Both volumes with a different collation to that given in Forbes. First edition in French. 2 volumes, 8vo, lvi, 458; [iv], 497, [i] pp., light wa...

Sparrman's work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster...

First octavo edition of the Third Voyage. The first octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage and the first to reach a wide audience. The text is sligh...

Remarkable work on the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle (called the Mishkan in Hebrew) was the portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of th...

A 'Resopnsa' book, famous for its particularly beautiful title page, illustrated with elaborate images relating to priesthood, as the author was c...

In Jewish religious law Get Mekushar is a special document for Cohanim (Jewish High Priests) seeking to get a divorce from their wives (literally ...

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière...

Viktor Zamirailo (1868 - 1939) was a member of Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] from 1911 through to 1924 and was an active participant in the group's...

This fine ceramic jug commemorates the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-89 and Stanley along with his officers, E. M. Bartelot, W. Bonney, A. J. ...

Rare in such fine condition . Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was the leading poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period. His poe...

Winstanley was a British officer of the Queen's Own Hussars who entered Ethiopia from the west around 1880. Travelling from the frontier market to...

Théophile Gauthier's novel was undoubtedly inspired by the 'Orientalism' that dominated French culture in the middle of the XIX century. The text ...

Rev. Baker gives an account of the opening of the second Anglo-Burmese War, when Rangoon was occupied by the British shortly after they had seized...

Government sponsored gambling. A handbill advertising tickets and shares in the state lottery of 1780. In this instance 16,021 prizes were issued a...

Rare slavery chart. Scarce colour-coded map concerning the sugar trade and its link to slavery.The section shaded yellow is the appropriate climate...

A fascinating survival from the Taishō Democracy, a period of liberal reform and political renewal in Japan lasting from 1912 until 1926, which ul...

'George Dodd (1808- 1881) was a journeyman author employed in supplying Victorian publications with the type of factual article for which there wa...

A rare shape book. With rhyming verse designed to promote travel to Australia from England. The scenes depicted include Aborigines, sheep musteri...