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 Dutch being at the height of their power, having supplanted the Portuguese, desired to gain access to China and a portion of the China trade. ...

The first separate edition of Baudier's survey of the Chinese court, which supposedly he based on the narrative of a Jesuit who had travelled in t...

"[The author] travelled through the Belgian Congo, then on through both British and German East Africa. His narrative recounts the difficulties of...

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

Including views of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai. At a time of increased interest in China, Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted to...

'There are two interesting chapters on Chinese field sports, with sections on tiger, leopard and a few other species of big game. The appendix con...

The author was the artist on Colonel Sosnovsky's scientific expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia in 1874-75. This was one of the ...

The rare Russian first edition.Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was not only a respected doctor but also talented artist and writer. These versatile...

Cook the surveyor. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the library of the University of California at Los Angeles.2 parts, one of 365 copies, ...

Taken on 7th October 1911, this is one of the most famous images shot by Ponting during his time in the Antarctic as part of Captain Scott's Terra...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Capt. Oates with the Manchurian ponies, which had been ...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Dyne's anemometer in the meteorologist George Simpson's...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913).Ponting was of the first people to utilise a handheld cine camer...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing T. Griffith 'Grif' Taylor, Frank Debenham, and Tryggve ...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Lieut. Evans crouching down on his haunches washing his...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition dogs on board the Terra Nova.'The Expedi...

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Petty Officer Edgar Evans, who died on the return journ...