Rare early Railway guide.Second edition. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm), 172pp including adverts, one engraved folding plan of the railway, one folding ta...

Early Railway Guide. The first edition was issued in 1837. Scarce.Second edition. Small 8vo ( 15 x 10 cm), 192pp, 32 publisher's adverts, [3] publ...

one of the great African narratives completing the navigaton of the river niger.Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant on h...

Seven plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it i...

Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it i...

Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it is...

+Pith seems not to have been adopted for painting until about 1820. Some European museums claim that their paintings on pith (often erroneously ca...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing Chinese deities and processional characters.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the inc...

Fine lithographic view over Panama City, taken from Ancon hill, at 200 metres the highest natural point in the country. The almost bird's-eye view...

A large and decorative view of the city of Havana from the sea, showing ships at harbour in the foreground, the dock and city beyond. The lighthou...

With magnificent plates. Grand commemorative album with magnificent plates published on the occasion of inauguration of the monument to Pushkin in ...

Megillat Esther. Italian Esther scroll, beautifully illuminated in colour.Text divided into 11 parshiyot of 28 lines each, and a compartment dedica...

Endpapers dated "Mars 1875". Ninth edition, pp xxvi, 354, 21 maps, 18 plans, previous owner's signature in ink, inside on front endpaper; publishe...

A fresh example with wide margins of this edition comprising 86 original fables of the 'Russian Lafontaine' accompanied by the translations into I...

Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful creator of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in Japan in the 19th c...