The Loverdos copy of the expanded Italian edition. The best, expanded edition in Italian of Nicolas de Nicolay's (1517-1583) Quatre premiers livres...

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...

Remarkable photographic record of the Terra Nova Expedition. Charles Wright was part of Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition, the Terra Nova Exped...

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

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

Landon's work is the leading reference book on Nepal. Includes an account of the work of B. H. Hodgson in Nepal, and also the part played by Mahar...

Inscribed by the author. Rare. Estridge was collector of taxes in the British colonial administration in the early 1880's, serving as Collector of ...

At a time when England and Russia were vying for supremacy in Central Asia, the author of this book attempts to show that Russia's aims were peace...

As quoted by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. First printed in Rome by Francisco Cavallo in 1649, before being translated into English an...