'Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down the West African coast arrived at K...

"[The author] travelled through the Belgian Congo, then on through both British and German East Africa. His narrative recounts the difficulties of...

Contains letters and documents on the expedition to Cooch Behar against Bhutan, and on the Bogle and Turner Missions.First edition. 3 volumes, 8vo...

Robert Frank's scarcest book. Robert Frank's scarcest book, published between Les Americains (1958) and The Americans (1959). Frank supported himse...

First and only edition. Hanson, 'Late Assistant Quarter-Master-General with the Field Army of the Madras Establishment', acted as ADC to Sir Miles...

Signed. Signed copy of this artists' book, which contains a series of portraits purportedly showing Christian Boltanski aged 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11,...

Morinaga Jun was born in Nagasaki, where the atomic bomb killed his father and older sister. In 1960, the year he graduated from Nihon University ...

Viviane Sassen was born in Amsterdam but lived in a Kenyan village from the ages of two to five while her father worked at a hospital. Flamboya co...

An exhibited copy of this 1970s conceptual artists' book. In the introduction, Baldessari explains that Choosing Green Beans documents a game devi...

Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a dir...

An evangelical missionary, Fanny Guinness believed that it was important to know more about Central Africa in order to better understand it, and h...

Inscribed to James Baldwin. Presentation copy of Cor Jaring's book of photographs showing the various subcultures, protests, and happenings in Amst...

Doorly was a junior officer on board the Morning, a relief ship used on Scott's Discovery expedition. It was the ship which took a disgruntled Sha...

'an outlaw'. A deed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury dated 18th April 1812 granting the equity of redemption (i.e. the right to reclaim a...

Fukase Masahisa and Yohko were married for twelve years and divorced in 1976. That summer, Fukase made a trip home from Tokyo to his family's phot...

In 1968, Bill Owens started working as a photographer for the Livermore Independent, a local newspaper for the Livermore Amador Valley, a suburb o...

A Way of Seeing is a key 'New York' photography book. Helen Levitt first became aware of photography's potential when she visited the exhibition '...