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...

John Papworth was the architect responsible for the design of Ackermann's showroom at 101 Strand. He adopted the second name of Buonarroti after h...

With contemporary hand colour. Beautiful plates, scarce with vibrant original hand-colour: a complete set of pilasters from the first part of the L...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and butterflies.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for s...

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is best known for a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents ...

The most Important Panorama of London of its period. The magnificent grand panorama of London.Samuel Buck and his brother Nathaniel are among the f...

One of the most most important maps of the nineteenth century, of fundamental importance to British social reform.The colouring of the map depicts...

Prussian military uniforms. Fourteen exceptionally bright and crisp, hand-coloured prints. The artist, Friedrich Lieder, depicts uniforms and badge...

An important collection of documents of the First Maccabiah Games - opening ceremony programme, drafts of the games regulations, official leaflets...

Scarce. Castlemaine was asked by Charles II to keep him informed of events in Europe whilst making a tour. Castelmaine reported to the King by let...

The rare second panorama. A rare example, never bound, with wide margins.A fine panoramic view, entirely different from Mrs. Bracebridge's 1836 pan...

Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...

A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates inclu...

A very good example of the special limited edition of the first part of Wyndham Lewis' trilogy The Human Age, published simultaneously with an ord...

With royal provenance . an interesting and rare work on astronomy - dedicated to Louis XVIII. Charles Rouy's 'mechanism of uranography' presents a ...