First separate edition, revised and significantly expanded; originally published as part of Ferrario's immense Il Costume Antico e Moderno, issued...

a fine example of one of Vasnetsov's most famous illustrated works, published to commemorate the anniversary of Pushkin's birth. The Song of Wise ...

Four Chinese Export paintings, each finely painted in ink and gouache on paper with bird and flower scenes enclosed with floral cartouches, on a d...

A first-hand account of the service of the detachment charged with the protection of the Emperor during the Russo-Turkish war. The Guard's Detachm...

Illustrated with engraved plates and maps. A handsome five-volume set of Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, rendered into English with commenta...

Reizendes Album nach Art des Liber Amicorum, hier allerdings mit erotischem bis schweinösem Inhalt: kleine Bleistiftzeichnungen eines Paares bei a...

The programme for the Coronation gala concert at the Kremlin, which included performances of the overture of Glinka's 'Ruslan and Ludmila', the ma...

Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...

'George Dodd (1808- 1881) was a journeyman author employed in supplying Victorian publications with the type of factual article for which there wa...

First Trade edition. Sml. 4to., title heightened in gilt, illustrated frontispiece, six further plates, one map, numerous illustrations and decora...

Alsace-Lorraine, (acquired in 1871) was not included. However this edition covers large parts of Hungary. This copy was issued in March 1872. Seco...

The author, the British vice-consul at Kertch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains ...

A rare shape book. With rhyming verse designed to promote travel to Australia from England. The scenes depicted include Aborigines, sheep musteri...

The father of 3d movies. Descriptive geometry is the science of presenting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional plane. Gaspard Monge inv...

"An excellent work of exploration and sport, this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest. Departing from Zanzibar the expedition hu...

This was the fourth title in a series of costume books first issued by William Miller in 1803. In this copy the watermarks on the paper are dated ...