An attractive work produced by the first Oriental press in England. Samuel Rousseau (1763–1820) was a British Oriental scholar and printer. He com...

Gordon placed the materials at Hills' disposal through the agency of his brother, Henry William Gordon, and it was he who assisted on questions of...

Scarce. Walter Tschudi Lyall, a civil servant who used the pseudonym 'The Wanderer', is known for his reports on the Turko-Russian Campaign of 18...

First English edition. One of several novels by the French writer Jean de Préchac (d.1720) based on real historical figures. Kara Mustafa Pasha (d....

First edition and narrative of the author's travel and life at the east of the Chinese province of Szechuan, close to the Tibet frontier.The autho...

Kawaguchi Ekai was a Japanese Buddhist monk and the first recorded Japanese citizen to travel in Nepal and Tibet. He gives a detailed account of R...

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

The photographs include: The Acropolis, Temple of Jupiter, Gate of Adrian, Theatre of Herodes Atticus, Propylea, Temple of Nike Apteros, Parthenon...

Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...

Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peki...

Hakluyt Society, first series 56. The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Middleton, Love, Downton, and Cross. Calen...

'Boyes recounts his adventures in East Africa, particularly hunting elephant in the Lado Enclave, and on safari with W.N. McMillan and C.W.l. Bulp...

Limited edition - signed by the authors. A remarkable work, not only for its size and weight (8.7 kg plus a box of 3.8 kg), but also for its magnif...

Includes sections on Hong Kong, Macao, Peking, Shanghai and Singapore.First edition, 4to, 1211 pp., four maps, 17 colour plates, numerous photogra...

The British Niger Expedition of 1841 was commissioned by the British Government to perform two primary tasks: firstly, to work towards the suppres...

A beautifully bound example. The result of Casati's 10-year exploration of the Bahr-el-Ghazal basin in southern Sudan, full of valuable scientific...

Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...

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

Scarce Yorkshire printing. Scarce Yorkshire printing. A narrative of the ill-fated second voyage of the missionary ship Duff, captured by a French ...

. 'In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was w...

One of the key figures in the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-49), György Klapka (1820-1892) went on to be a member of the Hungarian Parliamen...

One of 160 copies. The first scholarly work by the historian and archaeoloist Alexandre, comte de Laborde (1773-1842). Magnificently illustrated, t...

Includes much on bear hunting, trapping, and natural history, as well as having some important content on salmon fishing. Published in the same y...