Auction catalogue. A rare auction catalogue listing items ranging from '400 bags saltpetre' to '6 chests rhubarb' to '6 bales Tripoli madder root.'...

Presentation copy. A 'superbly illustrated' scientific work, containing an account of the first Swiss expedition to the Kumaon Himalayas led by the...

The scarce variant issue in two volumes of Archibald Campbell's comprehensive survey of the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, richly illustrated...

Hand-coloured lithographs. 'A description of the habits, in life and captivity, of about 131 of the smaller species of the parrot groups... the col...

A scarce edition of the old testament, with engraved illustration plates - each containing four biblical scenes, framed in decorative vignette win...

Scarce autobiography, with the list of subscribers. From the library of Alfred Rubens. Godfrey Zimmerman (1788-1866) born into a poor family of a ...

Jewish character debut on a London stage. First performed at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 1794, Richard Cumberland's (1732-1811) The J...

Scarce Dublin edition.Humphrey Prideaux (1648-1724) was a Cornish churchman, orientalist and Dean of Norwich from 1702. 'The Old and New Testament...

First & only edition. The first and only edition of John Gill's (1697-1771) study of the history of baptism in Abrahamic religion, refuting sug...

A guidebook of Jewish traditions and ceremonies aimed at a Christian audience, written by a Jew.Alexander Alexander (Alexander ben Judah Leib) was...

A signed copy of the most famous work by Isaac Nathan, with a separate dedication plate to The Princess Charlotte of Wales.Isaac Nathan (c. 1791-1...

Scarce first edition of the Basel Haggadah in its original ornamental binding.One of the more attractive Haggadah editions that were published in ...

A magnificent book illustrated with 20 reproductions of Oppenheim's oil paintings depicting a romanticised view of 18th-century German-Jewish life...

A Responsa work by Rabbi Moshe Shilton, one of the greatest chachamim [wise men/scholars] of Constantinople in his time.The work was brought to pr...

Commentary on the Talmud by the Rashba. The work contains chidushim (new commentary) on the seven masekhtot (tractates) of Shabbat, Rosh HaShanah, ...

Commentary on Sefer HaItur with responses, by Rabbi Yaakov Sasson (Shushan), brought to print by Rabbi Hayim Kimhi ben Rabbi Yitzhak.Sefer HaItur ...

Writings on matrimonial law. Eliyahu Alfandari was a Constantinople Rabbi in the latter half of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. A...

'Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down the West African coast arrived at K...

"[The author] travelled through the Belgian Congo, then on through both British and German East Africa. His narrative recounts the difficulties of...

Contains letters and documents on the expedition to Cooch Behar against Bhutan, and on the Bogle and Turner Missions.First edition. 3 volumes, 8vo...