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Lanna Antique has an extensive range of high quality antiquarian and collectible books. We are also specialists in Asian art books, including Chinese art. We 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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This is Greece; as Photographed by Members of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1941

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A striking visual record of early 20th-century Greece, This is Greece (1941) presents a curated selection of black-and-white photographs captured b...

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Helden Von Hellas den Griechischenn Sagen Nacherzahlt von Ernst Roenau, Mit 12 Faksimilebildern von W. Russel Flint, Vienna, 1925 numbered limited edition

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A beautifully illustrated limited edition retelling of classical Greek myths, Helden von Hellas (Heroes of Hellas) presents Ernst Roenau’s evocativ...

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A New French Dictionary; To Which is Prefixed a French Grammar, by Thomas Deletanville, 1771

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First edition of Thomas Deletanville’s A New French Dictionary (London: J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1771), a substantial bilingual work combining Fr...

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1659-1669, edited by Henry B. Wheatley, 3 volumes complete, G. Bell and Sons, 1928

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A compact and elegantly produced India Paper edition of one of the most important and entertaining historical diaries in the English language. The ...

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The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, James Anderson, Volume Sixteenth, 1793, Edinburgh

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The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

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Brazil by Michael Palin; First edition inscribed by the author, 2012

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A visually stunning and warmly written travelogue by the celebrated broadcaster, writer, and former Monty Python member, Brazil follows Michael Pal...

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The Triumph of Maximilian I; 137 Woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair and Others, Dover Publications, New York, 1964

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A visually striking facsimile edition of one of the great artistic triumphs of the German Renaissance. The Triumph of Maximilian I reproduces the c...

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A Collection of Jessie M. King Ephemera; Posters, leaflets, cuttings, articles, cards etc., 1980s-2000s

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A Collection of Jessie M. King Ephemera; Posters, leaflets, cuttings, articles, cards etc., 1980s-2000s. A substantial and varied collection of mod...

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Tales from Inverbothrie, Frances Ryhnd Brightman, Pentland Press, 1997

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Tales from Inverbothrie, by Frances Ryhnd Brightman. Described as "Written as a historical novel, Tales from Inverbothrie charts the fortunes of a ...

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Twilight in the Forbidden City, Reginald F. Johnston, Oxford University Press, 1985

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First published in 1934, Reginald F. Johnston's Twilight in the Forbidden City is the classic insider’s account of life in the Chinese imperial cou...

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The Plays of Shakespere, with notes by Charles Knight and Illustrations in Photogravure, In Six Volumes, Virtue & Co., c. 1890

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This six volume set of The Plays of Shakespere, with notes by Charles Knight and published by Virtue & Co. c. 1890 (undated), presents the Bard...

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Master Humphrey's Clock (The Old Curiosity Shop), Charles Dickens, Chapman and Hall, First Book Edition, 1840

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Master Humphrey’s Clock began in 1840 as Dickens’s weekly miscellany of tales and sketches narrated by “Master Humphrey,” but soon became the seria...

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The Merchistonian, Volume Thirty-fifth, 1908

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The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

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The Merchistonian, Volume Thirteenth, 1886

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The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

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Records of Experiments on Living Animals, Bacteriology Department, University of Aberdeen, 1967-1980

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Records of Experiments on Living Animals, Bacteriology Department, University of Aberdeen, 1967-1980. A substantial large-format institutional ledg...

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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, William and Robert Chambers, 4 Volumes; VII, VIII, IX, and XI , Nos. 313-572. 1839-1943

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This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, William and Robert Chambers, Volume II, Nos. 27-52. July-December, 1844

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This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

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Gazette Anecdotique; Litteraire, Artistique et Bibliographique, G. D'Heylli, 1879

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Gazette Anecdotique; Littéraire, Artistique et Bibliographique was a 19th‑century French periodical aimed at bibliophiles and lovers of art, litera...

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The Gentle Shepherd, A Scots Pastoral Comedy, Allan Ramsay, John Robertson, Glasgow, 1758

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Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd is a cornerstone of 18th‑century Scottish literature, widely celebrated as the nation’s first major pastoral dra...

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The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926

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A charming illustrated edition of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton’s classic The Compleat Angler, edited by Richard Le Gallienne and adorned with il...

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The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea or Land, Vol.II, Andrew Mackay, 1801

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This is Volume II of Andrew Mackay’s The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea or Land (1801, second edition, improved and enlarged),...

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, 2008 1st edition

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A delightful modern epistolary novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) was the debut work of American author Mary Ann Shaff...

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Paul and Virginia, J. Bernardin H. de Saint Pierre; Helen Maria Williams, 1828

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A charming pocket‑sized 1828 edition of Paul and Virginia, the enduring pastoral romance by Jacques‑Henri Bernardin de Saint‑Pierre, here translate...

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The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Macmillan 1894, Interesting India Provenance

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A handsome late‑Victorian edition of The Works of Alfred Tennyson, attractively bound in green leather with raised bands and gilt titling, compleme...

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