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Belaia Rossia
DENISOV, Sviatoslav Varlamovich (editor).Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £675.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /First edition of this fine portfolio containing a history of the White movement during the early years of the Civil War. Includes biographical inf...
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A personal narrative of thirteen years service
CAMPBELL, Major General John.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £675.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /Born on the island of Skye, off the West coast of Scotland, Campbell (1802-1877) joined the East India Company in 1820. In 1834 he was ordered to...
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Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan, upon the Red River, in North America;
[HALKETT, John].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Born near Dunfermline, Scotland, John Halkett (1768–1852) was Governor of the Bahamas and Governor of Tobago. As a member of the Hudson's Bay Comp...
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Quadro della storia letteraria di Armenia.
[CAUCASUS] - SUKIAS SOMALIAN, Archbishop Placido.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00| /Fine, fresh copy of uncommon first edition of one of the earliest attempts to systematise the history of Armenian literature. Spanning a period fr...
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Autograph letter signed
KENT, Henry Grey (Duke of).Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /South sea bubble. The now notorious South Sea Company was established in 1711 in an attempt to replicate the success achieved by the East India. Un...
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Russia:
PINKERTON, Robert.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /fine copy of the first edition In contrast to more conventional costume plates, this work shows the people described leading their everyday lives,...
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The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges),
HEDGES, William.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00| /'An important glimpse of the activities of the East IndiaCompany in the period 1682 to 1684' (Riddick). Hedges was a director of the Company and p...
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The Admirable Crichton.
THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); BARRIE, J.M.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles; he was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were r...
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Our Village.
THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); MITFORD, Mary Russell.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /A very good copy of Mary Mitford's classic study of rural customs, characters and scenery, originally published during the 1820s & '30s. The C...
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The Story of Rosina and other Verses.
THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); DOBSON, Austin.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £575.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /A handsomely produced gift book of the 1890s, today collected chiefly as a fine example of the pictorial cloth binding made famous by the Cranford...
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The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century.
THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); DOBSON, Austin.Original price £520.00 - Original price £520.00Original price £520.00£520.00£520.00 - £520.00Current price £520.00| /First edition, first issue, with 'The long day lengthens' in the dedicatory poem and with Beau appearing to be overweight in the illustration faci...
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Odd Whims and Miscellanies.
REPTON, Humphry.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. xii, [11], 171; [vi], 164 pp., complete with half-titles, vignettes to title-pages and 10 hand coloured plates...
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Snooty Baronet.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /A decidedly better copy than normal, with minimal fading to the jacket spine and the panels still bright. 'Snooty Baronet' casts a satirical eye o...
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A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay,
LYON, Captain George Francis.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Lyon's official account of a search for a Northwest Passage by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay also ...
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Sefer Get Pashut.
HAVIV, Moshe ben Shlomo [Moshe ibn Habib].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /Rabi Moshe ibn Habib (1654-1696) was born in Salonika, his father Shlomo ibn Habib being from a prominent Spanish-Jewish family who were expelled ...
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Opyty. [Experiments].
[RUSSIAN EMIGRÉS].Original price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £800.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00| /Experiments was the first post-war Russian emigré literary journal, printed in New York between 1953 and 1958 with a total of nine editions. These...
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The Assassin.
O'FLAHERTY, Liam.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £975.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00| /Unusually Near-Fine Copy. Stemming from O'Flaherty's own political-activist experiences, this novel is an investigation of the mind and motives of ...
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Narrative of an expedition across the great south-western prairies,
KENDALL, George Wilkins.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Second English edition, published a year after the Harper and Wiley editions.An account of the The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, a commercial and mil...
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Khartoum,
MELLY, GeorgeOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...
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Four months in Algeria:
BLAKESLEY, Joseph Williams.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Blakesley was a clergyman, who, whilst at Cambridge University was a member of the Apostles Club along with Alfred Lord Tennyson. He wintered in A...
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Poetical Magazine;
[ROWLANDSON, THOMAS (illustrator); COMBE, William].Original price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £800.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00| /The first appearance of the famous doctor syntax. Containing some of Thomas Rowlandson's best-known images. Abbey states that the magazine was prob...
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An Indian Album.
BEATON, Cecil.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £675.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /Signed by the author . Photographs taken by Beaton while Official Photographer for The Ministry of Information: from Beggars to Marharanies.A fine ...
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Chow-Chow;
FALKLAND, [Amelia Cary] Viscountess.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...
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