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Voyage de la Pérouse
LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).Original price $26,473.00 - Original price $26,473.00Original price $0.00$26,473.00$26,473.00 - $26,473.00Current price $26,473.00| /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, WolfOriginal price $1,589.00 - Original price $1,589.00Original price $0.00$1,589.00$1,589.00 - $1,589.00Current price $1,589.00| /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).Original price $2,979.00 - Original price $2,979.00Original price $0.00$2,979.00$2,979.00 - $2,979.00Current price $2,979.00| /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.Original price $2,449.00 - Original price $2,449.00Original price $0.00$2,449.00$2,449.00 - $2,449.00Current price $2,449.00| /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.Original price $6,619.00 - Original price $6,619.00Original price $0.00$6,619.00$6,619.00 - $6,619.00Current price $6,619.00| /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.Original price $8,604.00 - Original price $8,604.00Original price $0.00$8,604.00$8,604.00 - $8,604.00Current price $8,604.00| /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].Original price $6,288.00 - Original price $6,288.00Original price $0.00$6,288.00$6,288.00 - $6,288.00Current price $6,288.00| /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.Original price $3,310.00 - Original price $3,310.00Original price $0.00$3,310.00$3,310.00 - $3,310.00Current price $3,310.00| /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, PhilipOriginal price $9,928.00 - Original price $9,928.00Original price $0.00$9,928.00$9,928.00 - $9,928.00Current price $9,928.00| /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, DavidOriginal price $52,945.00 - Original price $52,945.00Original price $0.00POA$52,945.00 - $52,945.00Current price| /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.Original price $1,655.00 - Original price $1,655.00Original price $0.00$1,655.00$1,655.00 - $1,655.00Current price $1,655.00| /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.Original price $258,107.00 - Original price $258,107.00Original price $0.00$258,107.00$258,107.00 - $258,107.00Current price $258,107.00| /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).Original price $6,288.00 - Original price $6,288.00Original price $6,288.00$6,288.00$6,288.00 - $6,288.00Current price $6,288.00| /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),Original price $1,655.00 - Original price $1,655.00Original price $0.00$1,655.00$1,655.00 - $1,655.00Current price $1,655.00| /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.Original price $1,456.00 - Original price $1,456.00Original price $0.00$1,456.00$1,456.00 - $1,456.00Current price $1,456.00| /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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