{"title":"Treasure House Fair 2026 | Catalogue","description":"\u003cp\u003eShapero Rare Books \u0026amp; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shaperomodern.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eShapero Modern\u003c\/a\u003e are delighted to be returning to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.treasurehousefair.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTreasure House Fair 2026\u003c\/a\u003e for another show of the exceptional. 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A thrilling account of the capture of Ghazni; the pursuit over rough terrain of Dost Mohammed Khan with 100 British Indian cavalry and 2000 Afghan cavalry under Haji Khan who blocked Outram's pursuit and was subsequently tried for treason; the pacification of disaffected tribes between Kabul and Kandahar; and the successful siege of Kalat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst U.K. edition. 8vo, [x], 262pp., 2 folding lithographed maps (one with splits to folds), contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"OUTRAM, Captain James.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547112235313,"sku":"97674","price":495.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/97674_e0b63a58-6d23-48d9-8b2e-be30dc01413c.jpg?v=1781787297"},{"product_id":"99107-greenwood-narrative-affghanistan-1844-99107","title":"Narrative of the Late Victorious Campaign in Affghanistan,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eA fine copy of this authoritative account of the first Anglo-Afghan War, scarce to find in any edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreenwood served under Pollock in the first Afghan War and gives an honest view of the atrocities meted out by Pollock's 'Army of Retribution'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition; 8vo, iv, 364 pp., folding engraved map, lithograph frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, modern green morocco gilt extra, a fine example.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"GREENWOOD, Joseph.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547133403441,"sku":"99107","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/99107_84defe48-114b-4398-a92b-9f74ecd6bf94.jpg?v=1780910247"},{"product_id":"edwards-russian-projects-1885-first-edition-105757","title":"Russian projects against India","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eAn excellent history of Russian attempts to gain access to India via Central Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 8vo, iv, 295 pp., folding colour map, 20 pages' ads at end, original green cloth gilt, upper cover with pictorial vignette, a fine copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"EDWARDS, H. 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Lucky Jim is remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension; it also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language. One of the more brilliant concerns a weekend at the home of a ghastly senior professor. After an afternoon of enforced madrigals, Jim becomes so horribly drunk that he inadvertently destroys his host's spare room. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim is more appealing than some of Amis's later heroes; his hatreds – expressed viscerally through a vast repertoire of grotesque faces – are infectious, while his increasingly elaborate attempts to dig himself out of trouble rarely have the desired effect. 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The narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. On reaching the Sutlej river he left his three hundred strong retinue to go on alone to Lahore to meet the Maharajah Ranjit Singh in person and obtain his permission to travel through his land. En route to Bokhara, over five years, he was the first Englishman ever to visit many sites, including Leh, Bamian, and the Oxus, and his was a major contribution to the exploration of the area. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoorcroft was also one of the first to be convinced of the threat to British interests posed by the Russians in Central Asia. He brokered a deal between Britain and the Buddhist government of Ladakh which would have opened up all of Central Asia for trade. The East India Company however, wary of upsetting their alliance with Ranjit Singh, rejected his treaty and suspended him without pay. 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An excellent example of propaganda literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition (revised and enlarged); 8vo, xxi, 398 pp., 24 pages ads date July 1879 at end, portrait frontispiece, 2 maps coloured in outline, original olive-green cloth gilt, slight damage to gutter of upper endpaper, a very good copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"[NOVIKOFF, Olga].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47459789898033,"sku":"110404","price":675.