A finely illustrated publication detailing the collection of Indian miniatures of Alfred Beatty (1875-1968), a copper mining tycoon who built up o...

This delightfully illustrated and much sought-after edition of Jane Austen's most popular novel, is further enhanced with a beautiful binding by t...

An interesting snapshot of London and its environs in the pre-industrial age, extending from Edmonton in the north to Beckenham in the south, and ...

The first edition of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, a handsome set in nine volumes bound by Zaehnsdorf in half red mo...

Edition limited to 500 copies.The Sixth Chamber Press, Leamington Spa 1984. First edition. 8vo. Original limp wrapper. A very good copy.

The very nicely produced facsimile edition of Auden's notoriously rare for book. Very uncommon signed.Facsimlile edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Co...

An attractive copy of this popular cocktail guide compiled by the legendary bartender Robert Vermeire (1891-1976) of the Embassy Club, London. The...

Offprint from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, being the Burton Memorial Lecture for 1925.First edition. 8vo, 17 pp., original blue-green...

Offprint from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, being the Burton Memorial Lecture for 1925.First edition. 8vo, 17 pp., original blue-green...

One of the most important books on Persia. Dealing with every aspect of Persia, political, archaeological, cultural, etc., its great strength is i...

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

Includes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...

Includes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...

Includes Mecca and Medina. Sections on geology, geography, the coasts, climate, history, people, ports and towns, etc. The Geographical Handbook S...

An indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....

An indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....

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

Thomson was a British geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. He was the first European to enter several r...

Inscribed on the title page: 'J. Hope from the Author'. Biddulph's book is the standard work on the tribes of the North West frontier at the end ...

Fitzgerald worked for six years on his most accomplished and ambitious novel. Its complex structure and delayed publication met with little critic...

A near-fine, limited edition of which, purportedly, only about half the limitation was actually printed. The novel was more recently adapted for ...

Rare first edition in English of Čapek's classic science fiction novel, which extensively satirises contemporary European politics, including colo...

Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper: 'To John La Rose / with gratitude and admiration / Michael Anth...

'A deliberately outrageous and iconoclastic "little magazine," whose title was intended to challenge The London Mercury. Like most little magazine...

'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...

The second series of Grindrod's Songs from the Classics, including 'The Riddle of Oedipus' and 'Arachne'. With superb illustrations by Austin Osma...

A deluxe copy of the first edition with the plates fully coloured and mounted on card. Probably no more than 100 copies printed with few surviving...

The finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...

'In terms of the pictorial depiction of Javanese costume and topography, the importance of The History of Java can hardly be exaggerated. By a hap...

Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...

A fine example of the first edition, limited to 170 copies only.This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of t...