With an extra suite of plates & original watercolours. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of plates and a copper plate. This copy also includ...

A unique copy with original watercolours. A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings...

Limited edition - one of 100 copies. A finely bound example with intricate onlay designs inspired by the story.Limited edition, one of 100 copies o...

A handsomely bound example of Brunelleschi's illustrated edition of three works by the French dramatist, poet & novelist Alfred de Musset, kno...

This is the second edition of an important French Restoration polemic. Duplanyl was a master of mosaic/onlay binding.Second edition, 3 vols, tall ...

First dated edition. The first dated edition of the most well-known of Erasmus' works. It followed the undated Paris printing by Gilles de Gourmont...

Second edition of this scarce work on the prophet Muhammed by Henri de Boulainvilliers. This book is a thorough history of Muslim and Islamic cult...

First edition of this intriguing work by Vico that chronicles the deeds of one of the most famous Neapolitan men of arms of the seventeenth centur...

Rare first edition of Baldi's translation into Italian of Heron of Alexandria's Automata, a treatise on self-propelled machines which enable wonde...

A handsome copy of the Book of Common Prayer together with the Psalms of David, rubricated throughout. 8vo; title printed in red and black, rubric...

Complete sets of these racy French novelettes are very scarce. Titles include Une Mission delicate, La Jarretiere, Le Ballon Rouge, Le Fruit Defen...

Editio princeps. The rare editio princeps of this famous treatise containing a compendium of all the culinary literature that appeared during the s...

Rare fourth edition. Mela's Cosmographia is the earliest surviving Latin work on geography and the only treatise devoted exclusively to that subje...

First French edition (originally published in Dutch in 1729), illustrated throughout with engraved plates, maps, and illustrations by Jan Luyken (...

Originally published in Dordrecht in 1660 in Dutch, this is the first edition printed in German. The work was compiled by Thieleman Braght from ch...

A label pasted to the front wrapper reads 'Map of Beshagard, the work of Sulayman Mirza', and the map itself is entitled 'The work of the servant ...

A collection of, for the most part, previously unpublished Latin poems of Christian interest. This work was the first published by Hieronymus [Ger...

Commission for a qajar prince. An attractive volume comprising the Risalah Salariyyah of 'Isa bin Reza Quli Qajar, known as Majnun, followed by a s...

An at the time of publication significant work relating to the artist Félicien Rops, featuring previously unpublished material. Notable for its at...

Probably one of a number of spurious, pirated imprints derived from Elzevir's edition of several years earlier. Trajano Boccalini (1556-1613) auth...

A neat Spanish-language pocket edition of Thomas à Kempis' famous devotional work, embellished with four fine copper engravings.Small 12mo (137 x ...

An attractive edition of the Valencian renaissance humanist Juan Luis Vives' linguistic work for students of Latin. 12mo (152 x 80 mm.); half-titl...

Limited edition, one of 500 copies (this numbered 133); 4to (28 x 21 cm); with 45 illustrations from original watercolours by Pierre Brissaud repr...