The Bookshop
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.
If you're in possession of a rare book to sell, please contact us for more information.
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Engraved map, uncoloured; 38.8 x 63.5 cm, plus advertissement and echelles at top. Toned uniformly, paper thin in places, where an old backing has been removed; trimmed, with the imprint at bottom retained; good.
£2,500 -
![[Moscow] План города Москвы с пригородами.](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/9/0/90838.jpg)
Colour lithographed plan (98 x 69 cm); folds professionally restored.
£850 -
Hand-coloured, double-page engraved map sheet, incorporating three sections, forming a continuous strip-map of the river from source to sea; centrefold restored.
£550 -
14 engraved maps on separate sheets (sheets size: 14 x 20.5, plate size of general map 10 x 16 cm, plate sizes of maps of provinces 9 x 11 cm), maps of provinces numbered 1 - 13, uncut.
£5,750 -
Manuscript map (40 x 54 cm), pen and black ink, outlined in watercolour, on thick card; light surface dirt and browning, minor spotting. Hinged into cloth covered boards of that time, other leaves removed, folio (55.5 x 41 cm); worn, with some spotting.
£750 -
Engraved playing card, with original hand-colour, with engraved place names in French in the lower part of the card. Dimensions: 115 by 65mm.
£550 -
Double page engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, French text on verso; a few brown spots.
£2,250 -
![[CRIMEAN WAR] - Carte de la Crimée.](http://beta.shapero.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1bbe0f863922f091e1b357048c86d01e/8/7/87596.jpg)
Manuscript map in watercolour and ink on linen, 41 x 54 cm, framed. Some spotting.
£1,450 -
Engraved map with fine original outline hand-colour, backed with early marbled paper to make a playing card.
£900 -
Engraved map, with the associated description table; centrefold restored, bottom right hand corner re-instated, with small loss.
£250
