Travel, Maps & Topographical Views, Antiquarian Literature, Cookery & Science

[Alexander, William]. The Costume of the Russian Empire, 1st edition, London: for W. Miller by S. Gosnell, 1803, all preliminary text leaves in En...

Alvarez de Colmenar (Juan). Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal ..., 8 volumes, Amsterdam, François L'Honoré, 1741, 165 folding engraved plates (of 1...

* American Civil War. Two albumen print photographs of Union Army soldiers, c.1861-5, each somewhat creased, a few nicks and closed tears, 20.2 x ...

* Angas (George French). Thirteen views from South Australia Illustrated, Thomas McLean, 1846-47, 13 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by W. ...

Belnos (Mrs S[ophia] C[harlotte]). The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins. Illustrated in a Series of Original Drawings from Nature, dem...

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...

Bowles (Thomas, publisher). Geographia sacra illustrata. Or Sacred Geography Illustrated. Containing, a View of many things belonging to ye Jews a...

Bruce (James). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: by ...

Castlemaine (Roger Palmer, Earl of). An Account of the Present War between the Venetians & Turk; with the state of Candie: (in a letter to the kin...

Clüver (Philipp). Germaniae antiquae libri tres ... Adjecta sunt Vindelicia et Noricum ejusdem auctoris, 1st edition, Leiden: Louis Elzevier, 1616...

Conway (William Martin). Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894, half-title (newspaper cu...

Cook (James). The Journals of Captain James Cook, edited by J.C. Beaglehole, 4 volumes in 5, 2nd edition, CUP for the Hakluyt Society, 1967-74, nu...

Coxe (William). Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland; in a Series of Letters to WIlliam Melmoth, 1st edition, London...

* Darell (Sir Harry Francis Colville). [China, India, Cape of Good Hope and Vicinity. A Series of Thirteen Treble-Tinted Views from Sketches by Li...

Darjou (Alfred, illustrator). Le Caire et la haute Egypte. Texte par Florian Pharaon, 1st edition, Paris: E Dentu, 1872, half-title, 30 tinted lit...

[Egypt]. Description de l'Egypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont étét faite en Egypte pendant expédition de l'armée françai...

Evans (Admiral Sir E.R.G.R.) Library of Classics. South with Scott, London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, [1924], half-tone illustrations,...

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

Horsburgh (James). India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the I...

Lanté (Louis Marie). A collection of 36 costume plates by Georges-Jacques Gatine after Lantè, 1824-28, 36 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, a fe...

Lowe (George, 1924-2013). Collection of mountaineering books from the library of George Lowe, last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Ever...

* Marshall (M., early 20th century). "Sunlit plains, Taxila", 1928, oil on canvas, monogram and date to lower left, verso with 'Simla Fine Arts Ex...

[Mayer, Luigi]. A Selection of the Most Interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's Celebrated Collection of Views in Turkey in Europe, and in Asia; Syria...

Mayer (Luigi). Interesting Views in Turkey, selected from the Original Drawings, taken for Sir Robert Ainslie ... with Descriptions Historical and...

* Moore (Lieutenant Joseph). Nine plates from Views taken at and near Rangoon, London, Kingsbury & Co, October 1, 1825-January 2, 1826, 9 hand-col...

Naphegyi (Gabor). Among the Arabs. A Narrative of Adventures in Algeria, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869, tinted lithograph portrait fro...

Pierotti (Ermete). Jerusalem Explored. Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations consisting of Views, Ground...

Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, from Drawings made on the Spot. With Historical Descriptions by George Cr...

Roscoe (Thomas). The Landscape Annual, 3 volumes, London: Jennings & Chaplin, 1830, 1832 & 1834, comprising: The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy;...

[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...

[Russia]. The Russian Catechism, compos'd and publish'd by Order of the Czar: To which is annex'd, a Short Account of the Church-Government and Ce...

The Scots Magazine, containing A General View of the Religion, Politicks, Entertainment, &c. in Great Britain..., 61 volumes, a near-unbroken run,...

Stanford (Edward). Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography exhibiting the Physical and Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the ...

* [Australia & Indonesia]. Sketches of Tasmania, Torres Strait and Bali Strait by W. H. Rotheram, Royal Engineers, 1886, 23 pen-and-ink sketches o...

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...

* Von Humboldt (Alexander, editor). [Des Prinzen Waldemar Von Preussen Nacht Indien, Berlin: Deckerschen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdrucerel, 1853], a c...

Watson (Frederic). A New and Complete Geographical Dictionary. Containing a full and accurate description of the several parts of the Known World,...

Wright (George Newenham). The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, London: Fisher, Son & Co., circa 1842, additional engraved title (dampstain...

Wyld (James). An Atlas of the World, Comprehending Separate Maps of its Various Countries, constructed and drawn from the latest Astronomical and ...

Wyld (James). Atlas Minimus Universalis, or A Geographical Abridgement, Ancient and Modern of the several parts of the Earth, London: James Wyld, ...

Allom (Thomas, illustrator). China in a Series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire ... WIth ...

Arlington (Lewis Charles). The Chinese Drama from the Earliest Times until To-Day, 1st edition, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1930, half-tit...

Baker (Samuel White). The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, half-title, 6 chromolitho...

Bishop (Isabella, née Bird). The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Ma...

Blakeney (William). On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago. A Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and on t...

Buchanan (Sir George). My Mission to Russia and Other Diplomatic Memories, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1923, pho...

Byron (George Anson). Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824-1825. Captain the Right Hon. Lord Byron, Commander, 1st e...

Callery (Joseph-Marie, & Melchior Yvan). History of the Insurrection in China ... Translated from the French, with a Supplementary Chapter, narrat...

Carey (Frances Jane). Journal of a Tour in France, in the Years 1816 and 1817, 1st edition, London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823, profusely extra-illus...

Cave (Henry W.). A Series of Forty Aionograph Ceylon Views, 1st edition, Colombo: H. W. Cave & Co., [1893], 40 'aionograph' plates from photograph...

Curzon (Robert). Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1854, 5 wood-e...

David-Neel (Alexandra). Tibetan Journey, 1st edition, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936, 16 photographic plates, folding map, half-title spo...

Doughty (Charles M.). Travels in Arabia Deserta, with a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T. E. Lawrence, and all original Maps, Plans an...

Ebers (Georg). Aegypten in Bild und Wort, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Stuttgart & Leipzig: Eduard Hallberger, c.1880, wood-engraved plates, 2 colour m...

Erskine (John Elphinstone). Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and Others inhabited by the Polyne...

Europe. Photograph album, c.1870-80, containing 313 albumen print photographs mounted rectos and versos to 68 thick card leaves, including landsca...

Francklin (William). Inquiry concerning the Site of Ancient Palibothra, parts 2-4 of 4 in 1 volume, 1st editions, London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and ...

Frankland (Charles Colville). Travels to and from Constantinople, in the Years 1827 and 1828, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1829,...

Harris (Walter B.). From Batum to Baghdad via Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896, hal...

Hose (Charles). Natural Man. A Record from Borneo, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1926, numerous halftone photographic plates (all presen...