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Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
GRIFFITHS, Julius.Original price $4,627.00 - Original price $4,627.00Original price $0.00$4,627.00$4,627.00 - $4,627.00Current price $4,627.00| /Holland House copy. Griffiths travelled out to Constantinople with the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1785, before going on to t...
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[Manuscript pour Une Volupté Nouvelle.]
LOUŸS, Pierre.Original price $6,609.00 - Original price $6,609.00Original price $6,609.00$6,609.00$6,609.00 - $6,609.00Current price $6,609.00| /Manuscript copy of Louÿs' work, first published in 1899. Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) was born in Ghent in 1870 into a Champagne family, who had taken...
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Odd Whims and Miscellanies.
REPTON, Humphry.Original price $860.00 - Original price $860.00Original price $860.00$860.00$860.00 - $860.00Current price $860.00| /First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. xii, [11], 171; [vi], 164 pp., complete with half-titles, vignettes to title-pages and 10 hand coloured plates...
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[Esther Scroll housed in silver decorative case, untitled].
[ESTHER SCROLL].Original price $9,451.00 - Original price $9,451.00Original price $0.00$9,451.00$9,451.00 - $9,451.00Current price $9,451.00| /Megillat Esther. Esther scroll housed in an elaborately decorated silver case.Manuscript on vellum, text arranged in 19 lines, in Hebrew Sephardic ...
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Maps illustrating the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
BARNARD, Major J.G.Original price $1,653.00 - Original price $1,653.00Original price $1,653.00$1,653.00$1,653.00 - $1,653.00Current price $1,653.00| /Part of the large body of interesting literature relating to schemes to build either a railway or a canal through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Barn...
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication.
DARWIN, Charles.Original price $2,446.00 - Original price $2,446.00Original price $2,446.00$2,446.00$2,446.00 - $2,446.00Current price $2,446.00| /Survival of the fittest. Featuring the first occurrence of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. Originally intended as the first two chapters in a...
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The comic history of Rome.
LEECH, John, Illustrator; Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.Original price $2,181.00 - Original price $2,181.00Original price $0.00$2,181.00$2,181.00 - $2,181.00Current price $2,181.00| /Original parts. First editions. 8vo., 10 parts in 9 as issued, 10 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, illustrations; some light general toni...
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Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia,
WILBRAHAM, Captain Richard.Original price $2,313.00 - Original price $2,313.00Original price $2,313.00$2,313.00$2,313.00 - $2,313.00Current price $2,313.00| /Wilbraham was a Captain in the British Army on military secondment in the service of Mohammad Shah. He gives a good description of Qilhak village,...
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Rough Notes of the Campaign in Sinde and Afghanistan,
OUTRAM, Captain James.Original price $655.00 - Original price $655.00Original price $655.00$655.00$655.00 - $655.00Current price $655.00| /Originally published in a small Bombay edition. A thrilling account of the capture of Ghazni; the pursuit over rough terrain of Dost Mohammed Khan...
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Les Noces Mogolienes.
OPIZ, Georg Emanuel.Original price $6,609.00 - Original price $6,609.00Original price $6,609.00$6,609.00$6,609.00 - $6,609.00Current price $6,609.00| /Georg Emanuel Opiz, or Opitz (1775-1841) was born in Prague, but moved to Dresden where he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Casanova. His ...
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons:
BATES, Henry Walter.Original price $1,851.00 - Original price $1,851.00Original price $1,851.00$1,851.00$1,851.00 - $1,851.00Current price $1,851.00| /One of the finest accounts of natural history travels. Henry Bates (1825 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific...
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The discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator,"
OSBORN, Sherard (editor).Original price $4,200.00 - Original price $4,200.00Original price $0.00$4,200.00$4,200.00 - $4,200.00Current price $4,200.00| /The first traversal of the North-west Passage. Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) ...
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Frankreich, Paris und Nord-Frankreich
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price $397.00 - Original price $397.00Original price $397.00$397.00$397.00 - $397.00Current price $397.00| /Endpapers dated "Juli 1870".Seventh edition. 8vo, pp. xxxvi, 1-258, with 23 maps and plans, including a large map of Paris in three parts; slight ...
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Voyage round the World
KRUSENSTERN, Capt. A.J. von.Original price $17,844.00 - Original price $17,844.00Original price $0.00$17,844.00$17,844.00 - $17,844.00Current price $17,844.00| /The first Russian circumnavigation. An important work, being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Kru...
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Street Types of Great American Cities.
KRAUSZ, Sigmund.Original price $364.00 - Original price $364.00Original price $364.00$364.00$364.00 - $364.00Current price $364.00| /FIRST EDITION, a reprint of Krausz's Street Types of Chicago of 1892, this edition with 10 additional plates and vignettes and an updated title in...
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[A Group of 12 Watercolours of Courtiers.
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price $14,539.00 - Original price $14,539.00Original price $0.00$14,539.00$14,539.00 - $14,539.00Current price $14,539.00| /A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing courtiers.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpens...
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Physiologie du Gout...
BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean AnthelmeOriginal price $694.00 - Original price $694.00Original price $0.00$694.00$694.00 - $694.00Current price $694.00| /Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière...
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Narrative of an expedition across the great south-western prairies,
KENDALL, George Wilkins.Original price $1,124.00 - Original price $1,124.00Original price $1,124.00$1,124.00$1,124.00 - $1,124.00Current price $1,124.00| /Second English edition, published a year after the Harper and Wiley editions.An account of the The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, a commercial and mil...
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Khartoum,
MELLY, GeorgeOriginal price $1,124.00 - Original price $1,124.00Original price $1,124.00$1,124.00$1,124.00 - $1,124.00Current price $1,124.00| /Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...
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