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Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published in L...

To do an injustice to Tennyson, it’s usually at this time that my fancy turns to get...

What makes a book desirable apart from the important fact that you like it? Rarity pla...

Ahead of Firsts London 2022, Shapero Rare Books takes a look at some of the titles you may neve...

Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1...

July is here and things are hotting up. Our team of specialists have...

Last week I was fortunate to buy a small quantity of the original 19...

I suppose that whenever people think of the Himalayas, they think of...

Masterpiece London, opening next week on 30th June, is the unmissabl...

Following on from President Erdogan’s December 2021 statement, the...

Adam Blakeney writes – ‘I sometimes equate Graham Greene with mi...

The Holy Kaaba is the most important site in the Islamic world. The ...

The joy of book collecting is the freedom to form a library exactly ...

PERSIA & AFGHANISTAN. Seen in the light of the past forty years, sinc...

I have always been fascinated by mountains and tra...

George Barbier (1882-1932) was the supreme decorative designer of A...

Nowadays India is one of the largest and most important centres of printing and publis...

The first thing that needs saying is that not everybody that sets out for Timbuctoo ge...

Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), although born almost 200 years ago, seems very much a...

Today marks the 150th anniversary of one of those moments that scho...

A selection of our favourite rare books for children

When putting our new travel catalogue together, one of the first ...

Our story begins at the end of the nineteenth century with the fairy...

As book lovers we all owe a debt of gratitude to the Sumerians, the ...

Where collecting is concerned, the Qur’an is a multi-faceted text ...

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw the publicati...

Thinking of the British and Africa, I suppose the things that comes ...

The Tibetan plateau, situated at some 15,000 feet (4500 metres), sur...

On the boggy delta of the Neva, Peter the Great founded his ‘windo...

Did they really do that? Some of the greatest feats o...

The other day I received an e-mail offering me a copy of Brand’s H...

An exhibition of the illustrated works of Aubrey Beardsley who shocked and thrilled audiences.

The Mutiny on the Bounty William Bligh (1754-1815) wi...

An interview with Angus Robb as part of our Books not Border series, wherein we're bre...

An introduction to collecting Victorian Detective Fiction at Shapero Rare Books.

We talk to our Founder and CEO, Bernard Shapero, as part of our Books not Border serie...

From Monday 12th April, the doors to our bookshops and galleries at ...

Highlights from our recently published catalogue Iran Zamin, as pick...

An interview with our Literature specialist Roddy Newlands as part of our Books not Bo...

As part of our Books not Borders series, where we're breaking down the barriers to the...

The second in our Books Not Borders series, where we're breaking down the barriers to ...

Today we begin the first in a new blog series, Books Not Borders or for the French Livres Sans ...

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Islamic departmen...

Arterritory recently interviewed our CEO & Founder, Bernard Shap...

London-based bookstore Shapero's children's book expert Roddy Newlands told MailOnline children...

Whatever the Tier might be, we are still open online for all your book buying needs. Our online...

Whilst our Bookshops and Gallery at 105 and 106 New Bond Street will...

2020 has seen an exciting period of expansion for Shapero Rare Books...

Good Icons installed at 106 New Bond Street Shapero Rare Books and Sh...

We will be open for business as usual online whilst the doors to our Bookshop and Gallery at 1...

Lorna May Wadsworth installs striking portraits of Neil Gaiman at Shapero Rare Books a...

One of the great men of his age, Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) was a true polymath. With an ext...

We're moving! After nearly twenty-five years in Saint George Street, the sale of our much-loved...

For the non-collector among us (are there really people who don’t collect books?), the idea t...

Long before mobile travel apps there was the Baedeker Guide, indispensable for helping thousand...

Writers and spies - exploring all things cloak and typewriter by delving into the murky world o...

Vive la France! Vive la Russie! THE FRENCH STATE VISI...

Artists have long supplemented their larger practice by making print...

I am delighted to be able to announce that following changes in the ...

On the anniversary of Cook’s arrival in Botany Bay, we look back at an articl...

Artists’ studios are the perfect place to see and understand the creative process th...

An Update from 32 Saint George Street

Kelmlscott Press founder William Morris was also a serious book collector; he amassed a library...

A selection of the best events & exhibitions taking place in November 2019 both in London and a...

A selection of the best events & exhibitions taking place in November 2019 both in London and a...

Ahead of Quentin Blake’s exhibition of new works here at Shapero HQ, our Digital Content Mana...

Celebrating the freedom to read, Banned Books Week has become a focal point in the literary yea...

All of these Rare Books in emoji can currently be found on the shelves at here at Shap...

Rare Book Review article slicing through the cut-throat stories from the earliest pirate books ...

As the publishing & art world finally become more gender inclusive, we celebrate some of the fa...

The past month has seen Shapero Rare Books and our Gallery, Shapero Modern included in Tatler a...

Books have been banned for a variety of reasons over the centuries, ranging from racism, anti-r...

Shapero Rare Books are delighted to be hosting the European la...

Splendidly rendered in bronze, Millicent Fawcett now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes...

One of the most internationally celebrated fictional characters of all time, James Bond first e...

The following text has been written by Dr Bob Miller, and represents the research he kindly und...

Trouvelot's total eclipse of the sun, one of a complete set of 15 celestial chromolithographs.....

The great natural history museum collections have at their foundation, specimens collected by 1...

The sound of leather (ball) against willow (bat) can once again be heard throughout the English...

Incredible photos from over 100 years ago show how much our lives have changed.

Birds sat on tables poised at every angle their feathers clouded with motes of dust, p...

A voyage around the history of cartography takes in sea monsters, newly charted territ...

Dr Philip Mansel's top picks at Shapero Rare Books

In our latest Fine Books catalogue, discover a selection of some of the most beautiful...

Lines in the Ice: Marginalia My recent talk at Shapero Rare Books gave me the opportun...

On 28 April 1789, disaffected crewmen took control of the HMS Bounty and cast the captain, Capt...

Banned, censored, exiled: Soviet era literature After the Soviet Union was formed in 1...

The discovery of John Franklin's HMS Terror at the bottom of an Arctic bay this September co...

Most staple foods are never given the chance to shine, humbly carrying on, being consumed at i...

Today we are all too aware of the appalling damage inflicted by ISIS on the ancient sites of Ir...

The extraordinary success of a megalomaniac, an uncharted world, and a team of savant explorers

[vcex_spacing] This Saturday, we were treated with a brilliant talk by John Gimlette fo...

The explorer Sir Richard Burton, after the painting by Lord Leighton.   Frequentl...

Ernest Shackleton, born in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1874, was for many years the forgotten m...

Click here to discover our selection of artists' books

STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard. 'An authentic account of an Embassy' (1797) The rapid acceleratio...

In the heart of Mayfair, Shapero Rare Books is full of treasures. From John Gould to B...

Civil servant, naval secretary, developer, publicist, settler, author and all-round-adventurer ...

Through the nineteenth century, interest in the North Polar region was stimulated by v...

During late November we  journey across the high seas to China in Print, Hong Kong’s lead...

From a workhouse in Wales to establishing one of the ...

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Almost a century has passed since Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev founded the fam...

The industrial revolution in the United Kingdom spawned a host of great British explo...

The second part of our spectacular clearance offer presents 25 illustrated books a...

Produced towards the end of the age of colour plate, overlapping with the new age of p...

  Produced towards the end of the age of colour plate, overlapping with the new age o...

On occasion of the Russian week in London we are delighted to be able to offer you a ...

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Ideas, Ideas, Ideas. So many of them around, not always that great, but we are just putting the...

One of the greatest legends associated with Africa concerned the source or sources of the River...