Doorly was a junior officer on board the Morning, a relief ship used on Scott's Discovery expedition. It was the ship which took a disgruntled Sha...

Amedeo's expedition on the Polar Star aimed to sail as far North as possible along the coast-line, and then travel on sledges towards the Pole fro...

Mysore and the indian national congress. A rare parliamentary pamphlet of the dialogue between 'Rajah' (a subject of her most gracious Majesty the ...

Barth's important record of his five years travelling in North and Central Africa.'Barth is one of the European superstars of African travel and e...

Sergeant's Sana is the standard work on the city. The work covers all aspects of Sana society, history, and culture and is lavishly illustrated.Fi...

Jacob's Kings of Arabia is a comprehensive political sketch of Yemen from the late 17th century to the early 20th century.First edition. 8vo, 294 ...

Author's wife's copy. Hugh Lindsay's Report of Proceedings contains reports by Lindsay, an East India Company man, and Charles Gutzlaff on trade wi...

Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...

Eyre's record of part of the debacle of the First Afghan War of 1839-42. Following the murder of Alexander Burnes in 1841 the British force was be...

Illustrated account of a pilgrimage to mecca. A personal account of Kedem Zadeh's pilgrimage to Mecca between 1910 and 1911 illustrated with 16 pho...

A fine copy of the Italian edition of this celebrated history of Mexico, which describes the three years between the appointment of Cortes to comm...

A rare survival from pre-war Shanghai, bearing testament to the bustle of this city which became known as 'The Paris of the East, the New York of ...

The first quarto edition of Roberts' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, one of the most important and elaborate ventures of...

Well illustrated history of the construction of the pipe line which played a major part in providing fuel for the Allies during WWII. The Haifa st...

Rare special issue of China Journal devoted to Shanghai. Beautifully illustrated and with numerous ads from leading Shanghai businesses. Includes ...

A scarce work covering all aspects of contemporary life in Aden, intended to supplement Playfair's 1859 History of Yemen, with a useful list of 'a...

Rare. ESTC lists only BL, Advocates Library, and Birmingham Central Library in U.K., adding College of William and Mary and University of Minnesot...