The second English edition was published only year after the first edition in 1878. The two first editions of London are both extremely rare. Maps...

An attractive copy of Agin's celebrated series of illustrations. Alexander Agin (1817-75) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator and this se...

Edition De Luxe. De Luxe numbered edition of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition catalogue.The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition was held at th...

A rare work urging municipal action against the london fog. First and only edition of this rare pamphlet by a doctor and reformer imploring the Lon...

The first French edition was published in 1882. This copy is in mint conditionIssued c.1893Second edition. cxviii, 442pp, 18 maps, 44 plans and on...

A well-preserved example of this scarce polyglot Bible in English printed for Samuel Bagster with over 60,000 parallel references, and a preface b...

William Scoresby junior, the great Arctic explorer, was actively engaged on scientific research into magnetism and published several papers on the...

The beginning of air quality monitoring. First and only edition of the first book on the results of air quality monitoring, a pioneering work in th...

The precursor to bohr's quantum theory. First edition of this significant work that lays out the empirical formulae governing the frequencies of at...

Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

Three Men in a Boat is considered an important work of the Victorian comic texts, affording the reader a genuine insight into the morals and socia...

Rothschild copy with arms. A finely bound copy of Abel's China with Rothschild provenance, bound by the Royal bookbinder, Simier.Abel was the natur...

In essence a 'new work'. The second edition, substantially revised and in essence a 'new work' in which Malthus defends his views against a host of...

Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) the renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were r...

Second edition of three in the French series. Issued c.1897.Second edition, xlviii, 447pp, 14 maps, 22 plans; publisher's red cloth gilt; a mint c...