A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing courtiers.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpens...

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière...

Second English edition, published a year after the Harper and Wiley editions.An account of the The Texan Santa Fe Expedition, a commercial and mil...

Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...

Blakesley was a clergyman, who, whilst at Cambridge University was a member of the Apostles Club along with Alfred Lord Tennyson. He wintered in A...

'The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton in the Ovampo country, and the other when he t...

Finely bound in tree calf. Scarce in such handsome condition.First edition. 2 volumes, 4to (28.5cm), xviii, 476; x, 580pp., 2 additional engraved t...

Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...

The first appearance of the famous doctor syntax. Containing some of Thomas Rowlandson's best-known images. Abbey states that the magazine was prob...

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...

This fine ceramic jug commemorates the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-89 and Stanley along with his officers, E. M. Bartelot, W. Bonney, A. J. ...

The Jewish Rhubarb seller was well known in the streets of London in the 19th Century, as is documented in 5 different prints of this subject. The...

'A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates incl...

The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Vi...

One of the key figures in the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-49), György Klapka (1820-1892) went on to be a member of the Hungarian Parliamen...

Covers the Auvergne, Provence, Languedoc and Corsica.8vo ( 18 x 12 cm), pp xxviii, 863, 96 appendix dated 1872-1873 ion grey printed paper, 12 map...

First edition. A very scarce first edition which rarely appears on the market. This English edition served as a basis for the German edition publis...

8vo., 13 engraved plates on india-proof paper, woodcut illustrations, some very occasional, scattered spotting, later full morocco gilt, with pink...

The last in a series of excellent editions Major published between 1823 and 1844.Sml. 8vo.,lx, 418, [1] pp., 12 steel-engraved plates and numerous...

With calotype plates. Rare photographs by Trémaux, which 'rank among the earliest endeavours to record indigenous people by photography... Trémaux ...