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  • First edition of Eight Views, of the Mauritius by Richard Temple, a scarce set of prints depiction the British Invasion of Mauritius.
    First edition of Eight Views, of the Mauritius by Richard Temple, a scarce set of prints depiction the British Invasion of Mauritius.

    [TEMPLE, Lieutenant R.]
    Eight Views, of the Mauritius, 1813.
    £5,000.00

  • A Personal account of Kedem Zadeh's pilgrimage to Mecca between 1910 and 1911, printed in Paris in 1912.
    A Personal account of Kedem Zadeh's pilgrimage to Mecca between 1910 and 1911, printed in Paris in 1912.

    KAZEM ZADEH, Hoseyn.
    Relation d'un pèlerinage à la Mecque en 1910-1911. 1912.
    £5,000.00

  • Combined Ashkenazic and Sephardic Haggadah published by David Levi, one of the pioneers of Jewish printing in London.
    Combined Ashkenazic and Sephardic Haggadah published by David Levi, one of the pioneers of Jewish printing in London.

    [HAGGADAH]. LEVI, David (translator).
    Haggadah shel Pesach... Service for the Two First Nights of Passover. 1794.
    £5,000.00

  • Second edition of The History of Java by Thomas Stamfoird Raffles, with the third of the atlas, an exceptionally bright copy with the additional plates added for the second edition.
    Second edition of The History of Java by Thomas Stamfoird Raffles, with the third of the atlas, an exceptionally bright copy with the additional plates added for the second edition.

    RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford.
    The History of Java. 1830; 1844.
    £5,000.00

  • Manuscript leaf from a dispersed gita manuscript from bundi, India circa 1780.
    Manuscript leaf from a dispersed gita manuscript from bundi, India circa 1780.

    [INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING].
    Leaf from a dispersed mansucript of the Gita, circa 1780 AD.
    £5,000.00

  • Scarce early edition of the Book of Psalms, vocalised and with cantillation.
    Scarce early edition of the Book of Psalms, vocalised and with cantillation.

    [THE BOOK OF PSALMS].
    Sefer Tehillim. Psalterium. 1595.
    £5,000.00

  • Sentimental Journey is Araki Nobuyoshi's signature work, one of the key photography books of the twentieth century. It comprises photographs made whilst on honeymoon with his wife Yoko
    Sentimental Journey is Araki Nobuyoshi's signature work, one of the key photography books of the twentieth century. It comprises photographs made whilst on honeymoon with his wife Yoko

    ARAKI, Nobuyoshi.
    Senchimentaru na Tabi [Sentimental Journey]. 1971].
    £5,000.00

  • The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.
    The uncommon first edition of the important and splendidly illustrated medical herbal Historia Botanica Practica by Giambattista Morandi.

    MORANDI, Giambattista.
    Historia Botanica Practica: 1744.
    £5,000.00

  • The first edition of Stow's important Survay of London, teh most important sixteenth-century source documenting city-life int he Elizabethan age.
    The first edition of Stow's important Survay of London, teh most important sixteenth-century source documenting city-life int he Elizabethan age.

    STOW, John.
    A survay of London. 1598.
    £5,000.00

  • First edition of Memoir of the Conquest of Java by William Thorn, one of the important early works on Java, with marvelous aquatints of Batavia including the Taman Sari.
    First edition of Memoir of the Conquest of Java by William Thorn, one of the important early works on Java, with marvelous aquatints of Batavia including the Taman Sari.

    THORN, William.
    Memoir of the Conquest of Java; 1815.
    £5,000.00

  • The rare offprint of the twenty-second publication in Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity, a presentation copy inscribed by the author to astronomer Thomas Romney Robinson.
    The rare offprint of the twenty-second publication in Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity, a presentation copy inscribed by the author to astronomer Thomas Romney Robinson.

    FARADAY, Michael.
    Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twenty-second Series. 1849.
    £5,000.00

  • The rare offprint of Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity, Twenty-ninth Series. Presentation copy inscribed by the author.
    The rare offprint of Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity, Twenty-ninth Series. Presentation copy inscribed by the author.

