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Journal of a residence in India.
GRAHAM, Maria.Original price $1,224.00 - Original price $1,224.00Original price $0.00$1,224.00$1,224.00 - $1,224.00Current price $1,224.00| /Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...
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A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean;
COOK, James.Original price $1,288.00 - Original price $1,288.00Original price $0.00$1,288.00$1,288.00 - $1,288.00Current price $1,288.00| /First octavo edition of the Third Voyage. The first octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage and the first to reach a wide audience. The text is sligh...
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Flights over the ancient cities of Iran.
SCHMIDT, Erich F.Original price $1,288.00 - Original price $1,288.00Original price $0.00$1,288.00$1,288.00 - $1,288.00Current price $1,288.00| /Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...
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The Great Pimlico Mystery.
KINGSTON, Keedy.Original price $1,224.00 - Original price $1,224.00Original price $0.00$1,224.00$1,224.00 - $1,224.00Current price $1,224.00| /A remarkably scarce example of eighteen-nineties detective fiction, not in the British Library, and with only one copy we could trace in other ins...
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The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy,
[MARANA, Giovanni Paolo].Original price $1,610.00 - Original price $1,610.00Original price $0.00$1,610.00$1,610.00 - $1,610.00Current price $1,610.00| /An eight-volume collection of fictional letters claiming to have been written by an Ottoman spy named 'Mahmut' in the court of the French king Lou...
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The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury,
HERBERT, Edward (first Baron Herbert of Cherbury).Original price $1,481.00 - Original price $1,481.00Original price $0.00$1,481.00$1,481.00 - $1,481.00Current price $1,481.00| /Strawberry Hill Press. An attractive, contemporarily bound example of this the first printed edition of the Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury...
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A Military Course for the Government and Conduct of a Battalion,
SIMES, Thomas.Original price $1,610.00 - Original price $1,610.00Original price $1,610.00$1,610.00$1,610.00 - $1,610.00Current price $1,610.00| /With royal provenance. From the rebellious conduct of the Americans it appears to me there is a great necessity of publishing something of this kin...
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry:
YEATS, W.B.Original price $194.00 - Original price $194.00Original price $0.00$194.00$194.00 - $194.00Current price $194.00| /The first edition, later state of Yeats' first published work as editor, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, issued as no. 32 of The Came...
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Feuilles d'analyse appliquée a la Géométrie...
MONGE, Gaspard.Original price $1,610.00 - Original price $1,610.00Original price $1,610.00$1,610.00$1,610.00 - $1,610.00Current price $1,610.00| /The father of 3d movies. Descriptive geometry is the science of presenting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional plane. Gaspard Monge inv...
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American Ornithology;
WILSON, Alexander.Original price $966.00 - Original price $966.00Original price $0.00$966.00$966.00 - $966.00Current price $966.00| /An attractive copy of Wilson's classic work on American Ornithology.3 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, 103 colour plates after the autho...
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The British Warblers.
SWEET, Robert.Original price $1,610.00 - Original price $1,610.00Original price $0.00$1,610.00$1,610.00 - $1,610.00Current price $1,610.00| /'Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner i...
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Roc-Pic. New Music Magazine April 1975 [special issue] Bob Gruen Photo Collection.
GRUEN, Bob.Original price $644.00 - Original price $644.00Original price $0.00$644.00$644.00 - $644.00Current price $644.00| /Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard with Bob Gruen's photographic business card. Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for o...
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