Experts' Choice
- For the Armchair Explorer: Books on Travel and Exploration
- For the Literary Enthusiast: Books on Literature
- For the Time Traveller: Early Printed Books
- For the Nature Lover: Books on Floral & Botanical Wonders
- For the Art Aficionado: Illustrated Books
- For the Photographer: Rare Photographs and Photobooks
Filters
-
My Philosophical Development.
[philosophy] RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of Russell's intellectual autobiography in which he gives insight into the changing natur...
View full detailsOriginal price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| / -
Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph.
STRAND, Paul.Original price £1,875.00 - Original price £1,875.00Original price £0.00£1,875.00£1,875.00 - £1,875.00Current price £1,875.00| /One of 100 signed copies. One of 100 signed and numbered copies bound in cloth. The regular edition was issued in two versions: a single volume to ...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,875.00 - Original price £1,875.00Original price £0.00£1,875.00£1,875.00 - £1,875.00Current price £1,875.00| / -
A Fortnight's Tour amongst the Arabs on Mount Lebanon.
G. (C.)Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Woman traveller in nineteenth century Syria. 'C. G., a British woman, made a trip through Syria, mostly on horseback, travelling from Bhamdoon. She...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| / -
Polnoe Sobranie [The Complete Works].
TURGENEV, Ivan.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /The first complete collected works. Turgenev's last literary undertaking – the first complete collected edition of his works. Collected editions ha...
View full detailsOriginal price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| / -
The Haggadah.
[HAGGADAH]. SZYK, Arthur (illustrator); ROTH, Cecil (editor).Original price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00| /Number 59 of 125 copies printed on vellum, signed by both Szyk & Roth; large 4to, comprising 118 french-fold leaves; original blue morocco by S...
View full detailsOriginal price £45,000.00 - Original price £45,000.00Original price £0.00£45,000.00£45,000.00 - £45,000.00Current price £45,000.00| / -
Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China;
WATHEN, James.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /With 24 finely coloured aquatints. A very good first edition copy of Wathen's Voyage to Madras, richly illustrated with 24 finely coloured aquatint...
View full detailsOriginal price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| / -
Inscriptions on the Seikh Guns Captured by the Army of the Sutledge 1845-46.
[FIRST SIKH WAR].Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /First Sikh War. Scarce and beautiful memento of the first Sikh War. The title-page gives the name of C. Gomeze as the designer and lithographer - p...
View full detailsOriginal price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| / -
The Holy Land
ROBERTS, David.Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00| /Earliest issue of one of the greatest of 19th-century illustrated books. Roberts' Holy Land, was one of the most elaborate ventures of 19th-century...
View full detailsOriginal price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00| / -
Les âmes mortes.
CHAGALL, Marc; GOGOL, Nicolai.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /The first major book entirely illustrated by Chagall. Gogol's masterpiece Dead Souls, the first major book entirely illustrated by Chagall and his ...
View full detailsOriginal price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| / -
CYPRI INSVLAE NOVA DE SCRIPT 1573.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Cyprus, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| / -
JAPONIAE INSVLAE DESCRIPTIO.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Japan, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched ...
View full detailsOriginal price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| / -
ISLANDIA.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Iceland, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriche...
View full detailsOriginal price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| / -
Humanity and Inhumanity.
RODGER, George.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Edition of 100 with a signed photograph. The deluxe edition of Humanity & Inhumanity, the first comprehensive overview of Magnum co-founder Geo...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| / -
HISPANIAE NOVAE SIVAE MAGNAE RE CENS ET VE RA DESCRIP TIO. 1579.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Mexico, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| / -
HISPANIOLAE, CVBAE ALIARVMQVE INSVLA RVM CIRCVMIACIENTIVM DELINEATIO.
ORTELIUS, Abraham.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00| /Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of South Florida and the Caribbean, along with a regional map of western Mexico, taken from the fifth, fin...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00| / -
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants.
PAXTON, Sir Joseph.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Paxton wanted to create an important botanical magazine with 'Engravings of Plants, of the natural size, beautifully coloured, from original drawi...
View full detailsOriginal price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| / -
Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong,
WRIGHT, Arnold; H. A. Cartwright.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Wright and Cartwright's monumental work on Hong Kong and the other great trading ports of China.First edition. 4to. (31 x 24 cm), 848 pp., profuse...
View full detailsOriginal price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| / -
Photographs.
SISKIND, Aaron.Original price £1,675.00 - Original price £1,675.00Original price £0.00£1,675.00£1,675.00 - £1,675.00Current price £1,675.00| /Aaron Siskind's first monograph, a presentation copy inscribed: 'Cora in love / Aaron / 3/13/61! Cora Ginsburg was a scholar and dealer who specia...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,675.00 - Original price £1,675.00Original price £0.00£1,675.00£1,675.00 - £1,675.00Current price £1,675.00| / -
L'Arabie contemporaine avec la description du pelerinage de la mecque.
D'AVRIL, Adolphe.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /This scarce title contains descriptions of Najd, Hejaz and Yemen and includes notes on the Wahhabis, the lives of Arab women and the minority reli...
View full detailsOriginal price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| / -
Dnevnye zapiski plavaniia Vitse-admirala [...] Gavrily Sarycheva po Baltiiskomy moriu i Finskomu zalivu [...]
SARYCHEV, Gavriil Andreevich.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Rare first and only edition of a diary of a Russian expedition in the Baltic Sea by Captain Gavriil Sarychev (1763-1831), a veteran of the Billing...
View full detailsOriginal price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| / -
A History of the Fishes of the British Islands.
COUCH, Jonathan.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /The first british fish book in colour. A handsomely bound reissued set of this 'major contribution to ichthyology... the earliest work on British f...
View full detailsOriginal price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| / -
The Peaks and Valleys of the Alps.
BONNEY, THOMAS GEORGE; Elijah Walton, illustrator.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Elijah Walton's fine colour plate views of the Western Alps, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Monte Viso, Aosta Valley, Dent Du Midi, and The...
View full detailsOriginal price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| / -
Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects.
BOYLE, Robert.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /Contemporary presentation copy, from the library of oliver sacks. First edition of this collection of philosophical essays by one of the founders o...
View full detailsOriginal price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| / -
Across Chryse;
COLQUHOUN, Archibald R.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Colquhoun's expedition was to survey a projected railway connecting Canton with Burma. During the course of his travels he passed through many reg...
View full detailsOriginal price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /
You've viewed of 3048 items