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...

A beautifully presented collection of primary works concerning colonisation in Africa in the late nineteenth century. Includes much on slavery as ...

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 ...

The first edition to mention a Baedeker in a Murray Handbook. Murray writes that he 'has also derived considerable benefit from a German translati...

The last edition before the unification of Italy. Endpapers dated 'February 1869'.Seventh edition. 8vo, xi, [1 (blank)], 480, 68 (pink-paper adve...

Europeans as seen by the Japanese. A rare and very attractive small Japanese publication recording European voyages to Japan prior to the arrival o...

A superb large copy in contemporary green morocco of the preferred enlarged second edition. Ferrer Maldonado's account of a spurious 1588 voyage t...

First edition of this 'scarce and important work on Tahiti by a long-time resident'. Moerenhout includes an historical account of Tahiti since the...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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

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...

A magnificent book illustrated with 20 reproductions of Oppenheim's oil paintings depicting a romanticised view of 18th-century German-Jewish life...

A scarce and comprehensive railroad guide for several major routes in the Northeast. This scarce guide includes parts of Canada, the Great Lakes a...