"At the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, Schweinfurth specialized in geology and botany. An 1862 specimen-collecting trip up the Nile River ...

Born in London in 1810, Kinloch joined the Indian Civil Service, becoming a judge in Bengal. He wrote several books including De Zieke Reiziger an...

Extremely rare Polish-Zionist magazine, published in Paris. The publication, which was obviously part of the circle of the General Jewish Labour B...

First edition of this diary written by a close aide to Catherine II giving an insight into the life and mind of the most powerful woman in Russian...

This was the most comprehensive dictionary of the Russian language at the time of publication. Vladimir Dahl (1801-72) dedicated 53 years of his l...

A 'very interesting work' (Blackmer), containing long accounts of Beirut, Damascus and Aleppo, as well as detailed accounts of the Druses. A caree...

'by command of his royal highness'. 'It is incumbent on every Officer in His Majesty's Service to provide himself with a Copy of these Regulations,...

An exquisite group of interior scenes, exclusively of noblewomen and ladies in waiting, engaging in various genteel activities, such as flower arr...

Government sponsored gambling. A handbill advertising tickets and shares in the state lottery of 1780. In this instance 16,021 prizes were issued a...

Rare slavery chart. Scarce colour-coded map concerning the sugar trade and its link to slavery.The section shaded yellow is the appropriate climate...

Illustrated with fine hand-coloured plates. Scarce. 'An early eyewitness description of the territories of the western coast of Africa promoting gr...

"Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone's travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lak...

'Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down the West African coast arrived at K...

Skelton began writing for Blackwood's Magazine in 1869, which he did for the rest of his life, then in 1876 he published The Impeachment of Mary S...

This title was first published in 1842 under the title of "Deutschland and Õsterreich". This copy, as is usual, does not have the rare 24pp supp...

Issued c.1896.Twenty-fifth edition. pp. xxx, 308, 26 maps, 30 plans, publisher's red cloth gilt, spine faded, staining to the lower board; a very...

Endpapers dated "August 1883".Twentieth edition. xxx, 500pp, 13pp street appendix of Berlin, 36 maps, 40 plans and several floor-plans, inner hing...

Issued c.1890.Twenty-third edition. xxx, 276pp, 24 maps and 28 plans, general map with large tear, publisher's red cloth gilt; overall a very good...

Work on the St.Gothard tunnel started to connect Northern and Central Switzerland with the Ticino and Northern Italy. (It took eight years to comp...

A rare wall map of one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution, at the height of its development.We could only trace four copies in insti...