Birds depicted: Pipra Militaris, Pipra Serena, Pipra Setifera and Pipra Galeata.Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He ...

Birds depicted: Pipra Strigillata, Pipra Erythrocephala, Pipra Chrysocephala and Pipra Aureola. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Ri...

Birds depicted: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor and Tanagra Chrysogaster. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de...

Birds depicted: Muscipeta Filicauda, Muscipeta Leucocephala, Muscipeta Psalura, Muscipeta Alector and Muscipeta Coronata. Descourtilz worked for ...

Birds depicted: Euphonia Chlorolica, Euphonia Vittata, Euphonia Diademata and Euphonia Psittacina. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of R...

Birds depicted: Phibalura Flavirostris, Querula Rubricollis, Turdus Orpheus, Turdus Flavipes and Turdus Brasiliensis. Descourtilz worked for the N...

Birds depicted: Pipra Pareola, Pipra Gutturosa and Pipra Caudata. Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of ...

95 plates on Russia, with the appendix volume on Armenia (4 plates), The Crimea (8 plates), Caucasus (7 plates). At the end of the appendix is a 1...

Landscape album (26 x 19cm), 31 Albumen photographs (typical size 19 x 14cm. approx) many with printed caption beneath image, foxing to card, prin...

Fine example, handsomely bound, of the first edition of this account of Jamaica in 1860.First edition, 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), iv, 395pp., hand-coloure...

Bruce (1744-1826) was a Scottish academic, politician and historiographer to the East India Company.Quarto (31 x 24.5cm). xii, [2], 632p., half-ti...

Lyons in the first part of the 19th century: a large line-engraving with fine contemporary hand-colour.The attribution is based on the work's styl...

As mentioned in the preface, this Introduction makes generous use of the works of Grotius, and focuses on the period from 1550 to 1648, in particu...

Rare manuscript letter from Karl Baedeker. This letter, written by Karl Baedeker, gives an interesting insight into the workings of the Baedeker co...

Fine copy of new edition, revised and corrected, with a foreword by George Sand. Echoing much of the sentiment of Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitar...

The Palazzo della Consulta was only a recent addition to baroque Rome when depicted by Piranesi, having been erected in the 1730s. It was designed...

A good selection of images, ranging from Allahabad in present day Pakistan, to tea plantations in Assam, various images showing architectural deta...

The plates are after drawings by William Brockendon, W.H. Barlett and other. Born in Ireland, Costello was a soldier, journalist and artist. Tra...

Rare. ESTC lists only 2 copies: British Library and National Library of Scotland.First edition; 8vo; engraved title, engraved explanation leaf, do...

This charming watercolour shows a group of four Russian workmen in front of semi-derelict barracks. The expressions and gestures of the figures en...

Ainsworth was the surgeon and geologist on the Euphrates expedition. This account of the geological work of the expedition is dedicated to the lea...

Extends from Hertford to Dorking and from Beaconsfield to Chelmsford. Shows the railway to Walthamstow (1870) extending south to Dalston (1872) bu...

Fine copy of the first publication of Kuprin's most famous work . The novel describes the events leading up to the duel between young officer Romas...