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...

A standard history of Cambridge University with attractive engravings.First edition. 2 volumes 8vo, large paper copy (25 x 16.5 cm), xxxv, 268; iv...

Charles Booth (1840-1916), had always taken an interest in the welfare of working men, but it was not until he was past middle age that there bega...

Scarce historical account of the pilgrimage to Mecca illustrated with seven photographic plates.First edition, 8vo, vi, 71pp., 7 photographic plat...

"For official use only". With large and valuable maps, and photographic illustrations throughout.2 volumes, 8vo, (22 x 15 cm) xiii, 525; xiv, 514...

The British Niger Expedition of 1841 was commissioned by the British Government to perform two primary tasks: firstly, to work towards the suppres...

A beautifully bound example. The result of Casati's 10-year exploration of the Bahr-el-Ghazal basin in southern Sudan, full of valuable scientific...

First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 416 pp., 6 engraved and 1 lithograph plates (1 double-page), original red cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine, some spott...

Asia Minor & Mesopotomia. Although Dapper (1636-1689) never left the Netherlands, he garnered information for his authoritative works from Dutc...

A defence by Harry Verelst (1734-1785) of the British administration in Bengal during his governorship. 'Verelst became a loyal supporter of Clive...

An outstanding example. An exceptional example. Most copies were issued uncoloured. A few were sold with hand-colouring and a smaller number were i...

With the complete set of the original watercolours. A unique copy with the original highly finished watercolour drawings.William Whitelock Lloyd wa...