From the monastery of saint anthony. This volume bears witness to a very specific monastery in Egypt known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony, in th...

First edition of the author's first novel. The exceedingly scarce first edition of the author's first novel, introducing the character of George Sm...

Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatles company Apple C...

Presentation copy. Presentation copy in the scarce dust-jacket, inscribed: '[...] / Essen den 18. Jan. 1935 / Albert Renger-Patzsch'.Eisen und Stah...

In a presentation dust-jacket. One of a small number of copies issued in a presentation dust-jacket with the printed name of the recipient, this ex...

Early 20th-century souveniers from Jerusalem, containing local dried flowers and colour-lithograthed views of the Holy Land.Three small cloth back...

First Yiddish edition of the utopian novel by Herzl, in which he describes his vision of a Jewish state founded in Palestine.The novel Altneuland ...

The first publication of the declaration of the State of Israel. The first 25 issues of 'Iton Rishmi' containing the official publication of the Is...

An atmospheric original drawing by an unknown Soviet-Jewish artist.Graphite and watercolour on paper (42.8 x 36 cm). Signed bottom right and signe...

a cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full...

"I'm actually trying to make things that are accessible and enjoyable to others," Shrigley has said. Like a compulsive doodler with an infectiousl...

Rare in-house publication. A remarkable survival, two issues of a magazine created in-house by staff of the Vickers Airship Drawing Office at Barro...

Magnificent imperial octavos. An exceptional imperial octavo set, one of only 24 copies of the Land Birds thus, finely bound in crushed morocco. Al...

Electric Chair is part of Warhol's substantial 'Death and Disaster' series, which he started in 1962, early examples of which depicted car crashes...

First Edition of Rabbi Meldola's most famous work - an instruction manual for grooms discussing matchmaking, marriage, mikveh, the sacred act of c...

The bill aims to regulate the way in which Jewish members of the House of Commons would be sworn in. The bill states that the words 'Upon the true...

Early edition in English. The first edition of John Wilson's English translation of this important work of humanist rhetoric, which satirised the c...

Giclée printed in colours, on wove paper, 2023, signed, numbered & dated in pencil, from the edition of 30, printed by King & McGaw, Susse...

Issued c.1911.Twenty-fourth edition. xl, 593pp, 75 maps, 20 plans, 12 panoramas, some maps frayed at edges, some loose ephemera (Guide to Castle o...

The Golden Cockerel Press. An excellent copy of Julius Caesar's (d.44 BC) Commentaries rendered into modern English by the author and politician So...

Subscriber's copy of Gould's first monograph. The Ramphastidae (Family of Toucans) is without doubt the finest and most comprehensive work on this ...

A scarce popular history and guide to fortune telling. OCLC records just three copies in institutional holdings worldwide at the National Library ...

Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...

A handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman givi...

A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...

a cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full...

Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...

A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...

A Very important collection of documents covering the period in Arabian Gulf history which saw the British withdrawal from the region.6 vols, 8vo,...

A comprehensive collection of documents covering an important period in the history of the Arabian Gulf. Includes much on oil and water disputes, ...

A comprehensive collection containing 69 maps and charts of Bahrain originally produced between 1817 and 1970. The volumes are divided into naval ...

Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...

With original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to ...

A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...

Parke's important first-hand narrative of the Emin Pasha Relief expedition, one of the last major nineteenth century European expeditions into the...

Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...

A fine copy of James Orange's catalogue of the Chater collection. Originally formed by Wyndham Law, the collection was acquired by Sir Catchick Ch...

With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...

Early photography. An attractive description of the excavations of the long neglected site at Cyrene in Libya between Tripoli and Benghazi, with al...

Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina ...

First edition of the author's first novel. The exceedingly scarce first edition of the author's first novel, introducing the character of George Sm...

Nancy Mitford's most successful novel dedicated to Gaston Palewski, with whom she had fallen madly in love, and for whom she moved to Paris at the...

Moonchild was the second of Crowley's interwar novels - following Diary of a Drug Fiend in 1922. It is a wild fantastical roman-à-clef and inciden...

Signed by the illustrator. Signed and dated (1955) by the artist on the title page. Minton was a parsimonious inscriber of books; we have seen only...

Key climate change novel. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World antic...

Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page: 'For Leon Drucker, with all my good wishes, Leslie Har...

Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...