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    [FAR EAST] – BICHURIN (Monakh Iakinf).

    Записки о Монголии

    £9,500
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  • The naturalist's pocket magazine; or

    [NEW SOUTH WALES].

    The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Compleat Cabinet of Nature.

    £7,500
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  • svinin

    [SVININ, Pavel Petrovich].

    Sketches of Russia illustrated with fifteen engravings.

    £1,950
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  • William Allen

    ALLEN, William.

    Picturesque views on the River Niger, sketched during Lander's last visit in 1832-33.

    £7,500
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  • George French Angas South Australia illustrated first edition 1847 - 1

    ANGAS, George French.

    South Australia illustrated.

    £22,500
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    ANGAS, George French.

    The New Zealanders Illustrated.

    £17,500
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  • sir john barrow a voyage to cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793 london 1806 first edition aquating plates colour plate book vietnam brazil rio de janeiro canary islands madeira embassy to china earl macartney - 1

    BARROW, Sir John.

    A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793.

    £2,500
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  • Adveno Brooke

    BROOKE, E. Adveno.

    England.

    £19,000
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  • Maekawa Bunzo

    BUNZO, Maekawa & JUNZO, Sakai (compilers).

    [In Japanese] Kaigai ibun [A Strange Tale from Overseas].

    £5,000
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  • Thomas Talbot Bury

    BURY, Thomas Talbot.

    Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway,

    £12,500
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  • robert hyde colebrooke twelve views of places in the kingdom of mysore the country of tippoo sultan london eward orme 1805 aquantint plates bengal infantry lord cornwallis seringapatam bangalore john william edy paul sandby haidar ali tipu sultan the british in india  east india company - 1

    COLEBROOKE, Robert Hyde

    Twelve views of places in the kingdom of Mysore,

    £12,500
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  • john crawfurd journal of an embassy from the governor general of india to the court of ava with an appendix containing a desciption of fossil remains by proessor buckland and mr clift london 1834 second edition aquating plates burma british east india company - 1

    CRAWFURD, John.

    Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the court of Ava

    £1,500
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  • - 1

    DANIELL, William and Thomas.

    A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China.

    £13,000
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  • Dickinson's comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition 1851 - 1

    DICKINSON BROS (publishers).

    Dickinson's comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851,

    £15,000
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  • Louis Dupre

    DUPRE, Louis.

    Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople,

    £95,000
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  • Gaspard Fossati

    FOSSATI, Gaspard.

    Aya Sofia Constantinople.

    £14,500
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  • francis garnier voyage dexploration en indochine paris hachete 1873 first edition 3 volumes plates one of 800 copies fine binding saigon phnom penh camobdia laos china mekong river - 1

    GARNIER, Francis.

    Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission Fançaise présidée par Doudart de Lagée.

    £32,500
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  • Gayot

    GAYOT, Eugène & LALAISSE, Hippolyte (artist).

    Administration des Haras. Atlas statistique de la production des chevaux en France.

    £4,750
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  • George Hering

    HERING, George E[dwards].

    The mountains and lakes of Switzerland,

    £3,750
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  • Janscha

    JANSCHA, Lorenz; ZIEGLER, Johann.

    Collection de cinquante vues du Rhin ...

    £50,000
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  • Austen Layard

    LAYARD, Austen Henry.

    The monuments of Nineveh.

    £6,500
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    MAYER, Moritiz Maxmilian.

    Des alten Nürnbergs Sitten und Gebräuche in Freud und Leid.

    £3,500
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    NOOTEN, Berthe Hoola van.

    Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature.

    £12,500
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  • charles pierre pajol

    PAJOL, Charles Pierre (Lieut.-Colonel, Comte de). [ПАЖОЛЬ, Чарльз-Пьре граф].

    Armée Russe

    £37,500
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  • peter simon pallas

    PALLAS, P[eter] S[imon].

    Flora Rossica seu stirpium Imperii Rossici per Europam et Asiam indigenarum descriptiones et icones.

    £10,000
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  • Arthur Phillip

    PHILLIP, Arthur.

    The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

    £27,500
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  • Nathaniel Portlock

    PORTLOCK, Nathaniel.

    A Voyage round the World,

    £8,500
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  • Pyne

    PYNE, William Henry.

    The History of the Royal Residences

    £5,000
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  • William Scrope

    SCROPE, William.

    Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed;

    £350
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  • Frederic Shoberl

    SHOBERL, Frederic (editor).

    The world in miniature: Austria,

    £750
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  • Sowerby

    SOWERBY, George Brettingham.

    Illustrated index of British shells

    £650
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  • Thomas Williamson

    WILLIAMSON, Thomas; Samuel Howett; Edward Orme.

    Oriental field sports,

    £15,000
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This is the first edition of ‘Casino Royale’ – Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel!⁠
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With the publication of his blog post on #WritersAndSpies out this week, our Digital Content Manager @oliverjbayliss has chosen this as his #BookOfTheWeek⁠
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'At the impressionable age of seven I discovered that my home in sleepy Hampshire was once the childhood home of Guy Burgess, one of the infamous Cambridge Spies! This sparked a lifelong, and probably rather unhealthy, fascination with all things cloak and dagger (I mean it's pretty normal to pretend you're a KGB spy infiltrating you're school at 7 isn't it?...)!⁠
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For spy books you can't really get better than Bond, and it really doesn't get better than the all too rare first edition of his first novel!⁠
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As the tale goes, the inspiration for Bond came from Fleming’s time in Naval Intelligence during WW2. Whilst playing a baccarat game in Lisbon, the author's alleged to have whispered to his friend ‘just suppose these fellows were German agents—what a coup it would be if we cleaned them out entirely!'⁠
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Secret agents infiltrating a communist devil-worshiping cult.... it must be #DennisWheatley the second author to be featured in our #WritersAndSpies 🕵️‍♂️ series!⁠
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As a bit of #booktrivia for you #bookstagrammers out there, the jacket was designed by Sax, a prolific book artist of the 20th century.... however don't google 'Sax book art' as our social media man has just discovered...⁠ ➡️ link in bio ⁠
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Twain’s adage ‘write what you know’ could have been written for #GrahamGreene, the subject of the first post in our series #WritersAndSpies⁠ 🕵️‍♂️ ⁠
His established career as a writer, and penchant for travel, made Greene the perfect candidate for MI6. ⁠
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Recruited in 1941, he monitored the Vichy forces in Sierra Leone, searching ships for smuggled diamonds and documents. Later under the ruse of book research, he travelled widely across China and the USSR, observing and reporting. He also worked under the famous Soviet mole Kim Philby, even developing a friendship with the traitorous spy.⁠
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The Philby connection also gave Greene a rather dubious honour: whilst spying for MI6, he was himself the subject of investigation by the FBI due to his links with the Cambridge Spy Ring. With wonderful irony, whilst the author was under investigation, the CIA were helping to turn one of his novels into a film…..⁠
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📸 The first edition of Graham Greene's 'England Made Me' 1935 - Link in bio⁠
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