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India Today and Tomorrow.
NEHRU, Jawaharlal.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| /Signed by the author. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'Jawaharlal Nehru / 21.7.1961.'Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was a central fi...
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Travels,
SHAW, Thomas.Original price £4,850.00 - Original price £4,850.00Original price £0.00£4,850.00£4,850.00 - £4,850.00Current price £4,850.00| /'A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited Egypt, Sinai, Pa...
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Ismailia:
BAKER, Samuel White.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| /A finely bound copy of Baker's Ismailia.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a four-ye...
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Polnoe Sobranie Sochinenii I. A. Goncharova [The Complete Works of Goncharov].
GONCHAROV, Ivan Aleksandrovich.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| /Complete works of one of Russia's most celebrated authors An attractive set in the original publisher's Art Nouveau binding. This edition, publish...
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Divan,
[ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY]. HAFEZ SHIRAZI. SA'DI SHIRAZI.Original 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| /Notably early Hafez manuscript. Hafez Shirazi (1315-1390 AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Persian Poets, whose immensely popular poetry...
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Zhenskiy Zhurnal [Women's magazine].
[SOVIET WOMEN].Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00| /A complete run of one year of one of the major periodicals of the 1920s with striking cover designs.Runs of Zhenskiy zhurnal are notably scarce wi...
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London Transport Underground.
[TUBE MAP]. GARBUTT, Paul E. (designer).Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /Following distinguished war service that saw him rise to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers, Paul E Garbutt (1919-2008), joined...
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Polnoe Sobranie Sochinenii N.V. Gogolia [The Complete Works of N.V. Gogol].
GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilyevich.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| /An attractive, decoratively bound set of the first critical edition of the works of one of the most celebrated Russian authors. Edited by Nikolai ...
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Dr. No.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00| /A stunning dust jacket. First edition of the first James Bond novel to be made into a film, the sixth in the series overall. A superb copy in an un...
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Moonraker.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £9,750.00 - Original price £9,750.00Original price £0.00£9,750.00£9,750.00 - £9,750.00Current price £9,750.00| /One of the finest things that ian fleming ever did. First edition of the third James Bond novel, and the only one to take place entirely in Britain...
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East African Campaign proclamation and notices].
[ETHIOPIA.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /A rare series of legal notices published during WW II by the British Military, setting out laws to be observed in Ethiopia after the British and t...
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LA FLORIDA.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.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| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Florida and the North American South, shown within a trio arrangement of maps focused on Central and So...
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Polnoe Sobranie Sochinenii I. S. Turgeneva [The Complete Works of Turgenev].
TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich.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| /An attractive set in the original publisher's decorative Art Nouveau binding. This edition, issued as a supplement to magazine Niva, became a basi...
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CHINAE.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.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| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of China, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched ...
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INDIAE ORIENTALIS INSVLARVMQVE ADIACIENTI VM TY PVS.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.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| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of the East Indies, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers....
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Views of Trinadad
CAZABON, Michael John.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /The first edition of 'possibly the finest set of engravings that has ever been produced of the West Indes' (Maclean).Cazabon was born on 20th Sept...
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Three rare offprints from the early career of x-ray crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale.
[LONSDALE] YARDLEY, Kathleen.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| /Paving the way for dorothy hodgkin and rosalind franklin. Three rare, early offprints by Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the first women elected to the R...
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The Holy Bible,
[BIBLE. SILVER-GILT CASE].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| /Silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed Bible case. A sweet pocket King James Bible in a silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed case, the upper ...
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The Life of Sir William Osler.
[MEDICINE]. CUSHING, Harvey.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| /Inscribed presentation copy of the most important medical biography. Fourth printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one great physicia...
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