Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised my great suffering. There are seven realms of this un...

Oliver Messel (1904-1978) was 'Great Britain's leading theatre designer from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s..., [winning] international acclaim ...

Translations from the Chinese and Armenian, with notes and illustrations.I. History of the pirates who infested the China Sea, from 1807 to 1810.I...

A pair of copper engravings, framed and glazed, overall size: 109cm by 87cm by 2cm.

A 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Hemingway, including A Clean, Well Lighted Place, which James Joyce called 'one of...

The first edition of this scarce investment guide which first appeared as a series of articles in The Magazine of Wall Street, the newsletter and ...

Description of the Bhotiyas of Kumaon and the Tibetans of Western Tibet together with an account of his journey to Western Tibet in 1905 when Depu...

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

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

Livingstone's second book describes his expedition to expose the Portuguese slave traders and to find a way to establish a settlement for missions...

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...

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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...

Malcolm visited Persia three times on diplomatic missions. Malcolm's history begins with the legendary kings and ends with the beginnings of the Q...

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...

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First edition, comprising two plays - 'A Full Moon in March' and 'The King of the Great Clock Tower,' plus seven poetical works under the collecti...

A 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Hemingway, including A Clean, Well Lighted Place, which James Joyce called 'one of...

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...

Scarce first edition of this Jamaican author's first novel, one of the first to consider the emerging Rastafarian movement and the Jamaican ghetto...

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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...

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

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