Deluxe edition with the plates hand-coloured. During the Crimean War William Simpson (1823-1899), became a pioneer war artist: dispatched by the pr...

The complete series of attractive military costume plates of British, Russian and Prussian Armies.Three parts in one, large 4to (37 x 28.5 cm); il...

Very good example of this souvenir album published on the eve of the coronation in a limited edition, to be distributed among the nobility close t...

Eyre's record of part of the debacle of the First Afghan War of 1839-42. Following the murder of Alexander Burnes in 1841 the British force was be...

Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy. The Schwerdt-Spitz-Bobins copy of this rare early Alken series, issued without a title-page and which Schwerdt says was...

Hand-coloured issue. The rare hand-coloured issue of Daniel's classic compendium of field sports, with an additional hand-coloured engraved frontis...

The strikingly dramatized scenes depicted were evidently chosen by Davenport to give a romantic view of Ali Pacha's life. The text was taken from ...

Paul du Chaillu's copy of the special autograph edition of Stanley's American testimonial banquet.An exceptionally interesting copy of this scarce...

A handsome three-volume set of Milton's (1608-1674) collected poetry, arranged chronologically from his juvenilia to his last published dramatic w...

In 1879 Tristram Ellis (1844-1922), a successful watercolour artist, boarded a steamship for Alexandria with the aim of visiting Syria, Asia Minor...

The Bradley Martin copy. The scarce first edition of Yosy's classic work on the costume of Switzerland. With the distinguished provenance of the re...

Charles Smith's survey of the military uniforms of the Army of the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fifty-four of the pl...

Reinhardt's fine series of Swiss regional costume subjects set against fully coloured landscape backgrounds. Colas preferred this undated issue to...

An unusual album of Swiss costume plates by the 19th-century artist Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835). Pinelli illustrated works by Dante, Virgil and...

Meyer's scarce series of costume prints, lettered below image with their town of origin.First edition, small 8vo, hand-coloured aquatint frontispi...

The narrative of Crawfurd's Embassy to Burma. In 1827, following the First Anglo-Burmese War, John Crawfurd was chosen to travel to Burma (now Mya...

Scarce and interesting account of Persia. Fowler was a British diplomat in Tehran during the last years of the reign of Fath Ali Shah. 'A book ful...

Presentation copy of Livingstone's first expedition. A presentation copy 'Sir Thomas Dyke Acland/ with the kindest salutations/ of his friend/ Davi...