Gesneria family of flowers are native to the Caribbean.This beautiful and vibrant botanical lithograph is after a drawing by Charlotte Caroline So...

A very handsome copy in contemporary binding.Thick 4to (245 x 180 mm);illustrated with engraved full-page plates, after various artists, sporadic ...

First U.K. edition, translated by Antonia Fraser; 8vo ( 225 x 150 mm); various black & white photographic illustrations; publisher's maroon cl...

Nancy Mitford's most successful novel dedicated to Gaston Palewski, with whom she had fallen madly in love, and for whom she moved to Paris at the...

Moonchild was the second of Crowley's interwar novels - following Diary of a Drug Fiend in 1922. It is a wild fantastical roman-à-clef and inciden...

Signed by the illustrator. Signed and dated (1955) by the artist on the title page. Minton was a parsimonious inscriber of books; we have seen only...

A fine copy of James Orange's catalogue of the Chater collection. Originally formed by Wyndham Law, the collection was acquired by Sir Catchick Ch...

Key climate change novel. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World antic...

Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page: 'For Leon Drucker, with all my good wishes, Leslie Har...

8vo (185 x 120 mm); frontispiece illustration of the author, internally fine; publisher's maroon leatherette, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gi...

Austen's debut novel and one of her several masterpieces, it tells the story of Marianne and Elinor Dashwood and their parallel experience of love...

With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...

In the original dust-jacket. The second volume of Churchill's autobiography including his early political career, the First World War...Gallipoli, ...

Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...

Signed by author. A near-fine, signed, first edition of the continued adventures of Charlie Bucket and his family, in the company of mad confection...

Rare inscribed copy. Probably the most famous of H.G. Wells' 'scientific romances', in which a scientist finds a way of turning himself invisible w...

In the original glassine dust jacket. A very good copy in the rare dust-jacket.First edition, first printing (with the correct front and rear endpa...

Fine views of Lahore and Amritsar. The drawings were selected from an album produced by the wife of a British army officer serving in the Punjab. T...

Well-illustrated account of White's tours in the direction of Mussoore, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, etc.First edition; 2 vols, fol...

Collection of felicitation scrolls presented to the Governor of Bengal. A unique collection of felicitation scrolls, all in fine condition, all pre...

Early photography. An attractive description of the excavations of the long neglected site at Cyrene in Libya between Tripoli and Benghazi, with al...

Cast iron sculpture with rust patina and 14 copper nails, 1921/74, annotated with the artist's name and titled in white paint on the handle, numbe...