An attractive example, in an unusual contemporary morocco binding of The Book of Common Prayer, the third and last octavo edition from the press o...

First edition of this illustrated description of peoples governed by the Russian Tsar, Alexander I. Christian Heinrich Geissler (1770-1844) was a ...

The first part of La Roque's Voyage to Arabia Fœlix describes Yemen and Mocha. Mocha at this time was a considerable trading centre. The second pa...

Superb Regency binding. An exceptionally handsome set of this stalwart of the traditional library, with finely engraved illustrations.Third edition...

Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...

Blackmer copy. Fraser was Resident at Surat from 1730-40 and then returned as Factor for the East India company, 1743-9. This work is important for...

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...

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...