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MANN, Thomas. József Egyiptomban.Budapest : [c. 1937].
First edition in Hungarian of Joseph in Ägypten (Joseph in Egypt, 1936). Presentation copy from the author to Churchill's literary agent Emery Reves: "Herrn Dr. I. Revesz, freundlich zugeeignet dedicated in friendship Küsnacht I. XI. 36 Thomas Mann". The author's inscription dates to a time of great personal crisis: in November 1936 he was granted... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 121577
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KAFKA, Franz. Amerika.Munich : 1927
First edition, first printing, of Kafka's incomplete first novel, written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously three years after the author's death. The first chapter had been published in 1913 under the title The Stoker, but Kafka abandoned the novel shortly thereafter. It was translated into English in 1938. The novel was partly based... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 129354
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(AFRICA: IVORY COAST.) Remarkable photographic archive of American life and mercantile enterprise in French West Africa during the 1930s.Ivory Coast : 1932-6
A unique and vivid archive of extraordinary breadth, comprising nearly 1,200 images that provide a striking panorama of colonial life in the Ivory Coast during the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of Brents Rowlett Gruber, wife of Lewis H. Gruber, an American entrepreneur from Louisville, Kentucky, who was involved in the logging industry and ran a Chevrolet... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 119443
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RAND, Ayn. We the Living.New York : 1936
First edition, sole printing, presentation copy of Rand's first novel, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper just a few days after publication on 7 April, "Johnny and Lucille - - who sympathize with my cause - Ayn. 4-13-1936". The first printing of 3,000 copies sold out within 18 months of the book's publication, but in the meantime Macmillan... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 125120
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CULWICK, A. T. & G. M. Ubena of the Rivers.London : 1935
First edition, first impression, in the scarce dust jacket. This work is the result of the few years "The Culwicks" spent living with the African Bena tribe. The Bena first migrated into the highlands of southern Iringa Region (Njombe District) in the early 1800s. In the 1860s some groups migrated down into the river lands of southwestern Morogoro Region.... Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 120359
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KAFKA, Franz. The Metamorphosis.London : 1937
First English language edition, first impression, of the author's masterpiece, which was originally published in the German magazine Die Weißen Blätter in October 1915, under the title Die Verwandlung. The translator was A. L. "Bert" Lloyd. Lloyd came from a humble background, emigrated to Australia in the 20s and, after stints working... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 139325
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![[Original drawing: the Prophet Almustafa.]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/130660.jpg)
GIBRAN, Kahlil. [Original drawing: the Prophet Almustafa.]1923 or after
Original drawing by the author, a version of the same image that was used as the frontispiece to The Prophet. It is evidently an idealized portrait of Gibran himself. Several versions are known; this example was a gift to Barbara Young, his last companion and assistant, author of a biography of Gibran.
Gibran (1883-1931) emigrated from Lebanon (in... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 130660
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CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel F. A., Comte de Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece.Paris : 1782
First edition, first issue, the Discours Préliminaire concluding on the fourth line of page xvi. First volume only, but complete in itself, and without doubt one of the most desirable of all 18th-century works on Greece. A second volume was published in two parts, the first in 1809, and the "final biographical livraison was published posthumously"... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 83997
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RAE, John. Statement of some new Principles on the Subject of Political Economy exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of some other Doctrines maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."Boston : 1834
First edition, scarce and often overlooked, of "one of the highlights of classical economic theory" (K. H. Hennings in The New Palgrave). A native of Scotland, Rae (1796-1872) emigrated to Canada, and thence to America, where this, his only publication, was written. Originally intended as an appendix to a larger work on the Natural History and Statistics... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 107939
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HOENICH, P. K. Robot Art. Research No. AR10 of the Faculty of Architecture.Haifa : 1962
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Paul Konrad Hoenich "To Alto Meyer - with friendship - P. K. Hoenich, Haifa, 31. I. 63." One of the earliest publications on computer art. Prof. Emeritus Paul Konrad Hoenich (1907-1997), nicknamed PeKA, was born in Austria-Hungary and died in Haifa. PeKA studied at the Academies of Vienna, Florence and Paris.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 46774
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ENGELS, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.New York : [1887]
First edition in English of Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England (1845), Engels's masterful survey of Worker's conditions. "In 1842, Engels left for England to work in his father's Manchester firm his father was a textile manufacturer in Westphalia. Already converted by Moses Hess to a belief in 'communism' and the imminence of an English social... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 132006
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WREDE, Adolf von. Reise in Hadhramaut: Beled Beny, Yssà und Beled el Hadschar.Brunswick : 1870
First edition. Adolf von Wrede, a Bavarian nobleman, was "the first scientific traveller who succeeded in penetrating into the region of Hadhramaut" (van der Meulen, cited after Trautz, "Adolf von Wrede", in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 20, no. 4, 1933). He travelled to the region, now part of Yemen, in 1843, becoming the first European... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 117615
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MARX, Karl. Advance announcements of the publication of Das Kapital.Geneva : 1867
First edition of Marx's formal announcements, both signed and unsigned, of the publication of the first volume of his magnum opus, Das Kapital, in the uncommon revolutionary socialist journal Der Vorbote, with an exceptional provenance, being from the library of the German radical journalist and agitator Johann Most, who played a part in Capital's publication... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 120907
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WILD, Frank. Shackleton's Last Voyage.London : 1923
First edition, third impression. Wild had joined Scott on the Discovery, travelled with Mawson on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, "and was a close friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod expedition of 1907-09 and second-in-command on the Transantarctic Expedition of 1917-17... Wild joined Shackleton on his final voyage... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 137538
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Prophet.New York : 1923
