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Voyage autour du Monde,
FREYCINET, Louis-Claude de Saulces de.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| /A rare complete set of the official account of Freycinet's voyage of scientific exploration. During the nineteenth century, a large part of ornith...
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Bubo Maximus [Eagle Owl].
WOLF J. & RICHTER, H.C.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| /John Gould (1804-1881) is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill and bea...
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Cygnus Minor [Bewick's Swan] [with] Cyguns Ferus [Wild Swan or Whooper].
WOLF J. & RICHTER, H.C.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| /John Gould (1804-1881) is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill and bea...
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Portico of the Temple of Dendera.
ROBERTS, David.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /In the 1830s tourism in the Holy Land was increasing as the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, consolidated his authority and promoted the research int...
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Azaleas on Yellow
KATZ, AlexOriginal price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00| /edition 89/100Archival pigment print, 2021, edition 89/100, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the editio...
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Hold Fast By Your Teeth.
BAWDEN, Edward (author & illustrator).Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /From the author to his daughter. Nine short stories written and illustrated by Bawden.First edition, signed presentation inscription from the autho...
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A Map of Bengal, Bahar, Oude & Allahabad
RENNELL, James.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| /Bengal Presidency. A large hand-coloured map showing the course of the Ganges across north-east India from present-day Bangladesh to New Delhi, wit...
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A New Map of England and Wales.
WALKER, J & C.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| /With tables containing an 'immense mass of reciprocal and connecting distances'. A comprehensive map for the 'British Traveller' at the beginning o...
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New Map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland.
MOGG, Edward.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| /England's railways at the dawn of the age of steam. A richly hand-coloured map of England and Wales showing the navigable canals, mail road routes,...
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The Maze.
SANDOZ, Maurice; DALI, Salvador (illustrator).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| /Signed by the illustrator. An attractive first edition, signed by Salvador Dali on the front free endpaper.A macabre tale by the pioneering Swiss f...
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Where The Wild Things Are.
SENDAK, Maurice.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /The true first edition. The true first edition with the correct first state dustjacket. A fine, well-preserved copy of what is perhaps the best-lov...
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Libro Primo[-Qvinto]. D'Architettvra, Di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese,
SERLIO, Sebastiano.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Heinrich Wölfflin's copy with large margins. The first quarto edition of Sebastiano Serlio's (1475-1554) Five Books of Architecture, one of the fir...
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A Prefect's Uncle.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.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| /The author's uncommon second book, here in the earliest issue.First edition, first impression, first issue of the author's second book (with adver...
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Aristophanis comoediae undecim,
[ARISTOPHANES]; KUSTER, Ludolf (editor).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| /'editio optima' (Dibdin). A finely bound example of the eleven extant comedies of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (446-386 BCE), together...
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The Fables...
AESOP.Original price £6,900.00 - Original price £6,900.00Original price £0.00£6,900.00£6,900.00 - £6,900.00Current price £6,900.00| /One of the most beautiful of Mardersteig's productions, (printer and typographer, head of Officina Bodoni), with charming, hand-coloured illustrat...
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The Universal Conchologist,
MARTYN, Thomas.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...
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The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght,
MORE, Sir Thomas.Original price £27,500.00 - Original price £27,500.00Original price £0.00£27,500.00£27,500.00 - £27,500.00Current price £27,500.00| /The patron saint of statesman and politicians. The first collected edition of Sir Thomas More's (1478-1535) English works, from his youthful sallie...
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