Internationally renowned flower painter. First edition of this attractively designed travel memoir by Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), 'one of Austr...

Supplying orchid-mania. First edition of the memoir of prominent Victorian orchid collector Albert Millican, uncommon in trade. This copy with the ...

Art nouveau publisher's cloth. A lovely copy of this 1910s edition of Thoreau's Excursions (originally published in 1863) with elaborate Art Nouvea...

Robert Fortune's carefully edited version of his two principle works: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, and Journey to t...

A scarce first edition of this personal account of Lady Montefiore's travels in the Levant, published anonymously and dedicated to her husband.The...

A most charming set of the poems by one of the great Romantic poets.5 vols, 8vo (177 x 120); frontispiece portrait of the poet to first vol., some...

A bright and smart copy of this account of Sydney John Hickson's (1859-1940) time journeying through the Celebes Sea and northern Celebes (Sulawes...

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain and irrepressibly witty, she organises the lives...

The first book to be published on the history of Peterhof, complete with 33 views of the palace and two plans. The author, General von Heiroth ser...

A fresh example of this album with eighteen views of St Petersburg and its famous landmarks including the Winter Palace, St Isaac's, Nevsky Prospe...

Last edition of this title.Third edition; pp x, [38], one page of corrections dated 1912, publisher's errata slip, 229, 24 adverts dated 1911-1912...

Scarce Ashkenazic rite Selichot prayer book, not listed in the Vinograd bibliography.The Proops family were a dynasty of well known Hebrew printer...

Handsome prize binding. Ninth edition one of the most influential books by astronomer John Herschel, in a handsome red red calf prize binding. This...

A handsome set of Sir John Rutherford Alcock's (1809-1897) account of his time as the first British diplomatic representative to reside in Japan.A...

Rare publication in English & French. This scarce volume was issued with the French text bound in at the rear. Athens was issued in five editio...

The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...

A modern fairy story' (Ackroyd, 413). 'It may readily be called the Bible of Christmas… A Christmas Carol was issued about ten days before Christm...

Plate 21 from the first edition of Gould's first multi-volume ornithological work, The Birds of Europe, and the first of his works to feature plat...

Copied for a regional king. A very handsome and clean example of a regional Qur'an, produced for a local ruler named 'Malik Muhammad bin Muhammad'....