From Karl Baedeker's archives. The London to Birmingham railway opened in 1838 and was the first inter-city line to built into London. The Liverpoo...

Town plans include Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna and Prague. Endapers dated "May 1850".Seventh edition. xxxvii, 580pp, 21 adverts dated1850, 6 town pl...

Large paper copy with plates in two states. Fine set of classic Thames views. Large paper copy with the plates in 2 states, and superior colouring....

The last edition before the unification of Italy. Endpapers dated ' June 1868"Seventh edition. 8vo, pp xi, [1 (blank)], 480, 56 adverts dated 186...

Rare. Plowden, appointed British Consul in 1848, served first at Masawa and later in the interior where he befriended Ras Ali and later Emperor Té...

Alexander Pope, Jr., was an American sculptor and painter. He is known primarily for this series on game birds and a similar one on dogs.Six chrom...

Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed: Rev Dr Parr / From the Author/ June 1814. Samuel Parr (1747-1825) was a renowned figure in late 18th and e...

'An important work' (Blackmer) detailing the author's travels in 1858 in which he describes the state of the countryside and includes much politic...

This edition contains many plates and material not published earlier.The atlas includes plates of Corfu, Zante, Ithaca, and Athens, in addition to...

James Laird Patterson (1822 - 1902) was the Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster. He had converted to Catholicism in 1850, ordained to the priesthood o...

Scarce. Written by a British Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards who disembarked at Massawa in 1874 on a hunting trip in northern Ethiopia and left...

Tea cultivation. An excellent example of rare Chinese album on pith paper on tea cultivation depicting each process in detail. Pith seems not to ha...

First edition. The series on Canada was only published in English and there were only four editions. It was written by J.F. Muirhead who also wrote...

Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peking,...

The author was a prisoner-of-war for three years in Greece and Turkey, 1799-1801. This is his account of notices of the family of the sultan and e...

Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calend...

Important work on Constantinople. The first edition, complete with the text volumes.Pertusier (1779-1836) was in Constantinople from 1812 as aide-d...

Contemporary account of the First Burmese War.First edition. 8vo, xii, 319 pp., large folding map (foxed), 2 engraved plates, contemporary half ca...

This title covers Provence, Les Cevennes and part of the Alps.Issued c.1897.Sixth edition. xxviii, 406 pp, 14 maps, 15 town plans, one panorama; p...