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Winnie-the-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price £5,500.00 - Original price £5,500.00Original price £0.00£5,500.00£5,500.00 - £5,500.00Current price £5,500.00| /How lucky am I?. 'How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?' A lovely copy of this perennial children's classic, decidedl...
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Fabric Map of Hofuf and Bandar Abbas.
[ARABIAN GULF].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| /Map of Qatar and the UAE. An excellent example of a double-sided coloured escape map of the Arabian Gulf, showing the UAE and Oman to recto, and Qa...
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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 £1,250.00| /A 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 £1,200.00| /A 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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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 £1,950.00| /Attractive 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 £6,500.00| /First 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 £7,500.00| /The 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 £1,250.00| /Maps 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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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 £2,500.00| /Burton 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 £1,500.00| /Kunz' 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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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 £6,000.00| /3 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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Album of four works.
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.Original price £135,000.00 - Original price £135,000.00Original price £0.00£135,000.00£135,000.00 - £135,000.00Current price £135,000.00| /A fine album of four works by the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), 'the great engraver who was the interpreter and virtua...
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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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The Festival Prayers,
[PRAYER BOOK]. DE SOLA, D.A (translator).Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £0.00£2,800.00£2,800.00 - £2,800.00Current price £2,800.00| /Magnificent six volumes Ashkenazic Machzor of Festival Prayers, translated by Rev. David Aaron De Sola, minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Jew...
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Faith of Israel,
GOODMAN, Rabbi Tobias.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| /'one of the earliest preachers in English of the London Jewish community' The Jewish Encyclopedia. First and only edition of this work by Rabbi Tob...
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The Form of Prayers...
[PRAYER BOOK]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Set of Festival Prayers (Machzor) by one of the pioneers of Hebrew printing in London with incredible provenance of the de Rothschild family.The F...
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The Arab of the desert.
DICKSON, H.R.P.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /Preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into the...
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Personal observations on Sindh;
POSTANS, Thomas.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| /Mrs Postans' advance copy. Postans (1808-46) was assistant to the political agent in Sindh and Baluchistan. A comprehensive description of Sindh in...
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