Search results for: 'mage common'
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the New Chamber of the House of Commons by the Speaker 26th May 1948.London : 1948
First and only edition, with the limitation statement: "twenty-four copies printed on hand-made paper for presentation to His Majesty the King, the Library of the House of Commons and those who took part in the ceremony". Copac shows just five locations in the UK: BL, Oxford, Cambridge, Guildhall, and Chartwell; OCLC adds Houghton Library, Harvard,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 102752
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the New Chamber of the House of Commons by the Speaker 26th May 1948.London : 1948
First and only edition. The limitation statement at the rear reads: "twenty-four copies printed on hand-made paper for presentation to His Majesty the King, the Library of the House of Commons and those who took part in the ceremony". Copac shows just five locations in the UK: BL, Oxford, Cambridge, Guildhall, and Chartwell; OCLC adds Houghton Library,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121025
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SAUNDERS, Ann. The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945London : 2005
First edition. "During the Second World War the War Damage Section of the Architect's Department of the London County Council recorded the degree of damage due to enemy action to buildings across the 117 square miles of the Administrative County of London. Using the relevant sheets of the 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey maps, the Architect's staff hand-coloured... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 104909
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(ECONOMICS.) HUTCHINSON, Geoffrey. Common Sense about the Surtax.London : 1929
First edition, first impression. Described on the front of the dust jacket as "the first book on an important topic" in the run up to the 1929 General Election, also known as the "Flapper Election" because it was the first election in which women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote.
Provenance: from the publisher's archive of Victor Gollancz... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 96262
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LABOUREUR, Jean-Émile. Petites Images de la Guerre sur le Front Britannique.Paris : 1917
First and only edition, limited to 120 signed copies, this copy numbered 10 at the limitation leaf and in pencil on all plates; the printing-plates were destroyed on completion of the edition. Inevitably highly uncommon, just 8 locations on OCLC. This copy inscribed on the second blank; "à Raoul Dufy en toute sympathie, J.E. Laboureur, 1917". A close... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 120160
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LABOUREUR, Jean-Émile. Petites Images de la Guerre sur le Front Britannique.Paris : 1917
First and only edition, limited to 120 signed copies, this copy numbered 106 at the limitation leaf and on all plates; the printing-plates were destroyed on completion of the edition. Inevitably highly uncommon, just 8 locations on OCLC. Superb suite depicting off-duty scenes on the British Front including "Les Tambours et Fifres", "Les Soldats et la... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 108171
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LUMSDEN, Peter, & George Elsmie. Lumsden of The Guides.London : 1899
First edition. Victorian biography of Sir Harry Lumsden, that includes an extensive number of letters, written mostly to his father, never otherwise published. "Lumsden's letters project a strong, positive image of the man, and they enshew the backbiting common within army hierarchy" (Riddick). Lumsden was a notable cavalry commander, and was the originator... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 74648
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PARETO, Vilfredo. Cours d'Économie Politique. Professé a l'Université de Lausanne.Lausanne : 1896-97
First edition of Pareto's first major work, inscribed by the author; "A Mr, le Dr Sülzer, Hommage amical, Vilfredo Pareto" to the title of each volume (see below).
"Pareto's aim in the Cours was 'to provide an outline of economic science considered as a natural science based exclusively on facts'" (IESS). The main economic contribution of the work... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 84058
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(SHIPBUILDING) Photos. Hull No. 2040. "World Hero" - official shipyard album documenting daily progress on the construction of an oil tanker.Yokohama, Japan : 1970
Remarkable "time-lapse" shipyard photo album documenting the construction of the oil tanker World Hero in 1970; from keel laying on May 7, 1970, to launch September 23, 1970, and finally delivery to Aquarius Shipping Co. on December 1, 1970. World Hero was constructed with a DWT - dead-weight tonnage - of 226,466 tons, and was one of the transitional... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 134938
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(LAFORGE, Lucien.) DESCAVES, Lucien. Ronge-maille vainqueur.Paris : 1920
First edition, limited to 1000 copies, this one of 969 on papier vergé. Anti-military fable by the naturalist novelist Descaves that transports La Fontaine's fabular rat to the Western Front, written in the Spring of 1917, but publication was banned until after the war; "Lucen Laforge turned his style from witty to crude for his depiction of the triumph... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 111627
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(DYLAN, Bob.) Original signed photograph by Don Hunstein.New York : 1963
A beguiling vérité image of the great songwriter, walking away from the camera with slung guitar across the floor of a deserted recording studio, captured by the celebrated Don Hunstein in August of 1963 at Columbia's Studio A in New York City. This was the album session that produced the iconic "The Times They Are A-Changin'".
