This account describes the two rebellions which broke out during the unsettled period following the victories of Nadir Kuli Khan of Persia against...

The Palazzo Odescalchi, or Chigi-Odescalchi, can be found in the Piazza Santi Apostoli, right in the centre of Rome. It sits opposite the Palazzo ...

Very handsome, fully hand-coloured copy of best edition - here in a fine binding, with wide margins and fresh plates, showing erotic subjects in a...

Three aquatints printed in sepia. Some light staining to images, some small tears to edges of sheet.

Attractive, fresh example of the atlas, uncut, from the most desirable edition enhanced with new and larger plates. Printed on thick paper and ext...

Collection of 22 loose photos mounted on card. Some with pencil captions, numbered; small marginal tears to card, very light soiling.

Prideaux describes this work as 'a good specimen of the early literature on missionary effort, giving a sufficiently vivid record of personal expe...

Edinburgh. A fine prospect of Edinburgh taken from Britannia Illustrata. Known as the 'Queen Anne View'. High in the sky above the city the rococo ...

A magnificent large-scale panoramic view of Paris, by Friedrich Bernhard Werner, a German printmaker and a skilled draftsman - who specialized in ...

A beautiful and most uncommon item. In some detail, the manuscript depicts a boy, lying down, blowing hard on a conch shell. To his right Poseidon...

South sea bubble. The now notorious South Sea Company was established in 1711 in an attempt to replicate the success achieved by the East India. Un...

The first work by Poujoulat, a French historian and journalist, translated into Russian and published 2 years later after the original in French. ...

The Scottish Enlightenment. An attractive copy of the first edition of Stewart's major study of the history of philosophy.'In his work on the histo...

Very good copy of this rare early play by one of the leading Russian playwrights of the XIX century. Deemed by literary historians to be the found...

With views after eminent artists including Thomas Allom, William Henry Bartlett, and William Leighton Leitch.2 volumes in 1, 4to, 2 additional eng...

Commemorative jug issued to celebrate the great naval victory won by Admiral Lord Nelson over the allied French and Spanish fleets at the Battle o...

Indonesia. Albumen print. Very good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original album sleeve.

Hand-coloured albumen print. Fine colouring and in good condition, mounted on thick card.

Silver gelatin print. Edition 9/25.

Turkey. Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, photographer's credit and title in negative, pasted on original mount.

Most of the book is concerned with Malta (11 engravings) and Gibraltar.Second edition. Royal 8vo, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title...

Europe. Six albumen prints. Very good to fair tonal range, photographer's credit and number in negative, pasted on original album leaves.

France. Twenty-three albumen prints. Good tonal range and in good condition.

Photographs show the Tonsure ceremonies and festivites, most likely at the time that Ranjitsinhji (famous cricketer) was installed as a King. King...