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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., viii, 94 pp., 15 folding maps in pocket at end, original red grained cloth gilt, light fade to spine, a very good copy.
£2,500 -
First edition. 8vo., 22, [2]pp., frontispiece portrait, original black stencilled wrappers, photograph of the Nimrod tipped on to upper cover, stitched as issued, a very good example.
£900 -
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 312pp, with a presentation inscription to Albert Armitage, 20 photographic illustrations including frontispiece, four maps in text, occasional scattered light foxing, original blue cloth, gilt lettered and decorated with gilt coat-of-arms on upper cover.
£450 -
First edition, signed by the authors, number 386 of an edition limited to 950 copies plus 50 proofs, landscape folio (44.5 x 34 cm), 336 pp., 330 full photographic illustrations and 15 duotones, original fine grey goatskin binding, velvet doublures and flyleaves, linen and velvet-lined archival box, fine.
£1,650 -
First edition, 8vo., 24pp., 8 photographic illustrations, original wrappers printed in red, ads to covers, an excellent example.
£1,250 -
Folio.187-220, v-x pp., photographic illustrations, original wrappers, a fine copy and a rare survival thus.
£1,500 -
First edition. 8vo., xii, 1261 pp., frontispiece, 21 sketch maps (5 full-page), 2 plates, 3 text figures, 2 graphs in text, original maroon cloth gilt faded to tan, most of original tissue wrapper preserved, an excellent example.
£495 -
First edition. 4to., 8 pages including 5 full-page photographs of Antarctic wildlife, original yellow pictorial cover, 1 page flyer loosely inserted, a fine example.
£500 -
First edition, 8vo., 24pp., 8 photographic ilustrations, original wrappers printed in red, ads to covers, an excellent example.
£1,250 -
First edition. 8vo, xvi, 586pp., 3 folding maps in the rear cover pocket, original blue cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine extremities, spine darkened, a very good example.
£3,000