C.E. Brock originally illustrated Pride and Prejudice for Macmillan in 1895, with black and white line drawings. He then collaborated with his bro...

Scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan. The scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan, Character & Costumes of Afg...

A complete set of this handsome facsimile edition of all eight Persian Gulf pilots published between 1870 to 1932. Invaluable not only for sailing...

Fragments was the last of the celebrated works of Humphrey Repton.Written after the Prince had rejected Repton's plans for the Royal Pavilion, Fra...

Churchill's first book. First edition, first issue of Churchill's first published work. It gives a detailed account of the 1897 military campaign o...

The first complete collected works. Turgenev's last literary undertaking – the first complete collected edition of his works. Collected editions ha...

From the library of the last French Queen. A superb copy with royal provenance of van O. Fisscher's survey of Japan. van O. Fisscher worked in Japa...

With 24 finely coloured aquatints. A very good first edition copy of Wathen's Voyage to Madras, richly illustrated with 24 finely coloured aquatint...

Lumsden's Arabic Grammar 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion' (Preface). The intended second v...

First Sikh War. Scarce. The title-page gives the name of C. Gomeze as the designer and lithographer - probably the Christopher Gomez, of the H.C. L...

The best of the 'jesuits' editions. The highly regarded first Glasgow edition of the 'Jesuits' text. This set handsomely bound with the gilt arms o...

Inspiration for darwin's origin of species. First edition, presentation set inscribed by the author on each title, 'Mary Edmonds from the Author, H...

Original drawings of 19th century locomotives. A standard printed locomotive engineer's pocket book, in which columns are left blank for the user t...

Early account in English of the stethoscope. Inscribed at foot of title: 'To Hyett Esq / with author's compliments'.Pages 153-59 contain an account...

Rare Japanese Treatise on Silk Manufacturing. Illustrated treatise on the rearing of silkworms and the manufacturing of silk. The work traces the h...

Earliest issue of one of the greatest of 19th-century illustrated books. Roberts' Holy Land, was one of the most elaborate ventures of 19th-century...

This scarce title contains descriptions of Najd, Hejaz and Yemen and includes notes on the Wahhabis, the lives of Arab women and the minority reli...

Paxton wanted to create an important botanical magazine with 'Engravings of Plants, of the natural size, beautifully coloured, from original drawi...

Rare first and only edition of a diary of a Russian expedition in the Baltic Sea by Captain Gavriil Sarychev (1763-1831), a veteran of the Billing...

The first british fish book in colour. A handsomely bound reissued set of this 'major contribution to ichthyology... the earliest work on British f...