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January Rare Book Sale 2024
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The American testimonial banquet to Henry M. Stanley.
[STANLEY, Henry Morton].Original price $3,547.00 - Original price $3,547.00Original price $3,547.00$3,547.00$3,547.00 - $3,547.00Current price $3,547.00| /A scarce memorial of Stanley's last expedition. Following the printed title, the text consists of a list of the Committee and honorary Stewards, e...
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Sport in Somaliland,
POTOCKI, Count Joseph.Original price $9,673.00 - Original price $9,673.00Original price $9,673.00$9,673.00$9,673.00 - $9,673.00Current price $9,673.00| /One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and br...
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The history and topography of the United States.
HINTON, John Howard.Original price $3,000.00 - Original price $3,000.00Original price $0.00$3,000.00$3,000.00 - $3,000.00Current price $3,000.00| /Finely bound in tree calf. Scarce in such handsome condition.First edition. 2 volumes, 4to (28.5cm), xviii, 476; x, 580pp., 2 additional engraved t...
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Arctic searching expedition:
RICHARDSON, John.Original price $3,400.00 - Original price $3,400.00Original price $0.00$3,400.00$3,400.00 - $3,400.00Current price $3,400.00| /Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...
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Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia,
WILBRAHAM, Captain Richard.Original price $2,258.00 - Original price $2,258.00Original price $2,258.00$2,258.00$2,258.00 - $2,258.00Current price $2,258.00| /Wilbraham was a Captain in the British Army on military secondment in the service of Mohammad Shah. He gives a good description of Qilhak village,...
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An account of the Pelew Islands,
KEATE, George.Original price $1,613.00 - Original price $1,613.00Original price $1,613.00$1,613.00$1,613.00 - $1,613.00Current price $1,613.00| /. In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was wr...
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Karnac.
ROBERTS, David; HAGHE, Louis.Original price $2,580.00 - Original price $2,580.00Original price $2,580.00$2,580.00$2,580.00 - $2,580.00Current price $2,580.00| /David Roberts' magnificent images of Egypt and the Holy Land rank amongst the finest topographical views of the nineteenth century. Roberts made a...
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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 $11,286.00 - Original price $11,286.00Original price $11,286.00$11,286.00$11,286.00 - $11,286.00Current price $11,286.00| /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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The Magic Finger.
DAHL, Roald; DU BOIS, William Pène (illustrator).Original price $362.00 - Original price $362.00Original price $362.00$362.00$362.00 - $362.00Current price $362.00| /A near fine copy of Roald Dahl's third children's book The Magic Finger.First UK edition, small 4to, illustrations by William Pène du Bois, light ...
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[Four Pirate Peter Rabbit books].
[POTTER, Beatrix].Original price $484.00 - Original price $484.00Original price $484.00$484.00$484.00 - $484.00Current price $484.00| /1) Peter Rabbit Painting Book.Charles E. Graham & Co., New York, circa 1925 (pencil gift inscription to upper free endpaper). 4to (325 x 220 m...
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[Seven Deadly Sins - Les Sept Péchés Capitaux].
Shapero Rare BooksOriginal price $2,258.00 - Original price $2,258.00Original price $2,258.00$2,258.00$2,258.00 - $2,258.00Current price $2,258.00| /A series of seven coloured lithographs showing an artist's take on the capital vices set in the environment of a kitchen in a wealthy house. Seve...
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Au seuil des Alpes de Savoie, Combe de Savoie,
MENEBREA, Henri; DREVET, Joanny (engraver).Original price $2,902.00 - Original price $2,902.00Original price $2,902.00$2,902.00$2,902.00 - $2,902.00Current price $2,902.00| /Limited edition. One of 360 copies numbered 41 to 400 on BFK Rives. In addition, there were 20 copies (numbered 1-20) on Japan paper which also in...
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A selection of British birds
PERROTT, Charlotte Louisa Emily.Original price $194.00 - Original price $194.00Original price $194.00$194.00$194.00 - $194.00Current price $194.00| /Limited to 250 copies. This fine facsimile, beautifully produced and limited to 250 copies, provides access to one of the great rarities of English...
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Dr Eachard's Works,
EACHARD, John.Original price $645.00 - Original price $645.00Original price $645.00$645.00$645.00 - $645.00Current price $645.00| /This work, which brims over with wit and humour, had a rapid sale and passed through many editions. The author represents the contempt with which ...
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Enkhuizer Almanak voor het Jaar 1845.
[BINDING, MINIATURE] -Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$65.00$65.00 - $65.00Current price $65.00| /This excellent copy is the year 1845 of the best known dutch almanach, published since 1595 until today. It is one of the eldest almanach to be st...
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Marie Antoinette
[BINDING, MINIATURE] -Original price $226.00 - Original price $226.00Original price $226.00$226.00$226.00 - $226.00Current price $226.00| /This lovely small binding narrates the life of Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France. Her husband, King Louis XVI of France...
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Depredations;
XENOS, Stephanos Theodoros.Original price $581.00 - Original price $581.00Original price $581.00$581.00$581.00 - $581.00Current price $581.00| /'Xenos, who had been established in England since the late 1840's, developed a very successful shipping agency, but in extending his interests he ...
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The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands;
CORNEY, Bolton, editor.Original price $452.00 - Original price $452.00Original price $452.00$452.00$452.00 - $452.00Current price $452.00| /Hakluyt Society First Series, no. 19.Important early East India Company voyage to theEast Indies.The appendix includes commissions, letters of Ja...
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HABIT DE SERRURIER.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price $774.00 - Original price $774.00Original price $774.00$774.00$774.00 - $774.00Current price $774.00| /Original price $774.00 - Original price $774.00Original price $774.00$774.00$774.00 - $774.00Current price $774.00| / -
Habit de Sellier.
LARMESSIN II, N[icholas] de.Original price $774.00 - Original price $774.00Original price $774.00$774.00$774.00 - $774.00Current price $774.00| /Original price $774.00 - Original price $774.00Original price $774.00$774.00$774.00 - $774.00Current price $774.00| / -
Mexican people.
Shapero Rare BooksOriginal price $3,870.00 - Original price $3,870.00Original price $3,870.00$3,870.00$3,870.00 - $3,870.00Current price $3,870.00| /Representation of 18 different figures similar to "cries". Male and female figures, one child. 4 native indians of Latin America, in traditional c...
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Il Gazzettiere Americano
[AMERICAS].Original price $6,449.00 - Original price $6,449.00Original price $6,449.00$6,449.00$6,449.00 - $6,449.00Current price $6,449.00| /A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...
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Eerekroon voor Lourens Koster en alle Voorstanders der Boek-Drukkunst.
Shapero Rare BooksOriginal price $3,547.00 - Original price $3,547.00Original price $3,547.00$3,547.00$3,547.00 - $3,547.00Current price $3,547.00| /Beautiful, rare broadside made as a tribute to the purported inventor of the printing press, Lourens Janzoon Koster (c.1370- c.1440). Presented as...
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Westminster from Waterloo Bridge.
BOYS, Thomas Shotter.Original price $452.00 - Original price $452.00Original price $452.00$452.00$452.00 - $452.00Current price $452.00| /Tinted Lithograph.Abbey Scenery 239. From 'London As It Is'.
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