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Maggs Bros Rare Books
Rare Books, First
Editions, Manuscripts & Autographs
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Featured Title
Autograph Letter Signed ("Chesterfield") to "Dear Dayrolles" [his godson, the diplomat Solomon Dayrolles, the British Resident at Brussels], wryly describing his philosophy of life after his... etc.
CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773). Leter-Writer, Wit, and Politician.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Chesterfield") to "Dear Dayrolles" [his godson, the diplomat Solomon... [more]
Department: Autographs and Manuscripts:
Stock Code: AU5126 |
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We have 7757 books, first editions, manuscripts & autographs
on our online database. The most recent database update was
on 08 February 2010. To search
the database enter your search into the box below. |
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Featured Collection: Please Do Not Bend
A selling exhibition culled from a list of flat stuff from the stock
of Maggs Bros Ltd, Rare Books, counterculture section. Agitation,
assassination, art, comix, drugs, the occult, magic, esoterica, propaganda,
surrealistica, revolutions, urban guerrillas, punks & freaks etc....
With much newly catalogued (some with less guff!). Click
here to view the collection, or here to download the catalogue.
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Established
in 1853, Maggs Bros. Ltd., is one of the world's
oldest and largest dealers in antiquarian, first edition, autograph
and rare books. Serious about books without ever being stuffy, we
are proud of our traditions and history.
At Maggs Bros we consider our most important service to be the advice
and information we can offer on the various aspects of book collecting
and the building of a library. |
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The story of one of the world's greatest social movements told through
the books, manuscripts, and related objects of the period. |
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Featured Collection: Japanese Photography from the Pre-War Period
Maggs are very pleased to be able to offer two important collections
relating to Japanese photography from the pre-War period. The first
is a group of 135 titles comprising over 1000 photo-books and magazines
spanning the rich history of this most challenging period of Japanese
artistic photography. The second is a collection of 70 original photographs
from the same period. We have published a fully illustrated catalogue
in a limited edition of 450 copies giving detailed bibliographical
information on each title as well as providing background information.
To obtain a copy please click here
or contact
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I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. Home means to me now... only that place where the books are kept. John Steinbeck |
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Published previously only in a rare lithographic facsimile in 1831
this is the first scholarly publication of the modest, vellum-bound
notebook now known as the 'Roman Sketchbook' and catalogued at Chatsworth
House as 'Album 6'. The text has been fully reproduced in photographic
facsimile and accurately transcribed [more...]
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