On Our Shelves
On Our Shelves: a selection of rare books from the Shapero Gallery.
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Recueil des differens costumes des principaux officiers et magistrats de la porte; et des peoples sujets de l'empire othoman.
[TURKISH COSTUME]; [WOLFGANG, Andreas Matthäus].Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...
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Fusokoku daiissan-Yosan Hiroku [On Silk-Production]
KAMIGAKI, Morikuni; Chuwa Nishimura.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Rare Japanese Treatise on Silk Manufacturing. Illustrated treatise on the rearing of silkworms and the manufacturing of silk. The work traces the h...
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Researches in the highlands of Turkey;
TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Scarce. A versatile and hardy traveller, Tozer (1829-1916) made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey, which formed the subject of this, his majo...
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Complete Works.
AUSTEN, Jane.Original price £385.00 - Original price £385.00Original price £0.00£385.00£385.00 - £385.00Current price £385.00| /The Oxford illustrated edition of Jane Austen's complete works, comprising her six major novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfi...
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,
BURTON, Richard Francis (translator).Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00| /One of 50 copies. One of 50 edition de luxe sets finely bound in red morocco, housed in the original custom made cabinet, the glazed doors with pie...
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[Batsford Colour Books Series]:
SITWELL, Sacheverell.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Five presentation copies to his son Francis Sitwell. A delightful five-volume set of works from the Batsford Colour Books Series, each inscribed in...
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British Moths and their Transformations.
HUMPHREYS, H.N.; WESTWOOD, J.O.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /First edition; 2 vols, 4to; 124 hand-coloured plates, occasional mild spotting otherwise very good; contemporary half green calf, maroon lettering...
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The Natural History of British insects.
DONOVAN, Edward.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /With over 500 hand-coloured plates. The work that established Donovan's reputation. Each volume contains high quality plates illustrating the life-...
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