The major medical book of the 17th-century, translated for the general public. The sixth edition of William Salmon's popular English translation of...

Lush bird illustrations. First edition of this charming, chromolithographic children's book of stories and poems about birds, from domestic poultry...

Presentation copy of the author's only novel. First edition of the author's first and only novel, lengthily inscribed to a fellow author on the dat...

First edition of the author's third novel. A milestone in LGBT literature, The City and the Pillar is significant for its sympathetic portrayal of...

Rutter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, travelled extensively in Arabia visiting the Holy cities including Mecca.First edition. 8vo, 2...

Bell's palsy & the anatomy of the nervous system. Second edition and a handsomely bound copy of Bell's collected papers about the nerves that w...

Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...

Signed by the artist. A catalogue from the exhibition of Basquiat's work at the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Küsnacht/Zurich and at the Mary Boon...

First publication of the standard algorithm for logical deduction in artificial intelligence. First edition of the first publication of the resolut...

Publisher's blank dummy. A literary oddity if ever there was one. Inside Mr Enderby is one of two books published under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, ...

A fine set in the original binding. A beautiful complete set of this significant and profusely illustrated work in a wonderful Art Nouveau binding....

Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...

Illustrated by the Kyiv-born artist Konstantin Kozlovsky, Tsukor is an incredibly rare example of a Soviet 'production book' printed in Ukrainian....

The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...

Belcher's voyage was the last officially sent in search of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared during an Arctic expedition in 1845. Belcher, in his...

An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...

Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...

Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...

First popular appearance of the word 'googol' - handsomely bound. Tenth edition of this surprise hit, first published in 1940 and described by scie...