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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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Voyage de la Pérouse
LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /The first scientific voyage to California, with royal provenance. The first edition of one of the most important scientific explorations ever under...
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Dé-coll/age happenings
VOSTELL, WolfOriginal 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| /Wolf Vostell (German, 1932-1998), is best known for his contributions to video art and co-founding the Fluxus movement in the early 1960s. Additio...
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The Story of Grettir the Strong.
MORRIS, William & MAGNUSSON, Eirikr (translators).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| /Presentation copy - inscribed to Charles Kingsley. Limited to just 500 copies, with the present copy inscribed by William Morris in black ink to th...
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Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania.
HUGHES, The Rev. Thomas Smart.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| /Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Alba...
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A new history of Ethiopia.
LUDOLF, Hiob.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| /The father of modern Ethiopian studies. Scarce English edition. Ludolf (1624-1704), is regarded as the father of modern Ethiopian studies. 'A work ...
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A Monograph of the Cranes.
BLAAUW, Frans Ernst.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| /Ornithology. This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of the Amsterdam Zoo, G. F. Westerman. However, his unti...
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[An Attractive Indian Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].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| /Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, complete, 318 leaves plus two later free endpapers, 120 x 80 mm; single column, 14 line...
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