A complete set of this handsome facsimile edition of all eight Persian Gulf pilots published between 1870 to 1932. Invaluable not only for sailing...

Lorimer's Gazetteer was compiled by officials of the British Government in India during the decade after Lord Curzon's Vice-regal tour of the Gulf...

Woman traveller in nineteenth century Syria. 'C. G., a British woman, made a trip through Syria, mostly on horseback, travelling from Bhamdoon. She...

Deluxe issue with plates hand-coloured. The deluxe issue of Hardinge's rare colour plate book on India. Includes important Sikh portraits of the Ma...

From the library of the last French Queen. A superb copy with royal provenance of van O. Fisscher's survey of Japan. van O. Fisscher worked in Japa...

With 24 finely coloured aquatints. A very good first edition copy of Wathen's Voyage to Madras, richly illustrated with 24 finely coloured aquatint...

First Sikh War. Scarce. The title-page gives the name of C. Gomeze as the designer and lithographer - probably the Christopher Gomez, of the H.C. L...

Earliest issue of one of the greatest of 19th-century illustrated books. Roberts' Holy Land, was one of the most elaborate ventures of 19th-century...

Wright and Cartwright's monumental work on Hong Kong and the other great trading ports of China.First edition. 4to. (31 x 24 cm), 848 pp., profuse...

This scarce title contains descriptions of Najd, Hejaz and Yemen and includes notes on the Wahhabis, the lives of Arab women and the minority reli...

Adventures in arabia. Raunkier travelled to Rihadh in 1912 at the behest of the Royal Danish Geographical Society. His object was to examine the po...

First edition, first state, the folding map without "Kane Sea" labelling the expanse between Smith Strait and Kennedy Channel: the appellation was...

Elijah Walton's fine colour plate views of the Western Alps, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Monte Viso, Aosta Valley, Dent Du Midi, and The...

Colquhoun's expedition was to survey a projected railway connecting Canton with Burma. During the course of his travels he passed through many reg...

Signed by the author. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'Jawaharlal Nehru / 21.7.1961.'Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was a central fi...

A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited Egypt, Sinai, Pal...

A finely bound copy of Baker's Ismailia.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a four-ye...

A rare series of legal notices published during WW II by the British Military, setting out laws to be observed in Ethiopia after the British and t...

The first edition of 'possibly the finest set of engravings that has ever been produced of the West Indes' (Maclean).Cazabon was born on 20th Sept...

The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...

First edition of Stanley's famous account of his travels in the Congo, prompted by a meeting with King Leopold of the Belgians in 1879. In 1879 St...

Keppel, a special correspondent of The Times, was on the North-West frontier and covered the activity of the Mekran Field force which was set up t...