Paris, P. Rosenberg, 1920
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Picasso's 'supreme theatrical achievement' (John Richardson).
Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised my great suffering. There are seven realms of this un...
View full detailsOliver Messel (1904-1978) was 'Great Britain's leading theatre designer from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s..., [winning] international acclaim ...
View full detailsTranslations from the Chinese and Armenian, with notes and illustrations.I. History of the pirates who infested the China Sea, from 1807 to 1810.I...
View full detailsA pair of copper engravings, framed and glazed, overall size: 109cm by 87cm by 2cm.
A 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Hemingway, including A Clean, Well Lighted Place, which James Joyce called 'one of...
View full detailsThe first edition of this scarce investment guide which first appeared as a series of articles in The Magazine of Wall Street, the newsletter and ...
View full detailsDescription of the Bhotiyas of Kumaon and the Tibetans of Western Tibet together with an account of his journey to Western Tibet in 1905 when Depu...
View full detailsIncludes Mecca and Medina. Sections on geology, geography, the coasts, climate, history, people, ports and towns, etc. The Geographical Handbook S...
View full detailsFirst and only edition of this title. This extremely rare supplement was issued for" Goethejahr"(the centenary of Goethe's death). A very unusual ...
View full detailsRare first edition in English of Čapek's classic science fiction novel, which extensively satirises contemporary European politics, including colo...
View full detailsParis, P. Rosenberg, 1920
Stock no.: 105577
Picasso's 'supreme theatrical achievement' (John Richardson).
Livingstone's second book describes his expedition to expose the Portuguese slave traders and to find a way to establish a settlement for missions...
View full detailsOffprint from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, being the Burton Memorial Lecture for 1925.First edition. 8vo, 17 pp., original blue-green...
View full detailsOffprint from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, being the Burton Memorial Lecture for 1925.First edition. 8vo, 17 pp., original blue-green...
View full detailsOne of the most important books on Persia. Dealing with every aspect of Persia, political, archaeological, cultural, etc., its great strength is i...
View full detailsThe preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into...
View full detailsIncludes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...
View full detailsIncludes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...
View full detailsIncludes Mecca and Medina. Sections on geology, geography, the coasts, climate, history, people, ports and towns, etc. The Geographical Handbook S...
View full detailsAn indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....
View full detailsAn indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....
View full detailsVolume I: The mainland of old Greece and certain neighbouring islands; volume II, parts i & ii: The Cyclades and northern Sporades with The is...
View full detailsThomson was a British geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. He was the first European to enter several r...
View full detailsMalcolm visited Persia three times on diplomatic missions. Malcolm's history begins with the legendary kings and ends with the beginnings of the Q...
View full detailsInscribed on the title page: 'J. Hope from the Author'. Biddulph's book is the standard work on the tribes of the North West frontier at the end ...
View full detailsNot common in nice condition.Combined edition, first printing thus. 8vo; publisher's blue boards, titles so spine in silver. With the Minton dust ...
View full detailsFitzgerald worked for six years on his most accomplished and ambitious novel. Its complex structure and delayed publication met with little critic...
View full detailsPatten was, of course, one of the famous Mersey Beat poets together with Andrian Henri and Roger McGough. First edition, first impression, number ...
View full detailsFirst edition, comprising two plays - 'A Full Moon in March' and 'The King of the Great Clock Tower,' plus seven poetical works under the collecti...
View full detailsA 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Hemingway, including A Clean, Well Lighted Place, which James Joyce called 'one of...
View full detailsA near-fine, limited edition of which, purportedly, only about half the limitation was actually printed. The novel was more recently adapted for ...
View full detailsRare first edition in English of Čapek's classic science fiction novel, which extensively satirises contemporary European politics, including colo...
View full detailsScarce first edition of this Jamaican author's first novel, one of the first to consider the emerging Rastafarian movement and the Jamaican ghetto...
View full detailsFirst UK edition of one of Paz's most influential works, consisting of nine parts concerned with the theme of Mexican identity and demonstrate how...
View full detailsA deluxe copy of the first edition with the plates fully coloured and mounted on card. Probably no more than 100 copies printed with few surviving...
View full detailsThe finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...
View full details'In terms of the pictorial depiction of Javanese costume and topography, the importance of The History of Java can hardly be exaggerated. By a hap...
View full detailsEngelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...
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