Bernard J Shapero : Rare Books
Bernard J Shapero Rare Books is an internationally recognised dealer in antiquarian and rare books, based in the UK. Our specialities are Travel Books, Cartography, Colour Plate Books, Modern Literature, Early English, Natural History, and Baedeker travel guides. We look forward to helping you build and improve your own collection. Please browse through our departmental pages and view our many titles, or contact us directly. We currently display over 4000 rare books online, many of which include images to allow you to view the condition of our stock.
As well as an online web presence, we can also be visited in person at our Mayfair shop where we retail on four floors. We also exhibit at major book fairs in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Milan, Paris, and Amsterdam; as well as at antique fairs in Maastricht and Moscow.
The Shapero Gallery, which is located in our shop, has a large collection of rare maps and atlases; rare and historic photographs and rare prints. We invite you to view these collections at our Gallery website.
Bernard J Shapero is an member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the British Antique Dealer's Association, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the International Map Collector's Society, the Verbande Deutscher Antiquare and the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association.
As well as an online web presence, we can also be visited in person at our Mayfair shop where we retail on four floors. We also exhibit at major book fairs in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Milan, Paris, and Amsterdam; as well as at antique fairs in Maastricht and Moscow.
The Shapero Gallery, which is located in our shop, has a large collection of rare maps and atlases; rare and historic photographs and rare prints. We invite you to view these collections at our Gallery website.
Bernard J Shapero is an member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the British Antique Dealer's Association, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the International Map Collector's Society, the Verbande Deutscher Antiquare and the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association.
Most Popular Titles
[CENTRAL ASIA] - ZALESKI, Bronislas. La vie des steppes kirghizes. Descriptions, récits & contes.
J.-B. Vasseur, Paris, 1865. Landscape folio (33 x 45 cm). Title printed in red and black, [4], 68 pp., with a frontispiece and 21 etching plates...
J.-B. Vasseur, Paris, 1865. Landscape folio (33 x 45 cm). Title printed in red and black, [4], 68 pp., with a frontispiece and 21 etching plates...
SHAKESPEARE, William. [Comedies, Histories and Tragedies.]
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Henry Frowde at the Oxford University Press, 1911. 3 volumes, 8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), portrait frontispieces...
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Henry Frowde at the Oxford University Press, 1911. 3 volumes, 8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), portrait frontispieces...
BLAEU, Joan & JANSSONIUS, Johannes & Hiers. Le Grand Atlas ou Cosmographie Blauiane, en Laquelle est Exactement Descritte la Terre, la Mer, et le Ciel.
Amsterdam, [c.1684]. 12 volumes, folio. (540 by 370mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 11 architectural and armorial frontispieces, all with...
Amsterdam, [c.1684]. 12 volumes, folio. (540 by 370mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 11 architectural and armorial frontispieces, all with...
R.S. [Robert Speed?] The counter-scuffle. Whereunto is added the counter-rat.
London, Printed for R.Scot, T.Basset, J. Wright, and R.Chiswell. 1680. 4to (14 x 18cm) [56]pp (the last 2 blank), title-page with large engraved...
London, Printed for R.Scot, T.Basset, J. Wright, and R.Chiswell. 1680. 4to (14 x 18cm) [56]pp (the last 2 blank), title-page with large engraved...
[KACHUROVSKIY, Leonid (attributed to)]. [Collection of 10 Costumes Designs for the 'Tricorne' Ballet].
. 10 brown cardboards (approx. 40 x 28 cm). Pencil, ink and gouache, pencil inscriptions in French; some spotting. Loose.
. 10 brown cardboards (approx. 40 x 28 cm). Pencil, ink and gouache, pencil inscriptions in French; some spotting. Loose.
Recent Additions
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Opera. [Complete collection of G. B. Piranesi's engraved work].
Rome. c.1788 - 1790. 24 works in 15 vols. Folio. Contemporary or early nineteenth century diced russia, a.e.g. A magnificent complete set of...
Rome. c.1788 - 1790. 24 works in 15 vols. Folio. Contemporary or early nineteenth century diced russia, a.e.g. A magnificent complete set of...
PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque; notis perpetuis illustrati, & cum integris Aliorum observationibus [...] a Johanne Laurentio.
Janssonius a Waesberge and Vidua Weyerstraet, Amstelodami, 1667. 8vo (20 x 12 cm). Allegorical engraved title, title, [60], 462, [204, index] pp. with...
Janssonius a Waesberge and Vidua Weyerstraet, Amstelodami, 1667. 8vo (20 x 12 cm). Allegorical engraved title, title, [60], 462, [204, index] pp. with...
TOLSTOY, [Lev Nikolaevich]. Sochineniya [Works].
I.N. Kushnerev, Moskva, 1893-8. 14 volumes large 8vo (25.3 x 18.5 cm). With phototype frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in...
I.N. Kushnerev, Moskva, 1893-8. 14 volumes large 8vo (25.3 x 18.5 cm). With phototype frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in...
TURGENEV, I[van] S[ergeevich]. Polnoe sobranie sochineniy [The Complete Collected Works].
Glazunov, Skt. Peterburg, 1911. 10 volumes 8vo (21.7 x 16 cm). With an engraved portrait and a folding facsimile of Turgenev's handwriting in volume...
Glazunov, Skt. Peterburg, 1911. 10 volumes 8vo (21.7 x 16 cm). With an engraved portrait and a folding facsimile of Turgenev's handwriting in volume...
LERMONTOV, M[ikhail] Yu[ryevich]. Polnoe sobranie sochineniy [The Collected Complete Works].
Imp. Akad. Nauk, Skt. Peterburg, 1910-13. 5 volumes 8vo (22 x 16.5 cm). With illustrated and facsimile plates. Original publisher's green cloth by Fr...
Imp. Akad. Nauk, Skt. Peterburg, 1910-13. 5 volumes 8vo (22 x 16.5 cm). With illustrated and facsimile plates. Original publisher's green cloth by Fr...