Tony Ray-Jones spent some time in America during the early to mid-1960s, training as a graphic designer at Yale and later with Alexey Brodovitch. ...

Presentation copy from cobden-sanderson. Inscribed on front free end paper: 'To Mr Mason/ with the compliments/ of the printer C-S, Nov, 1911'. J.H...

A charming illustrated book, by the author of La Vie Parisienne (under the pseudonym of Satin, Gratin, Pascaline).Number 10 of 30 copies on Japon,...

A Dervish is someone treading a Sufi Muslim ascetic path or "Tariqah", known for their extreme poverty and austerity. In this respect, Dervishes a...

The first steamboat patentee. The first edition of Jonathan Hulls' (d.1758) pamphlet advertising his pioneering work on steamboats. An unsophistica...

From the library of renowned 19th-century woman bibliophile. Sangermano, a missionary, worked in Burma from 1783 to 1806. His book provides a good ...

One of the most important books on the Eastern Mediterranean. The first volume contains a description of Egypt, with volume two describing Palestin...

Interleaved copy with annotations. Scarce work by the Derbyshire mineralogist and gem merchant.Second edition. 8vo., xiv, 94, [vi, errata and index...

Signed presentation copy. A stunning first edition of the very scarce seventh novel by this elusive author, centred around the then topical politic...

Uncommon single sheets of british propaganda against the russiansAt a time when relations between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire were a...

Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatl...

Includes Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy. A work of huge importance for the inclusion of Captain Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy....

First & only edition. The first and only edition of John Gill's (1697-1771) study of the history of baptism in Abrahamic religion, refuting sug...

Presentation copy. A superb association copy with Berners' presentation inscription to the front free endpaper. The recipient was Clarissa Spencer...

Beautifully bound Victorian book on insects. Second edition, an expanded and improved version of the text originally published in 1835 as the Gramm...

First issue dust-jacket. A really good copy in the correct dust-jacket with the name 'Katherine Barclay' so spelled on the front flap.First edition...

First UK edition, written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I.A profile of...

A very good first edition set of this scarce Victorian three-decker, in the original publisher's binding. The work seems to defy easy categorisati...

Commissioned for fath 'ali shah qajar. A fine Qajar Qur'an copied for Fath 'Ali Shah by a royal scribe of the Qajar courts. The scribe Muhammad 'Al...

Exquisite illumination by a named artist. A beautifully illuminated Qur'an, signed in the colophon with the name of the 'tadhhibuh' (illuminator) R...

The Tryton, Gilbert Slater commander latitude 20. 30' South Mer: Dist from Java Head 32' West 26th Jan.y 1751/2 … Signed "John Hood at Limehouse 1...

Internationally renowned flower painter. First edition of this attractively designed travel memoir by Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), 'one of Austr...