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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].
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    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].
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    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.

    [PHILOSOPHY]. VOLTAIRE (pseud. AROUET, François-Marie).
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    'the first bomb hurled against the Ancien Régime'. The first edition of this interesting, outsider's take on English society and its people, precip...

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  • Out of the Shelter.

    LODGE, David.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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