A collection of photographs recording German presence in China and Japan in the years 1908 – 1914. Decades before WWI Germany competed with other ...

Plan of Antwerp and its environs, including three panoramic city views of Antwerp and ten vignette views of the city's remarkable buildings. Engra...

Sammelband of three works. A charming sammelband of three works from the press of John Baskerville (1707-1775), comprising the Book of Common Praye...

Including views of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai. At a time of increased interest in China, Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted to...

A magnificent plate from 'Hortus Eystettensis', one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial rec...

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

A pair of gelatin silver prints (21 x 28 and 21 x 26.5 cm).

After the success of Layard's first expedition, the British Museum financed this second expedition during the years 1849-51. The expedition discov...

Russian life and costumes. A fine example of these beautiful engravings, here in the rarer folio version, entirely uncut.The painter and engraver J...

With magnificent plates. Grand commemorative album with magnificent plates published on the occasion of inauguration of the monument to Pushkin in ...

Best known for his representations of on the archaeological reconstructions of ruins and the documentation of contemporary Rome, Piranesi also ma...

4 mezzotints printed in colours. Framed and glazed. Priced individually

Fine images from Trew's 'Plantae Selectae', one of the greatest of all eighteenth-century botanical books, drawn by the greatest of eighteenth-cen...

Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourt...

An exceptionally fresh example in the preferred binding with a large crown, of this masterpiece of Russian printing. The work presents a comprehen...

Extremely rare work on Russian costumes and the cries of St Petersburg, masterly drawn by a contemporary of Le Prince in a typical 18th-century st...

Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Roy...

Scarce publication of Ashkenazic Penitential prayers for the whole year, one of the first Hebrew parayer books to be printed in London.In the 1770...

Illustrated with attractive maps and plans of Regents's Park and its environs.Folio. 3 reports in 1 volume, 268; 158; 154pp., folding plans of Ham...

Egypt - Alexandria. Hand-coloured aquatint view of Alexandria, dedicated to General Abercrombie and General Hutchinson. Dimensions: 500 x 660mm. (1...

Egypt - Alexandria. General Baird (1757-1829) commanded the Indian army which was sent in 1801 to co-operate with Abercromby in the expulsion of th...

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

Fine hand-coloured plates of fossils. The plates from the first and only edition of an early work on fossilised invertebrates by the German natural...