18th Century
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The Works of Francis Bacon,
BACON, Francis; MALLET, David (editor).Original price $4,632.00 - Original price $4,632.00Original price $0.00$4,632.00$4,632.00 - $4,632.00Current price $4,632.00| /[philosophy] earl of Macclesfield's copy. A beautifully bound set of The Works of Francis Bacon edited by the poet David Mallet (d.1765), with an i...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
SMITH, Adam.Original price $277,874.00 - Original price $277,874.00Original price $0.00$277,874.00$277,874.00 - $277,874.00Current price $277,874.00| /'first and greatest classic of modern economic thought' PMM. The first edition of the 'first and greatest classic of modern economic thought' (PMM)...
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Album of watercolours of flowers, fruit and silkworms.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price $198,481.00 - Original price $198,481.00Original price $0.00$198,481.00$198,481.00 - $198,481.00Current price $198,481.00| /From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...
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Fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $23,157.00 - Original price $23,157.00Original price $0.00$23,157.00$23,157.00 - $23,157.00Current price $23,157.00| /An attractive Ottoman Qur'an copied during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid I (r. 1774-1789). The concise calligraphy and elegant illumination thro...
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Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoisie.
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.Original price $46,313.00 - Original price $46,313.00Original price $0.00$46,313.00$46,313.00 - $46,313.00Current price $46,313.00| /The first edition of Du Halde's "encyclopaedic account of China" (Lust) -- and one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde,...
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Miscellanies in Prose and and Verse;
CHATTERTON, Thomas.Original price $199.00 - Original price $199.00Original price $0.00$199.00$199.00 - $199.00Current price $199.00| /The first edition of the poet Thomas Chatterton's (1752-1770) supposedly non-Rowleyan works. The result, edited by John Broughton, was a confusing...
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Paintings from a Jain 'Heaven and Hell' series.
[JAINISM].Original price $12,571.00 - Original price $12,571.00Original price $0.00$12,571.00$12,571.00 - $12,571.00Current price $12,571.00| /Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised by great suffering. There are seven realms of this un...
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[A Group of Twelve Mezzotints of Aloes in decorative pots].
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.Original price $26,465.00 - Original price $26,465.00Original price $0.00$26,465.00$26,465.00 - $26,465.00Current price $26,465.00| /An attractive collection of fine botanical mezzotints by Weinmann, one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Rege...
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