Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Travel, Science & Engineering

[Antebellum New York]. Grocer's account book, probably Auburn, Cayuga County, NY, 1818-34, manuscript in black ink on paper, pp. 49 + [7] + blanks...

Argentina. A series of 32 numbered photographic scrapbooks illustrating the construction of a barrage in Argentina, December 1973 to June 1979, ea...

Bligh (William). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying of the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West...

Bowen (Emanuel, et al.). The Maps and Charts to the Modern Part of the Universal History, London: T. Osborne, A. Millar, J. Rivington, B. Law & Co...

* Britton & Rey (lithographers). San Francisco & Bay, as seen from the Clifton House, & Clifton House, Saucelito, Marin Co., California, circa 188...

Broelmann (Stephan). Epideigma, sive specimen historiae vet[eris] omnis et purae, florentis. atq. amplae civitatis ubiorvm, et eorum ad Rhenum Agr...

Le Bruyn (Cornelius). Voyage au Levant, c'est-à-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c....

Burton (Richard F.). The Book of the Sword, 1st edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1884, numerous black & white illustrations, front hinge cracke...

Burton (Richard F.). Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872, folding map (with repaired tear an...

* Canada. Journal of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, and the Red River Settlement, [Manitoba, Canada], British North America, from May the 27th 1820 to ...

Carleton (Dudley, 1st Viscount Dorchester) . The Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton, Knt. during his Embassy in Holland, from January 1615/16...

[Central Asia]. Recueil d'antiquités de la Scythie. Atlas. Publié par la Commission impériale archéologique. Livraison Ie [-IIe], 1st edition, St ...

China. [Twelve plates from A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-72], 12 hand-colour...

Chinese Export School. Album of court-scene pith paintings, second half of the 19th century, 12 miniatures in watercolour and bodycolour on pith p...

Chinese Export School. Album of pith paintings depicting trades and professions, Canton: Wing Tai Hing, second half of the 19th century, 12 miniat...

Clouet (Jean-Baptiste-Louis). Géographie Moderne avec une Introduction Ouvrage utile a toux ceux qui veulent se perfectionner dans cette Science.....

* Company School. Two soldiers, mounted on camelback, with rifles, 19th century, watercolour and gouache on paper, collection stamp to lower right...

Cruise (Richard A.). Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand, 1st edition, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823, iv, 322, errata ...

Dihlawi (Munshi Bulaqi Das Sahib). Tawarikh-i Ghuri [Urdu title, i.e. 'Histories of the Ghurids'], Delhi: Mayur Press, 1881, 48 pp. ( p. 20 misnum...

Drinkwater (John). A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar. With a Description and Account of that Garrison, from the Earliest Periods, 4th editi...

* Dutton (T.G & Needham J.). The Attack on the Forts in the Peiho River, China, on the 20th May 1858, by the Allies under the Command of Admiral S...

[Far East]. Sketchbook kept by T. G. C. Knight, 1948-9, 16 wove-paper leaves with numerous sketches in pencil, pen-and-ink or watercolour (many en...

Forster (Johann Reinhold). History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North. Translated from the German, Dublin: for Luke White and Pat. B...

Ibn Tufayl (Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik). The History of Hai Eb'n Yockdan, an Indian Prince: or, the Self-Taught Philosopher. Written Originally in...

[Hakluyt, Richard]. [The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the Most Remote and F...

Hastings (Warren, 1732-1818). Two tickets for the trial of Warren Hastings, c.1795, two engraved tickets on laid paper (14.5 x 21 cm), one printed...

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Province...

* India. Collection of letters to Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824-1910), commissioner of Mysore, dated 1867-1906, from: 1. Krishnaraja Wadiyar III (17...

* India. Five architectural sketches by John Nankivell (1941-), 1971, depicting buildings in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, with captions: 1) K...

* India. Group of letters, 19th century, comprising: 1. Mansur Ali Khan (1830-1884), nawab of Bengal. Letter signed to the Duke of Brabant, the Pa...

* India. Group of signed letters and documents, 18th-20th century, including: 1) Cotton (Stapleton, 1st Viscount Combermere, 1773-1865). Printed d...

India. Sickly Gully Point on Ganges in Bengal, circa 1835, pencil on paper, mounted, depicting a sailing boat and various vessels with figures on ...

