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  • [A Farewell to Arms]. A rare sample binding (or 'blad') with A.L.s. on headed paper from the Printing Department, Charles Scribner's Sons.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    The key to this rare curiosity is the hand-written letter with the salutation to 'George' and signed by a A. R. Warnock or Warwick, dated 5th Feb'...

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  • Pile Up

    GUSTON, Philip
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    Pile Up' was one of Guston's final works before his death in 1980. Guston was often known to switch between abstraction and figuration and this wo...

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  • Celia with Green Hat, from the Moving Focus Series

    HOCKNEY, David
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    edition 81/98Lithograph in colours, 1984, on wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 98, printed and published by Tyl...

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  • Dessins sans Bande.

    LICHTENSTEIN, Roy.
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    Signed by the artist. Richly illustrated catalogue for Lichtenstein's exhibition Dessins sans bande in the winter of 1975. Inscribed on the cover, ...

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  • Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.

    SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.
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    Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...

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  • Administration des Haras. Atlas statistique de la production des chevaux en France.

    GAYOT, Eugène; Hippolyte Lalaisse (artist).
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    Horse breeding in France in the mid-19th century . Impressive and uncommon work on French horse breeding at the beginning of Napoleon III's reign -...

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  • Tarikh-e Khani [and] Tarikh-e Gilan,

    DORN, Bernhard (editor),
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    These volumes are part of a historical series printed at the Print House of the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg. The two present volumes are: Ta...

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  • The Sixpence that Rolled Away.

    BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator); MACNEICE, Louis.
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    Edward Bawden's own copy. 'Once upon a time there was a One Pound Note and he married a Ten Shilling Note and they had three children, a half-crown...

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  • Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition

    BACK, George.
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    Scarce in original cloth. 'One of the finest travel books of the nineteenth century' [Howgego].Back, a British naval officer and accomplished artis...

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  • Leaf from a fine Safavid calligraphic album.

    [CALLIGRAPHY].
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    This leaf showcases the excellence of Persian manuscript production in the early Safavid period of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centur...

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  • Anna Livia Plurabelle.

    JOYCE, James.
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    Rare special edition. The first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans Wake, and i...

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  • Down and Out in Paris and London.

    ORWELL, George.
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    First edition of the author's first book. Orwell's first book was printed in a run of just 1500 copies many of which sold to the circulating librar...

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  • Royal Navy Master's logbook recording the tour of HMS Amazon

    [RENAUD, Benjamin].
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    Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...

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  • The Mandrake Booklets:

    [MANDRAKE PRESS]; STEPHENSEN, P.R.; CROWLEY, Aleister [et al.].
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    Complete set of The Mandrake Booklets - with nine presentation copies. The complete set of The Mandrake Booklets in the original dustjackets, publi...

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  • A General History of Quadrupeds.

    BEWICK, Thomas.
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    Imperial paper copy. This edition includes thirteen new figures, one of which, the Spotted Hyena replaced an earlier figure; a rearrangement of the...

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  • Germany. Rhine from Switzerland to Holland.

    BAEDEKER, Karl.
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    First English edition. First English edition.'Rhine' was the first English Baedeker title to be published and there were eighteen subsequent editio...

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  • Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829.

    DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sebastien Cesar.
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    Rarely found complete. Extremely rare and desirable set of the first edition of d'Urville's voyage in the Astrolabe.The zoology section was produce...

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