Exceptionally early and important authorial manuscript on paper. Al-Sharif al-Radi (970-1015 AD) was a celebrated poet and scholar from Baghdad, wh...

An exceptionally fine impression of Hollar's panorama of Jerusalem.Wenceslaus Hollar contributed engraved plates to numerous Bibles, showing relig...

A finely bound example of a scarce title. J. Frederic Elton was British Consul in Mozambique. He died in 1877 near Zanzibar before this title was ...

A superbly bound example in fine condition.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a fo...

With an additional hand-coloured etching & an extra suite of plates. One of 32 copies signed by the author and artist. A superb example in the ...

Rare. Translated from the original Persian by Assad Yacoub Kayat. An account of the residence in England, and journey there from Syria and the sub...

Pieter Van Loo (or Loon), Haarlem 1731-1784, was a noted flower painter who spent the whole of his life in Haarlem. His paintings are sought after...

First French edition of Zuallart's important work. Giovanni Zuallart (a.k.a. Giovanni Zuallardo or Jean Zuallart, 1541-1634) was a Belgian Judge, T...

The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...

Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...

From Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, which is considered the most comprehensive and complete catalogue on the subject. This magnif...

Views of the Bosphorus. Four unusual watercolour panoramas depicting the Bosphorus. Jean Baptiste Hilaire ( 1751-1828) was a well known French pain...

From Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, which is considered the most comprehensive and complete catalogue on the subject.This magnifi...

From Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, which is considered the most comprehensive and complete catalogue on the subject.This magnifi...

One of 250 copies . Giacometti's testament to art and modern life in his beloved Paris. For the publisher, Tériade, it would be a milestone, the la...

Scarce early account of North Africa. The first book on Africa written by an African. The woodcut illustrations include personifications of Africa...

An outstanding example. An exceptional example. Most copies were issued uncoloured. A few were sold with hand-colouring and a smaller number were i...

Beautifully illustrated with 35 full-page illuminations. An exceptionally fine example of an Old Believer liturgical book, beautifully illustrated ...

A gift from King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical art...

An important panorama of Leiden from the drawing by Claude Rivet executed in 1640, and originally published by the engraver Jacob Savery. This sec...