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Suidobashi: Tokyo Shika Daigaku [Tokyo Dental College] eien no monumento shashinshu.
ISHIUCHI, Miyako.Original price $640.00 - Original price $640.00Original price$640.00$640.00 - $640.00Current price $640.00Signed. As a result of her being given the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award for her book Apartment (1978), the Tokyo Dental College commissioned Ishiu...
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Mother's.
ISHIUCHI, Miyako.Original price $224.00 - Original price $224.00Original price$224.00$224.00 - $224.00Current price $224.00Signed by the author. For this work, Ishiuchi documented some of her mother's intimate possessions, symbols of femininity such as undergarments and...
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Deutschland. Berlin und Potsdam.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price $448.00 - Original price $448.00Original price$448.00$448.00 - $448.00Current price $448.00Issued 1940. Unusual edition published on the occasion of the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. This copy does not contain the plan of the Olympic Game...
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Vagabond.
HERRON, Gaylord Oscar.Original price $224.00 - Original price $224.00Original price$224.00$224.00 - $224.00Current price $224.00Signed by the author. Gaylord Oscar Herron signed this copy of Vagabond on the front endpaper; the facsimile signatures on the title-page and below...
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A Treatise on Money.
KEYNES, John Maynard.Original price $960.00 - Original price $960.00Original price$960.00$960.00 - $960.00Current price $960.00An economist's working copy. An economist's copy with manuscript notes in pencil of Keynes' first major contribution to the development of modern m...
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The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New:
[KING JAMES VERSION].Original price $640.00 - Original price $640.00Original price$640.00$640.00 - $640.00Current price $640.00A sweet King James pocket bible from the turn of the nineteenth century, in a beautiful red morocco gilt binding, with two early female ownership ...
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The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William; KNIGHT, Charles (editor).Original price $2,240.00 - Original price $2,240.00Original price$2,240.00$2,240.00 - $2,240.00Current price $2,240.00An attractive, illustrated eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays, including his doubtful works, with a biography of the bard by the editor C...
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'Ilmu hal. A manual of the doctrine & practice of Islam.
[ISLAM].Original price $4,800.00 - Original price $4,800.00Original price$4,800.00$4,800.00 - $4,800.00Current price $4,800.00Claude Delaval Cobham (1842-1915) was a historian and well known bibliographer of Cyprus, as well as one of the founding members of the Committee ...
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Exotic Conchology
SWAINSON, William.Original price $4,800.00 - Original price $4,800.00Original price$4,800.00$4,800.00 - $4,800.00Current price $4,800.00Second edition; 4to, (304 x 248mm); complete with 48 original handcoloured lithographic plates, light spotting and browning to some pages; contemp...
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Great Britain. Handbook for Gloucestershire.
MURRAY, John.Original price $103.00 - Original price $103.00Original price$103.00$103.00 - $103.00Current price $103.00This is the only edition of Gloucestershire in a separate volume. It was previously included with Worcestershire and Herefordshire.Endpapers dated...
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The new world of Central Africa
GUINNESS, Fanny Emma (Mrs H. Grattan Guinness).Original price $1,088.00 - Original price $1,088.00Original price$1,088.00$1,088.00 - $1,088.00Current price $1,088.00An evangelical missionary, Fanny Guinness believed that it was important to know more about Central Africa in order to better understand it, and h...
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A Masai Youth, Kenya.
HOPPE, Emil Otto.Original price $224.00 - Original price $224.00Original price$224.00$224.00 - $224.00Current price $224.00Gelatine silver print (17 x 13 cm). Label with James Carr signature, manuscript title on reverse.
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The Choir Stalls, Westminster Abbey.
WILSON, George Washington.Original price $64.00 - Original price $64.00Original price$64.00$64.00 - $64.00Current price $64.00Albumen print. Title and photographer's name printed on image. Dimensions 17 x 24cm.
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The voyages of the "Morning"
DOORLY, Gerald S.Original price $1,088.00 - Original price $1,088.00Original price$1,088.00$1,088.00 - $1,088.00Current price $1,088.00Doorly was a junior officer on board the Morning, a relief ship used on Scott's Discovery expedition. It was the ship which took a disgruntled Sha...
