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

Arbuckle (John & Charles, publisher). Arbuckles’ Illustrated Atlas of the United States of America, Arbuckle Coffee Company, New York, circa 1890,...

Seller (John). The History of England ... from the coming of Julius Caesar into Britain. With an Account of all the Plots, Conspiracies, Insurrect...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

* 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. 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...

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...

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

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

[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 ...

* [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...

Stanley (Henry M.). The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: a Story of Work and Exploration, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Ma...

Stigand (C.H. & Lyell, D.D.). Central African Game and its Spoor, 1st edition, Horace Cox, 'Field' Office, 1906, monochrome plates, including many...

Teichman (Eric). Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India, 1st editi...

Volney (Constantin-François). View of the climate and soil of the United States of America: to which are annexed some accounts of Florida, the Fre...

Wallin (Georg August). Notes taken during a Journey through Part of Northern Arabia, in 1848 [in: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of...

Barclay. (Rev. James). A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language..., George Virtue, circa 1845, portrait frontispiece of Queen V...

Bowen (Emanuel, the late, & Thomas). Atlas Anglicanus, or a Complete sett of Maps of the Counties of South Britain; Divided into their respective ...

Britton (John). Cathedral Antiquities. Historical and Descriptive Accounts, 5 volumes, London: M.A. Nattali, 1836, numerous engraved plates and pl...

Cary (John). Cary's Survey of the High Roads from London to Hampton Court, Ware, Bagshot...wherein Every Gentleman's Seat, situate on, or seen fro...

Cooke (George Alexander). Topography of Great Britain: or, British Traveller's Directory, and Travelling Companion, being an accurate and comprehe...

Finden (E. & W.). The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain, illustrated by views taken on the spot, 2 volume...

Gastineau (Henry). Wales Illustrated [and South Wales Illustrated], in a Series of Views ..., 2 volumes, London: Jones & Co., circa 1830, engraved...

Marklove (H.). Views of Berkeley Castle, taken on the spot, and drawn on stone ..., Nailsworth: printed by William Partridge, 1840, 10 lithographi...

Moule (Thomas). The Landscape Album; or, Great Britain Illustrated, 2 volumes (1st & 2nd series), London: Charles Tilt, 1832 & 1834, 119 engraved ...

Paterson (Capt. Daniel). Paterson's British Itinerary Being a new and accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads...