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...

First edition. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to est...

Subscribers edition. Rare and important manual for trading.Richard Wyckoff (1873-1934) is one of the legends of Wall Street. At the turn of the twe...

Rare special edition. The first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans Wake, and i...

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...

Includes Florence and Corsica. Endpapers dated "July 1874".Third edition. lvii, 397pp, 7 maps, 28 plans, severe pencilling on endpapers, slight sp...

The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

Four plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it is...