Signed by the author. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'Jawaharlal Nehru / 21.7.1961.'Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was a central fi...

'A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited Egypt, Sinai, Pa...

A finely bound copy of Baker's Ismailia.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a four-ye...

Complete works of one of Russia's most celebrated authors An attractive set in the original publisher's Art Nouveau binding. This edition, publish...

Notably early Hafez manuscript. Hafez Shirazi (1315-1390 AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Persian Poets, whose immensely popular poetry...

A complete run of one year of one of the major periodicals of the 1920s with striking cover designs.Runs of Zhenskiy zhurnal are notably scarce wi...

Following distinguished war service that saw him rise to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers, Paul E Garbutt (1919-2008), joined...

An attractive, decoratively bound set of the first critical edition of the works of one of the most celebrated Russian authors. Edited by Nikolai ...

A stunning dust jacket. First edition of the first James Bond novel to be made into a film, the sixth in the series overall. A superb copy in an un...

One of the finest things that ian fleming ever did. First edition of the third James Bond novel, and the only one to take place entirely in Britain...

A rare series of legal notices published during WW II by the British Military, setting out laws to be observed in Ethiopia after the British and t...

Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Florida and the North American South, shown within a trio arrangement of maps focused on Central and So...

An attractive set in the original publisher's decorative Art Nouveau binding. This edition, issued as a supplement to magazine Niva, became a basi...

Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of China, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched ...

Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of the East Indies, taken from the fifth, final, and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers....

The first edition of 'possibly the finest set of engravings that has ever been produced of the West Indes' (Maclean).Cazabon was born on 20th Sept...

Paving the way for dorothy hodgkin and rosalind franklin. Three rare, early offprints by Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the first women elected to the R...

Silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed Bible case. A sweet pocket King James Bible in a silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed case, the upper ...

Inscribed presentation copy of the most important medical biography. Fourth printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one great physicia...