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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Keeping Their Marbles; How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums, Tiffany Jenkins, Proof copy with detailed annotations by William St Clair
Keeping Their Marbles; How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – and Why They Should Stay there, by Tiffany Jenkins. A unique annotated p...
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Steel-engraved Book Illustration in England, Basil Hunnisett, 1980
Steel-engraved Book Illustration in England, by Basil Hunnisett. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British h...
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The Dublin Book Trade 1801-1850, Charles Benson, Thesis Publication by The Bibliographical Society, 2021
The Dublin Book Trade 1801-1850; A Thesis Submitted to trinity College, university of Dublin. With an editorial preface by David Dickson and an upd...
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Les Chants des Grecs et le Philhellenisme de Wilhelm Muller, par Gaston Caminade, Felix Alcan, 1913
Les Chants des Grecs et le Philhellenisme de Wilhelm Muller, par Gaston Caminade, Ancien eleve de l'Ecole normale superieure Agrege de l'Universite...
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Les Brienne de Lecce et D'Athenes; Histoire, Le Cte. Fernand De Sassenay, Hachette, Paris, 1869
Les Brienne de Lecce et D'Athenes; Histoire D'Une Des Grandes Familles de la Feodalite Francaise (1200-1356), par Le Cte. Fernand De Sassenay (The ...
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Le Voyage de Grece. Poeme par M. Pierre Lebrun, Ponthieu, Paris, 1828
Le Voyage de Grece. Poeme par M. Pierre Lebrun. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, ac...
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Voyage en Orient; Joseph Reinach, Charpentier, Paris, 1879, 2 Volume Set
Voyage en Orient; by Joseph Reinach. 2 Volume Set: SOLD Tome Premier; Les Premieres Stations – Le Danube, Le Bosphore; Tome Second; La Grece, La G...
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William Hone; His Life and Times, Frederick Wm. Hackwood, 1970 reprint of 1912 edition
William Hone; His Life and Times, by Frederick Wm. Hackwood. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histo...
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Polytheism and Society at Athens, Robert Parker, 2007
Polytheism and Society at Athens, by Robert Parker. Noted on the cover as 'Winner of the Criticos Prize'. Provenance; from the library of the late ...
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England in 1819; The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, James Chandler, 1998
England in 1819; The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, by James Chandler. Provenance; from the library of the late...
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History and Civilization of China, Theodore Karzis, 2000, Author inscribed copy
History and Civilization of China, by Theodore Karzis. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, ...
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Greek Sculpture; An Exploration, Andrew Stewart, Yale University Press, 2 Volume Set, 1990
Greek Sculpture; An Exploration, by Andrew Stewart. 2 Volume set complete: Volume I: Text; Volume II; Plates. SOLD Provenance; from the library of ...
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A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, F.N. Pryce, Vol. I, Part I, 1928
A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Vol. I, Part I, 1928, by F.N. Pryce, M.A., F.S.A., Assis...
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A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, A.H. Smith, Vol. III, 1904
A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, A.H. Smith, M.A., Assistant in the Department of Greek a...
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A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, A.H. Smith, Vol. I, 1892
A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, A.H. Smith, M.A., Assistant in the Department of Greek a...
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Die Hellenische Kultur, Fritz Baumgarten, Franz Poland, Richard Wagner, 1908
Die Hellenische Kultur. Dargestellt Von Fritz Baumgarten, Franz Poland, Richard Wagner. Zweite starkvermehrte Auflage. Mit 7 farbigen Tafel, 2 Kart...
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The Cambridge Greek Lexicon, 2 Volume Boxed Set, 2021
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon, 2 Volume Boxed Set. Edited by J. Diggle (Editor-in Chief), B.L. Fraser, P. James, O.B. Simkin, A.A. Thompson, S.J. Wes...
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Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts; Cases and Materials, Merryman & Elsen, Matthew Bender, 1979, 2 Volume Set
Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts; Cases and Materials, by John Henry Merryman, Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford University & Albert E. Elsen,...
