Jean Baptiste Van Mour is recorded as having settled in Constantinople in 1699. It is thought that he was invited at the request of the French Amb...

The Rawzat as-Safa is an epic historical anthology in seven parts, recounting the history of the origins of Islam, early Islamic civilisations and...

Rare. Strong impressions of etchings of grotesque masks, after original designs by the Italian (Rome) artist and engraver Aloisio Giovannoli (1550...

The maps from Capt. Scott's Terra Nova expedition. The cartographic record of the British Antarctic Expedition (Terra Nova) 1910-1913.First edition...

The second opium war. Scarce parliamentary paper dealing with the Second Opium War. Includes papers by Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John Davis, the Ear...

Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving detai...

Translations from the Chinese and Armenian, with notes and illustrations.I. History of the pirates who infested the China Sea, from 1807 to 1810.I...

Extensive collection of Russian works focusing mostly on Northern China and Mongolia, including important and rare travel, trade and exploration a...

The Central Asiatic Expedition went into Mongolia to seek and discover the ancestry of man, and explore the natural history of the region. Andrews...

An exceptional example of a remarkable survival . A large collection of 589 plates of Eckert's European military costumes in the original printed w...

First hebrew bible printed in england. A non-vocalised edition of the Pentateuch, based on E. van der Hooght's text (Darlow & Moule 5141). It i...

Rare first UK edition of Pinocchio. The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Ita...

A unique copy with original watercolours. A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings...

The first edition illustrated by Boucher. With illustrations by the celebrated Rococo painter François Boucher. 'The book's format is noble, Molièr...

Art Deco style personified. A fine and rare complete set of one of the most beautiful fashion magazines to appear in France after the Great War; wi...

Premiere edition de luxe que l'on ait donnee de ce grand poete. Elle se recommande et par sa belle execution typogr. et par d'assez bonnes estampe...

This is the second edition of an important French Restoration polemic. Duplanyl was a master of mosaic/onlay binding.Second edition, 3 vols, tall ...

Romantic views of Sintra. A fine visual record of Sintra, near Lisbon. A long-time royal sanctuary, the area's forested terrain is studded with pas...

Best known for his representations of on the archaeological reconstructions of ruins and the documentation of contemporary Rome, Piranesi also mad...

A rare and interesting work on the spa towns of the Caucasus. The plates show plans for fountains, bathing houses and pumping stations of in Piati...

An unusually good example of this famous equestrian tale, told from the perspective of a horse. Black Beauty was Quaker author Sewell's only publi...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), artist, designer and wood-engraver, produced his first lithograph in 1936 entitled 'Newhaven Harbour', which was print...

Communism & Catholicism collide.First edition; 8vo; publisher's boards, dust-jacket with design by Michael Ayrton, a sharp, near fine copy.Mor...

Scarce, with only a handful of copies appearing at auction. George Philips (?1599-1696), was employed as secretary to George O'Brien, Second Earl ...