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Happy Easter (almost, i.e. Good Friday) everyone! Here’s a morale booster! T G Shaw’s Wine, the Vine and the Cellar (1863) #easter #goodfriday #wine #booze #bloodofchrist #thankgoditsgoodfriday #truevine #bankholiday

‪A wonderfully #illustrated 1898 edition of Jane #Austen’s #masterpiece #Emma. Drawings by Chris #Hamilton, and printed right here on Charing Cross Road! #books #bookstagram #literature #JaneAusten #ItsComingHome ‬

TRUE FAITH (2017) was an exhibition of visual art inspired by #joydivision and #neworder #iancurtis #manchester #petersaville #parka #manchesterartgallery #rafsimons #julianschnabel #manchesterinternationalfestival

‪‘There to dwell/In adamantine chains and penal fire’. A beautiful 1906 edition of #Milton’s epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, with 12 colour #illustration by William #Blake #london #bookstagram #poetry #literature #paradiselost #darknessvisible #fruitofthatforbiddentree ‬

‪Two early editions of #Joyce’s #masterpiece #Ulysses, from the original publisher Shakespeare and Co. one 1928, the other 1930 with original jacket contained within the binding. #modernclassics #literature #bookstagram #books #TuesdayThoughts #toiletreading ‬

A rare and wonderfully preserved catalogue of works by the uncompromising Morris Louis #morrislouis #americanabstractartists #abstractpainting #colorfield #colorfieldpainting #washingtoncolorschool

‪A very rare, very special #signed #LimitedEdition of Seamus #Heaney’s late collection District and Circle. One of only 300 printed. The final pictures are the booksellers’ favourite poems. Are they wrong? #london #books #firstedition #poetry #bookstagram #poetryismyspecialplace ‬

‪Rare first edition of the theatre adaptation of Chesterton’s nightmarish detective novel #chesterton #gkchesterton #fatherbrown #themanwhowasthursday #detectivefiction ‬#thursday #thankgoditsfriday

‪#Childhood friends return today! Beautiful editions of #Cinderella and #SleepyBeauty, illustrated by Arthur #Rackham. #London #books #bookstagram ‬

‪“A merry Christmas to us all: and God bless us, every one,” said Tiny Tim, last of all. A beautiful #firstedition of #Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, with #illustration by Arthur #Rackham . 1915 with 12 colour plates. #books #bookstagram #london #antiquarian #yuletide #humbug ‬

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PASSERINI, Luigi., Genealogia e storia della famiglia Panciatichi., coi tipi di M. Cellini E C. alla Galileiana, 1858

£85.00

Biographies & Letters

PASSERINI, Luigi., Genealogia e storia della famiglia Ricasoli., coi tipi di M. Cellini E C. alla Galileiana, 1861

£100.00

Biographies & Letters

PASSERINI, Luigi., Genealogia e storia della famiglia Ginori., coi tipi di M. Cellini E C. alla Galileiana, 1876

£85.00

Biographies & Letters

PASSERINI, Luigi., Memorie genealogico-storiche della famiglia Pecori di Firenze., coi tipi di M. Cellini E C. alla Galileiana, 1868

£50.00

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Ortelius, Abraham, Epitome du Theatre du Monde. Auquel se represente, tant par figures que characteres, la vraye situation, nature, & propriete de la terre Universelle. Reveu, corrige, & augmente de plusieurs Cartes, pour la derniere Fois, De l’Imprimerie Plantinienne, pour Philippe Galle 1590

£6,000.00

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Mandeville, John, Tractato dele piu’ maraviliose cose e piu’ notabile che si trouino in le parte del mondo redutte e colte sotto brevita in lo presente compendio del strenuissimo caualiere Ioanne de Mandauilla anglico nato nela cipta de sancto Albano, Per Manfredo de Sustreno daca Bonis 1505

£12,500.00

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Raimondo Di Sangro, Supplica Di Raimondo Di Sangro Principe Di S. Severo Umiliata Alla Santita’ Di Benedetto XIV Pontefice Massimo in Difesa e Rischiarimento Della Sua Lettera Apologetica Sul Proposito de’ Quipu de’ Peruani, Per Salzano e Castaldo 1753

£2,500.00

Fiction

I Promessi Sposi. Storia Milanese del Secolo XVII. [3 Vols; ROSSETTI family copy.]

£7,500.00

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