A deluxe copy of the first edition with the plates fully coloured and mounted on card. Probably no more than 100 copies printed with few surviving...

Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...

A very scarce early work by Ivan Verkhratsky, one of the most important Ukrainian philologists of the twentieth century. He wrote numerous text bo...

Thomas' indispensable guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtain...

Plate 16 from John James Audubon's Birds of America which was printed between 1827 and 1838 with 435 life-size images of North American birds.Hand...

Plate 21 from the first edition of Gould's first multi-volume ornithological work, The Birds of Europe, and the first of his works to feature plat...

Includes The Hound of the Baskervilles. A smart set of Arthur Conan Doyle's complete works up to the year 1903, with introductory notes and preface...

Presentation copy to rudolph reitler. The rare first edition of this significant work on cerebral palsy, Freud's final neurological treatise before...

A sweet mixed edition set of Jane Austen's 6 published novels, comprising Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northa...

First edition of Gogol's masterpiece. A handsome example of one of the greatest novels of 19th-century Russian literature.Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) b...

With fine view of Mecca. D'Ohsson's vast survey of the Ottoman Empire with engravings by the foremost illustrators of the day, including a superb d...

Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...

Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...

A handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...

A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...

A Very important collection of documents covering the period in Arabian Gulf history which saw the British withdrawal from the region.6 vols, 8vo,...

A comprehensive collection containing 69 maps and charts of Bahrain originally produced between 1817 and 1970. The volumes are divided into naval ...

Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...

Contemporary tree calf. A very handsome, four-volume set of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late ...

Dickson the son of the British consul in Syria, had unrivalled access to the desert tribes as a result of being wet-nursed by a Badawi woman. The ...

Scarce. Jagor travelled throughout the Philippines in 1859-60. 'This work possesses great scientific value. It is the work of a keen scientific in...