The life and times of a Jewish family in Victorian London. A unique insight into the life of a prominent London Jewish family over the course of th...

The first of these two over-sized invitations received by Miss Louisa Da Costa was to the opening of the Imperial Institute on 10th May 1893, with...

Extremely rare set of aquatints. An extremely rare set of aquatints. Russian types were a favourite subject of foreign artists who visited or resid...

Fine Venetian views. The best work by the first distinguished painter of Venetian Vedute and one of the earliest practitioners of this painting typ...

Important early iconography of Jakarta. Heydt's Ost-Indien provides us with an extensive and important work with regard to the town planning and ge...

A rare and lavishly illustrated work devoted entirely to the city of Venice, issued as part of the monumental Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiaru...

Rare lifetime edition of Smith's first book. A rare, lifetime edition of Adam Smith's (d.1790) first published book, and his most important contrib...

With monkey tools by Bozerian. A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph ...

Fine example of the Qur'an in translation. George Sale (1697–1736) was a British Orientalist and lawyer. This translation was first published in 17...

Very attractive pocket-sized Qur'an copied in a regular scribal hand and dated 1800 AH. The Qajar dynasty began in 1797 and saw a flourish in arti...

First and only edition of this Turkish grammar printed in the grounds of the French embassy at Pera, where a printing press was established in 178...

A Spanish orientalist, Francisco Canes (1720-1795) spent sixteen years devoted to the study of oriental languages in Damascus, where he was sent b...

One of the earliest Arabic printing presses in the Middle-East. The Dair al-Shuweir press at the Monastery of St John the Baptist is one of the fir...

Signed Indian binding. Rare example of a north Indian teaching Qur'an in a contemporary signed binding. In most cases, teaching Qur'ans are plain i...

Copied in the holy city of Medina. The name referred to in the colophon, Sheikh Ahmad bin Muhammad ein Muhammad Tayyeb al-Maghribi al-Fassi, is lik...