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  • Voyage de la Pérouse

    LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).
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    The first scientific voyage to California, with royal provenance. The first edition of one of the most important scientific explorations ever under...

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  • Dé-coll/age happenings

    VOSTELL, Wolf
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    Wolf Vostell (German, 1932-1998), is best known for his contributions to video art and co-founding the Fluxus movement in the early 1960s. Additio...

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  • The Story of Grettir the Strong.

    MORRIS, William & MAGNUSSON, Eirikr (translators).
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    Presentation copy - inscribed to Charles Kingsley. Limited to just 500 copies, with the present copy inscribed by William Morris in black ink to th...

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  • Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania.

    HUGHES, The Rev. Thomas Smart.
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    Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Alba...

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  • A new history of Ethiopia.

    LUDOLF, Hiob.
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    The father of modern Ethiopian studies. Scarce English edition. Ludolf (1624-1704), is regarded as the father of modern Ethiopian studies. 'A work ...

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  • A Monograph of the Cranes.

    BLAAUW, Frans Ernst.
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    Ornithology. This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of the Amsterdam Zoo, G. F. Westerman. However, his unti...

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  • [An Attractive Indian Qur'an,

    [QUR'AN].
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    Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, complete, 318 leaves plus two later free endpapers, 120 x 80 mm; single column, 14 line...

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  • [A Farewell to Arms]. A rare sample binding (or 'blad') with A.L.s. on headed paper from the Printing Department, Charles Scribner's Sons.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    The key to this rare curiosity is the hand-written letter with the salutation to 'George' and signed by a A. R. Warnock or Warwick, dated 5th Feb'...

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  • Pile Up

    GUSTON, Philip
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    Pile Up' was one of Guston's final works before his death in 1980. Guston was often known to switch between abstraction and figuration and this wo...

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  • Celia with Green Hat, from the Moving Focus Series

    HOCKNEY, David
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    edition 81/98Lithograph in colours, 1984, on wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 98, printed and published by Tyl...

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  • Dessins sans Bande.

    LICHTENSTEIN, Roy.
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    Signed by the artist. Richly illustrated catalogue for Lichtenstein's exhibition Dessins sans bande in the winter of 1975. Inscribed on the cover, ...

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  • Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.

    SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.
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    Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...

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  • Administration des Haras. Atlas statistique de la production des chevaux en France.

    GAYOT, Eugène; Hippolyte Lalaisse (artist).
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    Horse breeding in France in the mid-19th century . Impressive and uncommon work on French horse breeding at the beginning of Napoleon III's reign -...

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  • Tarikh-e Khani [and] Tarikh-e Gilan,

    DORN, Bernhard (editor),
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    These volumes are part of a historical series printed at the Print House of the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg. The two present volumes are: Ta...

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  • The Sixpence that Rolled Away.

    BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator); MACNEICE, Louis.
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    Edward Bawden's own copy. 'Once upon a time there was a One Pound Note and he married a Ten Shilling Note and they had three children, a half-crown...

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