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Vues de Boulogne sur-Mer.
SINNETT, F.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00Charming album of landscape views of Boulogne. Small landscape album containing 25 lithographed views of Boulogne, each view 13 x 9 cm, manuscrip...
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Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match.
ZOFFANY, Johann.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00With the rare index plate. The contest is between the game-cocks of Colonel Mordaunt and the Nawab Wazir of Oudh, Asafud-dauba, who are seen facing...
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Tauromachia,
PRICE, Lake (illustrator); FORD, Richard.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Bull fighting in Spain. Rare issue hand-coloured on card. A handsome copy of a lively set of bull fighting plates.'A speaker of French, Italian, Sp...
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Narrative of a residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad;
LANGLEY, Edward Archer.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Provides important details of Indian court life and travel (Czech).'Langley was a political agent in Khairpur and had the rank of a major. Mir Ali...
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Narrative of travels and discoveries in northern and central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824 ...
DENHAM, Major Dixon; CLAPPERTON, Capt. Hugh.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00An official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Denham and Clapperton were...
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Pictures of life in Mexico.
MASON, R.H.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00An account of a tour of Mexico in 1848-49. The author sets out to provide an entertaining account rich in anecdote. Scarce.First edition, 2 volume...
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Arctic searching expedition:
RICHARDSON, John.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...
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Stamboul Souvenir d'Orient.
PREZIOSI, Amadeo.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Superb evocative plates of Constantinople, its people and their customs. A native of Malta, Preziosi first visited Istanbul in 1842; depicting the ...
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Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, in 1828-9.
ALCOCK, Thomas.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Scarce privately printed account of the author's travels through the region at the time of the Russo-Turkish War. The section on Greece includes i...
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Uganda for a holiday.
TREVES, Frederick.Original price £40.00 - Original price £40.00Original price £0.00£40.00£40.00 - £40.00Current price £40.00Sir Frederick Treves was the prominent Victorian surgeon famous for treating Joseph Merrick sometimes known 'The Elephant Man'. He spent much time...
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In the Grip of the Nyika:
PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. John Henry.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa... there is also a feverish encou...
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Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland;
[LAENNEC, R.-T.-H.]; CLARK, James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Early account in English of the stethoscope. Inscribed at foot of title: 'To Hyett Esq / with author's compliments'.Pages 153-59 contain an account...
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Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.
BORLASE, William.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00An attractive copy of the standard county history of Cornwall, by the rector of Ludvagan, a man from an old Cornish family. Includes The Scilly Is...
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A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad.
[MACKY, John].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00The Scottish journey is written in a series of letters to better inform those south of the border of the positive aspects of Scotland and the Scot...
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