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Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition
JACOBS, Joseph; WOLF, Lucien.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| /Edition De Luxe. De Luxe numbered edition of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition catalogue.The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition was held at th...
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A Monumental Indian Shahnameh,
FERDOWSI, Abdul Qasim.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| /A monumental Indian Shahnameh with 17 large scale miniatures in the textThis Shahnameh presents a rare example of early eighteenth century manuscr...
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[De Officiis].
[CICERO, Marcus Tullius]; L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger (translator).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /A father's advice to his son. An exceptional copy in contemporary black morocco, in the style of the Queens' binders, of the L'Estrange (1616-1704)...
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The Metamorphoses
(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). OVID.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| /Ovid's Metamorphoses in a beautiful modern edition, specially bound with an additional suite of plates including three not published in the regula...
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Über das Zerplatzen des Urankernes durch langsame Neutronen.
HAHN, Otto & STRASSMAN, Fritz.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| /The discovery of nuclear fission. The Abhandlungen offprint of the first of Hahn and Strassman's 'three fundamental papers on nuclear fission, cont...
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19 meticulous birding notebooks kept during the 1980s and early 1990s.
BOLTSON, Howard.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| /A decade's worth of birdwatching. An exceptional set of notebooks recording the observations of an Audubon Master Birder between 1985 and 1992, pri...
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An Alphabet.
NICHOLSON, William.Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00Original price £0.00£1,200.00£1,200.00 - £1,200.00Current price £1,200.00| /Nicholson had been working with Heinemann since the mid-1890s. As well as designing their windmill device, Nicholson created a number of books for...
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An exceptional, early Victorian natural history manuscript.
[NATURAL HISTORY] [ANON.]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| /Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...
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La Decoration Arabe.
PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Emile.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| /Prisse d'Avennes's classic work on Arabic decoration. Features architecture, textiles, pottery, etc.First edition. Folio. iv pp., 110 lithographed...
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My Camera on Point Lobos.
WESTON, Edward.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| /An exceptional example of the fragile dust-jacket. Weston made these photographs during many visits to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve in Califor...
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Narrative of a journey in the interior of China:
ABEL, Clarke.Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /Rothschild copy with arms. A finely bound copy of Abel's China with Rothschild provenance, bound by the Royal bookbinder, Simier.Abel was the natur...
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Yusuf wa Zuleikha,
JAMI, Abdul Rahman.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Copied only 23 years after the author's death. An exceptionally early manuscript example of the well-known medieval Islamic allegorical love story ...
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A Fine Illuminated Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].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| /Commissioned for fath 'ali shah qajar. A fine Qajar Qur'an copied for Fath 'Ali Shah by a royal scribe of the Qajar courts. The scribe Muhammad 'Al...
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Skazka Pro Mar'iu Morevnu [Maria Morevna].
ZWORYKIN, Boris.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| /A scarce and luxurious rendition of this classic Russian fairy tale, beautifully illustrated by Zworykin and heightened in gold. Bilibin's Maria M...
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An Essay on the Principle of Population;
MALTHUS, Thomas.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| /In essence a 'new work'. The second edition, substantially revised and in essence a 'new work' in which Malthus defends his views against a host of...
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[The Novels].
AUSTEN, Jane; THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); BROCK, Charles E. (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| /Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) the renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were r...
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Fabric Map of Hofuf and Bandar Abbas.
[ARABIAN GULF].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| /Map of Qatar and the UAE. An excellent example of a double-sided coloured escape map of the Arabian Gulf, showing the UAE and Oman to recto, and Qa...
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