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# 43948

FAIK SABRI [DURAN] (1882-1943)

[OTTOMAN WORLD ATLAS] Ilk atlas. Ilk mekteblere mahsus.

[=First atlas for primary schools]. London : Corc Filip ve Mahdumu Limited Matbaasi [George Philip & Son], 1927. Large octavo (240 x 200 mm), original cloth-backed limp paper boards (water and ink stains, pronounced vertical crease); pp. 16, with 15 chromolithographed maps; text in Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters); all leaves with vertical …

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# 43093

CLAUDEL, Philippe

Cadran Calculateur Claudel.

Remiremont : Mougin, 1887. Narrow octavo (240 x 120 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red percaline over boards with metal corners and clasp, containing the calculator itself, printed on folding thick board 230 x 230 mm, with wooden ruler still attached by the original screw; preceded by a [4]-page summary and with a printed sheet of formulae …

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# 31434

DARTON, William (1755-1819)

38 maps. Union atlas, containing new and improved maps of all the Empires, Kingdoms and States in the known world,

designed as a companion to the various gazetteers & books of geography now in use, the whole clearly engraved by artists of eminence and carefully coloured. Including maps of the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece. London : William Darton, Jan. 25th 1812 (the maps dated between 1811 – 1812). First edition. Quarto, modern binding of half …

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# 41707

KEANE, John F.

My journey to Medinah: describing a Pilgrimage to Medinah performed by the author disguised as a Mohammedan.

London : Tinsley Bros., 1881. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth over bevelled boards (spine discoloured, chip with loss to centre of spine, head and foot worn), bookplate for W. Arthur Jeffrey to front pastedown, signed by Jeffrey on the front free endpaper, old bookseller’s label removed, hinges a little cracked, pp. viii; 212, internally clean, a …

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# 41237

ELLIS, J., Trooper

[PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Souvenir of Palestine, compiled by Trooper J. Ellis, 7th Light Horse.

[Cover title]. [s.l. : s.n., s.d.]. Photograph album. Oblong folio, 230 x 320 mm; original red cloth over boards, upper board with gilt-lettered title surmounted by the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge (also in gilt); front pastedown inscribed in ink ‘Sent by Dr. Goggins’; containing 96 black-and-white gelatin silver prints in uniform 60 x 100 mm format, …

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# 41261

[SPENCE, Catherine Helen]

An agnostic’s progress from the known to the unknown

London and Edinburgh : Williams and Norgte, 1884. Octavo, gilt-lettered brown cloth (lightly flecked and rubbed), small owner’s stamp to front pastedown, small stain to lower margin of pastedowns, pp. [ii]; 266, 8 (catalogue), a very good copy. A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, …

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# 40875

CHEO Chai-Hiang

Selected images from recent work : a set of 20 hand-printed postcards.

[Brighton, UK?] : [the artist], [1975]. Complete set of twenty hand-printed postcards (plus a duplicate of no. 18), as issued in the original plastic sleeve, with a printed title card editioned and signed by the artist in pencil ‘8/50 C.H. Cheo’; in very fine condition. A completely unrecorded set of hand-printed postcards from very early …

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# 40236

HEPWORTH, Barbara (1903 - 1975)

Barbara Hepworth catalogue raisonné. (Deluxe edition with original signed screenprint)

HODIN, J. P. Barbara Hepworth. Neuchatel, Switzerland : Editions du Griffon, 1961. Quarto, lettered cloth in dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. 172, illustrated. The French language edition, printed in Switzerland. Together with: The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960 – 69. Edited by Alan Bowness. New York : Praeger, 1971. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), housed …

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# 40439

FLEMMING, Carl (publisher); HERRICH, A. (cartographer)

[ANTARCTICA] Die Gebiete um den Südpol

Glogau : Carl Flemming, [ca. 1896]. Chromolithographic map, 410 x 480 mm, dissected and laid down on its original linen backing sheet, 420 x 495 mm; shows tracks of the main Antarctic expeditions from Cook (1772-75) to Bull (1894-95); scale 1:40,000,000; light handling wear around the edges, otherwise very good, with old collection stamp and …

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# 40221

DURRELL, Gerald (1926-1995)

My family and other animals (rare proof copy of the first edition)

London : Rupert Hart-Davis. 1956. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, first printing. Octavo, publisher’s pale blue card wrappers, light fading to spin, original title label pasted on upper wrapper (Probably publication date October 1956, Probably price 18/-), pale foxing and a couple of light creases, pp. 256; mild toning, the binding firm; a …

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# 28091

[THOMSON, John (1837-1921) (photographer) and Adolphe Smith HEADINGLEY (1846-1924)]

Street Incidents : a series of twenty-one permanent photographs, with descriptive letter-press.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson’s original dry-plate negatives, each with …

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# 18841

ARAGO, Jacques (1790-1854)

Curieux voyage autour du monde par Jacques Arago

Paris : Alfred Duquesne, 1881. Nouvelle edition. Sextodecimo, 130 x 82 mm, recased, preserving upper and lower wrappers, pp. 63, very good. In this curious little volume, Arago’s account of the Freycinet expedition is rendered without employing the letter ‘A’ once, except, notably, on the title page and some notes for clarity at the end. …

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# 39588

KING, Geoffrey

The traditional architecture of Saudi Arabia

London : I. B. Tauris, 1998. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 242, extensively illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Saudi Arabia encompasses a greater variety of architectural styles than any other country in the Arabian peninsula. The buildings of the coastal, mountain and plains regions are entirely distinctive and local in their character. By contrast, several …

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# 38510

RITCHIE, Edward Samuel; [GIBBS, Robert]

Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.

New Bedford, Massachusetts : E. S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman’s Buildings, No. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. Octodecimo (160 x 100 mm), original leather-backed stiff wrappers (stained, small loss to leather at tail of spine), the upper wrapper lettered in black and inscribed in ink – evidently in …

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# 33864

DIBBLE, Sheldon (1809 - 1845)

History of the Sandwich Islands

Lahainaluna : Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843. Octavo, full calf with flat panelled spine, ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label, gilt lettering (the binding with edge wear, recently polished, joints expertly repaired), posthumous bookplate (dated 1912) for the library of distinguished Hawaiian businessman and diplomat Henry Alpheus Pierce Carter (1837 – 1891) …

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# 35348

OTTÉ, Joachim

Landscape photography; or, A complete and easy description of the manipulations and apparatus necessary for the production of landscape pictures,

geological sections, etc. by the calotype, wet collodion, collodion-albumen, albumen, gelatine, and wax-paper processes. By the assistance of which an amateur may at once commence the practice of the art. By Joachim Otté, F.G.S., author of “A Short cut to photography.” London : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, 1858. First edition. Small octavo (167 x 110 …

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