Don Hunstein... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121839
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PICART, Bernard, & Jean Frederic Bernard. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde,Amsterdam : 1723-39
Mixed early editions of one of the great books of the 18th century, a work that "marked a major turning point in European attitudes toward religious belief" (Hunt, Jacob & Mijnhardt, The Book that Changed Europe: Picart & Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World, Harvard UP 2010, p. 1). Originally published between 1723 and 1737, the monumental Ceremonies... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 120466
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TARLETON, Priscilla Susan Bertie. Manuscript volume of poetry with numerous pen, ink, and pencil vignettes.London : 1796-1821
A superbly presented and deeply personal manuscript volume of largely unpublished poetry and drawings by Priscilla Susan Bertie Tarleton (1778-1864), wife of the notorious army officer and rakehell Sir Banastre Tarleton. The manuscript was produced between the years 1796, when the author was only 18 years old, and 1821, when she was 43. It contains... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 94720
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GIRARDOT, Alexandre Antoine. Two albums compiled from an artist's sketchbooks recording nearly 40 years of life in Algeria.Algeria : 1830-67
Alexandre Antoine Girardot (1815-c.1877) has left but few traces of what must have been an unusual and adventurous life. Born in Paris in February 1815, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts on 6 October 1836. A student of Blondel, he exhibited regularly at the Salon between 1841 and 1848, submitting views of Algeria and other "oriental" subjects.... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 110595
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GRIVAZ, Eugene. The World Awheel.New York : 1896
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon, just 8 copies listed on OCLC, all in North America, no copies traced at auction. Wonderful Gibson Girl-style illustrations on a cycling theme. The twelve images, originally published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in their Cycling World Calendar, represent bicyclistes of different nationalities; "they... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133637
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(KAZAKHSTAN.) KULITOV, Dzhek Galiakparovich) (ed.) Dvadsat' let Kazakhstana.Leningrad : 1940
First edition of just 4,100 copies, extremely uncommon, OCLC locates copies at the universities of Kansas and Hawaii only. Edited by the then first secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, this is a spectacular, if fragile, visual celebration of the establishment of Soviet Kazakhstan, originally founded as the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 133938
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PEPPER, John Henry, "Professor". The True History of the Ghost;London : 1890
First and only contemporary edition, this copy inscribed by the author on the title; "Mr. John Bailey, July 25 1893, With the Author's kind regards, J.H. Pepper". Pepper (1821-1900) was born in Great Queen Street in Westminster and educated at King's College School, becoming a pupil of the chemist John Thomas Cooper. In 1847 he gave his first lecture... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133346
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(BALLETS RUSSES.) Collection of eight souvenir programmes.Paris & New York : 1911-1939
Attractive and highly desirable collection of uncommon and superbly produced souvenir programmes and commemorative publications offering an excellent panorama of the two decades of the Ballets Russes.