First edition, first printing, a very scarce presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Brander Matthews with real admiration from Kahlil Gibran, October 1923". The recipient, Brander Matthews (1852-1929), was an American writer and educator. The first full-time professor of dramatic literature at an American university, he played a... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 138457
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(DORE, Gustave.) DANTE ALIGHIERI. Le Purgatoire.Paris : 1868
First edition of Doré's completion of the Divine Comedy, which started with L'Inferno in 1861; an expensive book which sold a remarkable 3,000 copies, confounding his publisher, Hachette, and garnering Doré the Légion d'honneur. Purgatory and Paradise seem not to have fired his imagination in quite the same way, which is perhaps true of all readers... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 140001
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MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey.Oxford : 1933
First and only edition, with the bookplate of Comte François Chandon de Briailles, member of the famous Champagne family and gentleman scholar of numismatics and heraldry. An important study, never superseded, in fact "remains the only authoritative work on the subject" (Obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). Mayer was born in Galicia... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 127302
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BETJEMAN, John. Ghastly Good Taste.London : 1933
First edition, first state, the Hungarian-born architect Ernö Goldfinger's copy, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Having immigrated to England during the 1930s, Goldfinger became a prominent member of the London-based Modern Architectural Research Group (known as MARS), of which Betjeman was also a member. "The force of Goldfinger's... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 123746
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LANG, John Dunmore. The Australian Emigrant's Manual.London : 1852
First edition, first issue. Lang (1799-1878), the son of a small Renfrewshire landowner, was one of the most influential and controversial figures in early Australian politics. He emigrated in 1823 and became Sydney's first Presbyterian minister; in 1832 he formed the presbytery of New South Wales, and established the synod of New South Wales in 1850;... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 124858
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(SENDAK, Maurice.) BOND, Gladys Baker. Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects:New York : [1955]
First editions, first printings. "The tales deal with conflicts children face, particularly in regard to bullying and physical violence. Sendak, then a self-taught artist in his late twenties just beginning to try his hand at illustration, supplied the cover art and several line vignettes. One imagines that Sendak's parents were very happy to hear about... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 126954
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ROSENBERG, Heinz. My Four Years of Horror through the Holocaust.New York : 1983
First edition of one of the most important of Holocaust memoirs, produced in a very small number of copies. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on a preliminary blank: "To Mr & Mrs Gourany, May the tragedy of the Holocaust bring people together to create a better world for generations to come. With kind regards Henry L. Robertson, N. Y. 6/13.83"... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 126940
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MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey.Oxford : 1933
First and only edition of an important study, never superseded, which in fact "remains the only authoritative work on the subject" (obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). Mayer was born in Galicia in 1895, studied in Vienna, Lausanne and Berlin, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921 where he was employed in Department of Antiquities.... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 110826
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NORDENFELT, Thorsten. The Nordenfelt Machine Guns described in Detail and compared with other Systems;Portsmouth : 1884
First edition. Extremely uncommon promotional publication for Nordenfelt's guns; "When I commenced to write this treatise upon Machine Guns it was my intention to endeavour to give an unbiassed opinion about this subject in general; but I soon found it impossible to avoid comparisons, and I have therefore thought it better to give my own views, 'sans... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 87744
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[GOLßENAU, Arnold Veith von.] RENN, Ludwig. After War.London : 1931
First English edition, first impression, of this second novel (originally published as "Nachkrieg" (1930), the sequel to "Krieg" (1928), or War (1929)), by "Ludwig Renn", pseudonym of Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golßenau (1889-1979), the aristocratic German novelist who later joined the Communist party in 1928, was arrested in 1932 by the Nazis for... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 104593
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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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ASHTON-WOLFE, H. Crimes of Love and Hate.Boston & New York : 1928
Early edition with the title page headed "The Riverside Library". A collection of eight true crime cases, including the murder of Don Ramon Valdez y Cazal, Orsini the croupier, Latouche the Apache, two chapters on Hanoi Shan (a possible model for Fu Manchu), and Mata Hari. Harry Ashton-Wolfe (1861-1959) is described by Andrew Lycett, in his biography... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 113406
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[LLANOS Y GUTIERREZ, Valentin Maria.] Sandoval: or, the Freemason.London : 1826
First edition, presentation copy to George Keats, inscribed by the author, his brother-in law, "George Keats, the gift of the author", on the title page of all three volumes. George Keats (17971841), younger brother of the poet John, never met Llanos, but was pleased to have as "a friend and brother" a man of letters, and enjoyed both his published... Learn More£13,500.00Stock Code: 102920
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LAMBETH, Joseph A. Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries.London : 1936
First UK edition, first impression, originally published in a limited run in the US two years earlier. Lambeth was an award-winning American pastry chef who emigrated to England and founded his own successful pastry school. A scarce title in this condition. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 105741
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.New York : 1926
First trade edition, first impression, rare in the dust jacket. Born in Lebanon, the poet Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) emigrated to the US at a young age. He became a leading member of the "Pen League", an influential circle of Arab writers based in New York. After producing several works in Arabic, he published his masterpiece, The Prophet, in English... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127018
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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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CANTILLON, Richard. Saggio sulla natura del commercio in generale. Autore Inglese.Venice : 1767
First edition in Italian of Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en général, first published in French in 1755. This translation, attributed to F. Scottoni who signs the dedication, is extremely scarce, OCLC locating only the British Library copy.
