Significant map of the Pacific Northwest and the region that would become Alaska. The map extends from Greenland to a bit west of Irkoust; and sou...

Album (17 x 13 cm). Six watercolours.

First issue. This journal which borrowed both the title and format of La Mesangere's periodical of over a hundred years earlier, is illustrated by ...

Rare example of early original drawing by one of Alexander Pushkin's favourite artists.Alexander Orlowski (1777 – 1832) was a Polish painter and l...

Large manuscript plan of Strasbourg - a unique item with fine colours, very unusual.The map, dating from 1753, depicts a plan of the French city w...

An excellent example.Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695-1774) was a French economist and statistician. In this, his major work, he provide...

An uncommon volume that contains both parts of Priestley's letters and Levi's replies. By featuring both men's letters, this interesting sammelban...

one of the great African narratives completing the navigaton of the river niger.Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant on hi...

Seven plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it i...

Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it is...

Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it is...

A traditional Jewish marriage contract. An attractive example of a traditional Jewish marriage contract, fully manuscript and elegantly decorated w...

Etching signed by Herzl. Struck's most famous work and one of the symbols of Zionism - a powerful portrait of Theodor Herzl, signed by Herzl himsel...

A fresh example with wide margins of this edition comprising 86 original fables of the 'Russian Lafontaine' accompanied by the translations into I...

First Hebrew-English prayer book printed in England. In 1770, Alexander Alexander, pioneer of the Hebrew press in London, produced this liturgy acc...

Scarce. Although a missionary work, the book is full of valuable topographical information as well as containing interesting data on natural histo...

A lovely example of this richly illustrated chronicle, complete and unusually bound in full contemporary red sheep with gauffered edgesThe Pateric...

Gray's expedition followed the disastrous missions of Major Peddie (who died of fever) and Captain Campbell (who also died on his arrival at the c...

Very scarce. Printed for subscription only to raise money for Fawckner who had fallen on hard times. An account of the author's travels in West Af...

Rare privately printed journal of Davidson's attempt to cross the Western Sahara from Tangier to Timbuktoo which ended with his murder in November...

Russian carriages and sleighs and their occupants, all dressed in contemporary costume and boldly coloured.A Picture of St. Petersburgh, represent...

Detailed plan of Moscow within the Moscow circular railway (Moskovskaya okruzhnaya zheleznoy dorogi) showing the administrative division of the ci...

Important illustrated history of Jerusalem. A fine example, in an attractive contemporary binding, of the first edition in Latin of this important ...

A rare map, covering the land modern of day Israel and beyond - from the southern tip of the Dead Sea and Edom region to the Golan Heights and mod...