19th Century
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Travels through the Crimea,
WEBSTER, James.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00James Webster (1802-1828) travelled extensively in the Levant with the architect W. H. Newnham in 1825-28, dying of a fever in Cairo. Includes Web...
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Kashgariia. Istoriko-geograficheskiy ocherk strany, eia voennayia sila, promyshlennost' i torgovlia.
KUROPATKIN, Aleksei Nikolaevich.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00First edition of this important monograph on Kashgar, in the original wrappers. Kuropatkin (1848 - 1925), a Russian military commander, compiled t...
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Russland.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00Town plans include Moscow, Warsaw, St Petersburg, Riga and Kiev. There is a map of Poland before the title-page. Scarce editionIssued c.1899.Fourt...
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A series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Nobleman and Gentleman of Great Britain and Ireland.
MORRIS, The Rev. F[rancis] O[rpen].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Morris' Seats is not only a record of British country houses in the second half of the nineteenth century, but also a fine example of colour print...
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An Essay on the Principle of Population;
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00First two-volume edition expounding the Malthusian-trap. The first two-volume edition of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population, with import...
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Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres [with] Supplément a l'essai sur la Théorie des Nombres.
LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Second edition of this important work by Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833), first printed in 1797-98, complete with the first supplement published...
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L'Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico
VOLTA, Alessandro.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Large paper copy in the original wrappers. Large paper copy of the first edition of Volta's last memoir on galvanism, 'a lengthy review of his reas...
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An A.B.C. of Golf, by a Victim.
[FALLS, D.W.C.]Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00An amusing alphabet, in rhymed couplets, focusing primarily on the misadventures of novice and inept golfers, illustrated with humorous lithograph...
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Juifs (Talmudists).
VIALE, Karl (lithographed after).Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00A rare group portrait of the Rabbanite Russian Jews. A chromolithograph made after a work by the Austrian painter Karl Viale.The plate was used as...
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The Hunting of the Snark.
CARROLL, Lewis (pseud. DODGSON, Charles).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00With the scarce first issue of An Easter Greeting. First edition of Carroll's dark poem, describing 'with infinite humor the impossible voyage of a...
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Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825.
HEBER, Reginald.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A valuable description of the culture of India in the 1820s. Heber's tour encompassed a journey through Bihar, Rohilkhand, Rajputana, and Gujarat,...
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Cross's New Plan of London. [1841]
CROSS, [Joseph].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00A great map of London at the very beginning of Victoria's reign - elegantly engraved with fine original hand-colour. It shows the boundaries of Th...
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Les Nouvelles Amoureuses.
AUBERT, Charles.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Complete sets of these racy French novelettes are very scarce. Titles include Une Mission delicate, La Jarretiere, Le Ballon Rouge, Le Fruit Defen...
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Rufous Backed Egret.
LEAR, Edward and John GOULD.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00"The most remarkable bird drawings ever made". Edward Lear is one of the greatest ornithological artists of all time. His contributions to John Gou...
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France. Southern France
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00First edition (of six) covering the whole of the South of France. It was adapted from the third French version of 1889. No German edition covering...
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Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa,
LAIRD, Macgregor; OLDFIELD, R.A.K.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Laird was a member of the famous shipbuilding family and the Alburkah, built by his yard, was the first iron vessel to make an ocean voyage. The ...
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