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Antverpia Totius Inferiorisæ Primaria Urbs
VRIENTS, Jan Baptist.Original price $33,043.00 - Original price $33,043.00Original price $33,043.00$33,043.00$33,043.00 - $33,043.00Current price $33,043.00| /A rare and finely engraved prospect of Antwerp viewed from the Scheldt, first published by Vrients in 1610, under a privilege issued by Albert and...
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Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis.
[EROTICA]. [HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois Hugues, d'].Original price $16,522.00 - Original price $16,522.00Original price $16,522.00$16,522.00$16,522.00 - $16,522.00Current price $16,522.00| /Fine hand-coloured copy of this fully engraved work, printed on papier verge de Hollande extra-fort - one of these 'rarissimes exemplaires dont le...
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Siege of Sebastopol. 1854-5.
[CRIMEAN WAR] - ELPHINSTONE, H[oward] C[rawfurd], Harry D. JONES and W[illiam] Edward M[oyses] REILLY.Original price $2,974.00 - Original price $2,974.00Original price $2,974.00$2,974.00$2,974.00 - $2,974.00Current price $2,974.00| /First edition of this large work: a very good copy, complete with the 3 volumes of text and all maps, plans and views of Sevastopol - despite the ...
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Frenzied Finance.
LAWSON, Thomas.Original price $2,313.00 - Original price $2,313.00Original price $0.00$2,313.00$2,313.00 - $2,313.00Current price $2,313.00| /[economics] extraordinary attack on the 'money kings'. A signed copy of Thomas Lawson's (1857-1925) extraordinary exposé of greed and corruption in...
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...So Few,
PIERCE, Michael; et al.Original price $4,825.00 - Original price $4,825.00Original price $0.00$4,825.00$4,825.00 - $4,825.00Current price $4,825.00| /[second world war]. A lavish and stunning tribute. The fighter pilots commemorated in this volume are :Wing Commander P.P.C Barthropp; Wing Command...
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
LEFÈVRE, Edwin.Original price $8,592.00 - Original price $8,592.00Original price $0.00$8,592.00$8,592.00 - $8,592.00Current price $8,592.00| /Speculation's greatest story. The first edition of this investment classic, a fictionalised biography of the day trader Jessie Livermore, to whom t...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3.
WILDE, Oscar.Original price $4,000.00 - Original price $4,000.00Original price $0.00$4,000.00$4,000.00 - $4,000.00Current price $4,000.00| /One of 800 copies. First edition, limited to just 800 copies on handmade paper, with a further 30 copies on Japanese Vellum. The poem was composed ...
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A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price $2,446.00 - Original price $2,446.00Original price $0.00$2,446.00$2,446.00 - $2,446.00Current price $2,446.00| /One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...
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You Only Live Twice.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price $19,826.00 - Original price $19,826.00Original price $0.00$19,826.00$19,826.00 - $19,826.00Current price $19,826.00| /Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'. The identity of Jonathan h...
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Mehmed Uss'i Zafer 1241 [The Principles of Victory 1826].
ES'AD EFENDI.Original price $3,305.00 - Original price $3,305.00Original price $0.00$3,305.00$3,305.00 - $3,305.00Current price $3,305.00| /Earliest account of the suppression of the Janissaries. The earliest and most comprehensive account of Sultan Mahmud II's suppression of the Janiss...
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Summa de arithmetica.
PACIOLI, Luca.Original price $178,432.00 - Original price $178,432.00Original price $0.00$178,432.00$178,432.00 - $178,432.00Current price $178,432.00| /The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...
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Traite sur la Cavalerie.
DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector (Comte de).Original price $59,478.00 - Original price $59,478.00Original price $0.00$59,478.00$59,478.00 - $59,478.00Current price $59,478.00| /Royal copy in fine red morocco. Scarce and impressive work on cavalry: beautiful red morocco copy of the Prince de Condé, a great grandson of King ...
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Hermit by Newminster out of Seclusion, Winner of the Derby 1867, trained by Bloss, Ridden by Daly,
[ANON.]Original price $7,931.00 - Original price $7,931.00Original price $7,931.00$7,931.00$7,931.00 - $7,931.00Current price $7,931.00| /A pair of engravings on silk, tears to lower right corner of second item. Framed.
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Swan Engraving Circle I, State V
STELLA, FrankOriginal price $29,739.00 - Original price $29,739.00Original price $0.00$29,739.00$29,739.00 - $29,739.00Current price $29,739.00| /Swan Engraving Circle I is linked to Stella's wider series called Circuits (1980-84), whereby all the artworks are linked through the theme of fra...
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Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); BARRIE, J.M.Original price $6,279.00 - Original price $6,279.00Original price $0.00$6,279.00$6,279.00 - $6,279.00Current price $6,279.00| /Signed limited edition. Rackham's magnificent illustrations capture so succinctly the ethereal atmosphere of the story, with the still recognisable...
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The Financial House that Jack Built.
[SINKING FUND].Original price $1,983.00 - Original price $1,983.00Original price $0.00$1,983.00$1,983.00 - $1,983.00Current price $1,983.00| /Satire attacking government and stock-jobbers. A satirical riff on the English nursery rhyme The House that Jack Built, criticising the economic po...
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Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique
ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.Original price $6,609.00 - Original price $6,609.00Original price $6,609.00$6,609.00$6,609.00 - $6,609.00Current price $6,609.00| /Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...
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High Cost Living.
LAWSON, Thomas W.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| /Author's personal copy. Thomas Lawson's (1857-1925) personal copy of High Cost Living, his amusing 'insider's account of the pecuniary guile of an ...
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A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in 1819-20.
[PARRY'S FIRST AND SECOND VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward.Original price $11,566.00 - Original price $11,566.00Original price $11,566.00$11,566.00$11,566.00 - $11,566.00Current price $11,566.00| /All three works inscribed by Parry. all three works inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first 'A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry'...
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