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Records of the Emirates 1961-1965
[ARABIAN GULF].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| /A comprehensive collection of documents covering an important period in the history of the Arabian Gulf. Includes much on oil and water disputes, ...
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Historic maps of Bahrain 1817-1970.
[BAHRAIN].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| /A comprehensive collection containing 69 maps and charts of Bahrain originally produced between 1817 and 1970. The volumes are divided into naval ...
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A history of Persian navigation.
HASAN, Hadi.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| /Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...
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The Diary Kept by T.E. Lawrence while travelling in Arabia during 1911. [With] The Diary of T.E. Lawrence.
LAWRENCE, T.E.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| /One of 30 copies. The beautifully designed Corvinus Press edition of the diary that Lawrence kept during his first trip to the Middle East in 1911,...
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The Art of Deer Stalking [with] Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed;
SCROPE, William.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| /A handsome set. A handsome set of the first editions of William Scrope's two most important books, classics in the history of British sporting.Scro...
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Chart of the Arctic regions
WYLD, James.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 copy of Wyld's hemisphere map of the Arctic regions, dedicated to Lady Franklin, in its original binding. The map can be approximate...
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
KHAYYÁM, Omar; POGANY, Willy (illustrator).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| /A beautiful copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám with 16 colour-plate illustrations after the Hungarian artist Willy Pogany (1882-1955).This editi...
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The History of Ancient and Modern Wines.
[VITTICULTURE]. HENDERSON, Alexander.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| /Early account of modern winemaking. A lovely copy, in half-red morocco of Alexander Hamilton's History of Ancient and Modern Wines. One of the firs...
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Boyd Alexander's Last Journey.
ALEXANDER, herbert.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 original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to ...
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Traveler and Tourist's Guide-Book through the United States of America and the Canadas:
COLTON, J.H.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 very good example of this comprehensive and detailed guide book to the United States. The large coloured map at the rear which only covers half ...
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A Journey into Greece...
WHELER, George.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| /A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone.
ROWLING, J.K.Original 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| /A near-fine example of the correct first UK Bloomsbury paperback edition. This copy has all the important issue points, with the Wendy Cooling rev...
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Diamonds are Forever.
FLEMING, Ian.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| /The first edition, first impression of the fourth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.Fleming was inspired by a 1954 Sunday Times story on th...
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Giant Brains, or Machines that Think.
[COMPUTING]. BERKELEY, Edmund C.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| /Inscribed association copy. First edition, first printing of 'the first carefully crafted and widely accepted popularization of computers' (IEEE ob...
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The Holy Bible.
MACKLIN, Thomas (editor).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 grandest English gallery Bible. Macklin's sumptuous edition of the King James Bible 'Embellished with engravings, from pictures and designed by...
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Nederlandsch Bloemwerk.
[TULIPS].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| /The ascendancy of the dutch nurseryman. First edition of this striking, hand-coloured Dutch botanical work, in beautiful contemporary calf.'Nederla...
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Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis 1702-1711.
SCHEUCHZER, Johann.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| /Second edition, enlarged, of the most detailed and profusely illustrated work to date on the topography, geology, natural history, and climate of ...
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Scenes in Kafirland,
GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; Lieut. Hugh Robinson.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| /Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...
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Winnie-The-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price £1,400.00 - Original price £1,400.00Original price £0.00£1,400.00£1,400.00 - £1,400.00Current price £1,400.00| /The publisher's deluxe bindings came in three colours with green being the most favoured due its similarity to the green cloth of the regular trad...
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