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Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.
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Judaica & Hebraica Catalgoue
This year our annual Judaica Spring catalogue celebrates the strength of the Jewish people, along with the beautiful art created by Jewish artists. We have examples of curious historical documents along with a family archive, documenting Jewish life in 19th-century London. We also offer an array of Megillot and Haggadot as you'd expect.
We would like to wish all our Jewish customers a happy Purim with
‘Ad D'lo Yada’.
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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Two Invitations from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales K.G. President and The Executive Council
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES AND INDIA.Original price $3,206.00 - Original price $3,206.00Original price $0.00$3,206.00$3,206.00 - $3,206.00Current price $3,206.00The first of these two over-sized invitations received by Miss Louisa Da Costa was to the opening of the Imperial Institute on 10th May 1893, with...
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The Song of Solomon [The Song of Songs].
RABAN, Ze'ev [Zeew].Original price $2,500.00 - Original price $2,500.00Original price $0.00$2,500.00$2,500.00 - $2,500.00Current price $2,500.00A magnificent publication of the Song of Songs, illustrated by Ze'ev Raban, personally dedicated to Prof. Boris Schatz, the founder and then manag...
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St. James Dukes Place Poor Rate from Lady Day 1825 to Midsummer 1825.
[POOR RATE LEDGER].Original price $6,411.00 - Original price $6,411.00Original price $0.00$6,411.00$6,411.00 - $6,411.00Current price $6,411.00Jewish coffee houses and the Great Synagogue. An important record of Jewish settlement in the City of London at the turn of the nineteenth century,...
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Grant by Letters Patent in trust of the equity of redemption in the leasehold estate of John Bourke Ryan an outlaw. 18th April 1812.
[LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE TREASURY].Original price $1,283.00 - Original price $1,283.00Original price $0.00$1,283.00$1,283.00 - $1,283.00Current price $1,283.00'an outlaw'. A deed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury dated 18th April 1812 granting the equity of redemption (i.e. the right to reclaim a...
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On the Jewish Fields of the Ukraina.
RYBACK, Issachar Ber.Original price $1,539.00 - Original price $1,539.00Original price $0.00$1,539.00$1,539.00 - $1,539.00Current price $1,539.00Signed by the artist. Album of 25 high quality plates (five in colour), portraying Jewish labourers and craftsmen in rural Ukraine. A limited editi...
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Shtetl. My Destroyed Home - A Recollection.
RYBACK, Issachar Ber.Original price $2,500.00 - Original price $2,500.00Original price $0.00$2,500.00$2,500.00 - $2,500.00Current price $2,500.00A portfolio of 30 lithographs by the Ukranian-Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935). The lithographs dating mostly from 1917 and depict sc...
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Lotte Jacobi.
JACOBI, Lotte; WISE, Kelly (editor).Original price $3,526.00 - Original price $3,526.00Original price $0.00$3,526.00$3,526.00 - $3,526.00Current price $3,526.00With Jacobi's signed portrait of Albert Einstein. Deluxe issue, with the often missing original photograph, 'Albert Einstein, Physicist, Princeton,...
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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...
