Specially bound by the Wiener Werkstatte. A fine example of a scarce and early work illustrated by Gustav Klimt. The erotic illustrations were sele...

Tennyson's favourite portrait, signed by him. John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810-1901) was an English photographer, born Jabez Meal in Lancashire, who f...

A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...

A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...

Tokyo is the fourth of Klein's four classic city books, following Life is Good & Good For You in New York: Trance Witness Revels (1956) and Ro...

The adoption of colour photography, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and others was not without precedent: ...

Tokyo Lucky Hole is of one of Araki's best-known books, photographed in and around the sex clubs of the Kabuki-cho area of Tokyo's Shinjuku distri...

Urformen der Kunst is an important and influential work, a cornerstone of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) movement in Germany and a consen...

These photographs were taken in the late 1950s to 1960s in the Pigalle area of Paris, where Strömholm lived and worked. He got to know a community...

Walker Evans produced this remarkable series of clandestine portraits of passengers on the New York City subway between 1938 and 1941. He caught h...

This publication is based on a smaller 1986 Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, only published in wrappers. Between 1956-61 Roger M...

The English at Home is Bill Brandt's first book. He took the photographs between 1931 and 1935, beginning the project after moving to London. Bran...

Scarce Dublin edition of 'one of the principal accounts of the Wager, which was wrecked off the southern coast of Chile after rounding Cape Horn. ...

The rare first English edition of Nicolay's Navigations, a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic wo...

Very scarce. 'the most impressive publication to have resulted from any British experience in the Antarctic' (Taurus).'This glorious and most popu...

Presentation copy of Livingstone's first expedition. A presentation copy 'Sir Thomas Dyke Acland/ with the kindest salutations/ of his friend/ Davi...

This was the last and most comprehensive edition in English.Issued c.1909.Fourth edition. cxxvi, 447pp, 16 maps (including folding map in rear poc...

An attractive atlas with a world map and five maps of the Americas.Folio (35 x 26 cm), 24 engraved maps by Lapie and Poirson, hand coloured in out...

Annotated by an officer of the bengal army. Rare. The Bengal Directory contains details of the 'British and Indian Governments', 'Supreme Court Bri...

The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...

Interesting map of India with tables of distances between the principal towns and military stations based on the latest surveys.First edition. eng...

Exhibited:Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Robert Motherwell: Black, 24th June - 11th September 2015. (6)Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Robert...

Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...

Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...