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LE TURC, Bonaventure-Joseph. Instructions Patriotiques et Militaires,London : 1780
First edition. Le Turc was a London-based Frenchman, who published other technical manuals on ladders, cannons and bridges. The present work is a military treatise, addressed to George III, offering proposals to enhance the defences of British overseas possessions. An English translation was intended, with a prospectus produced, but was never published.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122062
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RACINE, Jean. Œuvres.Paris : 1805
A highly attractive copy, specially bound for Charlotte de Talleyrand (1799-1873), the illegitimate daughter of the French statesmen and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand and his mistress Catherine Noël Worlee. Later married to Charles's cousin Alexandre-Daniel de Talleyrand, Charlotte gained a legitimate Talleyrand name, and passed the books... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 129728
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OMAR KHAYYAM; FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubaiyat.London : [1911]
First edition thus, number 79 of 550 copies signed by Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe and printed on handmade paper (a further 25 were printed on japon), in a striking binding by Bayntun-Riviere, one of the most lavish editions of the Rubáiyát.
The prestigious London bindery Sangorski and Sutcliffe made a speciality of fabulous bindings.... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 142428
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MOORE, John. A View of Society and Manners in Italy:London : 1781
First edition. Handsome set of this highly-finished and popular Grand Tour memoir based on Moore's travels as tutor to the eighth duke of Hamilton. A pretty contemporary binding in excellent state, and an noble provenance.
Moore was trained in medicine at Glasgow, attended Hunter's lectures on anatomy in London, and studied surgery in Paris under... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139632
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BANQUE DE FRANCE. Recueil des pieces relatives au régime de la Banque de France.Paris : 1804
First edition, in a most elegant binding executed by the great French binder Jean-Claude Bozerian, of this collection of documents relating to the Banque de France.
Napoleon founded the Banque de France on 18 January 1800, in the aftermath of revolutionary recession and currency volatility, and in April 1803 it was granted the sole right to issue... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 134873
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KAZAKHSTAN. Chasovnik - Kazakh Old Believer Book of Hours.Uralsk [Oral], Kazakhstan : 1907
First edition, uncommon, no copy traced on WorldCat. A superb example in the elaborate provincial publisher's binding. Following the enactment of Nicholas II's ukase On Tolerance Development in 1905, which lightened strictures on the observances of the Old Believers, Uralsk merchant Andrey Vasillievich Simakov established the first publishing house... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 124800
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KEATS, John. Poems.London : 1905
An exquisitely bound copy of Keats's beautifully illustrated poetry, with over 300 separate inlaid components, creating a remarkable arts and crafts design. The binding is signed by R., A. & D. McGregor Aird, a trio of brothers and professional binders working at the turn of the century, on the front dentelle.
The McGregor Aird brothers held... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 144868
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ISAAC, Frederick Simeon? Odds and Ends in Prose and Verse.London : 1908
First and only edition. A truly sumptuous piece of private publishing, produced as a gift for the author's children and grandchildren, handsomely printed at the Chiswick Press and finely bound by an unnamed binder of real quality.
Among the varied pieces is "A Dream, by One who Dreamt It", a prose fantasy, conceived at the time of the Dreyfus... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122897