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A Vision of Greece, Vera Willoughby, 1925, Limited Edition
A Vision of Greece; Described and Painted by Vera Willoughby. SOLD In poetic and theatrical prose Vera Willoughby (1870-1939), winds her way throug...
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Aquarelles de Grece, F. Perilla, Editions Perilla Athenes, 1943
Aquarelles de Grece (Watercolours of Greece), by F. Perilla. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histo...
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The Clairmont Correspondence, Marion Kingston Stocking, John Hopkins, 1995. With William St Clair review.
The Clairmont Correspondence; Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin; Volume 1, 1808-1834 & Volume 2, 1835-1879...
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Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical, Michael Bryan, 1902, 2 Volume Set
Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical, by Michael Bryan. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Edited by Robert Edmund Grave...
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Letters to John Hasfeld 1841-1846, George Barrow. Edited by Angus M. Fraser - signed by him to William St Clair, along with correspondence letter. Limited.
Letters to John Hasfeld 1841-1846, George Barrow. Edited by Angus M. Fraser - signed by him to William St Clair, along with correspondence letter. ...
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Froude's Life of Carlyle, John Clubbe, 1979. With author's written note to William St Clair.
Froude's Life of Carlyle. Abridged and Edited by John Clubbe. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British hist...
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The Life of William Hazlitt, P.P. Howe, 1947
The Life of William Hazlitt, by P.P. Howe, with an Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (193...
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Hazlitt in Love; A Fatal Attachment, Jon Cook, 2007
Hazlitt in Love; A Fatal Attachment, Jon Cook. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic...
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Hazlitt: A Life, From Winterslow to Frith Street, Stanley Jones, 1989
Hazlitt: A Life, From Winterslow to Frith Street, by Stanley Jones. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), Britis...
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The Letters of William Hazlitt, Hershel Moreland Sikes, Willard Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey, 1979
The Letters of William Hazlitt. Edited by Hershel Moreland Sikes. Assisted by Willard Hallam Bonner and Gerald Lahey. Provenance; from the library ...
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The Life of John Maynard Keynes, R.F. Harrod, 1951, with multiple signed half title, and letters by Gilbert Murray and Rose Macaulay. Liberal International & John Hutchison MacCallum Scott interest.
The Life of John Maynard Keynes, R.F. Harrod, 1951, with multiple signed half title, and letters by Gilbert Murray and Rose Macaulay. A biography o...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott, Rev. George Gilfillan, 1870
Life of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet. By the Rev. George Gilfillan, Dundee. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), B...
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Letters of Edward Dowden and his Correspondents, 1914, with autographed card from Edmund Gosse
Letters of Edward Dowden and his Correspondents. Edited by Elizabeth D. Dowen and Hilda M. Dowden. Also included with the book is an autographed ca...
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Dilettanti; The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth Century England, Bruce Redford, 2008
Dilettanti; The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth Century England, by Bruce Redford. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1...
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History of The Society of Dilettanti, Lionel Cust & Sidney Colvin, 1898, Limited edition
History of The Society of Dilettanti. Compiled by Lionel Cust, M.A., Director of the National Portrait Gallery and edited by Sidney Colvin, M.A., K...
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The Keats Circle; Letters and Papers 1816-1878, Hyder Edward Rollins, 2 Vol. Boxed Set, 1948
The Keats Circle; Letters and Papers 1816-1878. Edited by Hyder Edward Rollins, 2 Vol. Boxed Set. Provenance; from the library of the late William ...
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Oxford Edition; Collection of 12 Classic Literature and Poetry Titles with gilt edges, 1904-1916
Oxford Edition; A small library set of 12 attractive volumes published from 1904-1916. Set comprises; The Pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan, 1904;...
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Oxford Edition; The Golden Treasury; Francis Turner Palgrave, 1916
Oxford Edition; The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and Arranged with Notes by Francis Turner...
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