'Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he ...

A superbly bound example in fine condition.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a four...

'In 1768, with Italian artist and friend Luigi Balugani, Bruce resolved to mount an expedition to search for the source of the Nile River. They we...

The forbidden city of Harar. Burton's first expedition to Somalia, made in order to explore the forbidden city of Harar (which he was the first Eur...

The plates for Le Bonheur du Jour wee amongst the largest and most carefully meditated of Barbier's designs. So ambitious was this album that it t...

Oil pastel on watercolour paper. Framed. Sheet size: 295 x 420mm.

First editions; 8vo; publishers' boards, dust-jackets, fine copies; with a reprint of Running Wild.

Inscribed copy. A fine, inscribed first edition of this key Ballardian title, in the distinctive Bill Botten dust-jacket.First edition, signed pres...

The greatest and the rarest of all the Art Deco fashion periodicals. The early 20th century was a time of dramatic change in fashion. The heavy clo...

This comprises 188 letters written by the artist to his publisher.First edition; 4to; 'printed at the Chiswick Press...in Monotrype Bodoni on Arno...

Rare early edition. Austen's debut novel and one of her several masterpieces, was originally issued in this three-volume format with a print run th...