Hemingway's exploration of professional bullfighting, a spectacle he saw more as a heroic, tragic ceremony than as a sport.First UK edition, first...

Signed by 'The Iron Lady'. Signed by 'The Iron Lady'. An 'account of Thatcher's views about the world, its recent histories and what should be done...

Das Auge der Liebe by the Swiss photographer René Groebli features images he made of his wife Rita during their honeymoon in France.First edition;...

First and only edition of this title. "Indien" was only published in German and covers Burma, Java and Ceylon and contains a panorama of Himalayas...

Signed. George Rodger gives an account, illustrated with photographs, of his journey through West Africa, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Libya, Egypt, Syria, a...

John Jourdain (d.1619) was a captain in the service of the English East India Company (EIC), and the first president of the EIC Council of India. ...

The first of two German editions. Issued c.1914.First edition. xxxii, 635 pp, 38 maps, 49 plans, past owner's inscription to title page; publisher...

This particular volume has the stamp "Verkaufsfähig nach Kart.Veröff.VO 6.2.40 '." This means this copy had passed the censor and was fit for sale...

The thoughts of a Roman poet. The most complete seventeenth-century translation of Martial's Epigrams into English, bound with the first edition of...

An evocative series of colour photographs of the Philippines, ranging from views of Manilla harbour, to domestic scenes such as a butcher's shop, ...

A charming collection of letters written by nursing sister Jessie Marjorie Morris (d.1964) during her posting in the Quetta, the capital of Baluch...

Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. From 1436 to 14...

Jean de Béthencourt (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanz...

Ferdinand Verbiest, (1623-1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astrono...

François Pyrard de Laval (c.1578-c.1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives...

Robert Hues (1553-1632) was an English mathematician and geographer. During a trip to Newfoundland, he made observations which caused him to doubt...

A beautiful Hebrew-English machzor of Festival Prayers, published in Vienna and based on David Levi's original translation.The set was gifted as a...

The true first edition, preceding the first US edition by three days, of Hemingway's poignant novel set entirely in Venice at the close of World W...

Woolf's fictional 'stream of consciousness' tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning.First edition, so-called 'Lar...

One of the prototypes for Levantine costume plates. a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic world. T...

The hardcover issue of this catalogue for Manuel Alvarez Bravo's exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum (4 May–20 June 1971), which travelled to The Mu...

First edition, first printing of Fuller's first book, a nice copy in the jacket.Nine Chains to the Moon is a collection of forty-four essays on va...

Pendlebury's handbook gives us a detailed architectural history of the Palace at Knossos on the Island of Crete.First edition. 8vo, 63pp, 14 photo...

Deja-Vu is the second book in Ralph Gibson's 'Black trilogy' published by his own Lustrum Press. It is preceded by The Somnambulist (1970) and fol...