Fine, well executed, decorative Chinese export watercolour. Light and easily transportable, these watercolours, mostly produced in the Canton regi...

In the 1830s tourism in the Holy Land was increasing as the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, consolidated his authority and promoted the research int...

The first true Biblical atlas. Pisgah refers to Mount Pisgah, the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time.T...

With large panoramas including Constantinople and Jerusalem. One of the most spectacular Levant books. De Bruyn (1652-1726/7), the Dutch traveller ...

Four proof plates before letters from Cook's third voyage. Four proof plates before letters being early states of images from Cook's last voyage, s...

A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...

Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu, was one of the most successful woodblock print artists of J...

Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu, was one of the most successful woodblock print artists of J...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing biologist Edward Nelson, Bernard Day (who was Shackleto...

Lawrence had long admired Doughty's Arabia Deserta, and was instrumental in getting the second edition published in 1921 with an introduction by h...

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 foremost authority on the early history of America. A handsome set in a contemporary Italian binding. 'One of the earliest and most important c...