, clean copy of the set of Salt's very fine large format views of India, Abyssinia...
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Eighteen views taken at & near Rangoon [with]
MOORE, Lieut. Joseph.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00From the library of a protagonist in the war. Moore's views of Rangoon constitute the finest depiction of events during the first Burmese War. This...
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Graphic scenes in the Japan expedition.
HEINE, William.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan. An important work recording Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan.William Heine was the official artist on C...
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General Views and special points of interest
DODGSON, Lieut.-Col. D[avid] S[cott].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00The rebellion of 1857 produced a spate of publications, many of which were illustrated books and prints after sketches by army officers. Dodgson, ...
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A series of fifteen views of Ceylon
O'BRIEN, Captain C.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00A copy of the first edition of O'Brien's Ceylon with later hand-colouring. O'Brien was employed as Assistant Surveyor in Ceylon, a position which ...
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For the Unfallen: Poems 1952-1958.
HILL, Geoffrey.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00First edition of the author's first commercially published work, preceded only by a Fantasy Press pamphlet.First edition, first impression; 8vo; m...
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Reise des Grafen Emanuel Andrasy in Ostindien.
ANDRASY, Graf Emanuel [Mano].Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00Plates of Hong Kong and Calcutta. Andrasy's Ostindien contains a particularly beautiful set of plates of Hong Kong and Calcutta, elephant, rhinocer...
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Ruins of Mandoo,
HARRIS, Capt. Claudius.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Captain Harris (1826-62) served in the 8th Madras Light Cavalry between 1845 and 1860, becoming a captain in 1858. When his regiment was posted to...
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Nederlandsch-Indië Teekeningen.
RAPPARD, Josias Cornelis (illustrator); PERELAUER, M.T.H; VAN REES, Willem Adriaan.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00Rare complete set consisting of Batavia, Java, Buitenzorg, and De Buitenbezittingen (outer possessions). The work presents a romanticised account ...
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Exploration of Kina Balu.
WHITEHEAD, John.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina ...
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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00Presentation copy. First Methuen edition, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half-title, ' Aug 1960. To Peter from Harold.' The recipient ...
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Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00With 10 hand-coloured aquatints. Broughton was Commander of the Resident's Escort at the Court of Scindia. His march commenced in Agra and took in ...
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Demon.
LERMONTOV, Mikhail; EBERLING, Alfred (illustrator).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00Finely bound illustrated edition of Lermontov's Demon, one of the most celebrated works of Russian Romantic literature. Alfred Eberling (1872-1951...
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Egypt, the Sinaitic Desert and the Holy Land.
AGATE, Margaret M.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Scots in the Sinai. Margaret Agate kept a diary of her journey in Egypt between Autumn 1901 and Spring 1902. She made an excursion on the Nile and ...
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Records of Parrots Bred in Captivity [together with] Additions.
PRESTWICH, Arthur A.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Inscribed presentation copy. First edition of this scarce, comprehensive record of international parrot breeding, inscribed by the author on the fr...
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Six. Sixth Sense. No. 4.
[COMME DES GARÇONS].Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00The fourth issue of Rei Kawakubo's Six magazine (1988-1991). Contributors to this issue are Robert Frank, Arthur Elgort, Josef Koudelka, Saul Leit...
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