Mixed editions; 10 volumes, small 8vo (180 x 120 mm); colour frontispieces and plates illustrated by C.E. Brock, decorative titles, edited by R.B....

One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...

'a combination of english rowdyism and french lubricity' . A very good, complete run of the The Yellow Book, the quarterly that for many best enshr...

The first edition of Hobbes'/Richards' last work, as she died unexpectedly that same year. This copy in the remarkably rare dust-jacket, repeating...

With a signed original print. Reading is interesting to me and as it happens it is the only thing in which I have a qualification; a Cambridge degr...

1 of 25. Signed by the artist. Giclee print. Unframed. Sheet size: 297 x 420mm.

1 of 25. Signed by the artist. Giclee print. Unframed. Sheet size: 297 x 420mm.

1 of 25. Signed by the artist. Giclee print. Unframed. Sheet size: 297 x 420mm.

One of 300 copies - signed by the author and illustrator. Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and the i...

'Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he ...

A superbly bound example in fine condition.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a fo...