The complete suite of hand-coloured plates depicting London street life in the early 1800's. Each plate strikes some telling contrasts, placing so...

Signed by Miro in red pencil. A fine example of the limited edition, signed by Miro in red pencil. Both the Spanish artist Joan Miro and the French...

Lovely example of this important work, with plates in bright colours and heightened with gold. In an unusual binding featuring the star of David.T...

Fine, fresh example, attractively bound, of the most elaborate history of world religion published up to that time, profusely illustrated with mor...

Uncommon' (Rosove). The bulk of the published scientific results from Shackleton's last expedition.First edition; 8vo., xii, 261 pp., frontispiece...

A history of Japan. A tall copy of the first edition in French of Kaempfer's history of Japan which was a best-seller from the moment it was publis...

The Dutch being at the height of their power, having supplanted the Portuguese, desired to gain access to China and a portion of the China trade. ...

The first separate edition of Baudier's survey of the Chinese court, which supposedly he based on the narrative of a Jesuit who had travelled in t...

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

There are two interesting chapters on Chinese field sports, with sections on tiger, leopard and a few other species of big game. The appendix cont...

The author was the artist on Colonel Sosnovsky's scientific expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia in 1874-75. This was one of the ...

First edition of Levi's Hebrew-English Pentateuch, which came to be the best known bible translation by a Jew of its time. Published together with...

Rare first German edition and first translation into a foreign language of this important work by the father of Malthusianism.Malthus' original wo...

A unique manuscript on the French navy presented from Louis XVI to Marie-Antoinette. An exceptional presentation & association manuscript, boun...

Looking inside technology. A publisher's sample of this fabulous, chromolithographic flap book on fin de siècle technology. Normally published in t...

A parliamentary report on the organisation of the Abyssinian church in Jerusalem at the time of the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1868. The a...

Hemingway's American debut. The collection of short stories and vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway's American debut and brought him fame.When I...

The finest pictorial record of the architecture of Florence in the 18th century. A complete set of the finest pictorial record of the historical ar...

Views of Istanbul in full green morocco. A finely bound example of the first edition of the grandest book of engraved views of Constantinople. "One...

The 18th century Dutch map trade could build on their reputation that originated from the Golden Age much longer than was assumed until now. The A...

First and very limited French edition of the 18th century 'Cries of London'.First French Edition, limited to 30 copies only (copy no. 27). 8vo; mo...

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

Responsa work by Hagiz, bound together with sermons by Galante, both published in Venice the same year.Ya'akov ben Smuel Hagiz (aka Jacob Hagiz, 1...

An act of Parliament confirming the validity of 'Marriages amongst the People called Quakers and amongst Persons professing the Jewish Religion'.T...