The first edition of Charles Rathbone Low's (1837-1918) illustrated history of the Royal Navy, from its origins under the auspices of the Tudor co...

First edition. An extremely scarce collection of works on the Inquisition in Spain, Portugal and Italy compiled anonymously from several tracts pop...

Eton College interest. A beautifully bound copy of Heneage Jesse's (d.1874) two-volume collection of biographies on noted Eton alumni including Wil...

The first edition . The rare first edition of Trotsky's My Life: An Attempt at an autobiography, written in the first year of his exile in Turkey. ...

Inscribed to the poet Mary Wilson. Prints the full text of Irvine's memorial address, inscribed by him on the first leaf, 'Mary with love and grati...

Inscribed by the author to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Written in the 1930s and reprinted numerous times, Bryant prepared the text of this extrao...

Signed by prisoners of war. Signed by seven former Colditz prisoners of war:- Kenneth Lockwood, Jimmy Yule, Hugh Bruce, Tommy Catlow, Peter Allan, ...

An excellent copy of Blunden's history of one of those truly worthy and typically English institutions; "In 1909 Edmund moved from the local Gramm...

Known to Benjamin Franklin. Magisterial work by the Benedictine monk Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741), one of the founders of modern archaeology.T...

'by command of his royal highness'. 'It is incumbent on every Officer in His Majesty's Service to provide himself with a Copy of these Regulations,...

Skelton began writing for Blackwood's Magazine in 1869, which he did for the rest of his life, then in 1876 he published The Impeachment of Mary S...

An exceptionally fresh example in the preferred binding with a large crown, of this masterpiece of Russian printing. The work presents a comprehen...

As mentioned in the preface, this Introduction makes generous use of the works of Grotius, and focuses on the period from 1550 to 1648, in particu...