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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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Concerning Parrots. Bird Exhibits at the Peabody Museum.
Emilio, S.G.Original price $64.00 - Original price $64.00Original price $0.00$64.00$64.00 - $64.00Current price $64.00Rare parrots. A rare pamphlet describing the parrot specimens at the Peabody Museum, originally published as an article in the Salem Evening News. ...
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History of British Birds [with] A Supplement to the History of British Birds, A General History of Quadrupeds [and] The Fables of Aesop.
BEWICK, Thomas & John.Original price $6,391.00 - Original price $6,391.00Original price $0.00$6,391.00$6,391.00 - $6,391.00Current price $6,391.00Magnificent imperial octavos. An exceptional imperial octavo set, one of only 24 copies of the Land Birds thus, finely bound in crushed morocco. Al...
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"A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle"
ROBINSON, J.A.Original price $576.00 - Original price $576.00Original price $0.00$576.00$576.00 - $576.00Current price $576.00First publication of the standard algorithm for logical deduction in artificial intelligence. First edition of the first publication of the resolut...
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A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
GOULD, John.Original price $76,688.00 - Original price $76,688.00Original price $0.00$76,688.00$76,688.00 - $76,688.00Current price $76,688.00Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...
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[L'aigle criard; L'aigle criard (jeune); L'élanoide blanc.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price $159,767.00 - Original price $159,767.00Original price $0.00$159,767.00$159,767.00 - $159,767.00Current price $159,767.00Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...
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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.Original price $1,598.00 - Original price $1,598.00Original price $0.00$1,598.00$1,598.00 - $1,598.00Current price $1,598.00A handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...
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A History of British Butterflies.
MORRIS, F.O.Original price $480.00 - Original price $480.00Original price $0.00$480.00$480.00 - $480.00Current price $480.00Charming hand-coloured plates. A handsomely bound copy of this classic of British natural history, illustrated with 71 hand-coloured plates of butt...
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Nederlandsch Bloemwerk.
[TULIPS].Original price $15,977.00 - Original price $15,977.00Original price $0.00$15,977.00$15,977.00 - $15,977.00Current price $15,977.00The ascendancy of the dutch nurseryman. First edition of this striking, hand-coloured Dutch botanical work, in beautiful contemporary calf.'Nederla...
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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...
