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Antverpia Totius Inferiorisæ Primaria Urbs
VRIENTS, Jan Baptist.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £25,000.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /A rare and finely engraved prospect of Antwerp viewed from the Scheldt, first published by Vrients in 1610, under a privilege issued by Albert and...
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Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis.
[EROTICA]. [HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois Hugues, d'].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| /Fine hand-coloured copy of this fully engraved work, printed on papier verge de Hollande extra-fort - one of these 'rarissimes exemplaires dont le...
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Siege of Sebastopol. 1854-5.
[CRIMEAN WAR] - ELPHINSTONE, H[oward] C[rawfurd], Harry D. JONES and W[illiam] Edward M[oyses] REILLY.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /First edition of this large work: a very good copy, complete with the 3 volumes of text and all maps, plans and views of Sevastopol - despite the ...
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Frenzied Finance.
LAWSON, Thomas.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| /[economics] extraordinary attack on the 'money kings'. A signed copy of Thomas Lawson's (1857-1925) extraordinary exposé of greed and corruption in...
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...So Few,
PIERCE, Michael; et al.Original price £3,650.00 - Original price £3,650.00Original price £0.00£3,650.00£3,650.00 - £3,650.00Current price £3,650.00| /[second world war]. A lavish and stunning tribute. The fighter pilots commemorated in this volume are :Wing Commander P.P.C Barthropp; Wing Command...
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
LEFÈVRE, Edwin.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| /Speculation's greatest story. The first edition of this investment classic, a fictionalised biography of the day trader Jessie Livermore, to whom t...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3.
WILDE, Oscar.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| /One of 800 copies. First edition, limited to just 800 copies on handmade paper, with a further 30 copies on Japanese Vellum. The poem was composed ...
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A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...
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You Only Live Twice.
FLEMING, Ian.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| /Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'. The identity of Jonathan h...
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Mehmed Uss'i Zafer 1241 [The Principles of Victory 1826].
ES'AD EFENDI.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| /Earliest account of the suppression of the Janissaries. The earliest and most comprehensive account of Sultan Mahmud II's suppression of the Janiss...
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Summa de arithmetica.
PACIOLI, Luca.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| /The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...
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Traite sur la Cavalerie.
DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector (Comte de).Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00| /Royal copy in fine red morocco. Scarce and impressive work on cavalry: beautiful red morocco copy of the Prince de Condé, a great grandson of King ...
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Hermit by Newminster out of Seclusion, Winner of the Derby 1867, trained by Bloss, Ridden by Daly,
[ANON.]Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £6,000.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00| /A pair of engravings on silk, tears to lower right corner of second item. Framed.
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Swan Engraving Circle I, State V
STELLA, FrankOriginal price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00| /Swan Engraving Circle I is linked to Stella's wider series called Circuits (1980-84), whereby all the artworks are linked through the theme of fra...
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Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); BARRIE, J.M.Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /Signed limited edition. Rackham's magnificent illustrations capture so succinctly the ethereal atmosphere of the story, with the still recognisable...
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The Financial House that Jack Built.
[SINKING FUND].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| /Satire attacking government and stock-jobbers. A satirical riff on the English nursery rhyme The House that Jack Built, criticising the economic po...
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Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique
ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...
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High Cost Living.
LAWSON, Thomas W.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| /Author's personal copy. Thomas Lawson's (1857-1925) personal copy of High Cost Living, his amusing 'insider's account of the pecuniary guile of an ...
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A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in 1819-20.
[PARRY'S FIRST AND SECOND VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward.Original price £8,750.00 - Original price £8,750.00Original price £8,750.00£8,750.00£8,750.00 - £8,750.00Current price £8,750.00| /All three works inscribed by Parry. all three works inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first 'A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry'...
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