Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with the daughters of ...

Robert Lugar developed a very widespread practice as a country-house architect, which extended to Scotland and Wales as well as throughout much of...

The Rhine was one of the longest series published by BaedekerIssued c.1890Eleventh edition. xxxiv, 386pp, 36 maps and 22 plans; publisher's red cl...

Endpapers dated "May 1888." Tenth edition. xxxiv, 410pp, 30 maps, 22 plans, bookplate, inner hinges cracked, some pencilling inside; publisher's r...

A scarce edition covering North-eastern Germany. Plans include Berlin, Leipzig and Copenhagen.Endpapers dated " Juni 1876". Seventeenth edition. ...

An official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Denham and Clapperton were...

Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...

This edition contains colourful panoramas and was aimed at mountaineers and walkers. The Alps were becoming more and more popular. Twenty-third ed...

'This, one of the best of Mr. Surtees' works, was originally commenced in the New Sporting Magazine, and illustrated by the inimitable artists, Wi...

Extremely scarce set of lithographs of maritime views, no copies on WorldCat.Charles Mozin (1806-1862) first painted historical paintings and batt...

An eight-volume collection of fictional letters claiming to have been written by an Ottoman spy named 'Mahmut' in the court of the French king Lou...

Memoir of the proceedings of the Liverpool Commission charged with the disposition of the Mansion-House Relief Fund in aid of the Jewish refugees,...

An attractive first edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, one of his most enduring novels: 'Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception (th...

A rare handbook which also includes Burma and the North West Provinces. There was only one edition of this title published. Very scarce. Endpapers...

Inscribed presentation copy. A major literary presentation copy of the author's first literary publication. Inscribed by Wells on the half title pa...

This series was published from 1847 to 1907.The Author of this Handbook was Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 – 1875). He was a renowned explorer,...

This was the fifth of Ackermann's 'sumptuously illustrated volumes of English topography'. The finest pictorial record of the nine most famous sch...