Rothschild copy with arms. A finely bound copy of Abel's China with Rothschild provenance, bound by the Royal bookbinder, Simier.Abel was the natur...

Shackleton's account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9. Known today as the Nimrod expedition, this proved to be the making of Shacklet...

The first major history of Yemen by an British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 200...

Maps include Baghdad and Environs, The Environs of Basrah and several road maps to Southern and Northern Iraq.Revised and enlarged edition. Folio ...

Burton was Consul at Damascus from 1865-1871. During that period Tyrwhitt-Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fun...

'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a nineteenth-century reader with the wonder...

Hendley depicts the rulers of India from the end of the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, starting with the portrait of emperor Akbar, the foun...

Preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into the...

Gill's account of her experiences on the Atlantic island of Ascension as part of an 1867 scientific expedition led by her husband, the astronomer ...

Mrs Postans' advance copy. Postans (1808-46) was assistant to the political agent in Sindh and Baluchistan. A comprehensive description of Sindh in...

Holub, an Austrian, arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields. Holub gives accounts of pipe mining and their are ...

Drew made a nine year stay in Kashmir between 1862 and 1871, and travelled widely in the country.First edition. 8vo, xii, 336 pp., 3 Woodbury-type...

A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...

A bibliography of works published in or about the Ionian Islands. With collation, basic description and occasional additional information on the w...

A beautifully bound copy of Bligh's log of the journey from Timor to Batavia, and that of the return voyage to England after the 1789 mutiny.First...