The definitive edition of Darwin's first published book, The Journal of Researches, containing the naturalist's last alterations to the text, incl...

Presentation copy. Rare. Robinson claimed that Wellsted in his work Travels in Arabia endeavoured to obtain undue credit for James Bruce at the exp...

First edition. The first edition of Jacob Henry Sarratt's (d.1819) translation and arrangement of chess studies by the old masters Damiano, Ruy-Lop...

Plans include Milan, Venice, Genoa and Turin. This copy lacks the foldiing map of Northern Italy in rear pocket. Endpapers dated "May 1874".Thirte...

Early New York Haggadah. An interesting example of an early New York Haggadah.Herbew and English text printed on opposing pages. Contains a Yiddish...

Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah with two commentaries - 'Or HaShem' by Rabbi Jacob Tsevi Emden (a.k.a. Ya'avetz, 1697-1776), and 'Or Israel' by Rabbi...

Scarce first edition of the Basel Haggadah in its original publisher's decorative binding.One of the more attractive Haggadah editions that were p...

Fine copy of the rare true first edition in book form of Virgin Soil, Turgenev's last and longest novel. It was this work that established the wri...

This landmark of mountaineering literature is considered by many to be the most famous mountain travel book of the period, by the most famous moun...

The novels of George Eliot. A finely bound set of George Eliot's novels.Eight volumes, 8vo; contemporary tree calf gilt, morocco lettering pieces, ...

Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah edited by Isaac Levi, Professor and Teacher of Hebrew Language. Hebrew text and English translation on opposing pages...

Ashkenazic rite prayer-book with Judeo-German translation and commentary Hadrath Kodesh, edited by Aaron ben Isaac Eizerlohn. Title with ornamenta...

Extra-illustrated. A handsomely bound extra-illustrated set of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. This revised edition by the Anglo-Irish MP and wri...

Greatly enlarged and carefully revised' second edition. Charles Hindley (d.1893) who wrote many books on British popular literature and culture, i...

The first edition of Charles Rathbone Low's (1837-1918) illustrated history of the Royal Navy, from its origins under the auspices of the Tudor co...

[ornithology] one of 250 copies. A scarce monograph published in an edition of 250 copies only.Keulemans was the last of the great bird illustrator...

Scarce. Moorcroft's narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. En route to Bokhara...

First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest marked the zenith of Wilde's career, and followed on from the success of La...

One of 1000 copies. A sequel to Wilde's previous collection of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which he wrote for his two sons. Thi...