Family copy of crew member with letters. Lt. Henry Gibbons served on H.M.S. Leven and died on December 26th 1822 from fever. The same fate was to b...

Henry William Burgess (c.1792-1837) was highly regarded for his landscape drawings and paintings, with a particular emphasis on the study of trees...

One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and br...

A very attractive example of the first edition of one of the most celebrated Voyages pittoresques.Choiseul-Gouffier's masterpiece is the first pub...

An excellent example of this celebrated second edition, limited to only a few copies, of this important work on christian architecture in Constant...

A rare and finely engraved prospect of Antwerp viewed from the Scheldt, first published by Vrients in 1610, under a privilege issued by Albert and...

One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...

Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...

All three works inscribed by Parry. all three works inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first 'A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry'...

The first scientific voyage to California, with royal provenance. The first edition of one of the most important scientific explorations ever under...

Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Alba...

Library of Norman R. Bobins. A catalogue of colour plate books from the library of Norman Bobins. Also including a wonderful series of hand coloure...

The father of modern Ethiopian studies. Scarce English edition. Ludolf (1624-1704), is regarded as the father of modern Ethiopian studies. 'A work ...

The hut at Cape Evans. Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the hut at Cape Evans, surrounded...

Scarce in original cloth. 'One of the finest travel books of the nineteenth century' [Howgego].Back, a British naval officer and accomplished artis...

Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...