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A Summer Miscellany

Jointly curated by all of our specialists, the catalogue features items from across the Travel, Near East & Islamic, History, Natural History, Literature, Modern First Editions, Children’s Books, and Illustrated Books departments.

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  • Select views of the rock and fortress of Gibraltar.

    CARTER, John Money.
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    Hand coloured lithographs mounted on card as issued. Carter's rare views of Gibraltar, here in the deluxe issue with hand coloured lithographs. Car...

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  • A succint view and analysis

    PITMAN, Robert Birks.
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    Pitman outlines various proposals for constructing a canal through Central America in order to avoid having to sail round Cape Horn. The map shows...

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  • Salzburg.

    BAEDEKER, Karl.
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    Publisher's presentation copy . Rare presentation copy from the publisher. Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910-1979), grandson of Fritz Baedeker, revived...

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  • Guide to Majorca.

    CHAMBERLIN, Frederick.
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    Unusual guide to Majorca.8vo (size 18 x 12 cm); 269 pp, numerous illustrations, 2 folding maps at front and rear ; publisher's red cloth, gilt let...

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  • In and around Poona.

    FRANKS, H. George.
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    A highly unusual set of guide-books to various walks in and around Poona in India. Very scarce.Poona, no known as Pune, lies in the west of India ...

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  • Italy. Handbook for Northern Italy.

    MURRAY, John.
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    Maps include Milan, Genoa, Turin and Venice. This is the first handbook to be published since the unification of Northen Italy. Endpapers dated J...

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  • Mathnavi.

    RUMI, Jalal al-Din Muhammad.
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    From the Timurid Courts of Persia. A fine Timurid copy of the complete Mathnavi by the revered Sufi Saint Jalal al-din Rumi.This is Rumi's most cel...

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  • Paintings from a Jain 'Heaven and Hell' series.

    [JAINISM].
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    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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  • Fine Ottoman Qur'an,

    [QUR'AN].
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    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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  • [Large portrait painting of a Bombay Governor,

    [ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOL]. PUNIR SHABAB.
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    A very attractive and large portrait of a Governor of Bombay, possibly of Parsi heritage, apparently executed by a local Indian artist. The large ...

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  • Album of watercolours of flowers, fruit and silkworms.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    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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  • The Works of Francis Bacon,

    BACON, Francis; MALLET, David (editor).
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    [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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