The selfish gene

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1976. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling marks), pp. xii; 224, internally clean with no inscriptions, marks or foxing, not price clipped, a fine copy. First edition of the groundbreaking work by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins which posits a gene-centred basis…

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The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter…

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[CONVICT TRANSPORTATION] Henry Day, convicted at the Wallingford General Quarter Sessions, 3 July 1835, of receiving goods under false pretence; sentenced to 7 years transportation.

[Wallingford, Berks. : s.n.], 1835. Transportation order. Folio sheet, 330 x 210 mm, printed recto only, with ms. entries dated 3 July 1835 recording the Court Order that Henry Day be transported for a term of 7 years for the felony of obtaining goods under false pretence; docketed title verso;…

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Stanfield Hall Murders. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street. Models of Stanfield Hall, the seat of the late J. Jerry Esq. ; and Pot-Ash Farm, lately occupied by the assassin Rush.

Also, may be had a complete Narrative of every particular connected with the above Murders, with an exact likeness of Rush, & correct plans of Stanfield Hall, and Pot-Ash Farm, also a survey of the two Estates, copies of the plans, &c, made for the late Trial at Norwich. Open…

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Redheap

London : Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, in the rare illustrated dust jacket by L. Lapthorn (not price-clipped, chips with loss to head and foot of spine, tears with old tape repairs verso ); pp. 318; related newspaper clippings loosely enclosed; a good copy of…

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The allegorical statue “Australie”, photographed in situ at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.

Albumen print, cabinet card format, 165 x 108 mm (mount), blind stamp of the photographer J. Lévy & cie., Paris in the image lower right; verso blank; a superb print in fine condition. This larger-than-life allegorical statue, sculpted from marble and titled Australie, was exhibited in the display of decorative arts during…

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[VIETNAM]. Relazione de’felici successi della Santa Fede predicata da padri della Compagnia di Giesv nel regno di Tvnchino,

all santita di N.S. PP. Innocenzio Decimo. Di Alessandro de Rhodes Avignonese della medesima Compagnia, e Missionário Apostolico della Sacra Congregatione de Propaganda Fide. In Roma : Per Giuseppe Luna. L’anno del Giubileo, 1650. Small quarto, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, folding frontispiece engraving, pp [16], folding engraved map,…

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The artist and companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).

Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved.…

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Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …

Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black…

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Rare Books Berlin 2026

SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)

Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,

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KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]

Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

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HAY, John, 1546-1607

De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.

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The China Directory for 1863. (With contemporary provenance from a Tientsin-based company listed in the Directory)

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MARGARET PRESTON

PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

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MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 7. November 1933

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MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 2.

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MILLER, Harry Tatlock

Manuscripts : a miscellany of art and letters : no. 4. February 1933

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New Acquisitions September 2026

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey et al.

The Yellow Book : an illustrated quarterly.

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J. LEVY & CIE. (PARIS) (photographer)

The allegorical statue “Australie”, photographed in situ at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.

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LATHAM, John (1740 - 1897)

A General History of Birds. (Deluxe issue)

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LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Renaissance 1961

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Featured item: [FIRST FLEET] Midshipman Newton Fowell, on board HMS Sirius at sea, off Rio de Janeiro, 6 August 1787: autograph letter addressed to his father, John Fowell.

A First Fleet letter, written at sea on the voyage to Botany Bay.

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