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The Grecian Enchanted.
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. HARTNOLL, Phyllis; BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John (illustrator).Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Number 4 of 60 specially bound copies, with a duplicate set of the plates, from an overall edition limited to 360 copies, signed by the author and...
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Divan'e Shams'e Tabrizi,
RUMI, Jalal al-Din Muhammad.Original price £250,000.00 - Original price £250,000.00Original price £0.00£250,000.00£250,000.00 - £250,000.00Current price £250,000.00| /One of the earliest recorded manuscripts of Rumi's poetry. Exceptionally early medieval manuscript copy of one of the most important works of sufi ...
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Early Qajar Qur'an.
[QUR'AN].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| /Very attractive pocket-sized Qur'an copied in a regular scribal hand and dated 1800 AH. The Qajar dynasty began in 1797 and saw a flourish in arti...
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Papillons Exotiques
CRAMER, Pieter; STOLL, Caspar.Original price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00| /Important history of entomology. This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exoti...
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Divan of ghazals,
[COLLECTED SUFI POETRY].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| /In a fine safavid binding with doubleurs decorated in silk. A fine and attractive volume containing excerpts of poetry from revered Sufi poets incl...
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Fine Indian Qur'an.
[QUR'AN].Original 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| /Manuscript with Duke of Wellington association. Rare south indian qur'an in a contemporary indian leather-tooled binding, present here in an excell...
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The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes
[DE LA MORE PRESS]; ROPER, William.Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £0.00£2,800.00£2,800.00 - £2,800.00Current price £2,800.00| /One of ten copies on vellum. With manuscript limitation signed by Alexander Moring, the founder of the De La More Press: 'This copy of ''The Mirrou...
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British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,
[ORNITHOLOGY]. THORBURN, Archibald.Original 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| /Bound by Sangroski & Sutflcliffe. A fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860-1935), a S...
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Kitab Vigil Ijim'al ila Ta'ammulat Ruhiya li'Ayam al-Usbu,
AL-ZAHIR, Abdullah (editor).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| /One of the earliest Arabic printing presses in the Middle-East. The Dair al-Shuweir press at the Monastery of St John the Baptist is one of the fir...
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Where Angels Fear to Tread.
FORSTER, E.M.Original price £2,200.00 - Original price £2,200.00Original price £0.00£2,200.00£2,200.00 - £2,200.00Current price £2,200.00| /A very good first edition of the first novel by E.M. Forster, contrasting English and Italian sensibilities, the title derived from Alexander Pope...
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The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury,
HERBERT, Edward (first Baron Herbert of Cherbury).Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00| /Strawberry Hill Press. An attractive, contemporarily bound example of this the first printed edition of the Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury...
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[Chinese Export Watercolours on Pith Paper].
TINGQUA [pseud. of GUAN LIANCHANG].Original price £60,000.00 - Original price £60,000.00Original price £0.00£60,000.00£60,000.00 - £60,000.00Current price £60,000.00| /a rare set of albums by Tingqua (1809-1870) also known as Guan Lianchang (Kwan Luen Chin in Cantonese), the younger brother of Lamqua and the most...
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Kehilath Jahacob: Being a vocabulary of words in the Hebrew Language.
RODRIGUES MOREIRA, Jacob.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| /A scarce Talmud and holy scripture vocabulary, published by the pioneer of Hebrew printing in London A. Alexander. Jacob Rodrigues Moreira was an ...
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The Experiences of a Lady Detective.
[HAYWARD, William Stephens (attributed to)].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 the very first female detectives in fiction. Though originally believed to have first been published in 1861, experts in the genre have dete...
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A Voyage to the Levant:
BRUYN [BRUIN], Cornelius de.Original 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| /With large panoramas including Constantinople and Jerusalem. One of the most spectacular Levant books. De Bruyn (1652-1726/7), the Dutch traveller ...
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Quotations of Chairman Mao
MAO TSE-TUNG [CHAIRMAN MAO].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| /Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'. The two highly collectable first issues of the first edition of Chairman Mao's 'Little Red Book'...
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