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Welcome to our online antiquarian bookshop where you can begin your rare book search. Here you will find antiquarian books, rare books, works on paper, and first edition books for sale, all selected by our book specialists who have over 200 years of experience between them.
You can buy rare books, many of them signed, on a variety of subjects, including Travel & Voyages, Literature, Rare Children’s books, Natural History, Illustrated books, Hebraica & Judaica, books of Russian interest and Guidebooks. We have books from a variety of famous authors available at our rare bookstore.
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First edition. 4to. pp. xxi, [3], 220, 188. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco label; neat repairs to joints.
£1,750 -
First German edition, 2 vols, 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm). pp. xvi, 368; pp. vii, 358; very slight spotting to vol. 1. Contemporary half-brown leather binding; flat spine, gilt bands separating compartments, compartments 1, 3, 5 and 6 contain gilt floral decoration, compartments 2 and 4 contain gilt lettering including translator's name and title, gilt library stamp to both upper boards, library stamps to verso of both upper boards and title pages, pencil markings to verso of upper boards and endpapers; rubbed, water or possibly glue marks to verso of upper boards and endpapers.
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First edition; 8vo; small ownership stamp to lower outside corner of title-page, small, early 20th century bookseller's label to lower outside corner of verso of upper free endpaper, a little age-toning and small ink smudge to title, otherwise near-fine, nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, rubbed at extremities, spine faded, a very good copy; vi, 601 pp.
£3,000 -
First collected edition. 8vo ( 15 x 23 cm),pp. [4], 24,24.24,24,24,24,24,24,24, 24,24,24, advertisement at end, later ink and pencil notes to preliminary pages, publisher's brown cloth, some fading and marking, extremities rubbed, overall a very good copy.
£950 -
Folio. First report 232 pp., (others 250pp approx, some folding), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label, joints cracked but firm.
£7,500 -
First edition. 21 volumes, 8vo, 7 engraved plates, 4 folding, engraved map, 4 folding tables, half-titles. (2 folding plates very browned, a little foxing.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, red labels on spine, neat repairs to joints and extremities as required, a very good set.
£3,500 -
First edition. 8vo., vii,[1],3-26pp., later red morocco-backed cloth boards, a very good copy.
£150 -
First edition, presentation edition limited to 350 specially bound copies, royal 8vo, 464pp., portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations, folding table, bound by Leighton Straker in full blue morocco gilt, red morocco label, gilt roundel to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, a very handsome book.
£350 -
First and only edition. 8vo (11.5 x 18cm) 40pp., title-page with a few fox marks, modern patterned wrappers.
£250 -
First edition, first impression; 8vo; Publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the printed dust jacket; an exceptional copy; viii, 209pp.
£4,250
