Survival of the fittest. Featuring the first occurrence of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. Originally intended as the first two chapters in a...

A beautiful presentation set in deluxe velvet binding with Portuguese royal coat-of-arms gilt-stamped to the covers. This edition of Pope's famou...

Two Responsa books published as one. The first being Aderet Eliyahu written by Eliyahu ben Yehudah Kovo, and the second Pnei Yehoshua, written by ...

The publisher's own copies with beautiful pochoir illustrations. Illustrated libretto with separate edition of 61 costume designs for L'Oiseau Bleu...

Georg Emanuel Opiz, or Opitz (1775-1841) was born in Prague, but moved to Dresden where he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Casanova. His ...

One of the finest accounts of natural history travels. Henry Bates (1825 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific...

With the rare supplement. The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal.First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310,...

A lovely copy with the rare original wrap-around, simply stating "The New 'Hannay' Adventure". This is the final story featuring John Buchan's mos...

Large-paper edition, number 40 of 560 copies, signed by Rackham, 4to., xix, (blank), 549, (blank)pp., 24 tipped-in colour plates with captioned ti...

Signed limited edition. Number 533 of 575 copies, signed by Rackham, 4to., 231, [1]pp., with 12 colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous bla...

Conrad's unfinished book, centred around the character of Napoleon Bonaparte.First edition, 8vo; frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements, original cloth...

The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton in the Ovampo country, and the other when he tr...

An adaptation of the essay that originally appeared in The Enemy, No.2, examining the presence and role of "race-consciousness" in contemporary li...

Lewis's first, very scarce, separately published literary publication, preceded only by Timon of Athens (1913), a portfolio of his artwork. One of...

One of the key figures in the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-49), György Klapka (1820-1892) went on to be a member of the Hungarian Parliamen...

First edition, 8vo; publisher's grey cloth binding, very good, grey dust-jacket printed in red, rubbed and slightly marked, small closed tear to h...

8vo., 13 engraved plates on india-proof paper, woodcut illustrations, some very occasional, scattered spotting, later full morocco gilt, with pink...

The last in a series of excellent editions Major published between 1823 and 1844.Sml. 8vo.,lx, 418, [1] pp., 12 steel-engraved plates and numerous...

Surrealist work beautifully bound . La femme 100 têtes was the first of three collage-novels by Max Ernst. The artist forges a universe of mystery,...

Rare women's suffrage artefact. A scarce collection of poems written by Pankhurst during one of her numerous terms in prison. Born in Old Trafford ...