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/110404.jpg?v=1780919036"},{"product_id":"abraham-ortelius-theatrum-orbis-terrarum-antwerp-1603-110508","title":"Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eone of the largest \u0026amp; finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum\u003c\/h4\u003eOne of the largest and finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum, comprising 156 plates handsomely coloured by a contemporary hand. Ortelius, geographer to King Philip II of Spain, is credited with having authored the first modern atlas, the Theatrum orbis terrarum. Following Ortelius' death, his copperplates were acquired by the map engraver and publisher Jan Baptist Vrients (1552-1613), who published the present Latin edition in 1603 with the printer Robert Bruneau (see colophon of the Nomenclator), adding several new maps including of England and Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarge folio (480 x 300mm); [Theatrum] text in Latin, engraved title, coat of arms, epigraph and portrait of Ortelius, all coloured by a contemporary hand with gilded detailing, 118 plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand, all woodcut initials coloured by a contemporary hand (some light, variable spotting and offsetting, marginal spitting, a few repaired tears); [Parergon] engraved title and 38 plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand (some light spotting and offsetting, a few small tears); [Nomenclator] title page with hand-coloured vignette; finely bound in modern red morocco, spine richly gilt in 8 compartments, green ties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVan Den Broecke 20 \u0026amp; 57; Van der Krogt IIIA, 31:053.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"ORTELIUS, Abraham.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47739837088049,"sku":"110508","price":135000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/110508.jpg?v=1781787100"},{"product_id":"evelyn-waugh-wine-peace-war-first-edition-signed-110689","title":"Wine in Peace and War.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eone of 100 copies - numbered \u0026amp; signed by the author\u003c\/h4\u003eFirst edition of this essay commissioned by Evelyn Waugh's London vintners Saccone \u0026amp; Speed, issued in a limited edition of only 100 copies, of which this is number 12. 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It is the second of three books Frank made with Motomura Kazuhiko, a collector of photographs and photography books and occasional publisher, each designed by Sugiura Kohei.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'By 1949 I had lived in New York City for two years. When I returned to Paris, I was 26. The beauty of that city touched me... Returning to America I began to look at Americans... and began to photograph the city and factory which produced the American car. The summer of 1955 was hot and after two days at the River Rouge Plant in Detroit I was told to leave the factory. I travelled south and was astonished to see black people treated as inferiors. I experienced the suspicion against anything not \"American\". I was learning about American determination to win... Flowers of Paris is memory... After the publication of The Americans in 1959, a slow fade begins. Filmmaking replaces the single frame photograph!'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition of 500 copies; folio (342 x 251 mm, 13½ x 10 in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, design by Sugiura Kohei and Sato Atsushi, occasional light dust speckle marks spotted out by hand by Motomura; grey silk-covered boards, titles stamped in dark grey on spine and upper side, publisher's grey paper-covered board slipcase with titles stamped in dark grey on spine, original shipping carton, fine; [112]pp.su\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Photobook: A History I, p264; Auer Collection p670.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"FRANK, Robert.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47936473137457,"sku":"111195","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/111195.jpg?v=1781787455"},{"product_id":"ussher-london-persepolis-1865-first-edition-109902","title":"A Journey from London to Persepolis;","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eAn account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia and Persia. This account follows the journey of the author who sets out to achieve his goal of penetrating the mountains of Dagestan, a success which was only possible through the hospitality of those whom he met along the way. 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When looking through his contact sheets, Friedlander noticed that a large number of public statues, memorials, plaques and reliefs had made their way into his photographs; after that, he began seeking them out. While some monuments in these photographs have become tourist attractions, most are overlooked and often abandoned. Leslie George Katz, founder of Eakins Press, writes in his afterword that monuments are 'metaphors for human values, persistent values that survive despite notice or neglect.' 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Gustav Klimt created some of the works in the context of the first version of Water Snakes II (1904–1907): While Klimt contented himself in the painting with the hint of eroticism, he went far beyond the taboo limit of his time in the preparatory studies and drawings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulius Zeitler in Leipzig was responsible for the publishing of the book and Obernetter in Munich, a pioneer and specialist in collotype printing was entrusted with the plates. The same high standards were applied to the bindings of the 450 numbered copies. Josef Hoffmann designed the sample bindings for the two de-luxe editions, which were produced by the Wiener Werkstatte. Edition A, the smallest edition (of which this book is part of) consisted of only 50 copies which were produced on Japon paper and were bound in marbled black and white cloth with corresponding endpapers. Edition B comprised of 100 copies bound in grey chamois leather. 