Turkey. Albumen print. Good tonal range with some staining around margins; Dimensions: 200 x 260mm. (8 x 10.5 inches).

The finest colour plate book on Greece & Turkey. First edition of the finest colour plate book ever produced on Greece and Turkey.Born in Versa...

With an extra suite of plates & original watercolours. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of plates and a copper plate. This copy also includ...

This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...

Deluxe edition one of 10 copies signed by the artist . One of the most delightful of all Cubist illustrated books with an introduction by Tristan T...

A very attractive example of the first edition of one of the most celebrated Voyages pittoresques.Choiseul-Gouffier's masterpiece is the first pub...

A fine example, with aristocratic provenance, of Dury's London edition of two wall-maps of North-Western Italy: Borgonio's Carta corografica degli...

An excellent example of this celebrated second edition, limited to only a few copies, of this important work on christian architecture in Constant...

Fine hand-coloured copy of this fully engraved work, printed on papier verge de Hollande extra-fort - one of these 'rarissimes exemplaires dont le...

From the library of 1st Viscount Cowdray. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843) was a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer, who following his marriage ...

First edition of this large work: a very good copy, complete with the 3 volumes of text and all maps, plans and views of Sevastopol - despite the ...

A pair of engravings on silk, tears to lower right corner of second item. Framed.

Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...

The Catholic Church placed Balzac's work on their list of Banned Books, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1841, where it remained up until the In...

Horse breeding in France in the mid-19th century . Impressive and uncommon work on French horse breeding at the beginning of Napoleon III's reign -...

Two volumes, leaves loosely inserted, 4to; with numerous dried plant and flower specimens mounted onto the pages, some with accompanying Latin na...

A scarce treasure for the collector' (Dunbar).Published in Paul Gerard's series Cream and Gold Presents appropriate for marriage, birthday and fes...

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...

Joseph Wolff (1795-1862) was a Messianic Jewish missionary born in Weilersbach, Germany. His father David was a Rabbi. Joseph left home at 11 and ...

From the "Birds of New Guinea".John Gould is widely considered as the greatest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists, combining both ...

The first true Biblical atlas. Pisgah refers to Mount Pisgah, the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time.T...