A scarce and impressive piece of ephemera designed by Bilibin. The central panel features the most important religious saint days and feasts toppe...

The complete series of attractive military costume plates of British, Russian and Prussian Armies.Three parts in one, large 4to (37 x 28.5 cm); il...

First edition of this illustrated description of peoples governed by the Russian Tsar, Alexander I. Christian Heinrich Geissler (1770-1844) was a ...

Rowlandson's superb record of the street traders of London now long disappeared: the night-watchman, the raree-showman, the sellers of poodles, ba...

A wonderfully bright and rare example of Russian children's illustration by the Abkhazian prince, artist and theatre designer Aleksandr Shervashid...

An engraved map of London and its environs published Josiah Whitbread, extending form Muswell Hill in the North to Mitcham in the South and from T...

'A sumptuous rendering of south Asia's wild game species in art and text. Lydekker describes more than seventy varieties of game with attendant no...

Fine panorama of Queen Victoria's wedding to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1840 at the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace, resplendent wit...

Dutton's scarce and beautiful series of coloured lithographs of yachting. Dutton was the foremost draughtsman and lithographer of shipping subject...

One of the great man's more important mid-period collections. Signed by Russell on the front free endpaper and distinctly uncommon thus. The Ameri...

A superior copy of a notoriously vulnerable book - the jacket in particular is prone to spitting.First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's b...

A novel of the airways.First edition, first printing, trade issue; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to upper board gilt on a black ground and t...

An important early collection of short stories and, incidentally, one of the most attractive books of its era.First edition, first printing, first...

Presentation copy to her governess and companion Helen Rootham. Inscribed by the author in pencil to front free endpaper, 'To Helen / With my very ...

One of 500 copies. One of the major titles of the Golden Cockerel Press and an extraordinary collaboration between the press director and book desi...

Colour lithograph with screenprint and etching, some with collage elements, on Rives BFK paper, signed in pencil and numbered (I-186/250 from a to...

Signed by the artist. A beautiful example of this Crimean Tatar folk tale printed in Paris in a small edition. The work is a facsimile of the origi...

First published in 1742 in folio format, both editions are extremely rare. WorldCat lists just 2 copies of the first edition and only a few copies...

'Of all my books, I like this the best...'. First edition in book form in variant binding. Dickens would write in his preface to the 1869 edition o...