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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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Seven years in South Africa:
HOLUB, Dr. EmilOriginal 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| /Holub, an Austrian, arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields. Holub gives accounts of pipe mining and their are ...
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Growing #2
HARING, KeithOriginal price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00POA£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price| /This piece is part of Keith Haring's 'Growing' series, consisting of five prints created in 1988 after the artist was tragically diagnosed with AI...
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Growing #3
HARING, KeithOriginal price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00POA£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price| /This piece is part of Keith Haring's 'Growing' series, consisting of five prints created in 1988 after the artist was tragically diagnosed with AI...
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Growing #5
HARING, KeithOriginal price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00POA£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price| /Screenprint in colours, 1988, on Lenox Museum Board, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 16th from the edition of 100, published by Martin Lawren...
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Arabian Tales: or, a continuation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,
HERON, Robert (translator).Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Earliest most complete english translation. A scarce run of a classic work, printed in Scotland.First edition, 4 volumes, presented as a set with '...
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Monandrian Plants of the order Scitamineae,
ROSCOE, William.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00| /Luxury lithography from Liverpool. One of the most impressive lithographed botanical books, containing numerous exotic species on 112 fine hand-col...
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Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...
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The Crown Jewels.
[JEWELLERY]. BLAIR, Claude (editor).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 sumptuous publication. A stunning and scholarly history of the British Crown Jewels, profusely illustratedLimited Edition, no. 171 of 650 numbere...
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The Fables of Aesop.
AESOP; L'Estrange, Sir Roger (translator).Original 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| /An important illustrated edition. An exceptional copy of an important illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables, the text taken from the 1692 edition o...
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William.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| /Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere. A superb copy of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of the sonnets and narrative poems of England's most famous dra...
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Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia,
BLIGH, William; Owen Rutter, editor.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 beautifully bound copy of Bligh's log of the journey from Timor to Batavia, and that of the return voyage to England after the 1789 mutiny.First...
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[Utopia].
[philosophy] MORE, Sir Thomas.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Onlaid brown morocco by Baytun-Riviere. A finely bound example of Thomas More's important contribution to English philosophy which coined the term ...
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Le Morte d'Arthur.
MALORY, Sir Thomas; Sir William Russell Flint (artist).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /A finely bound set of The Morte D'Arthur, one of of the finest illustrated works of Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969), the celebrated Scottish...
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The Lord of the Rings.
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /A finely bound first edition set of Tolkien's modern classic, The Lord of the Rings. Named Britain's best book in the BBC's inaugural The Big Read...
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The Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm.
DULAC, Edmund (illustrator).Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /A beautifully bound copy of the first edition of Dulac's superbly illustrated Rubaiyat.First Dulac edition, limited to 350 numbered copies, each s...
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The Canterbury Tales.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /An excellent set of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, illustrated with 36 tipped-in colour-plates after original drawings by Scottish artist William Rus...
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Peer Gynt.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); Henrik Ibsen.Original 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| /Signed by Rackham. Rackham's Peer Gynt was his penultimate work. 'Remarkably fresh and interesting' - Hudson.First Rackham edition. Limited to 460 ...
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The Wind in the Willows.
RACKHAM, Arthur, Illustrator; Kenneth Grahame.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Wind in the Willows was last book illustrated by Arthur Rackham, published shortly after his death. The illustrations did not appear in a British ...
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The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book.
KIPLING, Rudyard.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| /First editions. A finely bound set of the first editions, first printings of Kipling's classic novel The Jungle Book, and its sequel The Second Jun...
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Le Nouveau Candide.
PENROSE, Valentine.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to André Breton on the half-title, 'à André...
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