First edition. The Hound is not merely one of the most famous of all Sherlock Holmes novels but also one of the great Edwardian Novels full stop. B...

One of the largest & finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum. One of the largest and finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum, comprising 156 plat...

A handsome set of Adam Smith's (d.1790) pivotal work of economic theory and political philosophy. The Wealth of Nations 'begins with the thought t...

Including views of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai. At a time of increased interest in China, Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted to...

Wright and Cartwright's monumental work on Hong Kong and the other great trading ports of China.First edition. 4to. (31 x 24 cm), 848 pp., profuse...

Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...

A lovely copy of the fine Ashendene Press edition of the first printed book on fishing.8vo, edition limited to 150 copies of which 125 for sale, [...

Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...

Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...

With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...

Inscribed by the author to her personal secretary. A Poirot novel. A fine association copy with the author's signed presentation inscription to the...

A near-fine set of this superb private press edition, undoubtedly one of Ashendene's finest achievements.Limited edition, one of only 225 copies; ...

An attractive set of Great Expectations, the most popular of Dickens' novels, in a contemporary binding.Although the title-pages states 'Second an...

Pre-war Singapore. Dickson's narrative of his flight from Southampton to Singapore shortly before WWII. Very rare. No other copies traced.First edi...

Speculation's greatest story. The first edition of this investment classic, a fictionalised biography of the day trader Jessie Livermore, to whom t...

Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black in to the front free endpaper, 'E.A. Chapman-Andrews O.B.E / with best wishe...

Superb set of five first editions. A superb set of first editions by one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age, uniformly bound in an att...

The origin of modern nursing. First edition, early issue — probably the third or fourth — with advertisements on the endpapers and 'the right of tr...

Travels between 1843 and 1845 in Kuangtung, Fukien, the Chekiang coast, and Shanghai. Fortune (1812-1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter an...

The first edition of Orwell's socio-political classic, intended by the author to serve as a satirical take on the events that led up to the Russia...

Extraordinary survival from the dawn of the printing press. An excellent, well-margined leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book p...

A very attractive series of photographs showing Hong Kong in the colonial era.'Denis Henry Hazell (1897-1970) was a British businessman. Some of h...

By a prominent Hui Islamic leader. Ma Liangjun (1871-1957) was a renowned Hui Muslim Akhund in the Northwest and a famous Islamic scholar ('Hui' re...

Exceptional contemporary mosaic binding. An exceptional example of the Oxford folio Bible in a striking contemporary mosaic binding by Thomas Sedgl...