Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was polymathic to an embarrassing degree. Born in Zutphen, he crammed into his fifty-seven years parallel lives as diplomat, scholar of Chinese and Japanese culture, musician and writer.
Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was polymathic to an embarrassing degree. Born in Zutphen, he crammed into his fifty-seven years parallel lives as diplomat, scholar of Chinese and Japanese culture, musician and writer.
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Vintage Travel Posters 2025
Nineteenth Vintage Travel Posters catalogue. on view at our Athenaeum, 1st Floor, 22 Charing Cross Road until Friday 5th December
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A conversation with Fay Ballard
Fay Ballard is a London-based artist, working mainly in drawing, and is the elder daughter of J.G. Ballard.
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[ALMANACK.] Les Étrennes de l’amour sensitive, et de la raison qui égaye. Dédiées a un petit nombre d’Amans, & primitivement à ma bonne Amie. Sur des Airs choisis & connus. Pour la présente Année. Par M. Dumeny.
JONES, Sir Harry. Plan of the Defences of Sebastopol, with the Lines of Attack of the Allied Armies previous to the final Assault on the 8th Sept. 1855.
![[VARIOUS]; AUDEN, W. H.; HEANEY, Seamus; LARKIN, Philip; SMITH, Stevie, et al. Poem of the Month Club](//sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124362_300x300.jpg?v=1769851647)
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![[TYNDALE, William ( translator ).] The Newe Testament. Four Gospels.](//sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2123905_300x300.jpg?v=1770292296)
![[TYNDALE, William ( translator ).] The Newe Testament. Four Gospels.](//sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2123905_250x250@2x.jpg?v=1770292296)
![MILTON, John; William BLAKE ( illustrator ). Poems in English: Paradise Lost [and] Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes.](//sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124261_300x300.jpg?v=1770292213)
![MILTON, John; William BLAKE ( illustrator ). Poems in English: Paradise Lost [and] Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes.](//sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124261_250x250@2x.jpg?v=1770292213)
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![[VARIOUS]; AUDEN, W. H.; HEANEY, Seamus; LARKIN, Philip; SMITH, Stevie, et al. Poem of the Month Club](http://sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124362_250x250@2x.jpg?v=1769851647)
![[TYNDALE, William ( translator ).] The Newe Testament. Four Gospels.](http://sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2123905_{width}x.jpg?v=1770292296)
![[TYNDALE, William ( translator ).] The Newe Testament. Four Gospels.](http://sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2123905_250x250@2x.jpg?v=1770292296)
![MILTON, John; William BLAKE ( illustrator ). Poems in English: Paradise Lost [and] Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes.](http://sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124261_{width}x.jpg?v=1770292213)
![MILTON, John; William BLAKE ( illustrator ). Poems in English: Paradise Lost [and] Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes.](http://sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124261_250x250@2x.jpg?v=1770292213)
![[ALMANACK.] Les Étrennes de l’amour sensitive, et de la raison qui égaye. Dédiées a un petit nombre d’Amans, & primitivement à ma bonne Amie. Sur des Airs choisis & connus. Pour la présente Année. Par M. Dumeny.](http://sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124352_{width}x.jpg?v=1769766235)
![[ALMANACK.] Les Étrennes de l’amour sensitive, et de la raison qui égaye. Dédiées a un petit nombre d’Amans, & primitivement à ma bonne Amie. Sur des Airs choisis & connus. Pour la présente Année. Par M. Dumeny.](http://sotherans.co.uk/cdn/shop/files/2124352_250x250@2x.jpg?v=1769766235)
