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[Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].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| /Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...
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Allerneuester Geographisch- und Topographischer
HEYDT [aka HEIJDT], Johann Wolfgang.Original price $9,917.00 - Original price $9,917.00Original price $0.00$9,917.00$9,917.00 - $9,917.00Current price $9,917.00| /Important early iconography of Jakarta. Heydt's Ost-Indien provides us with an extensive and important work with regard to the town planning and ge...
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Korol' i Pastukh: Angliskaia narodnaia ballada [The King and the Shepherd: An English Folk Ballad].
MARSHAK, Samuil; TRONOV, Vladimir.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 striking edition of Marshak's translation of the 16th-century English folk tale King John and the Bishop, illustrated by Vladimir Tronov. Marsha...
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[A Group of Four Parrots].
[ornithology] GOULD, John.Original price $19,833.00 - Original price $19,833.00Original price $0.00$19,833.00$19,833.00 - $19,833.00Current price $19,833.00| /John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...
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Splendor Magnificentissimae Urbis Venetiarum Clarissimus;
GRAEVIUS, Johann Georg.Original price $39,666.00 - Original price $39,666.00Original price $0.00$39,666.00$39,666.00 - $39,666.00Current price $39,666.00| /A rare and lavishly illustrated work devoted entirely to the city of Venice, issued as part of the monumental Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiaru...
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The Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm.
DULAC, Edmund (Illustrator).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| /The poem presents an interesting challenge to any reader trying to sort through its profound symbolism and not-so-obvious theme, and gained recogn...
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Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, from the year 1815 to the present year inclusive.
HERRING, John Frederick.Original price $76,027.00 - Original price $76,027.00Original price $0.00$76,027.00$76,027.00 - $76,027.00Current price $76,027.00| /With fabulous colour. A rare set of the finest early 19th-century series of racehorse portraits by John Herring, one of the greatest sporting artis...
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L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir
ALBERTI, Leon Battista.Original price $6,611.00 - Original price $6,611.00Original price $0.00$6,611.00$6,611.00 - $6,611.00Current price $6,611.00| /First edition in French. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedif...
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The List of Persons entitled to Vote in the Election of Four Members for the City of London,
[ELECTORAL REGISTER].Original price $10,578.00 - Original price $10,578.00Original price $0.00$10,578.00$10,578.00 - $10,578.00Current price $10,578.00| /Jewish enfranchisement before emancipation. An important record of Jewish enfranchisement in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832, containing s...
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Flights over the ancient cities of Iran.
SCHMIDT, Erich F.Original price $1,323.00 - Original price $1,323.00Original price $0.00$1,323.00$1,323.00 - $1,323.00Current price $1,323.00| /Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...
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[Tulips]
BESLER, BasiliusOriginal price $6,281.00 - Original price $6,281.00Original price $0.00$6,281.00$6,281.00 - $6,281.00Current price $6,281.00| /Magnificent plates from Hortus Eystettensis, one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record...
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Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécuté en 1837... [with]
DEMIDOFF, M. Anatole de; RAFFET, Auguste, DURAND, André (illustrators).Original price $33,055.00 - Original price $33,055.00Original price $0.00$33,055.00$33,055.00 - $33,055.00Current price $33,055.00| /From the Rothschild Ferrières library. A fine set of Demidoff's most sought-after illustrated books bound for Baron James de Rothschild. The rich i...
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Varidat-i Mensure we Divan,
AL-JALWATI, Al-Sayyid Hashim Mustafa Al-Uskudari.Original price $13,222.00 - Original price $13,222.00Original price $0.00$13,222.00$13,222.00 - $13,222.00Current price $13,222.00| /Sufi poetry by a follower of the celveti order. Sayyid Hashim Mustafa al-Uskudari al-Jalwati (Hashim Mustafa Uskudari), known as Hashim Baba, was a...
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