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Concerning Parrots. Bird Exhibits at the Peabody Museum.
Emilio, S.G.Original price $64.00 - Original price $64.00Original price $0.00$64.00$64.00 - $64.00Current price $64.00| /Rare parrots. A rare pamphlet describing the parrot specimens at the Peabody Museum, originally published as an article in the Salem Evening News. ...
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The Divine and the Decay.
HOPKINS, Bill.Original price $959.00 - Original price $959.00Original price $0.00$959.00$959.00 - $959.00Current price $959.00| /Presentation copy of the author's only novel. First edition of the author's first and only novel, lengthily inscribed to a fellow author on the dat...
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The City and the Pillar.
VIDAL, Gore.Original price $480.00 - Original price $480.00Original price $0.00$480.00$480.00 - $480.00Current price $480.00| /First edition of the author's third novel. A milestone in LGBT literature, The City and the Pillar is significant for its sympathetic portrayal of...
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Triumphant Pilgrimage.
RUTTER, Owen.Original price $320.00 - Original price $320.00Original price $0.00$320.00$320.00 - $320.00Current price $320.00| /Rutter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, travelled extensively in Arabia visiting the Holy cities including Mecca.First edition. 8vo, 2...
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The Nervous System of the Human Body.
BELL, Charles.Original price $1,087.00 - Original price $1,087.00Original price $0.00$1,087.00$1,087.00 - $1,087.00Current price $1,087.00| /Bell's palsy & the anatomy of the nervous system. Second edition and a handsomely bound copy of Bell's collected papers about the nerves that w...
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Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
CUVIER, Georges L.C., Baron; KERR, Robert (translator).Original price $1,598.00 - Original price $1,598.00Original price $0.00$1,598.00$1,598.00 - $1,598.00Current price $1,598.00| /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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Bibliographia Geographica Palaestinae.
TOBLER, Titus.Original price $58.00 - Original price $58.00Original price $0.00$58.00$58.00 - $58.00Current price $58.00| /A bibliography of travels to the Holy Land, covering books in all languages totalling about 2,500 works on Palestine and the Near East, originally...
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"A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle"
ROBINSON, J.A.Original price $576.00 - Original price $576.00Original price $0.00$576.00$576.00 - $576.00Current price $576.00| /First publication of the standard algorithm for logical deduction in artificial intelligence. First edition of the first publication of the resolut...
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Inside Mr Enderby.
[BURGESS, Anthony] KELL, Joseph (pseud).Original price $640.00 - Original price $640.00Original price $0.00$640.00$640.00 - $640.00Current price $640.00| /Publisher's blank dummy. A literary oddity if ever there was one. Inside Mr Enderby is one of two books published under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, ...
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Memoirs of the Baron de Tott,
TOTT, Baron de.Original price $1,215.00 - Original price $1,215.00Original price $0.00$1,215.00$1,215.00 - $1,215.00Current price $1,215.00| /An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...
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Emin Pasha
MOUNTENEY-JEPHSON A[rthur] J[ermy].Original price $831.00 - Original price $831.00Original price $0.00$831.00$831.00 - $831.00Current price $831.00| /Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...
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Tibet Past & Present.
BELL, Sir Charles.Original price $448.00 - Original price $448.00Original price $0.00$448.00$448.00 - $448.00Current price $448.00| /Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...
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Mathematics and the Imagination.
[MATHEMATICS]. KASNER, Edward & NEWMAN, James.Original price $576.00 - Original price $576.00Original price $0.00$576.00$576.00 - $576.00Current price $576.00| /First popular appearance of the word 'googol' - handsomely bound. Tenth edition of this surprise hit, first published in 1940 and described by scie...
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China proper.
[GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK SERIES].Original price $959.00 - Original price $959.00Original price $0.00$959.00$959.00 - $959.00Current price $959.00| /Scarce complete set of the secret reports on China compiled for Naval Intelligence.Comprises sections on physical geography, history, peoples, mod...
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Dark Shadow.
GILBERT AND GEORGE.Original price $1,119.00 - Original price $1,119.00Original price $0.00$1,119.00$1,119.00 - $1,119.00Current price $1,119.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'For Mario / Much love / Gilbert + George / x x'.This artists' book is divided into eight chapters...
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Reconnoitring Central Asia.
MARVIN, Charles.Original price $1,119.00 - Original price $1,119.00Original price $0.00$1,119.00$1,119.00 - $1,119.00Current price $1,119.00| /Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...
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After Everest.
TENZING, Norgay Sherpa; BARNES, MalcolmOriginal price $1,087.00 - Original price $1,087.00Original price $0.00$1,087.00$1,087.00 - $1,087.00Current price $1,087.00| /Signed by Tenzing. This volume contains tales of Norgay Tenzing's various travels and climbs following his historic ascent of Everest with Sir Edmu...
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Arabian Oil Ventures.
PHILBY, Harry St. John B.Original price $448.00 - Original price $448.00Original price $0.00$448.00$448.00 - $448.00Current price $448.00| /Philby's scarce final book. A history of the oil industry in Arabia from the end of WWI, by the renowned Arabist.First edition, 8vo, 134pp., a por...
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A Polar reconnaissance.
MARKHAM, Albert Hastings.Original price $608.00 - Original price $608.00Original price $0.00$608.00$608.00 - $608.00Current price $608.00| /Markham's voyage to the Barents Sea during the navigable season in order to ascertain the best route for future Polar discovery. Markham's view th...
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The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner.
SILLITOE, Alan.Original price $480.00 - Original price $480.00Original price $0.00$480.00$480.00 - $480.00Current price $480.00| /First edition of the author's renowned short story collection, featuring his award-winning title, 'The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner'. Wi...
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A Standard of Behaviour.
TREVOR, William.Original price $480.00 - Original price $480.00Original price $0.00$480.00$480.00 - $480.00Current price $480.00| /First edition of the author's first book. First edition of the author's true first novel, which he subsequently disowned and refused to be reissued...
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A High-pitched Buzz.
LONGRIGG, Roger.Original price $320.00 - Original price $320.00Original price $0.00$320.00$320.00 - $320.00Current price $320.00| /First edition of the author's first novel. First edition of the author's first novel, based on his experiences working in an advertising agency.Fir...
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In Pursuit of the English.
LESSING, Doris.Original price $58.00 - Original price $58.00Original price $0.00$58.00$58.00 - $58.00Current price $58.00| /First edition of the author's account of a year she spent in a seedy London boarding house soon after her arrival in England. 'One of the most aut...
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'71-NY.
MORIYAMA, Daido.
'71-NY.
'71-NY.Original price $480.00 - Original price $480.00Original price $0.00$480.00$480.00 - $480.00Current price $480.00| /Signed. Moriyama visited New York for the first time in 1971, accompanying his friend Tadanori Yokoo who was preparing for a one-man exhibition at ...
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