Fine hand-coloured plates of fossils. The plates from the first and only edition of an early work on fossilised invertebrates by the German natural...

An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match.. I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, contain...

China under the Qing dynasty. A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen, flowe...

Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925), entered the publishing business in 1866 as a writer and illustrator for the satirical magazine Flying Pages, whic...

An attractive morocco-bound set, containing some of Thomas Rowlandson's best-known images.Abbey states that the magazine was probably started by A...

Views of Istanbul in full green morocco. A finely bound example of the first edition of the grandest book of engraved views of Constantinople. "One...

'the pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again'. The first edition, first issue in book form of Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Ni...

This is the second edition of an important French Restoration polemic. Duplanyl was a master of mosaic/onlay binding.Second edition, 3 vols, tall ...

Fine copy. An exceptionally well preserved example. Oates was one of the first Europeans to see the Victoria Falls in full flood, having travelled ...

Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah. An interesting 19th-century example of Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah with commentary by Gabriel HaKohen of Zamter.With...

Romantic views of Sintra. A fine visual record of Sintra, near Lisbon. A long-time royal sanctuary, the area's forested terrain is studded with pas...

Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. The account of Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. This took place in 1860 with his friend ...

Second edition. There were only four editions of this title published in French. Plans include Copenhagen, Bergen and Stockholm.Issued c.1892Secon...

A handsome copy of this retrospective of Edwin Landseer's (1802-1873) popular works, with an introductory biography of the painter, and textual de...

First edition of Carroll's dark poem, describing 'with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creatur...

With the large map. Vigne travelled extensively in Northern India in the years 1834 to 1838. Although a private traveller, he mapped the country th...