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La Dame de Pique. [The Queen of Spades].
SHUKHAEV, Vasily (illustrator); PUSHKIN, Alexander.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| /A finely bound example - one of only 25 copies. A beautiful copy of Shukhaev's La Dame de Pique with two additional suites. Pushkin's much loved st...
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Nieuw Vermeerderd en Verbeterd groot Stedeboek van Piemont en van Savoye.
BLAEU, Willem & Joannes.Original price £28,000.00 - Original price £28,000.00Original price £0.00£28,000.00£28,000.00 - £28,000.00Current price £28,000.00| /Third Dutch edition on large paper, the plates with excellent dark impressions, handsomely bound in a contemporary Dutch binding. The maps, plans,...
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Travels,
SHAW, Thomas.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 valuable work. 'A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited ...
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Das Kapital.
MARX, Karl.Original price £100,000.00 - Original price £100,000.00Original price £0.00£100,000.00£100,000.00 - £100,000.00Current price £100,000.00| /The new religion. The complete first edition in four volumes.'The history of the twentieth century if Marx's legacy. Stalin, Mao, Che, Castro - the...
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Storia degli Arabi sotto il governo de'Califi.
MARIGNY, François Augier de.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 splendidly bound first edition set in Italian of this chronological history of the Eastern Caliphs, successors of the Prophet and the Emperors o...
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Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople,
DUPRE, Louis.Original price £95,000.00 - Original price £95,000.00Original price £95,000.00£95,000.00£95,000.00 - £95,000.00Current price £95,000.00| /The finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...
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The American testimonial banquet to Henry M. Stanley.
[STANLEY, Henry Morton].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /A scarce memorial of Stanley's last expedition. Following the printed title, the text consists of a list of the Committee and honorary Stewards, e...
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Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,
[BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].Original price £7,250.00 - Original price £7,250.00Original price £0.00£7,250.00£7,250.00 - £7,250.00Current price £7,250.00| /Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...
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Journal de la navigation autour du globe
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien (Baron de).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| /The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indoc...
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Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie.
COMMELIN, Isaac (editor).Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /Dutch mercantile enterprise - the definitive edition. The definitive edition of the great early Dutch voyages of exploration. This collection of vo...
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La Maison Philibert.
LORRAIN, Jean; COURBOULEIX, Léon & FARNETI, Carlo (illustrators).Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /With an extra suite of plates & original watercolours. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of plates and a copper plate. This copy also includ...
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Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus
DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00Original price £0.00£65,000.00£65,000.00 - £65,000.00Current price £65,000.00| /With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...
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Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar;
OWEN, William Fitzwilliam.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| /Family copy of crew member with letters. Lt. Henry Gibbons served on H.M.S. Leven and died on December 26th 1822 from fever. The same fate was to b...
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Planches de salut:
MARCOUSSIS, Louis; TZARA, Tristan.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £15,000.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /Deluxe edition one of 10 copies signed by the artist . One of the most delightful of all Cubist illustrated books with an introduction by Tristan T...
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An album of watercolours of Scottish landscapes,
BURGESS, Henry William; KERR Lady Harriet.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| /Henry William Burgess (c.1792-1837) was highly regarded for his landscape drawings and paintings, with a particular emphasis on the study of trees...
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Sport in Somaliland,
POTOCKI, Count Joseph.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and br...
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Piat' vidov rossiyskikh i sibirskikh gorodov.
MAKHAEV, Mikhail Ivanovich and others.Original price £6,950.00 - Original price £6,950.00Original price £0.00£6,950.00£6,950.00 - £6,950.00Current price £6,950.00| /A collection of the earliest views of the Russian cities on the Volga river and in Siberia, engraved by Russian masters. These views are part of a...
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Voyage pittoresque de la Grece.
CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel August Florent.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £17,500.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00| /A very attractive example of the first edition of one of the most celebrated Voyages pittoresques.Choiseul-Gouffier's masterpiece is the first pub...
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Liber Studiorum.
TURNER, J. M. W.Original price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £32,500.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00| /A very good complete set of Turner's famed Liber Studiorum, with all plates on uncut sheets.Turner's Liber Studiorum, issued in a series of 14 par...
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A Chorographical Map of the King of Sardinia's Dominions... [BOUND WITH]
DURY, Andrew.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /A fine example, with aristocratic provenance, of Dury's London edition of two wall-maps of North-Western Italy: Borgonio's Carta corografica degli...
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Sobranie rossiiskikh i sibirskikh gorodov.
MAKHAEV, Mikhail Ivanovich and others.Original price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00£75,000.00£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price £75,000.00| /Exceptionally rare complete collection of the earliest views of Russian cities on the Volga river and in Siberia, engraved by Russian masters. An ...
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Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert.
SALZENBERG, Wilhelm.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /An excellent example of this celebrated second edition, limited to only a few copies, of this important work on christian architecture in Constant...
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