Gift inscription for Sir James Horlick. A handsome presentation copy of Lyte's (1848-1940) popular history of Eton College. Inscribed to 'James Noc...

Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...

Report 415 in the series Reports on subjects of general and commercial interest. A valuable document compiled by Consul Jamieson to be presented t...

Rare first German edition and first translation into a foreign language of this important work by the father of Malthusianism.Malthus' original wo...

A unique manuscript on the French navy presented from Louis XVI to Marie-Antoinette. An exceptional presentation & association manuscript, boun...

Jewish banking & Mexican independence. An early nineteenth-century indenture authorising the liquidation and winding-up of the Jewish merchant ...

First great history of Rome's fall. A beautiful six-volume set of this classic work. Gibbon's (1737-1794) History of the Decline and Fall of the Ro...

'A captivating and heartfelt memoir from at true music afficionado.'This is not a 'conventional' diplomatic memoir about political 'revelations', ...

'We are all Keynesians today'. The first edition of Keynes' masterwork. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, The General Theory is reg...

The scarce first edition of Filosofiia Sovobody [The Philosophy of Freedom], one of Berdiaev's earliest works. It serves as a significant key to p...

A handsome set of Adam Smith's (d.1790) pivotal work of economic theory and political philosophy. The Wealth of Nations 'begins with the thought t...

First dated edition & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium, a...

Inscribed by the author. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the journalist and newspaper editor J. L. Garvin.'To J. L. Garvin,a tribut...