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The Return of A.J. Raffles.

Rare broadsheet advertising an exhibition at the Egyptian Hall. The Egyptian Hall was a leading venue for exhibitions featuring original artwork.

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Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

First edition of this title despite having "fourth edition" printed on the title-page

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Sweden Handbook For Travellers in Sweden.

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Norway. Handbook for Norway.

The fifth volume describing the books on Istanbul from the library of Ömer Koç, covering the period from 1544 to 2021.

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The Book of Books, 500 years of graphic innovation: 'Lavishly illustrated throughout...an unmissable journey through time for everyone who loves books.'

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First edition of the first complete Russian translation of Boccaccio's Decameron.

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The Sleeping Beauty

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Death of a Salesman.

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The Canarian, or the Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians

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First edition of Caledonia by Anthony Powell, one of 100 copies, inscribed by the author to Alan Harris.

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Caledonia. A Fragment.

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The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner.

A finely bound set of the first work on British fish illustrated in colour, Jonathan Couch's History of the Fishes of the British Islands.

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A History of the Fishes of the British Islands.

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Everest: The Unfinished Adventure

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A history of British birds [With] A history of British fishes.

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The Thirteen Secrets of Poetry.

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Group of four engravings of Gourds.

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Signed menus and ephemera of Henry Dunlop,

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Lady Windermere's Fan.

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The London Underground.

A handsome copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton, in red pebble-grain morocco by Bickers & Son

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The Poetical Works of John Milton.

John Gould is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists

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Mergus Serrator [Merganser].

The novel most famously associated with John Boynton Priestley; here in the special deluxe issue. Signed by the author.

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Angel Pavement.

First edition in original cloth of Richard Burton's Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, his account of his pilgrimage to be the first English Christian to freely enter Mecca.

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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.

First edition, inscribed presentation copy, of Topographical Botany by Hetwett Cottrell Watson, whose work on the distribution of plants inspired Charles Darwin.

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Topographical Botany.

One of 25 large paper copies of the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, edited by Thomas Grenville, presented to the Marquis of Stafford.

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Ilias kai Odysseia [Iliad and Odyssey, in Greek].

A very good and fresh edition of the first novel by John Fowles, signed by the author in the first month following publication. Tom Adams dust jacket.

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The Collector.

A fine collection of 13 first edition titles by Arthur Conan Doyle, including 7 Sherlock Holmes books, bound in full blue morocco and half red morocco gilt

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Collection of Thirteen First Editions:

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Where The Wild Things Are.

First edition of Prichard's Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System, a book on mental illness containing one of the best early accounts of epilepsy.

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A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System.

First edition of Spring in New Hampshire by Claude Mckay, the author's first book, which was not issued in this form in America.

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Spring in New Hampshire.

Après-guerre contains four of Tomatsu Shomei's photographic series, made between 1951 and 1960.

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Après-guerre.

Charmingly bound set of Gollancz's Larger Temple Shakespeare, with numerous illustrations.

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The Works of Shakespeare.

The first book dummy of Jacob Aue Sobol's I, Tokyo.

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Extract from the book project Tokyo. To be completed in 2007...' [First book dummy].

First edition of The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien, the author's fourth book.

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The Hard Life:

Rare example in original parts of John Gould's Partridges of America.

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A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.

Dressed as Turks and accompanied by an Irishman, James Curtin, two Maltese, and a setter dog named Anubis, they ascended the Nile as far as Meroe

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Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia.

Attractive collection of pressed seaweeds with printed identification labels.

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Album of dried plants.

First English edition of Nordenskiöld's Voyage round Asia and Europe by A. Hovgaard, the narrative of the the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage and the first voyage to circumnavigate Eurasia.

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Nordenskiöld's Voyage round Asia and Europe.

All the main animal characters are indigenous to North America except for Yellowhammers whose range includes Europe and much of Asia but not America

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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.

Illuminated manuscript of Jami's Yusuf wa Zuleikha with illustrations in the text and some early examples of marbled paper.

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Yusuf wa Zuleikha,

A 1474 AD manuscript copy of the first medical encyclopedia written in Persian, Zakhire'ye Kharazamshahi by Zayn al-Din Jurjani.

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Zakhire'ye Kharazamshahi.

First edition and first impression ensures authenticity for collectors
Oversized 8vo format offers a distinctive reading experience
Cream dustjacket with red embellishment provides visual appeal and collectible value
Gilt red topstain and spine panel details enhance the book's provenance
Trade issue publication increases rarity and desirability

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One of Huxley's greatest books.

Produced in somewhat oversized format compared to most of his other Chatto publications, and vulnerable as such, issued in a cream dustjacket with some red embellishment - one of the most fugitive colours in the printer's arsenal - and with a red topstain much given to fading. This is one of the better copi

Format: 8vo
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Language: English
Cover Type: Hardcover
Dustjacket: Cream with red embellishment
Edition: First edition, first impression

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