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...

In essence a 'new work'. The second edition, substantially revised and in essence a 'new work' in which Malthus defends his views against a host of...

Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) the renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were r...

Second edition of three in the French series. Issued c.1897.Second edition, xlviii, 447pp, 14 maps, 22 plans; publisher's red cloth gilt; a mint c...

First edition in mint condition. This is the last series started by Karl Baedeker himself before he died in 1859. Plans include Versailles, Rouen, ...

The first major history of Yemen by an British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 200...

Plate from Iconographie du Genre Camellia ou Description et Figures Des Camellia Les Plus Beaux et Les Plus Rares Peints D'Aprés Nature.[Iconograp...

First edition. This is the first of five editions published on Northern France. This title was never published in German. Issued c.1890.First editi...

'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a nineteenth-century reader with the wonder...

Written by Richard Ford.. The unusual one volume edition written by Richard Ford.Ford's work on Spain is considered to be one the great works on Sp...

Magnificent six volumes Ashkenazic Machzor of Festival Prayers, translated by Rev. David Aaron De Sola, minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Jew...

One of the earliest preachers in English of the London Jewish community' The Jewish Encyclopedia. First and only edition of this work by Rabbi Tobi...

Charles Badham (1805-1857) studied medicine at Pembroke College then practised in Rome and Paris for several years until ill health forced him to ...