First edition of the memoirs of Nobel Prize-winning physicist J.J. Thomson (1856-1940), discoverer of the electron. The text covers Thomson's enti...

The third and final version of rutherford's great textbook on radioactivity. First edition, Rutherford's third version of 'the first textbook on ra...

First UK edition, published in the US in the same year.The present work is a popular account of Einstein's relativity theories, with historical ba...

First edition and a fine copy.This volume is the proceedings of a conference on botany held to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Darwi...

Enlarged by fifty percent from the first edition. Second edition of 'the first textbook on radioactivity, surveying contemporary knowledge of the e...

Publisher's file copy. First edition, the publisher's file copy, of this significant work by Nobel Prize winning chemist Sir Walter Norman Haworth ...

[politics] signed by 'The Iron Lady'. A fine Author's proof copy of signed edition, limited to 100 copies.Limited deluxe signed edition of 100 copi...

A scarce anthology of poems by various authors with the common themes of Jewish life and fate, from the biblical times to the beginning of the 20t...

Rev. Loraine Loraine-Smith (1784–1857), was son of the painter Charles Loraine Smith (1751–1835). Benjamin Disraeli (1801-1881) was a Conservative...

A lovely copy of this luxurious inter-war production. Cyril Beaumont (1891-1976) and Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1896-1988) collaborated on this work...

The first edition of Barrack-Room Ballads, with Departmental Ditties having been published by the Civil and Military Press Gazette in 1886. In tot...

An early gothic short-story by one of the great writers of the nineteenth century. This first appeared in Pall Mall Gazette's 1884 Christmas issue...

A first edition, first issue, of this important work preserving the oral tales of African-American slaves. Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), a whi...

Kipling's first published collection of prose, published shortly after he turned 22 years of age, whilst living in India as a jobbing writer and j...

Rackham's illustrations brilliantly capture the characters and capers of Badger, Mole, Ratty and Toad, the protagonists of this classic story.8vo ...

An attractive copy of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late romance Pericles, Prince of Tyre, his...

William Adams (1564-1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin, was an English navigator who was the first Englishman to reach Japan, and the fir...

Sir Henry Middleton (d. 1613) was an English captain and adventurer for the East-India Company, like his two brothers.Henry was taken on at the Wo...

An attractive copy of Friedrich Gerstäcker's account of his journey to San Fransisco in hopes of striking gold. He left Bremen in 1849, stopping a...

In 1807 the Portuguese royal family and government were forced to flee to their colony of Brazil following Napoleon's invasion of their country. I...