Exquisite illumination by a named artist. A beautifully illuminated Qur'an, signed in the colophon with the name of the 'tadhhibuh' (illuminator) R...

Fine copy. An exceptionally well preserved example. Oates was one of the first Europeans to see the Victoria Falls in full flood, having travelled ...

Scarce. Moorcroft's narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. En route to Bokhara...

The suppression of piracy off Borneo. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo.'In August ...

Signed by picasso and iliazd. One of 52 copies, Chevaux de minuit is one of Picasso and Iliazd's most successful collaborations. 'Picasso's stylist...

First edition in French. The first edition in French of Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-1472) monumental treatise on the art of building, De re aedif...

Rare. Lumsden includes a short account of Muscat and describes his voyage up the Persian Gulf. also includes Bushire, Isfahan, Tabriz, Tiflis, Ros...

A group of four beautiful lithographs of pheasants taken from the Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants, by Daniel Giroud Elliot...

From the collection of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. A sumptuous collection of mounted watercolours depicting Chinese silkworm cultivation, birds (i...

An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...

One of the greatest 18th-century botanical books. One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after ...

China under the Qing dynasty. A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen, flowe...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing flowers and insects.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small...

This abstract, three-quarter profile is of Picasso's second wife, Jacqueline Roque. The couple met during the summer of 1952 whilst Roque was work...

A record of Versailles as completed for the Sun King: Louis XIV. A collection of plans and views of the Palace of Versailles, made between 1714 and...

Signed by the artist - one of 250 copies. A fine example of this limited edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest with 50 original lithographs after Ch...

With two illuminated miniatures. Sheikh Shams al-Din Muhammad 'Assar Tabrizi was a poet, scholar and mystic of fourteenth-century Persia, and this ...