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...

The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...

Following several rejections from various publishers for The Professor, Charlotte Brontë concentrated her attention on Jane Eyre, finishing her 'f...

This was the last edition of Rhine and Northern Germany together in one volume.The last edition before the establishment of the German Empire. Str...

This edition was issued in conjunction with the great International Exhibition in Vienna in 1873. This was the last edition to include the Eastern...

Krapf was the first European to see Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. Important account by the German missionary who during his travels collected info...

Stanley's lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa u...

Inscribed to the author's mother. inscribed 'To my dearest Mother', and dated 8 December 1864.One of the scarcest Nile accounts and a monumental wo...

Oscar Wilde's marvellous all-time favourite work, as illustrated and embellished by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood.First trade edition; large 8vo (2...

3 vols, 8vo (227 x 160 mm); First vol: frontispiece photogravure of Lewis Carroll, 40 black & white illustrations by Peter Newell, further tex...

Inscribed copy. Rare inscribed copy of Stanley's final book. It consists of articles originally published in the journal, South Africa. Stanley had...

Inscribed copy. Burton's second expedition to Midian, the area of north-west Arabia on the opposite bank of the Red Sea from the Sinai Peninsular, ...

Isabel Burton's second book detailing a journey made with her husband to India, via Arabia and Egypt between 1875 and 1876. Although the work is p...

Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, surgeon and Irish antiquary, was the father of Oscar Wilde. Wilde travelled for nine months as medical attendant t...