'An important work' (Blackmer) detailing the author's travels in 1858 in which he describes the state of the countryside and includes much politic...

This edition contains many plates and material not published earlier.The atlas includes plates of Corfu, Zante, Ithaca, and Athens, in addition to...

'The botanist Pitton de Tournefort was sent on a mission to the Levant by Louis XIV in 1700. He was accompanied by the artist Claude Aubriet and t...

Scarce early account of North Africa. The first book on Africa written by an African. The woodcut illustrations include personifications of Africa...

First English edition. The first edition in English of Fumée's Histoire des troubles de Hongrie (1594). In his address to the reader, the translato...

First published in 1693 ,Slezer's book was the earliest series of town prospects to be published in Britain.John Slezer, a German military enginee...

The photographs include: The Acropolis, Temple of Jupiter, Gate of Adrian, Theatre of Herodes Atticus, Propylea, Temple of Nike Apteros, Parthenon...

Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...

Scarce. Written by a British Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards who disembarked at Massawa in 1874 on a hunting trip in northern Ethiopia and left...

A comprehensive work covering the geography of the Himalayas with general hints on stalking and hunting in the Himalayas. Combines the natural his...

Apart from his marriage in London 1729 or 1730, very little is known of Nebot's life, although he is generally thought to have been of Spanish bir...

Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peking,...

Richard Chandler, classical scholar and traveller, was introduced to the Society of Dilettanti by Robert Wood, editor of The Ruins of Palmyra, and...

The author was a prisoner-of-war for three years in Greece and Turkey, 1799-1801. This is his account of notices of the family of the sultan and e...

Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calend...

Lithograph (overall sheet size 55.5 x 39 cm, image 41 x 26 cm), by Thomas Picken after Walker, printed in colours and finished by hand, captioned...

Scarce photo publication of both Iraq and Central Arabia during the Great War, brought out by St John Philby at the end of 1918. Philby had served...

With mention of Evelyn Waugh. An immensely readable and often humorous memoir by a British employee of the Bank of Abyssinia in 1930s Ethiopia. Wit...

Important work on Constantinople. The first edition, complete with the text volumes.Pertusier (1779-1836) was in Constantinople from 1812 as aide-d...

A record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara.First edition...

Contemporary account of the First Burmese War.First edition. 8vo, xii, 319 pp., large folding map (foxed), 2 engraved plates, contemporary half ca...

'Boyes recounts his adventures in East Africa, particularly hunting elephant in the Lado Enclave, and on safari with W.N. McMillan and C.W.l. Bulp...