Livingstone's second book describes his expedition to expose the Portuguese slave traders and to find a way to establish a settlement for missions...

A very handsome copy of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late romance Pericles, Prince of Tyre, h...

Offprint from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, being the Burton Memorial Lecture for 1925.First edition. 8vo, 17 pp., original blue-green...

Offprint from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, being the Burton Memorial Lecture for 1925.First edition. 8vo, 17 pp., original blue-green...

One of the most important books on Persia. Dealing with every aspect of Persia, political, archaeological, cultural, etc., its great strength is i...

An intelligence guide for the Indian army operating in Iraq during World War I. It covers the area from Kuwait to Baghdad with special emphasis on...

The preferred enlarged edition.A controversial figure in his 'day job' of military intelligence and espionage, Meinertzhagen was also a keen ornit...

The preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into...

Includes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...

Includes valuable topographical information on north-east Arabia, as well as historical information on Kuwait not included in Dickson's previous b...

Includes Mecca and Medina. Sections on geology, geography, the coasts, climate, history, people, ports and towns, etc. The Geographical Handbook S...

An indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....

An indispensible guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....

Volume I: The mainland of old Greece and certain neighbouring islands; volume II, parts i & ii: The Cyclades and northern Sporades with The is...

Maps include Lake Garda, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Gratz. Issued c. 1903.Tenth edition. xxvi, 571pp, 53 maps, 10 plans and 7 panoramas, previous own...

Thomson was a British geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. He was the first European to enter several r...

A beautiful edition of the most important work of Middle English vernacular literature, The Canterbury Tales, rendered into modern English by the ...

Ibn all-Nafis (d.1288 AD) was an Arabic physician based in Damascus, best known for his discoveries in the pulmonary, capillary and coronary blood...

A catalogue from the exhibition of Basquiat's work at the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Küsnacht/Zurich and at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York...

This volume contains a large street plan of Berlin divided into three sections.Issued c.1906Second edition. vi, pp. 247, 6 maps and 18 plans, pre...

A rare, commemorative book, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Ray-Ban, featuring many of the 'legends' who have worn the iconic sunglasses; incl...

A finely illustrated publication detailing the collection of Indian miniatures of Alfred Beatty (1875-1968), a copper mining tycoon who built up o...

This delightfully illustrated and much sought-after edition of Jane Austen's most popular novel, is further enhanced with a beautiful binding by t...

Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo programme with plates after Goncharova's wonderful costume designs and an original cover by Bilibin. With an introdu...