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James Thrall Soby was an important patron of the avant-garde in the United States. Alfred Barr, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, had encouraged Soby to visit Man Ray in Paris, and following their meeting, Soby subsidised the production of this, the first monograph of Man Ray's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMan Ray had hoped that royalties from the sale of this book would enable him to make a long-overdue trip back to New York. Photographs... was well received in France, but in the United States, the reception was distinctly less enthusiastic. Lewis Mumford wrote in The New Yorker that Man Ray had 'done almost everything with a camera, except use it to take photographs... photographing Calla lilies so that they will look like drawings by a second-rate academician.' Commercially, it was not a success. It is widely suggested that in an attempt to generate sales, the publishers recalled the book and replaced the original title page with one stating 'deuxième édition'. 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Carter's career took a downturn in 1905 when he was held responsible for a skirmish between foreign visitors and Egyptian antiquities guards, which resulted in Carter resigning from the antiquities service. 'Carter's rehabilitation came in early 1909 when, on the recommendation of Maspero, he began his association with George Herbert, fifth Earl of Carnarvon. Until the First World War they excavated in the Theban necropolis, making important, but unspectacular, discoveries. Carnarvon was then encouraged by Carter to apply for the concession for the Valley of the Kings, surrendered by Davis in 1914. The time was not right, and the prognostications for discovery were not favourable. Davis, Maspero, and others believed that there was nothing of importance left in the valley to be discovered. Carter thought otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA short campaign by Carter in the tomb of King Amenophis III in 1915 produced trifling results, and for the rest of the war until 1917 he was employed as a civilian by the intelligence department of the War Office in Cairo. In 1917 he was at last free to return to working for Carnarvon, and until 1922 he conducted annual campaigns in the Valley of the Kings; but few positive results were achieved. In the summer of 1922 Carter persuaded Carnarvon to allow him to conduct one more campaign in the valley. Starting work earlier than usual Howard Carter opened up the stairway to the tomb of Tutankhamun on 4 November 1922. Carnarvon hurried to Luxor and the tomb was entered on 26 November. The discovery astounded the world: a royal tomb, mostly undisturbed, full of spectacular objects. Carter recruited a team of expert assistants to help him in the clearance of the tomb, and the conservation and recording of its remarkable contents. On 16 February 1923 the blocking to the burial chamber was removed, to reveal the unplundered body and funerary equipment of the dead king. Unhappily, the death of Lord Carnarvon on 5 April seriously affected the subsequent progress of Carter's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite considerable and repeated bureaucratic interference, not easily managed by the short-tempered excavator, work on the clearance of the tomb proceeded slowly, but was not completed until 1932. Carter handled the technical processes of clearance, conservation, and recording with exemplary skill and care. No archaeological discovery had met with such sustained public interest, yet Carter received no formal honours from his own country' (ODNB).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 3 vols, 8vo (24 x 17cm), xvi, 231; xxxiv, 269; xvi, 247pp., profusely illustrated with photographic plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, original dust wrappers, that to vol. 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Yours sincerely George and Gilbert the sculptors.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, number 1925 of 2000 signed copies, this copy additionally inscribed in blue ink on the front free endpaper; 8vo (188 x 125 mm, 7½ x 5 in); black-and-white photographs and text; plain endpapers, marbled red and black cloth-covered boards, spine and sides titled in gilt, minor cockling to cloth as often, spine leaning slightly, near-fine; [288]pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Photobook: A History II, p153.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"GILBERT AND GEORGE.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49754071630129,"sku":"112765","price":875.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/112765_20_3.jpg?v=1781787233"},{"product_id":"john-le-carre-call-dead-first-edition-112291","title":"Call for the Dead.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003efirst edition of the author's first novel\u003c\/h4\u003eThe exceedingly scarce first edition of the author's first novel, introducing the character of George Smiley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, first impression; 8vo; small stain to fore-edge of first few leaves, light offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, slight fading to cloth at head of spine, with the unclipped first issue dust-jacket with Bingham quotation on front panel, scattered soiling to jacket, some chipping to corners and spine ends, short split to front panel at fold, else very good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"LE CARRÉ, John.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53502415536503,"sku":"112291","price":9750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/112291.jpg?v=1781787317"},{"product_id":"beatrice-worsley-transcode-manual-ferut-first-edition-1955-114270","title":"Transcode Manual.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ecanada's grace hopper\u003c\/h4\u003eFirst edition of the only separately published work by computing pioneer Beatrice Worsley (1921-2003) and the founding document of Canadian computer science: the manual for using Worsley's Transcode system for the Feranti Mark I. Rare; we can locate only one other copy, at the University of Toronto, where the text was prepared. This copy is from the library of Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, where Worsley spent the final part of her career. