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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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First edition, 4to (26 x 17 cm); 499 pp., frontispiece and 31 illustrations in black white; publisher's illustrated cover by Dobuzhinskiy, small tear to wrapper edge, a fine copy.
£1,400 -
First edition, 8vo, viii, 121, [3]pp., contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt with acorn device, original red label titled in gilt, a fine copy.
£3,000 -
8vo, (245 x 150 mm); 404 pp., 9 colour maps, original printed wrappers, minor rubbing and fading to spine and edges. Maps in mint condition.
£650 -
First edition, signed & inscribed by the author on half-title. Contemporary half vellum binding gilt. Many b/w illustration plates. xviii, 160 pp. A fine, crisp copy.
£400 -
Special edition. Publishers green cloth boards black illustration printed to front cover, gilt titles and frames to front cover and spine. 210 b/w illustrations, folding map in colour, pages browned, foxing to endpapers and map, closed tear to map. xii, 948 pp.
£175 -
First edition. Two vols. 4to, publishers half morocco green boards, with gilt ornaments and title to spine, sun-faded as usual; top edges gilt. Many b/w illustration plates. Vol. I: lii, 313 pp., Vol. II: lxiv, 480 pp.
£450 -
8vo, publishers brown cloth boards with ornamental gilt and blind-tooled title to front and gild title to spine. 12 engraved tinted plates and many small illustrations in text. edges rubbed, light foxing, a few inner joint cracks but holding firmly. Inscriptions of previous owners to front endpapers. 718 pp.
£90 -
First edition, first impression, inscribed by Fowles on the front free endpaper; 8vo; publisher's black boards, titles to spine in gold, with the dust jacket. A lovely copy in the dust jacket.
£975 -
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page; 8vo; publisher's green boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket illustrated with David Hockney's Félicité Sleeping with Parrot, a fine copy in the dust-jacket.
£1,750 -
First edition. Folio (27 x 41.7 cm) iv, [8], 719, [1] pp., text in double columns, with engraved frontispiece and twelve engraved plates, 1 folding, with the additional leaf on improvement of fences with engraved plate in text, small old marginal worm track to 5 leaves and 1 plate towards end, not touching letters or illustration, contemporary calf, headcap, joints, and corners repaired, covers scuffed, red morocco label, a clean attractive example.
£1,950