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Voyage of the Prince Albert
SNOW, William Parker.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 £1,650.00Parker Snow (1817-1895), an eccentric English explorer, was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have had a paranormal vision of the...
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The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted.
BARRINGTON, Daines; BEAUFOY, Colonel.Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00Current price £750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...
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Travels through the Rhætian Alps,
ALBANIS BEAUMONT, Jean François.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 £1,500.00Jean François Albanis Beaumont, (1755–1812), engraver and landscape painter, may have been a son of, or related to, the Piedmontese artist Claudio...
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Natal en Nieuw-Gelderland en de vooruitzigten der kolonisatie Aldaa.
ENTE, W. K.Original price £225.00Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £225.00Current price £135.00£135.00 - £135.00Current price £135.00Scarce. Natal Colony, Durban, and the Umgeni and Umvoti Rivers.First edition. 8vo., [viii], 40 pp., original tan printed wrappers, spine defective...
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Dessins et peintures d'Asie.
IACOVLEFF, Alexandre [YAKOVLEV, Aleksandr].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 £4,500.00Beiruit to Beijing - the Citroen Central Asia Expedition. Finely produced portfolio of illustrations by the official artist of the Citroen Central ...
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Flore des Quatre Saisons.
ROBIN, Armand.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 £7,500.00Rare floral bouquets. Very scarce artistic botanical work showing highly finished decorative bouquets of flowers for the twelve months of the year....
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Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile,
WERNE, Ferdinand.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 £1,500.00Werne (1822-1874), a German adventurer, took part in the second European exploratory mission to discover the source of the White Nile, under the l...
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Journal of Mr. Anthony N. Groves, missionary,
GROVES, Anthony N.Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00Current price £1,050.00£1,050.00 - £1,050.00Current price £1,050.00The first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims. Rare. Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), travelled with his family to Baghdad in 1829 wher...
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Trade Catalogue
[TOILETRIES] KLEMENT & SPAETHOriginal 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 £1,500.00Unusual and decorative catalogue.Landscape folio (48.5 x 36.5 cm), 10 thick card sheets containing 67 chromolithographs of pots, tins, bottles, et...
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The Roses.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).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 £4,500.00First state. Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiat...
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Group of Carnations.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00Current price £3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00First state. Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiat...
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The Superb Lily.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00Current price £3,900.00£3,900.00 - £3,900.00Current price £3,900.00Fine early impression. First state. Issue A.Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St A...
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The recent operations of the British Forces
BAKER, Rev. Thomas Turner.Original price £1,000.00Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £1,000.00Current price £600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00Rev. Baker gives an account of the opening of the second Anglo-Burmese War, when Rangoon was occupied by the British shortly after they had seized...
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The Tulips.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).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 £8,100.00Second state.Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentia...
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L'Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures.
MONTFAUCON, Bernard de.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 £7,500.00Known to Benjamin Franklin. Magisterial work by the Benedictine monk Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741), one of the founders of modern archaeology.T...
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De Zieke Reiziger; or, Rambles in Java and the straits in 1852. By a Bengal civilian.
[KINLOCH, Charles Walter].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 £1,500.00Born in London in 1810, Kinloch joined the Indian Civil Service, becoming a judge in Bengal. He wrote several books including De Zieke Reiziger an...
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Haggadah shel Pesach.
[HAGGADAH]. AGAM, Yaacov (illustrator).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 £4,500.00One of nine signed by the artist. A modern Haggadah with hand-printed illustrations by Yaacov Agam: 'All colour separations were produced by the ar...
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Autograph Letter Signed as King, to Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany ('My Dear Willy...')
KING EDWARD VII.Original price £2,800.00Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £2,800.00Current price £1,680.00£1,680.00 - £1,680.00Current price £1,680.00A unique item from the King of England to the son & heir of his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Lamenting that Wilhelm has been forbidden ...
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A fine pair of marine drawings depicting East India Company ships.
HOOD, John.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 Tryton, Gilbert Slater commander latitude 20. 30' South Mer: Dist from Java Head 32' West 26th Jan.y 1751/2 … Signed "John Hood at Limehouse 1...
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Bancks & Cos. Plan of Manchester and Salford
WALKER, J[ohn] & A[lexander].Original price £3,750.00Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £3,750.00Current price £2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00A rare wall map of one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution, at the height of its development.We could only trace four copies in insti...
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Le Commerce et le Gouvernement.
CONDILLAC, Etienne Bonnot de.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 £1,500.00An early statement of the Utility Theory. Condillac made his name both with economic and with philosophical writings. His most important economic w...
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View of Cairo
PIERRON, Charles.Original price £3,000.00Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £3,000.00Current price £1,800.00£1,800.00 - £1,800.00Current price £1,800.00Watercolour over graphite, on wove paper. Signed ch. Pierron lower right. 28 x 62 cm.(11 x 24 1/4 in)
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Four Chinese Export Paintings.
[CHINESE SCHOOL]Original price £9,500.00Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £9,500.00Current price £5,700.00£5,700.00 - £5,700.00Current price £5,700.00Four Chinese Export paintings, each finely painted in ink and gouache on paper with bird and flower scenes enclosed with floral cartouches, on a d...
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Belaia Rossia
DENISOV, Sviatoslav Varlamovich (editor).Original price £675.00Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £675.00Current price £405.00£405.00 - £405.00Current price £405.00First 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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