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a student Worsley excelled at science and earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. Immediately after graduating in 1944 she enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, working on ship degaussing and hull corrosion. In 1946 Worsley began graduate studies at MIT, writing an important master's thesis, A Mathematical Survey of Computing Devices, 'a fascinating snapshot of contemporary computing technology' (Campbell, Beatrice Helen Worsley: Canada's Computing Pioneer, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2003).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorsley became firmly committed to computing as a career, and in 1948 she joined the new University of Toronto Computation Centre. 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She was one of the first female academic computer programmers who wrote all her own programs, a point she strongly emphasised in her dissertation' (Campbell).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt around the time Worsley returned to Toronto the Computation centre was installing its first computer, a Ferranti Mark I which she named the Ferut. It proved difficult to program, particularly for scientists with limited computer experience, and Worsley and a colleague were assigned to create an automatic coding system for it. 'They dubbed their project Transcode and finished writing the compiler within about a year. Transcode was an immediate success. Basic lessons could be taught in two hours, and the calculations could be returned to users in a matter of days, not weeks' (Campbell). One important feature was the ability to input numbers as decimals rather than binary code. The present publication was written as a manual specifically 'for scientists, engineers, and others in Canada to make available to them the use of FERUT... With its aid one can write programs for computations by the machine without having to learn the many intricacies that must be mastered by the professional programmer' (preface).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite Worsley's expertise, track record, and core role in the Computing Centre she was not promoted to assistant professor until 1960. 'In comparison to other staff members, the lack of official recognition is conspicuous and is almost certainly because of her gender' (Campbell). In 1965 she left Toronto for Queen's University in Ontario to launch a new Computing Centre and teach undergraduate classes, and this copy of the manual was originally in the Queens University Library. Worsley died unexpectedly during a research sabbatical at age 50 and 'left a fascinating career. 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It includes fifteen pencil drawings of women at work in the chemistry laboratory, teaching, or sitting finals, and three drawings which depict the laboratories in detail. Together with other artwork by Tomlinson from the 1920s and 30s, including drawings, watercolours, and linocuts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTomlinson showed early promise in science. In 1921 she was awarded a free place at King's High in Warwick, where she was Head Girl in 1928, and she later explained that chemistry attracted her 'because of the delightful blue colour the word conjured up for me. To me, all words have colour' (Beidas, Landor Association biography). She was then awarded two scholarships to attend St. Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in chemistry. 'Her undergraduate tutor sensed her promise early on, and encouraged her to take her Part One examinations at the end of the second year. Later, Muriel realised that she alone, out of all the other (male) students of the subject, had been told to do this, the rest having to wait until the third year, and although this daunted her a little, she still obtained a first class pass' (Beidas). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese charming drawings were produced during the 1920s and it is unclear whether they represent the laboratories at King's, St. Hilda's, or both. Young women are shown at workbenches with a wide variety of apparatus, and there are also images of women lecturing, drawing on blackboards, and sitting tests (labelled 'matric'). A number of portraits from this period may be of fellow students and teachers, and one has been reworked several times. 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Besides winding the gramophone, giving lectures and, that British staple, dressing up as girls, the explorers of the heroic age published their own newspapers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a tradition established on Arctic expeditions and enthusiastically taken up by Scott on his first trip south in 1902, when he appointed his team-mate Ernest Shackleton editor of the South Polar Times... After a well-lubricated banquet featuring noisettes d'agneau Darwinian and charlotte russe glacée à la Beardmore, Cherry presented the South Polar Times to Scott with everyone gathered around the table and a Christmas tree made from ski poles. The captain read most of it out loud, interrupted by uproarious laughter and indignant barracking' (Sara Wheeler, The Telegraph, 2012).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It has always seemed churlish to list this title under Shackleton, who only edited the first of the three volumes, for the publication arose during Scott's two expeditions. 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