Richard Cantillon (c.1680-1734) was an Irish-born banker and economist, forced to emigrate... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 118599
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STRICKLAND, Agnes. The Seven Ages of Woman, and Other Poems.London : 1827
First edition, presentation copy from the author's sister, inscribed on the half-title "To Mrs Cautley with Jane M Strickland's love", later inscribed on the half-title verso, "To Miss G. F. J. Foster with compliments from Andrew J Cutler", with the ownership signature of Ida S. Cutler to the title page.
The Seven Ages of Woman is Agnes Strickland's... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 138335
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CANTILLON, Richard. Essai sur la nature du commerce en général.London Fletcher Gyles [but Paris : 1755
First edition. This copy is one of a very small number to contain at the end a copy of Barrois's catalogue of publications for sale, which lists Cantillon's work with his initial.
Richard Cantillon (c.1680-1734) was an Irish-born banker and economist, forced to emigrate to continental Europe by the Williamite confiscations. He honed his financial... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 137110
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JEROME, Harry. Migration and Business Cycles.New York : 1926
First edition, first printing, of Jerome's study of migration to America and its correlation with business cycles, an exhaustive study which has perhaps been unjustly overlooked: the inquiry "studied immigration to the United States and linked the ebbs and flows in the numbers to the ups and downs of the business cycle. Jerome acknowledged that although... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 137536
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THORBURN, Grant & Son[s]. Price Catalogue of Kitchen Garden, Herb, Flower, Tree and Grass Seeds, Bulbous Flower Roots, Greenhouse Plants, Agricultural, Gardening and Botanical Books, Garden Tools, Etc. For Sale by G. Thorburn & Sons, Seedsman and Florists, 67 Liberty Street, New-YNew York : 1830s
An impressive, large and unrecorded broadside from one of the most important horticultural firms of the day, listing over a thousand varieties of vegetable, herb and ornamental plants, as well as books and tools. The printer was at this address in 1832. Of note, is the cancelling by hand of the "S" of the word "Sons", no doubt a result of William Thorburn... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 115416
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ASHTON-WOLFE, H. The Underworld:London : [1926]
First edition, first impression. Nine true crimes stories described by the Daily Graphic (and trumpeted proudly on the front of the jacket) as "staggering secrets of the sleuth-hound". Harry Ashton-Wolfe (1861-1959) is described by Andrew Lycett, in his biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as "one of Conan Doyle's more colourful friends in the criminological... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 113408
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CANNAN, Joanna. Pray Do Not Venture.London : 1937
First edition, first impression of the novel, featuring a couple who emigrate to Australia. Cannan is perhaps better known today for her three daughters Josephine, Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson, who wrote a number of fictional equestrian books which were extremely popular with girls. From the publisher's archive with their stamp to the title... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 95324
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BRYANT, William Cullen (ed.) Picturesque America.London : [c.1890]
A handsomely bound set of the UK edition of American poet William Cullen Bryant's monumental monograph on North America, a classic work of Americana which proved to be an instant success when it was first published in the US in 1872-4. The superb plates were engraved by Robert Hinshelwood, a Scots engraver who emigrated to America in 1835 where he established... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 104915
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HALL WILTON, John. Scenes in a Soldier's Life:London : 1860
Third edition of this eyewitness account of the First Afghan War, with an extensive subscriber's list featuring many British, Canadian, and Irish military men. Hall Wilton kept a daily journal during the Afghan war and not only detailed military events but also any murders, assassinations, and personal treacheries within the ranks. He served with the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 129371
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![[The Industrial Development of Poland, in Russian:] Promyshlennoe razvitie Pol'shi.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/130548.jpg)
LUXEMBURG, Rosa. [The Industrial Development of Poland, in Russian:] Promyshlennoe razvitie Pol'shi.St Petersburg : 1899
First edition in Russian of Luxemburg's first economic paper, the doctoral thesis for which she was awarded a PhD in law and political economy from the University of Zurich in 1897, the first woman to be recognised so. It was first published in German in 1898 as Die Industrielle Entwicklung Polens. OCLC locates just four copies of the Russian... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 130548
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MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey.Oxford : 1933
First and only edition. An important study, never superseded, in fact "remains the only authoritative work on the subject" (Obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). Mayer was born in Galicia in 1895, studied in Vienna, Lausanne and Berlin, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921 where he was employed in Department of Antiquities.... Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 111051
