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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, 4to, xii, 364, [xii] pp., 2 large folding maps, contemporary red and green morocco labels, light fade to upper cover, an excellent copy.
£750 -
3 vols, 8vo, 28 wood-engraved plates, occasional light foxing, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked, new endpapers, a very good copy.
£750 -
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 -
Five loose leaves, ink and gouache heightened in gold on paper, each leaf c. 85 by 100 mm.; depicting five scenes containing depictions of Krishna, Yashoda, Varaha, Ravana, Garuda and Parashumara, each image ruled in yellow with outer borders painted red, versos blank, some small scuffs and chips to ink, overall very bright and attractive condition; all individually mounted.
£2,500 -
First edition. 8vo, xxiii, [3], 408 pp, frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, 3 plates, 5 illustrations in text, ex libris to pastedown and corresponding ink ownership inscription to endpaper; original green cloth gilt, spine slightly bumped, in a modern green moire slipcase with green morocco corners and entry, gilt ruled, an excellent copy.
£2,000 -
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 -
Landscape folio (45.1 x 56.9 cm), [4], ii, [2], 146, [4] pp., with 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates; a few short marginal tears, tear to plate I repaired, occasional light dust-staining and spotting; contemporary red straight-grained morocco, borders and lozenge roll-tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in one, all edges gilt; neatly rebacked and recornered, a little worn at extremities, corners bumped, nonetheless a very good copy.
£15,000 -
First edition, 3 volumes, 4to (31.5 x 25.5 cm.), large paper copy, half-titles, 3 engraved vignettes, 69 engraved plates and maps, 11 double-page or folding, plate list at beginning of volume 1, advertisement leaf at end of volume 3, modern half calf gilt, a fine clean set.
£2,750