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Unrecorded proof Arnold & Dent trade card, circa 1830

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Eduardo Paolozzi, ‘As Is When’

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AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

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Orwell's Critical Essays: 1946 1st in dust-jacket

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Henry Moore on African art

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Oppenheimer’s unpublished masterpiece

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Inscribed to Stephen Hawking by his Russian counterpart

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The ‘transmutation letter’: Darwin’s first published mention of evolution

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With unpublished notes on Venus by Patrick Moore

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Demonology in Oxford

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Churchill’s career recorded by his cousin

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