The Syrian Colonisation Fund (SCF) was founded in early 1882. Elizabeth Finn (writer and wife of James Finn, the British Consul in Jerusalem in th...

Edward Weston selected these fifty photographs himself, 'fifty of my favorite photographs chosen because they have lived well and because they hav...

Sola fide and the Antinomian controversy. An early edition in English of Martin Luther's commentary on the Galatians, expounding his principle of j...

One of 200 copies. This publication of Pound's first 30 Cantos was landmark in both his career and the history of modernist poetry. 'These Cantos ....

First American edition, one of 1000 copies printed.First American edition, second printing; 8vo; with pp61-62 cancel with the spelling 'sh-t,' sli...

[economics]. The first edition of A.J. Wilson's (1841-1921) Glossary of Colloquial, Slang & Technical Terms, a fascinating snapshot of finance ...

Volume I: The mainland of old Greece and certain neighbouring islands; volume II, parts i & ii: The Cyclades and northern Sporades with The is...

Amedeo's expedition on the Polar Star was to sail as far to the north as possible along some coast-line, and then to travel on sledges towards the...

Mysore and the indian national congress. A rare parliamentary pamphlet of the dialogue between 'Rajah' (a subject of her most gracious Majesty the ...

Barth's important record of his five years travelling in North and Central Africa.'Barth is one of the European superstars of African travel and e...

Sergeant's Sana is the standard work on the city. The work covers all aspects of Sana society, history, and culture and is lavishly illustrated.Fi...

Jacob's Kings of Arabia is a comprehensive political sketch of Yemen from the late 17th century to the early 20th century.First edition. 8vo, 294 ...

Scarce account of a three-month journey principally through Asiatic Turkey and undertaken for the purpose of making an objective assessment 'as to...

Lansdell's Russian Central Asia recounts the author's journey from England to Semipalatinsk through western Siberia in 1882, distributing bible tr...

Author's wife's copy. Hugh Lindsay's Report of Proceedings contains reports by Lindsay, an East India Company man, and Charles Gutzlaff on trade wi...

Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...

Eyre's record of part of the debacle of the First Afghan War of 1839-42. Following the murder of Alexander Burnes in 1841 the British force was be...

Illustrated account of a pilgrimage to mecca. A personal account of Kedem Zadeh's pilgrimage to Mecca between 1910 and 1911 illustrated with 16 pho...

A fine copy of the Italian edition of this celebrated history of Mexico, which describes the three years between the appointment of Cortes to comm...

Number 55 of 76 copies signed by the contributors with 25 original photographs. Roberta Bayley's Punk was limited to 76 copies, with only 60 availa...

A presentation copy, inscribed: 'To Mr. Ikeda Shinichi / Ishiuchi Miyako / 1981.5.16 / 2nd Yokosuka 1:2'Ishiuchi Miyako is one of Japan's leading ...

Fukase Masahisa and Yohko were married for twelve years and divorced in 1976. That summer, Fukase made a trip home from Tokyo to his family's phot...

In Insomnia, Antoine d'Agata presents a series of nightscapes and nocturnal portraits which resulted from chance encounters. He describes his work...

A signed copy of Lee Friedlander's collection of nudes photographs, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New Yo...

A Way of Seeing is a key 'New York' photography book. Helen Levitt first became aware of photography's potential when she visited the exhibition '...

Whilst living in Paris between 1950 and 1954, van der Elsken quickly fell for the attractions of Saint Germain des Prés and the people he found th...

At first, Tolkien intended The Lord of the Rings to be a children's tale in the style of The Hobbit but it quickly grew darker and more serious in...

Published on 21st June 2003.First edition, first impression, ownership insscription to upper fly-leaf dated ' 21 June 2003', the date of publicati...

Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, 'Frederick Godber, with kindest regards from...

One of 100 copies - numbered & signed by the author. First edition of this essay commissioned by Evelyn Waugh's London vintners Saccone & S...

Presentation copy inscribed by Evelyn Waugh. Presentation copy of the first edition of this 'great tease', with pieces on 'U' and 'Non-U,' inscribe...

Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in pencil to the front free endpaper, 'For Christopher / with love from / Evelyn / Ch...

First edition, documenting Waugh's voyage to East Africa in 1959.First edition, first impression; 8vo; black and white illustrations, including fr...

First edition, trade issue, of Waugh's semi-autobiographical work based on the hallucinations he endured from bromide poisoning while self-medicat...

'An extraordinary novel. One of the most important to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.' (Robert Towers, The New York Tim...

One of 110 copies - numbered & signed by the author. Number 13 of 110 copies, signed by the author. With an original manuscript leaf bound in, ...