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[The Rabbit Quartet].
UPDIKE, John.Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00Current price £1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Signed by Updike on each title page. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page o...
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Picturesque tour of the River Thames.
WESTALL, William; OWEN, Samuel.Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00Current price £4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Large paper copy with plates in two states. Fine set of classic Thames views. Large paper copy with the plates in 2 states, and superior colouring....
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00Current price £2,100.00£2,100.00 - £2,100.00Current price £2,100.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth-century China.A fine group o...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00Current price £2,100.00£2,100.00 - £2,100.00Current price £2,100.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00Current price £2,100.00£2,100.00 - £2,100.00Current price £2,100.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00Current price £2,100.00£2,100.00 - £2,100.00Current price £2,100.00Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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The life and adventures of...
PEARCE, Nathaniel.Original price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00Current price £1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00On the departure of Henry Salt in 1810, his servant Nathaniel Pearce remained in Ethiopia until 1819, becoming fluent in Tegrenya and Amharic. 'A ...
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Anna Livia Plurabelle.
JOYCE, James.Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00Current price £2,100.00£2,100.00 - £2,100.00Current price £2,100.00Signed limited edition. A very good first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans W...
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Select views of London;
PAPWORTH, John.Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00Current price £2,400.00£2,400.00 - £2,400.00Current price £2,400.00John Papworth was the architect responsible for the design of Ackermann's showroom at 101 Strand. He adopted the second name of Buonarroti after h...
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Group of 14 copper engraved plates.
RAPHAEL SANZIO da Urbino and others.Original price £37,500.00Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £37,500.00Current price £22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00With contemporary hand colour. Beautiful plates, scarce with vibrant original hand-colour: a complete set of pilasters from the first part of the L...
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[A Group of 10 Watercolours of Flowers & Butterflies.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00Current price £7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...
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The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. [The Hebrew Bible].
LEESER, Isaac (translator).Original price £10,000.00Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £10,000.00Current price £6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00First English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew. First edition of the first English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew.B...
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[Works] Honore de Balzac Now For The First Time Completely Translated Into English.
BALZAC, Honoré de.Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00Current price £2,700.00£2,700.00 - £2,700.00Current price £2,700.00Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is best known for a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents ...
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A General View of London and Westminster.
BUCK, Samuel and Nathaniel.Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00Current price £4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00The most Important Panorama of London of its period. The magnificent grand panorama of London.Samuel Buck and his brother Nathaniel are among the f...
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Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889.
BOOTH, Charles.Original price £13,500.00Original price £13,500.00 - Original price £13,500.00Original price £13,500.00Current price £8,100.00£8,100.00 - £8,100.00Current price £8,100.00One of the most most important maps of the nineteenth century, of fundamental importance to British social reform.The colouring of the map depicts...
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Darstellung der Konigl. Preussischen Infanterie in 36 Figuren.
LIEDER, Friedrich; JÜGEL, Johann FriedrichOriginal price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00Current price £4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Prussian military uniforms. Fourteen exceptionally bright and crisp, hand-coloured prints. The artist, Friedrich Lieder, depicts uniforms and badge...
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The First Maccabiah Games - Important Collection of Documents.
MACCABEE, World Union.Original price £4,850.00Original price £4,850.00 - Original price £4,850.00Original price £4,850.00Current price £2,910.00£2,910.00 - £2,910.00Current price £2,910.00An important collection of documents of the First Maccabiah Games - opening ceremony programme, drafts of the games regulations, official leaflets...
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An account of the present war
CASTLEMAINE, Roger Palmer, Earl of.Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00Current price £1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00Scarce. Castlemaine was asked by Charles II to keep him informed of events in Europe whilst making a tour. Castelmaine reported to the King by let...
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Panorama of Athens.
BRACEBRIDGE, Selina.Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00Current price £2,400.00£2,400.00 - £2,400.00Current price £2,400.00The rare second panorama. A rare example, never bound, with wide margins.A fine panoramic view, entirely different from Mrs. Bracebridge's 1836 pan...
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Death at the President's Lodging.
INNES, Michael [pseud. STEWART, John Innes Mackintosh].Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00Current price £2,100.00£2,100.00 - £2,100.00Current price £2,100.00This is the best "first" Detective Story that has ever come our way' (Gollancz's blurb on jacket).An unusually good example of the first novel by ...
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Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria,
WITTMAN, William.Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00Current price £2,100.00£2,100.00 - £2,100.00Current price £2,100.00Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...
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Travels in the Morea.
LEAKE, William Martin.Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00Current price £1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates inclu...
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The Childermass.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £350.00Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00Current price £210.00£210.00 - £210.00Current price £210.00A very good example of the special limited edition of the first part of Wyndham Lewis' trilogy The Human Age, published simultaneously with an ord...
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Description et usage du mécanisme uranographique, contenant un abrégé élémentaire de cosmographie.
ROUY, Charles.Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00Current price £2,700.00£2,700.00 - £2,700.00Current price £2,700.00With royal provenance . an interesting and rare work on astronomy - dedicated to Louis XVIII. Charles Rouy's 'mechanism of uranography' presents a ...
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