Souvenir programme: Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt Mai-Juin 1911. Grande Saison Russe: Opéras et Ballets. Organisée par "L'Association pour la Propagation... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 118426
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BACCANTI, Alberto. Maometto, legislatore degli Arabi e fondatore dell'Impero musulmano.Casalmaggiore : 1791
First and only edition of this epic poem in Italian recounting the life of Muhammad in 12 cantos of ottava rima, each canto illustrated with a full-page engraved plate, in addition to two frontispiece portraits of the author and of Muhammad astride a rampant horse, all after original paintings by Paolo Araldi. Originally from Casalmaggiore, Araldi (d.... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 102633
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![Showa 23-nen Shina Jihen shussei kinen shashincho :Hokushi sensen hen [in Japanese: A photograph album in memory of soldiers at the front lines during the China-Japan Conflict of 1937-1938].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/114232.jpg)
(SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR.) Showa 23-nen Shina Jihen shussei kinen shashincho :Hokushi sensen hen [in Japanese: A photograph album in memory of soldiers at the front lines during the China-Japan Conflict of 1937-1938].Tokyo : 1938
First edition of this uncommon Japanese propaganda piece recording the opening campaigns of the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan's failure to defeat China in this war became the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during the Second World War. In his award-winning study of the conflict - China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 114232
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(SOUTH SEA COMPANY.) Collection of British Parliamentary Acts relating to the South Sea Company.1711-1751
A substantial collection of parliamentary acts relating to the formation, regulation, and eventual collapse of the South Sea Company, as well as the parliamentary repercussions against those responsible and attempts to ameliorate the effects. Such substantial collections of South Sea material are uncommon in commerce, and moreover some of the individual... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 97357
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(NAVAL SIGNALS.) Signals and Instructions for Ships under Convoy.London : 1808
Extremely uncommon set of instructions for merchant ships sailing in convoy during the Napoleonic Wars. Copac shows a single copy dated to 1802 at NMM, OCLC adds copies identified as 1804 at NYPL and Princeton, another lacking self-wraps - "1800s" - at the Peabody Essex and NYHSL, another similar at the State Library of New South Wales, 1802, and copy... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 127082
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TILSON, Joe. Hesiod's Crown.Bristol : 1984
First edition, from a total printing of numbered 300 copies this is one of the top 100 signed by Tilson and with the additional signed and number engraving included. Tilson takes his theme from the supposed Dionysian contest to establish the true master of Greek poetry, Homer or Hesiod, and through a series of wonderful line drawing and scraps of text... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 104791
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BEVERIDGE, Albert J. Abraham Lincoln.London : 1928
First UK edition, first impression. Highly uncommon in this condition. Beveridge retired from politics in 1922 having unsuccessfully attempted to regain a seat in the Senate and dedicated his last few years to writing. "His great Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 (posthumously published in 1928) was so thorough and professionalized a biography that he might... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 106658
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BRADFORD, William. The Arctic Regions.London : 1873
First and only edition of this highly uncommon and highly desirable Arctic record, one of perhaps as few as 300 copies. The book forms a record of the last of seven voyages to Labrador and Greenland that Bradford sponsored or participated in during the 1860s: "all early examples of what one might call 'eco-art tourism'"(Books on Ice).
Bradford was... Learn More£150,000.00Stock Code: 94428
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ULMANN, Doris, & Julia Peterkin. Roll, Jordan, Roll.New York : 1933
First edition, first printing, trade issue. Preceded by a deluxe limited issue of 350 copies signed by the author and photographer, printed on large paper and specially bound with 90 images. Uncommon in the jacket. Named after the spiritual written by Charles Wesley this collaboration by Ullmann and Peterkin focuses on the lives of second- and third-generation... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 117205
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(PEEL, Sir Robert.) Embossed memorial card marking the death of Sir Robert Peel, reading:1850
This particularly attractive exemplar of a Victorian memorial card - bearing a stock image of a sarcophagus with an urn, drapery, guttering torch, and funerary flowers - reflects the national sense of shock at the sudden death of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), prime minister and creator of the Metropolitan Police, who was killed accidentally when "he... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 115034
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(WRIGHT, Richard.) KRAVITT, Samuel, photographer. Original portrait photograph.New York : [c.1938-40]
A striking and uncommon three-quarter length studio portrait of the celebrated American author Richard Wright (1908-1960), who was "among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945). He inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other black... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 101426
