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

Prisse d'Avennes's classic work on Arabic decoration. Features architecture, textiles, pottery, etc.First edition. Folio. iv pp., 110 lithographed...

True first edition, preceding the Methuen hardback edition of the same year. Pinter's first commercial success, first performed at the Arts Theatr...

First edition of a major English Stage Company play. 'A drama of striking power, intensity and conviction' (New York Post).First edition, first im...

First edition of one of the scarcest Maclaren-Ross titles.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, silver...

The author's scarce second novel, banned in Ireland by the Censorship Board for obscenity in 1965.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked i...

The author's third novel and the second in his series of books dealing with Islam and the countries of the East, beginning with Midnight's Childre...

Signed by the author. First edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott, signed by the author in black ink on the title page.First edition, first...

The author's second book and first Science Fiction novel. Preceded by her earlier novel, The Colour of Rain (1964), published under the pseudonym ...

First edition of this satirical novel set in a boys school.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt...

An exceptional example of the fragile dust-jacket. Weston made these photographs during many visits to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve in Califor...

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...

Signed. An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar comprises photographs made in public and private establishments that are inaccessible or unk...

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...

Signed by Versace. With illustrations by photographers / artists, including Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Brice Weber.First US edition, signed in ...

Shackleton's account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9. Known today as the Nimrod expedition, this proved to be the making of Shacklet...

Copied only 23 years after the author's death. An exceptionally early manuscript example of the well-known medieval Islamic allegorical love story ...

Commissioned for fath 'ali shah qajar. A fine Qajar Qur'an copied for Fath 'Ali Shah by a royal scribe of the Qajar courts. The scribe Muhammad 'Al...

A scarce and luxurious rendition of this classic Russian fairy tale, beautifully illustrated by Zworykin and heightened in gold. Bilibin's Maria M...

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...

Map of Qatar and the UAE. An excellent example of a double-sided coloured escape map of the Arabian Gulf, showing the UAE and Oman to recto, and Qa...

Map of Qatar and the UAE. An excellent example of a double-sided coloured escape map of the Arabian Gulf, showing the UAE and Oman to recto, and Qa...