From the monastery of saint anthony. This volume bears witness to a very specific monastery in Egypt known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony, in th...

With sketches from the french grands voyages. Paris' comprehensive survey of sailing vessels and a valuable contribution to preserving the artifact...

Plate 16 from John James Audubon's Birds of America which was printed between 1827 and 1838 with 435 life-size images of North American birds.Hand...

An authentic Emarati manuscript. A very rare manuscript described in the colophon as being copied in the 'Al-Wasl' area in the western provinces of...

A most attractive first edition set of the Christmas Books, with the original cloth covers bound in each. After the success attained with A Christ...

Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...

An atmospheric original drawing by Irina Valerianova Stenberg (1905-1985) Soviet-Jewish artist, who lived and worked in Tbilisi, Georgia and known...

The first of Demidoff's travels to be published, with all plates printed on India paper. An attractive copy of the first edition in contemporary s...

Comprising: Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Villette, Shirley, Jane Eyre, Emma, Poems (by all three) an...

The bill aims to regulate the way in which Jewish members of the House of Commons would be sworn in. The bill states that the words 'Upon the true...

With excellent provenance for the physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and George V. An interesting association copy of John Stuart...

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...

A very scarce early work by Ivan Verkhratsky, one of the most important Ukrainian philologists of the twentieth century. He wrote numerous text bo...

First edition of Gogol's masterpiece. A handsome example of one of the greatest novels of 19th-century Russian literature.Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) b...

Rare first UK edition of Pinocchio. The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Ita...

Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...

A handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...

Wonderful Art Nouveau binding. An excellent illustrated edition of Krylov's fables in a wonderful Art Nouveau binding. Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) is R...

Contemporary tree calf. A very handsome, four-volume set of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late ...

Scarce. Jagor travelled throughout the Philippines in 1859-60. 'This work possesses great scientific value. It is the work of a keen scientific in...

Plate 26 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...