The first edition of this classic introductory guide to drawing by the leading Victorian art critic and exponent of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...

John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill, beauty and anat...

With fabulous colour. A rare set of the finest early 19th-century series of racehorse portraits by John Herring, one of the greatest sporting artis...

Three parliamentary papers presented to the Houses of Parliament in July 1867 on the persecution of Jews in Iași, Moldavia. In a series of telegra...

Collection of four reports.The Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor or, as it is most generally known, the Jewish Board of Guardia...

First separate edition of Northern Germany (previously i.e. in 1868 & 1870, included in the volume on the Rhine). First description of Berlin ...

Hand-coloured aquatints. Fine, fresh copy of this important illustrated work on Russian habits and costumes.Christian Heinrich Geissler (1770-1844)...

Remarkably fine series of hand-coloured prints of military costumes after Paul I in an exceptional contemporary Russian binding. The book was prin...

Robert Adams was an American seaman, the son of a New York sail maker and an Afro-American mother. His real name was Benjamin Rose. Having set sai...

Ornithology - one of 170 copies. This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of the Amsterdam Zoo, G.F. Westerman...

Rare. Lumsden includes a short account of Muscat and describes his voyage up the Persian Gulf. also includes Bushire, Isfahan, Tabriz, Tiflis, Ros...

The forbidden city of Harar. Burton's first expedition to Somalia, made in order to explore the forbidden city of Harar (which he was the first Eur...

With monkey tools by Bozerian. A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph ...

Islam in cyprus. Claude Delaval Cobham (1842-1915) was a historian and well known bibliographer of Cyprus, as well as one of the founding members o...

Early and authentic translation. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist and very keen Egyptologist whose life had been dedicated...

First english translation. The first English translation of this poem by Jami and first translation from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Salámán and ...

Urdu poetry. A volume comprising the works of two of the most important Urdu literary poets Dag Delhavi and Mir Hassan, lithographed in 1915.Two vo...

Richardson (1740-1795) was one of the leading Orientalists of his time. 'A Specimen of Persian Poetry,' first published in 1774, was his first ma...