A Summer Miscellany
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Select views of the rock and fortress of Gibraltar.
CARTER, John Money.Original price $23,646.00 - Original price $23,646.00Original price $0.00$23,646.00$23,646.00 - $23,646.00Current price $23,646.00| /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 $1,598.00 - Original price $1,598.00Original price $0.00$1,598.00$1,598.00 - $1,598.00Current price $1,598.00| /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 $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price $0.00$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00| /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 $116.00 - Original price $116.00Original price $0.00$116.00$116.00 - $116.00Current price $116.00| /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 $1,406.00 - Original price $1,406.00Original price $0.00$1,406.00$1,406.00 - $1,406.00Current price $1,406.00| /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 $256.00 - Original price $256.00Original price $0.00$256.00$256.00 - $256.00Current price $256.00| /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 $41,539.00 - Original price $41,539.00Original price $0.00$41,539.00$41,539.00 - $41,539.00Current price $41,539.00| /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 $12,143.00 - Original price $12,143.00Original price $0.00$12,143.00$12,143.00 - $12,143.00Current price $12,143.00| /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 $22,367.00 - Original price $22,367.00Original price $0.00$22,367.00$22,367.00 - $22,367.00Current price $22,367.00| /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 $8,308.00 - Original price $8,308.00Original price $0.00$8,308.00$8,308.00 - $8,308.00Current price $8,308.00| /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 $191,717.00 - Original price $191,717.00Original price $0.00$191,717.00$191,717.00 - $191,717.00Current price $191,717.00| /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 $4,474.00 - Original price $4,474.00Original price $0.00$4,474.00$4,474.00 - $4,474.00Current price $4,474.00| /[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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