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On the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea.
AMEDEO, Luigi.Original price $736.00 - Original price $736.00Original price$736.00$736.00 - $736.00Current price $736.00Amedeo's expedition on the Polar Star aimed to sail as far North as possible along the coast-line, and then travel on sledges towards the Pole fro...
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The Mysore Representative Assembly and the Indian National Congress,
VIRARAGHAVA CHARI, R.Original price $1,920.00 - Original price $1,920.00Original price$1,920.00$1,920.00 - $1,920.00Current price $1,920.00Mysore and the indian national congress. A rare parliamentary pamphlet of the dialogue between 'Rajah' (a subject of her most gracious Majesty the ...
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An historical and geographical account of the Morea,
CORONELLI, Vicenzo Maria.Original price $4,800.00 - Original price $4,800.00Original price$4,800.00$4,800.00 - $4,800.00Current price $4,800.00The scarce English language edition of Coronelli's Morea. This was published to celebrate the new Venetian possessions reconquered from Turkey. Co...
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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa:
BARTH, Henry.Original price $2,560.00 - Original price $2,560.00Original price$2,560.00$2,560.00 - $2,560.00Current price $2,560.00Barth's important record of his five years travelling in North and Central Africa.'Barth is one of the European superstars of African travel and e...
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Sana an Arabian Islamic city.
SERGEANT, R. B.; Ronald Lewcock.Original price $832.00 - Original price $832.00Original price$832.00$832.00 - $832.00Current price $832.00Sergeant's Sana is the standard work on the city. The work covers all aspects of Sana society, history, and culture and is lavishly illustrated.Fi...
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Kings of Arabia.
JACOB, Harold F.Original price $960.00 - Original price $960.00Original price$960.00$960.00 - $960.00Current price $960.00Jacob's Kings of Arabia is a comprehensive political sketch of Yemen from the late 17th century to the early 20th century.First edition. 8vo, 294 ...
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Report of proceedings on a voyage to the northern ports of China
Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton.Original price $832.00 - Original price $832.00Original price$832.00$832.00 - $832.00Current price $832.00Author's wife's copy. Hugh Lindsay's Report of Proceedings contains reports by Lindsay, an East India Company man, and Charles Gutzlaff on trade wi...
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Journal of a residence in India.
GRAHAM, Maria.Original price $1,216.00 - Original price $1,216.00Original price$1,216.00$1,216.00 - $1,216.00Current price $1,216.00Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...
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Suidobashi: Tokyo Shika Daigaku [Tokyo Dental College] eien no monumento shashinshu.
ISHIUCHI, Miyako.Original price $640.00 - Original price $640.00Original price$640.00$640.00 - $640.00Current price $640.00Signed. As a result of her being given the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award for her book Apartment (1978), the Tokyo Dental College commissioned Ishiu...
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Mother's.
ISHIUCHI, Miyako.Original price $224.00 - Original price $224.00Original price$224.00$224.00 - $224.00Current price $224.00Signed by the author. For this work, Ishiuchi documented some of her mother's intimate possessions, symbols of femininity such as undergarments and...
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Vagabond.
HERRON, Gaylord Oscar.Original price $224.00 - Original price $224.00Original price$224.00$224.00 - $224.00Current price $224.00Signed by the author. Gaylord Oscar Herron signed this copy of Vagabond on the front endpaper; the facsimile signatures on the title-page and below...
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La France de Profil.
STRAND, Paul & Claude Roy.Original price $256.00 - Original price $256.00Original price$256.00$256.00 - $256.00Current price $256.00Paul Strand moved to France in 1950, aged 60, largely to escape McCarthyism, which was prevailing in America. He had initially intended to locate ...
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Tulsa.
CLARK, Larry.Original price $384.00 - Original price $384.00Original price$384.00$384.00 - $384.00Current price $384.00Tulsa is a key work in post-war American photography, containing graphic photographs of sex, violence, and drug use in the Oklahoma suburb, much o...
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Yokosuka Again 1980-1990.
