This portrait belongs to one of 12 sons of the fifth Prime Minister of Nepal (1863–1929) from the Rana dynasty, who is known for abolishing slaver...

Account of a fifteen-year stay in Turkestan, where the author, a German doctor, worked as an astronomer at an observatory in Tashkent.First editio...

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

'An excellent game shot, Swayne describes his seventeen journeys into Somaliland's interior... An important work of sport and exploration' (Czech)...

Petherick, a contemporary of Baker, Burton, and Speke, travelled along the Nile Valley through Kordofan and into the unknown region beyond. Contai...

The author and his hunting companion J.V. Phelps journeyed from Srinagar to Leh, through Yarkand and into the Tekkes Valley collecting Altai Wapit...

Commemorative jug issued to celebrate the great naval victory won by Admiral Lord Nelson over the allied French and Spanish fleets at the Battle ...

Indonesia. Albumen print. Very good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original album sleeve.

Japan. Albumen print. Very good tonal range and in very good condition, pasted on original album sleeve.

France. Israëlis Bidermanas (1911–1980), who worked under the name of Izis, was a Lithuanian photographer who worked in France and is best known fo...

Greece. Large-format albumen print. Fair tonal range and in fair condition.

South America. Woodburytype. Good condition, printed title, plate 16 from 'L'Exposition d'Amsterdam et la Belgique aux Pays-Bas' by Theophile Fumiere.

Oliphant had been acting as a correspondent for The Times during this campaign. He had accompanied Lord Stratford to the Crimea from Constantinopl...

Hand-coloured albumen print. Fine colouring and in good condition, mounted on thick card.

Hakluyt Society, first series, 79a & 79b. The two bound together but separately paginated.The first contains the text of the English translati...

Andagoya, a brutal conquistador, was part of the coloizing expedition of Pedro Arias de Ávila which sailed in 1514. In 1519 he founded Panama City...

Silver gelatin print. Edition 9/25.

A collection of beautiful photographs and postcards depicting the eminent sites of mainland Europe. The album opens with a series of Scottish lan...

Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, printed label.

Philippines. Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in good condition.

Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in good condition.

Turkey. Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, photographer's credit and title in negative, pasted on original mount.

Egypt. Albumen print. Good tonal range and in fair condition, 1cm clean tear at top margin, photographer's credit in negative, pasted on original m...

Most of the book is concerned with Malta (11 engravings) and Gibraltar.Second edition. Royal 8vo, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title...