On Our Shelves
On Our Shelves: a selection of rare books from the Shapero Gallery.
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Recueil des differens costumes des principaux officiers et magistrats de la porte; et des peoples sujets de l'empire othoman.
[TURKISH COSTUME]; [WOLFGANG, Andreas Matthäus].Original price $64,729.00 - Original price $64,729.00Original price $0.00$64,729.00$64,729.00 - $64,729.00Current price $64,729.00Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...
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Fusokoku daiissan-Yosan Hiroku [On Silk-Production]
KAMIGAKI, Morikuni; Chuwa Nishimura.Original price $3,237.00 - Original price $3,237.00Original price $0.00$3,237.00$3,237.00 - $3,237.00Current price $3,237.00Rare Japanese Treatise on Silk Manufacturing. Illustrated treatise on the rearing of silkworms and the manufacturing of silk. The work traces the h...
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Researches in the highlands of Turkey;
TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.Original price $1,942.00 - Original price $1,942.00Original price $0.00$1,942.00$1,942.00 - $1,942.00Current price $1,942.00Scarce. A versatile and hardy traveller, Tozer (1829-1916) made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey, which formed the subject of this, his majo...
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Complete Works.
AUSTEN, Jane.Original price $499.00 - Original price $499.00Original price $0.00$499.00$499.00 - $499.00Current price $499.00The Oxford illustrated edition of Jane Austen's complete works, comprising her six major novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfi...
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,
BURTON, Richard Francis (translator).Original price $29,128.00 - Original price $29,128.00Original price $0.00$29,128.00$29,128.00 - $29,128.00Current price $29,128.00One of 50 copies. One of 50 edition de luxe sets finely bound in red morocco, housed in the original custom made cabinet, the glazed doors with pie...
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[Batsford Colour Books Series]:
SITWELL, Sacheverell.Original price $842.00 - Original price $842.00Original price $0.00$842.00$842.00 - $842.00Current price $842.00Five presentation copies to his son Francis Sitwell. A delightful five-volume set of works from the Batsford Colour Books Series, each inscribed in...
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British Moths and their Transformations.
HUMPHREYS, H.N.; WESTWOOD, J.O.Original price $971.00 - Original price $971.00Original price $0.00$971.00$971.00 - $971.00Current price $971.00First edition; 2 vols, 4to; 124 hand-coloured plates, occasional mild spotting otherwise very good; contemporary half green calf, maroon lettering...
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The Natural History of British insects.
DONOVAN, Edward.Original price $9,710.00 - Original price $9,710.00Original price $0.00$9,710.00$9,710.00 - $9,710.00Current price $9,710.00With over 500 hand-coloured plates. The work that established Donovan's reputation. Each volume contains high quality plates illustrating the life-...
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