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PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio One. The Seasons.San Francisco : 1963
First edition, first printing, of this fine suite of colour nature photographs. "As its name implies, the dye transfer process literally involves transferring dyes (cyan, magenta, and yellow) in succession and in careful registration onto a sheet of gelatin-coated paper. Porter remained committed to the dye-transfer process, both before and after the... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 120669
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BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Behind That Curtain.Indianapolis : 1928
First edition, first impression. This edition is uncommon, especially in such bright condition, with just six copies traced at auction in damaged jackets. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 123507
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![[Original Rackham-illustrated vellum binding:] The Open Road.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/117312_1.jpg)
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) [Original Rackham-illustrated vellum binding:] The Open Road.London : 1910
This fine example of Rackham's work is a test piece by the artist, practicing his technique for drawing directly onto vellum, possibly in preparation for a private commission. The illustration features two unconnected design elements - vignettes drawn in black and coloured inks, each signed by Rackham with his initials, and very much in the style he... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 117312
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Signed cabinet photograph.London : [c.1900]
A superb large format signed photograph, one (and perhaps the largest) of only very few examples of a signed photographic portrait of Florence Nightingale to have appeared on the market, auction records recording no examples. There are signed cartes-de-visite at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London (dated 1861, photographer H. Lenthal) and Columbia... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 125693
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(BIDERMANAS, Izis.) CHARLET, Gaston. G. Les Yeux de L'Ame.Paris : [1950]
First and limited edition, number 289 of 300 copies issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer on the front cover of the title bifolium, "a Jeanine et Pierre, ces images de Paris et da Limousin, cordialement I. Bidermanas, 24-XII-1950". Les Yeux de L'Ame is Bidermanas's first published work. His popular Paris des rêves, which followed... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 123836
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![Kaisei rikugun fukusei zu [Army Dress Code Amendments].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/0/108323.jpg)
(JAPAN - MILITARY UNIFORMS.) Kaisei rikugun fukusei zu [Army Dress Code Amendments].Tokyo : 1875
First edition of this uncommon catalogue of Meiji Restoration military uniforms, OCLC, locates just three copies, the National Diet Library, LoC, and University of Michigan. Clearly illustrates how the modernising Japanese Army adopted uniforms resembling those of their American Civil War advisors, and the French Third Empire. Early in the 1870s the... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 108323
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BECQUEREL, Henri Antoine. Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière:Paris : 1903
First edition, first impression of the author's magnum opus, the complete record of his discovery of radioactivity and research into the phenomenon. Henri Becquerel (1852-1958) was already a leading French scientist when x-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895. The following January he attended a session of the Académie des Sciences where... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 78627
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(NAVAL.) Report of the Committee on the Inflexible. With Appendix.London : 1878
First and only edition, extremely uncommon. COPAC locates just NLS and Liverpool, OCLC adds the Technische Universiteit at Delft. Inflexible was built to counter the Mediterranean threat of the Italian battleships Duilio and Dandolo, huge ironclad platforms carrying two pairs of 15-inch Armstrong guns each. Inflexible mounted more ordnance than any... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 94263
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BECKETT, Samuel. Fin de partieParis : 1957
First trade edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription, "Pour Georges ? en hommage et reconnaissance Sam Beckett Paris, fevrier 1957". One of Beckett's finest plays, uncommon with a contemporary presentation inscription. Learn More£2,800.00Stock Code: 34122
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HEWITT, Harald. From Harrow School to Herrison House Asylum.London : 1923
First and only edition. Uncommon, 7 locations only on Copac, WorldCat adds 7 more, yet none are listed with supplementary material. The supplement contains diary extracts, an homage to Emily Davison, a reproduction of her memorial service program and A Petition to the King.
Harald Charles Harvey Hewitt (b. 1873), great grandson of the second... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 133482
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![The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937, [together with;] The Sino-Japanese Hostilities Shanghai 1937. Index.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/111970.jpg)
AH FONG PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO. The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937, [together with;] The Sino-Japanese Hostilities Shanghai 1937. Index.Shanghai & Wei-Hai-Wei : 1937
First edition of the complete set of 200 silver gelatin photographs issued by the Ah Fong Photography Studio, recording the brutal siege and conquest of Shanghai by the Japanese at the opening of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan's failure to defeat China in this war became the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during the Second World War. In... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 111970
