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A Journey from London to Persepolis;
USSHER, John.Original price $5,815.00 - Original price $5,815.00Original price $0.00$5,815.00$5,815.00 - $5,815.00Current price $5,815.00An account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia...
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A picturesque illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.
DANIELL, Samuel.Original price $32,302.00 - Original price $32,302.00Original price $0.00$32,302.00$32,302.00 - $32,302.00Current price $32,302.00Fine pictorial record of Ceylon. Samuel Daniell's Ceylon is the finest pictorial record of the island.Samuel Daniell (1775-1811), the youngest of t...
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A series of fifteen views of Ceylon
O'BRIEN, Captain C.Original price $6,461.00 - Original price $6,461.00Original price $0.00$6,461.00$6,461.00 - $6,461.00Current price $6,461.00A copy of the first edition of O'Brien's Ceylon with later hand-colouring. O'Brien was employed as Assistant Surveyor in Ceylon, a position which ...
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A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta,
WOOD, William.Original price $48,453.00 - Original price $48,453.00Original price $0.00$48,453.00$48,453.00 - $48,453.00Current price $48,453.00Wood's early panoramic views of Calcutta. William Wood senior, the artist's father, began selling his son's lithographs in parts in 1831. By the ti...
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Allerneuester Geographisch- und Topographischer
HEYDT [aka HEIJDT], Johann Wolfgang.Original price $9,691.00 - Original price $9,691.00Original price $0.00$9,691.00$9,691.00 - $9,691.00Current price $9,691.00Important early iconography of Jakarta. Heydt's Ost-Indien provides us with an extensive and important work with regard to the town planning and ge...
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...]
STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard.Original price $16,151.00 - Original price $16,151.00Original price $0.00$16,151.00$16,151.00 - $16,151.00Current price $16,151.00The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...
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Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.
OVERMEER FISSCHER, J.F. van.Original price $32,302.00 - Original price $32,302.00Original price $0.00$32,302.00$32,302.00 - $32,302.00Current price $32,302.00From the library of the last French Queen. A superb copy with royal provenance of van O. Fisscher's survey of Japan. van O. Fisscher worked in Japa...
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Character & costumes of Afghaunistan.
HART, Capt. Lockyer Willis.Original price $16,151.00 - Original price $16,151.00Original price $0.00$16,151.00$16,151.00 - $16,151.00Current price $16,151.00Scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan. The scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan, Character & Costumes of Afg...
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China:
ALLOM, Thomas.Original price $2,585.00 - Original price $2,585.00Original price $0.00$2,585.00$2,585.00 - $2,585.00Current price $2,585.00Including views of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai. At a time of increased interest in China, Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted to...
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