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Winnie-the-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price $7,275.00 - Original price $7,275.00Original price $0.00$7,275.00$7,275.00 - $7,275.00Current price $7,275.00| /How lucky am I?. 'How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?' A lovely copy of this perennial children's classic, decidedl...
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Fabric Map of Hofuf and Bandar Abbas.
[ARABIAN GULF].Original price $1,654.00 - Original price $1,654.00Original price $0.00$1,654.00$1,654.00 - $1,654.00Current price $1,654.00| /Map of Qatar and the UAE. An excellent example of a double-sided coloured escape map of the Arabian Gulf, showing the UAE and Oman to recto, and Qa...
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Zolotoi Petushok [The Golden Cockerel].
BILIBIN, Ivan (artist); PUSHKIN, Alexander.Original price $1,654.00 - Original price $1,654.00Original price $0.00$1,654.00$1,654.00 - $1,654.00Current price $1,654.00| /A very good example of richly illustrated promotional brochure for the first full staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Zolotoi Petushok' (The Golden Cock...
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An Almanac of Twelve Sports.
NICHOLSON, William (illustrator); KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price $1,588.00 - Original price $1,588.00Original price $0.00$1,588.00$1,588.00 - $1,588.00Current price $1,588.00| /A wonderful example of this book, in an edition thought to run to two hundred & seventy-five copies.Nicholson had been working with Heinemann ...
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Philips' New Map of Africa
[PHILIP, George]Original price $2,580.00 - Original price $2,580.00Original price $0.00$2,580.00$2,580.00 - $2,580.00Current price $2,580.00| /Attractive large map of Africa by the firm founded by the Scottish cartographer George Philip (1800-188), coloured to show the 'Possessions & ...
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Frankreich. Paris und Umgebungen,
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price $8,598.00 - Original price $8,598.00Original price $0.00$8,598.00$8,598.00 - $8,598.00Current price $8,598.00| /First edition in mint condition.. This is the last series started by Karl Baedeker himself before he died in 1859. Plans include Versailles, Rouen,...
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A history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,
PLAYFAIR, Captain Robert Lambert.Original price $9,921.00 - Original price $9,921.00Original price $0.00$9,921.00$9,921.00 - $9,921.00Current price $9,921.00| /The first major history of Yemen by an British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 200...
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Maps of Iraq
[IRAQ].Original price $1,654.00 - Original price $1,654.00Original price $0.00$1,654.00$1,654.00 - $1,654.00Current price $1,654.00| /Maps include Baghdad and Environs, The Environs of Basrah and several road maps to Southern and Northern Iraq.Revised and enlarged edition. Folio ...
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Unexplored Syria.
BURTON, Richard Francis; TYRWHITT DRAKE, Charles F.Original price $3,307.00 - Original price $3,307.00Original price $0.00$3,307.00$3,307.00 - $3,307.00Current price $3,307.00| /Burton was Consul at Damascus from 1865-1871. During that period Tyrwhitt-Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fun...
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The Book of the Pearl
KUNZ, George Frederick; STEVENSON, Charles Hugh.Original price $1,985.00 - Original price $1,985.00Original price $0.00$1,985.00$1,985.00 - $1,985.00Current price $1,985.00| /Kunz' monograph on the pearl has been described as 'One of the most beautiful books published in the United States' (Sinkankas). Prized for the en...
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Pomologia Britannica;
LINDLEY, John.Original price $7,937.00 - Original price $7,937.00Original price $0.00$7,937.00$7,937.00 - $7,937.00Current price $7,937.00| /3 volumes, 8vols; 152 hand-coloured engraved plates after C.M.Curtis and Mrs. Withers, 5 double-page, many heightened with gum arabic, tissue guar...
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Album of four works.
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.Original price $178,568.00 - Original price $178,568.00Original price $0.00$178,568.00$178,568.00 - $178,568.00Current price $178,568.00| /A fine album of four works by the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), 'the great engraver who was the interpreter and virtua...
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How I Found Livingstone.
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price $3,307.00 - Original price $3,307.00Original price $0.00$3,307.00$3,307.00 - $3,307.00Current price $3,307.00| /'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a nineteenth-century reader with the wonder...
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The Festival Prayers,
[PRAYER BOOK]. DE SOLA, D.A (translator).Original price $3,704.00 - Original price $3,704.00Original price $0.00$3,704.00$3,704.00 - $3,704.00Current price $3,704.00| /Magnificent six volumes Ashkenazic Machzor of Festival Prayers, translated by Rev. David Aaron De Sola, minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Jew...
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Faith of Israel,
GOODMAN, Rabbi Tobias.Original price $1,654.00 - Original price $1,654.00Original price $0.00$1,654.00$1,654.00 - $1,654.00Current price $1,654.00| /'one of the earliest preachers in English of the London Jewish community' The Jewish Encyclopedia. First and only edition of this work by Rabbi Tob...
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The Form of Prayers...
[PRAYER BOOK]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price $5,953.00 - Original price $5,953.00Original price $0.00$5,953.00$5,953.00 - $5,953.00Current price $5,953.00| /Set of Festival Prayers (Machzor) by one of the pioneers of Hebrew printing in London with incredible provenance of the de Rothschild family.The F...
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The Arab of the desert.
DICKSON, H.R.P.Original price $1,455.00 - Original price $1,455.00Original price $0.00$1,455.00$1,455.00 - $1,455.00Current price $1,455.00| /Preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into the...
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Personal observations on Sindh;
POSTANS, Thomas.Original price $2,183.00 - Original price $2,183.00Original price $0.00$2,183.00$2,183.00 - $2,183.00Current price $2,183.00| /Mrs Postans' advance copy. Postans (1808-46) was assistant to the political agent in Sindh and Baluchistan. A comprehensive description of Sindh in...
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