Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...

First octavo edition of the Third Voyage. The first octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage and the first to reach a wide audience. The text is sligh...

Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...

A remarkably scarce example of eighteen-nineties detective fiction, not in the British Library, and with only one copy we could trace in other ins...

An eight-volume collection of fictional letters claiming to have been written by an Ottoman spy named 'Mahmut' in the court of the French king Lou...

Strawberry Hill Press. An attractive, contemporarily bound example of this the first printed edition of the Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury...

With royal provenance. From the rebellious conduct of the Americans it appears to me there is a great necessity of publishing something of this kin...

The first edition, later state of Yeats' first published work as editor, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, issued as no. 32 of The Came...

The father of 3d movies. Descriptive geometry is the science of presenting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional plane. Gaspard Monge inv...

An attractive copy of Wilson's classic work on American Ornithology.3 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, 103 colour plates after the autho...

'Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner i...

Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard with Bob Gruen's photographic business card. Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for o...