Books and Manuscripts
Lanna Antique has an extensive range of rare Asian art books and an excellent, and wide-ranging, stock of antiquarian and collectible books. We are specialists in Asian art books, including Chinese art. We also stock South East Asian Buddhist manuscripts and have many interesting publications and oddities for sale. We also aim to bring you interesting titles covering a wide range of subject matter, and update our online stock frequently.
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Radio-Activity, Ernest Rutherford, Cambridge, First edition, 1904
Cambridge Physical Series; Radio-Activity, by 660. A classic work by the New Zealand Physicist, Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), considered to be one...
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Oxford edition; The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Hutchinson, 1908
Oxford edition; The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems. Edited with Textu...
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Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, including Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel, 1918 & A Child's Garden of Verses, 1914. Bickers Binding.
Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, including Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel, 1918 & A Child's Garden of Verses, With an Introduction by And...
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Round the Grange Farm; or, Good Old Times, Jean L. Watson, 1873
Round the Grange Farm; or, Good Old Times, by Jean L. Watson, author of "Bygone Days in our Village", etc; and joint author of the "Songstresses of...
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Democratic Readings from the World's Great Teachers, W.M. Thompson, 1896
Democratic Readings from the World's Great Teachers. Reprinted from "Reynolds's Newspaper." Compiled and Edited by W.M. Thompson, L.C.C. Numerous P...
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The Expansion of England; Two Courses of Lectures, J. Seeley, 1886
The Expansion of England; Two Courses of Lectures, by J. Seeley. Published by Macmillan and Co., London and New York, 1886. Printed in Great Britai...
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon, William Smith, 1885
The Student's Gibbon; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Abridged, Incorporating the Researches of Recent Comme...
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The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Glasgow, J. Cunnison and J.B.S. Gilfillan, 1958
The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Glasgow. Editors: J. Cunnison and J.B.S. Gilfillan. Published by Collins, Glasgow, 1958. First edition. ...
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The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Ayrshire, John Strawhorn and William Boyd, 1951
The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Ayrshire. By John Strawhorn and William Boyd. Published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1951. ...
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The Treasury of History; Comprising a General Introductory Outline of Universal History, Ancient and Modern, Samuel Maunder, 1870
The Treasury of History; Comprising a General Introductory Outline of Universal History, Ancient and Modern, and a Series of Separate Histories of ...
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A Short History of the English People, John Richard Green, Alice Stopford Green, 1921
A Short History of the English People. By John Richard Green. Revised and enlarged by Alice Stopford Green. With Maps and Tables. Published by Macm...
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Hudson Bay; or, Everyday Life in the Wilds of North America, Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1879
Hudson Bay; or, Everyday Life in the Wilds of North America, During Six Year's Residence i the territories of the Hon. Hudson Bay Company. By Rober...
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A Familiar History of Birds, Edward Stanley, 1890
A Familiar History of Birds, by the Late Edward Stanley, D.D., F.R.S., Late Bishop of Norwich. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London and Ne...
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The Insect World; Being A Popular Account of the Orders of Insects, Louis Figuier, 1892
The Insect World; Being A Popular Account of the Orders of Insects, Together With A description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Inter...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay, 1883, Riviere binding.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...
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The Rise of The Dutch Republic; A History, John Lothrop Motley, 1882
The Rise of The Dutch Republic; A History. By John Lothrop Motley. A New Edition. Complete in One Volume. Published by George Routledge and Sons, L...
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The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns, T.F. Henderson, 1906
The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns, by T.F. Henderson. Published by T.N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1906. First edition. A very good, approachi...
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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Robert Chambers, 1856, 2 Vols bound as one.
The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. Library Edition. In Four Volumes. Offered here are Volumes one and two only, bound a...
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The Idler Magazine, Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr, Vol IV; August 1893 to January 1894 (Conan Doyle story)
Published between 1892 and 1911, The Idler was an illustrated gentleman's magazine, published in Great Britain, and also distributed in America. Th...
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Popular Library of Literary Treasures; Decision of Character, Representative Men and English Traits, Essays on Love, Friendship, Heroism, Character, and Essays Civil and Moral
Ward, Lock and Co.'s Popular Library of Literary Treasures. Edited by G.T. Bettany, M.A.; 4 volumes bound as one; On Decision of Character and On A...
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Hunting & Stalking The Deer; The Pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland, Lionel Edwards and Harold Frank Wallace, Signed, Limited edition, 1927
Hunting & Stalking The Deer; The Pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland. By Lionel Edwards and Harold Frank Wallace. With ...
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The Megalithic European, Julian Cope, 2004, Signed First edition
The Megalithic European; The 21st century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe, by Julian Cope. A very personal journey across Europe by Julian Cope, fo...
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The Modern Antiquarian, Julian Cope, 1998, First edition
The Modern Antiquarian; A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 prehistoric Sites, by Julian Cope. A...
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A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Funk & Wagnalls, 1907
A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, upon original plans; designed to give, in complete and accurate statement, in the light of the most ...
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About Britain - Complete set of 13 Collins Guides for the Festival of Britain, 1951
About Britain - Complete set of 13 Collins Guides for the Festival of Britain. The General Editor for the series was Geoffrey Grigson, who also wro...
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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, W. Warde Fowler, 1904
Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, by W. Warde Fowler. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Knickerbocker Press, New Yo...
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The Story of Insect Life, W. Percival Westell, 1907
The Story of Insect Life, by W. Percival Westell, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. With 138 Illustrations from Photographs by Messrs. H.W. Shepheard-Walwyn, M.A.; ...
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Poems of Tennyson, T. Herbert Warren, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912
Poems of Tennyson, including; 'The Princess', 'In Memoriam', 'Maud', 'Idylls of The King', 'Enoch Arden', etc. With an Introduction by T. Herbert W...
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A Thousand And One Gems of English Poetry, Charles Mackay, Illustrated Millais, Gibert and Foster, 1867
A Thousand And One Gems of English Poetry. Selected and Arranged by Charles Mackay, LL.D. Illustrated by J.E. Millais, R.A., Sir John Gibert, R.A.,...
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Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Definitive Edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940
Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Definitive Edition. Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1940. Would appear to be a first edition thus, fol...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. The Albion Edition. Frederick Warne, 1892
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Reprinted from the Early Editions, With Explanatory Notes, &c. By Thomas Moore. The "Albion" Edition. Thom...
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Famous Scottish Burghs; Their Romantic Story, George Eyre-Todd, 1923, Library binding
Famous Scottish Burghs; Their Romantic Story. By George Eyre-Todd, With an Introduction by Neil Munro. Published by Heath Cranton Limited, London, ...
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Lord Dunsany; The King of Elfland's Daughter, 1924. First trade edition.
Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...
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Lord Dunsany; The Charwoman's Shadow, 1926 first edition.
Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...
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Charles Dickens; Little Dorrit & A Child's History of England, Chapman and Hall. c. 1875.
Little Dorrit & A Child's History of England. Two books bound as one. By Charles Dickens. SOLD Little Dorritt was originally released in serial...
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The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying, Jeremy Taylor, 1719
670670Two volumes bound as one; The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living; In Which are Described The Means and Instruments of Obtaining Every Vertue,...
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