19th Century
Filters
-
The Kafir Wars
BOWLER, Thomas W.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Gift from Bowler's children. An attractive book by the 'David Roberts of South Africa'. Inspired by his friend, the writer and fellow artist, Thoma...
View full detailsOriginal price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| / -
Collection of 35 official British Government reports and memoranda
AFRICA 1885-93.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /A beautifully presented collection of primary works concerning colonisation in Africa in the late nineteenth century. Includes much on slavery as ...
View full detailsOriginal price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| / -
Autograph letter, signed.
BAKER, Samuel.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /The kernel of the nut. A very interesting letter from the great Nile explorer and adventurer, Samuel Baker in which he discusses the importance of ...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| / -
Continent, A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent,
MURRAY, John.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £500.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /The first edition to mention a Baedeker in a Murray Handbook. Murray writes that he 'has also derived considerable benefit from a German translati...
View full detailsOriginal price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £500.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| / -
Italy. Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy,
MURRAY, John.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /The last edition before the unification of Italy. Endpapers dated 'February 1869'.Seventh edition. 8vo, xi, [1 (blank)], 480, 68 (pink-paper adve...
View full detailsOriginal price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| / -
[In Japanese] Bankoku Tokai Nendaiki [A Chronicle of Foreign Relations].
KARITSU, Gaishi.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| /Europeans as seen by the Japanese. A rare and very attractive small Japanese publication recording European voyages to Japan prior to the arrival o...
View full detailsOriginal 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| / -
Viaggio dal mare Atlantico al Pacifico per la via del nord-ouest fatto
FERRER MALDONADO, Lorenzo.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A superb large copy in contemporary green morocco of the preferred enlarged second edition. Ferrer Maldonado's account of a spurious 1588 voyage t...
View full detailsOriginal price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| / -
Voyages aux iles du Grand Ocean.
MOERENHOUT, Jacques Antoine.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /First edition of this 'scarce and important work on Tahiti by a long-time resident'. Moerenhout includes an historical account of Tahiti since the...
View full detailsOriginal price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| / -
Group of Eight Amaryllis
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...
View full detailsOriginal price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| / -
Set of Three Bromelia (Pineapples)
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £10,000.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...
View full detailsOriginal price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £10,000.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| / -
Musa paradisiaca - Banana.
REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...
View full detailsOriginal price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| / -
The exploration of the Caucasus.
FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| /Large paper copy - one of 100. One of the finest books on the Caucasus. Freshfield was a former President of the Alpine Club and an honorary secret...
View full detailsOriginal price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| / -
The Tabernacle in The Wilderness;
RHIND, W.G.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Remarkable work on the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle (called the Mishkan in Hebrew) was the portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of th...
View full detailsOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| / -
Letters written in the interior of Cuba,
ABBOT, Abiel.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £475.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /"Abiel Abbot (August 17, 1770 – June 7, 1828) was a prominent clergyman. He was born to John and Abigail Abbot in Andover, Massachusetts, and went...
View full detailsOriginal price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £475.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| / -
The Story of Little Black Sambo.
BANNERMAN, Helen.Original price £4,800.00 - Original price £4,800.00Original price £4,800.00£4,800.00£4,800.00 - £4,800.00Current price £4,800.00| /Helen Bannerman originally wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, to send to her two small daughters that she had just left to b...
View full detailsOriginal price £4,800.00 - Original price £4,800.00Original price £4,800.00£4,800.00£4,800.00 - £4,800.00Current price £4,800.00| / -
A picturesque representation of the manners, customs and amusements of the Russians.
ATKINSON, John Augustus; WALKER, James; MOURADGEA d'OHSSON, Ignatius.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £10,000.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Two fine works on Russia and Turkey bound together . This is the second of Atkinson's works to be published after his return from St. Petersburg. H...
View full detailsOriginal price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £10,000.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| / -
Arctic searching expedition:
RICHARDSON, John.Original price £2,850.00 - Original price £2,850.00Original price £2,850.00£2,850.00£2,850.00 - £2,850.00Current price £2,850.00| /Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...
View full detailsOriginal price £2,850.00 - Original price £2,850.00Original price £2,850.00£2,850.00£2,850.00 - £2,850.00Current price £2,850.00| / -
Rambles and recollections of an Indian official.
SLEEMAN, William Henry (Lieut-Col.)Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /Sleeman (1788-1856), an officer in the East India Company, achieved some renown for his part in the anti-Thugee campaign in the 1830's and 40's, b...
View full detailsOriginal price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| / -
Tafereelen uit het Oud-Joodsche Familieleven
OPPENHEIM, Prof. Moritz.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /A magnificent book illustrated with 20 reproductions of Oppenheim's oil paintings depicting a romanticised view of 18th-century German-Jewish life...
View full detailsOriginal price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| / -
Appleton's Northern and Eastern Traveller's Guide
WILLIAMS, W[ellington]Original price £1,900.00 - Original price £1,900.00Original price £1,900.00£1,900.00£1,900.00 - £1,900.00Current price £1,900.00| /A scarce and comprehensive railroad guide for several major routes in the Northeast. This scarce guide includes parts of Canada, the Great Lakes a...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,900.00 - Original price £1,900.00Original price £1,900.00£1,900.00£1,900.00 - £1,900.00Current price £1,900.00| /
You've viewed of 2527 items