The most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. A magnificent copy in contemporary hand-colour of the first illustrated encyclopaed...

Only colour plate book on the Gulf. The only colour plate book on the Arabian Gulf and one of the rarest of all colour plate books.The rarity of th...

From the court of Shah Tahmasp. An exceptional qur'anic juz with calligraphy attributed to the court calligrapher to Shah Tahmasp, Ahmad Al-Khalili...

First and greatest classic of modern economic thought. The first edition of the 'first and greatest classic of modern economic thought' (PMM). Smit...

One of approximately 300 copies. The complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1797-1798, on laid paper. A v...

Exceptionally early and important authorial manuscript on paper - the author's own copy. Al-Sharif al-Radi (970-1015 AD) was a celebrated poet and ...

The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...

Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...

The new religion. The complete first edition in four volumes. 'The history of the twentieth century if Marx's legacy. Stalin, Mao, Che, Castro - th...

An outstanding example. An exceptional example. Most copies were issued uncoloured. A few were sold with hand-colouring and a smaller number were i...

First dated edition & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium, a...

Fine & very rare set of racing prints. Sparrow notes its rarity in 1922, 'rare no doubt, because so many of the copies have been broken up in o...

Exquisite illumination by a named artist. A beautifully illuminated Qur'an, signed in the colophon with the name of the 'tadhhibuh' (illuminator) R...

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

An authentic Emarati manuscript. A very rare manuscript described in the colophon as being copied in the 'Al-Wasl' area in the western provinces of...

Rare example of early scribal freehand. A strikingly rare example of scribal freehand from the Abbasid period that is known for producing Qur'ans i...

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

With sketches from the french grands voyages. Paris' comprehensive survey of sailing vessels and a valuable contribution to preserving the artifact...

A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...

Copied for a regional king. A very handsome and clean example of a regional Qur'an, produced for a local ruler named 'Malik Muhammad bin Muhammad'....

With very rare original dust-wrappers. A set of Carter's TutAnkhAmen with the very rare dust-wrappers.At the age of seventeen in 1891, Carter went ...

Signed by the Aga Khan. The rare limited edition, signed by the Aga Khan, of the first book on his horses. A beautiful production with fine colour ...

Ornithology - one of 170 copies. This beautiful monograph on Cranes was originally the project of the director of the Amsterdam Zoo, G.F. Westerman...

Rare. The complete series of lithographs for John Doyle's Life of the Race Horse, published between 1822 and 1823. John Doyle (1797-1868), an Iris...