ISHIUCHI, Miyako.Original price $384.00 - Original price $384.00Original price$384.00$384.00 - $384.00Current price $384.00Signed by the author. A signed copy of Ishiuchi Miyako's Yokosuka Again 1980-1990. In 1977, Ishiuchi photographed Yokosuka, the port town in Japan ...
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Sex a Gogo.
SANNES, Sanne; STEEVENSZ, Walter.Original price $384.00 - Original price $384.00Original price$384.00$384.00 - $384.00Current price $384.00Sex a Gogo is loosely based on a 1965 film Sanne Sannes made for the Dutch broadcaster VPRO titled Dirty Girl, 'the satirical story of a young wom...
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La France de Profil.
STRAND, Paul & Claude Roy.Original price $256.00 - Original price $256.00Original price$256.00$256.00 - $256.00Current price $256.00Paul Strand moved to France in 1950, aged 60, largely to escape McCarthyism, which was prevailing in America. He had initially intended to locate ...
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Tulsa.
CLARK, Larry.Original price $384.00 - Original price $384.00Original price$384.00$384.00 - $384.00Current price $384.00Tulsa is a key work in post-war American photography, containing graphic photographs of sex, violence, and drug use in the Oklahoma suburb, much o...
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Robbery Under the Law: The Mexican Object Lesson.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,520.00 - Original price $3,520.00Original price$3,520.00$3,520.00 - $3,520.00Current price $3,520.00Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, 'Frederick Godber, with kindest regards from...
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Wine in Peace and War.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $4,160.00 - Original price $4,160.00Original price$4,160.00$4,160.00 - $4,160.00Current price $4,160.00One of 100 copies - numbered & signed by the author. First edition of this essay commissioned by Evelyn Waugh's London vintners Saccone & S...
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Noblesse Oblige.
MITFORD, Nancy (editor); LANCASTER, Osbert (illustrator).Original price $2,240.00 - Original price $2,240.00Original price$2,240.00$2,240.00 - $2,240.00Current price $2,240.00Presentation copy inscribed by Evelyn Waugh. Presentation copy of the first edition of this 'great tease', with pieces on 'U' and 'Non-U,' inscribe...
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Scott-King's Modern Europe.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,520.00 - Original price $3,520.00Original price$3,520.00$3,520.00 - $3,520.00Current price $3,520.00Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in pencil to the front free endpaper, 'For Christopher / with love from / Evelyn / Ch...
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A Tourist in Africa.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price$160.00$160.00 - $160.00Current price $160.00First edition, documenting Waugh's voyage to East Africa in 1959.First edition, first impression; 8vo; black and white illustrations, including fr...
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00First edition, trade issue, of Waugh's semi-autobiographical work based on the hallucinations he endured from bromide poisoning while self-medicat...
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THE BOND STREET BULLETIN
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GuidesCurated by Sue PrigmoreFrom the delicate charm of a mid-nineteenth-century Chinese watercolor to the botanical masterpieces of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, each print tells a story of artistic brilliance. Perfect for gifting, these prints infuse a hint of spring into interiors, inviting the beauty of nature into your space.
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Curated by Angus RobbFrom H.G. Wells' sought-after writings to W. Somerset Maugham's timeless masterpiece, explore the personal favourites of Angus Robb, our Literature Specialist. -
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Curated by Lucinda BoyleJoin our Travel Specialist, Lucinda Boyle, as she unveils some of her favourite items from our shelves. From Karl Baedeker's pre-war guidebook of London to a volume of John Betjeman's poetry, there's a gift for everyone amongst Lucinda's choices. -
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Curated by Jeffrey KerrStep into the world of rare books handpicked by our Sales Director, Jeffrey Kerr. From the vibrant allure of Broadway's 'Cabaret' to the Art Deco elegance of vintage mixology in 'The Savoy Cocktail Book', each rare item holds tales of late nights, wild parties, and personal literary experiences.

One of the best rare book shops in London. They are especially good on illustrated books – from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.

Keep your eyes peeled for a collectable publication for you. Shapero Rare Books, at 106 New Bond Street, is a great starting point.

The antiquarian bookshop has a hushed atmosphere and is filled with leather-bound travel and history tomes.

Children’s books to shelve for future generations.