Specially bound by sangorski & sutcliffe. A deluxe, specially bound copy of this important work on 'certainly the most popular water-colour art...

A very good copy of this popular work on cookery and housekeeping by Elizabeth Raffald, which ran to multiple editions in her lifetime including a...

Rare. The first appearance in book form of any account of Livingstone's travels in Africa (the preface is dated January, 1857, and his Missionary ...

The first edition of this Allan Quatermain (of King Solomon's Mines fame) title, the second in a trilogy by Haggard focussed on the collapse of th...

A scarce, well regarded translation of Pausanias, who provides us with the best guide to the Ancient Greeks and their beliefs. Translated by Thoma...

Signed by the artist. A very good example of this reflection on the academic scientific research publications that have inspired Hirst's work over ...

Dallaway spent 18 months as chaplain with Liston's embassy to the Porte (1794-6). He travelled to Constantinople overland with Liston's entourage,...

Originally published in Calcutta. 'The author was an officer of the Bengal Establishment sent to Shiraz for an eight months assignment. An importa...

A remarkably scarce example of eighteen-nineties detective fiction, not in the British Library, and with only one copy we could trace in other ins...

A solid copy of a rare and early detective fiction novel, the second volume of what the author referred to as his 'Constabulary Tales'. Listed in...

Signed by prisoners of war. Signed by seven former Colditz prisoners of war:- Kenneth Lockwood, Jimmy Yule, Hugh Bruce, Tommy Catlow, Peter Allan, ...

Castellan went out to the Levant as a draughtsman in 1796 with a French engineering mission led by Pierre Ferregau, who hoped to be awarded a cont...

A very good first edition of the first Booker Prize winner, with the scarce promotional wraparound stating 'Winner of the £5,000 Booker Prize 1969...

A very good first edition set of this scarce Victorian three-decker, in the original publisher's binding. The work seems to defy easy categorisati...

The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...

First edition, first printing of this ever-popular Dr Seuss title, scarce in its dust-jacket: the background of the cover and jacket is pink rathe...

A very good first edition example of this 'Bright & Early Book' by the good Doctor. Issued without a dust-jacket.First edition, first printing...

The specially bound deluxe issue of Rackham's illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.First edition thus, deluxe issue i...

A very good first edition of the second in the Madeline book series, which won the 1954 Caldecott Medal for 'most distinguished picture book'. The...

An acrostic by chapter, Heaney works his way through the ten letters that constitute his subject's name. A touching and eloquent tribute to a trul...

An excellent set of this landmark in furniture history, retaining the original dust-jackets, so often discarded.Third edition; 4 volumes, folio, 6...

A stunning copy of this detective fiction title, introducing the character Sir John Saumarez; this edition, published by the somewhat obscure Cosm...