A Summer Miscellany
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Select views of the rock and fortress of Gibraltar.
CARTER, John Money.Original price $24,482.00 - Original price $24,482.00Original price $0.00$24,482.00$24,482.00 - $24,482.00Current price $24,482.00| /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.Original price $1,655.00 - Original price $1,655.00Original price $0.00$1,655.00$1,655.00 - $1,655.00Current price $1,655.00| /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.Original price $199.00 - Original price $199.00Original price $0.00$199.00$199.00 - $199.00Current price $199.00| /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.Original price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $0.00$120.00$120.00 - $120.00Current price $120.00| /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.Original price $1,456.00 - Original price $1,456.00Original price $0.00$1,456.00$1,456.00 - $1,456.00Current price $1,456.00| /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.Original price $265.00 - Original price $265.00Original price $0.00$265.00$265.00 - $265.00Current price $265.00| /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.Original price $43,008.00 - Original price $43,008.00Original price $0.00$43,008.00$43,008.00 - $43,008.00Current price $43,008.00| /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].Original price $12,572.00 - Original price $12,572.00Original price $0.00$12,572.00$12,572.00 - $12,572.00Current price $12,572.00| /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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Fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $23,158.00 - Original price $23,158.00Original price $0.00$23,158.00$23,158.00 - $23,158.00Current price $23,158.00| /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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[Large portrait painting of a Bombay Governor,
[ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOL]. PUNIR SHABAB.Original price $8,602.00 - Original price $8,602.00Original price $0.00$8,602.00$8,602.00 - $8,602.00Current price $8,602.00| /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].Original price $198,497.00 - Original price $198,497.00Original price $0.00$198,497.00$198,497.00 - $198,497.00Current price $198,497.00| /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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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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