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Amsterdam Book Fair 2024
19 – 20 October 2024
Shapero Rare Books | STAND 16
Saturday 19th (11 am - 7 pm)
Sunday 20th October (11 am - 5 pm)
FREE ENTRY
Bernard Shapero and Team look forward to welcoming you at STAND 16 of the Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book, Print & Map Fair, located in the Passengers Terminal Amsterdam (Piet Heinkade 27, 1019 BR Amsterdam).
Shapero Rare Books | STAND 16
Saturday 19th (11 am - 7 pm)
Sunday 20th October (11 am - 5 pm)
FREE ENTRY
About Us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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Collection des costumes Espagnols anciens et modernes.
CRUZ CANO Y OLEMEDILLA, Juan de la.Original price $19,800.00 - Original price $19,800.00Original price $0.00$19,800.00$19,800.00 - $19,800.00Current price $19,800.00With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...
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De nostri temporis studiorum ratione
VICO, Giambattista.Original price $19,800.00 - Original price $19,800.00Original price $0.00$19,800.00$19,800.00 - $19,800.00Current price $19,800.00Exceedingly scarce enlightenment philosophy. A sammelband of four scarce first editions by the influential Enlightenment philosopher Giambattista V...
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Die Chemische Abscheidung der bei Spaltung des Urans entstehenden Elemente und Atomarten.
HAHN, Otto & STRASSMAN, Fritz.Original price $990.00 - Original price $990.00Original price $0.00$990.00$990.00 - $990.00Current price $990.00The true offprint of the final paper on the discovery of nuclear fission. The true offprint, in the orange wrappers, of the third of Hahn and Stras...
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Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother.
WARHOL, Andy.Original price $10,000.00 - Original price $10,000.00Original price $0.00$10,000.00$10,000.00 - $10,000.00Current price $10,000.00Stamped by 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.'Andy Warhol's mother, Julia Warhola was an artist...
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Iconographie du genre camellia
BERLÈSE Abbé Lorenzo.Original price $62,699.00 - Original price $62,699.00Original price $0.00$62,699.00$62,699.00 - $62,699.00Current price $62,699.00An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...
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Le Nouveau Candide.
PENROSE, Valentine.Original price $2,970.00 - Original price $2,970.00Original price $0.00$2,970.00$2,970.00 - $2,970.00Current price $2,970.00Superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to André Breton on the half-title, 'à André...
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LeR DLa CaNpaNe paR DUBUFe J. [sic].
DUBUFFET, Jean.Original price $4,950.00 - Original price $4,950.00Original price $0.00$4,950.00$4,950.00 - $4,950.00Current price $4,950.00A fine copy of Jean Dubuffet's LeR DLa CaNpaNe paR DUBUFe J, published to raise money for his Compagnie de l'Art Brut. The title is a phonetic spe...
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Life is Good & Good for You in New York Trance Witness Revels.
KLEIN, William.Original price $5,940.00 - Original price $5,940.00Original price $0.00$5,940.00$5,940.00 - $5,940.00Current price $5,940.00Chance witness reveals. Life is Good & Good For You in New York changed the parameters of what a book of photographs could be, representing Wil...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
