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Featuring presentation copy of Hawking & Mlodinow's THE GRAND DESIGN with a greeting card. Both thumbprint signed by Stephen Hawking whilst on board the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line to the Canary Islands in 2014.
Also, a first UK edition of Stephen King's CARRIE, his first horror novel set in Chamberlain, Maine.
A fine and complete set, in the contemporary velum binding, of Valentyn's OUD EN NIEUW OOST-INDIEN, VERVATIENDE EEN NAAUKEURIGE EN UITVOERIGE VERHANDELINGE VAN NEDERLANDS MOGENTHEYD IN DIE GEWESTEN... set at a reserve price of $15,000.
Important botanical work by Dutch botanist Abraham Munting DE VERA ANTIQUORUM HERBA BRITANNICA with: ALOIDARIUM, SIVE ALOES MUCRANATO FOLIO AMERICANAE MAJORIS. In this work, he seeks to determine the identity of the "Herba Britannica" mentioned by the ancients, presenting potential candidates. The second work explores the aloe and other newly discovered American succulents.
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