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The Seat of the War in the East.
SIMPSON, William.Original price $19,871.00 - Original price $19,871.00Original price $0.00$19,871.00$19,871.00 - $19,871.00Current price $19,871.00| /Deluxe edition with the plates hand-coloured. During the Crimean War William Simpson (1823-1899), became a pioneer war artist: dispatched by the pr...
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Through Masai Land:
THOMSON, Joseph.Original price $5,962.00 - Original price $5,962.00Original price $0.00$5,962.00$5,962.00 - $5,962.00Current price $5,962.00| /Presentation copy. presentation copy on the half-title "to David McIntosh with the Author's Compliments. Lokoja. March 27th."David McIntosh was an ...
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The American testimonial banquet to Henry M. Stanley.
[STANLEY, Henry Morton].Original price $6,624.00 - Original price $6,624.00Original price $0.00$6,624.00$6,624.00 - $6,624.00Current price $6,624.00| /Paul du Chaillu's copy of the special autograph edition of Stanley's American testimonial banquet.An exceptionally interesting copy of this scarce...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
KEYNES, J.M.Original price $3,312.00 - Original price $3,312.00Original price $0.00$3,312.00$3,312.00 - $3,312.00Current price $3,312.00| /Contemporary economist's copy. The first edition of Keynes' masterwork. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, The General Theory is reg...
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I dieci libri dell'architettura.
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus; BARBARO, Daniele (translator); PALLADIO, Andrea (illustrator).Original price $33,117.00 - Original price $33,117.00Original price $0.00$33,117.00$33,117.00 - $33,117.00Current price $33,117.00| /'the most significant Italian edition of the treatise'. First edition of Daniele Barbaro's (1514-1570) translation and commentary. This important p...
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In Darkest Africa
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price $8,611.00 - Original price $8,611.00Original price $0.00$8,611.00$8,611.00 - $8,611.00Current price $8,611.00| /Deluxe edition of Stanley. The deluxe edition of Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to ...
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Switzerland
YOSY, A.Original price $3,312.00 - Original price $3,312.00Original price $0.00$3,312.00$3,312.00 - $3,312.00Current price $3,312.00| /The Bradley Martin copy. The scarce first edition of Yosy's classic work on the costume of Switzerland. With the distinguished provenance of the re...
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Costume of the army of the British Empire,
SMITH, Charles Hamilton.Original price $5,962.00 - Original price $5,962.00Original price $0.00$5,962.00$5,962.00 - $5,962.00Current price $5,962.00| /Charles Smith's survey of the military uniforms of the Army of the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fifty-four of the pl...
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A collection of Swiss costumes,
REINHARDT, Joseph.Original price $4,968.00 - Original price $4,968.00Original price $0.00$4,968.00$4,968.00 - $4,968.00Current price $4,968.00| /Reinhardt's fine series of Swiss regional costume subjects set against fully coloured landscape backgrounds. Colas preferred this undated issue to...
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A Voyage to Arabia Fœlix
LA ROQUE, Jean de.Original price $5,299.00 - Original price $5,299.00Original price $0.00$5,299.00$5,299.00 - $5,299.00Current price $5,299.00| /The first part of La Roque's Voyage to Arabia Fœlix describes Yemen and Mocha. Mocha at this time was a considerable trading centre. The second pa...
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Raccolta di quindici costumi li piu interessanti della Svizzera Desgnati.
PINELLI, Bartolomeo.Original price $3,312.00 - Original price $3,312.00Original price $0.00$3,312.00$3,312.00 - $3,312.00Current price $3,312.00| /An unusual album of Swiss costume plates by the 19th-century artist Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835). Pinelli illustrated works by Dante, Virgil and...
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Costumes Suisses
MEYER, Felix.Original price $2,584.00 - Original price $2,584.00Original price $0.00$2,584.00$2,584.00 - $2,584.00Current price $2,584.00| /Meyer's scarce series of costume prints, lettered below image with their town of origin.First edition, small 8vo, hand-coloured aquatint frontispi...
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Journal of an Embassy
CRAWFURD, JohnOriginal price $6,624.00 - Original price $6,624.00Original price $0.00$6,624.00$6,624.00 - $6,624.00Current price $6,624.00| /The narrative of Crawfurd's Embassy to Burma. In 1827, following the First Anglo-Burmese War, John Crawfurd was chosen to travel to Burma (now Mya...
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Three years in Persia
FOWLER, George.Original price $2,186.00 - Original price $2,186.00Original price $0.00$2,186.00$2,186.00 - $2,186.00Current price $2,186.00| /Scarce and interesting account of Persia. Fowler was a British diplomat in Tehran during the last years of the reign of Fath Ali Shah. 'A book ful...
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[Cabinet card portrait of Alfred Tennyson, signed by him].
[TENNYSON, Alfred.] MAYALL, John Jabez Edwin.Original price $1,988.00 - Original price $1,988.00Original price $0.00$1,988.00$1,988.00 - $1,988.00Current price $1,988.00| /Tennyson's favourite portrait, signed by him. John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810-1901) was an English photographer, born Jabez Meal in Lancashire, who f...
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A picturesque illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.
DANIELL, Samuel.Original price $86,104.00 - Original price $86,104.00Original price $0.00$86,104.00$86,104.00 - $86,104.00Current price $86,104.00| /Magnificent copies of Samuel Daniell's Ceylon and African Scenery, his two masterworks, combined in a fine contemporary binding. Samuel Daniell (1...
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The Straits Times Annual
SINGAPOREOriginal price $1,325.00 - Original price $1,325.00Original price $0.00$1,325.00$1,325.00 - $1,325.00Current price $1,325.00| /A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...
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