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Tabel'-Kalendar na 1911 g. [Wall calendar for the year 1911].
BILIBIN, Ivan.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| /A scarce and impressive piece of ephemera designed by Bilibin. The central panel features the most important religious saint days and feasts toppe...
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Receuil des Principaux Costumes Militaires des Armées Alliés.
DUPLESSIS-BERTAUX, J.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| /The complete series of attractive military costume plates of British, Russian and Prussian Armies.Three parts in one, large 4to (37 x 28.5 cm); il...
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Abbildung und Beschreibung der Voelkerstaemme und Voelker unter des Russischen Kaisers Alexander menschenfreundlichen Regierung.
HEMPEL, Friedrich Ferdinand; GEISSLER, C.G.H.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| /First edition of this illustrated description of peoples governed by the Russian Tsar, Alexander I. Christian Heinrich Geissler (1770-1844) was a ...
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Characteristic sketches of the lower orders,
ROWLANDSON, Thomas.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| /Rowlandson's superb record of the street traders of London now long disappeared: the night-watchman, the raree-showman, the sellers of poodles, ba...
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Narodnye russkie sazki, pesni, shutki. Russkim detiam [Russian national folk tales, songs and jokes. For Russian children].
SHERVASHIDZE, Aleksandr Konstantinovich (illustrator).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 wonderfully bright and rare example of Russian children's illustration by the Abkhazian prince, artist and theatre designer Aleksandr Shervashid...
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Whitbread's Map of London and its Environs.
WHITBREAD, Josiah.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| /An engraved map of London and its environs published Josiah Whitbread, extending form Muswell Hill in the North to Mitcham in the South and from T...
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The great and small game of India,
LYDEKKER, Richard.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| /'A sumptuous rendering of south Asia's wild game species in art and text. Lydekker describes more than seventy varieties of game with attendant no...
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The Authentic representation of the magnificent marriage procession and ceremony
[VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND].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| /Fine panorama of Queen Victoria's wedding to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1840 at the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace, resplendent wit...
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Yachting a series of twelve celebrated yachts
DUTTON, Thomas Goldsworth.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Dutton's scarce and beautiful series of coloured lithographs of yachting. Dutton was the foremost draughtsman and lithographer of shipping subject...
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Marriage and Morals.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.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 great man's more important mid-period collections. Signed by Russell on the front free endpaper and distinctly uncommon thus. The Ameri...
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Sartoris.
FAULKNER, William.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| /A superior copy of a notoriously vulnerable book - the jacket in particular is prone to spitting.First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's b...
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Pylon.
FAULKNER, William.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 novel of the airways.First edition, first printing, trade issue; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to upper board gilt on a black ground and t...
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These Thirteen. Stories.
FAULKNER, William.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| /An important early collection of short stories and, incidentally, one of the most attractive books of its era.First edition, first printing, first...
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Clowns' Houses.
SITWELL, Edith.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| /Presentation copy to her governess and companion Helen Rootham. Inscribed by the author in pencil to front free endpaper, 'To Helen / With my very ...
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The Canterbury Tales.
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]; CHAUCER, Geoffrey; GILL, Eric (illustrator).Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /One of 500 copies. One of the major titles of the Golden Cockerel Press and an extraordinary collaboration between the press director and book desi...
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Anti-Umbrella with Atomized Liquid.
DALI, Salvador.Original price £5,600.00 - Original price £5,600.00Original price £0.00£5,600.00£5,600.00 - £5,600.00Current price £5,600.00| /Colour lithograph with screenprint and etching, some with collage elements, on Rives BFK paper, signed in pencil and numbered (I-186/250 from a to...
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Légende tartare de Crimée. La Princesse Nenekedjân.
ROMANOFF, Marina.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /Signed by the artist. A beautiful example of this Crimean Tatar folk tale printed in Paris in a small edition. The work is a facsimile of the origi...
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Portraits des Hongrois, des Pandoures ou Croates, des Waradins ou Esclavoniens, et des Ulans, &c.
[HUNGARY].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| /First published in 1742 in folio format, both editions are extremely rare. WorldCat lists just 2 copies of the first edition and only a few copies...
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The Personal History of David Copperfield.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price £8,750.00 - Original price £8,750.00Original price £0.00£8,750.00£8,750.00 - £8,750.00Current price £8,750.00| /'Of all my books, I like this the best...'. First edition in book form in variant binding. Dickens would write in his preface to the 1869 edition o...
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