The kernel of the nut. A very interesting letter from the great Nile explorer and adventurer, Samuel Baker in which he discusses the importance of ...

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

A rare shape book. With rhyming verse designed to promote travel to Australia from England. The scenes depicted include Aborigines, sheep musterin...

Attractive early twentieth century atlas showing the provinces of China. The index has some 10,000 entries. Both the maps and index are bilingual....

Hemingway's American debut. The collection of short stories and vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway's American debut and brought him fame.When I...

A traditional Jewish marriage contract. An attractive example of a traditional Jewish marriage contract, fully manuscript and elegantly decorated w...

Second state.Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentia...

Representation of 18 different figures similar to "cries". Male and female figures, one child. 4 native indians of Latin America, in traditional c...

A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...

Beautiful, rare broadside made as a tribute to the purported inventor of the printing press, Lourens Janzoon Koster (c.1370- c.1440). Presented as...

Tinted Lithograph.Abbey Scenery 239. From 'London As It Is'.

'An important glimpse of the activities of the East IndiaCompany in the period 1682 to 1684' (Riddick). Hedges was a director of the Company and p...

A scarce pirated edition. A fine series of plates illustrating correct horsemanship in riding to hounds. The plates are captioned: "Going along a ...

A scarce memorial of Stanley's last expedition. Following the printed title, the text consists of a list of the Committee and honorary Stewards, e...

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...

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...

One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and br...

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 ...

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...