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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.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| /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, PhilipOriginal 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| /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, DavidOriginal price £40,000.00 - Original price £40,000.00Original price £0.00£40,000.00£40,000.00 - £40,000.00Current price £40,000.00| /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.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| /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.Original price £195,000.00 - Original price £195,000.00Original price £0.00£195,000.00£195,000.00 - £195,000.00Current price £195,000.00| /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).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £4,750.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /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),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| /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.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /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.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| /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].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| /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.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /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.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /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].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| /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.].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| /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.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| /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.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| /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.Original price £110,000.00 - Original price £110,000.00Original price £0.00£110,000.00£110,000.00 - £110,000.00Current price £110,000.00| /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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