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Early Printed Books, Economics & Politics, History, Law, Medicine, Philosophy and Science
Catalogue 70Highlights include a first edition of Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy; Cantillon’s Essai sur la nature du commerce general, the most important economics book before Smith; a handsome copy in calf of the fourth folio Shakespeare; and the true first edition of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
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Christmas 2011
Catalogue 81Nearly 300 items on a wide range of subjects, including a gift selection at £750 and under.
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Travel and Exploration
Catalogue 79Over 200 items on Voyages, Navigation, Naval Architecture, Charts & Atlases, Military Campaigns & Archaeology. £10.
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A Summer Miscellany
Catalogue 78A general selection of recent acquisitions. Two hundred and two items.
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Fine Bindings, Library Sets and The Chelsea Bindery
Catalogue 75Seventy-five important books in the fields of science, medicine, natural history, architecture, and the history of ideas. £10.
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Christmas 2010
Catalogue 74More than 400 items on a wide range of subjects, including a gift selection of nearly 200 books at £750 and under.
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Recent Acquisitions
Catalogue 73A rich selection of fresh stock, with a cover design from a 15th-century block book leaf, starring two landmarks of early printing: the 1482 Ratdolt Euclid and the editio princeps of Homer (Florence, 1488/9). Foundational works in the development of human thought include Darwin’s Origin of Species, Descartes’s Discours de la Methode, Locke’s Essay on Humane Understanding, Swift’s Gulliver’s
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Twentieth-Century English Literature
Catalogue 72Notable items include The Great Gatsby in a good example of the highly desirable dust jacket; copies of all three formats (100, 150, and 750 copies) of Ulysses; Sylvia Plath’s first book The Colossus, inscribed in gratitude to her high-school teacher; three superb Yeats presentation copies; and many other highlights of modern literature in the English language. 297 items,
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Spring 2010
Catalogue 69Featured items include, among others, a Charlotte Brontë presentation “to Emily, Haworth”, inscribed seven months after Emily’s death, in a Victorian book of memorial verses, with verses in Charlotte’s hand; a fine copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan 1866); the rare first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; and a tantalising selection of American classics, from Moby Dick to Catcher in
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Christmas 2009
Catalogue 68Highlighted items include the cover item, Alvin Langdon Coburn’s masterful and atmospheric photobook London; a fine selection of Ian Fleming presentations, including Casino Royaleinscribed to “M”; a couple of Rackham “specials”; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the original illustrated manuscript of H. G. Wells’s only children’s story. 367 items, including a gift selection at £500 and below.
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