A rare and lavishly illustrated work devoted entirely to the city of Venice, issued as part of the monumental Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiaru...

With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...

Third Dutch edition on large paper, the plates with excellent dark impressions, handsomely bound in a contemporary Dutch binding. The maps, plans,...

A rare and finely engraved prospect of Antwerp viewed from the Scheldt, first published by Vrients in 1610, under a privilege issued by Albert and...

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

Romantic views of Sintra. A fine visual record of Sintra, near Lisbon. A long-time royal sanctuary, the area's forested terrain is studded with pas...

One of the earliest works in Western Europe on Ukrainian history and geography. Jean-Benoît Scherer (1741 - 1824), a German and French historian w...

Inscribed on the upper wrapper: 'Mrs. W????/ With Wm. Hooker's/ Compliments'.Scarce. William Dawson Hooker (1816-1840), physician and botanist, un...

The first edition of James Peller Malcom's (1767-1865) Londinium Redivivum ('London Renewed'), a historical survey of the city compiled from paroc...

This charming and humorous album depicts French life of the period in caricature. There appears to be only one complete copy of this album with si...

Not in the British Library. The first edition of the zoologist and physician Dr. Martin Lister's (d.1712) A Journey to Paris, an account of the aut...

Charming album of landscape views of Boulogne. Small landscape album containing 25 lithographed views of Boulogne, each view 13 x 9 cm, manuscrip...

Bull fighting in Spain. Rare issue hand-coloured on card. A handsome copy of a lively set of bull fighting plates.'A speaker of French, Italian, Sp...

Early account in English of the stethoscope. Inscribed at foot of title: 'To Hyett Esq / with author's compliments'.Pages 153-59 contain an account...

Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the great neo-classical sculptor was born in Possagno. He chose to erect what became known as the Tempio Canoviano on ...

First published in 1693 ,Slezer's book was the earliest series of town prospects to be published in Britain.John Slezer, a German military enginee...

Original dust-wrapper. Rare in dust-wrapper. A scarce title in the twenty-one shilling series published by A. & C. BlackFirst edition. 8vo., x,...

One of the key figures in the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-49), György Klapka (1820-1892) went on to be a member of the Hungarian Parliamen...

One of 160 copies. The first scholarly work by the historian and archaeoloist Alexandre, comte de Laborde (1773-1842). Magnificently illustrated, t...