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Official Guides to Eastern Asia.
[Eastern Asia]Original price $6,949.00 - Original price $6,949.00Original price $0.00$6,949.00$6,949.00 - $6,949.00Current price $6,949.00| /Complete set of the imperial japanese railway guides with original slipcases.. These comprehensive and attractive guides were compiled by the Imper...
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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
DARWIN, Charles.Original price $11,250.00 - Original price $11,250.00Original price $0.00$11,250.00$11,250.00 - $11,250.00Current price $11,250.00| /First appearance of the word evolution in darwin's work. First edition, first issue of Darwin's application of evolution by natural selection to hu...
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Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
CUVIER, Georges L.C., Baron; KERR, Robert (translator).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| /Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...
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Bol'shaia entsiklopediia slovar' obshchedostupnykh svedeniy po vsem otrasliam znaniia
YUZHAKOV, S.N. (ed.).Original price $5,294.00 - Original price $5,294.00Original price $0.00$5,294.00$5,294.00 - $5,294.00Current price $5,294.00| /A fine set in the original binding. A beautiful complete set of this significant and profusely illustrated work in a wonderful Art Nouveau binding....
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...]
STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard.Original price $16,544.00 - Original price $16,544.00Original price $0.00$16,544.00$16,544.00 - $16,544.00Current price $16,544.00| /The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...
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Tsukor [Sugar].
DIRSH, Natalia.; KOZLOVSKY, Konstantin (illustrator).Original price $2,647.00 - Original price $2,647.00Original price $0.00$2,647.00$2,647.00 - $2,647.00Current price $2,647.00| /Illustrated by the Kyiv-born artist Konstantin Kozlovsky, Tsukor is an incredibly rare example of a Soviet 'production book' printed in Ukrainian....
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The last of the Arctic voyages;
BELCHER, Sir Edward.Original price $4,964.00 - Original price $4,964.00Original price $0.00$4,964.00$4,964.00 - $4,964.00Current price $4,964.00| /Belcher's voyage was the last officially sent in search of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared during an Arctic expedition in 1845. Belcher, in his...
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
[PHILOSOPHY]. NEWTON, Sir Isaac, WRIGHT, John (editor).Original price $3,309.00 - Original price $3,309.00Original price $0.00$3,309.00$3,309.00 - $3,309.00Current price $3,309.00| /The best of the 'jesuits' editions. The highly regarded first Glasgow edition of the 'Jesuits' text. This set handsomely bound with the gilt arms o...
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Illustrations of China and its People.
THOMSON, John.Original price $46,322.00 - Original price $46,322.00Original price $0.00$46,322.00$46,322.00 - $46,322.00Current price $46,322.00| /Thomson's most significant work. Thomson's most significant work, made as he travelled through China between 1868 and 1872.Richard Ovenden has argu...
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The White House.
[POLITICS]. KENNEDY, John F., Jacqueline, & Caroline.Original price $49,631.00 - Original price $49,631.00Original price $0.00$49,631.00$49,631.00 - $49,631.00Current price $49,631.00| /Inscribed by the President, First Lady, and Caroline Kennedy to Grandpa Joe. A superb association copy of this illustrated guide to The White House...
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Kniaz' Serebrianiy, povest vremen Ionna Groznago. [The Silver Prince].
TOLSTOY, Aleksei Konstantinovich.Original price $4,302.00 - Original price $4,302.00Original price $0.00$4,302.00$4,302.00 - $4,302.00Current price $4,302.00| /One of 150 copies with the plates in two states. A finely bound illustrated example of The Silver Prince, A. K. Tolstoy's most famous prose work. T...
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The World Crisis 1911-1914.
[HISTORY]. CHURCHILL, Winston.Original price $3,309.00 - Original price $3,309.00Original price $0.00$3,309.00$3,309.00 - $3,309.00Current price $3,309.00| /A superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War. It is still regarded as a defining work of twentieth-century history, r...
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Views of the Neva.
PATERSEN, Benjamin.Original price $99,262.00 - Original price $99,262.00Original price $0.00$99,262.00$99,262.00 - $99,262.00Current price $99,262.00| /A fine set of Patersen's iconic views of St Petersburg. A collection of some of the most celebrated 18th century views of Russia's Imperial city, i...
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Grobovshchik [The Undertaker].
PUSHKIN, Alexander Sergeevich; ZARETSKY, Nikolai Vasilevich (illustrator).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| /The Undertaker, Pushkin's supernatural short story was first published in Belkin's Tales in 1831. This charming illustrated edition appeared in Be...
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A Group of Six Hyacinths.
BUCHOZ, Pierre Joseph.Original price $7,941.00 - Original price $7,941.00Original price $0.00$7,941.00$7,941.00 - $7,941.00Current price $7,941.00| /A FINE GROUP OF THESE RARE FLOWER PLATES, the complete volume of 40 being part of Le Jardin d'Eden, which was intended as the supplement to the Co...
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Winnie-the-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price $8,603.00 - Original price $8,603.00Original price $0.00$8,603.00$8,603.00 - $8,603.00Current price $8,603.00| /How lucky am I?. 'How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?' A lovely copy of this perennial children's classic, decidedl...
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Sto chetyre risunika k poeme N. V. Gogolia 'Mertvye Dushi' [One hundred and four illustrations for 'Dead Souls' by N.V.Gogol].
[GOGOL]. AGIN, Aleksandr. (illustrator)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| /An attractive copy of Agin's celebrated series of illustrations. Alexander Agin (1817-75) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator and this se...
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