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  • Printed photograph album.

    PHILIPPINES.
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    An evocative series of colour photographs of the Philippines, ranging from views of Manilla harbour, to domestic scenes such as a butcher's shop, ...

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  • A Nursing Sister in Baluchistan.

    MORRIS, Jessie Marjorie.
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    A charming collection of letters written by nursing sister Jessie Marjorie Morris (d.1964) during her posting in the Quetta, the capital of Baluch...

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  • Travels to Tana and Persia; [with] A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

    BARBARO, Josafa; CONTARINI, Ambrogio.
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    Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. From 1436 to 14...

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  • The Canarian, or the Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians

    BETHENCOURT, Jean de; BONTIER, Pierre and VERRIER, Jean le (editors).
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    Jean de Béthencourt (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanz...

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  • History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China,

    D'ORLÉANS, Père Pierre Joseph; WITSEN, Nicolaas.
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    Ferdinand Verbiest, (1623-1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astrono...

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  • The Voyage of François Pyrard of of Laval

    PYRARD, François.
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    François Pyrard de Laval (c.1578-c.1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives...

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  • Tractatus de Globis et Eorum Usu.

    HUES, Robert; GAIRDNER, James (editor).
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    Robert Hues (1553-1632) was an English mathematician and geographer. During a trip to Newfoundland, he made observations which caused him to doubt...

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  • Set of Festival Prayers.

    [PRAYER BOOK]. LEVI, David (translator).
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    A beautiful Hebrew-English machzor of Festival Prayers, published in Vienna and based on David Levi's original translation.The set was gifted as a...

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  • Across the River and Into the Trees.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    The true first edition, preceding the first US edition by three days, of Hemingway's poignant novel set entirely in Venice at the close of World W...

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  • Flush: A Biography.

    WOOLF, Virginia.
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    Woolf's fictional 'stream of consciousness' tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning.First edition, so-called 'Lar...

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  • Les Navigations, Pérégrinations et Voyages,

    NICOLAY, Nicolas de.
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    One of the prototypes for Levantine costume plates. a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic world. T...

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  • Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

    (BRAVO, Manuel Alvarez.) PARKER, Fred R.
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    The hardcover issue of this catalogue for Manuel Alvarez Bravo's exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum (4 May–20 June 1971), which travelled to The Mu...

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  • Nine Chains to the Moon.

    FULLER, R. Buckminster.
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    First edition, first printing of Fuller's first book, a nice copy in the jacket.Nine Chains to the Moon is a collection of forty-four essays on va...

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  • A handbook to the palace of Minos at Knossos.

    PENDLEBURY, J.D.S.; EVANS, Sir Arthur.
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    Pendlebury's handbook gives us a detailed architectural history of the Palace at Knossos on the Island of Crete.First edition. 8vo, 63pp, 14 photo...

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  • Deja-Vu.

    GIBSON, Ralph.
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    Deja-Vu is the second book in Ralph Gibson's 'Black trilogy' published by his own Lustrum Press. It is preceded by The Somnambulist (1970) and fol...

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  • To Make it Home.

    ADAMS, Robert
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    To Make it Home reproduces 136 of Robert Adams's most important photographs from 1965–1986. It was published to accompany a major retrospective ex...

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  • Papillons

    Seguy, E.A.
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    Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...

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  • Insectes.

    Seguy, E.A.
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    Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...

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  • Insectes.

    Seguy, E.A.S
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    Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...

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  • Insectes.

    Seguy, E.A.
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    Each print is produced entirely by hand using a unique printing process called pochoir, which was popular in France at the turn of the 20th centur...

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  • The Heart of Africa

    SCHWEINFURTH, Georg.
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    .As a trained botanist and accomplished artist, Schweinfurth expanded knowledge of the flora and fauna of central Africa as well as the ethnology ...

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  • A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons.

    GOULD, John.
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    Although titled the second edition Gould considered the present volume a new work. The text was re-written, all the plates were redrawn, and twelv...

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  • R.A.F. World Aeronautical Chart of Bahrein (Bahrain) Island.

    [ARABIAN GULF].
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    First edition of the 1951 issue of the R.A.F. Aeronautical map of Bahrain and Qatar. The War office issued the R.A.F. series alongside a separate ...

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  • A Dictionary of the Underworld.

    PARTRIDGE, Eric.
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    Author's working copy for the third edition. A rare working copy for the enlarged third edition of Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of the Underworld,...

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