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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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Stud bound, in burgundy boards, Bawden design on cream paper to both boards printed in black. Full page illustrated title page by Bawden, vignettes and borders throughout. A very good copy.
£650 -
First edition, 3 works in one vol., 8vo; woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, each work with errata at end, some browning mostly confined to margins, occasional spotting, bookplate and ownership markings to front pastedown, old ink initials to first title; 18th century calf, edge wear, spine rubbed, upper cover detached; collates as complete.
£450 -
8vo, 89 pp., various blank leaves, 12 pp notes at end, contemporary sheep, worn, joints weak.
£650 -
Tenth edition; 8vo; 3 folding engraved plates, two with offsetting from folding, a few recent and older marginal repairs, numerous old pencil annotations. Rebound in twentieth century half black calf, marbled paper boards. Contents a little marked and toned, spine slightly faded, a very nice copy.
£675 -
First London edition; 8vo; 8 lithographed plates, some foxing and oxidising, armorial bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving contemporary spine, edge wear.
£275 -
First edition. Octavo, (19.5 x 12.5 cm); [68], 130 pp., contemporary marbled boards, spine taped, edges of binding rubbed, some minor foxing throughout.
£1,500 -
Third edition; 4to, (220 x 160 mm); a wide-margined copy; [45] ll. Title within ornamental border; modern chestnut blind-tooled calf boards, gilt title in English to spine, housed in matching slip-case.
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Second edition, 4to (22.5 x 17 cm); 182, [2] pp., text in Latin and Hebrew; marginal tears to first two leaves. Ownership signatures to title page and many marginal notes to text in Latin in old brown ink; late 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards, with red morocco label to spine, this lettered in gilt, corners rubbed.
£1,250 -
8vo., xxiii, 416pp., engraved portrait frontispiece and seven engraved plates by Bertall, illustrated title-page vignette, numerous wood-engravings in the text, occasional light foxing throughout. Fine French-style calf, spine richly gilt with label, a.e.g.
£525 -
First issue, (238 x 155 mm), original illustrated wrappers with typographical original woodcut (somewhat dusty, faded, stapling rusted), small owner's stamp to front wrapper. Browning due to paper, some staining and creasing. Text in Yiddish, 48 pp.
£1,200