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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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  1. First edition. Folio, viii, 484 pp., 16 folding maps (occasional short tears to folds), 16 plates, illustrations in the text, contemporary blue half roan, marbled boards, lightly faded, neat restoration to extremities, an excellent copy.

    £2,500
  2. First English edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, xxxii, 335; xiv, 303 pp., coloured lithographed frontispiece, maps, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, some slight spotting, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, an excellent set.

    £575
  3. First English edition, 8vo (21.4 x 14.4 cm), xx, 118, 2 (publisher's ads) pp., engraved folding map by Thomas Kitchin hand-coloured in outline and engraved title vignette and half title, contemporary half calf with armorial crest on the spine, neat repairs to extremities, an attractive example.

    £4,000
  4. First edition, 4to, edition deluxe, limited to 500 copies signed by Peary and Bob Bartlett, xii, 326 pp., 4 photogravures, 112 tipped-in photographic illustrations, large coloured map, modern full blue morocco gilt, gilt pictorial roundel to upper cover, slipcase, a fine example.

    £2,500
  5. First edition, 8vo,16, xxxvi, 374, [ii] pp., frontispiece, 2 maps, publisher's blindstamped blue cloth gilt, rebacked in blue calf gilt, endpapers renewed, corners worn, blindstamp to title and frontispiece, a very good copy.

    £400
  6. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, viii, 413; vii, [1], 426 pp., 32 pages ads end vol. I, 2 coloured lithograph frontispieces, 8 lithograph plates, folding coloured map, handsome modern dark blue half morocco gilt, old crease page vi vol. I, original cloth sides bound-in at end, neat restoration to outer edge first three leaves (circa 3 mm), a very good set.

    £2,850
  7. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, [iv], 464; [ii], 467 pp., 2 additional engraved title-pages with vignette, upwards of 300 engravings including full page steel engravings and some wood engravings, 2 folding maps, some light spotting, original blue blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt, neat repairs to extremities, an excellent set.

    £450
  8. Signed, limited 'General Hubbard' edition, one of 500 copies signed by Peary, 8vo, xxxii, 373, [1, blank] pages. With numerous illustrations, a folding map, and signed limitation page inserted throughout. Publisher's deluxe binding of half blue levant morocco over blue cloth boards, an excellent copy.

    £2,000
  9. 8vo., 8, 4, vi, xx, 259 pp., 3 maps (2 of them folding), original blue cloth, rebacked blue morocco gilt, blindstamps and label at base of spine of the Royal United Service Institution, corners worn, a good copy.

    £450
  10. First edition. 8vo., xii, 292pp., 2 folding maps (1 in colour), original blue cloth gilt, a fine copy.

    £400
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