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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Limited edition number 309 of one thousand copies printed, folio, 38 x 29 cm; xv, [blank] 538pp., fifteen tissue-guarded photogravures and numerous illustrations, many taken from photographs, publisher's chamfered red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt Anthemion dentelles and all edges gilt, a fine copy in every respect.
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First and limited numbered edition of only 2000 printed, (although 3500 were planned), this copy numbered 1671, landscape 4to., 312pp., numerous vintage photographic illustrations with French text, (together with a separate saddle-stitched English translation by Peter Hull also published in 1991, 64pp.), publisher's blue leatherette, the upper cover mounted with a stunning silver metal intaglio plaque, rubbing to head of spine, else fine, both books housed in original decorative slip-case, which is a little worn and chipped from protecting the superb content.
£650
