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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.
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. 8vo (19 x 13 cm), illustrated throughout with wood-engravings, previous owner's ink inscription inside on preliminary pages, marbled endpapers; full contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt decorated, green morocco label, gilt lettered; xiv, 500 pp; a fine copy.
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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.
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First edition, 8vo, xii, 139 pp., tinted lithographed pictorial additional title, map of Java, and 23 lithographed views and plates (2 coloured, 21 tinted), short clean marginal tear at page 29-30 (not affecting text), light spotting and dust-soiling, contemporary brown half morocco gilt, marbled sides, top edge gilt, neat repair to head of spine, a very good example.
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Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., x, 541; viii, 319, [1], 163 pp., large folding map, 2 plans (1 folding), 6 aquatint plates (4 folding), 5 vignettes in text, contemporary brown morocco gilt, covers with elaborate gilt design of intertwined floral motifs, all edges gilt, a fine set.
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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 -
8vo, xxii, 314 pp., publisher's blindstamped blue cloth gilt, rebacked in blue calf gilt, new endpapers, blindstamp to title and page 49, a very good copy.
£350 -
First edition. 8vo, xii, 319 pp., large folding map (foxed), 2 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, rebacked and cornered to style, green morocco label, a very good copy.
£675