This series covering the Northern Italy was first published in French in 1861 and was the first of the three French titles on Italy to be publishe...

Endpapers dated "August 1856".Seventh edition, pp xii, 574, adverts dated 1857, 34, 5 maps, including one linen map at rear, 2 plans and one illu...

Issued c.1896.Twenty-seventh edition, pp xii, 572, 43 maps, 10 plans, 7 panoramas, publisher's red cloth gilt; a very good copy.Hinrichsen D153.

A fine letter providing technical advice, written towards the end of Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition. At the time of writing, Livingstone was wai...

Scarce. Although a missionary work, the book is full of valuable topographical information as well as containing interesting data on natural histo...

A lovely example of this richly illustrated chronicle, complete and unusually bound in full contemporary red sheep with gauffered edgesThe Pateric...

Gray's expedition followed the disastrous missions of Major Peddie (who died of fever) and Captain Campbell (who also died on his arrival at the c...

Scarce. Important first hand work on the Slave Trade at the time of Sierra Leone and Liberia signing the Anti-Slavery Trade Treaty.First edition. ...

Very scarce. Printed for subscription only to raise money for Fawckner who had fallen on hard times. An account of the author's travels in West Af...

Rare privately printed journal of Davidson's attempt to cross the Western Sahara from Tangier to Timbuktoo which ended with his murder in November...

A personal account of travel and adventure and a famous eye-witness report of the Russian campaign against Khiva in 1873; MacGahan was a correspon...

A good example, complete with all the plates, of this rare research work on the history of ancient languages with Hebrew, Ethopian, Mongolian, Chi...

Russian carriages and sleighs and their occupants, all dressed in contemporary costume and boldly coloured.A Picture of St. Petersburgh, represent...

Bertrandon de la Broquière (aka Brocquiere, c. 1400-1459) was a Burgundian spy and pilgrim to the Middle East in the years 1432–33. He wrote at th...

A gift from King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical art...

An uncommon account. M'Queen, the owner of plantations in Grenada in the West Indies, collected extensive information, principally from slaves but...

Commemorative document on the occasion of the coronation of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, which took place on the 14th of May 1896 at the ...

Vialla de Sommieres spent six years in Montenegro, circa1806-12, as governor of Cattaro, during the French occupation of Dalmatia in the Napoleoni...

From Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, which is considered the most comprehensive and complete catalogue on the subject.This magnifi...

From Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, which is considered the most comprehensive and complete catalogue on the subject. This magnif...