Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...

A bibliography of travels to the Holy Land, covering books in all languages totalling about 2,500 works on Palestine and the Near East, originally...

Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...

Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...

Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...

An attractive copy of Agin's celebrated series of illustrations. Alexander Agin (1817-75) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator and this se...

Edition De Luxe. De Luxe numbered edition of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition catalogue.The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition was held at th...

A rare work urging municipal action against the london fog. First and only edition of this rare pamphlet by a doctor and reformer imploring the Lon...

The first French edition was published in 1882. This copy is in mint conditionIssued c.1893Second edition. cxviii, 442pp, 18 maps, 44 plans and on...

A very handsome copy in contemporary tree calf gilt of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late roma...

William Scoresby junior, the great Arctic explorer, was actively engaged on scientific research into magnetism and published several papers on the...

The beginning of air quality monitoring. First and only edition of the first book on the results of air quality monitoring, a pioneering work in th...

The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...

Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

Three Men in a Boat is considered an important work of the Victorian comic texts, affording the reader a genuine insight into the morals and socia...

Rothschild copy with arms. A finely bound copy of Abel's China with Rothschild provenance, bound by the Royal bookbinder, Simier.Abel was the natur...