India. Three privately printed journals, 1914-31, comprising: 1. Houstoun-Boswall (Phoebe). My Diary. A Trip to the East, [Frome & London]: printe...

India; Goa. Collecçao das leis peculiares das communidades agricolas das aldeas dos concelhos das ilhas Salcete e Bardez. Parte 1a, 5o volume do G...

Irwin (Eyles). A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route through the Desa...

Issaverdenz (J.). The Island of San Lazzaro or the Armenian Monastery near Venice, Venice: Armenian Typography of San Lazzaro, 1879, 30 pp., 20 ph...

Jones (Henry). The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads, volume V only, 1721...

La Pérouse (Jean-François Galaup, comte de). A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, 3 volumes, London: for J. Johnson,...

Lear (Edward). Views in Rome and its Environs: Drawn from Nature on Stone, London: T. M'Lean, printed by G. Hullmandel, 1841, title with lithograp...

* Machell (Thomas, 1824-1862). Two autograph letters signed, 1850 & 1851, both written to Mrs John Ditmas, from Rooderpore Factory, Bongong: the f...

Maxwell (William Hamilton). Life of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: A. H. Baily, 1839-41, half-tit...

Mazell (Peter, 1733-1808). A North West View of the Chohoes, or Great Cataract of the Mohawk River, in the Province of New York in North America, ...

* Middle East, India & Far East. Group of documents and ephemera, 19th-20th century, comprising: 1. Nubar Pasha (1825-1890). Autograph letter sign...

Mozambique. Natives of Lourenço Marques, their Homes and Customs, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]: Spanos & Tsitsias, c.1920s, 30 colour plates of local...

Nansen (Fridtjof, 1861-1930). A signed menu card, Oct 7, 1921, single sheet menu card for 'Luncheon to Dr. Nansen, National Liberal Club, October ...

Nordenskjold (Otto). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 6 volumes in 8, Stockholm: Lithographisches Inst...

[North America]. The Universal Gazetteer: or, a Description of the ... Known World ... The Second Edition ... the Geography of Ireland has been re...

O'Connor (V.C. Scott). The Silken East, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Hutchinson & Co., 1904, folding map and panorama, 20 colour plates, black & white ...

[Peake, Richard Brinsley]. Costume Caracteristique de France (The Characteristic Costume of France) from drawings made on the spot... by an artist...

* [Peninsular War]. Group of autograph letters signed, 1810-12, comprising: 1. James Bathurst (1782-1850) as aide-de-camp to Wellington to [?]P. K...

Pereira (George). Peking to Lhasa, The narrative of journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late Brigadier-General George Pereira, C.B., C.M.G....

Playfair (R. Lambert & Gunther, Albert C.L.G.). The Fishes of Zanzibar, Acanthopterygii by... Lambert, Pharyngognathi etc. by... Gunther, 1st edit...

* Polynesia. Polynesian Researches by William Ellis (1794-1872), mid 1820s, a collection of autograph notes and fragments written by the missionar...

Robinson (William). A Descriptive Account of Asam: with a Sketch of the Local Geography, and a Concise History of the Tea-Plant of Asam: to which ...

* Roy (Ramaprasad, 1812-?). Autograph letter signed to consul at Canton John Bowring (1792-1872), Calcutta, 16 May 1852, 3 bifolia of lightweight ...

* Roy (Rammohan, 1772?-1833). Autograph letter signed to H. Jessop of Calcutta, c.1820-30, single bifolium of laid paper watermarked 'J. Whatman',...

* Roy (Rammohan, 1772?-1833). Autograph letter signed to Carlo Joseph Doyle (1787-1848), c.1830, single sheet of wove paper watermarked 'G. & R. T...

[Russia]. Le faux Pierre III. Ou la vie et les avantures du rebelle Jemeljan Pugatschew. D'après l'original russe de Mr. F. S. G. W. D. B., 1st ed...

* Singh (Duleep, 1838-1893, maharajah of Lahore). Autograph note signed, c.1855-85, 'Do not forward any letters, as I may return to town any day t...

South Africa; Cape Colony. The Eastern Province Annual Directory and Almanac for 1849, forming a Hand-Book for Travellers and Visiters [sic] and a...