8vo, xii, 234pp., additional engraved title and 18 hand-coloured plates after Alken and Rawlins, contemporary red morocco gilt by McDonald, spine...

Originally published as "The Tiara and the Turban" in 1845. Hill was a professional travel writer who produced accounts of Mexico, Peru, the Islan...

Signed. Buber's monumental work, inscribed on front free endpaper of Die Schriftwerke volume.Martin Buber (1878-1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish p...

Fieding was a watercolour painter who, in 1826, was appointed teacher of drawing and perspective at the East India Company's Military Seminary, Ad...

An attractive copy of this richly illustrated and wide ranging work. Almost 15 years after the first, this new edition includes many more engravin...

Having been a volunteer nurse during the first World War, Sofia Fedorchenko, started writing stories and tales for children in 1924. Her popular w...

Andagoya, a brutal conquistador, was part of the coloizing expedition of Pedro Arias de Ávila which sailed in 1514. In 1519 he founded Panama City...

This fine, clean copy contains numerous songs and verses about nature. From the myth of the birth of the rose from the love of Zephyr and Flora, t...

An attractive 18th century French almanack. The gilt device to the covers incorporates cartographic & astronomic elements, presumably emblemat...

Hakluyt Society First Series, no. 19.Important early East India Company voyage to theEast Indies.The appendix includes commissions, letters of Ja...

This is a reply from Ms Crompton to the letter of Mr Orchard who appears to work in the booktrade. Crompton answers his questions regarding her ow...

The Oxford illustrated edition of Jane Austen's complete works, comprising her six major novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfi...

Urdu poetry. A volume comprising the works of two of the most important Urdu literary poets Dag Delhavi and Mir Hassan, lithographed in 1915.Two vo...

Alfred Rubens (1903-1998) was Chairman of the Jewish Museum (1958-1983) and an avid collector. In the 1920s, he started to collect prints and draw...

This work, which brims over with wit and humour, had a rapid sale and passed through many editions. The author represents the contempt with which ...

'Xenos, who had been established in England since the late 1840's, developed a very successful shipping agency, but in extending his interests he ...

A signed limited edition copy of Tony Silva's Monograph of Endangered Parrots. Before he was outed as the world's most prolific parrot smuggler, S...