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Series of 240 finely colour-printed views of British and Irish country estates

MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland.
London, William MacKenzie, [ca. 1880]. 6 volumes. 4to. With a chromolithographed title page in each volume, and 240 full-page chromolithographs, protected by a thin leaf. Original publisher's gold-and blind-stamped red morocco over thick, bevelled boards. Each vol. ca. 90 pp. + 40 plates. Full description
€ 1,500
Colour Printing / Chromolithography Ireland Prints & Print Series UK - United Kingdom
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The account of a voyage of a Swedish privateer together with a vivid account of travels in Germany

MORTIMER, George. Engelsmannen Joh. Hindric Cox Resa Genom Söderhafvet Till On Amsterdam, Marien-Oarna, O-Taheiti, Sandvichs-och Räf-Oarna, Tinian, Unalaska och Canton i China.
Nyköping, Peter Winge, 1798.
With: (2) RISBECK, Gaspard. Bref, Rörande Tyskland, Scrifne af en resande Fransos til sin broder i Paris. Ofwersättning. Andra Uplagan.
Götheborg, Samuel Norberg, 1797-1798. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. 77, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Alaska China Eastern Europe Germany Hawaii Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North America Pacific Islands Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific
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The first ever study on cocaine

MORÉNO Y MAÏZ, Thomas. Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l'erythoxylum coca du Perou et la cocaïne.
Paris, A. Parent, imprimeur de la faculté de médecine, 1868. 4to. With a lithographic plate of coca leaves and 7 figures in the text showing the tension on the arteries after ingesting coca in various ways. Side stitched through 2 holes. [8], 90, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
France Latin America Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Peru South America
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40 colour drawings of mosaic marble floors from Roman churches

[MOSAIC FLOORS]. [Mosaic marble tile floors from five churches, most or all in Rome].
[Rome?, ca. 1662 or 18th century]. Small folio (26 x 19.5 cm). 40 ink and watercolour drawings (28 round and 12 square, each ca. 11 x 11 cm) showing the decorative patterns and coloured marbles from the floors of 5 churches. Each has a triple-rule border in black ink with a panel at the foot containing the name of the church. Contemporary(?) boards covered with later (ca. 1840?) Storemont on shell marbled paper. [40] ll. Full description
€ 17,500
Architecture Drawings & Watercolours Italy
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Uphill! A collection of folders, brochures and books on mountaineering

[MOUNTAINEERING]. [A collection of brochures and folders on mountaineering].
[Austria and Switzerland, ca. 1920- ca. 1980]. Ca. 653 brochures (including a few duplicates and variant issues).
With: [A collection of books relating to mountaineering].
[Globally, ca. 1830- ca. 2000]. Ca. 875 books (including a few duplicates and variant issues, and several multiple-volume titles). Full description
€ 45,000
Art & Art History Austria Central Europe Charts & Maps Economic History & Trade Games & Sports Photography Switzerland
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Loans by the UK for major infrastructure development in Jordan

MU'AMMAR, Sayid Ya'coub; B.L. STRACHAN. Exchange of notes concerning an interest-free development loan by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
London, Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1970. 4to. With the UK coat-of-arms on title-page. Text in English and Arabic in naskh type. Stapled. 8 pp. Full description
€ 450
Economic History & Trade Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom West Asia
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The wonders of nature

MUNERELLE & LEMAITRE. Les phénomènes et les curiosités de la nature. Texte par Munerelle. Dessins par Lemaitre.
Strasbourg, Paris, Derivaux, Arthus-Bertrand, Martinon, 1856. Large 4to. With lithographed aquatint printed in sepia on title with a view of a burning vulcano, and 37 full-page colour-printed lithographed plates, beautifully finished by hand and glazed, all depicting natural phenomena, such as a sun-rise, a storm, a rainbow, the Niagara Falls, Geysers, The Andes, the Nile, the Vesuvius, a jungle, the steppe, cliffs, mines, the tide, the Poles, a cyclone, an undersea volcano, etc., also including natural disasters, like a flood, an earthquake, and an avalanche. Original gold-stamped half brown leather. [92] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Arctic & Antarctic Bindings Ceylon Children's Books India & Sri Lanka Ireland Museums & Wunderkammer North America Scotland
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The defeat of the Ottoman corsair fleet, one of two known copies

[MURILLAS Y FEXADA, Juan Lopez de]. Relacion verdadera de las Gloriosas proezas, y Vitorias, que han hecho las invencibles Galeras de Malta en los mares de Levante, en este ano de mil y seiscientos y cincuenta y dos.
Madrid, Gregorio Rodriguez, [1652]. Folio (29 x 20.8 cm). With the Spanish Royal coat of arms on the recto of the first leaf [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) Naval History Spain Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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From the Rothschild library: 102 extraordinary plates of the Mosque at Córdoba and the Alhambra complex

MURPHY, James Cavanah. The Arabian antiquities of Spain.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1815. Double elephant folio (500 x 675 mm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved part title and 103 plates (numbered 1 to 97, plates 8, 79 and 80 in 2 parts, plate 86 in 3 parts) including a folding plate (pl. 12), engraved by Porter, Turel, Roffe, Keux and others after Murphy. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. [4], 21, [1] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
Architecture Islamic Art, Culture & Science Spain
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