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First editions of all Tove Jansson's Moomin books - whether in Swedish or in English - in their original dustjackets are scarce, and increasingly sought after by collectors. This set of 8 first English editions is available for £7500 from @PHrarebooks. https://t.co/CDDPRjDQJg https://t.co/6Xd3dx89Kp

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An (apparently) unpublished "Biographical sketch of Rev. David Ramsay", likely written in Kirkwall in Orkney, circa 1890-1900. Ramsay came to Kirkwall in 1807 as a minister, and was the pioneer driving force behind the development of the Congregational Church in Orkney. 1/ https://t.co/wSpEAA3KFT

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Read this, by @DouglasKMurray writing in @Telegraph, on the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Today would be a good day to buy yourself a copy - or another copy - of The Satanic Verses. https://t.co/AdMpHyTQK8: https://t.co/mrelrj4WVt https://t.co/hXZz0IoEw4: https://t.co/DUYNeWch61 https://t.co/ljDi5l3vcz

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The Meaning of Relativity (Albert Einstein); The Prophet (Khalil Gebran); al-Ayyām / Ṭāhā Ḥusayn; A Study of History (Arnold Toynbee); Cosmos (Carl Sagan); A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking); Les Désorientés (Amin Maalouf ); The Road Ahead (Bill Gates). 4/ https://t.co/GfyV50ObFx

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The Meaning of Relativity (Albert Einstein); The Prophet (Khalil Gebran); al-Ayyām / Ṭāhā Ḥusayn; A Study of History (Arnold Toynbee); Cosmos (Carl Sagan); A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking); Les Désorientés (Amin Maalouf ); The Road Ahead (Bill Gates). 4/ https://t.co/GfyV50ObFx

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"“These last three or four weeks in the United States, James Joyce’s Ulysses has been a significant seller because on TikTok the kids are getting excited about it,” said James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones and chief executive of Barnes & Noble." https://t.co/ijenrpzPe8

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The books are in rough chronological order, consisting of 21 books, from bottom to top: The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Republic of Plato; Diwān Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanbbī; Risālat al-ghufrān / Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī; The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri); Muqaddimah-i Ibn Khaldūn; 2/ https://t.co/0vxodZdIpY

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༄༅། །བཅོམ་)ན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་1ི་ཕ་རོལ་5་6ིན་པའི་8ིང་པོ། ། Btschom-ldan-adas-ma-sches-rab-kyi-pha- rol-tu-phyin-pai-sñing-po. This 1835 edit. of the Heart Sutra by the pioneering Orientalist & printer Paul Schilling von Canstadt was the first complete Tibetan book produced in Europe. https://t.co/YkowRgCPqG

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The Prince and the Discourses (Niccolò Machiavelli); Discourse on Method (René Descartes); The Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant); FAUST (Goethe); The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin); The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky); Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche); 3/ https://t.co/KUtequxUFX

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Later English owners of the Hours of Francois I included the author Horace Walpole; the wife of Lord Carnarvon, discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb; and Lord Rothermere. It was last sold on public auction in 1942, by Sotheby's, after Rothermere's death. 3/ https://t.co/Et6E5JVU8s