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Torah, Nevi'im Rishonim, Nevi'im Achronim, Ktuvim.
[HEBREW BIBLE].Original price £4,900.00 - Original price £4,900.00Original price £0.00£4,900.00£4,900.00 - £4,900.00Current price £4,900.00| /Scarce first edition of Geneva Hebrew bible, with the Megillot placed at the end of the Torah volume without a separate title page. This bible in ...
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The Seat of the War in the East.
SIMPSON, William.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /The deluxe edition with the plates hand-coloured.During the Crimean War William Simpson (1823-1899), became a pioneer war artist: dispatched by th...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The complete works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 35 volumes, including his best known novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr H...
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Responses.
HEANEY, Seamus (Contributor).Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /First edition, with contributions from Seamus Heaney ('Servant Boy'), D. J. Enright, Jon Silkin, among others.First edition, unnumbered issue; 4to...
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Arabian Sands.
THESIGER, Wilfred.Original price £165.00 - Original price £165.00Original price £0.00£165.00£165.00 - £165.00Current price £165.00| /Thesiger's classic narrative of his years spent amongst the Bedouin of Southern Arabia, travelling on foot.First edition, first impression; 8vo, x...
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Thamar Karsavina.
SVETLOV [IVCHENKO], Valerien.Original price £3,200.00 - Original price £3,200.00Original price £0.00£3,200.00£3,200.00 - £3,200.00Current price £3,200.00| /Limited edition signed by Karsavina. This book is a wonderfully sincere ode to one of the greatest dancers and indeed artists of the 20th century, ...
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Tales from Shakespeare.
LAMB, Charles and Mary.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /A sweet copy of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, retelling twenty of the Bard's plays as short narrative stories intended for young...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
KEYNES, J.M.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Contemporary economist's copy. The first edition of Keynes' masterwork. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, The General Theory is reg...
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Hampstead Heath.
HAMPSTEAD SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /The first edition of this interesting survey of Hampstead Heath, taking account of the topography, geology, plant and animal life of London's wild...
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The Grammar of Ornament.
JONES, Owen.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /First edition of Jones' seminal work. The finest of the great chromolithographic books of the nineteenth century, and certainly one of the most in...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton.
MILTON, John.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /A sweet copy of Milton's collected poetry in three volumes, comprising his major blank verse works Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd, his closet...
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Stikhotvoreniia [Poems].
AKHMATOVA, Anna.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £0.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00| /A heavily censored collection of poems written between 1909 and 1945 - the first of Akhmatova's works to be published after the death of Stalin.Ak...
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Broadcast Talks.
LEWIS, C.S.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /The scarce first edition, first impression of these two talks by C.S. Lewis on the subject of his Christian faith, which were originally broadcast...
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They Asked for a Paper.
LEWIS, C.S.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /The first edition of this thought-provoking collection of essays on religious themes by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), author of the acclaimed Narnia ser...
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[Meditations].
AURELIUS, Marcus; LONG, George (translator).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Stoic philosophy. A fine large-paper edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, an important work of Stoic philosophy by the last of Rome's Five Good...
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[Utopia].
MORE, Sir Thomas; DIBDIN, T.F. (editor).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /First Dibdin octavo edition. A finely printed example of one of the most important works of English philosophy and social commentary. The first Dib...
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LUCIAN of Samosata. De Hetaerensgespraeche des Lukian.
KLIMT, Gustav.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /Specially bound by the Wiener Werkstatte. A fine example of a scarce and early work illustrated by Gustav Klimt. The erotic illustrations were sele...
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[Cabinet card portrait of Alfred Tennyson, signed by him].
[TENNYSON, Alfred.] MAYALL, John Jabez Edwin.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Tennyson's favourite portrait, signed by him. John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810-1901) was an English photographer, born Jabez Meal in Lancashire, who f...
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Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil
SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...
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The Straits Times Annual
SINGAPOREOriginal price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...
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Tokyo.
KLEIN, William.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Tokyo is the fourth of Klein's four classic city books, following Life is Good & Good For You in New York: Trance Witness Revels (1956) and Ro...
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William Eggleston's Guide.
EGGLESTON, William.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /The adoption of colour photography, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and others was not without precedent: ...
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Tokyo Lucky Hole.
ARAKI, Nobuyoshi.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /Tokyo Lucky Hole is of one of Araki's best-known books, photographed in and around the sex clubs of the Kabuki-cho area of Tokyo's Shinjuku distri...
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Urformen der Kunst.
BLOSSFELDT, Karl.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Urformen der Kunst is an important and influential work, a cornerstone of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) movement in Germany and a consen...
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