ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair 2024 | Highlights
Shapero Rare Books is exhibiting at the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair 2024.
STAND 40
1 November (2pm-7pm)
2 November (11am-5pm)
Chelsea Old Town Hall
King's Road London SW3 5EE
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Vitruvius Britannicus,
[ARCHITECTURE]. CAMPBELL, Colen; WOOLFE, [John] & GANDON, [James].Original price $32,517.00 - Original price $32,517.00Original price $0.00$32,517.00$32,517.00 - $32,517.00Current price $32,517.00| /Finely illustrated with 390 engraved plates. the finest example of country house illustration in Great Britain, including views of Castle Howard, L...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
[DE QUINCEY, Thomas].Original price $9,755.00 - Original price $9,755.00Original price $0.00$9,755.00$9,755.00 - $9,755.00Current price $9,755.00| /An excellent copy in the original boards of 'the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature' (Norman).First published in the Lond...
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Letters Concerning the English Nation.
VOLTAIRE (pseud. AROUET, François-Marie).Original price $4,553.00 - Original price $4,553.00Original price $0.00$4,553.00$4,553.00 - $4,553.00Current price $4,553.00| /The first bomb hurled against the Ancien Régime'. The first edition of this interesting, outsider's take on English society and its people, precipi...
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Out of the Shelter.
LODGE, David.Original price $1,951.00 - Original price $1,951.00Original price $0.00$1,951.00$1,951.00 - $1,951.00Current price $1,951.00| /The author's copy. The author's copy of his fourth book. Scarce thus, as it was rapidly pulped by the publishers after a litany of misprints and ot...
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Inscriptions on the Seikh Guns Captured by the Army of the Sutledge 1845-46.
[FIRST SIKH WAR].Original price $26,014.00 - Original price $26,014.00Original price $0.00$26,014.00$26,014.00 - $26,014.00Current price $26,014.00| /First Sikh War. Scarce. The title-page gives the name of C. Gomeze as the designer and lithographer - probably the Christopher Gomez, of the H.C. L...
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The Picturegoers.
LODGE, David.Original price $1,951.00 - Original price $1,951.00Original price $0.00$1,951.00$1,951.00 - $1,951.00Current price $1,951.00| /The author's copy. The author's copy of his first book, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper and annotations throughout.First ed...
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Jazz.
CLAXTON, William.Original price $1,951.00 - Original price $1,951.00Original price $0.00$1,951.00$1,951.00 - $1,951.00Current price $1,951.00| /Edition of 100 signed copies. William Claxton is indelibly associated with the West Coast Jazz scene. In this, his first English-language monograph...
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Exploration of Kina Balu.
WHITEHEAD, John.Original price $16,259.00 - Original price $16,259.00Original price $0.00$16,259.00$16,259.00 - $16,259.00Current price $16,259.00| /Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina ...
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A History of British Birds [with] A History of British Fishes with Supplement [and] A History of British Quadrupeds [and] A History of British Reptiles.
YARRELL, William & BELL, Thomas.Original price $4,878.00 - Original price $4,878.00Original price $0.00$4,878.00$4,878.00 - $4,878.00Current price $4,878.00| /Imperial octavo. A handsomely bound imperial octavo set, all first editions, of Yarrell's copiously illustrated British Birds and Fishes, including...
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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
MORRIS, Beverley.Original price $1,626.00 - Original price $1,626.00Original price $0.00$1,626.00$1,626.00 - $1,626.00Current price $1,626.00| /A handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...
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A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
GOULD, John.Original price $78,040.00 - Original price $78,040.00Original price $0.00$78,040.00$78,040.00 - $78,040.00Current price $78,040.00| /Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...
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