Hand coloured lithographs mounted on card as issued. Carter's rare views of Gibraltar, here in the deluxe issue with hand coloured lithographs. Car...

Pitman outlines various proposals for constructing a canal through Central America in order to avoid having to sail round Cape Horn. The map shows...

Publisher's presentation copy . Rare presentation copy from the publisher. Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910-1979), grandson of Fritz Baedeker, revived...

Unusual guide to Majorca.8vo (size 18 x 12 cm); 269 pp, numerous illustrations, 2 folding maps at front and rear ; publisher's red cloth, gilt let...

A highly unusual set of guide-books to various walks in and around Poona in India. Very scarce.Poona, no known as Pune, lies in the west of India ...

Maps include Milan, Genoa, Turin and Venice. This is the first handbook to be published since the unification of Northen Italy. Endpapers dated J...

From the Timurid Courts of Persia. A fine Timurid copy of the complete Mathnavi by the revered Sufi Saint Jalal al-din Rumi.This is Rumi's most cel...

Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised by great suffering. There are seven realms of this un...

An attractive Ottoman Qur'an copied during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid I (r. 1774-1789). The concise calligraphy and elegant illumination thro...

A very attractive and large portrait of a Governor of Bombay, possibly of Parsi heritage, apparently executed by a local Indian artist. The large ...

From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...

[philosophy] earl of Macclesfield's copy. A beautifully bound set of The Works of Francis Bacon edited by the poet David Mallet (d.1765), with an i...