Inscribed presentation copy from the author. A rare inscribed first edition of this relatively radical feminist work, presenting the women's libera...

Important work on Constantinople. The first edition, complete with the text volumes.Pertusier (1779-1836) was in Constantinople from 1812 as aide-d...

A very good first edition example of this translation of Seneca's Oedipus by Ted Hughes, presented at the time of publication to his friends John ...

Richard Chandler, classical scholar and traveller, was introduced to the Society of Dilettanti by Robert Wood, editor of The Ruins of Palmyra, and...

February 17th 1949 was the day of Weizmann's presidential inauguration. On that day Dr Chaim Weizmann became the first president of the Jewish sta...

Tea cultivation. An excellent example of rare Chinese album on pith paper on tea cultivation depicting each process in detail. Pith seems not to ha...

The photographs include: The Acropolis, Temple of Jupiter, Gate of Adrian, Theatre of Herodes Atticus, Propylea, Temple of Nike Apteros, Parthenon...

Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

Deemed worthy of exhibition at the Paris World's Fair 1900. The finest and most meticulous images of the moon until the 1970's.The Atlas photograph...

First published in 1693 ,Slezer's book was the earliest series of town prospects to be published in Britain.John Slezer, a German military enginee...

Excellent copy with wide margins . an interesting architectural record of Imperial Russia's vigorous building programme before the invasion by Napo...

This edition contains many plates and material not published earlier.The atlas includes plates of Corfu, Zante, Ithaca, and Athens, in addition to...

From the library of avant-garde artist Mikahil Larionov . Simple like mooing was Maykovsky's first major collection of poetry to be published and a...

First English edition. One of several novels by the French writer Jean de Préchac (d.1720) based on real historical figures. Kara Mustafa Pasha (d....

Signed by Updike on each title page. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page o...

Large paper copy with plates in two states. Fine set of classic Thames views. Large paper copy with the plates in 2 states, and superior colouring....

Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth-century China.A fine group o...

Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

On the departure of Henry Salt in 1810, his servant Nathaniel Pearce remained in Ethiopia until 1819, becoming fluent in Tegrenya and Amharic. 'A ...

Signed limited edition. A very good first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans W...