A rare complete set of the official account of Freycinet's voyage of scientific exploration. During the nineteenth century, a large part of ornith...

John Gould (1804-1881) is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill and bea...

John Gould (1804-1881) is widely considered the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both artistic skill and bea...

In the 1830s tourism in the Holy Land was increasing as the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, consolidated his authority and promoted the research int...

edition 89/100Archival pigment print, 2021, edition 89/100, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the editio...

From the author to his daughter. Nine short stories written and illustrated by Bawden.First edition, signed presentation inscription from the autho...

Bengal Presidency. A large hand-coloured map showing the course of the Ganges across north-east India from present-day Bangladesh to New Delhi, wit...

With tables containing an 'immense mass of reciprocal and connecting distances'. A comprehensive map for the 'British Traveller' at the beginning o...

England's railways at the dawn of the age of steam. A richly hand-coloured map of England and Wales showing the navigable canals, mail road routes,...

Signed by the illustrator. An attractive first edition, signed by Salvador Dali on the front free endpaper.A macabre tale by the pioneering Swiss f...

The true first edition. The true first edition with the correct first state dustjacket. A fine, well-preserved copy of what is perhaps the best-lov...

Heinrich Wölfflin's copy with large margins. The first quarto edition of Sebastiano Serlio's (1475-1554) Five Books of Architecture, one of the fir...

The author's uncommon second book, here in the earliest issue.First edition, first impression, first issue of the author's second book (with adver...

'editio optima' (Dibdin). A finely bound example of the eleven extant comedies of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (446-386 BCE), together...

One of the most beautiful of Mardersteig's productions, (printer and typographer, head of Officina Bodoni), with charming, hand-coloured illustrat...

An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...

The patron saint of statesman and politicians. The first collected edition of Sir Thomas More's (1478-1535) English works, from his youthful sallie...