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BAKER, Joséphine; Félix Achille de la Cámara; Pepito Abatino. Mon sang dans tes veines.Paris : 1931
First and limited edition, number 33 of 250 copies printed on Vergé Baroque paper. An excellent copy with the signatures of all three "authors"; it is inscribed in lilac ink by de la Cámara on the imprint page: "Á Monsieur & Madame Jan Melle avec toutes nos sympathies, Paris, Août '31, La Cámara", with the signatures of Baker and Abatino interposed... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 132916
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(ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo; H. G. Wells; Joseph Pennell; Max Beerbohm et al.) The Butterfly.[London : 1899-1900]
The complete New Series of the literary magazine The Butterfly. The monthly magazine first appeared in May 1893 and the first series lasted until February 1894. A New Series, published by Grant Richards, was begun in March 1899 and was discontinued after 12 issues in February 1900. The magazine contains writing by Laurence Housman, and illustrations... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 139620
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(IRELAND.) The Album of Giants Causeway, Portrush & Coleraine Views.London : [c. 1890]
Attractive leporello album of images reworked in an illustrative style from photographs made by the prominent Dundee firm of Valentine & Sons, Scotland's leading manufacturer of picture postcards. The London firm of Charles, Reynolds & Co. issued many such albums, this particular title being surprisingly uncommon, with WorldCat listing one copy only,... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140147
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(OLDS, H. G., photographer.) Album of early 20th-century photographs of Argentina.Buenos Aires : [c. 1889-1927]
Attractive album of finely-detailed silver prints by the important Argentine photographer H. G. Olds (1869-1943), "one of the last major photographers of views and customs" (Alonso and Keller, p. 310). Originally from Sandusky, Ohio, where he had set up a commercial studio with partner Arthur Willman, Olds emigrated to Buenos Aires around 1900, establishing... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 135770
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SWEET, Samuel White, Captain. Captain Sweet's Views of South Australia.Adelaide : c.1884
Superb lifetime album of fully-captioned photographs of remarkable depth and clarity by the pioneering photographer of Australia Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), presenting a generous panorama of his art in prints reflecting the civic pride of the city of Adelaide through its many fine buildings, alongside the landscape of South Australia captured... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 129596
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CARAPANOS, Constantin. Dodone et ses Ruines.Paris : 1878
First and only edition, well represented institutionally, but uncommon on the market with just a single set recorded at auction. An attractive, if mildly tenuous, association copy inscribed "Au très Honorable Lord Houghton, Hommage, Constantin Carapanos". Born at Arta in Epirus, Carapanos studied law at the University of Athens, on graduation joining... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 132854
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(KENNEDY, John F.) The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts.c.1945-63
The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts spans the statesman's political career up to the presidency, from his first primary race in the 11th District in 1946 to the eve of nomination as president in the summer of 1960, encompassing three Congressional campaigns, two runs for the Senate, and a bid for the vice presidency.
David... Learn More£375,000.00Stock Code: 120955
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LEANG-LI, T'Ang (ed.) Reconstruction in China.Shanghai : 1935
First edition, first impression, of this comprehensive propagandistic account of the reconstruction of China since the foundation of the Republic of China in January 1912. The work was simultaneously published in French and German. Leang-li (1901-1970) was a journalist and politician who, in 1929, was appointed chief of the Communications Office to... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 129298
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BERTRAM, Henry & Martin K. Rodwell. Life Scenes in London.London : 1880
First and only edition, scarce, Copac lists just Guildhall, and Bishopsgate libraries, the latter evidently defective of a plate, and a leaf of text, OCLC adds the Newberry only. "to present to the Public a series of Original Sketches, wedded to amusing, and they trust, not unprofitable letterpress, has been the aim of the Publishers" (Preface). The... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 114641
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(THE SPORTING MAGAZINE.) The Sporting Magazine.London : 1793-1870 & 1892
First editions of the first periodical devoted to general sportsmanship, The Sporting Magazine, issued from 1793 until 1870. This complete collection provides an invaluable resource, reflecting the changes in society and attitudes across the turn of the century, and placing them in relation to the pastimes and sports of British society. Each volume... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 128768
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WICKHAM, Henry Alexander. On the Cultivation, and Curing of Parà Rubber (Havea Brasiliensis).London : 1908
