Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...

Woolf's story was her contribution to the Hogarth Press's inaugural publication, Two Stories (1917). The edition sold out and in 1919 she had 1000...

Rare exhibition catalogue. Invaluable for the documentation of Ponting's photographs.First edition; 8vo, [4] ads., [ii], 4-24, [2]ads. pp., portra...

The second opium war. Scarce parliamentary paper dealing with the Second Opium War. Includes papers by Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John Davis, the Ear...

Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving detai...

Translations from the Chinese and Armenian, with notes and illustrations.I. History of the pirates who infested the China Sea, from 1807 to 1810.I...

Specially printed presentation copy inscribed by Douglas Cooper to his adopted son & heir William [Billy] McCarty. Limited edition of Picasso's...

In the original dust-jacket. The first edition of Hobbes'/Richards' last work, as she died unexpectedly that same year. This copy in the remarkably...

The first sprinkler system. A signed and dated affidavit to patent a 'mode of construction or arrangement for any building, so as to afford securit...

The first of Demidoff's travels to be published, with all plates printed on India paper. An attractive copy of the first edition in contemporary s...

Invention of a new gun carriage. A signed and dated affidavit to patent the invention of a new gun carriage by Sir William Congreve (1772-1828), co...

An attractive set of Art Nouveau bindings of the complete works of Vasily Zhukovsky, one of Russia's most important 19th century poets.3 vols, 8vo...