This was the first sustained attempt to describe the discovery, conquest and settlement of Spanish America since Herrera's Décadas. Robertson inte...

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse was published with the boards in either blue or brown but neither has priority over the other.First or second printin...

Rare first German edition and first translation into a foreign language of this important work by the father of Malthusianism.Malthus' original wo...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

An attractive morocco-bound set, containing some of Thomas Rowlandson's best-known images.Abbey states that the magazine was probably started by A...

The noted Canadian author's first book, his Oxford honours thesis, on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Uncommon in the dustjacket....

Maurice Sendak meets Beatrix Potter. An excellent production reproducing 34 of the original 41 plain illustrations from the edition of The Tale of ...

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

One of 100 numbered copies. The first separate edition of a story originally penned in 1907 for the Warne children, rediscovered in 1918 by Fruing ...

Presentation copy. Rare. Robinson claimed that Wellsted in his work Travels in Arabia endeavoured to obtain undue credit for James Bruce at the exp...

This was published with the boards in either blue or cream but neither has priority over the other.First edition, first or second printing; 16mo; ...

First two-volume edition expounding the Malthusian-trap. The first two-volume edition of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population, with import...