First edition, uncommon just 6 copies on Copac. Wickham (1846-1928), first visited South America in 1866, setting himself up as a dealer in bird plumage. He subsequently pieced together a living as a rubber dealer, sugar and tobacco planter. In 1872 he was taken on by Sir John Hooker as a plant collector, and was introduced to Clement Markham who... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 117719
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MAISTRE DE LA TOUR. Histoire d'Ayder-Ali-Khan, Nabab-Bahader,Paris : 1783
First edition of this important eyewitness account of military service during the Anglo-Mysore Wars under Hyder Ali (1720-1782), sultan of Mysore; it was published the year after his death and an English translation appeared in editions at London and Dublin in 1784 and later in the 19th century. It was the basis for a version (1784-86) by Matthias Christian... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 119922
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(YEATS, W. B.) BOUGHTON, Alice. Doubly inscribed portrait photograph.New York : 1904
A doubly inscribed portrait photo, inscribed by Yeats to Una Pope-Hennessy, "W B Yeats To Mrs Pope Hennessy" at the foot of the image, and additionally signed by the photographer, "Copyrighted by Alice Boughton Apr. 1904 New York". A remarkable photo, with an appealing association, by the renowned New York photographer. Alice Boughton (1876-1945) opened... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 131408
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(RUSSIAN TURKESTAN.) Collection of 44 original silver gelatin stereo view photographs of Russian Turkestan from the "Srednyaya Aziya" (Central Asia) Series.Moscow - Saint Petersburg : 1910
Highly uncommon and interesting collection of stereo photographic views of Russian Turkestan, the term used by Imperial Russia for the territories including modern-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. They were issued by one of the major Russian publisher of stereo views, "SVET" ("Light"), who also issued views of the Caucasus;... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 132996
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HAYTER, Charles, Lieut.-Col. & Captain Harvey Kelly. Manual of Packing and Loading Drill;Bombay & Calcutta : 1883
First and only edition. Rare. OCLC locates the BL copy solely, apparently a copy in the National Library of India, together with an otherwise unrecorded edition of 1886; but no copy traced at auction. A remarkable photographically illustrated handbook for transport officers serving in India at the turn of the century. "In issuing a Manual on Transport... Learn More£8,250.00Stock Code: 115295
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![Saishin Manshu shaschincho. [The latest Manchuria Photograph Album.]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/116592.jpg)
(CHINA.) YAMAZAKI Kin'ichiro (ed.) Saishin Manshu shaschincho. [The latest Manchuria Photograph Album.][Dailian, (Dairen, Port Arthur), China] : [1931]
Fourth annual printing of this extremely uncommon photographic propaganda piece extolling the attractions and rapid development of Manchuria, issued in the year before the declaration of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. No copies of this printing located in OCLC, which lists a copy of the 1932 issue in BnF, a 1938 issue at Princeton, and a 1943... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 116592
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(LENINGRAD.) Miliärgeographische Angaben über das Europäische Rußland. Gebiet Leningrad.Berlin : 1941
First edition, extremely uncommon "invasion" handbook produced by the Nazi General Staff cartographical department. OCLC locates just two apparently complete sets - BL and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - and two copies of the text volume alone, both in Germany, and a scatter of the maps in German institutions. Issued just three months before the beginning... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 85225
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PEABODY, Henry Greenwood. Representative American Yachts.Boston : 1891 & 1893
First editions, extremely uncommon. OCLC lists just six copies of the first, all in the United States, two copies of the 1893 supplement and a few copies of subsequent portmanteau editions. A superb collection of images of some the great yachts of a Golden Age of American boat-building. Missouri-born and Dartmouth College-educated, Peabody initially... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 112236
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TANSKI, Joseph. Tableau statistique, politique et moral de système militaire de la Russie.Paris : 1833
First edition, a presentation copy inscribed by the author, exiled Polish soldier, patriot, and poet Jozef Tanski (1805-88), " à Monsieur le Général Langermann hommage de l'auteur"; autograph letter signed tipped in before the title in which Tanski presents this work on our "shared enemy, which by its subject cannot fail to be of interest to a military... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 88287
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LEONARD, Herman. L'Oeil du Jazz.Paris : 1985
True first edition. This copy inscribed by Leonard to French actor and film producer Claude Haymann, "A Claude Haymann En Sincère hommage, Herman Leonard", and extremely uncommon thus. On his return from the Second World War Leonard spent a year in Ottawa as apprentice to the great alchemist of photographic portraiture Yousuf Karsh. In 1948 he established... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 95748
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ARTARIA, Ferdinando. Nuova Descrizione del Duomo di Milano con Prospetti e Tavole incise in Rame.Milan : 1820
First edition of this attractive grand tour guide book to the duomo in Milan, fairly uncommon in the first edition with just 16 showing on OCLC. This copy with significantly more of the pleasingly sepia-toned plates than any of those listed that offer a collation, most with just 15. From the library of Sarah Frances Bell (1798-1857), with her attractive... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 102865
