Beautifully bound Victorian book on insects. Second edition, an expanded and improved version of the text originally published in 1835 as the Gramm...

From the library of oliver sacks. First English language edition, from the library of neurologist Oliver Sacks, with his octopus bookplate.This Eng...

Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...

The first book to apply darwinian evolution to humanity. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans, just preceding Dar...

Important early account of epilepsy. First edition of this volume on mental illness that contains 'the best early account of epilepsy after [Thomas...

The origin of modern nursing. First edition, early issue — probably the third or fourth — with advertisements on the endpapers and 'the right of tr...

The rare first american book on neurology. The rare first edition of the first American neurology book.Psychiatrist Amariah Brigham (1798-1849) was...

The first volume of supporting evidence for the origin of species. First edition, first issue, of this important contribution to Darwin's theory of...

Rare popular anatomy by the neurologist who identified bell's palsy. First and only edition of this rare popular work by the anatomist, neurologist...

An early and influential materialist explanation of ghost sightings. First edition of a key work attributing ghost sightings to the human mind, an ...

Lange's rare work on Ferrara. 'The plates herein represent fancy-dress costumes for this 1843 recreation of a celebration at the Court of Ferrara,...

A pair of very well-preserved paintings on glass showing two flagships of Lord Nelson.HMS Foudroyant was an 80-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, o...

A beautifully illustrated twelve-volume set of Shakespeare's plays in a handsome contemporary tree calf binding, comprising his 36 canonical works...

Maps include Turin, Genoa, Verona, Milan and Venice. Issued c.1892Ninth edition; lxii, 464pp, 16 maps, 26 plans, small tear to general map of Nort...

A rare illustrated Russian translation of Jules Verne's acclaimed Around the World in 80 Days together with Around the Moon in a remarkably fresh ...

This is an early edition of the earliest French series first published in 1846. It includes Cologne, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Strasbourg. Endpaper...

A fine set of Jerome K. Jerome's comic masterpieces, all first editions, beautifully bound.First editions, first impressions (Three men without '1...

An attractive set of Great Expectations, the most popular of Dickens' novels, in a contemporary binding.Although the title-pages states 'Second an...

Bell's palsy & the anatomy of the nervous system. Second edition and a handsomely bound copy of Bell's collected papers about the nerves that w...