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A history of Persian navigation.
HASAN, Hadi.Original price $1,653.00 - Original price $1,653.00Original price $0.00$1,653.00$1,653.00 - $1,653.00Current price $1,653.00| /Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...
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The Diary Kept by T.E. Lawrence while travelling in Arabia during 1911. [With] The Diary of T.E. Lawrence.
LAWRENCE, T.E.Original price $16,527.00 - Original price $16,527.00Original price $0.00$16,527.00$16,527.00 - $16,527.00Current price $16,527.00| /One of 30 copies. The beautifully designed Corvinus Press edition of the diary that Lawrence kept during his first trip to the Middle East in 1911,...
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The Art of Deer Stalking [with] Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed;
SCROPE, William.Original price $1,984.00 - Original price $1,984.00Original price $0.00$1,984.00$1,984.00 - $1,984.00Current price $1,984.00| /A handsome set. A handsome set of the first editions of William Scrope's two most important books, classics in the history of British sporting.Scro...
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Chart of the Arctic regions
WYLD, James.Original price $1,984.00 - Original price $1,984.00Original price $0.00$1,984.00$1,984.00 - $1,984.00Current price $1,984.00| /An attractive copy of Wyld's hemisphere map of the Arctic regions, dedicated to Lady Franklin, in its original binding. The map can be approximate...
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
KHAYYÁM, Omar; POGANY, Willy (illustrator).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| /A beautiful copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám with 16 colour-plate illustrations after the Hungarian artist Willy Pogany (1882-1955).This editi...
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The History of Ancient and Modern Wines.
[VITTICULTURE]. HENDERSON, Alexander.Original price $1,984.00 - Original price $1,984.00Original price $0.00$1,984.00$1,984.00 - $1,984.00Current price $1,984.00| /Early account of modern winemaking. A lovely copy, in half-red morocco of Alexander Hamilton's History of Ancient and Modern Wines. One of the firs...
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Boyd Alexander's Last Journey.
ALEXANDER, herbert.Original price $1,653.00 - Original price $1,653.00Original price $0.00$1,653.00$1,653.00 - $1,653.00Current price $1,653.00| /With original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to ...
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Traveler and Tourist's Guide-Book through the United States of America and the Canadas:
COLTON, J.H.Original price $1,587.00 - Original price $1,587.00Original price $0.00$1,587.00$1,587.00 - $1,587.00Current price $1,587.00| /A very good example of this comprehensive and detailed guide book to the United States. The large coloured map at the rear which only covers half ...
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A Journey into Greece...
WHELER, George.Original price $5,289.00 - Original price $5,289.00Original price $0.00$5,289.00$5,289.00 - $5,289.00Current price $5,289.00| /A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone.
ROWLING, J.K.Original price $15,865.00 - Original price $15,865.00Original price $0.00$15,865.00$15,865.00 - $15,865.00Current price $15,865.00| /A near-fine example of the correct first UK Bloomsbury paperback edition. This copy has all the important issue points, with the Wendy Cooling rev...
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Diamonds are Forever.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price $3,306.00 - Original price $3,306.00Original price $0.00$3,306.00$3,306.00 - $3,306.00Current price $3,306.00| /The first edition, first impression of the fourth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.Fleming was inspired by a 1954 Sunday Times story on th...
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Giant Brains, or Machines that Think.
[COMPUTING]. BERKELEY, Edmund C.Original price $2,314.00 - Original price $2,314.00Original price $0.00$2,314.00$2,314.00 - $2,314.00Current price $2,314.00| /Inscribed association copy. First edition, first printing of 'the first carefully crafted and widely accepted popularization of computers' (IEEE ob...
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The Holy Bible.
MACKLIN, Thomas (editor).Original price $9,916.00 - Original price $9,916.00Original price $0.00$9,916.00$9,916.00 - $9,916.00Current price $9,916.00| /The grandest English gallery Bible. Macklin's sumptuous edition of the King James Bible 'Embellished with engravings, from pictures and designed by...
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Nederlandsch Bloemwerk.
[TULIPS].Original price $16,527.00 - Original price $16,527.00Original price $0.00$16,527.00$16,527.00 - $16,527.00Current price $16,527.00| /The ascendancy of the dutch nurseryman. First edition of this striking, hand-coloured Dutch botanical work, in beautiful contemporary calf.'Nederla...
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Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis 1702-1711.
SCHEUCHZER, Johann.Original price $8,594.00 - Original price $8,594.00Original price $0.00$8,594.00$8,594.00 - $8,594.00Current price $8,594.00| /Second edition, enlarged, of the most detailed and profusely illustrated work to date on the topography, geology, natural history, and climate of ...
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Scenes in Kafirland,
GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; Lieut. Hugh Robinson.Original price $8,594.00 - Original price $8,594.00Original price $0.00$8,594.00$8,594.00 - $8,594.00Current price $8,594.00| /Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...
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Winnie-The-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price $1,851.00 - Original price $1,851.00Original price $0.00$1,851.00$1,851.00 - $1,851.00Current price $1,851.00| /The publisher's deluxe bindings came in three colours with green being the most favoured due its similarity to the green cloth of the regular trad...
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Moonchild.
CROWLEY, Aleister.Original price $4,628.00 - Original price $4,628.00Original price $0.00$4,628.00$4,628.00 - $4,628.00Current price $4,628.00| /Moonchild was the second of Crowley's interwar novels - following Diary of a Drug Fiend in 1922. It is a wild fantastical roman-à-clef and inciden...
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Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica.
MINTON, John (illustrator); ROSS, Alan.Original price $2,645.00 - Original price $2,645.00Original price $0.00$2,645.00$2,645.00 - $2,645.00Current price $2,645.00| /Signed by the illustrator. Signed and dated (1955) by the artist on the title page. Minton was a parsimonious inscriber of books; we have seen only...
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The Drowned World.
BALLARD, J.G.Original price $1,818.00 - Original price $1,818.00Original price $0.00$1,818.00$1,818.00 - $1,818.00Current price $1,818.00| /Key climate change novel. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World antic...
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The Go-Between.
HARTLEY, L.P.Original price $2,975.00 - Original price $2,975.00Original price $0.00$2,975.00$2,975.00 - $2,975.00Current price $2,975.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page: 'For Leon Drucker, with all my good wishes, Leslie Har...
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Blank on the map.
SHIPTON, Eric.Original price $5,223.00 - Original price $5,223.00Original price $0.00$5,223.00$5,223.00 - $5,223.00Current price $5,223.00| /With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...
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Thoughts and Adventures.
[HISTORY]. CHURCHILL, Winston S.Original price $4,628.00 - Original price $4,628.00Original price $0.00$4,628.00$4,628.00 - $4,628.00Current price $4,628.00| /In the original dust-jacket. The second volume of Churchill's autobiography including his early political career, the First World War...Gallipoli, ...
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The Good Citizen's Alphabet.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price $3,636.00 - Original price $3,636.00Original price $0.00$3,636.00$3,636.00 - $3,636.00Current price $3,636.00| /Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...
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