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Exquisitely bound and well preserved copy of the fourth edition of Nugent’s translation of #Montesquieu’s #TheSpiritoftheLaws #delespritdeslois #eighteenthcentury #ageofreason #enlightenment #politicalphilosophy #naturallaw #reason

A gorgeous and very rare second impression of #Pinocchio🤥 #carlocollodi #illustration #childrensbooks #fairytale #puppet #puppets #longnose

A stunning late-19thC edition of The Raven #illustrated by W. L. Taylor #edgarallanpoe #nineteenthcentury #gothic #literature #poetry #gothicpoetry #theraven #nevermore #illustratedbook

The famous photographer Richard Avedon collaborated with fashion designer Gianni Versace in this 1993 Miami Beach collection. Featuring bright patterns, florals and colours, the clothes perfectly match the Floridian aesthetic. #richardavedon #versace #fashion #summer #avedon #gianniversace #photography #magazine #book #collection #highfashion #designer #miami #florida #sunshine

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Come and explore the Pictorial Chronicles of the Mighty Deep in this wonderfully #illustrated collection edited by Francis Watt. #frederickwarne #illustration #exploration #maritime #19thcentury #christophercolumbus #adventure #deepsea #antiquarianbooks #rarebooks #ocean

A lovely edition (1910) of #christinarossetti with #illustration by #florenceharrison. Rossetti is famous for her poems #goblinmarket and #remembering ⠀ ⠀ #poetry #poems #artnouveau #preraphaelite #children_illustration #sonnet

A 1961 #Glyndebourne programme #signed by #FrancoZeffirelli (twice) and (a very young) #JudiDench, whom he had directed as #Juliet at the #OldVic the previous year! #romeoandjuliet #1961 #Verdi #Falstaff #RoyalOperaHouse #ReginaResnik #Donizetti #opera #Shakespeare #1960s #cinema

Two #neoclassical #painters, both of whom lived as expatriates in #Rome, both having moved there at the same age of 30 - 300 years apart. A now very rare catalogue of the rightly acclaimed #exhibition held at #Dulwich in 2011. #CyTwombly #NicholasPoussin #neoclassicism #artbooks

A Vision of #Paris (1963). Text by #MarcelProust, #photographs by #eugèneatget #atget #eugeneatget #proust #remembranceofthingspast #insearchoflosttime #arecherchedutempsperdu #nineteenthcentury #photographybook #brassaï #frenchliterature #Parisian #France #French #photography

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FERRARI, Filippo., Costumi ecclesiastici civili e militari della corte di Roma disegnati all’ acquaforte da Filippo Ferrari., Presso Luigi Nicoletti, 1823

£1,250.00

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ENRIGHT, D. J. (ed.)., Poets of the 1950’s: an Anthology of New English Verse. Edited, with an introduction by D. J. Enright., Kenyusha Ltd., 1955

£625.00

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HULL, Veronica., The Monkey Puzzle., Barrie Books, 1958

£125.00

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CLARETTA, Gaudenzio, et al., Miscellanea di storia italiana edita per cura della regia deputazione di storia patria. Tomo XXX. Decimoquarto della seconda serie., Fratelli Bocca Librai di S. M., 1893

£60.00

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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

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

£7,500.00

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