| DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor Mikhailovich -
Zapiski iz mertvago doma [The House of the Dead].
First edition in book form of Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead, very rare. During his lifetime, this was his most famous and universally recognized book. A very good copy in contemporary Russian half sheep.
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| LONDON -
The diseases and casualties this week . . . From the 18 of May to the 25.
London, Printed for the Parish Clerks by the Printer to the City of London, 1680.
A rare Bill of Mortality for the City of London.
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| DODD, Robert -
A view of the Royal Dockyard at Deptford.
London, Joseph Boydell, 1789.
Aquatint view by one of the leading marine painters of the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars.
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| BLIGH, William -
A voyage to the South Sea . . . for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in his majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.
London, George Nicol, 1792.
The rare composite issue of the first edition of the 'Voyage to the South Sea' incorporating the first edition of the 'Narrative of the mutiny' which had been published in 1790.
Full description available here.
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| BLAKE, William -
Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & engraved by William Blake 1825.
London Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825 by William Blake No 3 Fountain Court Strand, [1826].
First edition. 'Among Blake's very late works, it is as a whole the most powerful and the most completely realized' (Paley).
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