    FARADAY, Michael.
    Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twenty-ninth Series. 1852.
    £5,000.00

  • A fine example of early colour printing adorning Martyn's English Latin edition of Virgil's Georgics, bound uniformly with his Bucolics.
    A fine example of early colour printing adorning Martyn's English Latin edition of Virgil's Georgics, bound uniformly with his Bucolics.

    VIRGIL (Publius Virgilius Maro); MARTYN, John (translator).
    The Georgicks [and] The Bucolicks of Virgil. 1741 [and] 1749.
    £5,000.00

  • Night Trick is O. Winston Link's first publication, this copy with a vintage print of the cover image
    Night Trick is O. Winston Link's first publication, this copy with a vintage print of the cover image

    LINK, O Winston.
    "Night Trick" on the Norfolk and Western Railway. 1957; [c.1955].
    £5,000.00

  • Bible in Arabic printed in London by Richard Watts, containing the text to the New Testament with the Arabic printed in 1820.
    Bible in Arabic printed in London by Richard Watts, containing the text to the New Testament with the Arabic printed in 1820.

    [BIBLE]. [NEW TESTAMENT].
    Kitab al-Ahad al-Jadid ya'ni Injil al-Muqaddas 1820.
    £5,000.00

  • Business Cards.

    RUSCHA, Edward & BENGTSON, Billy Al.
    Business Cards. 1968.
    £5,000.00

  • Anonyme Skulpturen.
    Anonyme Skulpturen.

    BECHER, Bernd & Hilla.
    Anonyme Skulpturen. 1970.
    £5,000.00

  • A signed limited edition copy of Elizabeth Butterworth's Amazon Parrots, illustrated with 28 colourplates and an original watercolour, bound in publisher's crushed red morocco.
    A signed limited edition copy of Elizabeth Butterworth's Amazon Parrots, illustrated with 28 colourplates and an original watercolour, bound in publisher's crushed red morocco.

    BUTTERWORTH, Elizabeth (illustrator); LOW, Rosemary.
    Amazon Parrots. 1983.
    £5,000.00

  • First edition of Humboldt's Kosmos and Berghaus's accompanying Physikalischer Atlas, 'one of the last really comprehensive physical surveys ever to be attempted'.
    First edition of Humboldt's Kosmos and Berghaus's accompanying Physikalischer Atlas, 'one of the last really comprehensive physical surveys ever to be attempted'.

    HUMBOLDT, Alexander Von; BERGHAUS, Heinrich.
    Kosmos. 1845-62; 1838-48.
    £5,000.00

  • A handsome folio King James Bible bound at the beginning of the nineteenth centruy in the nascent architectural style after King's College Chapel, Cambridge
    A handsome folio King James Bible bound at the beginning of the nineteenth centruy in the nascent architectural style after King's College Chapel, Cambridge

    [KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE].
    The Holy Bible 1674.
    £5,000.00

  • Rare first edition of William Sleeman's A Report on the System of Megpunnaism, a remarkably preserved copy of this rare treatise on the Thuggee practise of child-stealing.
    Rare first edition of William Sleeman's A Report on the System of Megpunnaism, a remarkably preserved copy of this rare treatise on the Thuggee practise of child-stealing.

    SLEEMAN, William Henry.
    A Report on the System of Megpunnaism, 1839.
    £5,000.00

  • The first English translation directly from Arabic of Edward Lane's Thousand and one nights printed in 1839.
    The first English translation directly from Arabic of Edward Lane's Thousand and one nights printed in 1839.

    LANE, Edward William (translator).
    The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainmants. 1839-41.
    £5,000.00

  • An attractive quran lithographed from a manuscript printed in bombay in 1883.
    An attractive quran lithographed from a manuscript printed in bombay in 1883.

    [QUR'AN].
    An attractive Qur'an, dated Shawwal 1300 AH (1883 AD).
    £5,000.00

  • The revised, third edition of John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost, with the oft omitted frontispiece by William Dolle.
    The revised, third edition of John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost, with the oft omitted frontispiece by William Dolle.

    MILTON, John.
    Paradise Lost. 1678.
    £5,000.00

  • Three of Stephen Shore's artists' books produced using Apple's print-on-demand iPhoto software. Editions of 20.
    Three of Stephen Shore's artists' books produced using Apple's print-on-demand iPhoto software. Editions of 20.

