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Our Book of Feathered Friends.
HOYER, M.A.; WEEDON, L.L.; GASK, Lillian; BINGHAM, Clifton; COLLINS, Charles (illus.)Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Lush bird illustrations. First edition of this charming, chromolithographic children's book of stories and poems about birds, from domestic poultry...
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Concerning Parrots. Bird Exhibits at the Peabody Museum.
Emilio, S.G.Original price £50.00 - Original price £50.00Original price £0.00£50.00£50.00 - £50.00Current price £50.00| /Rare parrots. A rare pamphlet describing the parrot specimens at the Peabody Museum, originally published as an article in the Salem Evening News. ...
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The Divine and the Decay.
HOPKINS, Bill.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Presentation copy of the author's only novel. First edition of the author's first and only novel, lengthily inscribed to a fellow author on the dat...
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The City and the Pillar.
VIDAL, Gore.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /First edition of the author's third novel. A milestone in LGBT literature, The City and the Pillar is significant for its sympathetic portrayal of...
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Triumphant Pilgrimage.
RUTTER, Owen.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Rutter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, travelled extensively in Arabia visiting the Holy cities including Mecca.First edition. 8vo, 2...
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The Nervous System of the Human Body.
BELL, Charles.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Bell's palsy & the anatomy of the nervous system. Second edition and a handsomely bound copy of Bell's collected papers about the nerves that w...
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Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
CUVIER, Georges L.C., Baron; KERR, Robert (translator).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| /Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...
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Bibliographia Geographica Palaestinae.
TOBLER, Titus.Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /A bibliography of travels to the Holy Land, covering books in all languages totalling about 2,500 works on Palestine and the Near East, originally...
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"A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle"
ROBINSON, J.A.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /First publication of the standard algorithm for logical deduction in artificial intelligence. First edition of the first publication of the resolut...
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Inside Mr Enderby.
[BURGESS, Anthony] KELL, Joseph (pseud).Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /Publisher's blank dummy. A literary oddity if ever there was one. Inside Mr Enderby is one of two books published under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, ...
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Memoirs of the Baron de Tott,
TOTT, Baron de.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...
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Emin Pasha
MOUNTENEY-JEPHSON A[rthur] J[ermy].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...
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Tibet Past & Present.
BELL, Sir Charles.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...
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Mathematics and the Imagination.
[MATHEMATICS]. KASNER, Edward & NEWMAN, James.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /First popular appearance of the word 'googol' - handsomely bound. Tenth edition of this surprise hit, first published in 1940 and described by scie...
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China proper.
[GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK SERIES].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Scarce complete set of the secret reports on China compiled for Naval Intelligence.Comprises sections on physical geography, history, peoples, mod...
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Dark Shadow.
GILBERT AND GEORGE.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'For Mario / Much love / Gilbert + George / x x'.This artists' book is divided into eight chapters...
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Reconnoitring Central Asia.
MARVIN, Charles.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...
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After Everest.
TENZING, Norgay Sherpa; BARNES, MalcolmOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Signed by Tenzing. This volume contains tales of Norgay Tenzing's various travels and climbs following his historic ascent of Everest with Sir Edmu...
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Arabian Oil Ventures.
PHILBY, Harry St. John B.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Philby's scarce final book. A history of the oil industry in Arabia from the end of WWI, by the renowned Arabist.First edition, 8vo, 134pp., a por...
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A Polar reconnaissance.
MARKHAM, Albert Hastings.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Markham's voyage to the Barents Sea during the navigable season in order to ascertain the best route for future Polar discovery. Markham's view th...
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The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner.
SILLITOE, Alan.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /First edition of the author's renowned short story collection, featuring his award-winning title, 'The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner'. Wi...
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A Standard of Behaviour.
TREVOR, William.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /First edition of the author's first book. First edition of the author's true first novel, which he subsequently disowned and refused to be reissued...
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A High-pitched Buzz.
LONGRIGG, Roger.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /First edition of the author's first novel. First edition of the author's first novel, based on his experiences working in an advertising agency.Fir...
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In Pursuit of the English.
LESSING, Doris.Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /First edition of the author's account of a year she spent in a seedy London boarding house soon after her arrival in England. 'One of the most aut...
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