The Shahzada, Nasrullah Khan, spent several months in England deputising for his father, Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, who had intended to visit Queen V...

The privately printed true first edition. The rare privately printed edition, preceding the trade edition by twenty-one years. The text consists of...

'A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates incl...

Dallaway spent 18 months as chaplain with Liston's embassy to the Porte (1794-6). He travelled to Constantinople overland with Liston's entourage,...

Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...

With four-sheet panorama of Athens. A handsomely bound set of Walpole's travels between 1803 and 1808 to which are added accounts by other travelle...

Dodwell made two journeys to Greece, one in company with Sir William Gell touring the Ionian Islands and the Troad. Later with the Italian Simone ...

Originally published in Calcutta. 'The author was an officer of the Bengal Establishment sent to Shiraz for an eight months assignment. An importa...

The 'Arabistan' in the title refers to Khuzestan in Eastern Persia. The author, a member of the Russian legation at Tehran, travelled from Tehran ...

The rare second panorama. A rare example, never bound, with wide margins.A fine panoramic view, entirely different from Mrs. Bracebridge's 1836 pan...

A fine collection of views of the London docks by William Daniell, published between 1802 and 1808 at £2 12s 6d each. The views show the new docks...

Scarce, with only a handful of copies appearing at auction. George Philips (?1599-1696), was employed as secretary to George O'Brien, Second Earl ...

Scarce. Castlemaine was asked by Charles II to keep him informed of events in Europe whilst making a tour. Castelmaine reported to the King by let...

Castellan went out to the Levant as a draughtsman in 1796 with a French engineering mission led by Pierre Ferregau, who hoped to be awarded a cont...

'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa ... there is also a feverish enco...

Important history of this Royal Charter Company including much on relations with Zanzibar and its Sultan.First edition. 8vo, xvi, 382 pp., folding...

The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...

An important account of Ethiopia written by a Portuguese Jesuit, primarily relating to an account of Ethiopia in the second half of the sixteenth ...