Fine scenes showing rich interiors and fine costumes - this album of especially large format.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increa...

Hand-coloured & mounted on card. Fresh example of these lovely hand-coloured views. George Hering (1805–1879), landscape painter, was the young...

First separate edition, revised and significantly expanded; originally published as part of Ferrario's immense Il Costume Antico e Moderno, issued...

Reprint of the 1952 first edition. "In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes archi...

Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...

Gelatine silver print (25 x 20 cm). Ink stamp with photographer's signature, printed title pasted on reverse; corners creased.

"It is the pride of the young women of the Ibos in Nigeria to wear their legs encased in brass wire, which is wielded and arranged spiral fashion...

"A charming Nubian woman who affects a most original form of the fringe... it is made of tiny butter plaits" (description on reverse). Gelatine si...

The author, the British vice-consul at Kertch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains ...

A rare shape book. With rhyming verse designed to promote travel to Australia from England. The scenes depicted include Aborigines, sheep musteri...

"A Papua Girl carrying poinciana [?] with frangipani in her hair" [manuscript note on reverse]. Gelatine silver print (15 x 11 cm). Photographer's...

The fifth of Edward Rookers 'Six Views of London', based on a drawing by Paul Sandby. A child's funeral is about to take place, the mourners are d...

After the success of Layard's first expedition, the British Museum financed this second expedition during the years 1849-51. The expedition discov...

A splendid album, signed and dated by the artist, with original artwork, and historically significant. Joseph Cardero made the album during his st...

one of the great African narratives completing the navigaton of the river niger.Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant on h...