Set of Festival Prayers (Machzor) by one of the pioneers of Hebrew printing in London with incredible provenance of the de Rothschild family.The F...

A first work on Judaism by a professional woman writer.This set was removed from the de Rothschild library at Exbury House, Hampshire. The house w...

Hendley depicts the rulers of India from the end of the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, starting with the portrait of emperor Akbar, the foun...

Gill's account of her experiences on the Atlantic island of Ascension as part of an 1867 scientific expedition led by her husband, the astronomer ...

Mrs Postans' advance copy. Postans (1808-46) was assistant to the political agent in Sindh and Baluchistan. A comprehensive description of Sindh in...

Holub, an Austrian, arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields. Holub gives accounts of pipe mining and their are ...

An excellent copy in the original boards of 'the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature' (Norman).First published in the Lond...

Drew made a nine year stay in Kashmir between 1862 and 1871, and travelled widely in the country.First edition. 8vo, xii, 336 pp., 3 Woodbury-type...

One of the few indisputable classics in the history of moral philosophy'. The first edition of this systematic study of ethics often considered the...

Luxury lithography from Liverpool - one of 150 copies. One of the most impressive lithographed botanical books, containing numerous exotic species ...

A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...

First editions. A finely bound set of the first editions, first printings of Kipling's classic novel The Jungle Book, and its sequel The Second Jun...

An excellent copy in crushed brown morocco gilt by Roger de Coverly of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, an important work of religious litera...

A very pretty pair of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Known as the 'miniature edition', it is prized for its combination of convenient size and reada...

Andrews, an East Indian Railway official, had propoped a railway along Euphrates, linking Europe with the Arabian Gulf at Basra, as a direct route...

Account of Burnes' British commercial mission to the Court of the Emir of Kabul in 1837-38. The Mission was a failure and in 1839 Burnes re-entere...

the first detailed account of Afghanistan by a western observer. Elphinstone collected important information on the geography, government, languag...

Comprising: Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Villette, Shirley, Jane Eyre, Emma, Poems (by all three) an...