First edition, with contributions from Seamus Heaney ('Servant Boy'), D. J. Enright, Jon Silkin, among others.First edition, unnumbered issue; 4to...

Presentation copy. presentation copy on the half-title "to David McIntosh with the Author's Compliments. Lokoja. March 27th."David McIntosh was an ...

Paul du Chaillu's copy of the special autograph edition of Stanley's American testimonial banquet.An exceptionally interesting copy of this scarce...

Contemporary economist's copy. The first edition of Keynes' masterwork. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, The General Theory is reg...

'the most significant Italian edition of the treatise'. First edition of Daniele Barbaro's (1514-1570) translation and commentary. This important p...

Deluxe edition of Stanley. The deluxe edition of Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to ...

the first of Akhmatova's works to be published after the death of Stalin.Akhmatova (1889–1966) was one of the legendary figures of modern Russian ...

The first edition of this thought-provoking collection of essays on religious themes by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), author of the acclaimed Narnia ser...

A handsome three-volume set of Milton's (1608-1674) collected poetry, arranged chronologically from his juvenilia to his last published dramatic w...

In 1879 Tristram Ellis (1844-1922), a successful watercolour artist, boarded a steamship for Alexandria with the aim of visiting Syria, Asia Minor...

When originally published this was described as an exceptional first novel because the characters are concerned with expressing themselves in phys...

The Bradley Martin copy. The scarce first edition of Yosy's classic work on the costume of Switzerland. With the distinguished provenance of the re...

Charles Smith's survey of the military uniforms of the Army of the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fifty-four of the pl...

Reinhardt's fine series of Swiss regional costume subjects set against fully coloured landscape backgrounds. Colas preferred this undated issue to...

The first part of La Roque's Voyage to Arabia Fœlix describes Yemen and Mocha. Mocha at this time was a considerable trading centre. The second pa...

An unusual album of Swiss costume plates by the 19th-century artist Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835). Pinelli illustrated works by Dante, Virgil and...

Meyer's scarce series of costume prints, lettered below image with their town of origin.First edition, small 8vo, hand-coloured aquatint frontispi...

The narrative of Crawfurd's Embassy to Burma. In 1827, following the First Anglo-Burmese War, John Crawfurd was chosen to travel to Burma (now Mya...

The American geologist Raphael Pumpelly led this important scientific expedition to Anau in Russian Turkestan in 1903-1904. He was accompanied by ...

Scarce and interesting account of Persia. Fowler was a British diplomat in Tehran during the last years of the reign of Fath Ali Shah. 'A book ful...

A rare, signed first edition of this artist's adorable drawings and pastels of dogs, an absolute canine fan's delight.First edition, signed by the...

Tennyson's favourite portrait, signed by him. John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810-1901) was an English photographer, born Jabez Meal in Lancashire, who f...

Magnificent copies of Samuel Daniell's Ceylon and African Scenery, his two masterworks, combined in a fine contemporary binding. Samuel Daniell (1...

A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...