    SHORE, Stephen.
    Three iPhoto artists' books: 2003; 2006; 2006.
    £5,000.00

  • First edition of the poems of Abu Tammam printed in Calcutta in 1856.
    First edition of the poems of Abu Tammam printed in Calcutta in 1856.

    ABU TAMMAM. AHMAD, Mawlawi Kabir Ud Din (editor).
    Kitab al-Hammasah, 1856.
    £5,000.00

  • First edition of James Weddell's A Voyage towards the South Pole, one of the first attempts at Antarctica post Cook and the start of modern Antarctic exploration.
    First edition of James Weddell's A Voyage towards the South Pole, one of the first attempts at Antarctica post Cook and the start of modern Antarctic exploration.

    WEDDELL, James.
    A Voyage Towards the South Pole, 1825.
    £5,000.00

  • First American edition, second English issue of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.
    First American edition, second English issue of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

    WOOLF, Virginia.
    The Voyage Out. 1927.
    £5,000.00

  • The most desirable and complete third edition of William Price's Journal of the British Embassy to Persia, which contains the long awaited part II relating the rest of the voyage in Persia and the return journey.
    The most desirable and complete third edition of William Price's Journal of the British Embassy to Persia, which contains the long awaited part II relating the rest of the voyage in Persia and the return journey.

    PRICE, William.
    Journal of the British Embassy to Persia; 1832.
    £5,000.00

  • A fine, complete set of La Guirlande des Mois by George Barbier which, although published in a small format due to wartime austerity, is nevertheless extremely luxurious
    A fine, complete set of La Guirlande des Mois by George Barbier which, although published in a small format due to wartime austerity, is nevertheless extremely luxurious

    [FASHION] BARBIER, George.
    La Guirlande des Mois. 1917-1921.
    £5,000.00

  • A handsome copy of the first edition in English of Simon de la Loubere's A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, 'universally regarded as as the finest work on seventeenth-century Thailand'.
    A handsome copy of the first edition in English of Simon de la Loubere's A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, 'universally regarded as as the finest work on seventeenth-century Thailand'.

    LA LOUBERE, Simon de.
    A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam. 1693.
    £5,000.00

  • Rare set of mimeographed lecture notes from an experimental physics course connected with Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, with chapters by three Nobel Prize winners, 1950.
    Rare set of mimeographed lecture notes from an experimental physics course connected with Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, with chapters by three Nobel Prize winners, 1950.

    [BERKELEY RADIATION LABORATORY]. ALVAREZ, Luis; SEGRÉ, Emilio, et al.
    Mimeographed Experimental Physics 290(f) Lectures. [circa 1950].
    £5,000.00

  • An important Soviet children's book.
    An important Soviet children's book.

    GRIUNTAL', Vladimir; IABLONOVSKIY, Grigoriy; GERSHENZON, M. (editor).
    Chto eto takoe [What is it]. 1932.
    £5,000.00

  • First edition of Les Costumes du Peuple Polonais by Leon Zienkowicz, with 39 hand-coloured plates showing the costumes of Poland.
    First edition of Les Costumes du Peuple Polonais by Leon Zienkowicz, with 39 hand-coloured plates showing the costumes of Poland.

    ZIENKOWICZ, Leon Józef.
    Les Costumes du Peuple Polonais 1841.
    £5,000.00

  • An outstanding first edition of this scarce title in the first issue dust-jacket, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and published 11 years after the author's suicide<br />
    An outstanding first edition of this scarce title in the first issue dust-jacket, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and published 11 years after the author's suicide<br />

    TOOLE, John Kennedy.
    A Confederacy of Dunces. 1980.
    £5,000.00

  • An important work of Islamic philosophy by Mulla Lahiji from Safavid Persia in 1751.
    An important work of Islamic philosophy by Mulla Lahiji from Safavid Persia in 1751.

    LAHIJI, Mulla Abd' Al-Razzaq, known as 'Fayyad'
    Gowhar'i Murad, dated 23rd Safar 1164 AH (1751 AD).
    £5,000.00

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